半个朝廷都会搭进去
“but half the Imperial Court officials will be dragged down with him!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
别说一个王玄范了
“not just Wang Xuanfan,”
半个朝廷都会 搭进去
“but half the Imperial Court officials will be dragged down with him!”
老爷
“Master.”
“Back off; if we dig deeper into this, the political fallout will destroy everything.”
In Chinese dynastic politics, political purges often implicated vast patron-client networks, where investigating one person could bring down dozens of allied officials.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
imperial court; central government
A historical term referring to the ruling dynastic court and its bureaucracy.
to get dragged into; to sacrifice or implicate unnecessarily
A vivid colloquial verbal phrase used when people, money, or resources are sucked into an inescapable mess.