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to replace Tiewliang as head of Ler City.

From now on,

any laws made by Tiewliang are revoked

any laws made by Tiewliang are revoked.

And from now on,

Thai taxes will be raised

to three times the previous amount.

There will also be an increase in taxes

on horse-drawn carriages, on boats

and on horses by 50 per cent.

More. More. Great! I want more!

If you don't keep quiet,

I can raise taxes even higher.

From now on,

whenever Thai people meet me or my wife,

Lady Huansi, they must get on their knees

and put their foreheads to the ground

three times.

Thais are forbidden

to have any relations with Han.

Thais are forbidden

to have any relations with Han

You will not be friends.

You will not be husbands.

You will not be wives to any Han

If anyone chooses to disobey my command,

they will be punished in ways

they could not even imagine

they will be punished in way

they could not even imagine.

Will you make me some clothes

with your own special threads?

But Han cloth is so much finer.

I can't see any difference between Thai and

Han. We are all people, just the same.

Your cloth will keep me just as warm.

You probably don't know that the cloth I make

is also used to wrap the dead.

Command the army to search every Thai house.

Confiscate all their weapons,

even the kitchen knives.

From now on,

possession of any weapon

is a crime punishable by death.

What are you doing

Give them back to me.

They don't belong to you any more.

From now on.

Thais of Ler City are forbidden

to have any weapon, even a kitchen knife.

You'd better remember that,

you little savage!

Good!

You won't be making any more swords,

so you won't be needing a forge!

Don't!

What are you doing Libong?

Isn't that enough?

If you treat the Thais like this

you will never earn their respect

If you treat the Thais like this,

you will never earn their respect!

They're just savages!

I can treat them however I want.

If you wish to sympathize with them,

I will have to report to Lord Litongjia

that you have taken their side.

What happened here?

Where have all our swords gone?

Where have you been?

Don't you realise

Thais and Han are enemies?

Thai and Han are enemies.

And Fesian and I are enemies.

How can I not know that, Lamphun?

The weapons that you surrendered to us

will be returned to you.

Your master has ordered them

to be melted down to make a cauldron.

It will be placed in the centre of the town.

It will serve as a reminder to you.

You can make a cauldron

from all the weapons taken from Thai people.

But there is one weapon

that the Han can never claim

and that the Thai will never give.

What?

Stop here.

Courage.

Courage! Courage!

Soldier!

Why don't you kneel to me?

Make them kneel!

Look! You've broken my things!

I don't want to play any more.

Your ladyship! Your ladyship!

Your ladyship!

Find them and kill them!

Your ladyship!

I will put a bounty on their heads.

Those who killed Huansi must be caught.

Anyone who can find them

will get 100 gold pieces.

If the Thai people act like wild animals,

I will treat them like wild animals.

You will be my wife's servants in hell!

I will release one hundred arrows.

If you don't want to die,

try to avoid the arrows!

I'm scared!

Who did that?

Show yourself!

Soldiers protect Lord Litongjia!

- My name is Gumpawa!

I come from the Thanai mountains.

We have many wild animals

in the Thai mountains.

But there is no animal as beastly

as the one I'm looking at now.

When the Han army has finished,

the Thanai mountains will be dust!

In all the time that I've spent

in the Thanai mountains,

they've never gone anywhere.

It will take more than the Han

to make me or the mountain disappear.

Go!

Why are you just standing there?

I want his head!

We must fight back.

What are you talking about?

I know we can beat them.

You are better with a sword than any of them.

Guchin has the strength of an elephant.

The Thai are strong fighters.

Why don't we unite and fight them?

I want to fight them.

- But we don't have any weapons.

- Ler City doesn't have any weapons.

But there are weapons

in the other Thai settlements.

Tonight take Guchin and go to Chiangsair.

Their chief is a friend of our father.

He's bound to help us.

What about you?

Open the door!

I'll look after things here.

Promise me you'll follow me there.

Promise me!

I promise.

Search everywhere.

Hurry. Go now

Go!

Go on!

Spread out!

Where's your brother?

He's in hell

He's in hell

And you'll join him there soon.

Is this the little savage who has been hiding

the murderers who killed my wife

Not only that, Uncle,

She's been sleeping with a Han soldier.

So this little hussy has a liking

for more civilized flesh, does she

Very well.

I will give you a taste of happiness

before you go to hell!

Let me go!

Order all Thais

to assemble at the town centre.

- Let me go!

- Light a fire under the cauldron

and fill it with water

- Let me go!

- I want her boyfriend to see this as well.

I want him to see something

he will never forget!

- But. Sir...

- Go! Get on with it!

You savages had better listen.

This slave didn't know her place.

She dared to cavort

with a Han way beyond her status.

And she hid the murderers

who killed my wife.

Since she likes playing with fire

now I'll show her the real thing!

Don't!

You know my little savage,

I am not a cold-hearted man.

If the heat of the water

teaches you to accept your guilt,

you may beg me for mercy.

Just swear that you will never

disobey my command again.

Thai people, listen to what I say.

This Han calls us savages.

But it was our ancestors

who created this city from a wilderness.

The Hans created a nation

by stealing the land from us.

They made us their slaves.

I ask you,

which of us deserves to be called savages?

Stop the fire.

Don't, don't!

I am about to be released

from my suffering...

...from the prison

they have made of our lives.

From now on,

the evil of these savages

will never be able to touch me again.

Buakham! Don't.

No more.

I want you all to remember,

I may only be a woman,

but I'm not afraid to die,

if it will release me

from this servitude.

- More Heat!

- Don't!

I will happily die in the flames...

...if it reminds Thai people

of what the word means, freedom!

Buakham!

Buakham!

Listen, Litongjia, you evil bastard!

I will pray that you die in agony.

I pray to the guardian spirit of all Thai people to break your nick and arms

May your soul descend

to the deepest recesses of hell!

But you will never find redemption!

Fesian!

The pain is being felt by all.

Litongjia is creating misery

for the Thai people in every region now.

But what will you do, Gumpawa?

The Thanai mountains

are a long way from Ler City.

We can't help everyone who is suffering.

But Litongjia's tyranny

is affecting Thai people everywhere.

If we don't stand up and fight,

the Han will take

every last bit of land from us.

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