The Guillotines Page #2

Leng

Don't pretend you can read

Hand it over

Why did you burn it?

Leng, stick with me tomorrow

Who do you think you are?

Forget him, Leng

Let's go

How did so many people die here?

They all died from smallpox

I studied medicine before

I know how to treat smallpox

Thank you

Bring the patients to me now

Thanks

Tomorrow

atone

meet at Wine Springs

Do you know what I saw in the Capital City?

Our homes were still there

Some of our families were still there

The bustling market

was still there

Everything was the same

But I broke down and cried

Because our homes were no longer ours

The families left behind

were forced into slavery

The market was transformed

into an execution site for our people

Those left in the city

lost their souls

They are slaves

And those who are not slaves

also can't raise their heads

Our people

are no longer treated...

as human beings

How did we lose our homes?

Fea

How did we lose our land?

Fea

Are we to lose the last vestiges

of our humanity to fear?

O:

The heavens tell me

I'll die soon

But I'm not afraid

I want the heavens to know

I:

refuse to die at the hands of a Han Chinese

You won't

Forget your Han name, Wang Lei

From now on, you're Nala Leng

Leng

You're one of us

Leng, you outcast!

Leng

Leng

Leng

Your words are poisoned!

Wolf!

Wolf!

Wolf!

When we were little,

we braided each other's hair

Do you remember?

I thought you had forgotten

Just let the Guillotines finish off Wolf

as a favor to my brothers?

Your brothers again

When will the firearms squad arrive?

I promise to capture Wolf

before they arrive

Haidu

Help me just this once

Green Army Base, Wuguan

Haidu

Help me just this once

The rebel Wolf

to surrender

and other captive Herders

will be executed

He's going to get Musen killed

Mister

if I give this to you

It's Su's badge

What about my rice?

U:

U:

U:

U:

Shisan

Bravo

Where is Wolf?

Stay over there!

Tell me

Where is Wolf?

Tell me

Shisan, stop it!

Calm down

They killed Su!

Leng

Don't move!

Come on

I'll kill whoever comes near

Come on

Get up

We're brothers

Leng

Shisan

Leave some wine for me

Give me

Smallpox victims are always around Wolf

No one goes near them

Their homes

are ideal hideouts for the Herders

If they want to play cat and mouse

we'll play along

Tomorrow at noon

In exchange for Gua-erjia Musen

If Leng fails to appear

Musen will be executed

you can't go tomorrow

I must go

I promised Musen's father

to bring her back

You're going to exchange your life

for hers?

Our lives don't belong to us

They belong to His Majesty

to replace the Guillotines

Tomorrow

Let the Guillotines behead Wolf

then let my brothers go free

I'll go back with you

Looks like you've had enough of being bullied

Eat

I think you're ready for my story

As you know

Han weddings are grand, joyous occasions

One day

the wedding day of Zhuang's daughter

Qing soldiers barged in

and arrested everyone in the Zhuang family

Master Zhuang pleaded

I'm only a book dealer

What have I done wrong?

The captain asked

Have you ever sold a book

titled "The story of Ming Dynasty"?

Master Zhuang recalled

"The story of Ming Dynasty"

cost six coppers each

It sold well

The captain said

the book appears to be about the achievements

of the Ming regime

but in truth, it's an attack on the Qing court

Master Zhuang pleaded innocence

"I didn't write the book!"

The captain said he didn't order the arrest.

It was His Majesty!

The wedding banquet

turned into a funeral

His four older sons were to be beheaded

The youngest son just turned 16

The judge took a year off his age

so that he could be spared

The young son was devastated

"My father and brothers are to be executed

How can I live on?"

But I did live

My story does not end there

a court advisor

He bribed officials

to save Zhuang's four sons

When Guo took them across the river

a group of masked men ambushed them

That's what

The Guillotines did

That month

your father was appointed Chief Commander

I've always wondered

whatever happened to the heads of my brothers?

Perhaps you can tell me?

We exchange heads

for a bounty

The heads are kept in the Tunyang Pagoda

as a record of our achievements

How much do you get per head?

Ten taels

Ten taels of silver

Ten

Only ten?

Is this true?

Is this true?

I'm not that kind of person

I'm not

Wolf

Leng, come over

and she's yours

Musen!

Stay where you are

Move

Scatter!

Damn it! They're too far away!

Musen is still over there!

So is Wolf

Do you remember your promise?

Let's go

Get inside

Musen

Wolf

Leng

According to His Majesty's edict

Officer Gua-erjia Musen

colluded with rebel leader Wolf

Sentenced to death

Gua-erjia Gong-e and members of the Guillotines

are guilty of conspiracy

and to be executed at noon today

How dare you shackle the Chief Commander!

Gong-e, you've suffered unjustly

Do you blame me?

These days...

People see the Great Qing Empire as backward

unable to keep up with the latest advances

Imagine...

If we had cannons like the British

Does Your Majesty need cannons?

Aren't the Guillotines enough?

Armillary sphere, terrestrial globe

air pump, pulley system, steam engine...

Do you think they're hard to build?

They are

would sacrifice the Guillotines for cannons

Gong-e, take a look

In this library of mine

there are hundreds of books

chronicling the Qing Dynasty

My legacy

will be recorded among them

pass on for generations

I will not allow it to be tarnished

by this dirty chapter

ensure the survival of the dynasty...

without the help of the Guillotines?

Can we rely on the tricks of Westerners

to pacify the Han Chinese?

Didn't you say

That a guillotine kills any target

within ten paces?

The range of a firearm

far exceeds ten paces

Cannons

can strike targets a thousand paces away

Do you see?

Your Majesty

Damn Haidu, I'm going to get him!

Look at yourself

How are you going to fight?

Musen would never betray us

report to the Chief Commander

The headquarters no longer exist

All we can do now

is run

As far as possible

What?

No longer exist?

What do you mean?

The Guillotines are now considered

a dirty secret

Now they think we're a dirty secret?

They trained us to become Guillotines!

Besides being Guillotines

what else can we do?

Leng

How do you know so much?

What else do you know?

Don't let us die without knowing why

Tell us the truth

Haidu and I

are a team

We work for

His Majesty

Buka

Stop! We're brothers!

Drop your sword!

Leng

Why?

Leng

Are we still brothers?

You've always been my brothers

When his late Majesty sent me

to the Guillotines

I never imagined this would happen

You must all leave now

and never return

Why?

Move back

Step aside!

Letusleave

Step aside!

Want a good time?

I've got a room

I'll find medicine

Don't come back

Move back

Go back! No one is permitted to leave!

You thief!

He's a wanted criminal

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