Pledge of Allegiance Episode 23 Recap, Plot

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In the palace value room, Lu Zheng, who is a male, is sleeping on the table. He dreams of ten years ago when Lu Yulin, who is also male, told him the meaning of "Yu Ming Suo". When Lu Zheng wakes up, he realizes something and immediately gets up and leaves.

In the Wenhua Hall, Li Wu, who is also male, finally finds "Yu Ming Suo", but he hears a noise outside the door and has to put it back in place. Yuan Zhongdao and Lu Zheng, both males, enter the hall. Lu Zheng puts "Yu Ming Suo" in the water, and it spits out a cipher. Yuan Zhongdao looks at the cipher and finds out that it is the word puzzle that Li Yan told Song Heming years ago. Li Wu, who had overheard the cipher, leaves to confront the emperor and brings Boss Shen to help him.

In the Bell Tower Secret Room, Yuan Zhongdao felt he owed Zhang Junqing and wanted to betroth her to Lu Zheng. Lu Zheng refused, saying that Zhang Junqing's heart already belonged to someone else. Yuan Zhongdao understood Lu Zheng's intentions and reminded him to remember his identity as a loyal subject. After Zhang Junqing left the secret room, she suddenly fell to the ground. Lu Zheng helped her back to her room and then wrote a divorce letter, leaving it on the table.

In the palace value room, Li Wu and Shu Tang, both wearing night clothes and masks, meet to discuss the cipher Li Wu overheard. Shu Tang writes down the cipher and together they deduce that the weapons are hidden on a boat that has been floating along the canal. As Li Wu confidently speaks about their plan, Shu Tang can't resist standing up and taking off his mask, revealing that she knows it is him. Suddenly, Li Wu pours alcohol for Shu Tang, causing her to pass out.

Li Wu goes to the canal station to check the numbers on the cipher, and the station master, Wang Shu, warns him that the ships are all illegal. At night, Lu Zheng, disguised as a worker, searches through the boxes on the docks and finds the weapons. Meanwhile, Li Wu and Boss Shen sit in the cabin and watch as Lu Zheng is deceived into believing there are only a few guns and two cannons. Li Wu suggests that they intercept the weapons halfway through the journey by using a secret passage in Zhang Ji Silk Shop and transport them to the Bell Tower.

The next day, Li Dongfang told Li Wu that he knew about what he and Boss Shen were doing behind the scenes. Li Wu pretended that he and Boss Shen were only trying to make money. Li Dongfang asked Li Wu if he really didn't know anything about firearms, and Li Wu said that he was very afraid of the punishment in the prison, so he didn't dare to lie. Finally, Li Dongfang left the yamen satisfied.

Outside the city, Boss Shen borrowed the rice porridge to hide the firearms in the boxes and cans, then followed a group of commoners to the city gate. Li Wu arrived on horseback, expressing the emperor's sympathy for the people and ordered himself to open the city gate to let the refugees in. The city gate opened wide, and the firearms were successfully transported into the city. On the other side, Lu Zheng, who thought he had intercepted the firearms, led the Jinyiwei to rush into the courtyard but found that many boxes contained stones.

At night, watching the No.47 ship sailing in, Li Wu led the Jinyiwei to search the ship. Just as the Jinyiwei was desperately searching on the ship, a group of "Ye Bu Shou" suddenly appeared. Li Wu and the Jinyiwei finally broke out of the ambush and got out of the cabin. Li Dongfang thanked him for delivering the firearms to his hands. Li Wu sneered and revealed Li Dongfang's identity as the illegitimate son of the Lord Yan. Li Dongfang drew his sword and pointed it at Li Wu, while Lu Zheng appeared with a cannon. Li Wu revealed that he was the child in the prison of the imperial edict back then and asked Lu Zheng if he still remembered the grudge of killing his father. Lu Zheng yelled that he had not forgotten and ordered the cabin to be shattered by the cannonball.

A month later, Lu Zheng told Yuan Zhongdao that the firearms were not in Lord Yan's hands. Yuan Zhongdao said that Lord Yan retreated to Longjiang because he was intimidated by two cannons, and he didn't know that the firearms were not in the emperor's hands. Yuan Zhongdao said that he wanted to take Lord Yan's life for the emperor, but Lu Zheng believed that he would be responsible if Lord Yan was assassinated. Yuan Zhongdao told Lu Zheng that this would only ruin his reputation because he was leaving the city as a rebel. Lu Zheng laughed and said that he didn't care.

At night, Shu Tang took care of the just-awakened Li Wu, and he later woke up to find that Boss Shen was the one in front of him. Boss Shen told him that Shu Tang risked going out of the palace every day to take care of him, and that his plan was successful.

Meanwhile, Lu Zheng changed out of his Fei Yu Uniform and had a Jin Yi Wei cut his neck before entering the prison. Afterward, Lu Zheng, covered in injuries, was released through the city gates. Boss Shen brought Li Wu to the room where the firearms were hidden, and said that now the whole Ming Dynasty would listen to him.

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