Yu Jin and Ye Zhao team up to teach the rich grain merchants, who are hoarding supplies and unwilling to help the starving people, what starvation feels like. The businessmen relent and donate their amassed grains to the people. Upset with Ye Zhao, the businessmen and imperial ministers plot to take her down. The Empress, still upset with the death of her nephew, goads her brother to help bring down Ye Zhao. (Source: frankly at kisskh)