苗: sprout...
工厂: factory...
左右: left and right, nearby, approximately, attendant, to control, to influence...
皇帝: emperor...
泡: bubble, foam, blister (i.e. skin bubble), to soak, to steep, to infuse, to dawdle, to shilly-shally, to hang about, to pick up (a girl), to get off with (a sexual partner), classifier for occurrenc...
刻意: meticulous, painstaking, deliberate...
丑闻: scandal...
监管: to oversee, to take charge of, to supervise, to administer, supervisory, supervision...
相传: to pass on, to hand down, tradition has it that..., according to legend...
畜牧: to raise animals...