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[theme music playing]
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[thunder rumbling]
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[knocking on door]
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[man] Master Marco. You
requested more salt cakes ?
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Yes. Thank you.
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[gatekeeper shouts in foreign language]
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[palace gates opening]
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[men groaning]
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General Aruka advised retreat.
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I gave the order that we turn
and fight… like Mongols.
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[Kublai] Mongols do not lose.
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I have thought of nothing else
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these past days and nights.
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A ride preceded by
victory is much shorter.
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True words such as these
can only be drawn
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from a well of personal experience.
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Leave me with my son.
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Our son…
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is wounded.
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Let me see.
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A scar that will always
remind me of Wuchang…
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and the men and horses that died
there. That is the only wound.
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It too will fade.
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[Kublai] Empress, please.
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Go to the healer…
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Immediately.
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You will ride to Karakorum…
pay a visit to Ariq.
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I want to know why my brother
pledged horse and bow,
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but did not arrive to support my army.
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A horse messenger can cover …
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Your horse messenger…
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did a fine job at Wuchang. Did he not ?
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Did you even send a falcon to my brother ?
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Of course I did.
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[Kublai] Return to me the truth.
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Go see the healer, as
your mother instructed.
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[Marco] How are the merchants taxed ?
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They pay a fee for their stalls,
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and the higher fee is for
more traffic, more customers.
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More money, eh ?
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Are there ever holdouts ?
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– Inside the Imperial Wall ?
– [chuckles]
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Very rare.
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Too good a thing they have here.
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These vendors know,
they cheat on tribute,
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they end up peddling outside the wall.
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[Marco] In Venice, those who do not
meet their obligations are imprisoned.
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Is it the same here ?
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No, no, no. Thieves are branded thieves.
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Marked, they struggle.
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Their sons beg, their wives
and daughters whore.
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They live off Lady
Chabi’s charity loaves.
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But they live.
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Sometimes.
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Severity of punishment…
not for me to comment on.
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This is for the Vice Regent Yusuf,
and the wisdom of his Secretariat.
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[Marco] What is this fabric ?
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Uh, linen.
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These Jurchen make it in Manchuria.
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They don’t have copper
coins to pay this month.
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So, I let them pay with what they have.
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[speaking Mandarin]
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[children laughing]
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Hey. Hey.
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Can we get rid of these… pissants ?
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These are my children.
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[laughs]
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They follow me around like I’m a king.
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[Marco] King of a fine brood, sir.
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With my own Venetian slave, huh ?
Pissants !
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[Sanga laughing]
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I love that !
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[Sanga sighs] Let me put this away.
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[Marco] Thank you for
dinner. It was delicious.
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[Sanga] Spices ?
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You wanna talk about spices ?
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These spiceries pay
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three and a third percent.
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From the wine they make of the rice…
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they generate great revenue.
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Thus, they must pay duty.
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Untold money to the Khan !
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What is that, Sanga ?
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Huh ?
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[speaking Persian]
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This, Marco…
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they’re verses of love.
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See, I travel to collect.
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So, when I travel…
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I leave words of love
on paper for my Goland.
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So she remembers she has a husband !
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[Sanga chuckles]
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And the Silk Road ? Do we ever
travel there to collect taxes ?
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“We” ? No.
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I travel to collect.
Once a fortnight or so.
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You…
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are not permitted to travel
outside of Cambulac.
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Hmm ?
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The wonders of Khan’s City is plenty.
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Hmm ?
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So, please…
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don’t speak of this again…
because I like you.
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My slave.
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Salute !
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[Sanga chuckles]
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[Mei Lin] Noble Tiger
traveled a great distance…
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and began to find his eyes growing heavy.
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Noble Tiger was very sleepy, you see…
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for he was very old.
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Did he have no more teeth ?
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– [laughs]
– He still had teeth…
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just no longer sharp.
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And so, Noble Tiger lay himself
under a great banyan tree…
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and fell into a deep slumber.
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He had the most beautiful
dream of a long shady path.
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And as he walked down it…
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he grew young again and
began a life anew.
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So, he slept forever ?
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Yes.
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But all of his friends in the
forest were so happy for him.
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Then they remembered all the
treasures he left behind.
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You, Ling Ling, are the sweetest…
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greatest treasure your
father ever gifted me.
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One I will selfishly hoard forever.
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Hello, Sunflower.
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Uncle !
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Uncle’s most precious. Born
in the Year of the Monkey.
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– Oh.
– [giggles]
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That’s why you’re so clever.
Precious and clever.
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Go. Show the children your new gift.
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The Emperor is breathing his last
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and he has requested the presence
of his imperial consort.
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It is a tragedy that the
fates will not allow him
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the time to bear witness to
the fall of Kublai Khan.
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Perhaps the Goddess of Mercy is
sparing him a far worse vision.
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Men will one day sing
songs about me, sister.
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Jia Sidao, the prime minister
who vanquished the demon
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and saved the Song.
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I will bring my daughter to
say goodbye to her father…
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and to the Empire.
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[neighing]
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I did not mean to startle you.
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– Are you following me ?
– No.
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I saw you and approached.
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What are you doing out here ?
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I might ask you the same.
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There is no citizen of Cambulac
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foolish enough to look at,
let alone talk to me.
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Do you know who I am ?
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I know only your protector.
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And if Za Bing were to catch
you anywhere near me…
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he would run you through.
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I trust you will not report me.
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[bell tolls]
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So… who are you ?
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I am the Blue Princess
of the Bayaut tribe.
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You ride as Mongol… not princess.
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All Mongol women are born
to the horse and the bow.
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May I assist you ?
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No.
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I am simply being polite.
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Something a noble woman such as
yourself should be tutored in.
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I need not be polite to someone like you.
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[scoffs] Someone like me ?
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Someone beneath me.
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I will forgive your ignorance
in the ways of your new home.
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This is not my home.
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Many before you have thought the same.
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You speak from experience.
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Why do you imagine that ?
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I see behind your words.
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If you are the Princess of the Bayaut…
where is your Queen ?
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Your King ?
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You’re a prisoner…
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like me.
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I am kept for royalty. My future
is in some distant palace.
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You are a slave of the Khan.
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I am nothing like you.
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[bell tolls]
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Try to keep up, if you can.
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[bell tolling]
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It won’t be you who gets
cattle-branded, Princess.
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[thudding]
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[growling]
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[Kublai] You’ve been
particularly busy of late.
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How goes your horse riding ?
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You hold your tongue from me again ? Hmm ?
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How shall I tell of the
Mongolian pony, Sire ?
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He is a fine and hardy breed.
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Unlike some steeds in Europe… he
needs not rest nor… coddling.
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Good.
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Because you ride to Karakorum
today with my son Jingim.
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Bring me back a report, with fresh eyes.
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Let me see, Latin…
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the way things truly are in
the kingdom of my brother.
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By your will, Sire.
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[men urging horses]
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My nephew.
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Uncle.
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[Ariq] I’m honored that my
older brother has sent you.
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We will kill a sheep…
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and drink airag.
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Come.
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[Jingim] You’re in the
heartland of Lord Genghis now.
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Beware, Polo. Your words
can get you killed.
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Wait out here.
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[Ariq] This one they call
the “Cricket Minister…”
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how many soldiers did he have
lying in wait at Wuchang ?
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Not enough to defeat a Mongol army…
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had our reinforcements arrived.
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You did not attack without me ?
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I was almost killed !
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My general, Aruka, has
passed to the Blue Sky !
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The rains cut off passage
of the Blue Horde.
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You should have sent word.
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I did.
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My best rider… Duwa.
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They captured him outside of Wuchang.
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Tied his head to his horse…
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let it run home.
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Right to his ger…
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and his children.
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[men grunting]
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[sheep bleating]
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May I see ?
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[horse neighing]
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They are… magnificent beasts.
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When you were a child,
I called you Altai.
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After the mountains me and
your father hunted as boys.
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Kublai insisted on a Chinese name.
Jingim.
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Remind me of its meaning.
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Golden.
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Golden.
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You are his golden one, nephew.
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One day, they may call you…
“Jingim Khan.”
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But beware…
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my big brother is too
trusting of outsiders.
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Persians… and Chinese…
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and all kinds of religions.
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You and me…
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our blood is the wolf and the deer.
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Open the gates to outsiders…
secrets will they spill.
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Who is the Christian who rides with you ?
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My uncle’s troops were cut
off by the spring rains…
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east of Volga.
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He sent a horse messenger…
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but the rebels intercepted.
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Where is the Latin ?
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[Marco] Sire ?
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What was your impression
of the Old Capital ?
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I found the Great Khan’s
brother to be a gracious host,
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as Prince Jingim reported.
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Four wives, yes ?
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Five. He also keeps a large harem…
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quite young.
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But not as vast as mine.
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And nowhere near as charming.
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Certainly no girls from Kungurat.
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[court laughing]
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I have seen my uncle’s army, Father.
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They are ready.
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00:23:02,665 --> 00:23:05,835
Ariq is prepared to join
our attack on Xiangyang.
264
00:23:05,918 --> 00:23:09,172
This will not be another Wuchang.
265
00:23:09,256 --> 00:23:10,715
[court murmuring]
266
00:23:15,262 --> 00:23:18,181
I fear Ariq’s horses will
never reach Xiangyang.
267
00:23:24,020 --> 00:23:25,188
Speak.
268
00:23:28,024 --> 00:23:30,777
Ariq’s horses are in the
many thousands, true.
269
00:23:30,860 --> 00:23:32,904
Quite fit.
270
00:23:32,987 --> 00:23:36,616
But how many days’ ride is it from
the Old Capital to the Walled City ?
271
00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:40,287
Three weeks. By desert.
272
00:23:45,708 --> 00:23:48,044
As the son of a merchant…
273
00:23:48,127 --> 00:23:51,589
they do not have the grain supplies to
move that many horses to Xiangyang.
274
00:23:52,507 --> 00:23:56,303
The desert alone would cut
their numbers in half.
275
00:23:56,386 --> 00:24:00,682
My son, Jingim, just stated that
they are ready to ride into battle.
276
00:24:00,765 --> 00:24:03,893
They are ready, yes, Great Khan.
277
00:24:03,976 --> 00:24:06,854
But only if that battle
was closer to home.
278
00:24:09,191 --> 00:24:10,775
[Jingim] Do you accuse my uncle,
279
00:24:10,858 --> 00:24:12,985
brother to the Khan, of treason ?
280
00:24:13,903 --> 00:24:17,490
I only describe what I see, as I saw it.
281
00:24:31,838 --> 00:24:33,840
Yusuf…
282
00:24:33,923 --> 00:24:37,469
dispatch a night rider to
verify the Latin’s report.
283
00:24:52,859 --> 00:24:54,110
[door closes]
284
00:25:01,033 --> 00:25:05,330
You will not be gaining favors by
your charming stories anymore.
285
00:25:06,914 --> 00:25:08,708
Not without a tongue.
286
00:25:52,419 --> 00:25:54,462
The sword you hid is weak.
287
00:25:54,546 --> 00:25:57,924
Your water won’t last you two days.
288
00:25:58,007 --> 00:26:01,177
But the salt cakes were… delicious.
289
00:26:04,806 --> 00:26:06,974
I called Ariq a liar tonight.
290
00:26:07,058 --> 00:26:10,144
That was foolish. Were your words true ?
291
00:26:10,227 --> 00:26:11,854
Yes.
292
00:26:11,938 --> 00:26:14,023
Run now, they will find you.
293
00:26:14,106 --> 00:26:15,650
Stay…
294
00:26:15,733 --> 00:26:19,236
I can train you to survive in whatever
world you choose to make your home.
295
00:26:19,321 --> 00:26:21,280
This is not my home.
296
00:26:21,364 --> 00:26:22,949
[Hundred Eyes] I understand.
297
00:26:24,617 --> 00:26:26,494
Where did the Khan get you from ?
298
00:26:27,954 --> 00:26:29,414
I said I would train you…
299
00:26:30,373 --> 00:26:34,293
not wallow in nostalgia with you.
300
00:26:59,110 --> 00:27:00,862
[grunting]
301
00:27:32,394 --> 00:27:34,270
[Marco panting]
302
00:27:35,563 --> 00:27:37,899
Why do you think the sword
has a colored sash ?
303
00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:40,234
To look pretty ?
304
00:27:52,455 --> 00:27:55,082
[Jingim] He’s advanced
quickly to the broadsword.
305
00:27:57,877 --> 00:27:59,712
You schooled him well, Hundred Eyes.
306
00:28:01,213 --> 00:28:04,634
May I interrupt the student’s
training for a word ?
307
00:28:04,717 --> 00:28:07,762
You’re the Prince. You may kill
him, if that’s your desire.
308
00:28:09,055 --> 00:28:10,056
[drawing sword]
309
00:28:18,022 --> 00:28:21,901
Humiliate me in front
of the court again…
310
00:28:21,984 --> 00:28:23,736
I will kill you.
311
00:28:33,746 --> 00:28:35,081
You were right.
312
00:28:36,833 --> 00:28:38,418
Ariq betrayed us.
313
00:28:53,725 --> 00:28:57,394
Ariq sends me a treacherous gift.
314
00:28:57,479 --> 00:29:01,065
He remembers how much I love
the king of the hunters.
315
00:29:01,148 --> 00:29:04,777
Ariq is a dog, that would
eat its own afterbirth.
316
00:29:04,861 --> 00:29:06,488
[Kublai chuckles]
317
00:29:06,571 --> 00:29:10,825
He has always believed that he
should be Khan of Khans. Not you.
318
00:29:12,952 --> 00:29:15,580
Before the sun sets today…
319
00:29:15,663 --> 00:29:18,875
I will close down the
Gobi trade routes…
320
00:29:18,958 --> 00:29:21,753
starve Karakorum.
321
00:29:21,836 --> 00:29:25,465
My younger brother will have
no place to go but Siberia.
322
00:29:25,548 --> 00:29:28,300
So forgiving, Great Kublai.
323
00:29:28,384 --> 00:29:33,473
You slaughter entire cities, yet
you allow Ariq to run to Siberia.
324
00:29:33,556 --> 00:29:35,141
I know how to punish my brother.
325
00:29:35,224 --> 00:29:37,351
He almost killed your son.
326
00:29:38,936 --> 00:29:41,939
Ariq believes he can pleasure
your women better than you.
327
00:29:42,023 --> 00:29:43,190
[Kublai chuckles]
328
00:29:43,274 --> 00:29:45,151
Does that excite you, Empress ?
329
00:29:45,234 --> 00:29:49,071
Ariq should be trampled by , horses
330
00:29:49,155 --> 00:29:51,699
and left on a steppe to rot.
331
00:29:55,244 --> 00:29:58,873
That… would excite me.
332
00:30:17,141 --> 00:30:18,350
[crickets chirping]
333
00:30:36,786 --> 00:30:38,370
[Governor] Ariq Khan ?
334
00:30:38,454 --> 00:30:39,914
[Jia Sidao] Kublai’s younger
brother in the north.
335
00:30:39,997 --> 00:30:43,668
We are minting his own currency for
when he is elected Khan of Khans
336
00:30:43,751 --> 00:30:46,128
and opens the Silk Road for the Song.
337
00:30:46,212 --> 00:30:48,631
Of course, I need the support
of our region’s governors.
338
00:30:53,385 --> 00:30:56,055
You have my stamp, Sidao.
339
00:30:58,558 --> 00:31:01,894
And my command over the Council.
340
00:31:19,536 --> 00:31:21,497
[women sobbing]
341
00:31:21,581 --> 00:31:24,834
Men grow old, pearls turn yellow…
342
00:31:24,917 --> 00:31:27,169
there is no cure.
343
00:31:27,253 --> 00:31:29,421
My condolences, Empress Xie.
344
00:31:30,464 --> 00:31:34,510
Eventually, we all become
white ashes, Sidao.
345
00:31:34,594 --> 00:31:38,139
But my husband has left a son.
346
00:31:38,222 --> 00:31:41,684
Bow to your new Emperor, Zhao Xian.
347
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,232
[sighing]
348
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,906
With sad news, Empress, also comes good.
349
00:31:54,989 --> 00:31:58,159
We drove the Mongols back from Wuchang.
350
00:31:58,242 --> 00:32:00,202
The barbarians know your Chancellor
351
00:32:00,286 --> 00:32:04,040
will never surrender the last
stronghold of the Song dynasty.
352
00:32:04,707 --> 00:32:07,960
But they will be back.
We can count on that.
353
00:32:08,044 --> 00:32:11,338
I fear you do count on it, Sidao.
354
00:32:11,422 --> 00:32:14,050
I fear you thirst for it.
355
00:32:14,133 --> 00:32:15,760
[loud clattering]
356
00:32:44,664 --> 00:32:45,915
Have you reported all ?
357
00:32:45,998 --> 00:32:48,668
Yes, Good Minister Ahmad. Yes.
358
00:32:50,878 --> 00:32:52,338
You are dismissed, Sanga.
359
00:32:56,133 --> 00:32:57,426
Master Marco.
360
00:32:58,385 --> 00:33:01,848
Come. Stay.
361
00:33:01,931 --> 00:33:04,516
Goodbye, my Venetian slave.
362
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,728
– Schiavo. Huh ?
– [chuckles]
363
00:33:08,270 --> 00:33:09,438
[Ahmad] So…
364
00:33:09,521 --> 00:33:11,648
what is this gift I hear of ?
365
00:33:11,733 --> 00:33:15,277
The foreign messenger who can
paint pictures with his words.
366
00:33:15,361 --> 00:33:18,530
How would you describe
the manner in which…
367
00:33:18,614 --> 00:33:19,949
the Uighurs pay their taxes ?
368
00:33:20,908 --> 00:33:24,370
Always there’s a form of ceremony.
369
00:33:24,453 --> 00:33:26,956
On their knees…
370
00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:30,542
a humble offering, more as
to a god than to a king.
371
00:33:30,626 --> 00:33:32,461
And the Jurchens ?
372
00:33:32,544 --> 00:33:34,964
[Marco] Clever, and a resourceful people.
373
00:33:35,047 --> 00:33:38,843
Paying with the work of their hands
when they do not have the coins.
374
00:33:38,926 --> 00:33:42,138
[Ahmad] Masters of making
linen, I understand.
375
00:33:42,221 --> 00:33:44,473
So if the Jurchens have
been paying in linen,
376
00:33:44,556 --> 00:33:47,268
why hasn’t Sanga deposited
any such tribute ?
377
00:33:50,687 --> 00:33:53,983
I did not say that Sanga
collected such linens.
378
00:33:54,066 --> 00:33:58,445
Only that the Jurchens are a
clever and resourceful people.
379
00:34:00,156 --> 00:34:02,324
You are not the first foreigner…
380
00:34:02,408 --> 00:34:05,411
who has had to learn to
subsist in this kingdom.
381
00:34:05,494 --> 00:34:08,372
I found my way here as a child…
382
00:34:08,455 --> 00:34:12,001
raised in the household
of the Great Khan.
383
00:34:12,084 --> 00:34:16,713
So I know his heart,
and I have his trust.
384
00:34:16,798 --> 00:34:21,427
A lie is… like an assault
on his person, but…
385
00:34:21,510 --> 00:34:24,596
an honest word ? That is like a shield.
386
00:34:25,890 --> 00:34:28,059
So I must ask you again.
387
00:34:28,142 --> 00:34:29,476
Did the Jurchens…
388
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:34,606
at any time… pay their
taxes in the form of linen ?
389
00:34:36,650 --> 00:34:39,153
Perhaps Sanga simply forgot.
390
00:34:42,114 --> 00:34:43,950
Indeed.
391
00:34:57,254 --> 00:35:00,842
[singing in Mandarin]
392
00:35:21,695 --> 00:35:24,866
[Mei Lin speaking English] Ling Ling…
Ling Ling, go with Jing Fei.
393
00:35:26,951 --> 00:35:28,995
Come on. Good girl.
394
00:35:31,622 --> 00:35:34,291
I will see you very soon, my daughter.
395
00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:43,134
My Emperor is dead…
396
00:35:44,551 --> 00:35:47,513
but I am still an imperial consort.
397
00:35:52,059 --> 00:35:54,436
I do not bed soldiers.
398
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,065
Chancellor Jia Sidao has
granted us permission.
399
00:36:23,925 --> 00:36:27,303
Two Eels, One Cave.
400
00:36:33,142 --> 00:36:34,810
[soldiers chuckling]
401
00:36:35,852 --> 00:36:38,105
Do you know this forbidden game ?
402
00:36:39,065 --> 00:36:40,566
[soldiers speaking indistinctly]
403
00:37:16,393 --> 00:37:17,561
[gurgling]
404
00:37:19,146 --> 00:37:20,897
[soldiers shouting]
405
00:37:21,607 --> 00:37:22,733
[soldiers grunting]
406
00:37:51,928 --> 00:37:55,975
[guards shouting in Cantonese]
407
00:37:56,058 --> 00:37:57,643
[footsteps approaching]
408
00:38:05,484 --> 00:38:09,363
You should be tied to a post and have
your skin sliced from your body.
409
00:38:09,446 --> 00:38:12,324
I have bartered for your
political advantage.
410
00:38:12,408 --> 00:38:15,161
I will not barter for the
loyalty of your soldiers.
411
00:38:15,244 --> 00:38:16,453
[Jia Sidao] It is beneath you…
412
00:38:16,537 --> 00:38:17,913
I know.
413
00:38:19,498 --> 00:38:21,625
You will travel to Cambulac as defector.
414
00:38:22,584 --> 00:38:23,877
They will take you in,
415
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,047
and just as you won the favor
of the Emperor of China…
416
00:38:26,130 --> 00:38:28,840
you will win the favor
of the Devil himself.
417
00:38:28,924 --> 00:38:30,801
Report to me.
418
00:38:30,884 --> 00:38:33,554
Everything he says, everything
he does, everything he dreams.
419
00:38:33,637 --> 00:38:35,347
[children laughing]
420
00:38:40,269 --> 00:38:41,645
Do not worry, sister.
421
00:38:42,146 --> 00:38:43,605
While you are away…
422
00:38:43,689 --> 00:38:46,733
I will personally care for my Sunflower.
423
00:38:47,693 --> 00:38:49,111
I am your blood.
424
00:38:49,195 --> 00:38:51,322
We give our blood for the dynasty.
425
00:38:52,114 --> 00:38:55,117
Your men… they laugh at you.
426
00:38:55,201 --> 00:38:57,369
They call you the “Cricket Minister.”
427
00:39:08,255 --> 00:39:10,466
[Marco] I was summoned.
428
00:39:10,549 --> 00:39:11,633
[Jingim] Quiet.
429
00:39:14,595 --> 00:39:15,971
You may begin.
430
00:39:17,139 --> 00:39:20,392
[shouting in Mongolian]
431
00:39:28,109 --> 00:39:31,570
The tax collector’s
deposits did not match.
432
00:39:31,653 --> 00:39:32,738
What ?
433
00:39:35,699 --> 00:39:37,659
[man shouting in Mongolian]
434
00:39:47,544 --> 00:39:49,255
[Jingim] He was given an honorable death.
435
00:39:50,256 --> 00:39:54,551
Rolled up in a carpet so that Tengri
the Sky God did not see his blood.
436
00:39:58,764 --> 00:40:01,183
You will be riding into
battle with us, I hear…
437
00:40:01,267 --> 00:40:03,685
to give your accounts.
438
00:40:16,865 --> 00:40:20,202
[Mei Lin] I love you so much.
I have to go.
439
00:40:20,286 --> 00:40:22,037
But I will see you very soon.
440
00:40:22,121 --> 00:40:23,705
– [Ling Ling sobbing]
– I love you.
441
00:40:36,718 --> 00:40:38,929
[Ling Ling crying]
442
00:41:26,268 --> 00:41:27,978
[sighs deeply]
443
00:42:26,161 --> 00:42:28,163
[Kublai] Send for Ariq.
444
00:42:29,373 --> 00:42:33,460
Put up a ger. Light a fire.
445
00:43:04,783 --> 00:43:05,951
[scoffs]
446
00:43:11,998 --> 00:43:13,083
[chuckles]
447
00:43:14,209 --> 00:43:16,169
Do you remember, older brother…
448
00:43:16,252 --> 00:43:18,964
the summer you chased
a deer for six days ?
449
00:43:19,047 --> 00:43:22,551
You were gone so long, our mother
thought the wolves got you.
450
00:43:22,634 --> 00:43:25,554
She made me grind borts with
the women for six more days.
451
00:43:25,637 --> 00:43:26,638
[Ariq laughs]
452
00:43:27,723 --> 00:43:30,392
Our father woke up drunk and said,
453
00:43:30,476 --> 00:43:33,437
“Kublai, why are you
grinding borts like a girl,
454
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,981
when you should be out hunting deer ?”
455
00:43:38,233 --> 00:43:39,610
Sorkaktani…
456
00:43:41,152 --> 00:43:42,613
she was a fine mother.
457
00:43:44,823 --> 00:43:48,034
A great mother. Queen of Mongolia.
458
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,544
It was she who taught us the code
of Grandfather Genghis, yes ?
459
00:43:57,628 --> 00:44:00,005
It was she that taught
us that a true ruler
460
00:44:00,088 --> 00:44:03,342
must not lose the loyalty
of his allies and subjects.
461
00:44:04,343 --> 00:44:09,097
The Chinese… Saracen…
Christian or Hindi.
462
00:44:09,931 --> 00:44:13,435
A wise leader allows
his people their ways.
463
00:44:13,519 --> 00:44:14,645
[Ariq] Our father…
464
00:44:14,728 --> 00:44:17,689
son of Genghis, did not
agree with such open gates.
465
00:44:17,773 --> 00:44:21,151
He drank himself to death.
Behind closed doors.
466
00:44:23,695 --> 00:44:26,823
Do you know where I was those six days ?
467
00:44:26,907 --> 00:44:28,992
When you were chasing that deer ?
468
00:44:30,411 --> 00:44:32,037
Making my arrows sharp
469
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,916
to go after the wolf and save my brother.
470
00:44:35,999 --> 00:44:38,209
I was four years old.
471
00:44:38,919 --> 00:44:41,422
When our brother, Mongke, died…
472
00:44:41,505 --> 00:44:44,550
Mongolia elected me Khan of Khans.
473
00:44:44,633 --> 00:44:49,680
Not all of Mongolia, brother. Not
the Princes of the Golden Horde.
474
00:44:49,763 --> 00:44:53,099
– Not the Chagataid of Persia.
– That is rebellion.
475
00:44:58,271 --> 00:45:00,273
We can argue that all night.
476
00:45:01,567 --> 00:45:03,652
I do not want to be Emperor of China.
477
00:45:04,611 --> 00:45:08,073
I do not want to be Ruler
of the Face of the Earth.
478
00:45:08,156 --> 00:45:10,576
I want to be Khan of Mongolia.
479
00:45:10,659 --> 00:45:12,786
They are one and the same, brother.
480
00:45:14,705 --> 00:45:17,708
So… it has come to this ?
481
00:45:18,500 --> 00:45:21,377
Not by my choosing.
482
00:45:23,797 --> 00:45:24,965
The way I see it,
483
00:45:25,048 --> 00:45:27,926
it is your warriors
setting camp on my land.
484
00:45:29,135 --> 00:45:31,096
It’s because of that point of view…
485
00:45:31,179 --> 00:45:34,349
my warriors set camp on my land.
486
00:45:53,159 --> 00:45:55,286
I bid you a good night’s rest.
487
00:45:57,122 --> 00:46:00,041
I’ll see you at sunrise.
488
00:46:28,236 --> 00:46:29,530
[sharpening sword]
489
00:46:48,464 --> 00:46:52,719
Where do you think the Venetian
merchant is this evening ?
490
00:46:55,722 --> 00:46:58,058
India ? Tabriz ?
491
00:47:01,144 --> 00:47:04,522
On my Silk Road, chasing riches.
492
00:47:07,025 --> 00:47:09,611
I was just about your age when I knew.
493
00:47:11,655 --> 00:47:13,574
Knew what, Sire ?
494
00:47:13,657 --> 00:47:17,493
That I had to become the man
I wished my father was.
495
00:47:22,373 --> 00:47:23,792
Tomorrow…
496
00:47:25,001 --> 00:47:27,295
watch and remember what you see.
497
00:47:30,090 --> 00:47:31,507
Faithfully.
498
00:47:42,686 --> 00:47:45,355
[drums playing]
499
00:48:30,150 --> 00:48:31,526
[drums stop playing]
500
00:49:15,946 --> 00:49:17,447
Tell me.
501
00:49:18,740 --> 00:49:24,204
All the way to the horizon.
A sea of men and horses.
502
00:49:24,287 --> 00:49:26,915
Ready to break ashore.
503
00:49:28,208 --> 00:49:31,294
The Khan has moved from
his guard to the front.
504
00:49:34,089 --> 00:49:35,090
Yes.
505
00:50:37,235 --> 00:50:39,029
[urges horse]
506
00:50:43,074 --> 00:50:44,534
What is he doing now ?
507
00:50:45,994 --> 00:50:47,495
[Marco] He is riding down.
508
00:50:48,663 --> 00:50:49,915
Alone.
509
00:50:49,998 --> 00:50:52,292
This is Mongol against Mongol.
510
00:50:52,375 --> 00:50:54,335
And only one can win.
511
00:50:56,254 --> 00:50:58,173
You best pray that it is our side.
512
00:50:58,256 --> 00:50:59,841
[Ariq scoffing]
513
00:50:59,925 --> 00:51:01,217
For if we lose…
514
00:51:01,301 --> 00:51:03,428
Cambulac will be burned to the ground…
515
00:51:03,511 --> 00:51:06,389
and we will be made into kindling.
516
00:51:08,641 --> 00:51:10,143
[urging horse]
517
00:51:13,396 --> 00:51:14,480
[falcon screeching]
518
00:51:36,127 --> 00:51:38,296
Look where it has ended, brother.
519
00:51:39,505 --> 00:51:41,883
You want Mongolia…
520
00:51:41,967 --> 00:51:43,509
you come and take it.
521
00:51:45,178 --> 00:51:46,512
[Ariq] It is…
522
00:51:47,430 --> 00:51:48,849
as it should be.
523
00:52:45,030 --> 00:52:46,531
[yelling]
524
00:52:52,495 --> 00:52:54,080
[both grunting]
525
00:53:47,258 --> 00:53:48,759
[Kublai breathing heavily]
526
00:54:01,147 --> 00:54:02,357
[yelling in pain]
527
00:54:07,028 --> 00:54:08,071
[yelling]
528
00:54:56,327 --> 00:54:57,537
[falcon screeching]
529
00:55:18,474 --> 00:55:20,351
Men of Karakorum !
530
00:55:21,394 --> 00:55:22,937
It is over !
531
00:55:23,020 --> 00:55:24,230
This fight…
532
00:55:24,314 --> 00:55:28,401
between Mongols is done !
533
00:55:29,944 --> 00:55:31,654
We stand together now !
534
00:55:32,655 --> 00:55:34,365
We ride together !
535
00:55:36,409 --> 00:55:39,579
Every corner of the land
beneath this Blue Sky,
536
00:55:39,662 --> 00:55:42,415
is ours for the taking !
537
00:55:43,499 --> 00:55:45,751
Go back to Karakorum.
538
00:55:45,835 --> 00:55:48,254
Prepare for war !
539
00:55:49,172 --> 00:55:53,343
For soon, we ride toward the south.
540
00:55:55,136 --> 00:55:56,846
[man shouting in foreign language]
541
00:56:29,837 --> 00:56:31,839
[theme music playing]
542
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:42,000
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00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00
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