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Venice, Italy. Sunday, January 8, 1324.

Good morning, Father.

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- Did you count? - No.

Pray to God that don't be too late.

- Mr. Polo. - Priest.

God doesn't like those lie about everything.

Don't die with the weight of these

lies destroying him the soul.

Man enters the world, how do you find it ...

Although priests want to keep them in ignorance.

I went to China,

To the great Khan's court.

I served you, I'm proud to have served you.

I fought beside you and and I was ruled by him.

Help yourself, mind? Please.

See this?

This little piece of stone ...

one day they will make the world grow.

The truth...

That's why I so much I prayed ... the truth,

not the lies,

not fairy tales, the truth.

But not the whole truth, I just I counted half of what I saw.

MARCO POLO

G�nova, Italy. 1298.

In recent years, the land was plagued by epidemics, plagues and wars.

And one of those wars was between G�nova and Venice.

Two men had been imprisoned and hell was the end of it.

One of them is Rustigielo de Pizza, the other is Venetian.

My name is Marco Polo.

- Here, whiskey. - Do you think there will be peace soon?

How long will we still be here?

What do you think, what chances do we have to get out of here?

I think we stayed here until someone pay the bail for us.

How long will that take? And how can we be sure

that still let us out?

We will never leave here, don't you understand?

- Prison is not the end of the world. - Really?

- I've been in jail once. - Here, in G�nova?

In China.

- Were you in China? - And in many other places.

Some places aren't even known in Europe.

And all these places it's here, in your head.

What if I tell you that been in the center of the world?

And I saw the future.

There are no limits to our mind.

My journey started here,

when I saw these pass masts in the port of Venice,

when I was young.

I wanted to know everything about boats and where they had been and

what kind of men and sailors they travel on them, and everything about seas.

My father and uncle were venetian merchants

that went to the end of world to seek goods.

What I wanted to know, was what hands had

done these strange things and beautiful that they negotiated.

Don't mess.

There is a lot of merchandise in confines where no Venetian

- Marco! - ... or any other European,

had been before.

It is solid gold. The great Khan of China, Kublai Khan gave us,

Is guaranteed.

He is the grandson of Ghengis.

- Ghengis Khan? - The best warrior that the world

never saw. Yes.

It was then that I knew that China was my destination.

That it was written, that I would go there.

What we know is that we will make a fortune

negotiating with them. - Yes.

They have silks and spices and plates made of materials so

fine you can, see hands through them.

They have camel caravans to negotiate across Asia

They have gold and silver and diamonds.

The best craftsmen and artists in the world.

And cities so big that could be oceans.

Nevertheless, the Khan empire It is so rich and nothing in the East.

But we prepared how to get back there.

We heard that the Pope and the god Christian, now allow the Chinese

who pray to any god they want.

But, Marco, the real religion will get there, so ...

However we serve good profits from our sales

It would be a trip to other side of the world,

We will pass through Jerusalem first to get oil from the sacred temple

We will be accompanied by two priests,

who would travel with us until Court of the great Kublai Khan.

If the sands had peaceful states,

our trip would have been easier,

so we were forced to travel across lands.

Despite the dangers.

I was young, I didn't feel tired

and was willing to change my life didn't matter what it cost.

Very exhausted were men when they started to

see the first mountains.

The roof of the world, with the two priests

complaining strongly at each step.

I don't continue, I don't take another step.

know that Khan us offered a hundred priests

we only have two to offer you

and you want to return to Venice with the tail

between the legs. - We're all going to die here.

The trip is too hard.

- Who knows if this Kublai Khan exist? You have your goods

to exchange, they gave us your word because

no Pope had an opportunity like this, thousands of souls need

of your help, the world's faith will change.

- We promise two priests. - Maffeo.

We are almost die in these mountains

- Stop! - We will certainly die.

And if we don't die here, nobody knows where is the end of this trip?

We know. � the opportunity to change the course of history

where no one has managed to reach.

You Venetians just want fame, they are codicious men.

- You only think about gold. - And it will take your child to death.

in the name of these riches. - Dad.

- I came of my own accord. - Your father is risking your life,

for a fairy tale.

He was there. He saw the Khan with his own eyes

And you also saw dragons, ah? And unicorns and winged horses,

What is he? a liar, a bad man or a madman.

or the three things. - Marco.

Let them go, let them go. Like this we don't see them anymore.

The priest may be right.

Maybe we will die on this adventure.

Maybe we should send the boy back.

These stories that all told me

about the lands they knew, about what they saw in China,

I want to see them myself.

Hey, Marco.

You come from there, the roof of the world?

- Yes. - that's why they no longer have strength

to fight against fever you got.

- Can you help him? - There are herbs that decrease

the heat in the blood.

That's what we can do, the rest is not in our hands.

Look for the way back.

We don't move forward, we have to wait for him.

Uncle Maffeo wanted to leave me l� and continue traveling,

but my father refused to continue.

for an entire month no one he knew whether I lived or died.

- You still want to go � China with your father?

Pray to Al� and give thanks because you're still alive

Do you know how much more you have to walk?

And what kind of reception are you going to have?

The Pope blessed the trip, we have figures blessed in Jerusalem

The Pope must be a great man on his own land

your God is present across the land

But Kublai Khan has such a big empire

that not even the Great Alexandre dreamed.

What have uncivilized people to offer you?

- What does a priest have to offer you? - When my father returned to Venice,

nobody believed him, they said that they were stories of travelers and nothing more.

So you want to taste that are wrong

Or is it something else?

You want to see it with your own eyes.

If he told the truth.

Tacla-ma-can means: "Come in and never come back".

It's only 45 days of sand, there are no villages, no shade.

After this desert, there is another desert,

Is a part of the Gobi, there is no way to avoid it.

We have to go straight to be able to cross it.

- What's that? - A diary.

A record of the path we followed and the things that we saw.

Leave it. It was better than learn arithmetic.

- Uncle Maffeo! - And if we find someone ...

and use our routes to get rich at our expense.

How would you feel?

Knowledge is power, Marco.

And power leads to wealth. That's why we're here.

For the Polo family to become convert to guardian ...

the route of China's wealth.

Books can be things most dangerous in the world, Marco.

And who do you think will read your kittens?

Those who find your bones?

China!

The Kublai Army Khan came this way.

This is what happens when the city defies the Khan.

This way!

Wait, wait.

These men are Khan’s cavalry,

sent by him to provide

a safe trip to members of your court

If in Venice there were soldiers like these

we had conquered G�nova � many years

If in Venice we had soldiers like these

we could conquer the world.

March!

What were those things? Do you think they have more power?

How far do you think can you launch them?

When they prick you knife in the back to shut you up,

you will ask: What is the cable made of?

Who drew the sheet? Where did it come from?

It looks like p�, but it fires fire.

I intend to be your slave.

My owner's wishes they are my only happiness.

We have enough provisions for three days.

Daily life as a slave became part of us,

That's how good friendships begin and so it became ours.

- How do you do that? - Chinese magic.

H�, H�, H�.

That stone was the first of the miracles he saw.

The large caravans that took the riches ...

from China to the end in the world were another.

But none will be so big as my first vision

of the grandest city in China.

the grandest in the world.

ShanDu, here's the Kublai Khan Capitol

Come this way.

- What's this? - Baboons, or barbarians.

We got to know Kublai, grandson of Ghengis Khan.

The man who united the various Mongol Valley nations and tribes.

March.

Quiet.

When you get on your knees and touch your head on the floor,

don’t look them directly in the eye, do not let your desires touch you.

When they leave you turn your back, step back

and keep your eyes on the ground

On your knees.

- Where are the priests? - After all they were afraid of the trip

your majesty, so they returned.

But we have oil, Oil of the sacred city

I told them to bring a one thing and you bring another.

No, it's an oil.

Blessed by the Pope himself.

And this is a conversation about the Pope's submission to me?

- Can you give me that too? - This is not in our hands

excellence, we are salespeople, traders ...

It's like I didn't say anything,

and you hadn't been here.

The Pope listened to all the nations from the east

are heard. And since think you can change

your religion has no nothing to fear from them.

Shhhh.

How old are you have that wisdom?

Twenty years sir.

The valiant Ghengis was thirteen when he started his conquests,

- Are you a second Ghengis? - Hundreds of years later

the Roman empire ordered in the world but I saw

that this is the greatest.

Why does the young man speak so much? if it's more acute

or in my opinion what I'm listening to madness

You think the Asian kingdoms

they have nothing to fear from the East.

Not while they think they can convert you and your people.

You are suggesting that I planned a wrong strategy

and so I asked that bring the priests?

- Me.. - Sometimes the best answer

� do not answer anything.

We should have left him in Russia.

- That young man. - Don't like listening.

Yes, but look around you. Who will tell you what you want

don't you want to hear?

And by chance this is not the case what else do we need?

That way you wait to avoid being upset, praising myself?

No, I didn't say compliments. I saw miracles here.

But I don't think I saw hundreds of those here in China

It took a lifetime to see them all.

I can give you that.

What do you think, Pounakuaks, even if you had

a lifetime, you could civilize

this young Barbarian? - You would have a better chance of doing that.

Let's go back to Venice now

Majesty, if that's your wish. - � but your son, who speaks

with so much reverence, let's let him answer it himself,

be careful with the answer. - I didn't come here to negotiate,

I came here to see an empire that my father described to me,

i love and respect you, but I don't want to go like this,

turn around and come home again.

Young people say crazy things ... that later regret.

- Especially this young man. - But you're old enough to have an opinion.

Isn't that true?

You will live here, your whole life.

I leave you under your protection Lord Chenchu.

Take this barbarian to get ready, get dressed, see what you can do.

Who knows ... maybe it will be useful one day.

Found support in empress, she spoke for herself.

This is good. But at the same time,

The best way to survive in court � go unnoticed

First a stone where write and now one that burns.

Pole.

You will live here, make this your home.

We will give you more if you have the lucky to last a week.

- Do you want to stay with the same slave? - Yes.

- We can give you a better one. - I'm used to it.

I've heard more enthusiastic responses.

- You come back with me Marco. - No.

- I am your father. - Where are you going to find another one now?

You always told me that life was an adventure,

or not �. - What life are you going to have here?

- What life can I have without you in Venice? - I have to do this.

- That means I won't see you again. - Niccolo, we have to go,

or we get stuck here too.

Wait, wait.

If you have to stay, then write everything you see Marco

Men need proof. They devalue me because I don't have them.

Put everything there.

I was alone, worse,

was divided between two worlds, in two bodies,

A man from the West, learning with the men of the East.

The East looks very strange for foreigners.

Empress Chabi, also rules the Kingdom,

- How is it? - In your world do women rule?

- No, they educate children, but they don't rule.

Men don't laugh listening to a woman?

- And why would they? - Because being a woman.

Khan's mother took him to the throne, he heard it more than anyone else.

At� Ghengis Khan, consulted their wives

He divided his kingdom for his children, why should it be otherwise?

Because she is a woman

Not a man twice wiser if you are by your side

your woman?

- What did you do? - I paid for the species.

- But gold or silver money. - This is also money.

- on paper. - But it serves as gold or silver.

- This sheet of paper is worthless. Is it worth the same as gold or silver?

Yes.

But it's only paper!

Be quiet. Where do I get it?

How does that not work?

If you believe enough in Chinese magic.

It works!

You must have believed.

- What lines are these? - The points through which the energy flowed.

Don't your doctors know this?

- No. - And how do they treat you?

They don't. They pray, and if it doesn't work, bury yourself.

Yes, China is rich and powerful, and many things more than we are not ...

but Europe is the center of the world.

Must be.

God put the Pope in his church there.

The true God? The empire has thousands of gods.

This is blasphemy.

Men make war here, but not to save the souls of others ...

for what you told me, are the most terrible wars of all.

Proof.

I had never proven anything like this.

- Is this all true? - You could ask my father,

before they call you a liar.

I believe you, I believe in everything what you told me

Even if that were not the case, grandest trips ever

someone told.

My writings were not seen by no one in Venice

No one is concerned Polo's life now.

No, I'm a professional writer. Without modesty I can tell you that I am good.

Did you hear about me, Rustigielo de Pizza?

- No. - No ?.

But, I've been gone many years.

From my writings many copies were made.

- I never heard of that. - Never?

- No. - That's weird.

I write novels. You has a wonderful story

but a little ...

you were a young man in a strange land,

facing an uncertain future. Never joined anyone,

taking out your slave. Someone with whom to share life.

- There was someone, yes. - Ah, from the court.

She was brought to court, but against your will

- Kensai, behave yourself. - H�, h�, h�.

Kensai, these are Khan's men.

Arrest her!

Discover the head. We will!

Turn it around.

You will be a good wife for Khan.

Brothers.

We will.

Don't be upset. We'll find another bride for you.

Temulum, are you ?. - Shh, move.

If you're lucky, yes, it will be chosen to be one night,

in the Khan’s alcove, no more, just one night.

No matter how much they beg ...

After that night, will be delivered to those

let him choose, a soldier, a general, Sometimes together or with someone from the court.

- Where are you going? - It's best that you don't know.

if you don't see me again, at least I say it was good

meet a barbarian.

Not only are you in danger but also put me in danger

me too.

Khan is very wise and everything goes

but you have your favorites. One of them is Achmath,

� rich and powerful and has all the courts you want

but it was not enough. I wanted my sister,

she refused him, and he took his revenge.

Khan allows that.

I told you, Khan has his favorites,

nobody told you one word about it

Did they do that to you?

I swore to kill him, but I couldn't get to it.

someone did but failed.

Achmath has begun revenge against my whole clé

He's still doing it.

the bride of one of my men, Honchu,

was brought and closed in the women's house,

Honchu will never see her again.

She is now as much a slave as I am

- You are not my slave. - I'm a slave to a barbarian.

who eats with his hands and believe that one is God

can rule a world as vast as this.

Something very special for tonight excellency

Master, they call you to meet Khan's son.

Get out.

He comes?

- Where did your boss go? - The prince calls him.

The prince did not return from the hunt.

Betrayal.

- Uprising in the old town, sir. - When you arrive at the Palace, wake me up.

Don't worry, they are you are some rebels

in the streets.

Put this on. Come on.

The killing will continue. Kill everyone involved

and all who are close to them,

and then everyone who knew them.

You let me go. Before they come for me.

It was betrayal.

It was betrayal.

Which is the biggest betrayal, Your Excellency:

steal, kill and rape under the shield of your name

or let these men go unpunished?

Is that what you teach this barbarian?

To oppose your Khan?

Lord Achmath did the who did in your name,

but your court and your generals had too much

afraid to tell you the truth.

Madness, Excellency, that can only be it.

Maybe they told you to to rule that way.

It's not enough to be the richest ruler

the world, by chance not It's better to be too

the wisest?

Shut up !, your wails don't They'll save you this time.

I heard you and now look at this. He is involved in the betrayal,

a barbarian, insulting a

of my best men.

Accusing me of not knowing what goes on

of my nose.

Maybe they are civilized, maybe they're just dumb.

Even if they're smart asses.

Take him.

So it's true, Lord Achmath did

all these things in my name and nobody told me anything,

using my protection for your crimes

and not even my generals, have the courage to tell me.

And who told me? A kid, a barbarian.

Can the Great Khan be a poor judge?

- Quickly, someone to answer me! - No, sir, they are lies,

all lies. - No, it's true, it's all true.

True, how many others truths I don't know yet.

The Chinese are the biggest inventors of the world,

As you can see I have many of better on my employees.

I would say the most artistic, the best at executions,

cut into 100 pieces, who has death

longer and longer lasting. Yes I feel that I deserve pity,

so I order you pull out your eyes first

so you can't see what happens next,

maybe it should be more generous leaving your eyes.

What do you think?

What are you?

a sensible man or one who told the truth?

Can a man be both

Oh, I don't know any.

You can get up.

You challenged yours father to stay here.

I know how to live in shadow of an ancestor.

You just made yours first dangerous enemy

congratulations are a sign of ambition.

I can't have Lord Cogatai stuck a long time,

your family is powerful and when you can

it won't be easy find friends here in China

You are an unusual young man, you seem to have talent,

intelligence, but still early, you don't have anyone from your religion,

I make use of these men from time to time.

A man whose loyalty for me be personal

and indestructible. A man that I can trust,

up to a certain point. A man who

tell me only the truth and tell the truth from me to others

always and the whole truth.

You will become the my man at court,

or face anger of Lord Cogatai s�

and don't get old, I guarantee you.

If I told you that to survive it was better to remain incognito.

Not only are you asking me for that others could not ...

looking for a friendship.

He has the Empress.

50 wives and a different girl in bed every day.

But it is. This is the only one kind of friendship that can ...

allow yourself with someone like me.

If you become your friend, you will be enemy of everyone else.

I will say that you only approached him ...

to attract him and then when he dies or lose the favors of the Empress ...

they will sit on the throne of Dragon, does this have to do with you?

I saved your life. AND I risked mine for that.

I have to know ... is the revolt over?

It ended when Acbath died.

- Are you not looking for more revenge? - It's finished.

And the woman who was taken away from you cl�. Aren't you looking for revenge for her?

This was not against Khan, but against what was being done in his name.

Your fan is hers, you know.

You did Temulum well, Khan is happy,

very happy. He orders that be delivered to a person,

for which it seems have big plans.

A gift from Khan.

I know she never me loved her as much as I loved her

since the first moment. In other circumstances, who knows.

Everything I did was fun, everything about her fascinated me.

She belonged to this new world that I discovered.

Among all these strange things.

She was wonderful.

I couldn't contain myself and write everything,

as I had promised my father.

She was strange and difficult to understand,

just like your music.

I don't know anything about you and I want to know everything.

- To write in those books. - No, I would never do that.

I want to meet you because I want to meet you.

- Then ask Pedro. - Peter?

He knows everything. Also knows that you saved his life.

Were you one of the women in your cl?

Guards, paper, ink and feather, get ready.

- What are you doing? - Explorer ... writer.

- Writer ... explorer. H�, h�, h�, Marco, Marco.

All my life I used the head to create

adventures, characters, love stories.

To fill these empty pages.

And here in this prison, where you thought you had

it's all over for me, you offer me the story

grander than I would have ever imagined.

- And still tell me it's true. - It's true, all true.

So the whole world has to know it, not just us.

- Allow me to do it? - Do what?

Pizza Rustigielo. Marco Polo's travels.

Ohh.

Marco Polo's travels by Rustigielo de Pizza

Marco Polo's travels told by Rustigielo de Pizza

S�, s�, the trips scored by Marco Polo. h�, h�, h�,

then we discuss what for in the title eh.

But for now ...

You and the girl, yours slave, Kublai Khan,

the court, enemies everywhere, yes ?.

Yes Yes Yes.

You suffered too much. You want your pain to end.

I have the power to give you this, but first I need to know ...

what names did you give them related to the revolt.

I gave no name. Still!

This means that you're still in danger.

And because it ends up with everything that touches, I am also in danger.

Why? Khan knows that Acmath sparked the revolt

If you once revolted, couldn't they do it again?

- If they think there's a reason. - I'll talk to Khan.

Don't you know who you're dealing with?

You might lose your mind.

I told you you were lucky if you lasted a week here.

You survived that ... maybe not for much longer.

Lord Coconaugh, you will be released.

Don't get far with that one on your back.

I will surrender. It doesn't sense for us to execute all three.

I will not let you do it.

Sometimes we are slaves we make decisions.

- What if I get you arrested with me? - It is a risk I will take.

I need you!

It is difficult and insubordinate but I can't move here without you.

- Lord Chenchu ​​will protect you. - I have lived in court all my life.

Do you think you would survive without attract anyone, how would you do it to me?

Listen to him.

I owe nothing, and neither do you. Nor Temelum. We are fragile without each other.

We can only trust ourselves.

We will survive, we can do it together.

And now I'm from your cl�.

The barbarian made you his slave to do his dirty work?

He has the protection of the empress

like me.

So look for one clothes to wear

otherwise winter comes before you know it.

Lord Chenchu.

That young man of yours, the Barbarian, still as strong as before?

Let's say that living at court is making you wiser.

Surely, because has your beautiful head

on the shoulders despite of enemies.

� time to test it to him and his loyalty.

Trade, trade, trade it means defending the ways,

the rivers of the pirates, this city controls trade routes,

of the Eastern alliances. spice alliances.

They are worth more than gold. - Where are these spices?

How many are there? Why are they only born there?

This is not a geographic map It is a diplomatic draft.

The governor of this city ​​was talking

with disgruntled people with your emperor.

If we treat this man as an enemy,

you may think there is nothing to lose and launch a revolt.

But forget your disloyalty maybe have courage

to question my authority.

Lord Chenchu ​​and others think that this

It is an entangled subject that you with your talent for words

and your compliments can be able to negotiate.

It means a big trip down the river, so big I could take it,

half of the West, do you think that you can be away from me,

and perform this mission on my behalf?

Just to see, Your Excellency, if the rest of the kingdom is happy

under the government of the empress - What do you think, Lord Chenchu?

We can trust this barbaric this delicate mission?

A great trip for you.

While I take care of loose threats here.

You wanted justice and that Finally your pain.

Here you go.

I want you to meet Marco Polo.

March.

This is my sister Kensai.

This is Marco Polo, he wants know everything about the world.

� fast, but you have to learn to have patience to look for everything.

It's different, yes. You see his nose.

He's good to me, he likes me.

Now go.

She is alone too. Just have me.

If it grows, it will need a protector,

that with your power stay with interest.

I know what it means.

Upon returning from this trip you know you're free to find

another who takes my place, someone with the power to protect Kensai.

But I will return.

Yes. Your destiny and you do not belong to us

Are there slaves in your country?

Most live as slaves, they have already bought their souls from them.

Back?

Why? When there is so much to see from the world.

I think you may return. I want to see how strange your world is.

And the wonders it has.

You can't talk like that, you know.

Do you miss him?

Fades like a dream when I remember it.

Are you handsome?

� one of the places most beautiful in the world.

Even considering that what everyone just wants to make money.

It seems to me like a past life.

Another life.

- Don't you want to see your father again? - Of course I want.

To make peace with him for leaving you here.

Isn't that what happened? - The trip never ends the same

person who starts. Each discovers things about himself

during the trip, I don't I judge by what you found.

And one day everyone will have this.

And I will tell Venice that China is the center of the world.

And that I, Marco Polo, son Niccolo was there,

Serving the great Khan.

Is this a suggestion or an insult? I must treat you like a young barbarian.

I speak on behalf of Khan and all of his power.

The Lord who is in heaven and on earth knows that you love him,

but he thinks he wants them less for refugees in your city

it looks like there are refugees of the revolts

I give shelter to all who ask for it,

my people do everything the same even to the great Ghengis.

We the Mongols have seen of many races first of all.

When to return to the court I hope I can tell Khan

that what they told you were lies,

and that your governor it has its place wherever it goes.

From what I said you can cut off his tongue and mine too.

Still, we have the power.

Because it looks like we're going prove it, sir.

It's a trap, you fooled me, barbarian.

Khan doesn't want your head wants that of the rebels.

- Why should I believe? - I swear on my honor.

Khan knows you houses the rebels here

you never heard it. You know that anarchy

� modern disease and you would do anything

to eradicate it.

- You told him that. - Isn't that the truth?

Isn't it a cheat?

The only trickery is to host Khan’s enemies.

Isn't that so?

Give him this message for me and for my family.

For all.

Because loyalty should I be punished?

Go.

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