1 00:02:14,468 --> 00:02:17,804 Master Marco. You requested more salt cakes? 2 00:02:17,887 --> 00:02:20,224 Yes. Thank you. 3 00:03:14,986 --> 00:03:17,239 General Aruka advised retreat. 4 00:03:18,198 --> 00:03:22,286 I gave the order that we turn and fight... like Mongols. 5 00:03:22,369 --> 00:03:23,870 Mongols do not lose. 6 00:03:27,541 --> 00:03:29,000 I have thought of nothing else 7 00:03:29,084 --> 00:03:31,628 these past days and nights. 8 00:03:31,711 --> 00:03:34,506 A ride preceded by victory is much shorter. 9 00:03:34,589 --> 00:03:37,091 True words such as these can only be drawn 10 00:03:37,176 --> 00:03:39,260 from a well of personal experience. 11 00:03:40,470 --> 00:03:41,888 Leave me with my son. 12 00:03:41,972 --> 00:03:43,681 Our son... 13 00:03:43,765 --> 00:03:45,559 is wounded. 14 00:03:47,102 --> 00:03:48,520 Let me see. 15 00:03:48,603 --> 00:03:51,022 A scar that will always remind me of Wuchang... 16 00:03:51,106 --> 00:03:54,233 and the men and horses that died there. That is the only wound. 17 00:03:54,318 --> 00:03:56,028 It too will fade. 18 00:03:56,111 --> 00:03:58,280 Empress, please. 19 00:03:58,363 --> 00:03:59,822 Go to the healer... 20 00:04:01,408 --> 00:04:03,618 Immediately. 21 00:04:09,291 --> 00:04:14,671 You will ride to Karakorum... pay a visit to Ariq. 22 00:04:14,754 --> 00:04:17,257 I want to know why my brother pledged horse and bow, 23 00:04:17,341 --> 00:04:19,884 but did not arrive to support my army. 24 00:04:20,594 --> 00:04:21,677 A horse messenger can cover 300-- 25 00:04:21,761 --> 00:04:24,264 Your horse messenger... 26 00:04:25,599 --> 00:04:28,684 did a fine job at Wuchang. Did he not? 27 00:04:30,312 --> 00:04:32,438 Did you even send a falcon to my brother? 28 00:04:32,522 --> 00:04:35,317 Of course I did. 29 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:36,859 Return to me the truth. 30 00:04:39,696 --> 00:04:42,531 Go see the healer, as your mother instructed. 31 00:04:53,793 --> 00:04:55,754 How are the merchants taxed? 32 00:04:55,837 --> 00:04:57,672 They pay a fee for their stalls, 33 00:04:57,756 --> 00:05:01,135 and the higher fee is for more traffic, more customers. 34 00:05:01,218 --> 00:05:02,636 More money, eh? 35 00:05:02,719 --> 00:05:04,554 Are there ever holdouts? 36 00:05:04,638 --> 00:05:06,848 Inside the Imperial Wall? 37 00:05:06,931 --> 00:05:09,060 Very rare. 38 00:05:09,143 --> 00:05:10,810 Too good a thing they have here. 39 00:05:10,894 --> 00:05:13,271 These vendors know, they cheat on tribute, 40 00:05:13,355 --> 00:05:15,940 they end up peddling outside the wall. 41 00:05:16,024 --> 00:05:18,943 In Venice, those who do not meet their obligations are imprisoned. 42 00:05:19,027 --> 00:05:20,404 Is it the same here? 43 00:05:20,487 --> 00:05:23,865 No, no, no. Thieves are branded thieves. 44 00:05:23,948 --> 00:05:26,034 Marked, they struggle. 45 00:05:26,118 --> 00:05:29,204 Their sons beg, their wives and daughters whore. 46 00:05:29,288 --> 00:05:31,497 They live off Lady Chabi's charity loaves. 47 00:05:31,581 --> 00:05:33,958 But they live. 48 00:05:34,042 --> 00:05:35,377 Sometimes. 49 00:05:36,753 --> 00:05:40,549 Severity of punishment... not for me to comment on. 50 00:05:40,632 --> 00:05:45,720 This is for the Vice Regent Yusuf, and the wisdom of his Secretariat. 51 00:05:47,806 --> 00:05:49,140 What is this fabric? 52 00:05:49,224 --> 00:05:50,433 Uh, linen. 53 00:05:50,517 --> 00:05:52,644 These Jurchen make it in Manchuria. 54 00:05:52,727 --> 00:05:54,521 They don't have copper coins to pay this month. 55 00:05:54,604 --> 00:05:56,605 So, I let them pay with what they have. 56 00:06:07,242 --> 00:06:08,618 Hey. Hey. 57 00:06:08,702 --> 00:06:12,206 Can we get rid of these... pissants? 58 00:06:12,289 --> 00:06:14,249 These are my children. 59 00:06:16,084 --> 00:06:17,627 They follow me around like I'm a king. 60 00:06:17,711 --> 00:06:19,379 King of a fine brood, sir. 61 00:06:19,463 --> 00:06:23,508 With my own Venetian slave, huh? Pissants! 62 00:06:24,801 --> 00:06:26,427 I love that! 63 00:06:30,557 --> 00:06:32,642 Let me put this away. 64 00:06:32,726 --> 00:06:35,186 Thank you for dinner. It was delicious. 65 00:06:36,605 --> 00:06:37,939 Spices? 66 00:06:38,022 --> 00:06:40,817 You wanna talk about spices? 67 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:42,026 These spiceries pay 68 00:06:42,110 --> 00:06:44,904 three and a third percent. 69 00:06:44,988 --> 00:06:46,739 From the wine they make of the rice... 70 00:06:47,824 --> 00:06:50,493 they generate great revenue. 71 00:06:50,577 --> 00:06:52,286 Thus, they must pay duty. 72 00:06:52,371 --> 00:06:55,289 Untold money to the Khan! 73 00:06:56,916 --> 00:06:57,917 What is that, Sanga? 74 00:06:58,001 --> 00:06:59,127 Huh? 75 00:07:09,095 --> 00:07:10,596 This, Marco... 76 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,099 they're verses of love. 77 00:07:13,182 --> 00:07:16,019 See, I travel to collect. 78 00:07:16,102 --> 00:07:17,228 So, when I travel... 79 00:07:17,312 --> 00:07:21,315 I leave words of love on paper for my Goland. 80 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:22,775 So she remembers she has a husband! 81 00:07:25,779 --> 00:07:29,323 And the Silk Road? Do we ever travel there to collect taxes? 82 00:07:30,867 --> 00:07:32,785 "We"? No. 83 00:07:32,869 --> 00:07:36,207 I travel to collect. Once a fortnight or so. 84 00:07:36,290 --> 00:07:37,289 You... 85 00:07:37,374 --> 00:07:40,835 are not permitted to travel outside of Cambulac. 86 00:07:40,919 --> 00:07:42,379 Hmm? 87 00:07:42,462 --> 00:07:45,340 The wonders of Khan's City is plenty. 88 00:07:45,424 --> 00:07:46,466 Hmm? 89 00:07:46,550 --> 00:07:47,633 So, please... 90 00:07:47,717 --> 00:07:50,845 don't speak of this again... because I like you. 91 00:07:50,929 --> 00:07:52,638 My slave. 92 00:07:52,722 --> 00:07:54,098 Salute! 93 00:08:03,525 --> 00:08:06,194 Noble Tiger traveled a great distance... 94 00:08:06,278 --> 00:08:08,779 and began to find his eyes growing heavy. 95 00:08:09,906 --> 00:08:14,035 Noble Tiger was very sleepy, you see... 96 00:08:14,118 --> 00:08:16,955 for he was very old. 97 00:08:17,038 --> 00:08:18,873 Did he have no more teeth? 98 00:08:18,957 --> 00:08:21,917 He still had teeth... 99 00:08:22,001 --> 00:08:24,838 just no longer sharp. 100 00:08:24,921 --> 00:08:29,968 And so, Noble Tiger lay himself under a great banyan tree... 101 00:08:30,051 --> 00:08:32,846 and fell into a deep slumber. 102 00:08:32,929 --> 00:08:38,435 He had the most beautiful dream of a long shady path. 103 00:08:38,518 --> 00:08:42,481 And as he walked down it... 104 00:08:42,564 --> 00:08:46,275 he grew young again and began a life anew. 105 00:08:48,027 --> 00:08:50,364 So, he slept forever? 106 00:08:52,407 --> 00:08:54,743 Yes. 107 00:08:54,826 --> 00:08:58,913 But all of his friends in the forest were so happy for him. 108 00:08:58,997 --> 00:09:03,626 Then they remembered all the treasures he left behind. 109 00:09:03,710 --> 00:09:07,339 You, Ling Ling, are the sweetest... 110 00:09:07,422 --> 00:09:11,385 greatest treasure your father ever gifted me. 111 00:09:11,468 --> 00:09:15,639 One I will selfishly hoard forever. 112 00:09:15,722 --> 00:09:17,389 Hello, Sunflower. 113 00:09:17,974 --> 00:09:19,142 Uncle! 114 00:09:20,268 --> 00:09:23,979 Uncle's most precious. Born in the Year of the Monkey. 115 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:29,193 That's why you're so clever. Precious and clever. 116 00:09:29,277 --> 00:09:30,945 Go. Show the children your new gift. 117 00:09:36,075 --> 00:09:37,952 The Emperor is breathing his last 118 00:09:38,036 --> 00:09:41,205 and he has requested the presence of his imperial consort. 119 00:09:42,206 --> 00:09:44,375 It is a tragedy that the fates will not allow him 120 00:09:44,459 --> 00:09:47,587 the time to bear witness to the fall of Kublai Khan. 121 00:09:47,671 --> 00:09:51,340 Perhaps the Goddess of Mercy is sparing him a far worse vision. 122 00:09:55,011 --> 00:09:59,516 Men will one day sing songs about me, sister. 123 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:02,601 Jia Sidao, the prime minister who vanquished the demon 124 00:10:02,686 --> 00:10:04,646 and saved the Song. 125 00:10:05,939 --> 00:10:08,650 I will bring my daughter to say goodbye to her father... 126 00:10:10,026 --> 00:10:11,485 and to the Empire. 127 00:11:51,002 --> 00:11:52,628 I did not mean to startle you. 128 00:11:52,712 --> 00:11:55,381 -Are you following me? -No. 129 00:11:55,465 --> 00:11:57,966 I saw you and approached. 130 00:12:01,638 --> 00:12:03,055 What are you doing out here? 131 00:12:04,849 --> 00:12:06,141 I might ask you the same. 132 00:12:07,101 --> 00:12:08,519 There is no citizen of Cambulac 133 00:12:08,603 --> 00:12:11,105 foolish enough to look at, let alone talk to me. 134 00:12:11,189 --> 00:12:12,606 Do you know who I am? 135 00:12:14,317 --> 00:12:16,151 I know only your protector. 136 00:12:16,235 --> 00:12:18,404 And if Za Bing were to catch you anywhere near me... 137 00:12:18,487 --> 00:12:19,697 he would run you through. 138 00:12:21,950 --> 00:12:23,826 I trust you will not report me. 139 00:12:29,583 --> 00:12:31,500 So... who are you? 140 00:12:33,127 --> 00:12:35,921 I am the Blue Princess of the Bayaut tribe. 141 00:12:36,005 --> 00:12:39,258 You ride as Mongol... not princess. 142 00:12:39,342 --> 00:12:42,469 All Mongol women are born to the horse and the bow. 143 00:12:44,598 --> 00:12:45,639 May I assist you? 144 00:12:45,724 --> 00:12:47,684 No. 145 00:12:47,767 --> 00:12:49,393 I am simply being polite. 146 00:12:49,477 --> 00:12:52,604 Something a noble woman such as yourself should be tutored in. 147 00:12:52,689 --> 00:12:54,857 I need not be polite to someone like you. 148 00:12:54,941 --> 00:12:57,109 Someone like me? 149 00:12:57,193 --> 00:12:58,861 Someone beneath me. 150 00:13:04,075 --> 00:13:06,952 I will forgive your ignorance in the ways of your new home. 151 00:13:07,036 --> 00:13:08,287 This is not my home. 152 00:13:08,371 --> 00:13:10,539 Many before you have thought the same. 153 00:13:12,583 --> 00:13:14,084 You speak from experience. 154 00:13:14,168 --> 00:13:16,587 Why do you imagine that? 155 00:13:16,671 --> 00:13:19,507 I see behind your words. 156 00:13:19,590 --> 00:13:23,511 If you are the Princess of the Bayaut... where is your Queen? 157 00:13:23,594 --> 00:13:25,512 Your King? 158 00:13:26,723 --> 00:13:29,017 You're a prisoner... 159 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:31,143 like me. 160 00:13:32,937 --> 00:13:36,940 I am kept for royalty. My future is in some distant palace. 161 00:13:37,025 --> 00:13:39,527 You are a slave of the Khan. 162 00:13:41,529 --> 00:13:43,823 I am nothing like you. 163 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,633 Try to keep up, if you can. 164 00:15:06,823 --> 00:15:10,952 It won't be you who gets cattle-branded, Princess. 165 00:16:02,295 --> 00:16:05,131 You've been particularly busy of late. 166 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,967 How goes your horse riding? 167 00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:14,431 You hold your tongue from me again? Hmm? 168 00:16:15,474 --> 00:16:18,311 How shall I tell of the Mongolian pony, Sire? 169 00:16:18,394 --> 00:16:21,021 He is a fine and hardy breed. 170 00:16:21,105 --> 00:16:26,569 Unlike some steeds in Europe... he needs not rest nor... coddling. 171 00:16:26,652 --> 00:16:28,279 Good. 172 00:16:28,362 --> 00:16:31,114 Because you ride to Karakorum today with my son Jingim. 173 00:16:31,199 --> 00:16:34,828 Bring me back a report, with fresh eyes. 174 00:16:34,911 --> 00:16:36,203 Let me see, Latin... 175 00:16:37,205 --> 00:16:39,748 the way things truly are in the kingdom of my brother. 176 00:16:40,749 --> 00:16:42,542 By your will, Sire. 177 00:17:50,819 --> 00:17:51,946 My nephew. 178 00:17:52,030 --> 00:17:53,322 Uncle. 179 00:17:54,532 --> 00:17:57,200 I'm honored that my older brother has sent you. 180 00:17:57,285 --> 00:17:58,910 We will kill a sheep... 181 00:17:58,995 --> 00:18:00,120 and drink airag. 182 00:18:00,204 --> 00:18:01,788 Come. 183 00:18:08,379 --> 00:18:11,256 You're in the heartland of Lord Genghis now. 184 00:18:11,340 --> 00:18:16,637 Beware, Polo. Your words can get you killed. 185 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,597 Wait out here. 186 00:18:24,853 --> 00:18:27,565 This one they call the "Cricket Minister..." 187 00:18:27,648 --> 00:18:30,526 how many soldiers did he have lying in wait at Wuchang? 188 00:18:30,609 --> 00:18:32,235 Not enough to defeat a Mongol army... 189 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,323 had our reinforcements arrived. 190 00:18:35,406 --> 00:18:37,033 You did not attack without me? 191 00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:39,285 I was almost killed! 192 00:18:39,368 --> 00:18:43,081 My general, Aruka, has passed to the Blue Sky! 193 00:18:43,164 --> 00:18:45,582 The rains cut off passage of the Blue Horde. 194 00:18:45,666 --> 00:18:46,918 You should have sent word. 195 00:18:47,001 --> 00:18:49,170 I did. 196 00:18:49,253 --> 00:18:52,339 My best rider... Duwa. 197 00:18:52,423 --> 00:18:54,885 They captured him outside of Wuchang. 198 00:18:54,968 --> 00:18:57,427 Tied his head to his horse... 199 00:18:57,511 --> 00:18:59,138 let it run home. 200 00:18:59,222 --> 00:19:01,849 Right to his ger... 201 00:19:01,933 --> 00:19:03,391 and his children. 202 00:19:35,091 --> 00:19:36,049 May I see? 203 00:19:42,306 --> 00:19:45,434 They are... magnificent beasts. 204 00:20:07,706 --> 00:20:11,002 When you were a child, I called you Altai. 205 00:20:12,711 --> 00:20:17,883 After the mountains me and your father hunted as boys. 206 00:20:17,966 --> 00:20:22,263 Kublai insisted on a Chinese name. Jingim. 207 00:20:25,808 --> 00:20:27,976 Remind me of its meaning. 208 00:20:29,062 --> 00:20:30,063 Golden. 209 00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:32,315 Golden. 210 00:20:33,524 --> 00:20:35,734 You are his golden one, nephew. 211 00:20:36,819 --> 00:20:41,239 One day, they may call you... "Jingim Khan." 212 00:20:42,908 --> 00:20:44,160 But beware... 213 00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:49,915 my big brother is too trusting of outsiders. 214 00:20:49,998 --> 00:20:53,794 Persians... and Chinese... 215 00:20:53,877 --> 00:20:56,089 and all kinds of religions. 216 00:20:57,881 --> 00:20:59,341 You and me... 217 00:20:59,425 --> 00:21:03,346 our blood is the wolf and the deer. 218 00:21:03,429 --> 00:21:07,182 Open the gates to outsiders... secrets will they spill. 219 00:21:15,399 --> 00:21:18,277 Who is the Christian who rides with you? 220 00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:04,906 My uncle's troops were cut off by the spring rains... 221 00:22:04,990 --> 00:22:06,617 east of Volga. 222 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:07,867 He sent a horse messenger... 223 00:22:07,951 --> 00:22:09,703 but the rebels intercepted. 224 00:22:13,582 --> 00:22:15,292 Where is the Latin? 225 00:22:17,711 --> 00:22:19,172 Sire? 226 00:22:25,261 --> 00:22:27,345 What was your impression of the Old Capital? 227 00:22:29,265 --> 00:22:31,850 I found the Great Khan's brother to be a gracious host, 228 00:22:31,934 --> 00:22:33,435 as Prince Jingim reported. 229 00:22:36,605 --> 00:22:37,731 Four wives, yes? 230 00:22:37,815 --> 00:22:41,985 Five. He also keeps a large harem... 231 00:22:42,069 --> 00:22:43,571 quite young. 232 00:22:45,030 --> 00:22:46,699 But not as vast as mine. 233 00:22:46,782 --> 00:22:49,159 And nowhere near as charming. 234 00:22:49,243 --> 00:22:51,119 Certainly no girls from Kungurat. 235 00:22:57,210 --> 00:23:00,879 I have seen my uncle's army, Father. 236 00:23:00,963 --> 00:23:02,172 They are ready. 237 00:23:02,756 --> 00:23:05,925 Ariq is prepared to join our attack on Xiangyang. 238 00:23:06,009 --> 00:23:09,304 This will not be another Wuchang. 239 00:23:15,353 --> 00:23:18,188 I fear Ariq's horses will never reach Xiangyang. 240 00:23:24,111 --> 00:23:25,195 Speak. 241 00:23:28,115 --> 00:23:30,867 Ariq's horses are in the many thousands, true. 242 00:23:30,951 --> 00:23:32,994 Quite fit. 243 00:23:33,078 --> 00:23:36,623 But how many days' ride is it from the Old Capital to the Walled City? 244 00:23:37,791 --> 00:23:40,293 Three weeks. By desert. 245 00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:48,135 As the son of a merchant... 246 00:23:48,218 --> 00:23:51,596 they do not have the grain supplies to move that many horses to Xiangyang. 247 00:23:52,598 --> 00:23:56,394 The desert alone would cut their numbers in half. 248 00:23:56,477 --> 00:24:00,773 My son, Jingim, just stated that they are ready to ride into battle. 249 00:24:00,856 --> 00:24:03,984 They are ready, yes, Great Khan. 250 00:24:04,067 --> 00:24:06,861 But only if that battle was closer to home. 251 00:24:09,282 --> 00:24:10,865 Do you accuse my uncle, 252 00:24:10,949 --> 00:24:12,992 brother to the Khan, of treason? 253 00:24:13,994 --> 00:24:17,497 I only describe what I see, as I saw it. 254 00:24:31,929 --> 00:24:33,931 Yusuf... 255 00:24:34,014 --> 00:24:37,560 dispatch a night rider to verify the Latin's report. 256 00:25:01,124 --> 00:25:05,421 You will not be gaining favors by your charming stories anymore. 257 00:25:07,005 --> 00:25:08,715 Not without a tongue. 258 00:25:52,510 --> 00:25:54,553 The sword you hid is weak. 259 00:25:54,637 --> 00:25:58,014 Your water won't last you two days. 260 00:25:58,098 --> 00:26:01,184 But the salt cakes were... delicious. 261 00:26:04,897 --> 00:26:07,065 I called Ariq a liar tonight. 262 00:26:07,149 --> 00:26:10,235 That was foolish. Were your words true? 263 00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:11,945 Yes. 264 00:26:12,029 --> 00:26:14,113 Run now, they will find you. 265 00:26:14,197 --> 00:26:15,741 Stay... 266 00:26:15,824 --> 00:26:19,329 I can train you to survive in whatever world you choose to make your home. 267 00:26:19,412 --> 00:26:21,371 This is not my home. 268 00:26:21,455 --> 00:26:23,040 I understand. 269 00:26:24,708 --> 00:26:26,585 Where did the Khan get you from? 270 00:26:28,045 --> 00:26:29,420 I said I would train you... 271 00:26:30,464 --> 00:26:34,384 not wallow in nostalgia with you. 272 00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:37,905 Why do you think the sword has a colored sash? 273 00:27:38,991 --> 00:27:40,241 To look pretty? 274 00:27:52,546 --> 00:27:55,089 He's advanced quickly to the broadsword. 275 00:27:57,968 --> 00:27:59,719 You schooled him well, Hundred Eyes. 276 00:28:01,304 --> 00:28:04,725 May I interrupt the student's training for a word? 277 00:28:04,808 --> 00:28:07,769 You're the Prince. You may kill him, if that's your desire. 278 00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:21,992 Humiliate me in front of the court again... 279 00:28:22,075 --> 00:28:23,743 I will kill you. 280 00:28:33,837 --> 00:28:35,088 You were right. 281 00:28:36,924 --> 00:28:38,424 Ariq betrayed us. 282 00:28:53,816 --> 00:28:57,487 Ariq sends me a treacherous gift. 283 00:28:57,570 --> 00:29:01,156 He remembers how much I love the king of the hunters. 284 00:29:01,239 --> 00:29:04,868 Ariq is a dog, that would eat its own afterbirth. 285 00:29:06,662 --> 00:29:10,916 He has always believed that he should be Khan of Khans. Not you. 286 00:29:13,043 --> 00:29:15,671 Before the sun sets today... 287 00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:18,966 I will close down the Gobi trade routes... 288 00:29:19,049 --> 00:29:21,844 starve Karakorum. 289 00:29:21,927 --> 00:29:25,556 My younger brother will have no place to go but Siberia. 290 00:29:25,639 --> 00:29:28,391 So forgiving, Great Kublai. 291 00:29:28,475 --> 00:29:33,564 You slaughter entire cities, yet you allow Ariq to run to Siberia. 292 00:29:33,647 --> 00:29:35,231 I know how to punish my brother. 293 00:29:35,315 --> 00:29:37,358 He almost killed your son. 294 00:29:39,027 --> 00:29:42,030 Ariq believes he can pleasure your women better than you. 295 00:29:43,365 --> 00:29:45,242 Does that excite you, Empress? 296 00:29:45,325 --> 00:29:49,162 Ariq should be trampled by 1,000 horses 297 00:29:49,246 --> 00:29:51,790 and left on a steppe to rot. 298 00:29:55,335 --> 00:29:58,964 That... would excite me. 299 00:30:36,877 --> 00:30:38,461 Ariq Khan? 300 00:30:38,545 --> 00:30:40,004 Kublai's younger brother in the north. 301 00:30:40,088 --> 00:30:43,759 We are minting his own currency for when he is elected Khan of Khans 302 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:46,219 and opens the Silk Road for the Song. 303 00:30:46,303 --> 00:30:48,638 Of course, I need the support of our region's governors. 304 00:30:53,476 --> 00:30:56,062 You have my stamp, Sidao. 305 00:30:58,649 --> 00:31:01,985 And my command over the Council. 306 00:31:21,672 --> 00:31:24,924 Men grow old, pearls turn yellow... 307 00:31:25,008 --> 00:31:27,260 there is no cure. 308 00:31:27,344 --> 00:31:29,428 My condolences, Empress Xie. 309 00:31:30,555 --> 00:31:34,601 Eventually, we all become white ashes, Sidao. 310 00:31:34,685 --> 00:31:38,230 But my husband has left a son. 311 00:31:38,313 --> 00:31:41,775 Bow to your new Emperor, Zhao Xian. 312 00:31:51,451 --> 00:31:54,996 With sad news, Empress, also comes good. 313 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,249 We drove the Mongols back from Wuchang. 314 00:31:58,333 --> 00:32:00,293 The barbarians know your Chancellor 315 00:32:00,377 --> 00:32:04,046 will never surrender the last stronghold of the Song dynasty. 316 00:32:04,798 --> 00:32:08,051 But they will be back. We can count on that. 317 00:32:08,135 --> 00:32:11,429 I fear you do count on it, Sidao. 318 00:32:11,513 --> 00:32:14,140 I fear you thirst for it. 319 00:32:44,755 --> 00:32:46,005 Have you reported all? 320 00:32:46,089 --> 00:32:48,674 Yes, Good Minister Ahmad. Yes. 321 00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:52,429 You are dismissed, Sanga. 322 00:32:56,224 --> 00:32:57,517 Master Marco. 323 00:32:58,476 --> 00:33:01,938 Come. Stay. 324 00:33:02,022 --> 00:33:04,607 Goodbye, my Venetian slave. 325 00:33:04,691 --> 00:33:06,819 Schiavo. Huh? 326 00:33:08,361 --> 00:33:09,528 So... 327 00:33:09,612 --> 00:33:11,739 what is this gift I hear of? 328 00:33:11,824 --> 00:33:15,368 The foreign messenger who can paint pictures with his words. 329 00:33:15,452 --> 00:33:18,621 How would you describe the manner in which... 330 00:33:18,705 --> 00:33:19,956 the Uighurs pay their taxes? 331 00:33:20,999 --> 00:33:24,461 Always there's a form of ceremony. 332 00:33:24,544 --> 00:33:27,047 On their knees... 333 00:33:27,130 --> 00:33:30,633 a humble offering, more as to a god than to a king. 334 00:33:30,717 --> 00:33:32,552 And the Jurchens? 335 00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:35,054 Clever, and a resourceful people. 336 00:33:35,138 --> 00:33:38,934 Paying with the work of their hands when they do not have the coins. 337 00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:42,228 Masters of making linen, I understand. 338 00:33:42,312 --> 00:33:44,564 So if the Jurchens have been paying in linen, 339 00:33:44,647 --> 00:33:47,274 why hasn't Sanga deposited any such tribute? 340 00:33:50,778 --> 00:33:54,074 I did not say that Sanga collected such linens. 341 00:33:54,157 --> 00:33:58,452 Only that the Jurchens are a clever and resourceful people. 342 00:34:00,247 --> 00:34:02,415 You are not the first foreigner... 343 00:34:02,499 --> 00:34:05,502 who has had to learn to subsist in this kingdom. 344 00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:08,463 I found my way here as a child... 345 00:34:08,546 --> 00:34:12,092 raised in the household of the Great Khan. 346 00:34:12,175 --> 00:34:16,806 So I know his heart, and I have his trust. 347 00:34:16,889 --> 00:34:21,518 A lie is... like an assault on his person, but... 348 00:34:21,601 --> 00:34:24,603 an honest word? That is like a shield. 349 00:34:25,981 --> 00:34:28,150 So I must ask you again. 350 00:34:28,233 --> 00:34:29,567 Did the Jurchens... 351 00:34:29,651 --> 00:34:34,613 at any time... pay their taxes in the form of linen? 352 00:34:36,741 --> 00:34:39,244 Perhaps Sanga simply forgot. 353 00:34:42,205 --> 00:34:43,956 Indeed. 354 00:35:21,828 --> 00:35:24,957 Ling Ling... Ling Ling, go with Jing Fei. 355 00:35:27,042 --> 00:35:29,001 Come on. Good girl. 356 00:35:31,713 --> 00:35:34,382 I will see you very soon, my daughter. 357 00:35:41,431 --> 00:35:43,140 My Emperor is dead... 358 00:35:44,642 --> 00:35:47,520 but I am still an imperial consort. 359 00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:54,527 I do not bed soldiers. 360 00:35:54,611 --> 00:35:58,072 Chancellor Jia Sidao has granted us permission. 361 00:36:24,016 --> 00:36:27,309 Two Eels, One Cave. 362 00:36:35,943 --> 00:36:38,196 Do you know this forbidden game? 363 00:38:05,575 --> 00:38:09,453 You should be tied to a post and have your skin sliced from your body. 364 00:38:09,537 --> 00:38:12,415 I have bartered for your political advantage. 365 00:38:12,499 --> 00:38:15,252 I will not barter for the loyalty of your soldiers. 366 00:38:15,335 --> 00:38:16,543 It is beneath you... 367 00:38:16,628 --> 00:38:18,004 I know. 368 00:38:19,589 --> 00:38:21,632 You will travel to Cambulac as defector. 369 00:38:22,675 --> 00:38:23,968 They will take you in, 370 00:38:24,051 --> 00:38:26,136 and just as you won the favor of the Emperor of China... 371 00:38:26,221 --> 00:38:28,931 you will win the favor of the Devil himself. 372 00:38:29,015 --> 00:38:30,892 Report to me. 373 00:38:30,975 --> 00:38:33,686 Everything he says, everything he does, everything he dreams. 374 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:41,694 Do not worry, sister. 375 00:38:42,237 --> 00:38:43,737 While you are away... 376 00:38:43,821 --> 00:38:46,782 I will personally care for my Sunflower. 377 00:38:47,784 --> 00:38:49,201 I am your blood. 378 00:38:49,286 --> 00:38:51,413 We give our blood for the dynasty. 379 00:38:52,205 --> 00:38:55,207 Your men... they laugh at you. 380 00:38:55,292 --> 00:38:57,376 They call you the "Cricket Minister." 381 00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:10,557 I was summoned. 382 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:11,640 Quiet. 383 00:39:14,686 --> 00:39:16,062 You may begin. 384 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,661 The tax collector's deposits did not match. 385 00:39:31,744 --> 00:39:32,745 What? 386 00:39:47,635 --> 00:39:49,303 He was given an honorable death. 387 00:39:50,347 --> 00:39:54,558 Rolled up in a carpet so that Tengri the Sky God did not see his blood. 388 00:39:58,855 --> 00:40:01,274 You will be riding into battle with us, I hear... 389 00:40:01,358 --> 00:40:03,692 to give your accounts. 390 00:40:16,956 --> 00:40:20,334 I love you so much. I have to go. 391 00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:22,128 But I will see you very soon. 392 00:40:22,212 --> 00:40:23,796 I love you. 393 00:42:26,252 --> 00:42:28,170 Send for Ariq. 394 00:42:29,464 --> 00:42:33,467 Put up a ger. Light a fire. 395 00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:16,260 Do you remember, older brother... 396 00:43:16,343 --> 00:43:19,096 the summer you chased a deer for six days? 397 00:43:19,180 --> 00:43:22,641 You were gone so long, our mother thought the wolves got you. 398 00:43:22,725 --> 00:43:25,645 She made me grind borts with the women for six more days. 399 00:43:27,814 --> 00:43:30,483 Our father woke up drunk and said, 400 00:43:30,567 --> 00:43:33,528 "Kublai, why are you grinding borts like a girl, 401 00:43:33,611 --> 00:43:35,988 when you should be out hunting deer?" 402 00:43:38,324 --> 00:43:39,701 Sorkaktani... 403 00:43:41,243 --> 00:43:42,619 she was a fine mother. 404 00:43:44,914 --> 00:43:48,125 A great mother. Queen of Mongolia. 405 00:43:54,131 --> 00:43:57,635 It was she who taught us the code of Grandfather Genghis, yes? 406 00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,096 It was she that taught us that a true ruler 407 00:44:00,179 --> 00:44:03,348 must not lose the loyalty of his allies and subjects. 408 00:44:04,434 --> 00:44:09,104 The Chinese... Saracen... Christian or Hindi. 409 00:44:10,022 --> 00:44:13,526 A wise leader allows his people their ways. 410 00:44:13,610 --> 00:44:14,735 Our father... 411 00:44:14,819 --> 00:44:17,779 son of Genghis, did not agree with such open gates. 412 00:44:17,864 --> 00:44:21,158 He drank himself to death. Behind closed doors. 413 00:44:23,786 --> 00:44:26,913 Do you know where I was those six days? 414 00:44:26,998 --> 00:44:29,083 When you were chasing that deer? 415 00:44:30,502 --> 00:44:32,128 Making my arrows sharp 416 00:44:32,211 --> 00:44:36,007 to go after the wolf and save my brother. 417 00:44:36,090 --> 00:44:38,216 I was four years old. 418 00:44:39,010 --> 00:44:41,513 When our brother, Mongke, died... 419 00:44:41,596 --> 00:44:44,640 Mongolia elected me Khan of Khans. 420 00:44:44,724 --> 00:44:49,770 Not all of Mongolia, brother. Not the Princes of the Golden Horde. 421 00:44:49,854 --> 00:44:53,106 - Not the Chagataid of Persia. - That is rebellion. 422 00:44:58,362 --> 00:45:00,280 We can argue that all night. 423 00:45:01,658 --> 00:45:03,659 I do not want to be Emperor of China. 424 00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:08,164 I do not want to be Ruler of the Face of the Earth. 425 00:45:08,247 --> 00:45:10,666 I want to be Khan of Mongolia. 426 00:45:10,750 --> 00:45:12,877 They are one and the same, brother. 427 00:45:14,796 --> 00:45:17,714 So... it has come to this? 428 00:45:18,591 --> 00:45:21,385 Not by my choosing. 429 00:45:23,888 --> 00:45:25,056 The way I see it, 430 00:45:25,139 --> 00:45:27,933 it is your warriors setting camp on my land. 431 00:45:29,226 --> 00:45:31,187 It's because of that point of view... 432 00:45:31,270 --> 00:45:34,356 my warriors set camp on my land. 433 00:45:53,250 --> 00:45:55,293 I bid you a good night's rest. 434 00:45:57,213 --> 00:46:00,048 I'll see you at sunrise. 435 00:46:48,556 --> 00:46:52,810 Where do you think the Venetian merchant is this evening? 436 00:46:55,813 --> 00:46:58,064 India? Tabriz? 437 00:47:01,235 --> 00:47:04,613 On my Silk Road, chasing riches. 438 00:47:07,116 --> 00:47:09,702 I was just about your age when I knew. 439 00:47:11,746 --> 00:47:13,665 Knew what, Sire? 440 00:47:13,748 --> 00:47:17,584 That I had to become the man I wished my father was. 441 00:47:22,464 --> 00:47:23,883 Tomorrow... 442 00:47:25,092 --> 00:47:27,302 watch and remember what you see. 443 00:47:30,181 --> 00:47:31,598 Faithfully. 444 00:49:16,037 --> 00:49:17,538 Tell me. 445 00:49:18,831 --> 00:49:24,295 All the way to the horizon. A sea of men and horses. 446 00:49:24,378 --> 00:49:26,922 Ready to break ashore. 447 00:49:28,299 --> 00:49:31,301 The Khan has moved from his guard to the front. 448 00:49:34,180 --> 00:49:35,181 Yes. 449 00:50:43,165 --> 00:50:44,625 What is he doing now? 450 00:50:46,085 --> 00:50:47,586 He is riding down. 451 00:50:48,754 --> 00:50:50,005 Alone. 452 00:50:50,089 --> 00:50:52,382 This is Mongol against Mongol. 453 00:50:52,466 --> 00:50:54,426 And only one can win. 454 00:50:56,345 --> 00:50:58,264 You best pray that it is our side. 455 00:51:00,016 --> 00:51:01,308 For if we lose... 456 00:51:01,392 --> 00:51:03,518 Cambulac will be burned to the ground... 457 00:51:03,602 --> 00:51:06,396 and we will be made into kindling. 458 00:51:36,218 --> 00:51:38,303 Look where it has ended, brother. 459 00:51:39,596 --> 00:51:41,974 You want Mongolia... 460 00:51:42,058 --> 00:51:43,600 you come and take it. 461 00:51:45,269 --> 00:51:46,519 It is... 462 00:51:47,521 --> 00:51:48,940 as it should be. 463 00:55:18,565 --> 00:55:20,358 Men of Karakorum! 464 00:55:21,485 --> 00:55:23,028 It is over! 465 00:55:23,111 --> 00:55:24,320 This fight... 466 00:55:24,405 --> 00:55:28,408 between Mongols is done! 467 00:55:30,035 --> 00:55:31,745 We stand together now! 468 00:55:32,746 --> 00:55:34,456 We ride together! 469 00:55:36,500 --> 00:55:39,670 Every corner of the land beneath this Blue Sky, 470 00:55:39,753 --> 00:55:42,422 is ours for the taking! 471 00:55:43,590 --> 00:55:45,842 Go back to Karakorum. 472 00:55:45,926 --> 00:55:48,261 Prepare for war! 473 00:55:49,263 --> 00:55:53,349 For soon, we ride toward the south.