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Episode 3
Wow! What's going on ...?
Stop! Stop!
Since opium came from me, you can just arrest me. Why are you hurting my innocent family members?
Fine. Since your neck is going to be cut anyway,
it doesn't make a difference whether you get beaten and then killed or just get killed.
-Merchant elder!-Merchant elder!
No! You can't!
You can't do this! Don't do this!
Utt Dol!
Come to your senses!
No... No! Don't do this!
No!
Please don't do this!
Utt Dol! Do not do this!
No. No.
Uncle! Uncle!
Uncle!
Uncle is dead!
Hyungnim!
Hyungnim! Hyungnim!
Yahoos, I'll kill all of you!
KILL THEM!
Utt Dol!
Perhaps...
My father did it for the Chun Merchant Group.
Spare him!
If you smuggle, what happens?
Merchant Elder!
You stupid!
Are you planning to destroy the Chun Merchant Group and all die here?
You bastard!
-Aigoo.-Aigoo. Yes, sir.
Arrest me! Please... arrest only me!
You lowly peddlers beat up my subordinates.
End it with only you? Hah.
I've never seen someone so shameless and brazen as you!
Sir, please let's end it with me only.
I am not a person who traffics opium!
You rascal, who are you clinging to?
I am Chun Oh Soo from the Chun Merchant Group.(Hyeongjo-A justice court)
The Court of Law in Hangyang will decide if I'm guilty or not. So please extradite me to the capital.
If you are Chun Oh Soo from the Merchant of Chun, then I am non other than the Police Commissioner, Kim Hyung Joon from Uiju.
How dare you low lifes try to weigh the cost of names?
Commissioner! Commissioner!
The 3 syllable names Chun Oh Soo from the Chun Merchant Group has some weight.
You can end it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
Why are you in such a rush?
You don't need to end it right now.
Round them all up and throw them in the cells!
-Yes, sir.-Yes, sir.
Put all of them in jail.
-Yes, sir.-Yes, sir.
Police Commissioner!
Let me go.
Open it!
Yes, sir.
Look here, Merchant Chun.
One of our guys is stoned to death.
If it is the prefect, then you'll say "yes, I understand,"
"I'll send you to the Hyungjo as well."
Then please seek the truth whether I am guilty or not.
Then would you give me all of your dried sea cucumbers as a bribe?
That's valued at 10,000 nyangs. Does that even make sense?
By the way is it only for one?
Anyhow, not much will change, even if you go to the Department of Justice.
This person takes some and that person takes some,
they have more people there. So your bribe will get bigger than the local police bureau,
and not smaller.
This isn't the world where I disappear alone extremely slowly like a pine tree.
It'll be easier for you to satisfy the local Police Commissioner's bribery
than to face the Attorney General at the highest court in the Department of Justice. Don't you think?
-Think carefully about it. -I'll do it.
Dried sea cucumber...
I'll give you.
Really?
Right, right..
You thought well.
You'll probably get a high number of floggings,
but I'll try to get you off.
It was just raw opium in a mere three dried sea cucumbers.
All the other merchant groups carry that amount for medicine.
Then why did things advance this far?
We have a new inspector who started working today,
and he doesn't know how to distinguish whether it is poo or soy paste...
Dried sea cucumber from the Chun Merchant Group
is valued for at least 10,000 nyang.
Let's manage it with flogging.
If we pay 100 nyang to the family of the dead guard,
they would be happy with the settlement and not say anything.
Since we did our share of wrong, let's settle with flogging.
Flogging!
Is that enough?!
Oops! I forgot you are here.
Please accept a drink, Hyungnim.
The Head Merchant from the Chun Merchant group died
from trafficking opium in the International Market. You should punish them sternly...
Oh, my younger brother! Oh, my younger brother!
My, my... my generosity is overflowing.
Too much is as bad as too little!
This younger brother's generosity overflows to my distant cousin whose mother is a concubine.
You half brother, you are very nosy!
Too much is as bad as too little!
Too much is as bad as too little.
Ahuh! Ahuh!
Uiju Government Office
I'll give you the same amount of money as dried sea cucumber.
Bring it in.
Um, Merchant Elder.
Qing's silver 3,000 nyang.
It is 15,000 nyang in our currency.
The dried sea cucumbers are valued
at 10,000 nyang, so is 5,000 nyang premium?
It's the cost of cutting one person's neck.
Although, you're a very distant indirect relative to the Kim Clan of Ahndong Province.
You are a half brother of Gaesung Yoo Soo
but you are not equal in status to make jokes.
If this matter gets out through my mouth, Hanyang will become noisy.
Oh!
Opium was found at the third gate.
Two of the guards were beaten to death with stones.
It's very amazing how that fits the punishment of being caned three times on the buttocks.
If it became known in Hanyang, you would get reprimanded.
Then, what are you telling me to do?
Think of it simply. It's a simple matter anyway.
The one who has to die, has to die.
Remove Chun Oh Soo's head according to the law
and if you covet the dried sea cucumber,
then receive that as the wrongful death compensation settlement for the guards.
-Open the door. -Yes!
Look, Merchant Chun.
A 10,000 nyangs bribe at least.
But, why are the Chun Merchants all forced into a labor camp as the punishment?
Hey, you're not going to just die from mining copper for about 2 years at the camp, are you?
In a sense, a forced labor camp is better.
You all would have died from being paddled on the buttocks, if we stuck to the initial punishment.
If you didn't die from the beating, then you'll end up being crippled.
_____________. Two of them died already.
The Chun Merchant Group also has to give up at least one more life to close the mouths.
We're thinking about beheading the one,
who is responsible for framing the Chun Merchant Group with opium.
After much convincing from me to the Police Commissioner.
The poor bastard who'll take your place;
pick one and call him out loudly, please. In any case.
As soon as the morning investigation is over,
we'll have an inquisition process.
Nice work! I'll enjoy your bribery.
We'll find and behead the punk who
planted the opium in your cargo.
So Gae, hand me the knapsack.
Jail guard! Jail guard!
Jail guard! Please call the Customs Office Elder.
How stupid of me! It's all pie in the sky.
I put 15,000 nyangs into a slop pail.
I just used money and Chun Oh Soo
is going to survive again and go back to Gaesung.
Damn it!
You rascal! You unthinking rascal!
A child avenges his father's unjustly death.Gil So Gae, Gil Sang Moon's son
Isn't it obvious?
Do you know how much my father worked to the bone
for the Chun Merchant Group?
He got up early in the morning at the same time.
He would clean the store, and
he would tirelessly try to seek out potential customers [dealers] by foot all day.
He didn't even remarry
and didn't even go to a gisaeng house!
He never even went to a gambling room, not once!
Working without any pay...
Head Merchant is just a name.
What's different from a slave?
Even though he worked like that...
you killed him?
Why is getting into the Yukuijeon that bad?
Why?! Why?!
So Gae! Hyungnim wasn't bad,
the method he used to enter the Yukuijeon was not right!
I don't want to hear that!
Did I say I wanted to hear that?
To save the other uncles,
you gave 10,000 nyangs.
Why couldn't you save my father?
If you had given 15,000 nyangs to the officer,
you would have saved my father.
My father would have been alive!
So Gae!
I'm not afraid!
If you want to kill me, just kill me.
Whether you have me beheaded by informing the Customs Office in the morning,
or summon everyone for another "Merchant's trial"...
As you did to my father,
give me lye
or stab me. Do whatever you want!
So Gae... So Gae! So Gae!
What are you all doing?! Let's move it...
Hurry up!
Hurry up and get going!
Stop stalling!
Move quickly!
Move quickly! Quickly!
Get up!
Don't stall...
- May I talk to Merchant Chun for a moment? - Move quickly, quickly!
He still owes me money.
I said move quickly!
Mr. Merchant Chun.
Do you know why Head Merchant Gil died?
Because you placed opium into my hyungnim's hands.
You just got half of it right.
Head Merchant Gil died to save you.
What are you talking about?
"The one who ordered me to traffic opium was Chun Oh Soo".
He could have lived if he had just said those words.
So, isn't it right that Head Merchant Gil died to save you?
You bastard! Do you covet the Chun Merchant Group that much?!
How could you kill my hyungnim?
I covet it, I really covet it. Anyone would covet it.
Merchant Gil said your merchant enterprise was worth 30,000 nyangs.
He doesn't know what he is talking about. From what I heard from the Chinese Merchants,
they're obsessed with your dried sea cucumbers, especially your fine exclusive drying technique.
The sky is the limit, so name your price.
No matter how much you like money,
you are not even a human! Not even a human!
Yes, I'm not a human.
However, as a human being, Merchant Chun,
I am so curious which choice you would make.
What?
By chance, you're not going to say you didn't know about Merchant Gil's son,
where he hid the opium to be mischievous? In order for you to unmask that,
I'll see if you're going to save or kill him.
I am really curious about it!
Police Bureau
Investigative Court
Then, who is in charge of trafficking in opium?
I put opium into the Merchant Elder's bag.
Utt Dol!
Anyway, if you hadn't saved me,
I would have died at Guem Moon.
You're saying nonsense.
You rascal!
Do you think you're some kind of a warrior on a battlefield?
How dare you, low life merchant peasants act as a battlefield warrior?!
Fine, you come out here. With your neck, I'll just-
Which bastard will take responsibility for the opium found from the 3rd gate of the border?
I will take the responsibility.
Merchant Elder!
Father!
Hey! Quiet!
Father. Father, you weren't the one who did that.
Father, you are a good person.
You are a good merchant!
Please say you didn't do it,
and that it's not yours.
Say it quickly.
That opium is not yours.
Hurry!
I did it!
No!
No, that's not my father's.
Anything that happens in the Chun Merchant Group, whatever that may be, I have to take responsibility as the Merchant Elder.
The opium from the 3rd customs border gate;
it is I who am guilty of it!
Step aside!
Step aside! Step aside!
Step aside!
Isn't that the Chun Merchant Group?
No way! They left already!
Step aside!
Yes, they are. They look strange.
How come they are all connected like dried baby corvinas on a rope?
Some incident has occurred for sure.
Take him quickly!
Quickly!
Uhm, is this your doing, Merchant Elder?
It's "Uh Bu Ji Ri" ("smash and grab").
What is Ji Ri?
It is true that money went out of my pocket,
but I cannot say that's my doing.
Pardon?
The owner of the Merchant Chun, Chun Oh Soo.
Since you confused the morality and customs of Gang Sang by smuggling the opium,
following the law with respect to the third gate, I'll have to ask for your sins.
Behead Chun Oh Soo and hang his head over the third gate,
and make that the demarcation for the merchants who cross the border.
-Hangsoo Elder!-Hangsoo Elder!
Start!
If he hasn't paid the additional fee, then he'll probably get cut extremely painfully.
Because of what he was involved in, will you offer to pay something?
I'll pay the additional fee, so let me enter.
Who is there?
I am the person who had business with the criminal, Jo Seong Joon.
Let me give him at least a glass of alcohol before he takes his last trip.
Please show mercy.
Allow him to enter!
Who did this to you?
Merchant Chun smuggled opium? Who would believe that?
I drank well. Thanks for the mercy money too where the executioner will make my death least painful.
Is there anything we can do to even at this point?
I'm sorry to not have the opportunity to pay you back, when it was you that saved my life once.
I'm sorry to die early like this.
Merchant Chun, how you...
you are really...
Come on, get out!
Police Commissioner please let me say some parting words.
Make it short!
So Rye!
Yes, Father.
Keep up your spirits.
So Rye, you have to take care of the Merchant Chun Group now.
Hurry and go back to Gaesung and liquidate inventory with Mr. Hong.
You must resurrect The Chun Merchant Group with that money at the right time.
Do you understand it?
Yes, Father.
I'll definitely resurrect our Merchant Chun Group.
So Gae.
You, when it's time,
marry So Rye.
Marry So Rye.
And then, raise the Merchant Chun Group and take care of Bong Sam.
No way!
I leave the Merchant Chun Group and my children to you. Please take care of them.
So Gae, answer him quickly!
Come on, answer him quickly! You punk.
Come on! Answer him, you punk...
I'll do it. Sir.
Bong Sam.
Bong Sam, raise you head and look at your father!
Father, I'm scared.
I'm scared of doing business.
Right! Basically money is like that.
It is much scarier than a gun, sword, and even explosives.
However, money can kill people but save them, too.
Uh-huh!
What speech is longer than a winter night?!
Bong Sam, do whatever you want to do!
If you think business is too scary and not appealing, then it's fine if you don't.
Nevertheless, when you do find something that you'd like to do, then be diligent and sincere.
Diligence and sincerity, as long as you have those two,
then you won't have such a great difficulty living in this world.
Kill him!
Sang Moon Hyungnim, I'm going.
Hyungnim!
Merchant Elder!
- Merchant Elder! -Merchant Elder! - Father! Father!
Father! Father!
Father!
-Merchant Elder! -Father!
Orabeoni.
Orabeoni!
Orabeoni So Gae!
Orabeoni!
Orabeoni...
Orabeoni.
How could you leave us?
My father asked you
to take care of me, Bong Sam, and the Chun Merchant Group.
Your father was crazy.
How could I... marry you?
Whenever I'll see your face,
I'll remember the moment your father was beheaded.
And I'll remember my father
who was killed in the International Market.
Orabeoni...
But I will forget
both you and Bong Sam,
and this tiresome Chun Merchant Group. I'll forget all of it!
I must avenge my father's deep resentment.
Just as father wished for, I'll become the Head Merchant of the Yukuijeon. I'll become the richest in Joseon.
I said I'll become the Head Merchant!
Orabeoni...
Father.
Have you met mom yet?
Don't worry about the Chun Merchant Group.
Noona, my hand is bleeding.
Where is Hyung?
Why isn't Hyung So Gae coming here?
And after that, I'll find the enemy that stole you away
and get revenge on him in the same way.
Noona, I am getting tired.
Now, you are the third merchant of the Merchant Chun Group.
Don't act like a baby any more!
Swear in front of father's grave.
Swear that you will raise the Chun Merchant Group well.
No, father told me to do what I want to do.
Hyung So Gae can just marry you to become the Merchant Elder.
The Chun Merchant Group is a place where only a Chun can become the Merchant Elder.
Orabeoni So Gae already abandoned us.
He left us!
I don't want to. Find him.
Find him.
Bong Sam!
Bong Sam! What should I do?
Bong Sam.
Father!
Doctor!
Please do something for him.
You have to give him medicine.
Any salve or anything!
There is no cure for this.
Smallpox! The smallpox which is even scarier than a tiger.
So, it'll be hard for your younger brother
to live.
He is as good as dead.
Why? Why is my Bong Sam going to die?
He can talk like this and even search for my father!
Aigoo, although it'll be hard for you to abandon him and leave because he is your younger brother,
if you want to live, you have to leave before you catch smallpox!
Doctor.
Doctor, you can't just leave.
Doctor.
Aigoo.
Doctor.
Doctor!
-Father.-Doctor.
What? Shin Seok Joo: Head of the Yukuijeon's Merchants.
Merchant Chun was beheaded?
Yes.
All the staff of the Merchant Chun Group have to do forced labor.
They said the Merchant Chun Group has been demolished.
What was he accused of?
Well... trafficking in opium.
No way! No way!
What? Shin Seok Joo?
I was looking for the person who could buy the Merchant Chun Group.
You should've waited until I came back.
You couldn't even wait for that short period of time and went trailing after Shin Seok Joo?
He is the Head Merchant in Yukuijeon.
Don't you think he'll find the right purchaser better than you?
I've worked hard on this and Shin Seok Joo
just might take the whole thing from me. Damn!
How could you say that?
Do you know what our family calls us?
Teeth and gums?
Teeth and throat!
Have you seen a throat chew?
If I rip it and chew, all you have to do is
swallow it without any excuses!
That that that son of a low-level woman!
Since I call him Hyungnim, Hyungnim and being polite,
does he think I am his real brother? Aish!
You're not there yet, Commissioner. You're far from being there.
If you want to grow big, then you'll need to age quite a bit!
Bong Sam.
You need to eat. You must eat.
That's the way you'll get well, right? Bong Sam!
Please eat just one bite.
Please think of Noona. Please...
Bong Sam. You have to get well soon, right?
Bong Sam, your Noona is sorry.
Chun Merchant Group of Gaesung
Well, this place is full of high/strong spirit
How did he come to that untimely gruesome fate, when this place has such sturdy vibes?
Great Head Merchant Elder.
You are Great Head Merchant Elder. I am Kim Hak Joon.
Greetings to Great Head Merchant of Yukuijeon.
No, no, I am a middle class person.
Even though you are an illegitimate son, you're still one of the descendants of the Andong Clan.
You should not bow on the ground.
This makes me uncomfortable.
That is the business which happened in my mother's womb, regardless of my will.
I am just a small time merchant in Kang Kyung.
Grand Merchant of Yukuijeon is taking care of all 250,000 merchants
like a father. Father!
Father?
Father...
Did you come here to buy dried sea cucumber?
Hey, this person! Say your greetings. He is the Head Merchant Elder in the Yukuijeon.
Aigoo, Head Merchant Elder!
Hey, that's enough. That's enough.
But our Head Merchant left for the International Market
and is not here now.
Uh-huh!
How is it that the butler of such a big merchant doesn't even know what's happening!
From now on, I am the Merchant Elder here.
I beg your pardon?
He-ey! You're a person who is not qualified as a butler.
Your Head Merchant borrowed against this Chun Family Merchant Group and
using the Baekok branch in Han Yang as collateral,
borrowed money from me. Money...
Now take a look... this is the promissory note.
Ah-
Shin Seok Joo, you snake!
Aigoo.
What have I done for that!
You rascal, you smell something.
No, Shin Seok Joo. Not that one!
So Rye, you have to keep your head straight.
So Rye, you have to take care of the Chun Merchant Group now.
Bong Sam.
I think I have to go now.
Bong Sam.
Noona is leaving.
Next time... next time, I will definitely come back.
Sorry, Bong Sam.
Identification of Chun Oh Soo
This is our father's. Father's identification.
Bong Sam, if you are cold, hungry,
and it hurts too much,
Bong Sam...
If it is too tough,
just go to our father.
Noona.
Noona, don't leave.
Noona... noona, don't go.
Open the doors! Open the doors!
You rascal! Go!
You rascal, where are you going?
This rascal, really. Rascal, where do you think this is for you to just come here?
-Please hire me! -You rascal!
This young punk... how dare you to an elder?
I am Gil So Gae. Please hire me.
Aren't you a peddler?
This rascal, really. What are you?
Wasting my energy in early morning!
How many of your merchants at this Yuguijeon didn't start from peddling?
Didn't most of them start out peddling?
Let's say they are. Then what would you do here?
I want to become the Head Merchant in the Yuguijeon.
Have I ever seen such a crazy person?
Hey...
(Yeo-leet-ghoon-A street tout/greeter)I'll tout on the street.
We already have many of those. So go somewhere else! Go!
Go, rascal!
If you slap my face, you have to pay me back.
Where should I clean first?
Still, this rascal.
Just let him do it!
Work. Just leave him alone for once.
Grand Merchant, how are you?
How do you know that I am the Great Head Merchant, you rascal?
Who else but the grand merchant would be shirtless and turning that thing round and round in the morning at the place of Shin's?
Hey, get up!
You!
We'll let you eat here, sleep here, and give you clothing, but you won't receive a salary for a year.
If you can endure to next year, you start with 2 mal (about 18 liter) of barley depending on your performance.
I'll endure! I'll never go out!
I can't leave here!
That crazy bastard.
It's not like we are opening a shop right now.
Are you going to all of the cow markets in Joseon?
Aigoo. I'm tired.
Isn't it easy to come here from Songpa?
Sungnim(another word for Hyungnim)
No! I don't want to sleep in a place like that today.
I won't even get a blink of sleep comfortably because my surroundings are too messy.
I am going to for sure sleep in the largest room at the lodge.
I didn't say even a word.
I just want to burn incense.
God (Mt.Wizard) of Mt. Baekma, please let me get married.
Don't let me wear my hair up in pretense...
Please don't let me wear my hair up in pretense...
Please let me marry Bang Guem, Bang Guem.
God, please.
-C-child... child ghost!
Find my sister.
How can I find a ghost child's sister here? Go back in, you're scary!
Find her-
Hyungnim. Bang Guem.
Look what I found in the shrine!
What? Did you find a drop dead gorgeous widow?
Look. Look at him!
Isn't he the son of Merchant Chun?
Yes.
Hey! How come you keep finding members of that family, uh?
Father, and now son.
By the way, what's wrong with him?
He can't even open his eyes. Hey, hey!
- Where is his older sister? -I don't know know, there was no one.
The son of Head Merchant Gil wasn't there either.
Sungnim... Sungnim, where are you going? Sungnim!
You haven't finished your meal.
Doctor! Doctor, are you there? Hurry and come out, Doctor!
What's going on?
Please see this child.
No! No!
-Hurry up and see him!-No, I can't.
How can a doctor refuse to see a patient?
I am telling you that is smallpox!
I am the one who put him there in the shrine.
Whether it's smallpox or something else, the child is almost dead!
I said I can't! Hurry up and take him back! Quickly.
Hyungnim does a mule work just by a whip?
It wants to be fed first. He want money first, money!
Look at the child first. I'll pay you whatever price you name.
How stubborn all of you are. I'm telling you it's smallpox.
He must have been born sturdy!
This disease gives him half-half chance to live or die. He is lucky!
He is lucky!
Will he get better?
Feed him a couple bags of medicine and feed him well at home.
Where do we take him?
His father is dead too.
Noona... Noona...
Ahjussi! What are they doing over there?
Why are you taking all these out!
Our So Rye has come! Aigoo, So Rye came.
-Ahjussi! -Aigoo, what is going on?
I've heard the rumors but I can't believe it!
Ahjussi, let's talk about that later.
Stop these people first.
Why are they removing our sign however they want?
So Rye, now it's not the Chun Merchant Group.
There, the man you see over there is the Merchant Elder.
No. No!
So Rye! So Rye, So Rye! So Rye!
No! Won't you stop?! This is my father's!
It's my father's.
So Rye! You'll burn your hands, you'll burn your hands!
Who are you?
Then, what about you? Who are you?
This rude thing, how dare a young one
looking up with wide eyes?
I'm Chun So Rye.
The Merchant Elder of the Chun Merchant Group.
What? What is what? Merchant Elder?
I've revealed who I am.
So who are you? Who are you to come into someone else's merchant group without permission
and act as the owner?
You rascal! Rascal!
What? Who are you? How dare do you speak to the owner of the Merchant Chun Group like that?
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Please hire me hire me!
Bong Sam!
I have to go find my sister after I open up a store.
He is not my brother? He is not Chun Bong Sam?
It's enough if I saved you. Why are you sticking to me like glue and creating all this fuss?
I'll give you 10 days. If you sell three cows within 10 days, I'll hire you as one of the Ma Room's Merchant Family.
The Grand Merchant of Yu Gi Jeon and the daughter of Seungji Jo.
She is so beautiful!
Please take me with you