Great Head Merchant Elder!
I...have something to ask you.
How... how can I earn a large amount of money?
Please... tell me how.
I...have to earn 890,000 nyang in a year.
890,000 nyang? Put me down.
You bastard, 890,000 nyang?
Do you even know how large that sum of money is that you're saying this?
390,000 nyang in regaining the Songpa Stable.
The 500,000 nyang debt I have to you for the rice taxes.
Although I have the skill to earn small amounts of money,
I still haven't been able to touch such a large amount of money yet.
How can I earn a large amount of money?
You bastard, why are you asking me that?
In this land of Joseon,
there is no one else aside from you I can ask that question to.
Oh-ho, this...
Please tell me.
Fine. Before you earn money,
you need to first know how to smell money.
Where the money is floating to,
you should have the eye to predict that.
When you see money,
you need to know how to grasp that money tightly in your hands.
After that,
you need to know how
to play with money.
Play... play with money?
Those that can't play with money
and end up being dragged here and there by money
will never be able to make large amounts of money.
Great Head Merchant Elder, a bit more specifically.
Please tell me more specifically.
Do something that other people don't do.
Risk your life on something other people don't do because it's too difficult.
Then you'll be able to earn a large amount of money.
On the most of the goods,
bunch of merchants are already sucking money out of them.
Do something that other people won't even dare to do because they're afraid.
You just have to risk your life on that.
Try risking your life!
I'll be sure to find goods like that.
Thank you for your teachings.
Thank you.
The physician specially made this medicine for you.
You have to take it without skipping anything.
Why? Do you have something to say to me?
Great Head Merchant Elder, you're like a high mountain
I am sorry to upset you when I am so lacking for you.
I'm sorry.
You can't stop a person who wants to research and study.
Even if I wasn't thrilled about it,
it's not proper to throw out a person who wants to study.
Initially, on top of a money sack
there is a grim leaper sitting together, they say.
If you want to earn a large amount of mone,
it's only a matter of time before you see blood.
Even if you know the way to earn money,
you can't see everything.
Ah, that's hot!
Something that other people won't jump into because they're afraid?
Something worth risking my life for?
What would that kind of reification be?
Would there still be that kind of reification on this land of Joseon?
Okay, 890,000 nyang.
It's 890,000 nyang! 89-
Oh? 8-8-890,000 nyang?
Ah, how can we make such a large amount of money?
Quiet, quiet, quiet!
Now, get rid of all negative thoughts like "it won't work"
and "it's impossible" from your head.
Just think about our goal with the belief that we will definitely make it,
with our passion, with giving everything we've got.
That'll do. The thought that we will definitely make it. Without that passion,
nothing will work out.
Understand?
-Yes!-Yes.
Eat.
Just being cattle broker won't work.
Which mean we find new items to sell.
I haven't got anything unless we dig out some diamonds...
Merchant Elder Hyungnim! Merchant Elder Hyungnim! Merchant Elder Hyungnim!
- Why is a rookie of our stable so late?-I should just!
Aigoo, don't get ahead of yourself.
I ran into a person whose carrying a circular letter on my way to purchase barleys.
I am coming from the headquarter of peddler market.
- A circular letter? -Whose merchant inn this time?
I know how to read.
I heard it says something like Pyeonggang Merchant Inn is looking for carriers.
Pyeonggang Merchant Inn is looking for carriers?
From Pyeonggang to Wonsan Port,
looking for caravan to transport high-end white papers.
That is funny circular letter!
Why would they pass that around to look for people to transport papers?
Right, why are they doing this so noisily?
No, no. There's a need to look into this.
If they even passed out flyers like this, then there definitely is a reason.
There is definitely a reason.
Hyung, look into it.
There must be a reason. I'm sure there is.
- What would the reason be? - Merchant Hwang in Pyeonggang is betraying...
He's trying to betray me!
How dare Merchant Hwang even before the deal is finalized with you?
It is a quite a bold act?
You must put him in his place.
In his place...
Didn't we just open international trade market in Wonsan Port? [International Trade Market: Mainly with China and Japan]
I am thinking Merchant Hwang is trying to get Japanese vendor.
That is when transporting the goods to Wonsan Port is possible!
How can they go over the Poongdeung Ryeong carrying goods?
Leave immediate to Pyeonggang and buy the papers.
At what price to purchase the high-end white papers,
you decide the price.
Here.
This is it. This is Bookkwan Road (Path to northern terrioty).
The path that leads to Hanyang, Darakwon, Pyeonggang and Wonsan.
The path had been blocked at Poongdeung Ryeong for past 20-years.
That's all because of the robbers! A group of robbers.
I heard the rumor that multi-hundreds of peddlers were killed going over the Poongdeung Ryeong.
If so then...
how are the goods of posts, fine hemp threads and silk threads from Wansan being transported now?
Shin Seok Joo bring them going around the sea by the boats.
-Going around like this? -Uhm.
Then how much is the freight cost?
We know that about 50% of the goods price are for the freight.
That is right.
Shin Seok Joo just sitting at Yukuijeon,
he is raking multi-hundreds nyang each year just on freight alone.
Hey gather up!
Let's go to Pyeonggang.
Let's transport the high-end white papers ourselves.
No way. We can't! What would you do about the robbers in Poongdeung Ryeong?
How can we earn a large amount of money doing the easy tasks that everyone else does?
I'm saying we should try it. We should risk our lives and try it.
If we just go over the Poongdeung Ryeong on Bookkwan Road,
it will open the path coolly, how about it?
Right! Poongdeung Ryeong it is.
The reason for the Bookkwan Road being blocked all this time,
was due to the robbers. The robbers.
In attempt to demolish the robbers, the government sent out troops multiple times.
The government never succeeded.
Then...
The only two people benefiting from the road being blocked are the Great Merchant and Wonsan Merchant.
The deals between the Great Merchant and Wonsan Merchant.
I've never seen it on the ledgers.
Do you know anything?
The Great Merchant has a distant nephew named Shin Gap Soo.
The Great Merchant managed that account directly.
Shin Gap Soo?
Head Merchant Gil!
Head Merchant Gil,
Elder Kim Bo Hyeun's head fell off at the Investigation Bureau!
What?
What did you just say right now?
It's Shin Suk Joo, Shin Suk Joo!
He says that since he suffered great losses in the boat transporting the rice taxes,
he paid Elder Kim Bo Hyeon properly back.
Great Head Merchant Elder.
You've heard the news too.
Ah, yes.
If you've heard the news, then you shouldn't have come here. You should have packed your belongings first.
Slowly, slowly.
Whether it's tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, they can slowly empty out their rooms.
You should quickly go in.
You should go in and help him to pack.
Right, go on in.
How dare he...?
He played me and tricked me into my demotion,
and said what? This is my promotion gift?!
My Lord, what will happen now?
The water has already been spilled. Would I kneel at Shin Suk Joo's feet now
or would I hold hands with him? There's only one way.
I have to step on Shin Suk Joo or Shin Suk Joo will step on me!
What should I do?
You should stick to Shin Suk Joo like taffy.
Will he just let me be when I'm a thorn in his eye?
Gil So Gae, you bastard!
How can a person who desires to be the Great Head Merchant of the Yukuijeon be so afraid of Shin Suk Joo?
If you're only worth that much, then pack up your belongings and leave.
Vacate the house in Namsangol,
and never appear in front of my eyes again!
Fine.
I'll endure. I'll endure until the end even if my head falls off.
If Shin Suk Joo tells you to die, pretend to die.
Wag your tail and kiss up to him if you have to!
You have to pass this trial to become the Great Head Merchant of the Yukuijeon
or take over the Shin Merchant Group!
Don't just bark like a mutt.
Learn how to wag your tail first.
I'll keep that in mind, My Lord.
[...Applying to be the transporter of your high-end white papers.]
Songpa Stable is as Pyeonggang Merchant
had circulated, we are applying for the job.
No matter how much I look at this, it looks like a place to die.
They say that the place where money comes in is a place where you can die.
Earning money means how much tears, blood, and sweat
you shed.
As much as you shed those 3, you earn money.
Hyung, do you think money will come out of an easy place?
That's a thief's thinking, a thief's way of thinking.
What are you going to do about the Songpa Stable?
There's no one who you can trust and leave this stable to.
If the Merchant Elder keeps leaving the Stable,
the workers won't like it.
Hey! If you want to die, then die alone. Do you know where you are going?
Poongdeung Ryeong, the ghost hill. You go over that path after you die.
Do you want to see how much the interest is a day for our stable is?
Just with the cattle brokerage fees, we can't even think about paying down on the debt.
I'm going to leave tomorrow no matter what
so come to the stable.
-Come.-What, that-
Hey, hey, hey, Cheon Bong Sam! Where are you going?
Don't you know that you and I have unfinished business?
Let's tally that up after I come back from Poongdeung Ryeong.
Don't be late and come tomorrow.
What?! Hey!
You're telling me to go to the stable and help with the work?
Oh, how upsetting. I should just!
I am thinking about paying 40 nyang per roll of high-end white papers.
You bastard! Are you trying to play with me?
40-nyangs? Did you say 40 nyangs?
It's because you restricted the distribution in the market of the high-end white papers from Pyeonggang,
but not too long ago it was traded at 90 nyangs in Chilbae Market.
And even traded at 100 nyangs in Yiwon blackmarket.
Are you using that as an excuse?!
If I was going to pay that much, I'd bought them from Merchant Hwang already!
I dragged this out for 4-years now.
He won't let go of the goods anything below that price.
If that's how you are going to negotiate the price of goods, leave my house immediate!
Look here! Get rid of all of Head Merchant Gil's items and empty out his room!
Yes, I understand!
The price of goods are not set by the seller, but
it is decided by the purchaser.
Don't forget that.
Great Head Merchant Elder!
Great Merchant Elder, Songpa Stable had applied for the job transporting the papers for Pyeonggang Merchant.
Cheon Bong-Cheon Bong Sam did?
All the other transporting merchants had given up due to fear.
I hear Songpa Stable is the only applicant.
Although I have the skills to earn small amounts of money,
I still have not been able to touch such a large amount of money.
What can I do to earn a large amount of money?
So Gae,
do you think you can stop Cheon Bong Sam?
I've won once, there's no reason I can't win again.
Great Head Merchant Elder, please give me the command.
Please just give out the command!
I'll put the high-end white papers into the storage of Shin's Merchant.
How much do you need to purchase the papers?
I'll purchase them as you set the purchase price.
10 nyangs per roll.
10 nyangs per roll!
You can't do it?
I'll do it. I'll do it.
I'll buy them at 10 nyang.
Your skills you showed in the boat carrying the rice taxes,
I want to see those skills one more time.
Will that be okay?
I'll see you when I am back with the high-end white papers.
It is 10 nyangs per roll! If you can't buy them at the price,
you don't need to come back to my house.
Didn't government try to demolish the robbers before?
They have tried to demolish...
Only they lost everytime.
Just how great are the Poongdeung Ryeong robbers?
They've won over the soldiers for 20 years?
You're leaving already?
Don't let Cheon Bong Sam go over Poongdeung Ryeong carrying the papers.
If you want to remain in Yukuijeon, you bring the goods yourself.
Gae Ddong, no matter how much I think about it,
Bong Sam doesn't suit you.
Don't act however you want like you did in the boat transporting the rice taxes.
If you play around with Cheon Bong Sam's life,
I won't help you anymore.
Cheon Bong Sam is my destiny.
Keep that in mind.
Exactly... what am I to you?
Hyung! Orabeoni! Comrade!
The only person in the world who's on my side!
Yes. I'm the only person in the world who's on your side.
Are you saying I'm not as important as Cheon Bong Sam?
Don't try to become a man to me.
Hyung, you should just become my family.
Just do it up to there.
Back then and even now,
a big merchant needs to know how to tame the roads.
You need to open the road, block the road, and tame the road.
You need to conquer the distribution routes.
Money is moving as I wish.
Since you've blocked the Bookkwan Road for 20-years,
of course you're the one who manages the roads.
Poongdeung Ryeong, the neck of the Bookkwan Road, no one will go over without my permission.
Take this to Shin Gap Soo.
Yes.
Only 4 people should know about Shin Gap Soo's existence
and it has to stay that way.
Me, Gap Soo, Ma Chi Soon of Wonsan Merchant and you.
Don't worry, Great Head Merchant Elder.
This Bookkwan Road is...
the back of my neck.
After the back of neck is ripped apart,
how could I expect to live?
If this road is opened,
the foundation of Shin's Merchant Inn will sink in.
We are the family who eat the food out of the same pot.
We have to become one tightly
and regain our Songpa Stable.
I know
how dangerous this travel to Pyeonggang would be.
Poongdeung Ryeong is more dangerous than cliffs.
And more dangerous than the borders full of cattle thieves.
I know that full well.
But did we even have one place that was safe for the peddlers?
My comrades, Bo Eun...
Manager!
-Hyungnim! -Be quiet.
Money is the most scary thing in the world.
Because money is the lifeline for us.
If Songpa Stable is bankrupt, then we lose everything.
The lifeline! The throat line!
Who will feed all of us?
Who the heck will feed us?
So...
We must go.
Whether the Poongdeung Ryeong robbers doing scary dance with swords,
or a tiger open its mouth wide open
we must still go over.
Who am I?
I am Songpa Stable's Teacher Bong.
I have thrown my life on this travel.
I'll be the vanguard, so let's go over together.
I'll die first if death is upon us.
And keep you protected even after my death!
Now! You all trust me, and
that damned Poongdeung Ryeong!
Will you revive Songpa Stable by going over there?!
Yeah, Cattle Broker Elder!
Let's go!
Everyone! Let's walk!
Let's go!
Rak?
Mother, what are these letters?
Poong Dong Jo Rak.
Poong Dong Jo Rak?
Meaning... Bird will fall in the blowing wind.
Oh my!
The Grand Madam who died earlier.
She said whoever takes this tell will definitely die.
It is right. Poong Dong Jo Rak.
The tell that may or may not come out once in a lifetime.
She said this tell comes out when the death is upon the person.
[Cheon Bong Sam]
Mother! Where are you going?
[Pyeonggang of Kangwon Province]
It's the Uncle. Uncle!
He is probably running an errand for the Great Head Merchant.
But why is he acting so suspicious?
Ggo Chul. I need to know why the Great Head Merchant send him.
Don't worry. I'll find out.
Where is Hwang's Merchant? Lead the way.
Wow! We are here.
Great work!
Hello!
I am Cheon Bong Sam, the Cattle Broker of Songpa Stable.
I've been waiting for you since I got the letter.
My nose is extruding (waiting for long time).
Do you want to look at the high-end white papers first?
Please give us food first.
Those papers are 4-years old. One more day won't make any difference, will it?
That's right! The skin on my stomach is touching my back skin.
The Merchant Elder and I will look at the papers first, and
please let my family eat first.
For the last 2-days, we were eating cold rice balls.
And only two balls at that and we came here non-stop.
Here, here. Come on in and sit down.
I'll have them prepare a warm meal.
Look here!
My... Who is this?
Oh my? What brings you here?
You are scaring me.
What's the deal for you guys?!
You men hold a long grudge.
-What did you say? -Gom Bae!
What is it? What's the matter?
I am Gil So Gye, second in command of Shin's Merchant.
Then Manager Maeng,
at what price did your Great Head Merchant tell you to buy my papers?
Aigoo, aigoo. You can't even say it.
Go tell your Great Head Merchant that I have no interest to sell them to him.
I am going to consign them to Songpa Stable and sell them in Wonsan market at proper price.
As if they can transport those papers.
What the heck are you trying to say again?
I guess Information doesn't travel here very fast.
This Stable's Cattle Broker was the Captain on the tax grains freighter.
He got 2000 sacks of grains stolen to the bandits.
2000? 2000 sacks?!
Merchant Elder.
Merchant Elder!
Merchant Elder! Merchant Elder! MERCHANT ELDER!
I told you I can't let you have them!
The tax grains matter is not true.
The truth is not important. If the people call him thief, then you are a thief
Let's me hear Shin's Merchant offer? How much are you offering?
10 nyangs per roll.
Ayi you thief!
The shelf life for the papers are 5-years.
You can get 10 nyangs now, but they will be used for fire next year.
Songpa Stable and Shin's Merchant, get out all of you!
None of you will take my papers.
Merchant Elder!
- What are you trying to do? -The Great Head Merchant and Merchant Hwang,
have been fighting a tug of war for many years now.
Don't interfere on someone else's deal.
Deal my butt! 10 nyangs per roll?
You call that a deal? That is thievery!
Merchant Elder!
Mother! Ah Mother!
How can you walk that well?
Hurry and find the paper merchant.
Yes Mother.
Aigoo! I am about to go insane in hunger!
You don't even give us food!
Even if we can't go in the room, don't we have to make dinner for us?
We don't even have any money left.
Bong Sam! Bong Sam!
Something happened?
He's burning all the papers.
Merchant Hwang is burning the papers.
Why is he burning the papers?
Merchant Hwang is burning the papers?!
What the hell?
What are you doing?
Are those goods belong to you?!
Then mine are yours?!
It is right that you paid the money for them.
But how can you say they belong to you only?
Bong Sam. Don't interfere.
When the papers are being produced,
they belong to the paper producers.
After the production is complete,
they belong to all people who need them!
Merchants can buy them with money.
But how can that belong to the merchant only?
Shut up!
Gong Seng Gong Jone, they say.
It is not to live alone well, but
to live well all together!
Hence the trades.
Gong Seng Gong Jone!
The goods are out in the world,
but they have no use for anything.
Then you have no right to trade.
Cheon Bong Sam!
Stop saying nonsense! Trades are for making money!
10 nyang per roll? Are you insane?
Why don't you ask them for free?
They will be useless next year anyway.
Why don't you ask them for free so you can distribute them to poor scholars?!
Merchant Elder.
How can a merchant
burn the goods like children in the fire?
How can you just waste them?
The purpose of us distributing goods
is to make money, but that is the minor purpose.
That is the life that heavens gave to 250,000 merchants!
Please consign them to me.
I will go over that scary Poonggang Ryeong and through the Bookkwan Road,
and go to Wonsan Port Market.
I will release them to everyone who needs the papers.
Merchant Elder...
Please consign them to Songpa Stable.
Merchant Elder!
Are you trying to ruin the Great Head Merchant's deal?
There is limit on cheating the price!
You must judge the value of goods properly, and setting the appropriate price for it is also talent.
That is the basis for the merchants.
They were sitting in the storage room for 4-years.
They will start to fade soon and the rats will gnaw on them to be useless.
They still have shelf life of 1-year left on them.
If I take them to Wonsan Port Market, I can easily get 400 nyang per roll!
How will you distribute them in Wonsan Port? How will you go over the Poongdeung Ryeong?
Besides who will dare purchase goods that the Great Head Merchant of Yukuijeon was negotiating on?
Do you think the Great Head Merchant will just sit still?
Just who is the Great Head Merchant of Yukuijeon?
Do not discount goods price using opponent's weakness!
That is the rule for the peddlers and Cheon's Merchant rule!
What?
Why do you bring up the bankrupted Cheon's Merchant?
Listen well. The trades are for the profit, and
not for the compassion.
Go back to Songpa while I am telling you nicely.
Look here. So Gye Hyung!
Look here!
I heard your conversation well.
There is no way he would go over Poongdeung Ryeong.
At any rate, your papers will be wasted unless for Shin's Great Merchant.
How do you know about Cheon's Merchant?
Yeah.
The man named Cheon Oh Soo is my father.
You are the son of Cheon's Merchant?
Do you know my father?
I do. Of course I do.
Due to the Cheon's Merchant incident, I quit my custom and border protection work and came back to my hometown and opened merchant business.
If you are saying custom and border protection, Uijoo 3-gates?
Opium! Opium!
Kneel them down.
You favor Cheon's Merchant very much.
While I was listening on your conversation earlier, my heart was warming.
When I first started my business, I had energy like you.
No matter the retaliation.
I will never deal with Shin's Great Merchant who is mudding and confusing the trades.
Bong Sam. Please take my papers.
But you must sell them at proper price.
Thank you Merchant Elder. Thank you.
Okay.
Elder!
Salesman Kim!
So did you get anything from Noh?
Of course.
How dare? It hasn't been that long since we share the meals.
He is asking what is written there?
What's it to you?!
Now... Going home again...
No need to back!
Be quiet!
Stop making ruckus and sit down.
This paper merchant is quite fickle. He just kicked us out saying he won't let us have the goods.
Just say you are happy, and stop fussing.
It's not all happy though.
Ah those robbers at Poongdeung Ryeong!
Be sure to pack everything and the Stable's flag is a must.
We all need to go to Do Seong tomorrow, so tonight we stay in this warm paper merchant inn
and sleep well.
What?
That man loving male... no the national shrine Madam... no Gae Ttong.
How would Gae Ttong be here? What a nonsense?!
I am in debt to you for the last time.
What brought you here?
Did you get the job of transporting the papers?
Uhm.
Don't go.
Gae Ttong. I am grateful that you are worried about me, but we must go.
This is something I must do to get the Stable back.
Don't go Cheon Bong Sam!
I must go.
Whether getting the Stable back of bankrupt, it is riding on that.
I don't like being shaman in front of you.
I really don't like being the National Shrine Madam.
But I can't help it.
Poong Dong Jo Rak. A bird will fall in blowing wind.
Do you not understand what it means? It means Cheon Bong Sam will die at Poongdeung Ryeong!
Please don't go. Do you think I came 300 lee (0.393 km per lee) for nothing?
I came because Cheon Bong Sam's life depends on it.
Poong Dong Jo Rak. Do you want to die in Poongdeung Ryeong?
No one had gone over that path carrying goods in 20-years.
Gae Ttong. I must go over that path.
So...
Even more now, I must go over that path.
Cheon Bong Sam!
How could merchant throw away the path that distributes the goods?
Moreover, how can we let the robbers have the path?
No. That won't do. Whether the robbers or whoever,
will not be able to block my path to trades.
You must be tired from walking, so get some rest.
Cheon Bong Sam! Cheon Bong Sam!
Why are you putting your life on Poongdeung Ryeong? Why are you putting your life on Songpa Stable?
You can do well on other trades as well. It doesn't have to be Songpa Stable, does it?
No. I can't do other things well.
You are born with the talent for business. I know that.
Gae Ttong. I can't even take care anything that is happening in front of me now.
So how can anyone say I can do other things well?
Do you have 12-lives?
Is it that you want to do the business? Or is it that you want to boast about going over the Poongdeung Ryeong?
Do you want to get the hero treatment from the other merchant?
Gae Ttong. I just want to go over Poongdeung Ryeong carrying the goods.
That's all.
Once I go over it, then the blocked Bookkwan Road will be re-opened.
If that path is opened again, my comrades... Look...
my comrades holding these merchant IDs
can go to Hamgyeong Province to buy their goods and commerce there again.
Then more of my comrades will be able to support themselves.
I just want that.
Just want that...
My...
I can't talk you out of this, can I?
Be careful going back to Hanyang.
I'll see you again.
This is why...
Because you are this sort of person,
you are my destiny.
Destiny of this Mae Wol.
Did you have a nightmare?
Something happened on Bookkwan Road?
You were sleep talking.
Do you know about Bookkwan Road?
How could I not know about that road as a daughter of a merchant?
Isn't that the fastest route to bring goods from Wonsan?
Because that road is blocked, the merchants were faced with big problems.
I heard that many times.
If that road is re-opened,
the power of merchants in Hanyang will shift.
That road has that much of power?
The big players' money in Joseon,
is dancing on that road.
That road must not be opened carelessly.
Bookkwan Road is the foundation of this Shin's Merchant.
Be quiet! Be quiet!
Now...
Wrap them up good to protect from the morning dews.
And keep in mind that we are going over the mountain and traveling 300 lee (0.393 km per lee).
So be sure to pack well.
Pack well.
When you are done,
the food is prepared for us. So let's quickly pack and eat!
Yeah.
Hurry. Hurry.
You heard the food is prepared, right? Let's hurry!
Songpa Stable people are packing to leave.
If you don't stop them, you and I both will be kicked out!
I know. I know!
How can you talk so much with that short tongue?
My head is about to bust anyway!
You looking for this?
Who are you?
Indeed you are quick.
Your position of 9th level government employee task force for suppression is fitting for your action.
How do you know about me?
And why do you have Shin's ID?
I am Gil So Gye, second in command in Shin's Merchant.
The person I called is Noh Yang Beom.
Is that important?
What is important is that I brought the Great Head Merchant's letter now.
Gap Soo, the people who are going to Poongdeung Ryeong this time won't be so easy to defeat.
They are Cheon Bong Sam, Songpa Stable's Cattlemen and Songpa thugs.
So you must handle with special care.
You must defend the Bookkwan Road until my further instruction.
So you were the Chief of the Poongdeung Ryeong robbers.
You are hiding among the robbers under the Great Merchant's order,
and carrying out the mission of blocking Bookkwan Road all this time.
If you didn't have the letter and ID of the Great Merchant Elder,
your head will be rolling before you finished the sentence.
I'd like to make a new deal.
A deal?
The transporters going over Poongdeung Ryeong this time are carrying the papers.
Rob those from them and sell them to me.
I'll pay your asking price for the papers.
What? You lost the letter?
Please just kill me Great Merchant Elder!
You idiot! Just killing you isn't going to solve this problem!
Who is it? Who the heck did you lose that letter to?
That is...
Oh my...
How can this...?
Right. It is Gil So Gye.
It must be Gil So Gye that bastard!
It is that Gil So Gye bastard!
Bong Sam...
I'll give you 50% of my goods for your transport fees.
Did you say 5... 50%?
80 nyang per roll. It is 400 nyang per roll if sold to Japanese merchants.
We have 50 rolls... So it is 20,000 nyangs!
So our portion will be 10,000 nyangs?
Spread them Cattle Broker!
No can do. I can't accept that much.
He is paying for the price of our lives.
There is such a thing called proper price.
You can't accept too little and you can't accept too much either.
If the goods price dance by the owners desire,
then how can people trust the merchants? No can do.
That is the proper freight fee.
My cost was 4,000 nyangs, 80 nyang per roll.
The Great Head Merchant's offer was mere 500 nyangs.
10,000 nyangs will be plenty for my share.
Please give us some time.
Then Merchant Elder,
would you let me use your money for the goods?
All of the 20,000 nyangs?
After unloading papers at Wonsan,
how can merchants come back carrying nothing?
I'll buy the goods there.
I'll unload them at Pyeonggang, Darak and in northern Hanyang area.
We'll split the profit 50:50.
How about it?
You are indeed a businessman.
You are on the verge of death, yet thinking about the future.
Cheon Bong Sam.
I am really proud of you.
Let's do that. I'll invest on you.
Thank you.
And Merchant Elder.
I have something to ask about my father.
You are fully aware of my father didn't smuggle opium, right?
I do indeed.
I know that very well.
Then...
At the time...
Who put the opium in my father's bag?
Who is that bastard?
And why my father took the blame and died for it.
Please tell me about it.
[The Merchant: Gaekju 2015]
You dare investigating me?
I came to warn you. Warn!
Rob the papers from Cheon Bong Sam.
I just sank my teeth into the Great Merchant's neck.
Step on Cheon Bong Sam firmly.
Do you want to die?
The Cattle Broker of Songpa Stable.
End his life.
The winning battle just begun now!