Episode 36
Merchant Elder.
Your skills are quite good.
You really raided the rice taxes quite well in Yangpyeong.
Did you think that you perfectly deceived me?
Please spare us, My Lord!
Merchant Elder.
Royal Chief Secretariat,
the collected rice is the tax the people paid.
Outside of the capital, there are too many people dying from starvation.
I have no interest in the 3,000 sacks of the rice taxes.
That's something my uncle and the Great Head Merchant should take responsibility for.
Then, what is the reason you called for me?
200,000 merchants.
You want to have our peddler guild under your control?
As soon as you become the Head of the peddler guild,
you must restructure the peddler guild and bring it under my jurisdiction
Yes, I'm sorry.
What are people like you, who do politics,
- going to do with lowly merchants like us beneath your feet?-Ah, ah, ah.
I'm sure it isn't an easy decision.
This is a matter where your life and the
lives of your stable family members who raided the rice taxes together with you are on the line so think carefully.
While I play this round of Baduk, think about it well.
The Royal Chief Secretariat, Min Yeong Ik, took him.
Even if he
caught on to the rice taxes incident by a bit, Merchant Cheon's head will fly off.
Hurry, we have to hurry even more!
Yes, Mother.
Now, shall I hear your answer?
Lord, why do you want to have the peddler guild
under your feet
what is that reason?
When the grandfather was founding Joseon Dynasty
do you know how many soldiers were under him?
50,000.
Do you know the population of Hanyang? (Modern day Seoul)
approximately 190,000
Then,
how many merchants are there who have registered their merchant IDs in the 8 provinces?
My 200,000 merchant comrades-
That's right. It's the power of people.
Now, I will need to use you people for the affairs of this country.
What do you think? Will you come under my supervision?
Will you become my left hand?
My Lord!
Us, merchants, have endured for a thousand years!
If we involve ourselves in politics,
existence of our peddler guild will become difficult. My Lord
I will ask you one more time.
Will you become my subordinate?
My Lord.
What is it?
The Guksadang Shrine Highness is here.
I'm with important guests to tell her to return on a bright day.
Yes.
What?!
Your Highness-
If it's 3,000 sacks of rice taxes,
then it's a crime worthy enough to be compared to treason.
Do I really have to hand you
and all of your stable family members to the Investigation Bureau together?
You bastard! Why are you not answering?!
I'm sure I told you we should meet tomorrow since I have something important going on right now.
The prayer for the Crown Prince's well-being starts tomorrow.
The Queen Majesty has asked me to discuss the procedures with the Royal Chief Secretariat
so what could be more urgent than this?
Sit.
You've managed to keep your life thanks to the Guksadang Shrine Highness.
I'll give you a few days to ponder on this to think about this matter carefully again.
You... what's your name?
Sun Dol.
Is there something you want to say to me?
Although there are many people next to Merchant Cheon,
if he needs only one person, then that's me.
Ah, is that it?
Who will be able to block the Royal Chief Secretariat? You?
Or the stable family members? Who?
Merchant Cheon doesn't need you,
he needs me.
Let's leave now.
Why can't you sleep properly? Huh?
Did Gae Ddong say something to you after she took you outside?
Why?
She asked you to block me from taking the Head of the peddler guild position?
Or did she tell me to go under the Royal Chief Secretariat?
You... don't talk about sister-in-law at all these days.
It's because I'm apologetic.
I'm like that because I'm just so apologetic to Yu Su's mother and I have no words.
Until I make Gil So Gae pay for his crime
and relieve the injustice that Yu Su's mother is feeling,
I'm apologetic and have nothing to say for myself.
Are you certain that Gil So Gae is the culprit?
If it's not him, then who could it be?
That's right. If some kind of evidence appears, we'll naturally get to know.
What are you going to do about that? With your personality, there's no way you would go under the Royal Chief Secretariat.
Don't you think it would be better to let go of the Chief of peddler guild position?
I have to think about it. It's not an easy answer.
Our 200,000 merchant comrades.
Furthermore, it's a big problem in which life of
Joseon people's depend on it.
Your Highness! Your Highness!
Your Royal Queen!
Mother...
What's wrong?
Did you have a dream?
To see Her Highness,
I was entering Kyungbok Palace Myungchoon Hall...
But a cat the size of a calf
was chasing a school of mice.
But those mice suddenly turned around and attacked the cat
and in the end, they bit the cat to death.
My goodness. Why such a dream?
It's very ominous and just terrible.
By the looks of things, I think there's going to be a big uproar.
A really big uproar.
[Kyungi Province Peddler Guild Provincial Headquarter}
This isn't something to decide alone
So I'm asking everyone. Please take a decision.
If I become the Chief of the peddler guild, this peddler guild and
Our 200,000 comrades will be extremely tormented and
could have a hard time.
Look at our current state!
The Provincial headquarter of peddler guild could fall apart if a tiny thing goes wrong.
Merchant Cheon, who else could head this provincial headquarter of peddler guild?
Merchant Elder! Merchant Elder!
Merchant Elder.
Why? What's wrong?
There's a huge uproar. Right now, the capital city has been turned upside down!
The Japanese ships have entered with arms again?
Is it war by chance?
The old reserved soldiers has started a revolt!
What? You mean those trained soldiers from the bureau?
A while back, Moo Hee Hyung's affiliated soldiers received rice as pay, but half of the rice
still contained kernels and hull. In other words, it wasn't properly processed for consumption.
Therefore, there was a huge chaos. Don't you remember?
Is that the reason for the soldiers to cause an uproar?
They say... "A nation will be completely destroyed and be in ruins, if the soldiers start a revolution!"
It all started when the leaders of the revolt was thrown in the county jail, and possibly condemned to their death.
Which resulted in an all out pandemonium among the 300 soldiers.
To make matters worse, 10,000 civilians are also participating in this mayhem.
Oh my, oh my, oh my.
It it takes a turn for the worse, this nation can completely turn upside down.
Merchant Cheon, let's hurry and return to the stable.
Bang Dae's eldest brother and Mak Bong's uncle
are also the fellow soldiers who belong to the bureaucrat. You know...?
Gom Bae as well, everyone is so worked up, there's a huge fuss!
Today, I'll take my leave first.
Let's go.
Makbong! Gom Bae!
Teacher Bong, why are you coming now?
What about Gom Bae and the others?
They have already crossed the river along with sticks/bats as their weapons.
Our fellow comrades from Pae Ryung also took off to the capital (Do Seong).
Then, let's hurry and cross the river. Let's go!
Wait! Aigoo! Not to mention it's a bloody, chaotic mess.
Why are you asking us to walk into a mess?
We've got to bring back Gom Bae, Makbong, Bang Bae and our comrades! Now,
Come on. Let's go! Hurry!
This way!
It's that way!
This way!
There's trouble.
What do you mean? What trouble?
With their guns, Moo Hee Hyung's Sector soldiers
are all rushing towards the palace, more specifically towards the Sunhyecheong... Tax Collection office!
What's that?
A soldier who came to our shrine to pray was holding this.
Everyone listed here will be killed.
The hit [Assassination] list
Min Gyeom Ho
Min Gyeom Ho.
Min Hyung Hee.
Min Hyung Mok.
Kim Bo Hyun
Kim Bo Hyun.
Gil So Gae
Gil So Gae.
Let's go to the palace.
You can't, Mother! If you get wrapped up in this mess, you'll be in big trouble!
We must take refuge. You can die in this mess, Mother!
Mother!
Kill Min Gyeom Ho!
The one who conspired to have the former Great Merchant Elder...
Aigoo!
How did this? Goodness.
Here... Hey, there, anyone...
Look, here!
You have to flee quickly, My Lord.
If you get caught by them, you'll all be killed. All of you.
No, wait... What about the Sun-hye-cheong... Tax Collection office's national guards?
I'm not sure. Anyhow, the angry rioters are beating them to death! Where the guards are being blindly attacked and outnumbered.
If you don't want to die here, you must quickly flee, My Lord!
What shall we do! What to do?
This is just my bad luck! Jeez!(Sun-hye-cheong... Tax Collection office)
Out of all the days, why the heck did I decide to come by the Dept. of IRS today?
What should I do? Tell me.
For now, each of you take care that you flee from this place.
They already saw and shed the blood of others, therefore they have no fear and they'll force their way in to stab, beat and kill us all!
Chief Merchant, how can you leave me behind? Chief Merchant!
Look here! Kim Bo Hyun!
Don't destroy the Tax Office, yet!
Oh, my! What... How?!
What should I do?
This way, this way!
Yes.
Bong Sam ...!
That way. Let's go that way.
Here!
Forget it!
But still... I have to keep my pride as one of the royal Chief Delegates.
Those rioters are keeping a hit list, in which both of our names are in there. My lord.
If you get caught, your head will be cut off.
If we go around like this, My Lord, we will both die!
What does that mean? Whether I live or die, are you saying that you will stay alive?!
No.
Catch them! It's them!
Find Min Gyeom Ho and kill him!
Hurry up! Hurry!
Find the bastard who drove the Great Elder Merchant to his death!
Gil So Gae ...!
Hey, head boss! You can't leave me here!
I'll grant all your wishes.
How long this riot is going to last?
We should set the future time for us.
Kill the lord Kim, local governor!
Kill Gil So Gae who instigated treachery!
Find them!
That damn! Do something to fight them off!
If you let me get out of here, I'll let you do what you want.
Head boss, fight them off quickly!
Those 3, lords and Gil have not got out of here, yet!
Find them!
Here is lord Min, I have found him!
Here he is. Traitor is here!
Here is Min! Kill him!
Gil So Gae. Gil So Gae.
Hey Gom Bae!, hey Mok Boong!
Hey, where are you?
Hey, Gom Bae!
Hey Mok Boong!
Where is Gom Bae and his crew?
Everyone is running off. It's like pan full of bean sprouts.
You can't even get out of main road.
What happened? Where are Gom Bae and everyone?
City hall?
City hall, Sung!?
That's it! Right!
Hey, Sun Dol.
What happened to this almighty lord?
Bong Sam, look at this. This is hit list!
If it's hit list, it's list for murdering business.
Things are getting more serious and takes different turn.
Min Gyung Ho, Min Young Yee, Min Young Mok, Kim Bo Yun,
Gil So Gae.
Get him!
Search everywhere quickly!
Okay!
Find him!
You need to flee!
What should I do now?
Even garrison for this palace has run off.
I will escort you, aunt.
Isn't it better I wait here?
They have our political opponents among rioters.
They're supported by their political powers.
If you stay in this palace, your life will be in danger.
Follow me and leave here.
Queen, Queen!
Head of national shrine!
Head of national shrine.
Your highness. You must be very scared?
Everyone has fled for his life.
You, head of national shrine came here to save me risking your own life.
That's what I supposed to do.
Hurry up and change to this.
You too sir.
Head of city hall Min Gyung Ho was murdered by rioters.
What did you say?! My brother?!
My uncle...
This is only way to outwit them!
You must hurry. Quickly!
Hurry Your Highness.
Save me. Please spare my life.
My Lord.
Hey, this is my spot!
If we stay here together we will both die.
Get out of here!
My Lord.
Get them! Get them!...
Find Queen, quickly!
Queen has disappeared from her room. We must find her.
Shrine madam, it's seems everything is over for us.
Your Highness. Please have some faith in me.
We must split here. Come to north of Shin Moon gate, please.
I understand.
Take care of the queen.
You heard to leave now.
Follow me.
Who the hell are you?!
Come out!
Drag them out!
Find Queen 1st! You must find Queen 1st to finish this.
Let's find the queen and end this. She couldn't have gotten out of the palace. Find her!
I'm special warrior lord Hong J Hee
I'm here to find my sister.
Sister?
Hey, come over on my back. Let's go home.
Hurry up!
Even King has abandoned palace, what good is it to stay here.
If you stay here you'll die. Hurry and get on.
Hold on.
Move aside you fool.
I'm just taking my sister out of here.
How Queen is piggybacking on warrior lord?
Let him go.
You punk! Aren't you afraid of your divine lord!
How can you stop us! Step aside!
Lower your carriage and open it up!
If there's shrine madam, I'll let you go.
Hanna, lower carriage and open it up.
Mada, would our effort be successful?
Long time no see.
You have look of becoming a special person.
Let's go.
Since I came from under your skirt, I'm your son now.
Then from now on, listen well to this mother of yours.
Certainly, I should.
Anyway, the queen has to come out safely.
Since I have treated disease of the special warrior's son before,
Don't worry. He'll bring Queen to city of Chung Joo safely.
Please do this...
Sir Bong,
Elder merchant! Elder merchant!
Hey you dumb,
Sir, anything could happen to my lady!
We can't just leave here, sir!
Let go of me, let me go!
Bastards! I'll destroy them all!
This damn punk!
Hey.
Attention!
Are you a merchant or just gangsters?
If you're merchant, you should do work of business.
Let's go home.
Follow us you fools.
Let's go.
How do you feel?
It's not time for you to move yet.
Big trouble. I may die in here!
Isn't there a way out?
You're not listed in the hit list!
Sir, you help me out please.
Spare me, please.
Head boss, we shouldn't be together here to get killed.
We should all split for each man to survive.
Trust me, and follow me. I'll guide you to a way out.
Come. Let's go quickly.
Let's go.
HEY YOU!
What are you doing?
It's Gil So Gae!
Gil So Gae is here! He's here! Right here!
It's Gil So Gae!
Head boss of government supplier is here!
It's Gil So Gae! Get him!
It's Gil, get him!
Get him!
It's Gil So Gae! Gil So Gae!
It's Gil So Gae.
Hey, Gom Bae!
Gom Bae!
We should revenge for you, don't you think?
We can do it now. How can you just let him go?
Hey, Gom Bae!
Gom Bae!
After him! Catch him!
Get him!
Get the Gil So Gae!
Get him!
Lord, did you look for me?
Shut the door! Shut the door!
Sir,
I have saved your life, sir.
Don't worry. Next head boss for government supplier is you.
Gil So Gae is as good as dead.
You just need to wait until this riot is over.
I see.
Who are you?
Where's Dog dropping(old nickname for shrine madam)? Rioters are chasing me!
Where's she?
Where is she?!
She's in the national shrine.
Are you hungry?
Come to think of it, I've been starving all day.
You must not take single step to get out of here.
Until thing get calm down out there.
Don't forget this. You're on their hit list.
Isn't there anything to eat?
Yeah.
Hey!
Check inside!
Find him, this way!
Find him, find him!
How can you stop them with that?
Dog dropping!
Dog dropping,
Open the door! Open the door!
You're here I know. Open up!
Dog dropping! Dog dropping!
Rioters are chasing me. Open this up, quickly!
No! No!
What are you doing?
You think rioters would do nothing? They'll search everything!
Open up, please!
You want to hand him over to them?
Choose between the two of us.
Either you spare me, or kill me and him.
Madam.(Open up!)
You decide.
Gae Tong! Gae Tong!!
Open the door! Open the door!
Gae Tong (Dog dropping is the literal meaning)! Open the door, please.
Please open the door!!
Dog dropping!
Dog dropping! Open up!
Over here. It's Gil So Gae!
He's the one who sold our food to Japanese merchant.
Catch him!! Get him!
Dog dropping! Dog dropping! Dog dropping!
You trying to escape!? Is this national shrine?
Drag him out!
Dog dropping! Dog dropping!
Dog dropping!
Damn bastard! Dead!
Am I head boss of government supplier?
This is head boss of supplier.
Because of you, my mother starved to death.
Innkeeper Chun.
Hey please Chun Bong Sam.
Bong Sam! Bong Sam!!
Hey, Bong Sam.
Bong Sam! Save me. It's me.
It's me, Gil So Gae.
What are they?
Are they part of government supplier, too?
Sir Bong. Let's just pretend we don't know him.
If we get involved, we may get into trouble.
What are you?
Are you part of government supplier, too?
You think we're part of them?
You guys don't even know me, Gon Bae?! I belong to the Songpa's infamous bandit gang!
My name is Bang Dae.
I'm the younger brother of a former fellow soldier unit, just like you folks.
Is that so? I know Brother Bang Soo [Hyungnim] all too well.
You should say hello! Why only glare at him?!
He's non other than the 'Unified Merchant Union Leader' Cheon Bong Sam from the city of Songpa.
Merchant elder, we're punishing this bastard right now.
What are you doing? Greet him.
Along with [Sun-hye-cheong... Tax Collection office's] Delegate Min Gyeom Ho...
This bastard pulled a fraud with our wages.
Because of this bastard...
We all have at least one family member who starved to death!
We have to kill him!
Merchant owner, let's just go on with our business.
I'm your foe or the fellow comrade first, before a great head merchant.
Fellow comrades ...?
Look, look.
Cheon Bong Sam, look.
Gil So Gae's Merchant I.D.
Cheon Bong Sam... No, wait. Bandit leader...
Please prosecute me at the Merchants Court.If... I'm guilty of anything, please.
I'll gladly agreed to be tried at the Merchants Court. Whatever my punishment will be.
Look here, can you guys just hand him over to us?
We can't do that. He has to die by our hands.
We can't!
We definitely can't! We have to kill him!
This man killed my father, my sister and my teacher.
And to add to it...
He killed my wife.
Justice will be served and he'll be punished in the court of law by the merchants.
That's how I'd like to proceed.
Would you guys be so kind to hand him over to the "Merchants Court"?
The merchants must abide by the rules and ethics of the merchants.
Yes.
Thank you.
Drag him away.
Yes Merchant Elder.
Let's go.
Did you know him before? The reason being is that I heard the Great Merchant referring to you as the pet name "Gae Dong"?
In this world, there are so many [untold/forbidden] backstories.
Head Secretariat, my lord... You can't possibly fathom, or is it necessary for you to know any further.
He must have been your man?...
He was like my brother... and only one family member.
My [blood related] immediate family abandoned me, because they were ashamed of my curse of being clairvoyant.
Nonetheless, he was the only one who accepted me as his own family.
I'm sorry. It's my fault.
Mother.
- What about the Great Merchant?-Elder Cheon from Songpa dragged him out!
He'll be tried at the 'Merchant's Court.'
The "Court [Justice system] of Merchants" ...?
What's that?
It's the fact that... one merchant 'must' tell the truth, nothing but the truth. As long as you possess a 'merchant identity' verification.
It is the strict code of punishment among-est them, only.
Whether you are going to die or not, you have to eat.
Please untie this.
That's impossible. Who knows what you'll do?
I'll feed you so open up.
We'll have a meeting with the other merchants, very soon.
Gae Tong..
Call me Gae Tong. Before I die
I have to see Gae Tong one more time.
Sun Dol, you're going to have to go to the shrine temple with Chae Dol, at once.
Ghook-Sah-dhang (the shrine temple) ...?
A dead person's wish must be fulfilled.
Sun Dol. Let's go. Quickly.
Isn't it about time you speak the truth?
Why did you kill my wife and Yu Su's mother?
Mother Shaman ...?
You really are remarkable.
We're about to go to national shrine to escort you.
Head boss is here, isn't he?
That beast wanted to see you as well.
You seem to have reason to see him as well.
How could you shut the door
How could you hand me over to them?
Cutting relationship was that sort of meaning?
Even if I opened door for you, they would have found you searching everywhere.
You had no place to hide.
That's not right.
You're hoping me to be killed by hands of rioters.
I must die to bury heart of Yoo Soo.
Did I have it in my heart somewhere?
Why don't you drink this wine?
Save me Gae Tong.
The reason I stood for peddlers was to buy some time for me.
Release me!
Save me. You know you can do it.
There are more than 200 peddlers outside.
How could I take you out of here?
That's what you got to think.
I can die like this. How long I've been head boss?
I can't die unfairly like this.
That's right. Yu Su's mother.
Hyung!!
I also didn't want to bring that up.
You know what peddlers are standing for.
Regardless of you, I can bring up Yoo Soo's mother.
Gae Tong. You made it happen.
Are you threatening me right now?
Save me. Tell Bong Sam to let me go.
Even if you cut ties with me
We still have something left for ourselves.
Please excuse us.
If this is lunch, it's free.
Whether I leave here or not, I have to eat.
This seem to be too much for me to eat alone.
There's no way out for you.
Is that right?
You seem to rely on shrine lady, no way.
Isn't she the one who exposed you?
Shrine lady had plotted, and you sent hit man to kill her.
Am I wrong?
Do you want to know? Who killed Yu Su's mother?
Depends on what you say, many lives could be executed.
Since many things are involved, twisted and intertwined,
Now, please reveal it already.
Is it really Ghook-Sah-Dhang [the shaman]?
Answer it now!
Please, wait for the merchant court's trial if you're that curious. Don't you think?
The Merchant Association is preparing for a trial, correct?
I know what you want to say.
Gil So Gae. I know very well...
How important he is to you.
You're right. He has committed a lot of crimes.
Gae Tong. Even if you say that...
You can't save Gil So Gae.
Yu Su's mom aside, too many people...
Have died at his hands. I can't.
Make it painless.
So Gae hyung. Send him off without much pain.
Please, think of the past and his dad...
If he can't be saved. Don't make it difficult.
That's what I want to ask of you.
Please, watch him [the young master] very carefully by always swaddling him within your arms reach.
I mean... why go there? It's not a sight to see.
I'm not going there to spectate.
At the [makeshift] 'merchant court', you must only recite the whole truth but nothing but the truth, right?
Yes.
I'm really not sure if it was the Great merchant and that piece of work? Or...
they're going to ask if there is another culprit who truly orchestrated this heinous crime?
Probably...
I'll be back.
The Merchant Court is in session, starting now!
Bring Gil So Gae here.
Hurry up and stand him up!
Yes, sir.
That can't be! Why must I stand in front of the court of merchants?!
It was you, you bastard who asked to be tried at the merchant court!
[I know] you said it then, because you were about to be beat down to pulp by the soldiers!
No. No. Something must be wrong. Call Gae Tong! Call Gae Tong!
He won't get off scot free. Ma'am.
The fact that my lady was killed in a sinister way, will all be revealed right here, in front of all these people. Ma'am.
I told you to watch your freaking mouth! You bit♪h!
Let's see... if Gil So Gae can mutter the fact that you, your mother shaman is the true perpetrator;
I'll keep watch in regards to how gracious you can be, then... Ma'am.
I must avenge my lady's death!
The Merchant: Gaekju 2015 ~Preview~ for Ep 37
Why do I get the feeling that your plans differ from that of Merchant Cheon?
Did something happen between you and Delegate Min?
It is the shrine temple's mother shaman's doing! I said!
Do you honestly think that Merchant Cheon will believe that, when there are no solid evidence to link me to that crime?!
Put a wedge between Seon Dol and Merchant Cheon.
I spent numerous years in agony to forget about that incident!
I'll give you a boat, if you guide me towards the logistics port.
I won't let go of Cheon Bong Sam's hand.
Merchant Jang left with the peddlers to cross the river, already.
Seon Dol is acting peculiar...