Final Episode
Hyung Man Chi.
Gom Bae.
Merchant Elder Hwang.
You should all stop.
I... went to the Investigation Bureau with my own two feet.
With these two feet, I'm walking there.
Don't even lie, Hyungnim [the representative]!
You rascal, Gom Bae! In order to save my own life,
would I take away our comrades' lives?!
Fellow comrades; please look over here, Although, the 'peddler's guild' may disappear...
does the incarnation of a mind still perish?
Hwan-Nan-Gu-Hyul
It is a good deed by selling goods: (where it becomes beneficial to the people).
When things are rough, we fellow comrades help one another...
Does the [spiritually] sound mind for the Bobuecheong disappear?
I'm not sad.
As long as the mind and spirit of the Peddlers Guild is intensely kept in your hearts...
even if I'm beheaded by that cold and fearful sword,
I'm not afraid nor do I feel it is unfair.
The Peddlers guild was created to instill harmonious living amongst everyone,
but was not created to die in each-others' arms. No, sir.
In your hands,
you must hold the grain that saves the people
and you must hold the money to feed your families.
You must not hold weapons that harm or kill people.
Now, lower your weapons.
This is
Peddlers Guild Leader Cheon Bong Sam's
final command.
What are you all doing by not following his command?
Each 'peddler's organizations...
today, from this moment forward, I disband all my comrades.
I can't follow that order.
I will follow you to the investigative bureau.
That's right! We, your comrades, will see you off.
Let's go!
- Let's go ...!-Let's go!! [Everyone 'the peddlers' in sync]
Now, disband them already.
Leave.
Enough now and go back home.
Representative!
I have 3 things to tell you, only. Sir.
First, expect for I, in regards to the 'incident of Lee Hyeun market, '
please do not reprimand anyone, sir.
Second, whether they are a part of your royal [task] sector, Royal Secretariat.
Whether they work at the Yugijeon.
Or set up shop on their own,
you must let my comrades follow their respective paths.
Alright.
Third and finally,
[the one] who is imprisoned with gunshot wounds,
please release and reprieve inmate named Chae Dol immediately.
Sun Dol, right now, he needs treatment immediately.
Well, that isn't a difficult matter.
Take away the criminal.
Yes, sir.
Sun Dol, I beg of you.
Ouch! It hurts!
Look here, look here Western doctor!
How is he?
He doesn't look like he's going to make it.
He says it's already too late for treatment.
You've worked hard.
What did the Western doctor say?
He said you're alright, what else?
First off, he will eliminate the pain and he said that he'd
prescribe medicine to get rid of the abscessed areas.
Sun Dol, when I die, I want to be next to Teacher Bong.
Who said you're going to die?!
It's not even an arrow but a bullet buried deep inside my body. How is that going to be removed?
I also heard that if the bullet can't be removed, that I'd die.
Don't say anything to Teacher Bong.
If he knows, he'll have a difficult time.
Sinner, Cheon Bong Sam, has purposely disrupted the
trade agreement between Joseon and Japan,
and even instigated an underling to harm the life of a Japanese merchant.
For the crime of disrupting the trade relations between Joseon and Japan,
according to the penal code, the sinner shall be hung to death.
Royal Secretariat!
Didn't you already know of it?
Drag him away!
Yes, sir!
Teacher Bong! What was the verdict?
B-By any chance, it wouldn't be that, right?
You didn't do anything wrong.
It wouldn't be, right? It won't be.
It's okay.
I already knew and was prepared for it. It's alright.
What to do?
Royal Secretariat.
It turned out as you had expected.
As had been expected? Are you saying that you will be killing our representative?
Aigoo!
Merchant Elder!
If you were going to kill him like this, why did you become his friend and
why did you enter our Songpa Stable?!
If our Gaekju Hyungnim really passes away,
I will really,
I will really!
You may not believe me but,
Gom Bae, I also
as much as you
as much as you are,
I'm hurting.
Merchant Elder
Please save him! Please save him, Your Majesty!
Please save Cheon Bong Sam's life.
Your Majesty!
As the shaman of Gooksadang, how can you be acting so frivolously about a man's life?
Please at least spare his life, Your Majesty!
It's something that the Japanese Embassy is monitoring carefully.
If we're not careful there could be war between the two countries!
Jinryeonggun. You should now fold on this situation.
Your Majesty...
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty! Your Highness!
The start of this conundrum is the Royal Secretariat and you, Head Merchant!
Even if your highness doesn't berate me,
I am well aware that it's my fault and I'm also tormented enough.
Enough, did you say?
What torments you is the fact that you cornered your friend into death
Isn't it to lighten your guilty conscience?
Your Highness, Jinryeonggun!
If only you hadn't schemed,
at least we could've saved Merchant Cheon with the ginseng trading rights.
Then, what would you like me to do now?
We have to save Cheon Bong Sam.
How am I supposed to block his execution?
If the two of us put our lives on the line,
we'll be able to save him.
- Open the door.- Yes, sir.
Seon Dol, take me away.
Hurry.
If I absolutely have to leave,
I'll first send you off and then go.
Hyungnim, the Western doctor is waiting. Let's hurry up and go.
I'm not going to see him! I'm never going to leave!
Hurry up and go. Hurry.
Bong Sam! Bong Sam.
Wait, he said I'd be seeing a Western doctor but it's you.
We escorted you here to discuss Merchant Cheon's matter.
It's already decided that he's going to die, so what's left to discuss?
If there is someone among the prisoners in the investigative bureau who can die in his place,
we could save Merchant Cheon.
However, there isn't anyone in this world who wouldn't waver when facing death.
As soon as the rope is hung around one's neck, "I'm not Cheon Bong Sam,"
"I'm a different person."
This is how one would waver.
If that happens, Cheon Bong Sam is a given, but all of us will die as well.
I can, I can do it!
Even if something worse than rope were hung around my neck,
if it means dying in Bong Sam's place, I can do it.
Look at this, look at this.
With this body, how much longer will I live?
How much longer will I live? Please!
Please, let me go in Bong Sam's place.
I beg of you please! I'll go in his place. I can do it!
Thirty third...
now the bell isn't ringing.
Why is does the damned bell sound so particularly pitiful and melancholic today?
Aren't you going to get any sleep?
Now I can't see my Yu Su grow up.
I can't see him become an adult and get married.
When my son is having a hard time,
I won't be able to be a source of strength for him.
Who said a man isn't allowed to cry?
It's alright to cry, Bong Sam.
Choi Dol Hyung, when my father left me behind,
he was probably feeling this way.
Now, I know.
Merchant Elder.
Yu Su, you came. Aigoo, you rascal.
Yu Su, you have to grow up healthy and well, okay?
When you grow up, just like your grandfather, my father, become a good merchant.
Aigoo, my Yu Su...
That's enough.
Go and take Yu Su away.
I left a change of clothes for you with the chief prison guard.
Alright, go on ahead.
Yu Su
- Drag him out!- Yes, sir.
Choi Dol come out! You have been declared innocent, so you are released.
- Hurry and come out!- One moment! One moment!
I have to say my final farewell to Teacher Bong, so please wait.
What more do you have left to say a final farewell to me?
This life was really fun because of you.
Since we first met at Dongmong company,
I really liked Bong Sam the child.
You were like my younger brother and also like a friend.
Since I met Choi Dol at Dongmong-company,
I came to look and live like this.
After meeting you, for a lifetime I had a really good time and
had a lot of fun!
I was going to leave after seeing you go but,
it seems that I have to go first.
I'm really sorry.
Choi Dol Hyung.
Thank you.
Choi Dol is leaving!
One moment! One moment!
For this time at least, I'll go on my own free will.
Slide to the left and putting strength in my shoulders.
It's the bean sprout rice soup that you've always liked. Try a spoonful.
That's right. A person has to eat so
his belly becomes warm and he develops resolve.
It's delicious.
It's really delicious.
You eat too, Sun Dol.
Hyung, don't you find me resentful?
I remember when we ate bean sprout rice soup in Jeonju.
You, me, and Teacher Bong were successful with the trade
and we ate such delicious bean sprout rice soup.
It was really nice, wasn't it?
I'm sorry.
I apologize.
No, no!
I'm okay. I'm really alright.
A nobody like me is becoming Cheon Bong Sam.
This is cause for a celebration.
It's unusually amazing.
But eating this delicious meal with just my left hand is a bit difficult.
I must not have learned how to use a spoon properly yet.
Dummy.
Gae Ddong.
I, to the point of not being able to express in words,
was in your debt and also had unspeakable resentment.
That's right. At this point where I'm on my way towards meeting a really good person,
what would prevent me from having a cup of wine?
I will let all that resentment go with this cup of wine.
From the very beginning, if I was the only one by your side,
if it had been that way, would I have been able to have your heart which I had wanted so badly?
Would you really have been able to belong to me?
I
Leave now with thankfulness and my indebtedness towards you
stored away in my heart.
Gae Ddong.
Become a good person.
I
To you...
Let's go.
I was sorry.
Please forgive me.
State your name and identity.
The criminal will state his name and identity.
From the Cheon Company, the Songpa Stable, Merchant,
the Head Merchant of the Gyeongi Region, Cheon Bong Sam.
Proceed with the execution.
Yes, sir.
Where are you going?
A guy by the name of Choi Dol
had suffered from a gunshot wound. He passed away a few moments ago.
Go ahead.
Let's go.
Now, let's go.
Be careful!
Move him.
You have some nerve.
I have identified the body.
I couldn't let Merchant Cheon die like this.
How dare you say that?
Bribing the officials, and switching the criminals.
Defaming His Majesty the King, who sent his sincere apology!
Royal Secretary, you have two choices.
Since this was all planned by me,
either save me or kill me.
Look here!
Yu Su. Father. Is it you Hae Joo?
Look here!
Is no one here?
Look here!
Is no one here?
Look here!
Hyung Man Chi.
Merchant Elder!
Her Highness, Jinryeonggun was the one who told me you were here.
What about Hyung Choi Dol?
Hyung Choi Dol... is at the horse stable, right?
Gom Bae! He's receiving treatment at the horse stable, right?
Why aren't you answering, you rascal?
No way...
No.
No!
Hyung Choi Dol. Hyung Choi Dol!
Hyung Choi Dol!
Dongmong Company
This is Dongmong Company right?
If I learn from here, I can become a merchant, right?
That's right!
What did you say?
Don't walk sideways and shrug your shoulders, but
one step at a time,
walk well!
One step at a time,
walk well!
15 Years Later
Here, for railroad construction connecting from Capitol city to Port Jaemul
Our East-Sea business have to stake our business survaival
Well...
If we can acquire land of Nor-Yang-Jin that railroad is coming in.
We can grow as good as Japanese big company.
Problem is finding out who's acquiring the land 1 step ahead of us.
We have to find out the owner of this land in Noryangjin.
Have you still been unable to find out who it is?
Great Merchant Elder!
Great Merchant Elder, I've found him.
I've found out who the owner of this land is.
Then, let's go.
Is anyone there?
Look here, let me ask you a question.
Person of true spirit!!
Aren't you the person of true spirit?
The land in Noryangjin?
Did I have that kind of land left to my name?
I thought that all the land that Her Majesty bestowed had already been disposed.
I know you used the money to buy Merchant Cheon and restoring him.
Time has passed this much.
Don't you think you've already paid the price for your sins?
Sell the land in Noryangjin to me and live comfortably in the capital city.
Do you really need that land?
I need it desperately.
Since I was indebted to you in the past,
if you need to, please just take it.
That's not possible.
Long time, no see, Great Merchant Elder.
How long has this been, Merchant Cheon?
Should I call you teacher now?
Call me whatever you wish.
It's been a long time.
I saw your name in the registry book.
Yoon Hye Joo.
I was wondering if it was you. As expected, it was you, Gae Ddong. Have you been well?
Was it you?
Taking railroad land 1 step before East-Sea merchant company do!!
That's right. I did that.
Please come in for a moment.
Then, let's go in.
Merchant Cheon, think it over well.
Once railroad get completed, merchandise move quickly.
Joseon's economy will grow just as quickly.
Then this nation and the people will be able to live prosperously.
You're right.
But I don't think it's time yet.
Think of it. Resource of this country
will be shipped out to other countries by ships moored in Jay-Mul port city.
You can't stop railroad opening.
How can you stop time and forward momentum by just buying out lands.
Hey, I'm not trying to stop time or forward momentum.
I just...
that's right.
If we have railroad right now,
Getting born of roadways, and walk on roadways
My comrades who want to finish their life on the roadways
What will happen to our comrades?
I just
want them to be able to adjust,
to be able to compete with the merchants from China,
I just want to buy some time for that to happen.
It's been 15 years since peddler guild was gone.
If they still haven't adjusted,
exactly when will they be able to accept it?
Sun Dol,
during the time we've been apart from each other,
you've come such a long way.
Let's go.
Great Merchant Elder.
Are we wrong about the land in Noryangjin?
We may need to change railroad direction.
Well...
Next to land of True spirit person is mountain.
Are you building railroad on mountain?
Were you living alone here like this?
I wanted to live quietly away from the rest of the world.
Are you ill?
Have some of this.
"I'll probably not be able to live past this winter. I won't be able to live past next spring."
Then when winter passes, spring comes. Then I forget the seasons.
That's how I'm still living.
Look here. I'll ask a favor of you.
I won't tell you to sell your land to me. But I would like to request of you
that you do not sell it to the Haedong Company.
I beg of you.
Well...
that is...
Can I see Yu Su once?
I'd really like to see just once how that child has grown.
Do you know that your face looks so happy right now.
Just like when we had first met.
You take after your father a lot.
Other people tell me that I resemble my mother.
Hurry and try a spoonful.
Since earlier times, this bean sprout rice soup place was not a place to make money but to
share one's heart with the people.
Eat a lot. Your body will warm up.
Yes.
What is this?
I heard about the plans to expand the school at the horse stable.
I want to donate this land towards expanding the school.
I will bow to you.
No, you can't Yu Su.
I don't have the right to receive your bow.
- Father!- Yes.
Let's go.
For letting me give my all and love someone in my life,
I thank you.
Farewell.
My past days with you, Cheon Bong Sam, I will bury in my heart.
Opening of the Gyeongin Line Railway
The Great Merchant Elder is late.
I know.
Your Excellency has been to Japan and America.
If this thing called the "railroad" is imported, what do you think will happen to Joseon?
Many things will probably change.
The foot peddlers will be the first to disappear.
It's getting really late.
Are you certain that the land in Noryangjin has gone to Merchant Cheon?
We've even confirmed that the deed has been changed.
Who are you?
Mak Bong. Bang Dae.
You are
a corrupt merchant who is strangling Joseon!
How could you?
Who do you think the development of Joseon's commercial supremacy is due to?
For the humiliation of Joseon merchants,
pay for that sin with your life!
Great Merchant Elder!
Let's go!
Catch them!
Great Merchant Elder!
Catch them!
Catch them! Catch those bastards!
Let's go!
Let's go.
So what about Sun Dol? What about Sun Dol?
I don't know if it's good news or not, but they say it's not a threat to his life.
Mak Dong! What happened to Bang Dae?
They didn't get caught but
the stalls that were in Namdaemun, have all been turned over to Haedong Company.
Do you think there would be only one or two of those around?
The children are waiting.
Okay, I understand.
Now, peddler. Today, we'll take the time to find out who you are.
When the railroads begin to operate, then there would be no more traveling merchants right?
That's right.
Now the age where we walk upon our two legs has ended, and
a new era of machines is dawning.
However, it will never change the fact that you are descendants of peddlers.
A long time ago, my father had gone to Beijing in Qing, to buy
this object called aloeswood.
What is aloeswood?
It's incense that's been made from 100 year old juniper wood,
that's been placed between the river and the sea for 500 years.
That's none other than aloeswood.
Look here. Even though you're a Chinese merchant
Don't you think you're bluffing too much?
A 500 year old incense you say?
It is correct that this aloeswood, which has been made for me,
a descendant of his 500 years later, was dipped into the sea by my forefather of the 17th generation.
My father gave me that aloeswood as a gift.
I apologized 100 times for being suspicious of the merchant selling the aloeswood.
I bought this to give to you.
This is not just any incense, but
the symbol of one family's history that's been perfectly preserved.
Our comrades and our ancestors,
the thousand year history of their tears, laughter,
the overcoming of their joys, and sorrows that is the spirit of the itinerant merchant.
It is the spirit of us itinerant merchants.
To benefit the people using trade. When times are difficult,
to help each other to circulate the goods constantly.
That is the peddler's mindset.
Follow after me.
-Mul-bang-eon - Mul-bang-eon
I keep word through my actions.
-Mul-pae-haeng - Mul-pae-haeng
Respect your elders.
-Mul-do-jeok-Mul-do-jeok
Do not covet items belonging to someone else.
This is the mindset of our peddler's guild.
It is the mindset of the merchant,
that we have inherited today.
Do you understand?
Yes.
Now, take a look.
How beautiful it is.
Is everyone ready?
Yes, Merchant Elder.
-Let's go.- Then, let's go!
All say let us go!
Earlier, when my comrades would leave to sell their goods, that shouting, let's shout all together.
Let's go!
All say it, let us fly!
Now!
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