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Master Marco. You requested
more salt cakes?

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Yes. Thank you.

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General Aruka advised retreat.

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I gave the order that we turn 
and fight... like Mongols.

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Mongols do not lose.

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I have thought of nothing else

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these past days and nights.

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A ride preceded by
victory is much shorter.

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True words such as these
can only be drawn

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from a well of personal experience.

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Leave me with my son.

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Our son...

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is wounded.

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Let me see.

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A scar that will always
remind me of Wuchang...

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and the men and horses that died 
there. That is the only wound.

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It too will fade.

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Empress, please.

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Go to the healer...

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Immediately.

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You will ride to Karakorum...
pay a visit to Ariq.

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I want to know why my brother
pledged horse and bow,

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but did not arrive to support my army.

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A horse messenger can cover 300...

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Your horse messenger...

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did a fine job at Wuchang. Did he not?

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Did you even send a falcon to my brother?

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Of course I did.

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Return to me the truth.

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Go see the healer, as
your mother instructed.

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How are the merchants taxed?

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They pay a fee for their stalls,

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and the higher fee is for
more traffic, more customers.

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More money, eh?

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Are there ever holdouts?

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Inside the Imperial Wall?

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Very rare.

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Too good a thing they have here.

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These vendors know,
they cheat on tribute,

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they end up peddling outside the wall.

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In Venice, those who do not meet
their obligations are imprisoned.

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Is it the same here?

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No, no, no. Thieves are branded thieves.

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Marked, they struggle.

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Their sons beg, their wives
and daughters whore.

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They live off Lady
Chabi's charity loaves.

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But they live.

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Sometimes.

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Severity of punishment...
not for me to comment on.

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This is for the Vice Regent Yusuf,
and the wisdom of his Secretariat.

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What is this fabric?

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Uh, linen.

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These Jurchen make it in Manchuria.

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They don't have copper
coins to pay this month.

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So, I let them pay with what they have.

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Hey. Hey.

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Can we get rid of these... pissants?

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These are my children.

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They follow me around like I'm a king.

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King of a fine brood, sir.

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With my own Venetian slave, huh?
Pissants!

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I love that!

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Let me put this away.

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Thank you for dinner. It was delicious.

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Spices?

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You wanna talk about spices?

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These spiceries pay

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three and a third percent.

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From the wine they make of the rice...

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they generate great revenue.

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Thus, they must pay duty.

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Untold money to the Khan!

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What is that, Sanga?

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Huh?

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This, Marco...

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they're verses of love.

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See, I travel to collect.

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So, when I travel...

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I leave words of love
on paper for my Goland.

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So she remembers she has a husband!

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And the Silk Road? Do we ever
travel there to collect taxes?

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"We"? No.

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I travel to collect.
Once a fortnight or so.

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You...

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are not permitted to travel
outside of Cambulac.

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Hmm?

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The wonders of Khan's City is plenty.

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Hmm?

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So, please...

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don't speak of this again...
because I like you.

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My slave.

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Salute!

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Noble Tiger traveled a great distance...

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and began to find his eyes growing heavy.

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Noble Tiger was very sleepy, you see...

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for he was very old.

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Did he have no more teeth?

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He still had teeth...

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just no longer sharp.

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And so, Noble Tiger lay himself
under a great banyan tree...

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and fell into a deep slumber.

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He had the most beautiful
dream of a long shady path.

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And as he walked down it...

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he grew young again and
began a life anew.

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So, he slept forever?

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Yes.

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But all of his friends in the
forest were so happy for him.

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Then they remembered all the
treasures he left behind.

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You, Ling Ling, are the sweetest...

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greatest treasure your
father ever gifted me.

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One I will selfishly hoard forever.

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Hello, Sunflower.

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Uncle!

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Uncle's most precious. Born
in the Year of the Monkey.

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Oh.

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That's why you're so clever.
Precious and clever.

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Go. Show the children your new gift.

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The Emperor is breathing his last

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and he has requested the presence
of his imperial consort.

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It is a tragedy that the
fates will not allow him

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the time to bear witness to
the fall of Kublai Khan.

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Perhaps the Goddess of Mercy is
sparing him a far worse vision.

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Men will one day sing
songs about me, sister.

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Jia Sidao, the prime minister
who vanquished the demon

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and saved the Song.

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I will bring my daughter to
say goodbye to her father...

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and to the Empire.

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I did not mean to startle you.

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- Are you following me?
- No.

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I saw you and approached.

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What are you doing out here?

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I might ask you the same.

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There is no citizen of Cambulac

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foolish enough to look at,
let alone talk to me.

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Do you know who I am?

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I know only your protector.

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And if Za Bing were to catch
you anywhere near me...

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he would run you through.

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I trust you will not report me.

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So... who are you?

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I am the Blue Princess
of the Bayaut tribe.

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You ride as Mongol... not princess.

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All Mongol women are born
to the horse and the bow.

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May I assist you?

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No.

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I am simply being polite.

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Something a noble woman such as
yourself should be tutored in.

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I need not be polite to someone like you.

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Someone like me?

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Someone beneath me.

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I will forgive your ignorance
in the ways of your new home.

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This is not my home.

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Many before you have thought the same.

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You speak from experience.

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Why do you imagine that?

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I see behind your words.

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If you are the Princess of the Bayaut...
where is your Queen?

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Your King?

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You're a prisoner...

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like me.

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I am kept for royalty. My future
is in some distant palace.

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You are a slave of the Khan.

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I am nothing like you.

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Try to keep up, if you can.

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It won't be you who gets
cattle-branded, Princess.

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You've been particularly busy of late.

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How goes your horse riding?

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You hold your tongue from me again? Hmm?

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How shall I tell of the
Mongolian pony, Sire?

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He is a fine and hardy breed.

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Unlike some steeds in Europe... he
needs not rest nor... coddling.

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Good.

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Because you ride to Karakorum
today with my son Jingim.

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Bring me back a report, with fresh eyes.

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Let me see, Latin...

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the way things truly are in
the kingdom of my brother.

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By your will, Sire.

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My nephew.

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Uncle.

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I'm honored that my older
brother has sent you.

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We will kill a sheep...

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and drink airag.

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Come.

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You're in the heartland
of Lord Genghis now.

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Beware, Polo. Your words
can get you killed.

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Wait out here.

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This one they call the
"Cricket Minister..."

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how many soldiers did he have
lying in wait at Wuchang?

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Not enough to defeat a Mongol army...

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had our reinforcements arrived.

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You did not attack without me?

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I was almost killed!

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My general, Aruka, has
passed to the Blue Sky!

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The rains cut off passage
of the Blue Horde.

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You should have sent word.

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I did.

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My best rider... Duwa.

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They captured him outside of Wuchang.

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Tied his head to his horse...

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let it run home.

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Right to his ger...

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and his children.

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May I see?

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They are... magnificent beasts.

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When you were a child,
I called you Altai.

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After the mountains me and
your father hunted as boys.

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Kublai insisted on a 
Chinese name. Jingim.

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Remind me of its meaning.

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Golden.

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Golden.

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You are his golden one, nephew.

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One day, they may call you...
"Jingim Khan."

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But beware...

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my big brother is too
trusting of outsiders.

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Persians... and Chinese...

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and all kinds of religions.

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You and me...

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our blood is the wolf and the deer.

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Open the gates to outsiders...
secrets will they spill.

221
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Who is the Christian who rides with you?

222
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My uncle's troops were cut
off by the spring rains...

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east of Volga.

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He sent a horse messenger...

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but the rebels intercepted.

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Where is the Latin?

227
00:22:17,620 --> 00:22:19,081
Sire?

228
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What was your impression
of the Old Capital?

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I found the Great Khan's
brother to be a gracious host,

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as Prince Jingim reported.

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Four wives, yes?

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Five. He also keeps a large harem...

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quite young.

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But not as vast as mine.

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And nowhere near as charming.

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Certainly no girls from Kungurat.

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I have seen my uncle's army, Father.

238
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They are ready.

239
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Ariq is prepared to join
our attack on Xiangyang.

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This will not be another Wuchang.

241
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I fear Ariq's horses will
never reach Xiangyang.

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Speak.

243
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Ariq's horses are in the
many thousands, true.

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Quite fit.

245
00:23:32,987 --> 00:23:36,616
But how many days' ride is it from
the Old Capital to the Walled City?

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Three weeks. By desert.

247
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As the son of a merchant...

248
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they do not have the grain supplies to
move that many horses to Xiangyang.

249
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The desert alone would cut
their numbers in half.

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My son, Jingim, just stated that
they are ready to ride into battle.

251
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They are ready, yes, Great Khan.

252
00:24:03,976 --> 00:24:06,854
But only if that battle
was closer to home.

253
00:24:09,191 --> 00:24:10,775
Do you accuse my uncle,

254
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brother to the Khan, of treason?

255
00:24:13,903 --> 00:24:17,490
I only describe what I see, as I saw it.

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Yusuf...

257
00:24:33,923 --> 00:24:37,469
dispatch a night rider to
verify the Latin's report.

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00:25:01,033 --> 00:25:05,330
You will not be gaining favors by
your charming stories anymore.

259
00:25:06,914 --> 00:25:08,708
Not without a tongue.

260
00:25:52,419 --> 00:25:54,462
The sword you hid is weak.

261
00:25:54,546 --> 00:25:57,924
Your water won't last you two days.

262
00:25:58,007 --> 00:26:01,177
But the salt cakes were... delicious.

263
00:26:04,806 --> 00:26:06,974
I called Ariq a liar tonight.

264
00:26:07,058 --> 00:26:10,144
That was foolish. Were your words true?

265
00:26:10,227 --> 00:26:11,854
Yes.

266
00:26:11,938 --> 00:26:14,023
Run now, they will find you.

267
00:26:14,106 --> 00:26:15,650
Stay...

268
00:26:15,733 --> 00:26:19,236
I can train you to survive in whatever
world you choose to make your home.

269
00:26:19,321 --> 00:26:21,280
This is not my home.

270
00:26:21,364 --> 00:26:22,949
I understand.

271
00:26:24,617 --> 00:26:26,494
Where did the Khan get you from?

272
00:26:27,954 --> 00:26:29,414
I said I would train you...

273
00:26:30,373 --> 00:26:34,293
not wallow in nostalgia with you.

274
00:27:35,563 --> 00:27:37,899
Why do you think the sword
has a colored sash?

275
00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:40,234
To look pretty?

276
00:27:52,455 --> 00:27:55,082
He's advanced quickly to the broadsword.

277
00:27:57,877 --> 00:27:59,712
You schooled him well, Hundred Eyes.

278
00:28:01,213 --> 00:28:04,634
May I interrupt the student's
training for a word?

279
00:28:04,717 --> 00:28:07,762
You're the Prince. You may kill
him, if that's your desire.

280
00:28:18,022 --> 00:28:21,901
Humiliate me in front
of the court again...

281
00:28:21,984 --> 00:28:23,736
I will kill you.

282
00:28:33,746 --> 00:28:35,081
You were right.

283
00:28:36,833 --> 00:28:38,418
Ariq betrayed us.

284
00:28:53,725 --> 00:28:57,394
Ariq sends me a treacherous gift.

285
00:28:57,479 --> 00:29:01,065
He remembers how much I love
the king of the hunters.

286
00:29:01,148 --> 00:29:04,777
Ariq is a dog, that would
eat its own afterbirth.

287
00:29:06,571 --> 00:29:10,825
He has always believed that he
should be Khan of Khans. Not you.

288
00:29:12,952 --> 00:29:15,580
Before the sun sets today...

289
00:29:15,663 --> 00:29:18,875
I will close down the
Gobi trade routes...

290
00:29:18,958 --> 00:29:21,753
starve Karakorum.

291
00:29:21,836 --> 00:29:25,465
My younger brother will have
no place to go but Siberia.

292
00:29:25,548 --> 00:29:28,300
So forgiving, Great Kublai.

293
00:29:28,384 --> 00:29:33,473
You slaughter entire cities, yet
you allow Ariq to run to Siberia.

294
00:29:33,556 --> 00:29:35,141
I know how to punish my brother.

295
00:29:35,224 --> 00:29:37,351
He almost killed your son.

296
00:29:38,936 --> 00:29:41,939
Ariq believes he can pleasure
your women better than you.

297
00:29:43,274 --> 00:29:45,151
Does that excite you, Empress?

298
00:29:45,234 --> 00:29:49,071
Ariq should be trampled by 1,000 horses

299
00:29:49,155 --> 00:29:51,699
and left on a steppe to rot.

300
00:29:55,244 --> 00:29:58,873
That... would excite me.

301
00:30:36,786 --> 00:30:38,370
Ariq Khan?

302
00:30:38,454 --> 00:30:39,914
Kublai's younger brother in the north.

303
00:30:39,997 --> 00:30:43,668
We are minting his own currency for
when he is elected Khan of Khans

304
00:30:43,751 --> 00:30:46,128
and opens the Silk Road for the Song.

305
00:30:46,212 --> 00:30:48,631
Of course, I need the support
of our region's governors.

306
00:30:53,385 --> 00:30:56,055
You have my stamp, Sidao.

307
00:30:58,558 --> 00:31:01,894
And my command over the Council.

308
00:31:21,581 --> 00:31:24,834
Men grow old, pearls turn yellow...

309
00:31:24,917 --> 00:31:27,169
there is no cure.

310
00:31:27,253 --> 00:31:29,421
My condolences, Empress Xie.

311
00:31:30,464 --> 00:31:34,510
Eventually, we all become
white ashes, Sidao.

312
00:31:34,594 --> 00:31:38,139
But my husband has left a son.

313
00:31:38,222 --> 00:31:41,684
Bow to your new Emperor, Zhao Xian.

314
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,906
With sad news, Empress, also comes good.

315
00:31:54,989 --> 00:31:58,159
We drove the Mongols back from Wuchang.

316
00:31:58,242 --> 00:32:00,202
The barbarians know your Chancellor

317
00:32:00,286 --> 00:32:04,040
will never surrender the last
stronghold of the Song dynasty.

318
00:32:04,707 --> 00:32:07,960
But they will be back.
We can count on that.

319
00:32:08,044 --> 00:32:11,338
I fear you do count on it, Sidao.

320
00:32:11,422 --> 00:32:14,050
I fear you thirst for it.

321
00:32:44,664 --> 00:32:45,915
Have you reported all?

322
00:32:45,998 --> 00:32:48,668
Yes, Good Minister Ahmad. Yes.

323
00:32:50,878 --> 00:32:52,338
You are dismissed, Sanga.

324
00:32:56,133 --> 00:32:57,426
Master Marco.

325
00:32:58,385 --> 00:33:01,848
Come. Stay.

326
00:33:01,931 --> 00:33:04,516
Goodbye, my Venetian slave.

327
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,728
Schiavo. Huh?

328
00:33:08,270 --> 00:33:09,438
So...

329
00:33:09,521 --> 00:33:11,648
what is this gift I hear of?

330
00:33:11,733 --> 00:33:15,277
The foreign messenger who can
paint pictures with his words.

331
00:33:15,361 --> 00:33:18,530
How would you describe
the manner in which...

332
00:33:18,614 --> 00:33:19,949
the Uighurs pay their taxes?

333
00:33:20,908 --> 00:33:24,370
Always there's a form of ceremony.

334
00:33:24,453 --> 00:33:26,956
On their knees...

335
00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:30,542
a humble offering, more as
to a god than to a king.

336
00:33:30,626 --> 00:33:32,461
And the Jurchens?

337
00:33:32,544 --> 00:33:34,964
Clever, and a resourceful people.

338
00:33:35,047 --> 00:33:38,843
Paying with the work of their hands
when they do not have the coins.

339
00:33:38,926 --> 00:33:42,138
Masters of making linen, I understand.

340
00:33:42,221 --> 00:33:44,473
So if the Jurchens have
been paying in linen,

341
00:33:44,556 --> 00:33:47,268
why hasn't Sanga deposited
any such tribute?

342
00:33:50,687 --> 00:33:53,983
I did not say that Sanga
collected such linens.

343
00:33:54,066 --> 00:33:58,445
Only that the Jurchens are a
clever and resourceful people.

344
00:34:00,156 --> 00:34:02,324
You are not the first foreigner...

345
00:34:02,408 --> 00:34:05,411
who has had to learn to
subsist in this kingdom.

346
00:34:05,494 --> 00:34:08,372
I found my way here as a child...

347
00:34:08,455 --> 00:34:12,001
raised in the household
of the Great Khan.

348
00:34:12,084 --> 00:34:16,713
So I know his heart,
and I have his trust.

349
00:34:16,798 --> 00:34:21,427
A lie is... like an assault
on his person, but...

350
00:34:21,510 --> 00:34:24,596
an honest word? That is like a shield.

351
00:34:25,890 --> 00:34:28,059
So I must ask you again.

352
00:34:28,142 --> 00:34:29,476
Did the Jurchens...

353
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:34,606
at any time... pay their
taxes in the form of linen?

354
00:34:36,650 --> 00:34:39,153
Perhaps Sanga simply forgot.

355
00:34:42,114 --> 00:34:43,950
Indeed.

356
00:35:21,695 --> 00:35:24,866
Ling Ling... Ling Ling, go with Jing Fei.

357
00:35:26,951 --> 00:35:28,995
Come on. Good girl.

358
00:35:31,622 --> 00:35:34,291
I will see you very soon, my daughter.

359
00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:43,134
My Emperor is dead...

360
00:35:44,551 --> 00:35:47,513
but I am still an imperial consort.

361
00:35:52,059 --> 00:35:54,436
I do not bed soldiers.

362
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,065
Chancellor Jia Sidao has
granted us permission.

363
00:36:23,925 --> 00:36:27,303
Two Eels, One Cave.

364
00:36:35,852 --> 00:36:38,105
Do you know this forbidden game?

365
00:38:05,484 --> 00:38:09,363
You should be tied to a post and have
your skin sliced from your body.

366
00:38:09,446 --> 00:38:12,324
I have bartered for your
political advantage.

367
00:38:12,408 --> 00:38:15,161
I will not barter for the
loyalty of your soldiers.

368
00:38:15,244 --> 00:38:16,453
It is beneath you...

369
00:38:16,537 --> 00:38:17,913
I know.

370
00:38:19,498 --> 00:38:21,625
You will travel to Cambulac as defector.

371
00:38:22,584 --> 00:38:23,877
They will take you in,

372
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,047
and just as you won the favor
of the Emperor of China...

373
00:38:26,130 --> 00:38:28,840
you will win the favor
of the Devil himself.

374
00:38:28,924 --> 00:38:30,801
Report to me.

375
00:38:30,884 --> 00:38:33,554
Everything he says, everything
he does, everything he dreams.

376
00:38:40,269 --> 00:38:41,645
Do not worry, sister.

377
00:38:42,146 --> 00:38:43,605
While you are away...

378
00:38:43,689 --> 00:38:46,733
I will personally care for my Sunflower.

379
00:38:47,693 --> 00:38:49,111
I am your blood.

380
00:38:49,195 --> 00:38:51,322
We give our blood for the dynasty.

381
00:38:52,114 --> 00:38:55,117
Your men... they laugh at you.

382
00:38:55,201 --> 00:38:57,369
They call you the "Cricket Minister."

383
00:39:08,255 --> 00:39:10,466
I was summoned.

384
00:39:10,549 --> 00:39:11,633
Quiet.

385
00:39:14,595 --> 00:39:15,971
You may begin.

386
00:39:28,109 --> 00:39:31,570
The tax collector's
deposits did not match.

387
00:39:31,653 --> 00:39:32,738
What?

388
00:39:47,544 --> 00:39:49,255
He was given an honorable death.

389
00:39:50,256 --> 00:39:54,551
Rolled up in a carpet so that Tengri
the Sky God did not see his blood.

390
00:39:58,764 --> 00:40:01,183
You will be riding into
battle with us, I hear...

391
00:40:01,267 --> 00:40:03,685
to give your accounts.

392
00:40:16,865 --> 00:40:20,202
I love you so much. I have to go.

393
00:40:20,286 --> 00:40:22,037
But I will see you very soon.

394
00:40:22,121 --> 00:40:23,705
I love you.

395
00:42:26,161 --> 00:42:28,163
Send for Ariq.

396
00:42:29,373 --> 00:42:33,460
Put up a ger. Light a fire.

397
00:43:14,209 --> 00:43:16,169
Do you remember, older brother...

398
00:43:16,252 --> 00:43:18,964
the summer you chased
a deer for six days?

399
00:43:19,047 --> 00:43:22,551
You were gone so long, our mother
thought the wolves got you.

400
00:43:22,634 --> 00:43:25,554
She made me grind borts with
the women for six more days.

401
00:43:27,723 --> 00:43:30,392
Our father woke up drunk and said,

402
00:43:30,476 --> 00:43:33,437
"Kublai, why are you
grinding borts like a girl,

403
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,981
when you should be out hunting deer?"

404
00:43:38,233 --> 00:43:39,610
Sorkaktani...

405
00:43:41,152 --> 00:43:42,613
she was a fine mother.

406
00:43:44,823 --> 00:43:48,034
A great mother. Queen of Mongolia.

407
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,544
It was she who taught us the code
of Grandfather Genghis, yes?

408
00:43:57,628 --> 00:44:00,005
It was she that taught
us that a true ruler

409
00:44:00,088 --> 00:44:03,342
must not lose the loyalty
of his allies and subjects.

410
00:44:04,343 --> 00:44:09,097
The Chinese... Saracen...
Christian or Hindi.

411
00:44:09,931 --> 00:44:13,435
A wise leader allows
his people their ways.

412
00:44:13,519 --> 00:44:14,645
Our father...

413
00:44:14,728 --> 00:44:17,689
son of Genghis, did not
agree with such open gates.

414
00:44:17,773 --> 00:44:21,151
He drank himself to death.
Behind closed doors.

415
00:44:23,695 --> 00:44:26,823
Do you know where I was those six days?

416
00:44:26,907 --> 00:44:28,992
When you were chasing that deer?

417
00:44:30,411 --> 00:44:32,037
Making my arrows sharp

418
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,916
to go after the wolf and save my brother.

419
00:44:35,999 --> 00:44:38,209
I was four years old.

420
00:44:38,919 --> 00:44:41,422
When our brother, Mongke, died...

421
00:44:41,505 --> 00:44:44,550
Mongolia elected me Khan of Khans.

422
00:44:44,633 --> 00:44:49,680
Not all of Mongolia, brother. Not
the Princes of the Golden Horde.

423
00:44:49,763 --> 00:44:53,099
- Not the Chagataid of Persia.
- That is rebellion.

424
00:44:58,271 --> 00:45:00,273
We can argue that all night.

425
00:45:01,567 --> 00:45:03,652
I do not want to be Emperor of China.

426
00:45:04,611 --> 00:45:08,073
I do not want to be Ruler
of the Face of the Earth.

427
00:45:08,156 --> 00:45:10,576
I want to be Khan of Mongolia.

428
00:45:10,659 --> 00:45:12,786
They are one and the same, brother.

429
00:45:14,705 --> 00:45:17,708
So... it has come to this?

430
00:45:18,500 --> 00:45:21,377
Not by my choosing.

431
00:45:23,797 --> 00:45:24,965
The way I see it,

432
00:45:25,048 --> 00:45:27,926
it is your warriors
setting camp on my land.

433
00:45:29,135 --> 00:45:31,096
It's because of that point of view...

434
00:45:31,179 --> 00:45:34,349
my warriors set camp on my land.

435
00:45:53,159 --> 00:45:55,286
I bid you a good night's rest.

436
00:45:57,122 --> 00:46:00,041
I'll see you at sunrise.

437
00:46:48,464 --> 00:46:52,719
Where do you think the Venetian
merchant is this evening?

438
00:46:55,722 --> 00:46:58,058
India? Tabriz?

439
00:47:01,144 --> 00:47:04,522
On my Silk Road, chasing riches.

440
00:47:07,025 --> 00:47:09,611
I was just about your age when I knew.

441
00:47:11,655 --> 00:47:13,574
Knew what, Sire?

442
00:47:13,657 --> 00:47:17,493
That I had to become the man
I wished my father was.

443
00:47:22,373 --> 00:47:23,792
Tomorrow...

444
00:47:25,001 --> 00:47:27,295
watch and remember what you see.

445
00:47:30,090 --> 00:47:31,507
Faithfully.

446
00:49:15,946 --> 00:49:17,447
Tell me.

447
00:49:18,740 --> 00:49:24,204
All the way to the horizon.
A sea of men and horses.

448
00:49:24,287 --> 00:49:26,915
Ready to break ashore.

449
00:49:28,208 --> 00:49:31,294
The Khan has moved from
his guard to the front.

450
00:49:34,089 --> 00:49:35,090
Yes.

451
00:50:43,074 --> 00:50:44,534
What is he doing now?

452
00:50:45,994 --> 00:50:47,495
He is riding down.

453
00:50:48,663 --> 00:50:49,915
Alone.

454
00:50:49,998 --> 00:50:52,292
This is Mongol against Mongol.

455
00:50:52,375 --> 00:50:54,335
And only one can win.

456
00:50:56,254 --> 00:50:58,173
You best pray that it is our side.

457
00:50:59,925 --> 00:51:01,217
For if we lose...

458
00:51:01,301 --> 00:51:03,428
Cambulac will be burned to the ground...

459
00:51:03,511 --> 00:51:06,389
and we will be made into kindling.

460
00:51:36,127 --> 00:51:38,296
Look where it has ended, brother.

461
00:51:39,505 --> 00:51:41,883
You want Mongolia...

462
00:51:41,967 --> 00:51:43,509
you come and take it.

463
00:51:45,178 --> 00:51:46,512
It is...

464
00:51:47,430 --> 00:51:48,849
as it should be.

465
00:55:18,474 --> 00:55:20,351
Men of Karakorum!

466
00:55:21,394 --> 00:55:22,937
It is over!

467
00:55:23,020 --> 00:55:24,230
This fight...

468
00:55:24,314 --> 00:55:28,401
between Mongols is done!

469
00:55:29,944 --> 00:55:31,654
We stand together now!

470
00:55:32,655 --> 00:55:34,365
We ride together!

471
00:55:36,409 --> 00:55:39,579
Every corner of the land
beneath this Blue Sky,

472
00:55:39,662 --> 00:55:42,415
is ours for the taking!

473
00:55:43,499 --> 00:55:45,751
Go back to Karakorum.

474
00:55:45,835 --> 00:55:48,254
Prepare for war!

475
00:55:49,172 --> 00:55:53,343
For soon, we ride toward the south.

476
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:42,000
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