The Merchant: Gaekju 2015 (장사의 신 - 객주 2015)

Episode 33

5 nyangs?

It's a promissory note for 5 nyangs

500 nyangs from 20,000 nyangs. 5 nyangs from 500 nyangs

have you really gone senile indeed?

Oh my, oh my, I gave you the wrong note.

This is for my funeral cost,

for the price of my coffin.

What? Are you playing around right now?

The richest man in Joseon only has 5 nyangs to use for his funeral?

Will you really be okay with 5 nyangs?

My Lord, all I need is a coffin for my body to rest in,

what else would I need?

I won't go to the the Hades carrying money.

Great Head Merchant, strange rumors are circulating in the market.

The rumors that you disposed your inheritance are stirring.

Rather than disposing of it,

I just forgot everything.

I just forgot everything.

These 5 nyangs

are all that's remaining of my assets.

What's going on?!

"Wol Yi! Wol Yi! He gave all of his assets to someone named Wol Yi."

Maeng Goo Beom, you bastard!

Even after having your tongue cut,

can you still not control your mouth?

Yu Su...

Cheon Bong Sam's son, Cheon Yu Su!

He's planning to hand over all of his assets to Yu Su.

We have to arrest the wench named Wol Yi before she delivers it to Cheon Bong Sam.

It's life or death matter!

Gil So Gae, you bastard!

Provincial Governor, hurry up and give an order of arrest

I-I understand.

I'll block the roads outside of four gates to Gyeonggi Province not to mention the road to Songpa.

You need to circulate the composite drawings first.

We've become busy, but... have you gone senile?

You're going to hand down all of your assets

to Cheon Bong Sam's son, who isn't even your child? Does that even make sense?

My Lord,

do you really covet my money that much?

Well... is there anyone in this world who doesn't like money?

There isn't, there's none.

This is a world where everything can be done with money

so won't everyone want to hand down their money to their children?

Among you all here,

who would become my son? Who?

You?

With your status...

Great Head Merchant, your assets aren't yours.

The reason you were able to accumulate your wealth

was because government officials like me gave you the support.

What that means is that you can't mistake that as your assets

and do what you want with it by yourself.

What are you doing?!

Let's leave! We have to catch the maid named Wol Yi.

Yes.

This is a maid named Wol that used to be in the Great Shin Merchant Group.

She's a criminal who stole the Great Head Merchant's assets and ran away so you must find her.

It's fine if you kill that maid named Wol Yi.

Just find the promissory

Yes!

Let's go!

The thing inside the envelope made with oil paper

is what I'm giving to Yu Su.

My Lady, they say that this is the Great Head Merchant Elder's inheritance.

I wonder if I'll be able to deliver this to the Merchant Elder safely.

I'm afraid, My Lady.

Stop.

Go.

Stop.

Go.

Stop.

Go.

In order to relief the food shortage in Hamgyeong Province,

I am banning the beans and rice from exiting this area.

To prevent some greedy merchants making unjust profit by raising prices on the grains,

I am implementing this ban.

All grain merchants must heed this ban.

Those words were right.

I heard Japan had a great difficulty farming this year.

A sack of rice costing 20-30 nyangs in Pyeonggang,

you can't even buy that here at Wonsan Port at 50 nyangs.

Which means they are buying up the rice in Hamgyeong Province.

This is a big problem. Hamgyeong Province lacks rice in the first place.

Teacher Bong! Teacher Bong! Teacher Bong, Teacher Bong!

Bong Sam, sorry, sorry!

Just a minute, just come here for a minute.

What?

There's trouble, there's trouble. It's not just regular trouble,

it's really big trouble.

What trouble is it?

Look at this. Look at it.

At the hills of Poongdueng Ridge pass, Man Chi Hyungnim handed this to the Songpa comrades.

Isn't this Wol Yi? What is this?

What is it mean "Ordered to Return"? Why to Wol Yi?

According to our comrades who carried this over the Poongdeung Ridge Pass,

a few thousand military guards of Gyeonggi Province are spread out to catch her.

Wait, Wol Yi is my sister-in-law's maid.

So why is she ordered to return?

This is nonsense! Wol Yi hasn't committed revolution or high treason.

Why will there be a few thousand military guards looking for her?

What is this? Why would Wol Yi be ordered to return?

I just have no idea.

Anyway, let's go for now. This isn't something that'll be solved here

so we need to personally find Wol Yi first and see.

Let's go.

Again to the outer...

It's been 8 days, yet you haven't caught the single wench?

That wench is also a beast with feet.

Even if you put down a strict arrest warrant, if she hides well...

do you think it'll be easy to drag her out?

I sent Gwangju district military guards under me and dug through the Songpa Stable multiple times but...

So are you saying just sit and watch Shin Seok Joo's assets being handled by a maid?

For now... what about tying Shin Seok Joo first?

What? Shin Seok Joo?

Would Shin Seok Joo just watch when an arrest warrant has been issued?

He could secretly hide that wench.

We have to tie up Shin Seok Joo first.

Don't impersonate My Lady.

My Lady is the only mother to the Young Master.

What?

Just because there is no evidence, doesn't mean the truth will be covered up.

If you have an ice-pick in your pocket, it will come out through the pocket, someday.

You have all of Shin Seok Joo's assets? You wench...

"Choo-Swae" (Wanted: The safe return of a runaway slave)

If this money is delivered to Cheon Bong Sam, nothing good will come for me.

Mother, a message came from the palace.

You are asked to come to the Queen's quarter quickly.

Okay.

We'll punish Yukijeon's Head Shin Seok Joo for the contempt of the royal court

and you'd like to confiscate all of his assets? Right?

Yes, Your Highness.

It is disloyal not supplying the goods to the palace recently.

Saying it is wrong to open the ports,

and criticising the King is at an unacceptable level now.

Uncle, Shin Seok Joo's words are not completely wrong.

Mr. Nephew!

Isn't it given that Yukuijeon being short on cash after opening the port?

Min Young Ik (Executive Royal Secretariat ) Please, confess to me the real reason why you'd like to sack shin Seok Joo?

Your Highness, Shin Seok Joo is the richest man in Joseon-

He's just a poor elderly, who doesn't even have an heir.

Are you trying to say, "let's just deplete all of his assets." Correct?

Head Secretary!

There's no reason to beat around the bush with family.

It's a given that money is needed for politics.

It wouldn't do us any good if Shin Seok Joo's estate flowed towards Woon-Young Palace or the crummy Ahndong Clans, would it?

Let's do that, Aunt.

Alright, your words are correct.

Nephew, do as you wish with Shin Seok Joo's matter.

Your Highness, the Guksadang Shrine's Highness is here.

Let her in.

Your Highness, greetings from this Guksadang Shaman.

Welcome, Guksadang Highness.

Aunt, why are you keeping a lowly shaman wench so close to you?

You get uselessly criticised because you keep lowly like this using the Prince's illness as an excuse.

Your words are harsh.

Are my words wrong?

Royal Head Secretary, my psychic reading is that... You'll meet your untimely death, in the near future.

Guksadang Highness! Even if his words were harsh, how could you say something like that?

Just a minute, Aunt.

Is that so?

Your Royal Queen, I may somewhat misread certain aspects of a psychic reading,

yet I do not dare to tell a blatant lie all together. For I'll be punished by my spiritual entities.

What are you going to do if you're wrong?

Would you like to put your neck on the line?

If that's what you want, then yes.

Head Secretary, you're going too far in front of the Royal Queen!

I apologize, Uncle.

Guksadang Shrine Highness, do you know why I escorted you all the way here?

The Great Head Merchant won't be able to overcome this winter.

Wow! How confident you are...

If you don't believe me, then you can just send a physician.

I believe you! I believe you! If I don't trust the Guksadang Shrine Highness's words, then whose words would I trust?

A wench from the Great Shin Merchant Group ran away with Shin Seok Joo's promissory note.

Please tell me about it, how can I find it?

Would she still be hiding inside the capitol?

She has already crossed the river.

Songpa... you should search through the beggars' mud huts in Songpa.

We'll quickly find out how truly amazing your Guksadang's fourtune telling (the shrine) is, right?

Hyungnim, send soldiers to Songpa right now.

I'll let the Police Bureau know, so you get to Shin Seok Joo first.

Great Head Merchant Elder!

Great Head Merchant Elder.

What happened to Wol?

She hasn't been caught yet.

Gwang-Ju District's Bureaucrat Min Young Guek has been sending his underlings to the Songpa Stable every night.

In which they're looking for her like a needle in the hay stack.

Yes... she's a cleaver child.

Even if that's the case, there are hundreds of soldiers everywhere looking for her.

How could a single girl handle all of that?

Great Head Merchant Elder! Great Head Merchant Elder!

This bastard! Do you know where this place is? How dare you just run in here?

A large group of soldiers from the Investigation Bureau just came!

No, this...

No entrance "Prohibited"

"Unauthorized" to enter or exit

What are you doing?!

That way! Paste it over there, quickly!

What... the Great Head Merchant is right here and still alive.