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Erkhembayar Tsogtbayar: Young Kublai

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Young Kublai : [birds chirping] 

  [birds chirping loudly] 

  Young Kublai : Birds? The great Genghis Khan demands a tribute of birds from our enemy?

  Kublai Khan : Not birds, young Kublai. Chinese swallows. Ten thousand. You question your grandfather?

  Young Kublai : No, Lord Genghis. Merely

  Kublai Khan : [carries littlest boy by his collar, kneels in front of him with the bird]  Nesting birds and well-fed dogs always return to the walls of their master. You understand, don't you, Kaidu?

  Young Kaidu : [yes] 

  Kublai Khan : Live by the laws of the Blue Sky and you will follow in the steps of your father, who follows in mine. You will one day be Khan of the Mongols, child.

  [lights the string attached to the bird] 

  Kublai Khan : Release it.