Taking advantage of the free time when both sides are preparing for the fight, let's talk about what is going on with this Jurchen tribe and why they keep fighting.
It’s a bit long to talk about this Jurchen tribe.
Around the time of the Tang Dynasty, there was a nation named Sumo Mohe in the Northeast. They were divided into Sumo Mohe and Heishui Mohe. They both submitted to the Koryo Kingdom and were protected by the Koryo Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Goryeo is now North Korea and was historically called "Goryeo".
In the eighteenth year of Emperor Taizong's reign, Li Shimin sent troops to conquer Goryeo.
Seeing that Tang Dynasty was coming to conquer the country, Goryeo hurriedly raised troops to fight the Tang army.
At that time, the Goryeo Kingdom was busy fighting the Tang Dynasty and had no time to take care of other things. Sumo Mohe took the opportunity to become independent and established his own Bohai Kingdom.
Sumo Mohe broke away from Goryeo and established an independent country, and was bound to be conquered by Goryeo. In order to use the power of the Tang Dynasty to compete with Goryeo, the Bohai State established by Sumo Mohe recognized the Tang Dynasty as its suzerain state and itself became a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. In order to use the Bohai Kingdom to contain Goryeo, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty appointed Da Zuorong, the leader of the Bohai Kingdom, as the King of Bohai County and the Governor of the Governor's Office of Huhan Prefecture.
This relationship between Bohai State and the Tang Dynasty lasted for more than ten generations, nearly two hundred years.
In the process of development, the Bohai State's political power established its own writing, rituals, music, and government systems. It was known as the prosperous country of Haidong in history and its national power was very strong.
When Da Zuorong, the leader of the Sumo Mohe, established the Bohai Kingdom, Heishui Mohe, another branch of the Sumo Mohe further north, was still loyal to the Goryeo Kingdom and recognized the Goryeo Kingdom as its suzerain state and was protected and directed by the Goryeo Kingdom.
When Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty sent troops to attack Koryo, Heishui Mohe also sent tribesmen to help Koryo fight the Tang Dynasty army.
Even the Goryeo Kingdom couldn't defeat the Tang Dynasty, so what did a tribe like Heishui Mohe mean? !
The Tang Dynasty army was a regular field army with well-equipped weapons and equipment, many soldiers and generals, and strong combat effectiveness.
In addition to their equestrian skills being slightly better than those of the Tang Dynasty army, the Heishui Mohe men and horses were basically not on the same level in terms of combat effectiveness because they had no decent weapons at all and all they used were sticks and stone clusters.
Seeing that Heishui Mohe was not expecting his own strength, he was riding a horse, holding a wooden stick in his hand and a stone cluster on his shoulder, and came aggressively to help the Koreans in the war. Zhang Liang, the general of the Tang Dynasty and the general manager of the Pyongyang Road March, was furious. , the commanding general said: "Generals, listen to the order, first kill this bunch of primitive people who don't know the heights of the world!"
The well-equipped and well-trained Tang army was ordered to form an array, and they charged and killed them with swords, spears, and arrows. They only killed the Black Water Mohes and fled in panic, causing numerous casualties.
After this battle, Heishui Mohe, who had never seen the world and did not know the heights of the sky, finally realized that he was only half a catty and no longer dared to surrender to the Goryeo Kingdom. Instead, he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty army and began to submit to the Tang Dynasty regime.
By the time of Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty established the Heishui Dudufu in the Heishui area. The leader of Heishui Mohe served as the governor of the Dudufu, and began to implement ethnic autonomy under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
In the later period of Li Longji's reign, due to his doting on Concubine Yang Guifei, the government became increasingly unstable, which finally led to the Anshi Rebellion. The country's power declined, and it was beyond his reach to control Heishui Mohe.
Heishui Mohe took the opportunity to switch to the Bohai Kingdom established by Sumo Mohe.
Another hundred years later, when Yelu Abaoji, Taizu of the Liao Dynasty, was on the throne, it was the time when the Khitan was rising. Yelu Abaoji took the opportunity to send his troops northward, annihilating the Bohai Kingdom in one fell swoop, and renamed it Dongdan. The eldest son Yelvbei is the king of the country.
The Bohai Kingdom was destroyed, and Heishui Mohe, who was far away among the black mountains and white waters, saw that the situation was not good, and surrendered to the Khitan. They changed their clan name to Jurchen and were governed by the Khitan.
At the time of Yelv Zongzhen, Xingzong of Liao Dynasty, in order to avoid the taboo of Yelvzong's real name, the two dots below the character "Zhen" for Jurchens were lost. Therefore, some history books recorded "Jurchens" as "Nvzhens". ".
After Yelu Deguang changed the Khitan Kingdom into the Liao Kingdom, in order to better restrict the development of the Jurchens, he began to implement a divide-and-rule rule over the Jurchens.
The Liao court under the rule of Yelu Deguang incorporated the Jurchens in Liaoning into household registration and levied taxes, calling them "mature Jurchens"; while outside Liaoning, the Heishui Mohe in Jilin, Heilongjiang and the Russian Far East only needed to pay taxes. The Liao Dynasty paid tribute but did not register her with her household registration. They called her a Jurchen and left her to fend for herself.
In addition, the Liao State also established the Huanglong Mansion in Jilin to supervise the birth of Jurchens, and set up a sales market in Ningjiang Prefecture. In name, it was to do business with the Jurchens, but in fact they bought at low prices, sold at high prices, and even extorted money. .
The Liao people called this "fighting the Jurchens". The main purpose was to prevent the Jurchens from developing, so as not to endanger their own rule due to the Jurchens' strength.
Most of the Jurchens are nomadic people, and naturally they do not have as developed a civilization as the Central Plains Dynasty. They just live in pursuit of water and grass, and live a nomadic life in groups. Therefore, they can only let the Khitan people exploit them.
Also because of their nomadic nature, except for the tribal chief who has a fixed address, the Jurchen tribe does not have a fixed address for other tribes. They are here today and will be there tomorrow. They will be stationed wherever they go, and the place where they are stationed is regarded as their home. own territory.
As a result, the Jurchen tribes often fought over a small piece of pasture, a water source, a piece of forest land, or a wild rabbit that was not clear who killed it. , there is nothing to say about that arrogance.
Of course, when fighting, there will naturally be casualties. The nomadic people regard this as a shame for the entire ethnic group. Once there are casualties on one side of the fight, the other side will seek revenge from the entire ethnic group.
In the Central Plains Dynasty, when people from one party killed or injured people from the other party, people from the other party would go to the yamen to beat drums, which was called beating drums to complain about grievances. Those who killed others were sentenced to death, and those who killed or injured others were sentenced to hard labor or exile.
The Jurchens did not know so many Taoisms, and they did not have a special yamen to judge lawsuits for them.
What should the Jurchens do in this situation?
Easy to handle! The Jurchens practice the most primitive method, that is, if you kill one of me, I will kill two of you; conversely, the other party who has two people killed will do the same, you kill me Two people, I will kill four of you.
Anyway, you can't let the other party take advantage, and you can't lose your share.
Readers, please think about it. There are not many Jurchens in the first place. It is not a problem to kill them like this. He cannot afford to kill them. After all, there are still people left to reproduce. Fortunately, in such a huge grassland Isn’t it grazing?
Therefore, the leaders of each Jurchen tribe are constantly seeking revenge, killing each other's people, and in turn, the other party kills their own people, and then they kill the other party's people, and so on endlessly. I was exhausted and annoyed by all the things I had done.
Now, Wan Yan was faced with such a situation.
At this time when the Jurchens were entangled and fighting, a man from Goryeo came to the Wanyan tribe.
This man from Korea is over sixty years old. His hair looks gray and his face is covered with wrinkles, like the criss-crossing ravines on the northwest Loess Plateau, dry and barbaric.
However, although this man from Korea is old, sixty years old, he is tall and full of energy. He drives a boat every day and sings "The river of flowers is long and long. There are happy fish swimming in the clear water. The green water carries white sails, and there are thousands of flowers on both sides. The arch bridge spans the north and south, and the swimming dragons are like shuttles..." The old man sang and threw the fishing net into the river, floating happily in the river. On the Hua'er River, I support myself by fishing, and live a carefree and comfortable life all day long.
This person is the Han Pu we mentioned earlier.
After Hanpu came to the Jurchen Wanyan tribe, he discovered that the Jurchens often struggled with each other over trivial matters, fought constantly, and had no way to deal with the matter.
This situation allowed Hanpu to discover the secret to establishing a firm foothold in the Wanyan tribe, which was to step in on his own when it was most critical and needed, and fundamentally solve the long-standing problem that the Jurchens were entangled in and fought with.
Hanpu knew that this required wisdom, and he lacked everything, including a woman to live with him, but the only thing he didn't lack was a head full of wisdom.
Hanpu wanted to use his own wisdom to solve this problem in order to achieve his goal of settling in the Wanyan tribe of the Jurchen tribe.
In order to solve this problem, Hanpu often stayed up all night, thinking hard and thinking about ways to solve the problem.
The hard work paid off, and the solution was finally figured out by Han Pu who took great pains.
Han Pu's idea was to get close to the Jurchen tribesmen first and let them know that he was a virtuous person, so that at the critical moment, when they needed it most, the Jurchens could ask him to come forward just like Liu Beisan asked Zhuge Liang. , by that time, your words will have weight.
Therefore, from then on, every day after fishing, dinner, or when he was free, Hanpu would visit the Jurchens' houses and tents to chat with the Jurchens.
Hanpu came from Korea and was a man who had seen the world. In this land of Jurchens, Hanpu can definitely be regarded as a person with extensive experience and knowledge. If the Jurchens can do arithmetic, then old man Hanpu can even do advanced mathematics. That Jurchen has never seen the world, and has never even gone out a hundred miles away on weekdays. How can he know how wonderful the world outside is? ! Therefore, everything I listen to feels fresh.
Hanpu is also a very good talker. When he tells stories, he tells them vividly and vividly, and is very dramatic, which can bring people great enjoyment.
When Hanpu was free, every time he went to a tent, he would be given the seat of honor by the Jurchens. While eating the Jurchens' mutton and drinking the Jurchens' milk tea, he would sway his delicate tongue from the sky to the earth. , from gods to mortals, he is just a god who talks nonsense. All the Jurchens in the room were listening happily. Only Hanpu was calm and calm, with a confident look on his chest. He danced and danced, talking eloquently, and his great energy seemed to give him a boost. Hanging firecrackers, he could blow up the Khitan palace. Hanpu spoke one thing after another, with humorous language, witty remarks, and golden sentences. It was very contagious and made the Jurchens in the room laugh and get excited.
Therefore, the Jurchens of the Wanyan tribe all like this old man named Hanpu from Goryeo very much.
