According to the usual practice, after the imperial court sent personnel to attend the funeral of Wanyan Wu Yashu, the new Jiedushi of the Jurchen Tribe Alliance would be conferred immediately, and the military governor appointed by the court would be the successor leader of the Wanyan tribe. .
After Wanyan Wuyashu died, Wanyan Aguda became the leader of the Wanyan tribe. The Wanyan tribe reported this situation to the Liao court, and then waited for the Liao court to confer Wanyan Aguda as the Jiedushi of the Jurchen tribe.
Normally, it takes at most ten and a half months for the book of canonization of the Jiedushi of the Jurchen Tribe Alliance to come out; however, after Wanyan Wuyasu died, Wanyan Aguda, who was waiting to take over as the Jiedushi of the Jurchen Tribe Alliance, had been waiting. For more than half a year, the canonization documents from the court have not been issued.
This situation made Wanyan Aguda even more suspicious of the Liao court.
Wanyan Aguda thought to himself that the reason why the imperial court has not issued the documents to canonize me as the Jiedushi of the Sheng Jurchen Tribe Alliance must be that it does not want me to hold this position; perhaps the court has other ideas and wants to canonize others as the Sheng Jurchen Alliance. The tribal alliance has become the envoy.
The reason Wanyan Aguda had this idea was, firstly, because he did not perform a dance for Emperor Tianzha Yelu Yanxi at Yelu Yanxi’s fish feast at the beginning of spring; secondly, it was because when handling the funeral of Wanyan Wu Yashu , Wanyan Nianhan punched the imperial envoy Asibao.
Because the Liao court did not promptly appoint Wanyan Aguda as the Jiedushi of the Jurchen Tribe Alliance, Wanyan Aguda's hatred towards the Liao court reached its peak. For this reason, Wanyan Aguda invited Wanyan Sagai, Wanyan Wu Qimai, and Wanyan Nianhan to discuss it.
Wanyan Sagai is Wanyan Aguda's cousin, Wanyan Wu Qimai is Wanyan Aguda's direct brother, and Wanyan Nianhan is Wanyan Sagai's eldest son.
Several people sat in a circle, discussing things with each other.
Wanyan Agu saw the other people, sighed and said, "Why do I feel that something is wrong?" Wanyan Agu asked instead, "Are you talking about the imperial court appointing a Jurchen Jiedushi?" Wanyan Agu nodded. Answered: "Exactly."
Wanyan Aguda looked at Wanyan Sagai and said: "It has been more than half a year since Wu Yashu passed away, and it has been more than half a year since I succeeded as leader. The imperial court's canonization letter has not been issued. It must be that the imperial court has other plans. "
Wanyan Nianhan said: "When my uncle was in trouble, I beat up that guy Asibao. He must have reported it to the court. The court resented us because of this, so it didn't want to canonize my second uncle as a Jurchen Tribe." The alliance has envoys."
Wanyan Aguda said: "If you want to put it this way, I guess it is true. At the beginning of spring, at the Emperor's Head Fish Banquet in Tianzha, he asked me to perform a dance. If I didn't perform a dance for him, he rushed down and wanted to kill me. This Putting these things together, the imperial court really has an opinion on our Wanyan clan."
Wanyan Wu begged to say: "To say the least, if we don't serve as the governor of the Khitan's Shengnuzhen Tribe Alliance, what a big deal! Let's handle our own affairs and annex other tribes as soon as possible."
Wanyan Agu said: "Think about the imperial court's post of Jiedushi of the Shengnuzhen Tribe Alliance. We, the Wanyan family, have held this position for six times. How can we lose it here? If this is the case, what should we do?"
When Wanyan Nianhan heard this, he stared at his eyes and said loudly: "What should we do? Go against him! Why should we let him make the appointment?! We Jurchens can handle their own affairs by themselves and it is not under his jurisdiction anymore. .”
Wanyan Sagai thought Wanyan Nianhan was reckless, so he glared at Wanyan Nianhan and scolded: "How presumptuous! I left your second uncle and fourth uncle here, and you didn't even say anything yet, and you started talking nonsense! Listen well!" Wait! It’s not time for you to speak yet.”
When Wanyan Aguda saw this, he said: "Nianhan is right! We Jurchens cannot always succumb to the Khitan. When necessary, it is time to rebel against him."
Wanyan Sagai and Wanyan Wu Qimai looked at each other and then looked at Wanyan Aguda, waiting for his next words.
Wanyan Aguda looked at Wanyan Sagai and said sincerely: "Brother, the current situation is like this. At this time, it's your turn to make a decision. Brother, what should we do now?"
Wanyan Sagai heard this, thought about it, and said to Wanyan Aguda: "Second brother, in my opinion, since the Khitan court has doubts about us, we should make plans early. It is better to raise troops to rebel against Liao and get rid of The Liao Kingdom’s jurisdiction will prevent it from being helpless and being controlled by the Khitan instead.”
Wanyan Wu Qimai nodded when he heard this and said: "Yes, what the elder brother said is true, and I mean the same thing. I agree with the elder brother's opinion."
After Wanyan Aguda heard this, he thought for a while and said: "It's better to wait a little longer to see what the court means. If we want the court to do something unjust, then it will be justifiable for us to raise troops. Of course, raising troops to rebel We need to start preparing for Liao’s matter now.”
"Okay!" several others replied.
Here, the Wanyan family has reached a unified opinion on raising troops to rebel against the Liao Dynasty, and is making intensive preparations for this.
So, what did the Liao court mean? Why did the Liao court not confer Wanyan Aguda's Jurchen Jiedushi position as usual? Is the Liao court going to replace the post of Zhenjie Du envoy that has been inherited by the Wanyan family for generations?
In fact, the Liao court had no such intention and just forgot about it.
At the imperial court, since Emperor Yelu Yanxi of Tianzuo came to the throne, he spent his whole day either in pursuit of pleasure or hunting and traveling around the country. He forgot about the matter of canonizing Wanyan Aguda as the governor of the Zhenzhen Festival. .
Xiao Wuna, who was in charge of the Huanglong Mansion of the Liao Kingdom at that time, returned to the court for business and met with Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi. After reporting the situation in the Huanglong Mansion, he specifically reminded Yelu Yanxi: "My lord, according to the I have observed that there seems to be something strange happening in the Shengnuzhen tribe; if the imperial court no longer implements the appeasement policy towards Shengnuzhen, it should send troops as soon as possible to destroy the Shengnuzhen tribe to prevent Shengnuzhen from starting an uprising and gain the initiative."
Yelu Yanxi heard the memorial and asked Xiao Wuna: "Have you seen Wanyan Aguda from the Jurchen tribe recently?"
When Xiao Wuna saw the question, he answered truthfully: "Replying to my lord, I have never seen it. My lord, the reason why I said that there was something strange in the Shengnuzhen clan is because the leaders of the Shengnuzhen tribe went to Wanyan Jiedushi. It’s too much, too diligent; and there are signs of a gathering of various tribes when it comes to giving birth to a girl. I report to my lord, in the past, this situation was rare.”
When Yelu Yanxi heard Xiao Wuna's words about "Wanyan Jiedushi", she suddenly remembered that the documents regarding the canonization of Wanyan Aguda as the Zhenjiedushi of Shengnu had not yet been issued, so she hurriedly said to Xiao Wuna: "Stop. ! When you mentioned Wanyan Jiedushi, I remembered that the canonization document regarding his successor as the Jiedushi of Zhenzhen has not yet been issued!"
Xiao Wuna became anxious upon hearing this and said hurriedly: "My lord, if this is the case, the birth of a girl will definitely turn against you!"
Yelu Yanxi asked hurriedly: "Why is this?"
Xiao Wuna said: "My lord, Wanyan Aguda is a man with great ambitions and a very stubborn character. At the beginning of spring, he was kicked out of the tent because he refused to dance for His Majesty at the fish banquet. He was ashamed. He is angry in his heart; in addition, the imperial court did not officially appoint him as his successor more than half a year after the death of the previous Jurchen Jiedushi, he will definitely hold a grudge against the imperial court and raise an army to rebel against the imperial court."
Yelu Yanxi heard this and said nervously: "If that's the case, then I will quickly issue the canonization document and canonize Wanyan Aguda as the Zhenjiedushi of Shengnu."
Xiao Wuna said: "Since it has been delayed, we should send out the message quickly to appease him first; the most important thing is to quickly strengthen the military preparedness against the Jurchens to prevent any unexpected events."
Yelu Yanxi said: "You have filtered this! I think that the Zhenren tribe does not have the strength to fight against the imperial court."
Xiao Wuna replied: "My lord, it is better to prepare as early as possible."
After Xiao Wuna returned to the pilgrimage to see Yelu Yanxi and talked with Yelu Yanxi about the situation of giving birth to the Jurchen tribe, Yelu Yanxi remembered that Wanyan Aguda had not yet issued the canonization document for the Jiedushi of the Jurchen tribe who gave birth to Aguda, so he hurriedly sent The envoy took the canonization document and went to the Wanyan tribe of Shengnuzhen tribe to formally confer Wanyan Aguda as the Jiedu envoy of the Shengnuzhen tribe alliance.
However, at this time, Wanyan Aguda no longer bothered to hold the official position of the Liao Kingdom's Jurchen Tribe Alliance Jiedushi. He wanted to be his own official and appoint himself, completely free from the control of the Liao Kingdom.
The imperial envoys were ordered to rush to the Wanyan tribe where the daughter was born and delivered the canonization letter from the imperial court. Wanyan Aguda received the canonization letter from the Liao court from the envoy. On the surface, he expressed his gratitude and sent someone to the court to return the gift. However, in his heart, he had other intentions, which was to force the court to fall out of favor so that he could take advantage of the situation to cause trouble.
Wanyan Aguda's practice was to ask those who came to the court to return gifts to ask for Ashu from the court.
Because Ashu blocked the imperial court's Eagle Road, the imperial court appointed Wanyan Yingge to conquer it. As a result, Ashu fled to Shangjing alone, pretending to repent, but was actually protected by the imperial court.
In fact, nearly twenty years have passed since this happened, and Ashu City has long been annexed by the Wanyan tribe. At this time, Ashu was already a commoner and had no value at all. Besides, where is Ashu? , even the court didn't know about it. At this time, Wanyan Aguda asked the Liao court for Ashu again, obviously provoking trouble.
For Wanyan Aguda, he had already made up his mind. He knew that as a military envoy entrusted by the Liao court, he issued orders to the Liao court and asked for people who were protected by the court. The Liao court was out of the face and dignity of the suzerain country. Limiting his needs, he will definitely not return it. In that case, he will have reason to rebel against the Liao Dynasty.
Sure enough, the people sent to the court by Wanyan Aguda, after thanking Emperor Tianzuo, bowed to him and said: "Your Majesty, He Shilie's tribe, Ashu, plotted to rebel against the court and block the court's Eagle Road. It is really a heinous crime. . My late lord, under the order of the imperial court, sent out troops to conquer Ashu. He did not hesitate to risk his own arrows and charge into the battle regardless of life and death. The Jurchens suffered heavy casualties and sacrifices in the battle against Ashu. Under my lord's conquest, Ah Shu The city of Shu was destroyed and the imperial road was opened. However, Ashu fled to the capital for nearly twenty years. He is under the protection of the Holy One and is at ease. Before I came, my Lord repeatedly told me to let me stay in the capital. After meeting with the Holy One, I beg the Holy One to return it to Ashu, and my Lord will deal with it according to the rules of the Jurchen clan."
Ouch! Come to me and give orders! who do you think You Are? ! When Emperor Tianzuo heard this, he became furious and said to the people sent by Wanyan Aguda: "Zhuo! You are so unreasonable! The matter about Ashu happened when the late emperor was in power; besides, this matter, The imperial court has already sent people to tell the Jiedushi that you Jurchens can no longer fight with each other. The things you robbed of Ashu must be returned, and the city god who robbed Ashu must be returned to Ashu. Now, you have robbed Ashu. Asu has been the capital of the city for twenty years. Instead of returning Asu's property and the city god, he wants to ask Asu back. What do you want?! You want to rebel?!"
The visitor followed Wanyan Aguda's instructions and said: "Your Majesty, Ashu is a traitor to the imperial court by blocking the Ying Road of the imperial court. The imperial court has appointed the Jurchen Wanyan Jiedu envoy to conquer, and all matters should be handled by the Wanyan Jiedu envoy. Dispose of it; in addition, the people of the Ashunai Jurchen tribe, according to the clan rules, have the right to take the Jurchen girl back and dispose of it."
"You're just farting!" Emperor Tianzuo scolded angrily: "Whose power are you borrowing to dare to speak nonsense in the palace?! Are you borrowing the power of Wanyan Agu to fight?! Wanyan Agu beat the Zhennu tribe of Ren Jiedushi, He is also my vassal, is it possible that I still can't be the master of Ashu's matter?! Go back and tell your Jiedushi that the matter of Ashu is over now, and you are not allowed to mention it again."
Wanyan Aguda's people returned to Shengnuzhenbu and told in detail the situation of going to the court to ask for Ashu.
After Wanyan Agu inquired about it, he became furious and immediately held a clan meeting to discuss how to rebel against the Liao Kingdom.
