Chapter 3 Section 2 From Korea

The Jurchen nation, which grew up between the white mountains and the black waters, is a powerful nation, and they will never be in a position of being ruled forever.So how did the Jurchen nation gradually develop and become stronger?Who is the leading brother who leads them step by step to become powerful? According to the records in "Golden History", the ancestor who led the Jurchen nation out of barbarism was named Wanyan Hanpu, not a Jurchen, but a Korean.Hanpu probably came to the Jurchen territory at the end of the Tang Dynasty, because there is no exact record in the historical records, and the Jurchens had no written language at that time, so it is not known whether he came to relax or to work.

When Hanpu entered the Jurchen land, he was over sixty years old and alone. After coming here, he made a living by gathering, fishing and hunting.He was active in the Jurchens tribe all day long, and he was very kind. He got along well with the Jurchens, and his popularity was very good.The Jurchens knew that he was from Goryeo, and Goryeo was more civilized than here, so the Jurchens asked Hanpu to do things.What's the matter?A Jurchen tribal chief told Hanpu that our tribe often fights with other tribes—it’s not that there were no wars in the prehistoric civilization era, and the wars at that time may be more cruel, sometimes for a small piece of grassland, a water source, In a piece of woodland, the brains of people can play the brains of dogs.Whenever there is a fight, we have casualties, and we also have a particularly bad custom here. If a neighboring tribe kills a member of our tribe, all tribes will go to revenge.If you kill one of us, I kill two of you, and the other tribe does the same. If you kill two of us, I kill four of you.We're all tired of this endless vendetta.We don't have many people in total. If we kill and kill like this, more people will die than live. The continued negative growth of the tribe's population is not a solution.But we couldn't find a solution to it.How can we get everyone to stop the vendetta?You are an outsider and you are from Korea. Can you mediate for us so that we can stop the vendetta?If you do this, old man, you are alone, without a wife, and no one to take care of you. There is a sixty-year-old virtuous woman in our tribe, and I don’t know why she hasn’t married at the age of sixty. The age is also similar, we are going to marry this virtuous woman to you, and you will officially become a member of our tribe.

When Hanpu heard it, it was easy, wasn't it just persuasion?I can do this, don't worry.Hanpu went to a neighboring tribe.