Chapter 7 Chapter Six

In the battle of conquering other tribes, Shi Lu won every battle, and many small tribes around him joined Wanyan tribe one after another.However, what Shi Lu never imagined was that after he won a beautiful battle, he took a lot of spoils on his way back to the Wanyan tribe, and died in another country. What happened? When Shi Lu conquered other tribes, he won a battle. The battle was well fought, and the small tribes joined them one after another. They captured a lot of spoils, probably pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep.Among the six animals, the Jurchens valued horses the most. They didn't use horses easily. They only rode horses when they were fighting, and they didn't usually ride.Unlike the grassland peoples, wild horses are in a herd, and when a horse dies, just put on a horse and pull it away. Jurchen can’t do it. There are not as many horses as there are on the grassland. Maybe one cavalry only has one horse, unlike when the Khitan people marched , three to five horses per person.When there is no war, the Jurchens usually walk on foot. Horses are too precious to ride, let alone carry things on them. I would rather carry them on my own. I will carry a pig if I capture it. I cannot let the horse carry it, otherwise the horse will be tired. I can't fight the next war.Therefore, every time the Jurchens returned from victory, they carried the spoils and walked slowly while leading the horse.

When they reached a place called Puyan, the Jurchens couldn't move anymore.We have to rest. The pig I personally carried is too heavy, and the army camped.It is said that the army may only have a hundred or so people.After setting up camp, Shi Lu asked his men, what is the name of this place where we rested?The entourage said it was called Pu Yan.When Shi Lu heard it, servant Yan?Isn't this what the Jurchen language means?How can we rest on the sores?No, we have to hurry.Shi Lu continued on his way with his men.During this journey, due to excessive fatigue and bad weather, Shi Lu contracted a serious illness and was dying.

The room was leaking and it was raining all night. After Shi Lu fell ill, when everyone was anxiously surrounding him, there were robbers attacking him.This is incomprehensible according to today's concept. In the primitive clan era, everything was public, so how could there be robbers?But the history books clearly say "there are thieves", because the "Golden History" was compiled by the people of the Yuan Dynasty, and it was compiled when the Yuan Dynasty was about to perish, so it may be that the civil officials who compiled the "Golden History" followed their habits at that time. understand.According to the situation at that time, it is possible that they were not robbers, but refugees from the tribes scattered by Shi Lu. They may have come to rob things, or they may have come to take revenge. In short, they came to attack the Shi Lu tribe.Shi Lu hurriedly stood up to fight. In order to get rid of these robbers, the Shilu tribe fought and left. The fifth generation leader of the Jurchen, Emperor Zhaozu Shilu, the then head of Shilu Village died on the way.

After Shi Lu passed away, his body was packed up and prepared to be transported back to his tribe for burial.But the robbers behind him pursued him closely and became interested in Shi Lu's body.They didn't know that Shi Lu had passed away, and when they saw a group of people guarding such a thing and slowly moving forward, they felt that this thing must be very precious.So the robbers rushed up and snatched Shi Lu's body away. When they got back, they lifted the lid of the coffin.When Shi Lu's clan saw that the leader's body had been snatched away, it was a terrible thing. Everyone fought hard and finally got Shi Lu's body back—of course, it may have been abandoned by the robbers.No matter what, Shi Lu finally returned to his tribe and was able to be buried, so that his body would not be thrown into the wilderness or buried in a foreign land.

In the history of the Jurchen nation, Shi Lu formulated laws and regulations, unified the tribe, perfected his own tribe, began to expand outward, and merged some small tribes into it.In fact, what Shi Lu did was the first step for Jurchen to move from a tribe to a country. After Shi Lu, who succeeded him?What role did the successor play in Jurchen history?