Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven Wanyan

After four years, what he said at the beginning has been confirmed.On the night of Lugou Bridge in October of the first year of Zhenghe (AD 1111), he told Tong Guan that the Liao Kingdom must perish and would collapse very quickly. At that time, Tong Guan's first reaction was that he was dumbfounded, and his second reaction was that he was stunned.Liao Kingdom, the most powerful country in East Asia, will it die if you say it is dead?It's easy to deceive me because I'm a eunuch. Is this a new trick of the Liao Kingdom? !So he was happy and vaguely looking forward to it, but at the same time he brought Ma Zhi back to the Song Dynasty.

It seems that Ma Zhibiao followed him loyally, but Tong Guan actually put him under house arrest.For such an important matter, there is no room for deceit, even casual remarks. Who knows what intentions you have, you must keep it with you at all times, and wait for the news to be confirmed before you can characterize this person. In four years, some things spread across the continent, from the northeast to the southwest of the Liao Kingdom, and were known by the Song Dynasty.Generally speaking, everything started with the hedonistic life of Emperor Yelu Yanxi of the Liao Kingdom. Yelu Yanxi, also known as Emperor Tianzuo.This old man and Zhao Ji are very close, and their life trajectories overlap almost every moment.

From enthronement to peak, from slide to neighbor. Yelu Yanxi became the emperor a year earlier than Zhao Ji. When he became emperor, he was radiant. He was much more frightening than Zhao Ji's diligence. The ministers who killed his parents, the whole family who were alive were killed, and the graves of the dead were all dug.After the bloodbath, he started to have fun.It has to be admitted that he is far inferior to Zhao Ji in this regard. Limited by the production and cultural conditions in the north, he only knows how to run horses and hunt, worship Buddha and build pagodas, and he seems to have no creativity.

However, he has character. There are fewer species in the north than in the south, and the maturity period of the same species is slower than that in the south. Correspondingly, the quality of species after maturity is very high, which can be compared with non-southern fast-growing animals and plants. The Liao Kingdom, a huge empire spanning the northern border for more than 200 years, has exhausted all the rare treasures in the north, and naturally there are one or two things that are not found in the southern Jinxiu rivers and mountains.The most famous of them is Beizhu. Beads, as the name suggests, are pearls.I am ashamed to say that our country claims to be vast and rich in resources, but it is too single in terms of jewelry varieties. There are no rubies, sapphires, opals, diamonds... nothing in the whole territory, only pearls are produced in the southern sea area, and Hetian jade in the northwest.Neither of these can be guaranteed, because better pearls are produced in the south, such as Singapore; Hotan... In ancient times, it was sometimes owned by China, and sometimes it was independent, and the production volume cannot be guaranteed at all.

Beizhu is especially precious in this situation.How precious it is. Later, the crowns of officials in the Qing Dynasty were decorated with bead beads, and prisoners could reduce their sentences if they collected bead beads. Precious, one is because of its beauty; the other is because of the difficulty of picking.Beizhu can only mature in the icy sea water after October every year.At this time, no matter how strong a man is, he can't dive into the deep water to pick it up. How to do it?The trend of profit is irresistible.Human beings in the feudal period also had a way to get the North Pearl hidden at the bottom of the ice sea.

After careful observation, people at the beach found that a kind of swan appeared at this time every year. They dived deep into the ice sea and fed on the mother mussels of Beizhu. The inedible Beizhu was contained in their crops. . Swans fly high in the sky, and even the best archer can't hit them in a strong sea breeze environment.What to do?It was also discovered that swans have a natural enemy, a small but extremely fierce bird of prey named "Swan Blue". Costinus is a legendary bird. It cannot be found in the modern encyclopedia of birds, but it existed before 1113 AD. Without it, everything after that would not exist. .

Costin feeds on swans, so as long as you can get Costin, you will be able to catch live swans and cut them open to get pearls.Therefore, all the focus is on Costin. How to get this bird?How to tame it? At this time, the noble and powerful Khitan people curled their lips. This is a risky and inferior job, and it is only suitable for those inferior people to do it. They just need to wait for Beizhu. Inferior ethnic groups, such as Jurchen. The Jurchens have a long history, dating back to the pre-Qin period, when they were called "Sushen".Jurchen or Nuzhi is a later transliteration.Although they have a long history, they did not mix well. Until the establishment of the Liao Kingdom, they were still at the end of the primitive society and were about to enter the slave society. Most of them were scattered in the Heilongjiang and Songhua River basins, living by hunting and fishing.

Those who were close to the border of the Liao Kingdom were called mature Jurchen, who were already subjects of the Liao Kingdom; those who lived north of the Songhua River and east of Ningjiang Prefecture (southeast of Fuyu, Jilin today) were called Sheng Jurchen, who were in a free state. The job of catching Haidongqing was assigned to Mature Nuzhen. They are the northernmost subordinates of the Liao Kingdom. Who would they do?But the terrible thing is that Hai Dongqing lived farther than them, all the way north to the site of Shengjuzhen. Everyone can think about it, even if it is a brother of the same family with the same surname, there is a good thing in the compound of family A, and family B says to open the door and I will take it. Is it possible?If I really want to take it, I can only grab it with a kitchen knife.

The mature woman who took over the task every year, carried a knife and gun to the family brother's house to rob Haidongqing.Every year in the ice and snow, year after year, a large number of corpses are thrown away, some young eagle eggs are snatched, and they are given to the Liao people for nothing. When the Liao people came to fetch the eagle, it was even more humiliating for the Jurchens.The "silver medal angels" sent out by the Liao Kingdom every year are extorting and blackmailing.This is unbearable, straight mother thief, you are really a bully! I can't bear it...but I still have to bear it. One day, the Han people can burst out with a sense of sacredness and shout the slogan "the most reasonable" in the world, but when they go out of the Han Dynasty, these four words are a super fun joke.

The Khitan people, the Dangxiang people, the Cochin people, and even more people from different races in the surrounding area will smile and wave to this slogan, come here, I will let you know what is the biggest. Big fist is the biggest! Therefore, the Jurchens can only bear it, and if they can't bear it, wait for the country to die.What's more, recommending a pillow is just one kind of humiliation, and there are many more humiliating. In comparison, all kinds of bullying on Eagle Road are good. , More often they have to take the initiative to approach the emperor of the Liao Kingdom, singing, laughing and dancing, pretending to be a bear or a wild deer to make the people of the Liao Kingdom happy.

What a humiliation. For example, the annual "head fish feast".This is a very unique kind of banquet. In the very cold winter, it is mostly held around the New Year in February of the lunar calendar, and the place is usually in the Huntong River (now Songhua River).At that time, the river was blocked by heavy snow, and the jade belt was thousands of miles away.In this environment, the imperial tent of the Liao Kingdom was set up, and the leaders of various tribes came to see them.The guards broke through the ice, caught the first batch of fish, and used this batch of fish to pay homage to the Khitan emperor. This is the head fish feast. It sounds very elegant and looks very interesting, but this is really a big difficulty for the leaders of these remote tribes. At this time, they lose their freedom and dignity and become toys for the Liao people. If the emperor wanted to hunt, they went to Hulu; if they wanted to watch long-distance hunting, they had to shoot tigers; Now, they have to dance and sing for fun. It was like this every year, and it was the same in the second year of Liao Tianqing. At that time, Yelu Yanxi was drinking happily, and ordered the chiefs to enter the arena and dance for me. Next question, is it a group dance or a solo dance? Come one by one. As a result, the chiefs of all ethnic groups and tribes brewed their emotions and moved their bodies, and then went off to dance one by one.One after another, happy and happy again, Yelu Yanxi's interest reached a climax, but was suddenly interrupted. The stage was cold, the front danced, but the dancers in the back sat still.The eyes of the audience looked over and found that it was a burly man.The man was tall and strong, with a majestic appearance, and he sat icily, motionless. The person next to him asked, "Why don't you dance?" "I won't." He answered firmly without saying anything, and kept his gaze fixed on the Emperor of Liao Kingdom. Yelu Yanxi jumped up violently. This was a provocation, a naked, first-ever face-to-face provocation!Absolutely intolerable, kill him. This was a historical moment, he drew out his knife, and wanted to chop off this little flea that dared to spoil his fun with his own hands.At this moment, it was like Song Zhezong was lying on the hospital bed, fate gave him the initiative again and again, as long as he caught it once, history would be rewritten.The same is true for Yelu Yanxi, as long as he cuts it down, everything will be fine, and it will be over once and for all. Unfortunately, he was stopped.Xiao Sixian, his favorite minister, said with a smile, it's really not worth getting angry for a barbarian, not to mention that if you kill him, you will frighten the toys around, who will play with you in the future? yes?Yelu Yanxi slowly put down the knife. He grew up with hatred, and he was especially sensitive to Yelu Yixin's treacherous officials. What could a high-ranking official in the capital of the Liao Kingdom have anything to do with this unscrupulous person in a poor land. No connection, no conspiracy, he sat down slowly, yes, it's not worth disappointing for a little flea...Come on, jump up, and continue to have fun.In this way, the day was full and danced enough, all parties left, no one died or shed blood, and no one paid any attention to who was that stupid young man who claimed that he couldn't dance. The stunned young man is called Wanyan Aguda, and he is a born Jurchen.He lived near Anchuhushui (now Ash River).Ordinarily, he didn't have the so-called humiliation of recommending pillows, let alone being bullied by silver medal angels. Why was he so hostile to the emperor of Liao? Everyone knows that he can dance, but he won't dance for you! Of course there is a reason for this. As I said earlier, mature women are really hard. They have to kill people and rob eagles every year, causing a lot of casualties.But what about Jurchen?No one was recruited, no one was offended, and he was chopped off every year. The reason is because of Yelu Yanxi and the Daliao Kingdom. Wanyan Aguda is a free-born northern hero. He is not raised as a slavish man like Mature Jurchen. If he is unhappy, he will not cooperate.Of course, like his behavior just now, people can praise his arrogance if he is not dead and has a miraculous development in the future; The important thing is that he didn't die, and after rushing back to his hometown in the wind and snow, another adventure was waiting for him. This time, Wanyan Aguda attended the head fish feast instead of his older brother Wu Shuya.Wu Shuya is the patriarch of this generation of Wanyan Jurchen, and Aguda is his second brother. The world was the same hundreds of years ago, no matter the East or the West, no matter the feudal society or the slave society, everything was given priority to the eldest son.Such as Wu Shuya and Aguda.Even if Wushuya is honest and weak, and Aguda is strong and shrewd, they can't change their order of succession. Aguda can only obey his elder brother, even if he is asked to participate in the humiliating head fish feast, he can only be obedient. However, when he returned to his hometown full of anger, he suddenly found that his brother had died of illness. From the time he entered the door, he had already been the supreme leader of the Wanyan Jurchen.This is something he never dreamed of, because in his family, it is really not easy for him to be the head of the family in terms of seniority. Looking at the history of the Wanyan Jurchen, they have been in the half-primitive and half-slavery era of muddling along. When the Han nationality evolved for thousands of years and reached the Song Dynasty, they still had nothing worth recording. Therefore, their history books are blank until Aguda's grandfather Ugnai.Ugunai was one of a large and scattered Jurchen tribe at the time, slightly stronger, but without an advantage.What I do every day, apart from hunting in the mountains, is to go to other tribes to kill people and rob things.Same thing, everyone is the same.In the process, he did something different. There is a tribe next to the Wanyan tribe called Wuguo Punie, which betrayed the Liao Kingdom.Naturally, the Liao Kingdom sent heavy troops to attack.Does this have anything to do with Ugnah?It seems to be a little bit, the people of the Liao Kingdom did not pay their soldiers when they fought, and the soldiers robbed while fighting, which often resulted in the order to destroy one tribe when they raised their troops, and wiped out seven or eight when they retreated. For the sake of his own safety, Ugnu had to be careful.The usual way is to move all of them, hide out, and come back after the limelight is over. If you are lucky, you can swallow the remnants of the Five Kingdoms Punie tribe and make a small fortune. This is a practice, it is the experience summed up by tribes living in severe cold regions for thousands of years, and it has long been proved to be the most correct.But Ugunai didn't do that. He sent someone to contact the Liao army, saying that the terrain here is too harsh to deploy heavy troops. If they attack by force, the Punie tribe of the Five Kingdoms can survive for at least a year, and the Liao army will suffer a lot of losses. Big, the generals will not be able to communicate. Ugunai suggested that this should be left to him. After the Liao army agreed, Ugunai set off.He didn't bring a knife or gun, but took his wife and son, plus a large number of gifts to meet the leader of the Five Kingdoms Punie Department.When the other party saw him, he immediately regarded him as a brother. Bringing a gift, maybe a weasel giving a New Year greeting to the chicken, but even the wife and son have brought it, do you still have to doubt it?What's more, Ugunai also played a trick. He went home by himself, but left his wife and son on the opponent's territory.How, dear brother, I really want to make friends with you! The Punie tribe of the Five Kingdoms was completely moved, and then Ugunai sent troops to attack them unexpectedly and killed them by surprise.Things have developed to this point, generally speaking, you're done.But Ugunai's actions are even more incomprehensible. He gave all the captives and trophies to the Liao people, and kept nothing for himself.The Jurchen was very angry, it was a good thing for the whole tribe, she shed blood to grab it, but gave it to others for nothing.I don't even think about it, people from the Liao Kingdom want criminals, and what we want is money. Doing this... Is there anything more stupid than this in the world? The answer is yes, after more than a hundred years, there will be a person who stands at the top of all human military exploits and has done this kind of thing.History has proved that people who do such things have huge plans and far-reaching visions, which are beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. Soon after, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom summoned Ugunai and named him the Jiedu envoy of the Jurchen Ministry.From then on, the Jurchen of the Wanyan tribe rose to the top in one step and became the official leader of the birth Jurchen.Wu Gunai hacked people around, and every time he stabbed, he carried the license of the emperor of Liao. This is the origin and family history of the Aguda family.From these, we can see the characteristics of this surname and this race.Needless to say, being brave and good at fighting is the foundation of their existence. On top of this, the Wanyan family is smart, cunning, cruel, and adventurous. In order to achieve their goals, they don't care about any means, even the lives of their wives and children. I have calculated carefully, counting the ethnic minorities who have dominated East Asia from ancient times to the present, there are some who are more accomplished than them, and some are more capable than them, but none are more cruel and cruel than them. Note that it specifically refers to the ethnic minorities who have established a country and occupied at least half of China's territory. U Gu Nai is the founder of Wanyan Jurchen, and he made three contributions.In terms of importance, getting an official position in the Liao Kingdom can only be ranked second, and the other two points really determine the fate of the Wanyan tribe. First, military status. After he got the title of Jiedushi, the Liao people engraved the official seal for him, repaired the official office, and formulated various rules and regulations.In a word, this official is quite formal, and the Liao Kingdom does not mean to discriminate in the slightest. But Ugunai refused, being a smart man, he immediately realized where the core of the problem was.If he accepts, is he "raw" or "cooked"? He was originally a Jurchen, and after he got an official position in the Liao Kingdom, he could use the opportunity to expand his power.But if he joins the Liao army and regulates the level of administration, how much autonomy does he still have? Therefore, this must be rejected. He succeeded, I don't know what method he used, what kind of words he said, he not only refused the official seal, but also kept the title, and he didn't make the people of Liao angry.This is fascinating, he got everything he wanted, but pushed all the costs that came with it.What is left to future generations is a bright road of free development. Second, ironware. At that time, the Jurchen tribe lived a life of fishing and hunting. We know that an important symbol of human beings at this level is the quality of weapons.They can only use naturally occurring things in nature, such as stones, wooden sticks, and bows and arrows, but the components used are all green components, such as animal tendons for strings, wooden planks for bent tires, and arrows for sharpened bones. If you want to use ironware, I'm sorry, but it requires the cooperation of a series of complex work such as mining, furnace setting, smelting, hammering and forging. For how difficult it is, please refer to the movie "Five Golden Flowers" after the founding of New China. In the 1960s, finding iron ore in the deep mountains was a matter of luck, not to mention the Jurchens who didn't even have a written word in the 11th century! So, they thought there was only one way to use ironware - to buy.This makes the Jurchens want to cry without tears. Let the fishing and hunting tribes buy monopoly products from the feudal country. It is like letting the unemployed vagrants in the electric meter factory community of Haicheng city marry the princess Aitula of the United Arab Emirates. The possibility Yes, operability is too difficult. Ugnai solved this problem with both diligence and honesty.Every day he rode a horse and led people to rush to one tribe after another, fighting people to death, and snatching countless good things. This is hard work. Take these things to find merchants, no matter how high the price is, they are unambiguous, buy iron in large quantities for a long time, and establish a strong cooperative relationship. This is integrity. After he died, his sons buried him sadly, and continued to move forward firmly along the road he walked, that is, to continue to rob, and rob a large area, so that Jiedushi's reputation became stronger and stronger.Buy iron, buy it continuously, enrich your troops, strengthen your combat effectiveness, and invest in a new wave of robbery.In such a cycle, life after life, in this process, the sons of Ugunai left behind their own characteristics of robbery. One, impeach the bowl. He was a savage, one of the roughest and most passionate heists ever done.He never wore armor when he went into battle. He was shirtless in summer and unlined in winter. Fighting in battle was like visiting someone else's house for a walk. The Huannan, Sanda, Wuchun, Womouhan and other tribes visited by him no longer existed, and they were swallowed by him into the Wanyan tribe.After the tribe grew to a certain extent, he added a new title to himself, called "Dubo Jilie".From then on, the Jurchen tribe had its own class division, and a prototype appeared. At that time, no one knew what it could become, but it was unique compared with the surroundings. Xie Libo is the key figure connecting the past and the future. Wu Gunai gave Wanyan Jurchen a sign of development, and Xie Libo turned this sign into reality. Second, it's quite sloppy. He is the second younger brother of Libo, and he will be the head of the family after his elder brother dies, even if Libo has eleven sons, there is nothing he can do.Because this is a semi-primitive and semi-slavery tribe, the father died and the son succeeded, and the power was inherited as an inheritance, which was a good thing only in the feudal society. Po Lashu died of illness after being the leader for four years. Time has determined that he is only a transitional figure. Three, Brother Ying. Brother Ying is also a transitional character, but he survives because of another name, that person is "Ashu".A Shu was the leader of the Heshi Lie tribe, and because he lived very close to the Wanyan tribe, his fate was tragic without exception.The only thing that is a little special is that Ah Shu was very clever, and when he found something wrong, he escaped alone and hid in the territory of Liao Kingdom. The story of Ah Shu is very long, and it looks like the annual rings of the Liao Kingdom. Fourth, Wu Shuya. Another transitional figure, the eldest son of Libo, he finally killed all the uncles and returned the position of leader to the family of Libo. Three transitional talents appeared in a series of transitional talents in the Wanyan Department with a little foundation just now. It feels like a flash in the pan, and the good times are gone.But the strange thing is that all three of these people have one characteristic - they die quickly. In their quick deaths one after another, no one's solid imprint was branded on the newly emerging Wanyan Department, making it difficult for latecomers to control; nor was anyone able to dominate and ruin the newly accumulated family business.The most important thing is that they all died, when Wanyan Aguda grew into a prime of life and was in high spirits.