The Immortal of the Aztecs
Chapter 1546

Off to Harbin, to Buy Horses!

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"Blood Eye's Main God bear witness! The Three Guards of Duoyan are also called 'Ujiyete,' or the 'Three Guards of Uriankhai.' And the 'Ujiyete' and 'Uriankhai' here are actually the same as the 'Wuzhe' our tribes often speak of—they all carry the meaning of 'mountain forests.' So these Three Guards of Duoyan were originally tribes living among the 'mountain forests,' and their ancestors were actually very close to our Jurchen tribes of the forests. There was much intermarriage, and communication between them was very smooth. You could say they're half Mongol and half Jurchen tribes. It's only because the Mongols are powerful that they call themselves Mongol. If one day we Jurchens rise, they could also become Jurchen..."

"When the Taizu Emperor was alive, he campaigned many times against the remnants of the Northern Yuan, subdued these 'Ujiyete' tribes, and formally enfeoffed the Three Guards. Among them, the 'Duoyan Guard' originated from the 'Uriankhai Tribes,' meaning the tribal descendants of the thousand-household of 'Jebe,' one of the four dogs enfeoffed under Genghis Khan's tent. The 'Taining Guard' originated from the 'Ongniud Tribe,' a proper 'Ongniud' princely domain tribe, that is, the tribal descendants of Genghis Khan's youngest brother Temüge Otchigin. As for the last one, the 'Fuyu Guard,' it originated from the northern forest sea, and can be regarded broadly as the 'people of the forest,' a branch of the 'Uriankhai Tumen.' Though they claim to have the bloodline of Jochi Qasar, Genghis Khan's second younger brother, the Mongol tribes actually don't recognize it. Like the 'people of the forest' in the far north, most of their tribesmen are Northern Mountain Wildmen who migrated south, and their language is also close to ours. It's just that under Mongol influence, they became Mongols..."

Harman Tribe chieftain Ali stretched out a finger,

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