Shatu Seven Tribes

“Eighty years ago, in order to vie over the Shatu Alliance’s Chanyu’s throne, a great civil war broke out between the Shatu tribes. The known Shatu Seven Tribes were the Shatu people’s tribes which consisted of the Dark Razor Tribe, the Dark Mountain Tribe, the Dark Wood Tribe, the Earthen Desert Tribe, the Coyote Tribe, the Stormy Plain Tribe, and the Stormy River Tribe. These seven tribes were defeated as well as the fortunate survivors during the Shatu Civil War. They were hunted by other victorious Shatu tribes. When they were at the end of their rope, the seven Shatu tribes brought along several million clan members to flee from calamity and they came to the border of our Great Han Empire. They expressed their willingness to submit to the Great Han Empire to become our empire’s subjects. They begged our empire to accept them. Due to this reason, the Shatu Seven Tribes existed within the borders of our Great Han Empire!”

“Back then when the Great Han Empire received the Shatu Seven Tribes, the empire permitted them to move to Mount Vast Cloud which lies in the common border between Gan Province and Feng Province as well as the Gulang Plains for settlement. The empire also offered a lot of assistance, hoping to make the Shatu people become a protective shield between us and the Black Ram tribe. Many years passed, and the Shatu Seven Tribes which only had several million men before now have a population that has expanded nearly tenfold. In addition, the man who highly supported accepting the Shatu Seven Tribes in the imperial court had already been the empire’s prime minister (the Grand Chancellor) for a long time. That man treated the sheltered Shatu people as his own merits and achievements. A few years ago, he even issued the Writ of Grace, permitting the Shatu people within the Gan and Feng Provinces to enjoy preferential treatments such as minor offenses that would not be pursued, no tolls to enter the city, riding horses into the city, and such. As time went on, the Shatu Seven Tribes was already practicing insubordination and was dissatisfied with small gains. Thus, they began to seize the authorities and making noise, even to the extent of rebelling and vandalizing. And the upper echelons would side with the Shatu people every time during this time period. The situation in Pingxi City isn’t considered to be too serious yet. In some areas of Feng Province, the Shatu Seven Tribes territories are expanding day after day. In some rural counties, they are now completely under the rule of the Shatu people. Nobody dared to control them even when they committed a crime. The Chinese are instead being forced aside until they have nowhere else to stay. Quite a number of them have fled with their families in succession…”