When Jen Shu rested from his conquests it was Fall in the year of the Carp. The Golden Tribe had eliminated 65 tribes from the Sea of Grass, burned six cities and threw down one of stone; and none remember their names. His Bataro numbered 90,000 men, 110,000 horse and margons which carried gerg of wood. His Ordaru had women without counting. The Golden Tribe carried the tarred heads of:
Hako the Oni
Hyun Shik of the Red Stone People
Kang Shin of the Spotted Horse
Chun Mul of the Red Tribe, slayer of a Gaki
Arog the Claw Hand
Ko the Horned
Marhen Gozu Gaki
Wunk Blue-Skin
Grothmak the Andari Slayer
Jin Huk of the White Tribe
Sungyu the Noble of the Great Grass People
Shun the Horseman of the Valley
Yuudai the Wealthy of the Bamboo People
Taiki the Tall and his son Taikishi of the Yellow River
Monad of the Bush People
Then Jen Shu looked out over the Ordaru and choosing a bride for himself sought to make an heir. For three Summers the gergs of the Golden Tribe remained in the wide valley and still his wife was not with child.
So Jen Shu looked out over the Ordaru and took also three concubines into his tent. Each of them was found to be with child, and delivered, in the year of the shrew, but still the wife of Jen Shu did not conceive. Three daughters had Jen Shu and he named them Miyabe and Chiro and Shu after each of the valleys which he had tamed.
And having no son born to him, Jen Shu did not cease in his efforts to gain one, but his efforts were in vain. In eleven Summers he had eleven daughters who were born after Miyabe and Chiro and Shu. But to him, no son was given.
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