Chapter 888: Ferocious beasts do not accompany lambs
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"I will never form an alliance with Li Xia."
"To the east are Hedan, Aluhu, Li Xia, and Father Khan must ally with one of them before he can defeat the other two. Among these three, Hedan is Kublai Khan's dog, and Aluhu betrayed Father Khan."
"No." Brother Alibu expressed his attitude very firmly, saying: "What I want to do is to occupy Kuoduan Ulusi, get the support of Tubo, and then rob Li Xia and the Song Dynasty, fatten horses, cattle and sheep, and sail from the west
Attack Kaiping on the front line and win back the support of the kings..."
Mingli Timur said: "However, if Ahuru and Li Xia form an alliance, we will not be able to occupy Kuoduan Ulusi."
"Ahuru has surrendered to Kublai Khan and will not do this."
"How loyal can he be to Kublai Khan if he can betray his father? The reason is to save his Uluse. He will cooperate with anyone who can help him regain the Yinli River Basin." Mingli Timur advised:
"I think we can either go west and contact Brother Bie'er to attack Hulagu together, or we can go east and join forces with Li Xia to attack Aruhu."
Brother Alibu's face darkened.
In the current situation, it was even more impossible for him to attack Hulagu, and he could only march eastward. However, what Timur said was right.
He shook his head, but still murmured: "I will never form an alliance with Li Xia, I will only defeat him and seize his wealth and food..."
In Ali Buge's eyes, the Han people were his targets to be burned, killed, robbed, and plundered, and they were the spoils of war to be distributed to his supporters.
How can a ferocious beast ally with a lamb? How can it ally with food?
but,
For a moment, Brother Ali looked back and realized that he had been abandoned by the herd.
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If there is a Song Dynasty person here, he will be completely unable to understand how a Mongol Khan could throw away his military power of more than 100,000 troops at a simple moment.
This is the complete difference between the Mongolian system and the Han system.
The Great Mongolia was composed of kings and tribal chiefs. Although Genghis Khan transformed these tribes into tens of thousands or thousands of households, it was still loose and not centralized enough.
The Great Khan is not the emperor, and the Great Khan does not have the troops and horses in the world.
The army of more than 100,000 people who came to Yinli with great force was originally the tribe of the kings. The herdsmen brought women and children. They could mount their horses to fight and dismount their horses to herd. Even the women and children could hunt.
This is why the Mongols were able to easily assemble a large number of troops and quickly march thousands of miles away.
The Mongol Khan did not need to govern herdsmen, manage an army, or have to worry about food and baggage.
This is an advantage that the Han army will never have.
But the Mongolian army is not entirely owned by the Great Khan. The Great Khan just summoned the kings to discuss "Which place should we carve up next?"
Even who should be the Great Khan was discussed with the kings.
The so-called "Kublai Khan betrayed the Great Mongolia" was not because Kublai Khan believed in Buddhism or Confucianism, but because he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor without consulting the kings.
Kublai Khan would also definitely pass on the throne of Khan or the throne to his son.
This goes against the will of too many people in the Golden Family!
Therefore, the kings supported Ali Buge.
With their support, Mobei's 100,000, 200,000, or even the millions of troops in Great Mongolia can be Ali Buge's.
The question is, how much benefit can Alibaba promise them, and how much benefit can he realize?
For more than five years, Ali Buge Khan promised that the Great Mongol Congress would continue to expand and plunder as it did in the past. All kings could entrust more land like Jochi, Chagatai, Batu, and Aruhu...
Small talk.
Unable to expand, in order to win the support of the kings, Ali Buge, the Great Khan, had to spend countless gold to bribe them for five years.
The same goes for Kublai Khan. The two great Khans have actually been using gold to win people's hearts.
Alibu Ge had no choice but to come and rob Arulhu because he didn't have as much gold as Kublai Khan.
But Aluhu had finished robbing, and the kings had eaten and drank enough. When they saw that you, Brother Ali, had no more benefits to give, they turned around and decided to support Kublai Khan, who was richer and more powerful.
Seizing military power?
There is no military power to grab. Brother Ali only has 20,000 men, including Oru, women and children. Only these are his real confidants...
Song people could not understand this.
The Song Dynasty also expected that the battle for the throne of the Khan would be two great Khans fighting each other, with 100,000, 80,000, 70,000, 50,000, 30,000... They expected the Mongolian warriors to die in battle, be consumed, and then pick one up just like they supported the emperor.
Big bargain.
It seems that the Mongolian kings would risk their lives and sacrifice their tribesmen in order to support Alibaba or Kublai Khan.
It seems that Brother Alibaba lost Hara and Lin in one fell swoop, and lost one hundred thousand troops in one fell swoop. What a waste.
The institutional environment is different and there is no comparison at all. The Han people's struggle for the throne is a struggle for legal authority, while the Mongolian people's struggle for the throne is a division of spoils.
It is meaningless to focus on who owns the capital city of Hala and Lin, and who has more troops.
The battle for the throne depends on who the kings' hearts are towards.
If you don't understand Mongolia and don't look at this profit distribution system, you will only think that the Mongolian kings are fools, but it is this group of fools who occupy a vast territory unprecedented in ancient times.
In fact, Alibaba's thinking has always been very clear.
"According to the Mongolian system, you, Kublai Khan, must come back to attend the Kulitai Conference. This is absolute. The Golden Family will never tolerate you claiming to be Khan without consultation."
"How dare you not come back? Betray the Golden Family and fight against the kings on your own? There is no way you can survive."
"..."
"The powerful kings of the Golden Family were defeated by Kublai Khan's Qixue and the Han Dynasty princes? They were left to wait for work because of their long-distance raids? And the cunning Shi Tianze actually attacked the flank, and He Lazhaer turned into a waste because he had not fought for too long.
Is it over?! Helazaar is a loser!"
"We have to wait for the fattening of war horses and cattle and sheep to come again. With the support of the Golden Family, we will eventually be able to... What? The kings secretly accepted Kublai Khan's gold?! How could they do this?! We agreed to stick to the old Mongolian system together
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"Well, I have no choice but to give the kings gold to win them over, otherwise they will turn to Kublai Khan. With the kings like this, it is too uncertain to defeat Kublai Khan, but compared with governance, how can herding be compared?
Can we survive farming? We can only rob, but there is nowhere to rob in Mobei. Alas, let’s wait until Kublai Khan makes a mistake.”
"Five years have passed. The support of the Golden Family has become less and less, and the gold has become less and less. Give Aruhu a khan position, and in exchange, Aruhu should hand over the wealth... What? Aruhu betrayed?"
"I can only take the kings to rob Aruhu... As expected, the kings also betrayed me. This is the Golden Family."
After Ali Buge decided to stick to the old Mongolian system, he actually made no mistakes at all.
He was wrong from the beginning. He believed in a group of clan kings who were powerful on the surface but were actually dead weight. He believed that the methods of his ancestors would definitely allow him to win.
It was the kings of the Golden Family who opposed Kublai Khan the most fiercely and encouraged and supported him to fight against Kublai Khan. In the end, they betrayed him first.
It’s not that Ali is stupid, he is already one of the most outstanding among the Mobei kings of the Golden Family.
In terms of intelligence and martial prowess, none of the hundred nobles can compare with him.
Even Guyuk, who was bossed around by his mother and wife, could lead Mongolia to prosper... That was during the period of expansion.
Nowadays, not only is the Mongolians' enthusiasm for expansion fading, but the world's population and wealth are also decreasing. Alibaba is also surrounded by the hinterland of the Great Mongolia.
If his fiefdoms were exchanged with Kublai Khan's, he might still be able to get compensation from the Song Dynasty... maybe.
For the time being, we will not mention the dense rivers in the Huaihe River and the mountains in Sichuan and Shu. We will not mention that the Jin Kingdom also wanted to take compensation from the Song Dynasty, and we will not mention the Diaoyu City where Meng Ge died. At least there is a direction for expansion.
Maybe Brother Alibu could reduce the entire Han region to grassland, establish a country like Hulagu, and be canonized as a Monan Khanate.
Unfortunately, he could only lead a group of clan kings who were reluctant to fight, and compete with Kublai Khan for governance, wealth, and winning hearts.
Finally, these clan kings patted their butts and said: "The Khan is right, it is more comfortable for us to sit down and collect taxes."
And this "Great Khan" already refers to Kublai Khan.
After all, although Kublai Khan proclaimed himself emperor and changed the name of his country, the Mongols still called him "Great Khan" and called Dayuan "Great Mongolia". Kublai Khan never changed these, they were used together.
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Expansion stops and chaos leads to governance. This is the trend of history.
The loose old Mongolian system and bandit mentality, which represented the expansion, were defeated by the more centralized Han system and imperial mentality, which represented the disengagement of governing the country. This is an inevitable result.
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"The ancestors described modifications and adapted Chinese methods."
Brother Alibu thought about it, looked up at Changshengtian, and sighed.
These horoscopes were said by Kublai Khan.
The idea of saying that the great Genghis Khan is no longer enough, and now it is time to step down and rule the world. If the people of the world want peace, then there will be no war anyway, so there is no need to discuss the position of Great Khan or Emperor. From now on, it will all be decided by my descendants, Kublai Khan.
Come on. As for you sect kings, just feel free to collect taxes and let lamb profits...
The kings care about their bastard ancestors. The kings only care about interests! Interests! Interests!
In the final analysis, whoever can give more benefits is right.
For a moment, Brother Ali wanted to surrender.
He was the brother of Kublai Khan, so why should he let those useless kings take over the fiefdom and continue to enjoy themselves?
It was said that Kublai Khan betrayed the Golden Family, but now that the Golden Family has betrayed him, Ali is not his brother, so why are we still fighting?
However, a trace of uneasiness flashed through my mind, thinking that with Lao Si’s gloomy temperament, he wondered if he would harm himself in the future just like Wokuotai killed Abu?
Otherwise, what should we do? We can't really form an alliance with Li Xia, right?
Brother Alibu looked to the east, as if he saw a crack in Kublai Khan's power like a stone... That was the crack created by Li Xia.
He then gave up the idea of surrender.
Leaving aside whether to join the alliance or plunder, he wanted to go to the east.
Because of his decision, the direction of history seems to be pushed a little further at this moment...
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"Hahaha, kill these despicable lustful people."
"The Great Khan has an order to accept the surrender of these lustful people."
"..."
Desuamu was kneeling on the ground, and blood was dripping on the ground more than twenty steps in front of him. Several herdsmen were lying on the ground holding their heads and crying bitterly.
At this time, the Mongolian soldiers on the opposite side suddenly stopped slaughtering.
They were lucky enough to survive the butcher's knife.
In this way, Desuamu was brought in front of Alibu. He tried hard not to look away from the pool of blood and corpses everywhere.
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"Great Khan, please accept us devout slaves..."
Brother Alibu drove his horse forward, looked at Desuamu coldly, and said: "You shot the coward Xue Qianhu of this Khan."
Desuamu quickly knelt down and said: "Ignorant herdsman Desuamu..."
"Tell Ben Khan, where did the despicable traitor Aruhu escape to?"
"Khotan." Desu'amu responded respectfully: "I heard that Aruhu led the remaining army to flee to Khotan."
"Where is Khotan?"
"On the southern edge of the Taklimakan Desert..."
Brother Alibu scolded: "Do you think Ben Khan can't cross the desert?!"
"I don't dare, I don't dare. The Great Khan's iron hooves can trample every corner of the world, as long as the Great Khan is willing." Desuamu said: "I will never dare to deceive the Great Khan."
It's not that Ali Buge doesn't want to walk in the desert, but he is worried that Desuamu is lying to him.
"Tell me about Khotan."
"Yes, Khotan is one of the four towns in Anxi in the Tang Dynasty. The monarch is the Yuchi family. Two hundred years ago, Kara Khan destroyed the Yuchi family and established the country of Khotan. Kara Khan was of the same clan as our Gaochang Uighurs, but he attacked us several times. Of course.
,Now we are all subjects of the Great Mongolia..."
With Desuamu's introduction, Brother Alibu probably understood Aruhu's current situation.
He is not afraid of the desert, but it is obvious that Khotan is barren and not as good as Liangzhou, let alone Guanlong.
"Do you know how to get to Liangzhou by bypassing Beishi Bali?"
"To bypass Beslos eight miles to the east, we can only go through the desert, the Great Khan."
"Be my guide, and from now on you will be my thousand households." Brother Alibu said, "Be wise to Timur, give him a silver tiger talisman."
Desuamu quickly thanked him.
Mingli Timur threw a silver tiger talisman in front of him and said: "Share the cattle and sheep with the warriors of the Great Khan. Take your tribe with you and follow the Great Khan to plunder pastures with richer water and grass..."
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A fire was ignited, and the village, which had not seen a war for a century, was burned to the ground.
Bodies, farmland, and fruit trees were shrouded in billowing black smoke.
The cattle and sheep were driven away, and the Uighurs who lost their homes became guides and warriors, leading their Khans to the southeast.
No one asked Desuamu how he felt.
This is a world where the strong are respected, and he can only feel honored...