The Kuritai Congress, to some extent, should be regarded as the highest authority in Mongolia, because it can not only decide on military operations, but also elect the Great Khan.
Of course, it can also decide other major events. For example, in the Yuan Dynasty, it can also decide the abolition of the king.
The participants of the Kulitai Conference are also different from the similar system in the Central Plains. "Concubines, princes, relatives, ministers, generals, deacons and those attached to the four directions of the court are all present."
Look at Mongolia, the concubines have always been able to participate in politics openly, and they are so advanced that some politicians hundreds of years later would be ashamed. It is precisely because of this system that Mongolia has political systems like Manduhai.
Strong women, there have also been useless female regents like Queen Nomama.
To this day, the Mongolian tradition remains the same, just as the convener of this Kuritai Conference was not Dachengtai Jibahannaji, but the regent Zhongjin Hatun.
In fact, the Kulitai Conference also experienced a "period of loneliness", that is, during the period when the Yuan Dynasty still occupied the Central Plains, the role of the Kulitai Conference was greatly weakened.
This is understandable. After all, the Kuritai Assembly itself is an "elective monarchy" and a product of the feudal structure of the Mongolian aristocracy. It has the ability to unite scattered and independent feudal aristocrats into a unified community.
Function.
However, the political control method of the Yuan Dynasty was realized by the top-down centralized imperial power-bureaucratic system. As a result, the Kuritai system lost its functional significance in the steppe period.
However, due to the customary power of the old tradition itself, the political need to maintain the privileges of the Mongolian aristocracy, and the incompleteness of the Yuan Dynasty's reform of the Han Dynasty, this tradition still remained as an "ancestral system" among the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty.
political life and changes under new historical conditions.
This change is manifested in the fact that, on the one hand, those factors that constitute the external form of this system, such as noble court meetings, special Mongolian etiquette to support the monarch's accession to the throne, banquets and rewards, the reading of Genghis Khan's message, etc., have remained relatively stable.
In the enthronement ceremony of each emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.
Of course, this kind of gathering of kin and aristocrats has lost any meaning of "electing a king". The new emperor used this kind of ceremony to assert his political authority and legitimacy in line with the "ancestral precepts". He was scattered all over the country.
The clan aristocrats at all levels who have lost political power can take this opportunity to gain a fortune.
On the other hand, the bottom-up consciousness of aristocrats to choose a king, which constitutes the content of the Kulitai system, catered to the trend of the development of conflicts within the ruling class in the Yuan Dynasty, and gradually transformed into an ideology for various factions and groups of bureaucrats and aristocrats to compete for the highest power.
tool.
However, in addition to the above-mentioned factors, the reason why the Kuritai system continued in the Yuan Dynasty was because the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty must also be the Great Khan of Mongolia. This dual identity structure determined that he must follow the ancestral precepts of Genghis Khan and the Great Khan.
Mongolian tradition.
As the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongol Khan at the same time, the procedure when he succeeded to the throne still had to go through the Kulitai, and obtain the support and recognition of the kings and nobles through the Kulitai, in order to obtain the legal status of the Mongol Khan.
At the same time, it was justifiable to become the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.
In other words, from the Great Khan to the Emperor, in order to obtain legal status and power, it was still necessary to go through Kulitai.
This time at the Kuritai Conference convened by Zhongjin Hatun, the matter to be discussed and decided was very clear, which was to decide on the ownership of the Great Khan of the Tumote Department.
Theoretically speaking, Tumote is only one of the 60,000 households in Mongolia, and his "Great Khan" is actually only equivalent to the clan king of the Yuan Dynasty. Although the clan king can also be deposed and established by the decision of the Kuritai Assembly, generally speaking
There is no need to discuss it with Kulitai, because the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and the Great Khan of Mongolia can decide.
But the current situation is obviously different.
First of all, Han Naji himself is not the eldest son of Anda Khan, he is not even the eldest grandson, and his appointment as the Great Khan of Tumut is inconsistent with the "ancestral system" of primogeniture established by Dayan Khan, so it must be borrowed
The traditional prestige of the Kuritai Conference justified his position as Great Khan.
Secondly, if Hannaji cannot be recognized by the Kuritai Conference, he can only strive for the canonization of Tumen Khan, the Great Khan of All Mongolia. But is that a joke? Tumen Khan will obviously not recognize a die-hard fan.
Tumut’s Great Khan, so... the Battle of Monan broke out.
When Zhongjin Hatun sent out an invitation to convene the Kuritai Conference, in addition to the Tumut Headquarters, even the Ordos Department and the Qinghai Tumut Department only sent people to reply that they were "prepared to attend", but there was no action at all.
It was not until the outcome of the Monan War was settled that the Mongolian nobles from all tribes seized the time and set off towards Guihua City.
The consequences of Tumen's defeat and return were very serious, because on the fourth day after Gao Pragmatic and Han Naji were naturalized together, three important people arrived together.
These three are Qiejin Huangtaiji of the Ordos tribe, Huoluo Chibadu'er of Qinghai Tumote (Yongxiebu), and... Chang'ang, one of the three guards of Duoyan!
The two members of the Ordos tribe and the Yongshebu tribe were both one of Tumen Khan's "Five Rulings", but because they both belonged to the right-wing Mongolia, they quietly left Chahanhot after Tumen Khan's defeat.
It is not completely unreasonable to come to attend the Kuritai Conference, but the significance of Chang'ang's coming here is completely different.
This move is suspected of betraying Tumen!
Uh, okay, I'm afraid this is not a suspicion, but a clear sign of re-alignment.
Although Gao Pangshi just nodded with a smile when he heard the news, this was purely a pretense. In fact, he was simply overjoyed - the three guards of Duoyan rebelled and attached, sometimes paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and sometimes following Tumen to harass them.
Daming, it gave Daming a lot of headaches.
Now that Chang'ang has become a naturalized man, it is equivalent to recognizing his eldest brother again, that is Tumut - this is a manifestation of him recognizing his "eldest brother" again as a Mongolian. In fact, since Tumut is now the younger brother of the Ming Dynasty,
Of course, Chang Ang can no longer play double-dealing with Daming, otherwise where will Tumote's face be put? Do you think Tumote, the leader of the right-wing alliance, will not dare to beat him?
You know, before Tumut insisted on recognizing Daming as his "big brother", it was not because Anda was beaten by Daming militarily. He did so out of economic considerations, focusing on Tumut's overall strength.
The Ming Dynasty felt that the three guards of Duoyan were difficult to deal with, mainly because of the nomadic characteristics of the Mongols, which made it difficult to carry out actual attacks - just like this time when Qi Jiguang sent troops, Chang Ang left if he could not defeat them, and Qi Jiguang could only temporarily occupy Daning City and other subsequent changes
, it is impossible to pursue Chang Ang.
But it's completely different if Tumut is used to deal with Chang'ang. Tumut's headquarters alone can muster almost 100,000 cavalry, not to mention the two powerful younger brothers Ordos and Yongxiebu.
Ang's tens of thousands of people couldn't do anything in front of Tumote.
As for Chang'ang, he can still run...but where? Akito's problem is that he can't occupy Chang'ang's pasture, but does Tumote think there is too much pasture?
So after settling the accounts, Chang Ang found that his situation was not good. When he was hesitating, Qie Jin and Huo Luochi suddenly visited together, told him about Tumen's defeat, and invited him to come with them.
Go to Guihua City to attend the Kuritai Conference.
Chang Ang was shocked and immediately agreed - he originally had no contact with Bahan Naji, and even if he wanted to go, it would be difficult to find a suitable reason, but with Qie Jin and Huo Luochi as intermediaries, he and Bahan Naji
It’s time to talk!
Changing the family also requires an opportunity. It is difficult to guarantee one's worth by "self-recommending pillow seats".
Han Naji received these three people as Tumut's "candidate khan", and then immediately sent someone to invite Gao Pangshi to come and meet.
Not long after, the Ming Dynasty's "consecrated King Shunyi's Plenipotentiary Envoy" Gao Pingshi came to Dazhao Temple.
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