Tuo Lei arrived in Huolan Bashi nine months ago, in April of the Year of the Tiger in the Mongolian calendar. He received intelligence from the Central Plains reported from the grasslands, and immediately set out to investigate the situation in depth.
In the nine months after his departure, all kinds of news flew across the vast river and land like snowflakes, and were sung to Genghis Khan by the Bijachi.
Shortly after learning the news, Genghis Khan set off to leave the spring camp west of Samarkand. However, he and his cowards marched at an unusually slow speed. It was not until the spring of the Year of the Rabbit that the huge herds and camel teams arrived.
The city was attacked by false accusations.
This city, in the Mongols' publicity to the outside world, was the beginning of the entire Western Expedition. Two years ago, the Khwarezm Guardsman Yinareshu who was stationed here was greedy for the Mongolian caravan's belongings and falsely accused the merchant of being a female cadre.
The execution of the general caused Genghis Khan to be furious and raise an army.
Yina Leshu was a Kangli person. After he massacred the Mongolian caravan, he dedicated his property to the Queen Mother Tuer Hanketun, who was also a Kangli person. Tuer Hanketun had always been autocratic and good at governing, and there was no report to him at all.
His son, Maha, has the final say.
As a result, at this moment, Mahasuma Duan was ruined and his family was destroyed, and he fled to the islands in the west for refuge. The bald Han Ketun also became a prisoner of the Mongols. On the contrary, the lower-level Kangli warriors were massively incorporated into the Mongolian army and became
This was the main source of the expansion of the Mongolian army.
Kangli people generally have high noses, deep eyes and many beards, making them easy to identify.
At this moment, beside Nian Zhongshan, leading the horse and walking slowly, was a Kangli soldier. He noticed Nian Zhongshan's gaze, bowed humbly and smiled.
In the eyes of such ordinary Kangli people, Ninghe Zhongshan is sitting on a high camel's back, with a special wooden shelf placed on the hump in front of him, a rattan basket for hanging pens and ink hanging next to him, and a backrest behind him.
With a camel-shaped awning and all the equipment, he must be a great man.
We stick to the mountains but we can only complain.
This Jurchen used to be a subordinate of Tuo Lei, but now he is Qingxue Bizhenchi, who is also the secretary of Genghis Khan. He did not care to look at the Kangli man anymore, withdrew his gaze, and lay on the wooden shelf, one after another.
He wrote vigorously and quickly.
"Genghis Khan continued to march today, passing by the razed city of Nandala. The Yunduchi troops were galloping in front of the army, with their headquarters following closely behind. Wherever I passed, I could see the remains of buildings, dry canals, and camels everywhere.
My feet often ran over fragments of painted ceramics."
"It was brought by overland business travelers for hundreds of years. It was once a collection used by local wealthy merchants and officials to show off. Now these fragments, like their owner's corpse, will slowly become one with the gravel, perhaps hundreds of
After the New Year, people won’t be able to see anything here except the green mountains in the distance.”
"The big green mountains are like road signs. The four grandsons of Mahatma are buried in the mountain col, which proves the unshakable power of Genghis Khan."
Writing on the back of a rickety horse, the handwriting has no bones to speak of. However, Uighur writing is originally a string of continuous strokes one after another. Even if the writing is rough, no one can read it. Mongolians are not particular about it.
The beauty of words makes it possible to write wherever you think.
This is what Genghis Khan required of Bichachi: keep reading and writing. Once Genghis Khan is free, he will randomly summon a certain Bichachi and ask him to read out his records for the Khan's entertainment.
Adhesion Chongshan hopes that he can have some entertainment value and not be disliked by Dahan.
He has worked very hard, but he is still not confident whether he can satisfy the Khan.
Originally, there was no need for the post of Chichi in the Mongolian army. After Genghis Khan destroyed the Naiman tribe, he captured the Uighur Tata Tong'a and made him in charge of the money and grain cashier, responsible for delivering important personnel appointments and various military and political orders to the Khan. Because the Mongols
People had no written language and relied on oral language when delivering orders. Genghis Khan found that Tata Tonga was proficient in Mongolian and Uighur script, so he asked him to use Uighur script to spell Mongolian as the official script of the Great Mongolia.
Tata Tong'a thus became the great leader of Qie Xue's army, and he forcibly promoted this improvised writing.
This was a difficult task for him. He had a thorough knowledge of Chinese studies and wrote a book. In the past two years, his Mongolian language had gradually become more fluent. As a result, after he was transferred to Genghis Khan, the first thing happened
The thing turned out to be that you should learn Uighur writing as soon as possible, otherwise you will lose your head if you fail to learn it.
It's not enough to just learn the words, you have to write them down and record them endlessly every day. What is recorded is something that the most noble reader in the world, who has the power of life and death, needs to read from time to time...
Life like this is much more frustrating than when I was under the fourth prince and had so much power.
But it’s not just Adhesive Mountain that feels aggrieved.
Speaking of being unlucky, Guo Baoyu was the most unlucky when he went to be a spy with the Fourth Prince.
Yelu Tuhua once drank the water of the Banjuni River with Genghis Khan. He was such a senior old minister. But now, together with Liu Bolin, he is being pointed at and scolded by the newly appointed Daruhuachi and Uighur Zhenhai every day. This is called humiliation.
The Fourth Prince's loss of power has affected too many people. I can save my life, which is already good!
Random thoughts were running through his mind, and the hand that was glued to Zhongshan wouldn't stop, and in the blink of an eye another piece of parchment was filled with writing. He was a Jurchen scholar in the Kingdom of Jin, so even if his boss farted, he could use it as a subject.
, I wrote a large article with Parallel Liu Li Si. Now I don’t care about literary talent anyway, I just want to write more.
A year or two ago, the Bichachi people would not have been so hard.
The current situation is also related to the competition among Genghis Khan's disciples.
There has always been a vague division of labor among the four legitimate sons of Genghis Khan. As early as when they were stationed on the Onan River, Jochi was in charge of hunting, Chagatai was in charge of laws, Ogedai was in charge of daily administrative coordination, and Tuolei followed Genghis Khan.
, as daily adviser and assistant.
Before the Mongol army launched its western expedition, Genghis Khan hinted to his disciples that he would select the person with the most outstanding performance as his successor, so all his disciples did their best.
Regardless of others, Chagatai has always been familiar with and good at reciting Genghis Khan's Hadith Bilik. His impatience to do this is not due to his natural talent, but to the fact that the Han ministers around him work day and night.
He compiled the history of Genghis Khan's campaigns and the various orders he issued.
Chagatai took the compiled content and recited it endlessly every day, so whenever Genghis Khan mentioned something, he could jump out and speak clearly.
Genghis Khan was very satisfied with this. After continuously defeating great powers and sweeping across thousands of miles of territory, he also hoped to use this method to promote the great khan's wisdom and martial prowess, so as to overwhelm some rumors about the failure of the war in the Central Plains.
As a result, every Bichachi is unlucky, and from sunrise to sunset every day, everyone becomes a ruthless writing machine.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew, carrying a huge amount of sand and soil, and hit the camels that were riding on the heavy mountains.
When the army passed by here two years ago, it was also spring, and there were sparkling beaches everywhere, and it would rain from time to time. The march of the army gave people a particularly solemn and majestic feeling.
At this time, passing through this place, Adhesion Mountain found that the land and air were much drier. This was probably because many residents were killed and the destroyed canals were not repaired in time.
The scorching heat is far away, but the scorching sunshine is already scorching the earth. Thousands of people and tens of thousands of war horses. The dust raised by the camels is almost blocking the sky. The strong wind is blowing, and the day is almost turning into night. The distance is bonded.
A few steps away from Chongshan, the face of the Kangli soldier could not be clearly seen.
At this time, all the cavalry must keep an eye on the tail of their companions in front. If they deviate from the route, they will get mixed into the dense and loose cavalry, and it will take an hour or two to find their own team.
The huge team was marching in the half-darkness and chaos of smoke and dust. Looking around, everything they could see was blurry. This gave him a terrible and uneasy feeling.
This terrible feeling soon became more intense. Because a young guard came from the front of the queue and galloped forward, facing the smoke and dust in the sky to find the bonding mountain: "You are on duty today, the sweat is screaming
You come."
Adhesion Chongshan was so frightened that he opened his mouth and didn't notice the dust rushing into his throat. It wasn't until he could hardly breathe that he suddenly choked and coughed, and secretly looked at the expression on the guard's face, thinking
I know how Genghis Khan is feeling today.
All the guards knew that Luo Zhongshan was Tuo Lei’s confidant and a figure who once held great power;
Adhesion Chongshan is also willing to spend money, so the guards are generally very polite to him.
Seeing his probing eyes, Su Wei looked heavy and shook his head.
Adhesion Chongshan was so frightened that his legs went weak. His mind instantly went blank. He only remembered that the Suwei half-supported and half-forced him to pull him until he reached Genghis Khan's main team.
There, he saw Genghis Khan riding a tall horse, as motionless as a stone statue. And there were countless people around the Khan, such as Huo'erchi, Xibaochi, Zhalichi, Yunduchi, etc., etc.
The cronies of various positions all knelt down with pale faces, as if one after another concentric circles with the Great Khan as the center appeared in the wilderness.
Adhesion Zhongshan was sweating profusely. He bent down and passed through the rows of kneeling people. He came to the inner circle closer to Dahan and knelt down.
Genghis Khan's bloodshot eyes looked at the mountains of adhesive, and he raised his hand to signal: "Write it down."
Adhesive Zhongshan almost frantically took out his pen and ink and spread the parchment on the ground. Then he heard Genghis Khan say in a cold tone: "I will kill him mercilessly!"
The Great Khan wants to kill people. This is a trivial matter. Why should he announce it so solemnly? Since the Western Expedition of the army, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. The blades made of fine steel have been blunted, and the flowing blood has soaked the leather boots.
Who has such a special status that the Great Khan wanted to kill him, causing so many close servants to panic? Why did the Great Khan have to call me to make special records?
Adhesion Zhongshan suddenly thought of a possibility. He was so frightened that the blood all over his body turned into ice cubes, and the ice particles stung him so much that his heart was trembling.
Could it be that the fourth prince offended the Khan again?
Could it be that someone else was making slanderous remarks in front of the Great Khan?
Are these Mongolians crazy? They have forced the fourth prince to such an extent and still want him to die? Nie Zhongshan has no doubt about the cruelty of this power struggle. If the situation suddenly deteriorates, the fourth prince may lose his life. He once supported him.
Everyone, including tens of thousands of people including Lian Zhongshan himself, will all die!
For a moment, he was afraid, horrified, and desperate. These emotions were even stronger than when he was captured by the Mongols. He was so frightened that he lost all his strength, but from his despair, he had the energy to break a jar.
He suddenly took a few steps on his knees, threw himself at the feet of Genghis Khan, hugged the Khan's calf and shouted: "You can't do it!"
As he shouted, Genghis Khan continued: "I will kill Jochi!"
"ah?"
Nian Zhongshan's face was covered with snot and tears. He raised his eyes to look at Genghis Khan, and was kicked away by Genghis Khan.