The monarchs of the Central Plains are said to be lonely and few, because rulers are inevitably lonely. Conquerors are even more lonely, and Genghis Khan, who established an entire political power from scratch and traveled thousands of miles with his iron hooves, was obsessed with every step of his progress. When putting aside those who cannot join hands, put aside those who have conflicting interests with oneself, even blood relatives are no exception.
He once killed his half-brother Bekter over a fight for food.
He relied on the power of Anda Jamuka and his adoptive father Wang Han to develop and grow, but he met the two of them in battle and eventually killed Anda and his adoptive father.
His brother Hesar was brave and good at fighting, and his prestige was second only to him, so he used the wizard's mouth to accuse Hesar of having evil intentions and planned to kill him, and finally deprived Hesar of his rights and tribes. The people made him die in depression.
Is this because Genghis Khan is mean and unkind? Is it because he does not have normal human feelings?
No. The reason for this is because if he wants to achieve his grand goal, he must unite the efforts of all people. But everyone in this world has selfishness and laziness. Countless ethnic groups on the grassland have been content with plundering and looting for thousands of years. Internal strife is just like the stars in the sky repeating themselves year after year. Genghis Khan wants them to integrate into one, wants them to conquer continuously, and wants them to learn to rule. How can it be easy?
The more companions, the more subordinates, and the more chaotic thoughts there are. Genghis Khan must constantly eliminate people with distracting thoughts and eliminate those who are holding back or hostile, in order to push the Mongols as a whole forward.
This process of promotion is not only a process in which he continues to seize interests, but also a process in which he helplessly watches the people around him being coerced by interests; a process in which Genghis Khan becomes more and more respected, and a process in which he becomes more and more lonely.
Genghis Khan tried to establish a system to regulate all this, but wasn't the process of establishing ninety-five thousand households on the grassland also accompanied by conspiracy and killing?
After that, when Genghis Khan himself suffered setbacks in the Central Plains, the looming connection and resistance of thousands of Nayan people never stopped! In order to launch the Western Expedition, Genghis Khan had to kill a bloody city on the grassland first, at least More than a dozen thousand households were slaughtered!
Sadly, this happens over and over again and will never stop.
When the goal of the Western Expedition was successfully achieved, Genghis Khan's four sons all made great achievements and controlled huge power. Genghis Khan relied on the power of his four sons to finally completely suppress the remnants of the system on the grassland, making The Mongols gradually broke away from their status as tribesmen and became subjects of the Great Khan.
But at the same time, Genghis Khan's sons were being held hostage by interests, trying to achieve something under the eyes of the Great Khan.
At this moment, Jochi's attitude was also the attitude of the Mongols, Uighurs, and Khwarezm people under Jochi's command.
Many of the Mongolians under Jochi brought their families and tribes with them to the expedition. After two years of fighting, they discovered more and more the benefits of the Kipchak grassland. They felt that the water and grass here were as fertile as their hometown, and they just occupied the land for their descendants. .
The Uighurs could not fight a tough battle, but they were generally smart. They relied on the Mongols to make money everywhere, hoping that the Mongols would continue to move west so that they could follow and plunder.
The troops of Khwarezm are indeed exhausted, so everyone just wants to rest. No matter whether they go east or west, it is equal to their lives.
The Kipchaks who had surrendered to Jochi were eager to introduce the power of Mongolia into the Kipchak grasslands, and even coveted countless countries further away so that they could pretend to be the masters.
Combined, these people total more than 100,000. They have different emphases in their thoughts and ideas, but what they have in common is that they do not want to go to the East, let alone face a new enemy. The attitude expressed by Jochi is the attitude of these people.
manner.
Of course, Jochi was not a fool and would not be easily coerced. Everyone used him to express their attitude to Genghis Khan, and he also used everyone to express his true attitude to Genghis Khan.
Because Jochi has always been suspected because of his family lineage. Chagatai once publicly stated that Jochi was a descendant of the Meerqid tribe and was not qualified to be the successor of the Great Khan. Jochi was on the Kipchak grassland.
He is the commander-in-chief of the Mongols, a man with a territory of thousands of miles and more than a million people, Shuchi Khan; back to
Genghis Khan's side was just a son of doubtful blood...
Then why did he come back?
Such behavior was indeed tantamount to betrayal to Genghis Khan. That was why he was so furious, but Lian Zhongshan's nonsense words suddenly reminded Genghis Khan.
During the Western Expedition, Jochi was not the first son to suffer the outpouring of his own anger.
More than a year ago, Tuo Lei used a large number of Han people's civil and military forces, trying to use the system of the Jin Kingdom to control the newly conquered land and people, and almost built a country within a country in the river, and Tuo Lei was a country within this country.
The controller of the country.
This move touched the interests of a large number of Mongolians, and the people were furious for a while, which led to Genghis Khan's rage.
So Genghis Khan sent Qixue and his ministers to dismiss all the local officials appointed by Tuolei in just one month, destroy the governance system organized by Tuolei, and then re-deployed to Daruhuachi. He asked the Mongols to serve as
Daruhuachi governed the area strictly in accordance with Genghis Khan's Dazhasa rule, which caused turmoil in many places and resulted in hundreds of deaths.
When Tuo Lei rushed back to Genghis Khan's tent, fearing to plead guilty, Genghis Khan was still angry. He personally took a riding crop and beat Tuo Lei until his head and face were covered with blood. He fainted on the spot; the next day, he directly deprived him of his life.
All the power and status allowed him to return to the east and become a spy.
But……
After Tuo Lei left, would the influence of the Hanchens, Khitans, and Jurchens cease to exist?
Genghis Khan's western expedition conquered such a vast land in two years. The most critical point is that the Mongolian army's continuous failures in the Central Plains forced them to pay attention to and learn from the military expertise of the Central Plains.
When the Mongolian army crossed the Temur Chancha Pass, they built forty-eight large bridges along the way, and most of the people responsible were people from the Central Plains.
When the Mongolian army attacked a city, it was still the people from the Central Plains who provided all kinds of siege equipment.
When the Mongolian army was blocked in the camp along the Amu Darya River, it was Guo Baoyu who sent fire boats from the upper reaches to burn the camp. Then he boarded the boat to cross the river and defeated the coalition forces of the Khorasan ministries. It was still the people who surrendered from the Central Plains.
They had meritorious deeds, so they were favored by Tuo Lei, and then they surrounded Tuo Lei and governed Hezhong Prefecture according to the Han family system.
And after Tuo Lei left, they were still here.
As long as the Mongols still want to rule in the river, they will always be inseparable from them. But they keep their influence low-key and hidden behind Daruhuachi everywhere. Genghis Khan knew very well that if the herdsmen on the grassland suddenly took charge of a city, they would
If you really can’t do it well, you will have to listen to those Central Plains people in the end!
Not to mention that Daru Huaqi was everywhere, even Chagatai was talking about the Hadith Biliq all day long... The people who compiled the Hadith for him and secretly came up with ideas on how to please the Khan were not just a few close Han officials.
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Then, the problem comes.
After the Western Expedition, the Mongolian Uluths expanded too much, and many impurities inside them could not be removed as before. Because these impurities include Han people, Jurchens, Khitans, Uighurs, and Kipchaks
People, Khwarezm people and even various scattered tribes in the old Western Liao lands... They are already part of the Mongolian regime, and even the basis for its existence.
When this foundation has its demands, even Genghis Khan cannot ignore it. Fortunately, the sons of the Great Khan are the representatives of their interests.
After all, sons are in awe of their fathers and are inherently disadvantaged. After all, the sons still retain brotherly love for each other. Even if they represent different interests, they will not completely break up.
If these new members of the Mongolian regime did not surround themselves with the son of the Great Khan, but instead surrounded others, wouldn't it be more troublesome and difficult to suppress?
Adhesion Chongshan finally knew that Tuo Lei would never watch his eldest brother being executed by the Great Khan... If the person behind him was not Tuo Lei, how could he not take the opportunity to fan the flames?