In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 274 Tow Lei Looks Stupid

Genghis Khan loves his youngest son the most, and Tuo Lei has a deep affection for his father. Thinking that he was forced to retreat by the Song army in Linzhao Mansion, and his invincible record ended, Tuo Lei felt ashamed and angry.

He kicked Li Yuanji away and went directly to Batu and other Mongolian nobles.

Then every time I saw one of them, they said that the people of Song had tricked and killed Father Khan, and they cursed the people of Song for being immoral. The implication was that Song should be destroyed first.

It's okay if he didn't say these words. Originally, most of the nobles from various places supported Tuo Lei.

Unexpectedly, he said that he would fight the Song Dynasty first.

Lian Ba ​​was stunned for a moment.

Judging from Genghis Khan's last words, joining the Song Dynasty to destroy the Jin Dynasty was the most correct choice. Batu originally thought that dragging thunder was very strong. How could he compare with himself? Did he not expect that his strategic vision was so poor?

Besides, based on Xixia's words alone, it is certain that the people of Song Dynasty did it?Is it intentional to induce?
If this matter was told when Mongolia was destroying Xixia, most Mongolians might be furious and really go to fight against the Song Dynasty.

But now after more than two years, he said it again when Tuolei and Wo Kuotai were competing for the Khan position.

Many people think that Tuo Lei is deliberately spreading rumors to get people to vote.

And this rumor made Tuo Lei look stupid.

At the same time that Tuo Lei reminded the nobles everywhere that it was the Song people who killed Genghis Khan.

Wo Kuotai and Chagatai are also discussing Khan's position.

Nobles from all over Mongolia are coming to Great Or'er one after another, and the election is getting closer and closer. If the nobles cannot be persuaded, Ogedai's situation is quite dangerous.

These days, Chagatai helped to lobby everywhere, but the effect was not very good, and everyone did not agree with Wo Kuotai's ability.

"Thinking of everyone's support, there is another person who is very important. Recently, this person has been silent and has not expressed his position." At this time, Wo Kuotai said.

"Who?" Chagatai asked strangely.

"Yelü Chucai with a long beard."

Yelu Chucai was an important minister of Genghis Khan's confidant, but this is not important, what is important is that he also knows divination and astronomy.

The Mongols at that time believed in this set.

During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, there were more male and female shamans (divinators) among the Mongolians.

Whenever there is a large-scale migration, the Mongols will let these soothsayers decide the new camp.

The Mongols also used divination to decide whether something would be beneficial and whether they should do it or not.

They are also used to predict the fate and even career of newborn boys.

One time, Yelu Chucai accurately calculated the time of a lunar eclipse, which shocked Genghis Khan. He said: "You don't know anything about heavenly things, how about human things."

So from then on, every time Genghis Khan set off on an expedition, he would ask Yelu Chucai to predict good or bad luck.

Therefore, Yelu Chucai was a very powerful person in the eyes of the superstitious astrological Mongols at that time, and he was also respected by the Mongolian nobles.

But Yelu Chucai is not a Mongolian nobleman, has no voting rights, and no one knows who he will support.

At this time, Chagatai thought of a way.

The fourth younger brother is very murderous, and likes to slaughter every city he attacks, but Long Beard (Yelu Chucai) dislikes such things.

So Wokuotai sent people to go to Yelu Chucai to blow things off, especially with Yelu Chucai's second son, Yelu Zhu.

Yeluzhu's mother was the daughter of Su Gongbi, the fourth grandson of Su Shi, the governor of Weizhou. He was a descendant of a famous family. He himself also studied Confucian classics and wrote poems from Li Wei, a poet at that time.He was extremely intelligent since he was a child, and he was able to write high-level poems at the age of thirteen or fourteen, which was praised by Yuan Haowen and others.

Since I am a Confucian student, I naturally don't like this kind of massacre.

He has a concubine named Qiwowen, who is the granddaughter of Tiemu Gewochijin.

Temuge Ochijin is the younger brother of Genghis Khan, and Ogedei is the uncle of the Qiwowen family.

With this relationship, Tuo Lei liked the deeds of massacring the city, and it didn't take long for him to blow to Yeluzhu.

At the same time, Tuo Lei went around saying that the Song people killed the Khan, which gave Wo Kuotai another opportunity.

Before Genghis Khan died, he talked about his plan to cut down the gold by means of the way and unite with the Song Dynasty to destroy the gold. Tuo Lei now wants to completely deny Genghis Khan and attack the Song Dynasty first, which is definitely not possible.

Of course Wo Kuotai cares about who killed his father, but he cares more about his own position.

If he agrees with Tuo Lei's statement and agrees to fight the Song people first, then the Khan position can only be attributed to Tuo Lei.

So he subconsciously believed that Tuo Lei was forcing the Xixia people to lie.

In the fifth year of Baoqing (1229), both Tuo Lei and Wo Kuotai lobbied around the Great Ordo for support.

Until the second day of the eighth day of August, the clan and nobles from all over Mongolia finally gathered in Daor'er.

Most of the descendants of the eldest son, Jochi, came from Kipchak (now the Ula River to the northern Kipchak settlement of the Black Sea), and the descendants of Chagatai came from Haiyali (near the city of East Kapal, Lake Balkhash today). ) came, and some descendants of Wokuotai came from Ye Miyun (southeast of Emin, Xinjiang).

In addition, among their uncles are Temuge Tichijin and Belgutai.

It has been many years since so many people gathered in the Great Mongol Empire, and it was not easy for everyone to come here from thousands of miles away. Tuo Lei is very sensible, let everyone relax for three days, and had three days and three nights of entertainment, drinking fine wine, Playing with beauties and eating barbecue.Three days later, the conference officially began.

However, after these days of testing, both parties should have little confidence in directly winning the vote.

So he tried to convince the other party first.

Before the kings could open their mouths, one of the nobles, Consort Alchi, took the lead in launching the attack.

Alchi was from the Hongji La tribe, and the Hong Ji La tribe had been married to Genghis Khan for generations. His sister was Queen Borte. He was in charge of three elite households, but they were all assigned to Tuo Lei by Genghis Khan.

Alechi said that Mongolia has a tradition of the youngest son guarding the stove, and Tuolei should inherit the Khan throne.

Then he continued to talk about all the achievements of Tuo Lei so far.

In 1212, the Mongolian army failed to attack Dexing Mansion (now Zhuolu, Hebei Province) of the Jin Dynasty.

Alchi said that Tuo Lei was only 19 years old at the time.

In 1213, Tuo Lei was the forward of the Chinese army, Lian Poxiong (now Xiongxian, Hebei), Mo (now Renqiubei, Hebei), Hejian (now Hejian, Hebei), Qing (now Qingxian, Hebei), Xian (now Xianxian, Hebei) County), Cang (now Cangzhou, Hebei), Jinan (now Jinan, Shandong), Yidu (now Qingzhou, Shandong) and other state capitals, and then surrounded Jinzhongdu (now Beijing) in the north, forcing Jin Xuanzong to offer the princess and Nabi to seek peace.

In 1220, the Mongolian army captured Buhuaci (now Bukhara, Uzbekistan) in February, Keqi’s capital city Sa (now the Murghab River in Afghanistan) and Samarkand (the second largest city in Uzbekistan, Samarkand Prefecture) in March. Capital), Tuo Lei is a forward, every battle must be defeated.

In April, Tuo Lei approached Maru and sent a vanguard army of 400 cavalry to attack the Turkic barbarians outside the city at night. Like wolves chasing sheep, they completely defeated [-] Turkic people, creating a myth of breaking [-] with [-] cavalry.

As Alechi was talking, his mouth was full of foam, and all the nobles and kings were fascinated by it.

Unexpectedly, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted: "But Tuo Lei broke Maru City, selected [-] craftsmen from the city, and massacred the rest, making the city of Neshapur (now Neshapur in Iran) that surrendered to us rebel again. His behavior is outraged by the heavens and the people, and made our army work hard and move thousands of miles."

Everyone raised their heads in unison, and it was the second child, Cha Hetai.

Brush, Tuo Lei's face turned red. If someone else said that, he could scold him back, but now that it was his second brother Chagatai, he couldn't refute it.

At that time, the city of Maru was already broken, so there was no need to massacre the city.

The point is, after Tuo Lei, he swung his army to Naishabul city again, broke the rebellious Naishabul city again, and then slaughtered it again.

This could have been avoided.

Because he slaughtered Maru, he forced the city of Naishabul, which had already surrendered, to reverse.

Although Chagatai opened his mouth, there were some people in the crowd who refused to let go, and helped Tuo Lei to say that this is normal. Among you, who has never slaughtered it?
The place suddenly became noisy and everyone was arguing everywhere.

There was no result in the discussions that day. Those who supported the tow mine were slightly at a disadvantage, and the two sides broke up unhappy.

But Tuo Lei was not in a good mood when he went back, because he thought that there would be more people supporting him, but he didn't expect that today he would gain the upper hand. Many people who originally supported him began to hesitate.

But at this time, the gap between the two sides is not big, and they can still fight for it.

This conference was the same as in history. It lasted for more than 40 days and quarreled every day.

But it can't go on like this forever. After Tuo Lei saw that he was at a slight disadvantage, he didn't dare to vote lightly.

In mid-September, Chagatai suggested that it is not an option for us to quarrel, let the bearded Yelu Chucai do the math first, and this move was supported by most of the nobles and kings.

After all, everyone believes in destiny.

Chagatai used two yurts to house Tuo Lei and Wo Kuo Tai respectively, but the nobles and kings at the scene, including Yelu Chucai, did not know that Tuo Lei was on the other side and Wo Kuo Tai was on the other side. Obtained the public certificate of Yelu Chucai.

Tuolei and Wokuotai were wrapped in black cloth by four people to prevent outsiders from seeing them, and then they entered the yurts in the east and west directions. No one at the scene could tell where Tuolei and Wokuotai were. , the eight people who sent them immediately turned around, turned their backs to everyone, and stood beside the yurt, unable to speak or express any expression.

Then Chagatai asked Yelu Chucai to be called to the venue, and then told Yelu Chucai that there were Tuo Lei and Wo Kuotai in the two yurts, and one of them would lead the Great Mongol Empire to conquer the world. Help me with a long beard Do the math, which one is good and which one is bad.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Yelu Chucai.

Yelu Chucai stood in the field with a dazed expression.

Yelu Chucai is good at fortune-telling, but he just knows a little bit about astronomy, so he counted a lunar eclipse.

In addition, he usually likes to be with Mongolian shamans and often communicates and learns. Everyone subconsciously thinks that he is also a great shaman.

But now that the sword is on his neck, Yelu Chucai can't say that he doesn't know how to do it.

He bit the bullet and thought about it, then took out the divination tools he usually learned from the shamans.

Chagatai casually pointed to a yurt in the west and asked him to count this first.

It was night at this time, Yelu Chucai faced the moonlight, closed his eyes slightly, muttered something, got up again after a while, walked around the bonfire in front of him and chanted spells, and the surrounding Mongolian nobles breathed a sigh of relief , looking at him nervously.

The fate of the Great Mongol Empire is in the hands of a Khitan tribe like a joke.

Yelu Chucai was actually flustered, he looked up while circling around, and finally saw his son Yelu Zhu in the crowd.

Yeluzhu shook his head slightly, then quickly retreated into the crowd.

Yelu Chucai immediately knew who was in the ger that Chagatai ordered first.

(End of this chapter)