Chapter 362: Borshu

Qin Shi Huang came to the Mongolian desert region alone, he assumed the name of Temujin, and in this life he was about to establish a great cause of immortality in history.

The leader of the Mongol tribes, Baba Khan, was crucified to death on a wooden donkey by Jin Xizong in the name of punishing the rebellion, and the Mongol tribal alliance organized many revolts, for which generations of their ancestors paid with blood and lives.

There are two kinds of punishment of wooden donkeys in ancient times, one is the kind of punishment of riding a wooden donkey that everyone generally knows, and this kind of punishment is listed in the top ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty because it is very cruel and almost inhumane. Riding a wooden donkey actually appeared as early as the Song Dynasty, and even dates back to the Han Dynasty, and this punishment was used to punish women who colluded with men to murder their husbands.

The prototype of the wooden donkey used is a long, round plank with four supporting rollers mounted underneath, like an ordinary bench. The differences, first of all, the surface is not flat, but presents a certain arc, similar to the shape of a donkey's back; in the middle of the long plank, a log peg about two inches thick and more than one foot long is installed upright, symbolizing the donkey ball, so it is generally called this kind of torture instrument as a wooden donkey, and the execution process is extremely cruel.

However, another punishment of the wooden donkey was in kind, and the Mongolian Baba Khan died in the punishment of the wooden donkey, and the Mongols launched a war of revenge against the Jin Dynasty.

At that time, there were many scattered tribes in the Mongolian steppe of northern China, and among the more powerful ones were the Mongolian tribe and the Tatar tribe, one mountain could not accommodate two tigers, and there was a feud between the two tribes. The Tatar tribe seized the opportunity of the Khan to marry his daughter, and in order to avoid the future revenge of the Mongol tribes, the Tatars gave the Khan to the Kingdom of Jin.

The Emperor of the Jin State, Jin Xizong, was defeated in the recently concluded campaign against the Mongol tribes. For the Baba Khan sent by the Tatars, Wanyan had the opportunity to report the hatred of the failure of the conquest, and at the same time he could take the opportunity to provoke a deeper hatred war between the two major tribes on the steppe. So for how to deal with my child, Wan Yan chose the bloody and cruel punishment of the wooden donkey.

The wooden donkey is a kind of torture cart that binds the victim, and the torture is to nail the victim alive to the wooden donkey. The cruelty of this punishment lies in the fact that the victim does not die in an instant, but endures severe pain, accompanied by severe pain that scrapes his flesh and bones.

Later, the Mongol tribes gradually became stronger under the leadership of Genghis Khan, and eventually unified the steppe. Genghis Khan, with his intention of revenge, exterminated the Tatar tribes, and Genghis Khan, when he sacrificed Tengri before the crusade against the Jin Kingdom, said that the crusade against the Jin Kingdom was to avenge the hatred of the Baba Child.

It can be seen that sometimes the punishment is cruel and cannot destroy the ambition of a person or even a tribe and a country, but will become strong because of hatred. The Mongols kept this hatred in their hearts, and it was this vendetta that led to long campaigns in and out of the steppe.

In addition to facing great pressure to survive on the grassland, Temujin had to always be on guard against the enemies of other tribes to retaliate. The leader of the Taiyichiu people, Tarhutai, personally came to Temujin's house, bringing not condolences, but cavalry. They tried to capture Temujin, who rode quickly into the nearby mountains and forests.

After holding out for nine days, a thirsty and hungry Temujin came out of the forest and was captured by the Taiyichiwu. The Taiyichiu did not rush to kill Temujin, but imprisoned him, and everyone drank and danced together.

Temujin knocked the guards unconscious with a flail and fled, but the Taiyichiu people chased them out when they found out. Temujin hid in the river and was discovered by a man named Suo'er Hansera, who told Temujin not to move, and then pretended not to be found, so the Taiyichiu people went back, intending to continue the search at dawn.

Temujin was tired and hungry, had no horses, and could not run far with his heavy shackles, so he made a bold decision and quietly returned to the camp of the Taiyichiu people, where he hid in the camp of Suo'er Hansera.

Suo'er Hansera was very frightened when he saw Temujin, fearing that it would affect his family, but his two sons, Shen Bai and Chilao Wen, tried to persuade their father, saying, "The bird is chased by the falcon and hides in the grass, and the grass can save its life, are we not as merciful as the grass?"

They helped Temujin remove his shackles and hide him in a cart full of wool, hiding him from the Taiyichiu. By escaping this time, Temujin not only saved his life, but also made loyal companions who would follow him throughout his life.

After this crisis, Temujin moved his family farther afield in the Buhaner Mountains, where he continued to live a life of fishing, hunting, herding, and gathering.

One day, eight of Temujin's only nine horses were stolen, which was a huge blow to the family, and horses were inseparable from hunting and grazing on the grasslands, and they would not be able to survive without them. Temujin mounted the last remaining horse, put on his bow and arrows, and went after the horse thief.

After walking for four days and four nights, Temujin saw a young man milking a mare, so he went up to inquire about it. The boy told him that eight horses had passed by and offered to go with Temujin to chase the horse thieves. Three days later they found the horse thieves' camp and the eight stolen horses, and the horse thieves also found them and tried to catch them with a lasso, but Temujin aimed his bow and arrows at them.

The brave won the narrow road, and Temujin and his men frightened off the horse thieves, became the victorious side, and brought the eight horses back to the boy's camp. Temujin believed that he would not be able to recapture the eight horses on his own without the boy's help, so he offered to give half of the horses to the boy, but the boy rejected his offer and expressed his willingness to follow Temujin in the future.

This young man's name is Borshu, and he will accompany Temujin in his life to conquer the world.

Genghis Khan fought all his life, not only unified the Mongolian tribes on horseback, established the first unified Mongolian Khanate, and at the same time ransacked the Eurasian countries like a demon, his war to destroy the Western Xia and cut gold, objectively laid the foundation for the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, an unprecedentedly vast feudal empire in history, and was the founder of the Mongol Empire.

The heroes and heroes who helped him fight the country include his siblings, four dogs, four heroes, and one of Genghis Khan's four heroes, Borshu, who paid without complaint and complained about his Anda Temujin.

Genghis Khan's ingenuity and vision were indeed superior, and he had excellent strategic and military talents, otherwise he would not have been able to unify the tribes of the steppe outside the Saiwai, change the backward state of the Mongols, and make a tribe that was despised and did not tell the story of the world at that time, and established the Mongol Empire. But the man who made Mongol history was also extremely brutal, he once said: "The greatest pleasure in life is to defeat the enemy, to drive out the enemy, to take everything that the enemy has, to watch him wash his face with tears for his dearest, to ride his horse, to play with his wife and daughter." ”

Therefore, Genghis Khan often used brutal methods such as mass slaughter, razing cities, and drawing captured people to take the lead to intimidate the enemy, and after the conquest, the original tribal population of the defeated tribes was divided into different thousands of households, so that relatives could be displaced. Genghis Khan's actions wiped out the boundaries of many Mongol tribes, allowing the Mongol Empire to unify and grow, but it suppressed, humiliated, and destroyed the hearts and minds of those who had fallen victim to him.

Genghis Khan considered himself a blue wolf as a symbol of the Mongol tribe, and tried his best to survive, quietly approaching the enemy when he encountered him, biting through the enemy's chest, and not barking in terror like a dog and trembling under his fist. Only howling in the moonlight with its love, fighting death without complaint, preferring death to lose freedom, but this blue wolf is inevitably in love with a woman with lake-like eyes. It represents Genghis Khan's self-esteem of greatness and fearlessness, not afraid of hunger, not afraid of cold and enemies, and even death cannot pose a threat to him.

If Genghis Khan and Borshu are both Mongolian wolves, compared to Genghis Khan, the fierce, cunning, calm and wise Mongolian wolf, the blue wolf of Borshu is like a female wolf who silently follows the male wolf and steps on the remains of the male wolf, and can never escape from the male wolf, and is destined to follow the male wolf for a lifetime.

Under Genghis Khan's admiration and pursuit of brave and ruthless behavior, the amorous and capable Borshu was destined to suffer in the relationship with Temujin, and was also destined to pay more, Genghis Khan could treat Borshu ruthlessly, but Borshu was always loyal to the relationship with Temujin.

Not only in friendship, but also in love, the amorous Borshu also suffered enough because he couldn't forget his love, Genghis Khan designed to take away the peony of Borshu's crazy lover, poisoned Borshu's beloved horse, and made the unwitting Borshu extremely painful.

Although Genghis Khan gave Borshu a captured woman Jiang Yao who was taken by him, Jiang Yao was a rare fierce woman at that time, and she never forgot her husband, although her body was powerless to resist her heart, she tried her best to resist, so that the fetus was stillborn, and finally at the moment of delivery, she jumped off the cliff with the newborn while the defender was unprepared, so that Borshu had no queen.

However, Borshu's lover Peony was like most Mongolian women at that time, who was captured and sold as someone else's concubine, and gave birth to children for his master, but in the end he couldn't escape the fate of being burned to death by Genghis Khan's order, and he couldn't satisfy Borshu's love pursuit after all.

Even when Borshu finally accepted and truly fell in love with Timuron, who had always had a crush on him, Timuron, who was pregnant with a near-term woman, was kicked to death by an untied frightened mare in order to milk him on a stormy night, so that the soon-to-term son also died with Timuron, Borshu is a tragic figure.

A person who thinks and practices differently from the people around him is destined to live harder than others, and a person who is more intelligent and capable is destined to give more than others. This kind of person who is more intelligent and capable should accept his fate and recognize his part, regard life as exercising his perseverance and perseverance, and conform to the thoughts and practices of sentient beings without losing his own principles, and Borshu is such a person.