Chapter 441: Empress Chabi
Kublai Khan's marriage to Chabi began as a political marriage, and Chabi's father was a general under Genghis Khan. The Golden Family married in order to win hearts and minds, but Chabi's charm soon won over Kublai Khan. Chabi was not only the woman with the highest status in the Yuan Palace, but also the most favored woman by the emperor.
Kublai Khan was a genius at war, and his power soon aroused the jealousy of his elder brother, the Great Khan of Mongolia, who sent Chabi and his children to the Khan's court as hostages in order to avoid suspicion. Chabi did not have the slightest objection in this process, and made up his mind to share the hardships with her husband, which made Kublai Khan and Chabi truly become lovers who share life and death.
Another of Chabi's brilliant moves was when Kublai Khan succeeded to the throne of Khan, when the Great Khan of Mongolia died, and his younger brother Ali Buge was eyeing the throne. And Kublai Khan was still attacking the Central Plains on the front line, he didn't know how to choose, Chabi sent a secret report to Kublai Khan, and Kublai Khan finally made up his mind to return to Beijing to compete with Ali Buge for the throne. In the end, Kublai Khan became the Great Khan, laying the foundation for his future unification of China, and Chabi can be said to have contributed to Kublai Khan's succession to the throne.
Chabi also often admonished Kublai Khan, once an official asked for the farmland on the outskirts of the capital to be classified as pasture, and Kublai Khan allowed it, the queen wanted to dissuade him, Liu Bingzhong visited Kublai Khan, and Chabi also happened to be by his side. The empress deliberately accused this Hanchen of why he did not dissuade the emperor from dividing farmland into pasture, but Kublai Khan was silent after hearing Chabi's words, and finally the ranch matter was over.
Empress Chabi is the daughter of King Zhongwu of Jining, who is smart and shrewd, and has a beautiful appearance. At that time, the queen mother of the Southern Song Dynasty was captured to Dadu, and the water and soil were not adapted, and the queen of Chabi was kind-hearted for a while, and asked her husband to send the queen mother back to Jiangnan.
Kublai Khan refused to agree, but Empress Chabi refused to give up and begged three times in a row. At this time, Kublai Khan told Empress Chabi his true intentions, if he released the Queen Mother back to the Southern Song Dynasty, he was afraid that it would hurt her, and if it was really good for the Queen Mother, let her stay in Dadu. And let the queen do more ideological work for the queen mother of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Queen Chabi understood her husband's true meaning at a glance.
From then on, Empress Chabi no longer mentioned the release of the Empress Dowager of the Southern Song Dynasty, but cooperated with her husband and cared more about the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager of the Southern Song Dynasty felt that there was no hope of returning and became a nun, so Empress Chabi also allocated tax-free land to the Empress Dowager as her living expenses, because of Empress Chabi's intentions, the Empress Dowager has always been grateful to the Yuan Dynasty.
The Hanlin scholar once told Kublai Khan about the history of the Tang Dynasty, and when he read about the events of the eldest grandson, the emperor asked the scholar to read it in front of the queen's dormitory, and the empress promised to read more such stories.
Empress Chabi did not like extravagance and waste, on the contrary, she was a thrifty person. Once, Empress Chabi used silk, and Kublai Khan knew that silk was a military item and should not be taken casually. So Empress Chabi led the palace maids to weave themselves, weaving not only the silk of the old bowstring into satin, but also the useless wool into carpets. The world admires that a queen can be diligent and thrifty to such an extent, Chabi does not leave a great reputation in history, but she is indeed a virtuous queen.
Chabi had a total of three sons and a daughter, the eldest son was named Zhenjin, and he also had an older brother who died young. Zhenjin was born in Mobei, coinciding with the Haiyun Zen Master called here, Kublai Khan asked Haiyun to name his son, Haiyun was the most expensive in the world, and set the name of Zhenjin.
When Zhenjin was a teenager, his father was busy with government affairs, and he was educated by Hanchen, and Zhenjin was deeply influenced by Han culture. After Kublai Khan succeeded to the throne, Zhenjin was named King of Yan, and the Hanchen in the Mongol court suggested that Kublai Khan adopt the primogeniture system of the Central Plains to decide who would be the prince.
Kublai Khan eventually took the suggestion and made Zhenjin crown prince. There is a royal history of Kublai Khan's Zen position to Zhenjin, Zhenjin was very worried after learning about this, so he became depressed and became ill, and died soon after. Zhenjin's death left the mother, Chabi, devastated him, and after Zhenjin's death, Kublai Khan passed the throne to Zhenjin's son Timur, who later became the second emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.
Chabi's second son is called Busy Brother Thorn, and his status is relatively special. He was named King of Anxi by Kublai Khan, and his status among the kings was very high. The Anxi Royal Mansion was established at the critical moment of the fall of the Yuan Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. When he was assassinated, his wife asked his son Ananda to succeed him, but Kublai Khan refused the princess's request, believing that the young Ananda could not take on the position.
Chabi's third son was called Namhan, and Kublai Khan had sent him to fight in Alimari, accompanied by Totomur and others. On the way, Totomur was dissatisfied with Kublai Khan's capture of Namhan, and Totomur also contacted many steppe tribal leaders to rebel together. Later, there was internal strife within the rebel group, Tokhtamur was killed, and the rest of the people surrendered to Kublai Khan. Namuhan was released, and Namuhan outlived his two elder brothers.
Chabi's daughter is called Nang Jiazhen, who married her cousin, and after her husband died, she remarried her brother-in-law. Unexpectedly, the second husband also died, and the Nang family really remarried her husband's younger brother.
Chabi's story has been circulating among the people, and there is an interesting anecdote about her changing clothes and hats. The Mongolian hat originally had no brim, and Kublai Khan often felt that the sun was dazzling, and he told his wife Chabi about it. Chapilan was very clever and witty, and thought of adding a front brim to the edge of his Mongolian hat.
Kublai Khan was very fond of this style of hat, and it has been the staple of Mongolian hats ever since. Chabi also sewed a garment for her husband, which had no placket, no neckline, and no cuffs, with a long back and a short front, which was very convenient for riding and archery. People at the time followed suit, and most of them soon became popular.
Chabi also often admonished Kublai Khan, the Yuan Dynasty fell to the Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan held a grand ceremony in the palace, everyone was very happy, only Chabi was sullen. Kublai Khan asked why he was not happy that he had conquered the whole of Jiangnan and that there would be no need for war in the future? Chabi replied that she had never heard of an empire that could last for a thousand years, and she did not want the final result of the Yuan Dynasty to be the same as that of the Song Dynasty.
In order to make Chabi happy, Kublai Khan ordered the eunuch to bring the treasures he had brought from the palace of the Southern Song Dynasty to the queen's bedchamber. But Chabi only glanced at it and left, and in the face of her husband's inquiry, Chabi had no choice but to state the reason. It turned out that Chabi couldn't bear to take the treasures accumulated by the Song Dynasty for many years, which were originally left to the descendants of the Zhao family.
After Chabi ascended to the back seat, he still did not change his simple style. Legend has it that Chabi personally planted a plant called the Sworn Thrift Grass in front of the palace to advise the royal family to be diligent and thrifty, and Chabi still did not forget to be diligent and thrifty in the midst of wealth, which is very rare, and Chabi was a different queen.
The reunification of the Yuan Dynasty put an end to the confrontation between the north and the south of China and the long-term coexistence of five or six ethnic regimes since the secession of feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, and promoted the consolidation and development of a unified multi-ethnic country.
After the fall of the Mongols to the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a dispute between the Confucian faction headed by Xu Heng and the financial management faction officials headed by Ahma. The Mongols were increasingly financially strained due to the need for large amounts of treasure to be given to their kings and the heavy expenditures.
Officials from the Confucian faction believed that the Yuan Dynasty should save money and reduce taxes. On the contrary, the financial management officials, mainly the Semu people, believed that the Nanren had a large amount of property hidden and should be confiscated to solve the financial problems of the imperial court, so the problem did not stop in the court.
Kublai Khan trusted Ahma, an official of Semu, and established Shangshu Province to solve financial problems. The Confucian ministers formed a faction with the more sinicized prince Zhenjin as the core to compete with Ahma, and as a result, Ahma was assassinated, and Zhenjin later fell ill and died. Kublai Khan still successively appointed Han Lu Shirong, Tibetan Sange and other financial officials to solve the financial problems of the imperial court.