Chapter 359: The Death of Ogedei

Wokotai is the Khan of the Mongol Empire, the third son of Genghis Khan, during his reign, the territory has expanded to Central Asia, Eastern Europe, after the death of Wokotai, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty Kublai Khan posthumously honored the Wokotai temple number as Taizong, for the Yuan Taizong Wokotai.

Ancient Mongolia was known as a country on horseback, he learned to ride and shoot arrows since he was a child, and when he grew up, he was a brave and good warrior when he grew up with his father Genghis Khan's expedition to the north and south.

After Ögedei succeeded to the throne, he still strictly implemented the decrees formulated by Genghis Khan, which further improved Mongolia's legal and political system. He also improved the central bureaucracy during the reign of Genghis Khan, and with the expansion of the ruling area and the number of people, Ogedai adopted the management method of the surrounding power struggle, and reused the talents of Yelu Chucai.

Ogedai was a very potential emperor, but in his later years, he did not want to suffer from the pain of conquest, and only assigned the ministers of the court and the central government to personally conquer, and he himself continued to drink and indulge in beautiful women, and stayed up all night every day, although the ministers often advised, but it had no effect, and finally died of alcoholism.

Born in a long war-torn environment since childhood, Ogedai likes to ride horses and shoot arrows, and has made great achievements. With his father Genghis Khan's southern and northern wars, Ogedai experienced the baptism of war, and he was a brave and good hero. Genghis Khan passed the throne to Ögedei, and after Ögedei succeeded to the throne, he still strictly implemented the decrees formulated by Genghis Khan, further improving Mongolia's laws and systems.

Reusing Yelu Chucai's talents to make suggestions for the development of Mongolia, Ogedei inherited the legacy of Genghis Khan, and worked hard to expand the scope of his power, and even the territory has reached Central Asia, North China and Eastern Europe. Wokotai has taken a series of political, economic, and military measures, all of which have undoubtedly promoted the development of the times.

Ogedei died suddenly after drinking alcoholism, and Meng Ge was proclaimed Khan because he grew up by Ogedei's side since he was a child and made great achievements. Kublai Khan was the younger brother of Möngke, Kublai Khan made great contributions to Möngke's throne, and after Möngke's death, Kublai Khan inherited the throne.

When Wogetai succeeded to the throne, Mongolia and the Great Song Dynasty united to eliminate Dajin, the Song army took advantage of the Mongolian army's retreat to the north, and sent troops to the north to recover Xijing, Tokyo and Nanjing, although it was defeated by the Mongols, but the Mongolian army was brave and good at fighting, and was stationed in the Mobei region for a long time, and was even better at fighting.

Wokotai's attack on the Song Dynasty was determined to succeed, and he excluded two ways to besiege the Song State, the east road was led by Kuo De as the army, and the west road was led by his son Kuoduan, both pronged.

From then on, Mongolia and the Great Song Dynasty launched a fierce battle, and the Mongol army drove straight down, and once attacked Sichuan, Jianghuai and other places, so that the Southern Song Dynasty lost its barrier in the strategic position in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. However, the Mongol offensive did not go so smoothly, and when attacking Hefei, they encountered stubborn resistance from the Song army. Later, Ogedai died of illness, and the main force was restrained and could only return north, and the war between Mongolia and Song came to an end.

The battle of Wokotai to attack the Song Dynasty lasted for seven years, the main force of the Mongolian army has always been the westward expedition, the troops attacking the Song Dynasty only occupied a small part, and the battle line was too long, the distribution of troops was scattered, although many victories were achieved, but there was no direction of the main attack, and Mongolia was good at cavalry, in the land of Bashu, the lack of naval army, very unfavorable.

The heir of Wokotai is Meng Ge, Meng Ge was originally the son of Genghis Khan's fourth son Tulei, after Wo Kotai ascended the throne, he adopted Meng Ge as an adopted son and was raised by his queen, Meng Ge was born to like to fight, by the side of Wo Kotai, followed him to fight in the north and south, captured a lot of land, and established a lot of military exploits.

In the dispute between Guiyou and Batu, due to Meng Ke's great military achievements and outstanding ability, although he went through twists and turns, Meng Ke was finally recommended as the Great Khan. After Meng Ke ascended the throne, he made great efforts to govern the country. He ordered his younger brother Kublai Khan to conquer Dali in the south, and finally recovered Dali, thus beginning the 128-year administration of Yunnan.

Expedition to West Asia, captured the Palestine region of today's Mediterranean, and he also attacked the Southern Song Dynasty with Kublai Khan and other generals in one fell swoop, although he did not eliminate the Southern Song Dynasty to unify the world, but Meng Ke's efforts can not be ignored, and he laid the world pattern of later kings' conquests.

The death of Ogedai caused a great deal of turmoil, and Ogedai was very fond of drinking, often getting drunk, and having no restraint in this regard. This made him weaker and weaker, and no matter how much his courtiers and well-meaning people tried to stop him, he did not succeed, but instead drank more.

Chagatai assigned a secret in charge of food and drink, and did not let him drink a certain amount. Because he could not disobey his brother's command, he drank from a large cup instead of a small cup, so that the number of cups remained constant. And this guardian also gave him wine of his own accord and held banquets frequently, so as to gain the favor of Ogedai and have the opportunity to become a close confidant, and his service did not bring the slightest benefit to Ogedei.

There was a cook in Ogedei, the son of Yibah, the sister of Khuhetani Begi, who had been given by Genghis Khan to the instigator of the Titai Nayan. Every year, according to the instructions of the instigator Huhetani Beji, he came from Yu'er Ti of her kingdom of Jin to serve Okotai, and held a banquet to entertain him. In the thirteenth year after his accession to the throne, she came as usual, and together with her son, the cook of Ogedei, she brought wine and food to Ogedei.

During the night, in his sleep, Ogedai died due to excessive drinking. With the cooperation of Hatun and the strangers, they began to speak ill of Yibahebeji and his son for a glass of wine, presumably giving Ogedei poison.

Ogedei's brother, one of the powerful members of the Zaray'er clan, said only to Nayan, "Why talk nonsense? The son of Yiba Hebeji was a cook, and he had already given the Great Khan a cup, and the Great Khan often drank too much. Why should we dishonor our Great Khan, who died at the mercy of others? His time of death has come, and no one is allowed to say such things again. ”

Because he was a smart man, he understood that excessive drinking and frequent drunkenness were the cause of this death. He knew that the consequences of drinking too much alcohol could be so damaging.

Originally, the Mongol Great Khan Ogedei died suddenly due to excessive drinking, but the wife and close ministers of Ogedei suspected that the wine was poisonous, and the drinker was the biological son of the son of the son of the elder sister of the instigator, the wife of the general Jochitai, Yibahe. And Yibahe was once the concubine of Genghis Khan, and was later given to Jochitai, and Yibah was attached to the instigation of Huhetani Beji, and served Ogedai every year from his fiefdom in the Jin Kingdom.

The wife and close ministers of Ögedei suspected that the instigated sisters were dissatisfied with Genghis Khan and the Great Khan of Ögedei, so they took the opportunity of the feast to give Ögedai poison and poison Ögedei, which is the mystery of the cause of Ögedai's death in Mongolian history.

The minister believed that drinking too much alcohol would lead to the death of a person, and that it was an insult to the Great Khan to say that he had died unexpectedly. The Ministers were therefore categorically opposed to pursuing the matter. The other kings also supported their opinions, and the turmoil over the death of Ogedai subsided.

After the death of Ögedei, he ruled for a total of ten years after the reign of Naima Jinderegona, Guiyu Khan, and Huwu Lihai, and was succeeded by the youngest son of Genghis Khan, the son of Tolei. Möngke sent his younger brother Hulagu on a westward expedition to capture Baghdad, the capital of the Islamic Caliphate that was then the only remaining Mesopotamia. Hulegu conquered the Ayyubids of Syria and captured Damascus and Aleppo. Möngke was killed in an attack on Sichuan in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the 20,000 Mongol troops under the command of the cowardly Buhua were defeated by the Mamluks at the Battle of Ainzarut in present-day Galilee, Israel, marking the failure of the Mongol Empire to expand into Africa.

During the time of Wokotai, the Mongols destroyed the Jin Dynasty. The Mongols attacked the Goryeo Kingdom and quickly captured all the territory of the Goryeo Kingdom except for the southernmost point, and the Goryeo royal family retreated to Ganghwa Island near the sea outside Seoul Fortress.

After the destruction of the Jin Dynasty, the troops invaded the Southern Song Dynasty in three ways, and conquered the Goryeo Kingdom in the other way, but Ogedai unfortunately died, and the Mongol army withdrew, and the territory occupied by the Southern Song army was recovered. Later, after the reign of Naima Zhen Tregona, Guiyou Khan, and Huwu Lihai Lost, the attack on the Southern Song Dynasty was limited to invasion wars on the border, and it was not until the accession of Möngke Khan that it began to expand significantly again.

At the same time as Hulegu's expedition to the west, Meng Ge led the three-way army to conquer the Southern Song Dynasty. Meng Ke was unable to capture the Diaoyu City in Hezhou, Sichuan, and was wounded in a battle and died soon after. Möngke's younger brother Kublai Khan, who was attacking Ezhou, and the Uliang Hatai army, which had invaded the Southern Song Dynasty from Annam, returned north, and Kublai Khan proclaimed himself Great Khan in Kaiping. After defeating his younger brother Ali Buge, who also called himself the Great Khan, Kublai Khan began to build the capital, changing the name of the country to Dayuan, which is called the Great Yuan Great Mongolia in Mongolian, which was the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. After years of conquest against the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan army finally destroyed the Song Dynasty.

After the Mongol invasion of the northern part of Vietnam, the Yuan army attacked the Tran dynasty in northern Vietnam and the southern Champa dynasty twice, and the Tran dynasty united with his old enemy Champa to repel the invading army. The Yuan army began to attack the Kingdom of Bagan in northern Burma, storming the capital of the Kingdom of Bagan, and then withdrawing from the region, and the Yuan army's naval expedition to the island of Java also failed.

Kublai Khan sent troops to invade Japan twice, the Battle of Bunei and the Battle of Hongan, but both ended in failure, and typhoons are generally believed to be the biggest cause of failure.