Chapter 365: The Great Khan of Mongolia
The most important gift was the arrival of four Mongol princes with the blood of the Khan and their men. They are Taritai, Khuchaer, Sachabeg, and Aaltan.
Their arrival meant that Temujin was recognized by the mainstream society at that time, which brought great help to Temujin, who was just starting out. After the four Mongol princes, including Talitai, led their subordinates to join Temujin, the brothers privately decided to elect Temujin as the Great Khan of the Mongol tribe.
They swore to Temujin: "We have decided to make you Khan, and in war we will be the vanguard, and we will give you the beautiful women and treasures that we have plundered, and we will hunt wild beasts for you when we hunt." If we disobey your command, take our wives and children and our possessions, and leave us in the middle of nowhere. ”
The Mongol tribes were once a unified tribe with a great khan, and the last khanate was Khuturakhan Khan, who passed the position to his nephew after his death, and was poisoned before he could claim the title of Khan, and the Mongol tribe fell into division. Now the Mongol nobility, including Khuturakhan's son Altan, gave up his right to inherit the throne and elected Temujin in favor, which gave Temujin more legitimacy to claim the title of Khan. Temujin became the Khan of the Mongol tribes, and Temujin began his hegemony as Genghis Khan.
Temujin began to carefully govern his tribe in both domestic and foreign affairs. Internally, the Quiver of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces was established above the ministries, that is, the personal guards of absolute allegiance to themselves. According to the division of labor of individual strengths, the internal personnel are divided, and special personnel are responsible for making weapons, raising livestock, lighting fires and cooking, etc.
These actions of Temujin made his tribe more standardized and disciplined, more efficient than other tribes, and had the rudimentary form of a state.
Diplomatically, Temujin immediately announced to the outside world that he had become the Great Khan, and after hearing this news, the various ministries reacted differently. There was congratulations, the Khan of the Kereb, who was very happy when he learned that Temujin had become the Great Khan of the Mongols. There were also those who scolded their mothers, such as the hostile tribes of Temujin.
There are also those who neither praise nor scold, such as Zamuhe, whose goal is also to become the Great Khan of the Mongols, which is also the fundamental reason for the separation from Temujin in the first place. Zamuhe's strength was far superior to that of Temujin, but his ancestors were commoners of the Mongol tribe, and he did not have the blood of Temujin's golden family, nor did he have the support of the Mongol prince, so he never became Khan. Now that I saw that the sweat seat was robbed by Temujin, the roots of my teeth itched with hatred, but I couldn't attack it publicly.
As if God knew what Zamuh was thinking, it didn't take long for Zamuhe to wait for an opportunity to put Temujin to death.
After Temujin became Khan, Zamuhe's younger brother Dai Cha'er took a group of people to a tribal camp to steal horses, and the younger brother of the tribal leader went to steal horses himself, which shows how poor everyone was at that time, but stealing horses is different from stealing vegetables after all, it is risky, not to mention stealing horses from Mongolian tribes. When the master found out, he directly bent his bow and arrows and shot at them, and Dai Cha'er fell off his horse in response.
Zamuhe looked at his brother's cold corpse, and the relationship between Zamuhe and Temujin changed from neutral to hostile. Zamuhe gathered thirteen troops, a total of 30,000 men, and prepared to set foot on the Temujin tribe in one fell swoop, and strangle the new Great Khan in the cradle.
In the face of the menacing Zamuhe coalition army, Temujin did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly gathered men and horses to prepare for the battle. Temujin also prepared thirteen tribes, one for the righteous mother Ha Erlun, one for his own guard quiver, three to eleven for the tribe of the Mongolian prince, and the twelfth and thirteenth for the side Mongolian tribes, which is the famous battle of the thirteen wings in history.
The two sides met at the lower reaches of the Krulian River at the Talambal Division, and the same was fought by the 13 Divisions, and who was stronger in the fighting in the steppe? As soon as the battle began, the coalition forces of Zamuhe immediately launched a fierce attack. Arrows like locusts covering the sun, horses galloping like meteors, and all the tribes howled and slaughtered the Temujin coalition.
Soon after the battle, the Temujin coalition was overwhelmed and defeated, and the men and horses fled in all directions, galloping until they reached the side of the Trouble River. Why did the two sides, which were originally evenly matched, have such an unexpected end? The answer is morale, which cannot be seen or touched, but it is very important for fighting a war.
The thirteen men and horses gathered by Zamuhe's side are all Temujin's mortal enemies, such as the Tatars, and these are the masters who do not need to mobilize to fight Temujin, so they will play with their lives when they come up. Temujin's side is dominated by the troops of his family, and the purpose of these people following Temujin is very simple, that is, to grab money, food, and women together, and there are no lofty ideals at all, so they will not fight hard for Temujin.
Temujin's first battle was defeated, and it was a crushing defeat, and everything seemed to foreshadow his life course of continuing to fail. Luckily, that was the end of his bad luck, as it was the first and last defeat in his life.
Just when Temujin's troops were defeated, Zamuhe did not let his troops pursue them with victory, but made a strange decision. Zamuhe ordered the troops to stop and set up pots on the spot to cook meat, not to hold an open-air barbecue to celebrate the victory, but to cook human flesh. He ordered all the prisoners of this battle to be thrown into a pot and cooked, and a whole seventy pots of human flesh were boiled.
Through such brutal acts, Zamuhe told his men and opponents: "Look, this is what will happen to betraying me and opposing me. He thought that no one would dare to oppose him in the future.
"True bravery is not killing, but tolerance. "Zamuhe doesn't know that in addition to violence, there is also something called morality, and throughout the ages, people who have morality have the last laugh than those who have violence.
Zamuhe's atrocities not only kicked off his defeat, but also made a great propaganda for Temujin. After the defeat of Temujin in the Battle of the Thirteen Wings, he led his troops to retreat to the Troubled River, he counted the men and horses, and found that although the loss was ugly on the battlefield, but the strength did not suffer much loss, although these clans of his were not very good at fighting, but the kung fu of running away was still first-class, and almost all of these tribes were brought back.
By cooking meat, Zamuhe warns his opponents and intimidates his subordinates to stabilize his foundation. Temujin, too, used to win people's hearts by boiling meat, but he did not cook human flesh, but the meat of his prey.
Once Temujin and his subordinates were hunting outside, and it happened that the Zhaolie tribe of the Taiyi Chiwu tribe was also hunting. Seeing that so few people from the enemy tribe dared to come and spread wilderness on their own territory, Temujin's subordinates gathered up their men and surrounded them, preparing to destroy them.
"There is a way in heaven that you don't take, and there is no door in hell for you to break into. ”
Just as the fate of the Terretsu tribe was about to be sealed, Temujin stepped forward. When the people of the martyrdom looked at it, their hearts were cold. I thought to myself: Back then, our leader Ta'er Hutai almost killed Temujin, is there still a way for us to survive if we fall into his hands today?
Surprisingly, Temujin did not give the order to do it, but chatted cordially with the other party about family life.
Temujin: "What are you doing here?"
Zhaoliebu: "Back to the Great Khan, we were forced to come to your territory to hunt because we had no food, and we offended the Great Khan, and I hope that the Great Khan will forgive us." You see, we haven't caught much prey, so I'll give it all to you. ”
"Looks like you didn't come out with a tent, did you?"
"Back to the Great Khan, we didn't bring a tent, and we didn't plan to stay longer, so we slept in the grass for one night, and left when we had enough prey. ”
"Otherwise, you will sleep in our tent at night, and tomorrow we will hunt together. ”
"This ......"
"That's it. ”
So Temujin invited them to camp in his camp, and in the evening he entertained them with meat in a cauldron and a large bowl of wine. When they hunted together the next day, Temujin and the others deliberately drove the prey to the side of the Terugyeon, so that the other party could get as much prey as possible, and the Terughin returned with a full load. Moved, the Zhaolie people decided to leave the Taiyi Chiu tribe and join Temujin.
Contrary to Zamuhe's ferocity, Temujin used his honesty and generosity to make the best publicity for himself, so there was an endless stream of admirers who came to join him. There are both neutral tribes and those who have broken away from the hostile camp.
When the flowers are in full bloom and the breeze comes naturally, Temujin is most moved by the fact that the old man Munlik has brought his seven sons to join him. At that time, before his death, he entrusted the family to the care of Monlik, and Monrik accepted this important task with tears in his eyes, and then left with everyone after the death of Yesuk, leaving a helpless family.
Now that Temujin had made the family prosperous, Monlik had come to join him. This kind of snobbish person would not want to be seen by anyone, but Temujin was different from ordinary people, and he was very happy to see Monlik coming, and he held a banquet to welcome him. In this way, after the defeat, Temujin's power was not weakened, but grew stronger.
In the face of the growing tribe, Temujin was very happy. But there were also troubles, and like many families, Temujin had management problems. Temujin's families, relying on their aristocratic status, often violated the law, and sometimes even embarrassed Temujin in person.
Once a battle was won, Temujin set up a banquet in the tent to celebrate, when the lost beggar was pouring wine, he made a mistake in the order, first to the head of the beggar tribe leader Sacha Beggar's little mother should also pour wine, now Sacha Beggar's own mother suddenly stopped doing it, went up to give the lost beggar a big mouth, and then began to spread wild and spicy, yes, don't scold it, it's not a family, really don't enter a family, don't be outdone, the two of them scolded each other.
Now it was the turn of the beggar to quit, so he cried to Temujin, meaning nothing more than that as an old minister who had served the leader of the Sude, there was no merit and hard work, and there was no hard work and fatigue, so why should she beat and scold.
"Great Khan, you have to make decisions for me!"
A good banquet was ruined like this, and Temujin didn't know what to do when he looked at these crying aunts. But some people don't think it's lively enough, a subordinate actually took advantage of the banquet to steal Temujin's horse harness, and the things of the Great Khan are all remembered, so it can be seen that he really doesn't take the Great Khan in his eyes, and was found out by Temujin's righteous brother Belgutai and whipped him fiercely.
The owner of this thief is another leader of the Zhu'er beggar tribe, Buli Pokuo, after hearing about this, Buli Pokuo was very angry, not to blame the subordinate for stealing things, but to blame Belgutai for beating the dog and not looking at the master. After finding Belgutai, without saying a word, he drew his knife and slashed, but Belgutai was hit in the shoulder before he could dodge, and the blood flowed. In order to take care of the overall situation, Belgutai did not squeak, and after bandaging, it was as if it was fine.
These Mongol nobles did not see Temujin as a leader at all, and in their minds Temujin was nothing more than the leader of a loose alliance.