Chapter 471: Doubts After Death

By June 1219, Genghis Khan personally led the main Mongol force (about 100,000 men) to invade westward, and collected 50,000 Turkic troops along the way, and at the end of 1220, Khorezm Suanma, who had been pursued by the Mongol army, died of illness on a small island called Ebesikuan Island (or translated as Abiskun Island, which has sunk on land) in the Jisi Sea (present-day Caspian Sea) in Kuanta and passed on the throne of Zalandin before his death. In 1221, the Mongol army wiped out the Khorezm Kingdom, and in November of the same year, Genghis Khan led his army to pursue Zalandin until he reached the bank of the Shen River (now the Indus River), Zalandin was defeated, and only a few people fled across the river.

At the beginning, Genghis Khan ordered Subutai and Zhebe to lead 20,000 cavalry to pursue Mahamat who fled westward, and after Mahamat fled into the Caspian Sea, they led the Mongol army to continue westward, conquering many countries around the Taihe Mountains (present-day Caucasus Mountains), and then continued westward into the Kipchak steppe expansion. In 1223, at the Battle of the Calga River (north of present-day Zhdanov, Ukraine), the princes of Kievan Rus' and the combined forces of Kipchak Khutan Khan were defeated at the Battle of the Calga River (north of present-day Zhdanov, Ukraine), and then invaded the Crimean Peninsula on the northern shore of the Black Sea.

At the end of the same year, Zhebei and Subutai led their army back eastward, passing through the Yedi Li River (the Turkic name of the present-day Volga River), attacking Burian in the middle reaches of the river, and after encountering stubborn resistance, they went south along the Caspian Sea and the north of the Aral Sea, and returned east with Genghis Khan. On the way back to the east, don't die of illness.

During the reign of Genghis Khan, he not only made great achievements in the territorial plate, but also made great contributions to the reform of the system.

For example, to create a written script, the Mongolian people originally did not have a written word, and only relied on knots to carve wooden records. During Temujin's crusade against the Nabarbarians, he captured a Vultures named Tata Tonga. He was the official of the Sun Khan of the Nabarian Tribe, and the Sun Khan respected him as the master of the country, let him make characters, and master the golden seal and the valley of money. Temujin asked Tata Tun Ah to stay at his side, "After that, whenever there is a decree, the seal will be used, and the command will still be in charge." Soon after, Temujin asked Tata Tonga to spell Mongolian in the Vuloid alphabet and taught the princes and kings to learn what was known as the "Vulture Book". From then on, the documents of the Mongol Khanate, "those who go to the Hui use the Hui characters", "the Hui Hui characters have only 21 letters, and the rest are only made up on the side."

Those who walked in the Han Chinese, Khitan, and Jurchen dynasties only used Chinese characters." For a considerable period of time, only small trees were used in Mongolia itself. "Huihui character" refers to the "book of fearful characters". Although Kublai Khan had asked the national teacher Ba Sipa to create the "Mongolian New Characters", it was basically disused after the Yuan Dynasty withdrew from the Central Plains, and the "Fearful Character Book" was further improved after the reform in the early 14th century, and has been used to this day. Tatatong created the Mongolian script, which was a first in the history of the Mongol Khanate. It was thanks to this script that Genghis Khan was able to promulgate written laws and canons, and the first ancient history of the Mongol people, The Secret History of the Mongols, written shortly after his death, was written in this script.

As early as 1206, when Genghis Khan founded the country, he ordered the Mongolian people to start formulating the Qing Book, which was the beginning of the official promulgation of the written law by the Mongolian people. However, the first written law of the Mongols, the "Great Canon of Zasa", was formulated more than ten years later, before the western conquest of Khorezm. According to the "Historical Collection", in 1219, "Genghis Khan set out on the expedition to Khorezm under the banner of world conquest", and before leaving the army, "he convened a meeting, held a Kuriltai, and re-established his own rules of leadership, laws and ancient customs among them", which is the so-called "Great Canon of Zasa". In his History of the Conquerors of the World, Zhifeni wrote a chapter entitled "The Decrees of Genghis Khan and the Zaza Issued after His Rise," in which he says: "Since the Tatars did not have their own written language, he ordered the Mongol children to learn to write the Vultures, and wrote down the Zaza and the decrees in the scrolls."

These scrolls, known as the 'Zarsa Canon', were kept in the treasury of the first king. Whenever a new khan ascended the throne, a large army was moved, or the kings gathered to discuss the state and the government, they would take out these scrolls, act according to the above words, and deploy the army according to the manner prescribed therein, and destroy the prefectures, counties, and towns." In Mongolian society, the Great Khan and Hehan were the supreme rulers and enjoyed supreme authority, and the words and orders of the Great Khan were the laws, and the "Great Zaza" promulgated by Genghis Khan recorded the orders of Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan's "precepts", also known as the "dafa order".

Throughout Genghis Khan's life, he was eloquent and strategic, but after Genghis Khan returned to his division, he invaded Western Xia again. Yuan Taizu 22 years of July 12 Ji Chou day (, when the Mongol army besieged the capital of Western Xia, Genghis Khan died of illness in the south of Ningxia Liupan Mountain (a said Lingzhou), at the age of 66, after his death buried in Buerhan Mountain (now Kent Mountain) close to the source of the difficult river, the cause of his death is still widely said, "Yuan History" records: "Autumn and July noon, do not hesitate. He was ugly, and collapsed in the palace of the old man in Surrey River. ”

Before his death, Genghis Khan explained to his sons the strategy of destroying the Jin Dynasty: "Fake the Song realm and outflank Bianjing." Later, Wokotai and Tuolei destroyed the Jin Dynasty, and it was Genghis Khan's strategy that was adopted.

Previously, the last emperor of Western Xia had promised to surrender, after the death of Genghis Khan, the Mongolian army was not mourned, after the surrender of Kaesong, he was killed according to Genghis Khan's will, and the Mongolian general Chahan worked hard to make Zhongxingfu, the capital of Western Xia (now Yinchuan, Ningxia), avoid the fate of slaughtering the city, and entered the city to pacify the soldiers and civilians in the city, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were preserved.

And in the "Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty", it is recorded that "Genghis fell from a horse and was injured". Roman Catholic Papal Envoy John? Plano? In his History of the Mongols as We Call the Tatars, Gabbini says that Genghis Khan may have been struck by lightning and died.

On the Ordos Plateau in the western part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, there is a yurt-style palace, which is the tomb of Genghis Khan, which has been relocated many times until 1954 before it was moved back to its hometown Yijin Horo Banner from the Taer Temple in Huangzhong County, which is 185 kilometers away from Baotou City in the north. The 21st day of the 3rd lunar month, the 15th day of May, the 12th day of August and the third day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar are the four major festivals of the year.

However, the tomb of Genghis Khan has been searched for by officials or people in every dynasty since ancient times, and no clues have been left to this day. As for why the tomb of Genghis Khan has attracted so much for thousands of years, perhaps everyone believes that the Mongol Empire, which spanned Eurasia, must have been filled with countless treasures in Genghis Khan's tomb, or the piece of blood in Genghis Khan's hand that holds the power of life and death in the world.

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