In the spring of 1206, the Mongol nobles held a general meeting at the source of the Trian River (now the Onon River), and the kings and ministers gave Temujin the honorific title "Genghis Khan". However, before the late Qing Dynasty, in the collection of Chinese literature and history in the Yuan, Ming and early Qing dynasties, there was no record of the supreme title "Genghis Khan". At the same time, Peng Daya of the Southern Song Dynasty compiled the "Black Tartar Affair", which also recorded that Emperor Genghis ("his lord Emperor Chu Yan is nicknamed Emperor Cheng Jith"), Peng was an envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty to Mongolia to contact and attack the Jin Dynasty. Li Zhichang of the Yuan Dynasty "Journey to the West of Changchun Xiaren? The volume is also recorded as "Emperor Genghis and Emperor Qiu Shi". In 1998, the Yuan Dynasty silver gilt inscription "Salt Mountain Holy Decree Tablet" was also written as "Heavenly Gift, Emperor Genghis Holy Decree, Disease". In Western historical collections, Genghis Khan was recorded as Genghis Khan, which was introduced to China, resulting in the use of both or the use of Genghis Khan alone in Han historical collections (such as the Atlas of the Sea Kingdom, the History of the Mughal Dynasty, the Chronicle of the Mongols, and the History of the New Yuan Dynasty) since the late Qing Dynasty. Officially enthroned as the Great Mongol Emperor (Great Khan of the Mongol Empire), which was the beginning of the Mongol Empire. The Code of Genghis Khan was promulgated, the world's first and most widely used written code, establishing a Mongolian aristocratic republican system based on the aristocratic mingzhu.

After Genghis Khan established the country, his power became more prosperous, and the thousand-household system was implemented and the escort army was established. Began a large-scale war of conquest against foreign countries. After more than 20 years of war with the Western Xia, the main force of the Western Xia army was repeatedly created, forcing the king of the Western Xia to surrender, and removing the northwest barrier of the Jin Dynasty to smoothly attack the Jin in the south. In six years, he personally led a large army to attack Jin, and began the 24-year Mengjin War. won the first battle at Wushabao (now Zhangbei Northwest of Hebei); then fought Yehuling (now northwest of Wanquan, Hebei) and Huihebao (now southeast of Huai'an), annihilating a large number of elite Jin troops; He also fought Huailai (now Hebei) and Jinshan (now Yanqing, Beijing), and defeated more than 100,000 Jin troops; The Jin army was heavily damaged in Tokyo (now Liaoyang, Liaoning), Xijing (now Datong, Shanxi), Juyongguan and other places. Later, he constantly changed his tactics and divided his troops into three routes to attack the hinterland of the Central Plains and the western Liaoning region.

In March of the ninth year of Genghis Khan, he gathered troops under the city of Dadu (now Beijing). It was expected that it would be difficult to conquer the city for a while, so he sent an envoy to force peace, forcing the Jin Dynasty to sacrifice the princess of Qiguo, gold silk and horses, and lead the troops to withdraw from Juyong Pass. In June, under the pretext of the Jin Dynasty's relocation of the capital to Nanjing (now Kaifeng, Henan) and "breach of contract", taking advantage of the fluctuation of the Jin people's hearts and the mutiny of the army to surrender to Mongolia, the troops of the three touches and the troops led by Shi Mo Ming'an to join and surrender to the Mengcheng (Jiǔ Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties were commonly known as the conquered northern tribesmen) to attack Zhongdu, and to besiege the city to send reinforcements and surrender, and conquered the city in May of the following year. In order to meet the needs of the siege, Genghis Khan adopted the general to gradually establish an artillery army, and the siege of the city was based on artillery stones. Later, the siege of the city, with a single cannon reached hundreds, and the city was quickly broken. At the same time, in order to absorb the advanced technology of various nationalities, craftsmen and craftsmen were plundered everywhere, and tens of thousands of craftsmen were plundered in one city. Later, an army of craftsmen was established, and factories were set up to smelt iron and manufacture weapons. In terms of communication and communication, the "arrow speed transmission horse" was created, and the daily speed was hundreds of miles, and the speed of military order transmission and army deployment increased. He is good at giving full play to the strengths of cavalry and is known as the "Mongolian whirlwind".

In the twelfth year of Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan named Mu Huali as the prince and king, commanded the war to attack gold, and returned to Mongolia with the main force to prepare for the westward expedition. The direct cause of Genghis Khan's expedition to the west was the Khorezm Incident, according to which Khorezm's Khan killed 499 peaceful merchants of the Mongol Khanate, and its king Mahamat arbitrarily killed the envoy sent by Genghis Khan to negotiate.

This became the fuse for Genghis Khan's expedition to the west.

How to view Genghis Khan's western expedition has always been a lot of controversy at home and abroad in ancient and modern times. The Mongols are a people of horses, they are born on horseback, grow up on horseback, and even die on horseback. Genghis Khan was an emperor on horseback, he crossed his horse and wielded a sword to unify the Mongolian steppe, captured the central capital of the Jin Dynasty, and regarded the horse's hooves as his own territory, plundering people and property, and managing an ideal territory for his descendants, which was indeed the real purpose of Genghis Khan's westward expedition.

But things didn't go so smoothly in the west, because before that, Genghis Khan and his sons actually had problems about the succession to the throne.

There was a quarrel between Genghis Khan's sons over the origin of Jochi and the succession to the throne: whether Jochi was Genghis Khan's biological flesh and blood was not the focus of controversy at the time, and the key was who would inherit the throne. Whether he can carry forward his career is the starting point of Genghis Khan's consideration. In this conflict, Genghis Khan identified his third son, Ogedei, as the heir to the throne, mainly from the perspective of Zhengzhi's stability and personal talent. At the same time, it shows that the succession to the throne of the Mongol Khan at that time did not implement the primogeniture system, but retained some traces of the election system at the end of the primitive society: the successor was selected from the "sage" of the son-in-law, and finally confirmed by the Kuritai Assembly. It was this system of succession to the throne that led to the struggle for the throne of the Mongol royal family after the death of Genghis Khan.

Jochi was the eldest son, and the controversy over whether he was Genghis Khan's own son at that time made Genghis Khan not want Jochi to inherit the throne and lead to cannibalism among his roommates. Chagatai is the second son of the son of the son, and he is a warrior when he fights, and he has the character of not admitting defeat. However, he was reckless, aggressive, and cruel, and Genghis Khan knew that he was not the material to inherit his business. Wokotai is the third, and he is not as good as his two elder brothers in terms of military merit and bravery. However, he was smarter than his two elder brothers, could understand Genghis Khan's thoughts, was easy-going, did not participate in the struggle between brothers, and never showed any enthusiasm for inheriting the throne. It was this that made him gain the trust of Genghis Khan, who passed on the throne to him.

After determining the heir to the throne, Genghis Khan sent a Mongol delegation to the kingdom of Khorezm in the spring of the following year to force the Sultan of Mahamat to sign a treaty with the Mongols. After the treaty was signed, the governor of the city of Khorezm killed a caravan of 500 Muslims from Mongolia passing through the city, seized the goods, only one survived and returned to Mongolia, Genghis Khan sent three envoys to Khorezm to negotiate with Mahamat, as a result, the leader was killed, the other two were humiliated, Genghis Khan was even more angry, and decided to invade Khorezm.

In 1218, Genghis Khan sent his generals to destroy the Western Liao, kill the last emperor of the Western Liao, Qu Qu Lu, and pacify the Western Regions. The obstacles to the march to Khorezm were removed.

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