The Kuritai Assembly, to some extent, should be considered the supreme authority in Mongolia, as it could not only decide military operations, but also elect the Great Khan.

Of course, it can also decide other major events, such as the Yuan Dynasty, and the abolition of the emperor.

The participants of the Kulitai Conference were also different from similar systems in the Central Plains, "concubines, kings, relatives, ministers, generals, deacons, and vassals of the Quartet."

Look at Mongolia, the concubine has always been able to participate in politics openly, so advanced that some politicians hundreds of years later are ashamed of it. It is precisely because of this system that Mongolia has not only seen a strong political woman like Manduhai, but also a waste female regent like Queen Naima Zhenhou.

To this day, the Mongolian tradition is still the same, just as the convener of the Kuritai Congress was not Dacheng Taiji Hannaji, but the regent of Zhongjin Hatun.

In fact, the Curitai Conference also had a period of "loneliness", that is, during the period when the Yuan Dynasty still occupied the Central Plains, the role of the Curitai Conference was greatly weakened.

This is understandable, since the Kuritai Assembly itself was a kind of "elective monarchy", a product of the feudal structure of the Great Mongolian aristocracy, which had the social function of aggregating the scattered and independent fiefdom aristocracy into a unified community.

However, the way of political control in the Yuan Dynasty was achieved by the top-down centralized imperial power-bureaucracy, so that the Kuritai system lost its functional significance in the steppe period.

However, due to the customary power of the old tradition itself, the political need to maintain the privileges of the Mongolian aristocracy, and the incomplete reform of the Yuan dynasty's ancestral Han law, this tradition remained in the political life of the ruling class of the Yuan dynasty as an "ancestral system" and changed under the new historical conditions.

This change is manifested in the fact that, on the one hand, the factors that make up the external form of the system, such as aristocratic court meetings, special Mongolian rituals in favor of the monarch's accession to the throne, feasts and rewards, and the recitation of Genghis Khan's Zasa, etc., are relatively stable in the enthronement ceremonies of each emperor of the Yuan dynasty.

Of course, this kind of clan aristocratic assembly has lost any significance of "electing the king". The new emperor used this kind of "left and right" ceremony to assert his political authority and legitimacy in line with the "ancestral teachings". Scattered and politically disadvantaged clan nobles at all levels could take advantage of this opportunity to gain a fortune.

On the other hand, the bottom-up aristocratic consciousness of electing the monarch, which constituted the content of the Curitai system, catered to the trend of the development of contradictions within the ruling class in the Yuan Dynasty, and gradually degenerated into an ideological tool for various factions and groups of bureaucracy and aristocracy to compete for supreme power.

However, in addition to some of the above factors, the Kulitai system continued in the Yuan Dynasty, and it is important that the Yuan emperor must also be the Great Khan of Mongolia, and this dual identity structure determines that he must follow the ancestral teachings of Genghis Khan and the Great Mongolian tradition.

As the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and the Great Khan of Mongolia at the same time, the procedure for inheriting the throne of the Khan still had to go through Kulitai, and obtain the support and recognition of the kings and nobles through Kulitai in order to obtain the legal status of the Great Mongolian Khan, and at the same time, it was justified to become the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.

That is, from the Great Khan to the Emperor, in order to obtain legal status and power, formally it is still necessary to go through the Kuritai.

This time, the Kulitai Assembly convened by Chungjin Hatun had a very clear thing to discuss and decide, that is, to decide the ownership of the Great Khan of the Tumut Tribe.

Theoretically speaking, Tumut is only one of the 60,000 Mongolian households, and its "Great Khan" is actually only equivalent to the Zongwang of the Yuan Dynasty, and although the Zongwang can also be abolished by the decision of the Kuritai Assembly, it is usually not necessary to discuss it with Kulitai, because the Great Yuan Emperor and the Great Khan of Mongolia can decide.

But the situation is clearly different now.

First of all, to say that Hannaji himself was not the eldest son of Altan Khan, he was not even the eldest grandson, and that his appointment as Great Khan of Tumut was not in line with the "ancestral system" of primogeniture established by Dayan Khan, so he had to be justified by the traditional prestige of the Kuritai Assembly.

Secondly, if Hannaji cannot be recognized by the Kuritai Assembly, he can only fight for the canonization of Tumen Khan, the Great Khan of all Mongolia, but isn't that a joke, Tumen Khan obviously will not approve a hardcore Ming Fan to be the Great Khan of Tumut, so ...... The Battle of Monan broke out.

Previously, when Zhongjin Hatun issued an invitation to convene the Kuritai conference, in addition to the Tumut headquarters, even the Ordos Ministry and Qinghai Tumut only sent people to reply "ready to attend", but there was no action at all.

It was not until the dust settled on the results of the Great Battle of Monan that the Mongolian nobles of various departments hurried to the city of Guihua.

The consequences of the Tumen's defeat were severe, for on the very fourth day after Gao Shishi and Hannaji were driven to naturalization, three important people arrived together.

These three are Huang Taiji of the Ordos Department, Huoluo Chi Jiangduer of Qinghai Tumut (Yongxiebu), and ...... Changang, one of the three guards of Duoyan!

The two of the Ordos and Yongshebu were both among the "five consuls" of Tumen Khan, but since they both belonged to the right-wing Mongols, it is not completely unreasonable for Tumen Khan to quietly leave Chahanhot and come to participate in the Kuritai Conference when Tumen Khan returned from defeat, but the significance of Changang's visit is very different.

This move is suspected of betraying the Tumen!

Uh, well, I'm afraid it's not a suspicion, it's a definite re-alignment.

Although Gao Pragmatic just nodded with a smile when he heard the news, this was purely a deliberate pretense, in fact, he was simply overjoyed in his heart - Duoyan Sanwei rebelled and attached himself from time to time, paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty for a while, and following the Tumen to attack the Ming Dynasty for a while, which made the Ming Dynasty have a headache all the time.

And now Chang Ang is naturalized, which is equivalent to re-recognizing a big brother, that is, Tumut - this is the performance of his re-recognition of the "big brother" as a Mongolian, in fact, because Tumut is now the younger brother of Da Ming, of course, Chang Ang can no longer play two sides and three knives with Da Ming, otherwise where will Tu Mote's face be put at that time? Think Tumert, the right-wing leader, would not dare to beat him?

You must know that Tumut had to recognize Daming as the "big brother" before, but it was not that I was beaten by Daming militarily, he was out of economic considerations, focusing on Tumert's overall strength.

Da Ming felt that Duoyan Sanwei was not easy to deal with, mainly because of the nomadic nature of the Mongols, it was difficult to carry out an actual attack - just like this time Qi Jiguang sent troops, Chang Ang could not fight and left, Qi Jiguang could only temporarily occupy Daning City and other subsequent changes, it was impossible to pursue Chang Ang.

But if you change to Tumut to deal with Changang, it's completely different. Tumut alone has a headquarters that can muster almost 100,000 iron horsemen, not to mention the two powerful younger brothers of Ordos and Yong Xiebu, Changang's 10,000 or 20,000 people can't take it in front of Tumut.

As for saying that Changang can still run...... But where to run? The problem with the Ming people is that they can't occupy the grasslands of Changang, but do people think that there are too many grasslands?

So after settling the score, Chang Ang found that his situation was a little bad, and when he was hesitating, Che Duan and Huo Luochi suddenly visited together, told him about the defeat of the Tumen, and invited him to go to Naturalization City to participate in the Curitai Conference.

Chang Ang was shocked and immediately agreed-he had nothing to do with Hannaji, and even if he wanted to, it would be difficult to find a suitable reason, but with Che Duan and Huo Luochi as intermediaries, he could talk to Hannaji!

It is also necessary to change the court, and it is difficult to guarantee your value if you "recommend yourself for a pillow seat".

Hannaji received the three as the "candidate of the Great Khan" of Tumut, and then immediately sent someone to invite Gao Shishi to come to the meeting.

After a short time, the Ming Dynasty "canonized the Shunyi King Plenipotentiary Envoy" came to Dazhao Temple with high pragmatism.

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