The succession of the Central Plains Dynasty is also full of struggle and blood, and even leads to war, which Zhao Yu, who has experienced the battle for succession, also deeply understands this. In the complicated situation, the two sides fought openly and covertly, played conspiracies, and did not hesitate to threaten each other with force. And he was also ready to take the throne by arms, although he did not come to this point in the end, but it was thrilling, maintaining the stability and unity of the dynasty.

However, Zhao Yu also saw a little bit that the temptation of power was too great, and those who were cowardly for it would be red-eyed and heartbeat-abiding, eager to try, and accept the influence of Confucian culture. However, although the succession of the Central Plains Dynasty was also full of blood, it rarely led to the division of a country, while the succession of the nomadic people to the throne was not only accompanied by blood, but also often led to the division of nations and territories.

Zhao Hao felt that there was no more suitable standard than the Yuan Dynasty, and their inheritance of the throne was a history of the division of the Mongolian people, at least at this stage has not changed. Now Kublai Khan has modified the rules of succession in imitation of the Han system, and it is also by relying on his strong 'personality' charm and prestige, especially his ruthless iron fist, that he suppressed the kings and forcibly passed. But now that Kublai Khan died early, and the prince of Zhenjin has been in power for many years but has not been able to grasp real power, Zhao Yu hopes that this tradition of them is best continued.

The Mongol Khanate practiced a feudal system, which could be divided into two categories according to their nature. The first type is the sub-envelope of family property within the golden family. Theoretically, the entire khanate should be under the joint ownership of the Genghis Khan family. The so-called "Emperor Taizu first started in the northern season, the elder brother and younger brother decided to take the world, divide the land, and share the wealth", which is what it means. According to the Mongol tradition of distributing family property, Genghis Khan divided the country's subjects and army into several parts and gave them to his sons, and the recipients relied on the "emperor's blessing" to re-establish their tents in their own land.

Different from the family feud, Genghis Khan had another kind of sub-fief for meritorious officials and nobles, including exemption from servitude, reduction of punishment and other privileges, and conferring titles on thousands of households, ten thousand households, kings, etc. For the tribes that voluntarily submitted, Genghis Khan often made his leader the old tribe, and the in-laws also formed several thousand households in the form of the old tribe. The heroes formed their own tribes. Although this kind of bounty type of feudal is one level lower than the golden family's distributed feudal system, because of the hereditary position, it has a strong dominance over the people, so it still maintains relative independence and can evolve into a lord.

According to Genghis Khan's fiefdom, the fief of the eldest son Jochi was the Kipchak steppe from Haiabli to Khorezm; the fiefdom of the second son, Chagatai, from the west of the Vultures to the middle of the river; The fiefdom of Sanziwo Kotai is in the upper reaches of the lost river and Ye Mili in Ye'er. Their descendants, according to Mongol custom, were called the right-hand kings, or the kings of the Western Dao.

The youngest son, Tuolei, inherited Genghis Khan's palace tent between the hardships and the cowardly Green Ripple River; The younger brothers Beli Gutai are divided into the lower reaches of the Timid Green Lian River; Hechi Wendi is north of the Jin Dynasty Border Fort; The eldest brother Hazar is divided into areas around the Ergun River and Hulun Lake; The younger brother Timur Ge Chijin divided the land east of the Great Khing'an Mountains, and their descendants were customarily called the Left Hand Kings, or the Kings of the Host Road.

After integration that broke tribal boundaries, the structure of the feudal nomadic state was further improved, and the Mongol Khanate amassed great power. Subsequently, the Mongol nomadic nomadic nobility launched a series of wars of conquest under the pretext of pursuing their enemies, which led to the continuous expansion of the territory of the Great Mongol State and the adjustment of the fiefs of the kings and other fiefs. However, both the distribution of family property and the reward type of feudal have a strong independence, and generally when the authority of the Great Khan is strong, the Great Khan can exercise effective control over the vassals and vassals; Once the Khan's power declined, the Ulus often went their own way, and even fought each other for the Khan's throne.

Genghis Khan died in a campaign besieging the Western Xia kingdom. During the reign of Meng Ke, in addition to the original fiefdom of the kings and nobles, the area directly under the jurisdiction of the Great Khan was divided into three parts: the eastern regions, the Chinese historical materials called Yanjing and other places in the province of Shangshu, and appointed Mahamu? The management of the tooth is carried out; Turkestan, the cities of the river, the cities of the Vultures, Ferghana, Khorezm and other places, known as the province of Xingshangshu in Beshbali and other places, were appointed to be managed by Masikhutib; Khorasan, Khadaer, Iraq, Farsi, Diyabek, Maoxili, Heleb and other places are called Amu Darya and other places in Xingshangshu Province, and Aerhun is appointed as the governor.

In addition, Möngke sent his eldest brother Kublai Khan to pass through Han and his second brother Hulegu to pass through Persia and other places, as his left and right assistants to control the East and West, and the taxes of these regions were handed over to the Great Khan's treasury and were managed and controlled by the Great Khan as the common wealth of the Golden Family. This shows that the Great Khan of all Mongolia had the right to levy goods in the subject states of his subjects, but in fact the Great Khan could not do as he pleased.

Later, Möngke Khan was killed in battle, triggering a dispute between Kublai Khan and Ali Buge for the throne, which also detonated the conflict between the Golden Family that had accumulated for four generations. Although Kublai Khan defeated Ali Buge, as the Great Khan of all Mongolia, his status was not recognized by all the clansmen. At the beginning of the war between the two Koreans, the king of the Kipchak Khanate, Beerge, sent envoys to both sides to persuade them to reconcile; Although the Arukh of the Chagatai Khanate showed favor to Kublai Khan, he did not obey him and actively invaded the Transoxiana region, which had been under the direct control of the Great Khan. Hülegü leaned toward Kublai Khan in the hope that Kublai Khan would recognize his legitimacy as a state.

So the price of Kublai Khan's ascension to the throne was to promote the division of the Mongol Khanate. Although the Jochi Khanate did not openly deny Kublai Khan's status as Great Khan, it was no longer subject to his rule. The Ilkhanate was the only khanate that recognized the status of Kublai Khan, but Hulagu did not follow the orders of the Great Khan and took possession of Persia, the former Great Khan's territory. The relationship between Hülegü and Kublai Khan was more of an alliance than a subordination. As for the Chagatai Khanate and the Ögedai Khanate, they did not recognize Kublai Khan's self-proclaimed Great Khan at all. The expansion of the Chagatai Khanate into Central Asia was beyond the control of the titular Great Khan Kublai Khan......

In his previous life, he learned that the Yuan Dynasty included North China, the Central Plains (Jin Dynasty), Tibet, Liaodong, Goryeo, North Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, Eastern Europe and other places, and was the largest empire in the world so far. The rulers of the Kipchak, Ilkhanate, Ögedai and Chagatai Khanates are often referred to as the "kings of the northwest" in historical documents.

And when Zhao Hao first arrived in this world, he trembled when he faced such a superpower, even if he defeated Kublai Khan, his brothers would not look at it, if they raised troops to help, they would have to confront the four major powers. This is simply a small world war, and with the current strength, the minions will be abused in minutes.

Now after walking around this era, I found that the real history is all pseudo-history that has been whitewashed by those literati, and the four great khanates of Mongolia only nominally respect the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty as their suzerain, and regard themselves as "the country of suzerains", but in fact they have a semi-independent or independent status. Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty on the basis of inheriting the Mongol proper, the old frontier of the Jin Dynasty and the Dali Kingdom, and later annexed the Southern Song Dynasty to form a new Yuan Empire.

Because the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty had the title of the Great Khan of Mongolia, he was recognized by the four major khanates of Western Mongolia in several historical periods, and people often mistakenly thought that the Yuan Dynasty was the successor of the Mongol Khanate; The Chinese literature of the Yuan Dynasty deliberately emphasized the orthodoxy of the Yuan Dynasty, criticized the "rebellion" of the northwestern kings, and implied that the northwestern kings should be subordinate to the Mongol Great Khan (Yuan Emperor), etc., all of which blurred the relationship between the Yuan dynasty and the four khanates.

Although the relationship between these khanates and the Yuan government was close and intimate, it was different from the relationship between states today. Generally speaking, the Ilkhan and the Yuan royal family are both descendants of Genghis Khan's fourth son, Tuolei, and their relationship is the closest; The relationship between the Chagatai Khanate and the Ögedai Khanate and the Yuan Dynasty government underwent a complex process of change, while the Kipchak Khanate was the farthest away from the Yuan Dynasty and had already had a tendency to become independent.

In the time of Genghis Khan, the Mongol khanate was powerful, fashionable and had to abide by the rules, and when the khan's power was weak, it was not allowed to go against tradition. In fact, the nomadic traditions of clan deliberation, family property distribution, and military democracy have always contributed to the independence of the khanate lords or feudal lords when the khan's power was weak. After the successive wars of Möngke, Guiyou and Kublai Khan, the authority of the Great Khan was further weakened, and Kublai Khan not only failed to restore the Mongol khanate, but also completely divided the khanate.

Therefore, Zhao Yu thought that the first battle for the throne of the Mongolian golden family could be regarded as a struggle between the sons of Genghis Khan, the second time was a struggle between the Tuolei family and the Ogedai family, and the third time was a bloody struggle between the brothers of the Tuolei family, so this time it could be regarded as a struggle within the Kublai Khan family. Because the descendants of the other golden families can basically be regarded as independent, who is the emperor of the Yuan Empire has little to do with them.

From this, Zhao Hao judged that as long as his forces did not touch the Mongolian mainland, other khanates would not be involved, and they also had their own internal problems, and it was unknown whether they could send troops in time. At present, his war only involves Jiangnan, and there is no direct conflict with them, so there is no need to worry about the intervention of the four great Khanates of Mongolia.

However, Zhao Hao hoped that Kublai Khan's sons would have a good fight, and he analyzed that there were at least two ways for the kings of each sect to go to Shangdu this time, and they would stand on the side of Zhenjin. The first is his old rival Huan De, who was favored by Kublai Khan and was named the king of the south of the town, but his luck was not very good, first he was repeatedly defeated by his own hands and failed to destroy the remnants of the Song Dynasty. He was ordered to go out to occupy the city and Annam, and returned defeated, and lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Although Huan Tu was not removed from the prince, only the fact that he was not allowed to meet him already showed that he had lost Kublai Khan's favor and was expelled from the heir to the Khan throne, and he was stationed in a non-battle-ready military area, so his military power was mostly limited to his direct subordinate cowardice, and he was not allowed to transfer troops unless he was ordered by the court. And this time, he was able to lead his army north to Shangdu to participate in the meeting of the king, and he must have been able to make the trip because of the order of Zhenjin.

Zhao Yu was basically sure that he had also received the promise of Zhenjin, otherwise Zhenjin would not have let Huan Tuo lead the troops for no reason and add an opponent to himself. And Tuhuan has more than 300,000 troops in the south of the Yangtze River, and occupies the richest place in the Yuan Dynasty, it can be said that with the support of Tuhuan, Zhenjin is already invincible, and he only needs to cut off the financial support for the various kings to make them surrender.

Another king who would support Zhenjin, Zhao Yu thought it was the king of Yunnan who also first Timur. In the decades after the Mongols conquered Dali, in fact, the kings of the town in Yunnan were not limited to one, mainly in the three lineages of the king of Yunnan, the king of Yunnan, the king of Liang, Ganmala, and the king of Xiping, the king of Oulu. In the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan named his sixth son Hu Gechi as the king of Yunnan and went out of the town of Harazhang area. At that time, Yunnan had not yet established a province, and military and political affairs were presided over by the Marshal's Office.

The king of Yunnan went out of the town of Yunnan and became the highest military and political governor in the local area, but soon Hu Gechi was poisoned to death. Afterwards, the Yuan court set up a province and re-governed Yunnan. In the seventeenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the son of Kugechi also attacked the king of Yunnan with Timur. The Yuan court of Yunnan Province, the military did not discuss the king of Yunnan, and granted it absolute military leadership, but it did not understand the military, resulting in the defeat of the conquest of Burma, and was in the stage of waiting for the crime, if it could not find a strong backer, it would be replaced by other kings, and this system would fade out of the center of power, and at this moment the real gold became their lifeline, and they will support their succession to keep power.

The one who can have an impact on Zhenjin's succession to the throne is the King of Anxi, but there is not much obstacle to Zhao Hao's battle to recover Jiangnan at present. In the ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan named his third son, Busy Gera, as the king of Anxi, gave Jingzhao a fief, and placed it in the palace. In the following year, he was crowned King of Qin, and he was given a golden seal, one domain and two seals, and the two mansions were opened together, and his status was supreme. This is not only the close relationship between father and son, but also the need to suppress Hexi.

King Anxi garrisoned Liupan Mountain, lived in Chang'an in winter, and migrated to Liupan Mountain in summer to open the palace of Liupan Mountain. At that time, the Mongol and Song dynasties were in Sichuan, and the king of Anxi was not only responsible for the western defense against the invasion of Chagatai to the east, but also presided over the Jinchuan War. In the seventeenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, he died of illness, and his son Ananda took the throne, and the 150,000 troops were stationed in the western border defense line of the Yuan Dynasty, which was an important force for the Yuan Dynasty to resist the king of Chagatai.

The Ansi region is close to Shangdu, and Ananda will become an important weight for the left and right khans no matter which side he tends towards. Of course, Zhao Yu hopes that they will fight to the death, and even follow the example of their predecessors to divide the territory and become independent kings. And he also saw that the reason why Zhenjin insisted on summoning his brothers, sons and nephews who supported his inheritance to the throne despite the 'mob' in Jiangnan was his thirst for power; The other also shows that he despises himself, and he has not yet been able to recognize the current situation, and wants to look back against himself after winning the throne.

Then Zhao Yu thought that what he had to do was not to miss the opportunity, to gain a firm foothold in Jiangdong as soon as possible, form a separation, and then try to develop......