At the same time, a stout man with a strong Mongolian voice stood in a gorgeous tent and said to a tall and strong man in front of him who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, tall and strong, with deep eye sockets: "Ibrakhan Ugurun Khan, my brother, the purpose of the Khan Shami Chagan of the Chagatai Khanate who sent me to meet the Khan The Khan already knows, is the Khan willing to join forces with my Chagatai Khanate against the Timurid Khanate?" ”

This stout man was the younger brother of Shami Chagan, whose name was Mahama; The man in front of him was the Khan of the Blue Horde, Ibrakhan Ugulun.

The Blue Horde was also founded by the sons of Jochi. Jochi's fifth son, Xiban, made great achievements in Hungary when he followed Batu to the west, and Batu gave him the Ural River valley and the southern part of the Ural Mountains as fiefs. Because the Great Horde of the former Ban was blue, it was named the Blue Horde.

After thinking for a moment, Ibrahan Ugulun pointed out the essence of the matter: "Where is the alliance with your Chagatai Khanate?" It is clear that we are taking advantage of the war between Timur and the Ming Kingdom to rob together. ”

Ma Hama was slightly embarrassed, but immediately threw this useless emotion out of his mind, and continued: "This is also a helpless thing. Now our Mongols are divided and cannot form a joint force, and they cannot defeat the Timurid Khanate at all, so we can only use external forces to deal with him. Was the Great Khan willing to deal with the Timurid Khanate? ”

Ibrakhan Ugulun pondered for a long time, and then said to Mahama: "My Blue Horde does not border with the Timurid Khanate now, and there is no grudge, why should I risk provoking Timur against his Khanate? ”

"Because the Great Khan is a Mongol, we Mongols will always have the blood of bravery in our bodies!"

Mahama first put on a high hat for Ibrakhan Ugulun, and then said: "And Timur's ambitions are very great, although there is still a White Horde between the Blue Horde and the Timurid Khanate, but Kolijak Khan has always wanted to take the Khanate to the other side of the Caspian Sea, if not, how could the Great Khan occupy the Saray River region without much effort?" ”

"When Koli Jak Khan and all his subjects go to the other side of the Caspian Sea, there will be no more obstacles between the Blue Horde and the Timurid Khanate, and even if the Blue Horde does not want to go to war with the Timurid Khanate, it will be up to you."

Mahama was right, and Ibrakhan Ugurun could not argue with it. After a while, Ibrakhan Ugulun said: "In that case, then Ben Khan will join forces with the Chagatai Khanate against the Timurid Khanate." But I made it clear that before the Timurid Khanate was defeated by the Ming State in the East, I would never take the initiative to send troops to attack the Timurid Khanate. Since everyone is a smart person, and there are only two of them and a few of the closest guards in the hall at this time, there is no need for him to say any nonsense, and he directly told Ma Hama his bottom line.

Maha had already guessed this before he came, so he was not surprised, and bowed and said, "Then I will return to our Chagatai Khanate and tell my brother." ”

"In such a hurry? It's winter. Ibraham Ugurun asked with some surprise.

"If you don't go in winter, you won't be able to go in spring. Now that Lake Balkhash and the Aral Sea have been occupied by the Timurid Khanate, the place where the Blue Horde can only pass through the Timurid Khanate from the White Horde to the Chagatai Khanate, and it is very likely that the spring walk will be intercepted. Even if it is dangerous to walk on the grassland in winter, you can only walk in winter. Mahama said.

"Then you can't just leave today." Ibrakhan Ugulun said: "How can a brother who has come from the east leave after spending only one night in my Blue Horde? I'm always going to entertain for a few days. ”

Maha looked up at Ibrakhan Ugulun with some inexplicability. He didn't want to leave today, but said that he would leave before the beginning of spring. It's still snowing, and no matter how crazy he is, he won't leave here on a snowy day. However, there was no need for him to correct the opinion of Ibrahan Ugurun, and nodded in agreement.

But after only one day of living here, Mahama felt very uncomfortable. On the first day of his arrival, he didn't particularly care about the appearance of Ibrakhan Ugulun and his guards, who were somewhat similar to Westerners, and the Mongols did not pay attention to blood like the Han Chinese, and many of Genghis Khan's children looked different from the orthodox Mongols, which was not a big problem.

But their living customs are also completely different from those of the Mongols in the East, and this is the big problem. Mahama also went to the Timurid Khanate, and in his opinion, although the customs of the Blue Horde were somewhat different from those of the Timurid Khanate, they were much the same and had been completely Turkicized.

The small hope of Shamichagan when he met with Kolijak did not materialize, and how could the Blue Horde, further northeast of the White Horde, still maintain pure Mongol customs.

A few days later, Mahama, who had finally waited for the snow to stop, decided to leave for the Chagatai Khanate, despite the retention of Ibrahan Ugulun. Seeing that Mahama was determined to go to Ibrakhan, he did not hold back, so he asked Mahma to take what he had given to Shamichagan, and sent a few people who knew geography to lead the way, and the next day he sent Mahama out of the Blue Horde.

Before leaving, Mahama looked at the back of the Ibrakhan Ugurun and exclaimed something similar to that of Shami Chagan: "They are no longer Mongols, although the Ibrakhan Ugurun still has the blood of the Golden Family." In the future, even if the eldest brother's plan succeeds and reunites these completely Turkic people, it will be completely different from the great empire of Genghis Khan. ’

But in the end, Ibrakhan and Ugulun were willing to deal with the Timurid Khanate, and they did not come in vain. ’

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Although both Shami Chagan and Maha were disappointed on their trip, and the Blue and White Horde had become Turkic, they managed to achieve half of their goal, and the khanates of the two khanates agreed to join forces with the Chagatai Khanate against the Timurid Khanate. But the last emissary sent by Shami Chagan failed to accomplish his mission.

"Hoalun, you go back and tell you about the Great Khan of the Chagatai Khanate, Shami Chagan, and I will not deal with the Timurid Khanate with you." The Great Khan of the Golden Horde, Shadibe Khan, said to the messenger of Shamichagan, Hoalun.

"But, the Great Khan ......" Huo Alun was still trying.

"Nothing!" Shadi Behan said, "I will not join forces with you. Leave my Golden Horde quickly, and if you remain in Sarai after three days, I will tie you up and give you to Timur. ”

Hoalun was not afraid of death, so he still spoke out to persuade Shadi Behan; But Shadibekhan stopped listening to him, and ordered the guards in Turkic to take him out. A blonde, blue-eyed guard and a brown-haired, green-eyed guard stepped forward to kick him out.

Huo Alun had no choice but to walk out of the palace by himself.

Leaving the palace of the Golden Horde, Hoalun looked at the very dilapidated buildings on the street with smoky fire marks, and returned to the post house where Shadibe Khan had placed them.

When he returned, the others who had come here from the Chagatai Khanate with Hoalan asked, "Has Shadibe Khan promised to fight the Timurid Khanate with our Chagatai Khanate?" ”

"No," Huo Alun shook his head, "he didn't agree." ”

"Why?" The deputy envoy Khali said strangely: "Just three years ago, Timur led his troops to capture the city of Sarai and burned this city, even if Shadi Behan was supported by Timur, didn't he have a grudge against Timur in his heart?" We didn't say that he should immediately raise troops against Timur, but just gathered troops to prepare for Timur's defeat and sent troops to attack, why didn't you agree? ”

No one can answer this question, Huo Alun said: "Shadi Behan has stayed for three days, let's inquire in the city for these three days to see why." "Although it doesn't make sense to inquire about why it is in front of you, you always have to know the reason, and when you go back, you can explain it to your Khan King Shami Chagan.

They immediately sounded in the city. Although there were very few people in the Golden Horde at this time who looked like the Orient, they were not none, and they spoke Turkic, so it was easy to find out something in the Tavern in the style of Urross.

It turned out that although Shadibe Khan was the Khan of the Golden Horde at this time, he was not able to control the power of the Golden Horde, and the leader of the Nogai tribe also held the actual power of the Golden Horde.

Shadibe, of course, was unhappy with this situation, and had been trying to wrest power from Yedigai; At the same time, because it was difficult for Timur to directly rule the vast territory of the Golden Horde, he actually supported the two of them behind the struggle, so how could Shadibe Khan still have the energy to deal with the Timurid Khanate.

At the same time, the western borders of the Golden Horde were not stable. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was very strong at this time, and went to war with the Golden Horde in White Rus and Ukraine, which, although not defeated again and again, could not drive the Lithuanians out of there.

The Turras in the north-west were also not at peace. Twenty years earlier, Muscovy, under the leadership of the monarch, had defeated the invading Golden Horde army. This was the first time in history that the Guras defeated the Mongols, breaking the myth of the invincibility of the Mongols and greatly boosting the self-confidence of the Urs' people; Later, although Muscovy had to submit to the Golden Horde, it was no longer as submissive as before.

And the forces of division in the khanate were also germinating. Huo Alun didn't even need to make any special inquiries, he could see from both sides of the road: there was a clear distinction between those who believed in Heavenly Religion and those who believed in Christianity, and they rarely interacted with each other, and even the lawsuits were in the religious courts. Originally, the Christians were still peaceful, but after the rise of Muscovy, they were also ready to move.

Three days later, Huo Alun and the others, who went separately to listen to the news, met up and exchanged the news they had heard. After hearing this, Haliha said: "These messages are collected from the streets and alleys, so they may not be accurate. ”

"Haliha," said Ho Aarun, "no, this information should be accurate, except that Yedigai and Shadi Behan may not be so-for-tat. The common people may not know about the struggle of the Khans, but the people of the capital must know whether the country was beaten by other countries. ”

"Let's return to the Khanate at once, and tell the Khan what we have seen and heard here, so that the Khan can prepare early."