Chapter 281: The Legacy of the Golden Horde

This self-proclaimed Tatar merchant was called Khorazmi, his ancestors were high-ranking officials of the Kazan Khanate, served the Kazan Khanate for generations, after the fall of the Kazan Khanate, his grandfather was killed, as for why his ancestors have been serving in the Kazan Khanate, it is very simple, his family ancestors were Genghis Khan's personal bodyguards, and later belonged to Batu, the second son of Jochi, the founder of the Golden Horde.

Khorazmi then tells the story of the Golden Horde, also known as the Kipchak Khanate, the Kepchak Khanate, and the Jochi Ulus. One of the four khanates of the Great Mongol Empire. It was a feudal state established by the Mongols, mainly of the Turkic people, and because the number of dominant Mongols was small, the local Mongols were soon completely Turkicized. The second son of Genghis Khan's eldest son, Jochi, Batu ended his expedition to the west and established the Shihe River (Irtysh River) in Yeer in the east, to Uras in the west, to Lake Balkhash, the Caspian Sea, and the Black Sea in the south, and to the vast and vast Kipchak Khanate near the Arctic Circle in the north. The inhabitants of the Kipchak Khanate were complex and had different levels of social development. At the same time that the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, the main branch of the Batu branch of the Kipchak Khanate was replaced by the emerging White Horde, and then Russia began to rise, and the Mongols were in Central and Eastern Europe; West and North Asia are gradually losing their influence.

* Religion was the main religion of the Golden Horde, a military and administrative union that lacked internal economic ties. The state imposed onerous taxes and errands on the conquered peasants, herders, and artisans. Most of the land and livestock were owned by the Mongol aristocracy.

The reign of Uzbek Khan was at its most powerful. With the development of feudal relations, the increase in the power of the aristocracy and the frequency of wars, the central power was increasingly weakened. The struggle of the peoples against Mongol rule shook the foundations of the khanate. Later, the victory of the allied Rus' forces in the Battle of Kulikov further weakened the Golden Horde. Later, it was defeated by the Timurid Empire, and its national strength was lost. More than 100 years ago, the Golden Horde was disintegrated into the Kazan Khanate, the Nogai Khanate, the Astrakhan Khanate, the Crimean Khanate, the Siberian Khanate and other states due to internal strife, while the Kazan Khanate, the Astrakhan Khanate, and the Siberian Khanate were annexed by Russia a few decades ago.

The people under the Golden Horde were a mixture of Mongols and Turks, and the Khanate gradually became Turkic and lost the identity of Mongolian culture, but the descendants of the Mongol warriors led by Batu were always the upper class of society, including Shanqijin, Xu Wushen, Hongjira, and Qiyan. Uighur and Chagatai are used for administrative documents, Mongolian for diplomatic documents, and Kipchak is used as the language. The highest political status were the Mongols and Turks, and Khorazmi, who were descendants of the Mongols and Turks, called themselves Tatars in order to disguise their family identity.

After listening to Hua Lazimi's narration, Yang Lin once again understood why His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, has always emphasized cultural education, not only all children in the Ming Dynasty must receive traditional compulsory education, but also all the places where the Ming army arrived are spreading the Ming culture, this is the real plan of the previous year, as long as the cultural inheritance continues, any military occupation is a passing cloud, just like the Mongols occupied the Song Dynasty, gradually assimilated by the Han people, and finally disappeared by the Han culture. The same thing happened in this place, where the poor Mongols laid down a large area of flowers, and ended up making wedding dresses for others, and finally lost themselves.

Huarazmi is only a fragment of this story, and it is impossible for him to tell the entire history of the Mongol army's westward expedition, and these oral traditions are not reliable, and in the end more is missed. But his family is the loyal guardian of the Golden Family, equivalent to the dead soldiers raised by the Golden Family, loyal to the master, defending the dignity of the master, and fighting for the revival of the Golden Horde all his life, and Huarazmi cannot get rid of this fate.

There are many more families like Khorazmi, even in later generations, in the vast Mongolian steppe, there are also Genghis Khan's tomb keepers, these families have guarded Genghis Khan's tomb for hundreds of years, which makes people very respected, but only respect, they still can't get rid of the final extinction, their way of thinking is not enough to match their ideals.

According to Huarazmi, many of the current khanates are branches of the Golden Horde, and his purpose is to thread the needle and try to unite these khanates again, in order to restore the former glory of the Golden Horde, and even the purpose of making money from his business is the same, just like the Manchu nobles of later generations went bankrupt, and their clothed servants still insisted on supporting their masters.

After listening to the story of Hua Lazimi, Yang Lin thought for a long time in combination with his own purpose, and then reported some of his thoughts to Sun Chuanting. Since there are people like Huarazmi here, should we consider thinking differently? Can we finance people like Xiang Huarazmi, and unite some of the small khanates that still exist, and let them act as our shields, or helpers, to stand in the way of Tsarist Russia instead of us?

Yang Lin himself does not have the right to make decisions, his task is only to collect intelligence, but he can express some of his own opinions to Sun Chuanting and them, as for how to make decisions, this is the right of the upper leadership. After getting Yang Lin's intelligence information, Sun Chuanting naturally attached great importance to it, and he couldn't make a decision on such a matter himself, so he studied this matter.

In order to make better decisions, Sun Chuanting contacted Yuan Chonghuan, Lu Xiangsheng, and Hong Chengchou. Among these people, regardless of their position or ability, Yuan Chonghuan is the oldest qualified. The traditional idea is to rank seniority, even if Zhu Youxiao promoted Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Hong Chengchou to the same high status as Yuan Chonghuan, these people still respect Yuan Chonghuan very much. In particular, Yuan Chonghuan operated very well in the places he managed, and provided a very solid material foundation for several generals further west, who regarded Yuan Chonghuan as their big brother, and for the safety of the Ming border, they sat together to study this strategic issue, so as to provide reliable advice for His Majesty's decision-making.

The current Yuan Chonghuan doesn't want Yuan Chonghuan, who has held great power in history, to kill Mao Wenlong in the Northeast without any scruples. When he began to move westward, Zhu Youxiao gave him a lot of power, but he was still constrained by Yuan Yingtai, and it was impossible to act arbitrarily, followed by the division of troops, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou basically led the troops alone, and his subordinates only had new soldiers like Li Hongji. But Yuan Chonghuan understands very well that whether it is Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou or Lu Xiangsheng, the ability of these people is not below him, especially seeing Zhu Youxiao's continuous promotion of these people, which makes him understand this truth. In terms of military strategy and tactics, these people are close to his level, or even higher than him, but what these people lack is experience, which is something given by the years, and only time can solve it.

In fact, Yuan Chonghuan is better at than these generals, that is, Yuan Chonghuan once had the experience of a local official, and these local experiences made his local management level much higher than the other three. In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, Yuan Chonghuan was the fortieth Jinshi of the Chinese style three and served as Shaowuzhi County, Fujian. There are three main deeds of Yuan Chonghuan in Shaowuzhi County: first, saving the people. "Shao Wufu Chronicles" records: Yuan Chonghuan "su (qiáo) is swift and powerful, tastes firefighting, and puts his boots on the wall and house, as if walking on the ground". Second, deal with unjust imprisonment. "Shao Wufu Chronicles" records that "there is courage and courage in decisiveness, dedication to civil affairs, and injustice is not extended". Third, gathering Kuiying, Yuan Chonghuan hopes to do a great cause, so he must contact and organize like-minded people to strive for a common ideal. A smart person like Yuan Chonghuan will naturally give full play to his strengths.

Therefore, when Sun Chuanting told Yuan Chonghuan what he meant, Yuan Chonghuan quickly summoned Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou, and in order to better study and listen to opinions more widely, Shuangdang even Li Hongji and Little Timur Khan came together to discuss this issue.