Chapter 113: Elberk Khan
China is a vast country that occupies almost the most fertile land in the East Asian continent, with the sea to the east, deserts and plateaus to the west, tropical jungles to the south, and grasslands and deserts to the north. Historically, the peoples of the north have been moving south, while the peoples of the south have rarely gone north. The focus of contention between the two sides is the two mountain ranges in northern China, the Yinshan Mountains in the west from the north of the Hetao, the east to the Zhangjiakou area in the north of Hebei, the Yanxi to the west separated by the Guangou and Taihang Mountains, and the east to the coast of the sea, these two mountains are also the dividing line between warm and cold, wet and arid.
To the south of Yinshan is the vast Hetao grassland, the Loess Plateau and the Shanxi Plateau, and to the south of Yanshan is the beautiful and rich North China Plain, these places are the places where the Han people grow and reproduce, which can be said to be the hometown of China, and the name of the Han nationality comes from the Han Dynasty two thousand years ago, from the heroic Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who "made a country name a national name". To the north of these two mountain ranges, there is a place where nomads breed and imagine, this steppe is later known as the Mongolian steppe, and the people who grow and breed on this land call themselves Mongols, and their national title also comes from a great monarch, that is, Genghis Khan, who founded the Mongol Empire, and he made his tribal name the name of the country, and then became the common name of all herdsmen.
In the beginning, the Mongols were a small tribe, nomadic near the Krulun River. After a long period of campaigning, Genghis Khan conquered the Tatars in the east, the Kereh in the west, the Mirbegs in the northwest, and the Nabarian in the west, completing the great cause of unifying the steppe. But up to this time, he could only be compared with the Xiongnu's Maodun Danyu, Xianbei's Tanshi Huai, and the Turkic Ashina Tumen, and he would not leave much reputation in later generations. The multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic composition within it is also easy to fall apart, but he chose a different path from his predecessors, not satisfied with accepting the harmony and mutual market of the Southern Dynasties, but adopted a more direct way------ rushed in and robbed, and when it continued to his grandson, it had already included four-fifths of the Eurasian continent, and the few places that were not ruled by his descendants were only Southeast Asia, Japan, the Arabian Peninsula and Western Europe. All the shepherds who said that they were not Mongols would probably be hanged as aliens.
Kublai Khan finally chose to become the monarch of China, making the Mongol empire a dynasty in Chinese history, and it is difficult to say whether this choice made the Mongols or destroyed them; Claiming the title of emperor avoids the problem of dividing the family property after the death of the Mongols, and allows the family business to continue among the direct descendants, but the disadvantage is that it cannot unite the tribes, because the Mongols still prefer to divide the family property and like to be the master of the house themselves, rather than waiting for the monarch's gift. When Kublai Khan fell out with the khanates in the west, the khanates in the west were unable to expand without the support of their own departments, and the only places that Kublai Khan could expand were the sea in the east and the small tropical states in the south, and Kublai Khan's footsteps stopped. As long as the Mongols stopped their expansion, then death was not far off. Sure enough, in less than a hundred years, the territory of the Mongols returned to the state when Genghis Khan called Khan, but it was not faced with the weak and decaying Jin State, but the thriving Ming Dynasty, of course, it can also be said that the former inferior people reflexively called the shots, after twenty years of brutal war, the Mongols finally failed, and their last government army was completely defeated by the Ming Dynasty general Lan Yu in the fishing sea, near the old camp of their old enemies Tatars. The Mongol emperor Timur was killed by Ali Buge's descendant, Surdil, and from then on the Mongol leader could only be called Khan. From a historical point of view, the murder of kings within the declining regime will only worsen the situation, and it will also cause the decline of the Golden Family for nearly a hundred years. This year is the twenty-first year of Hongwu.
He died of illness within two years of usurpation of the throne, and his son Enke Khan was soon deposed, and was succeeded by Li Wenzhong, who was captured by Li Wenzhong and later returned to the throne of Emperor Yuan Hui (Emperor Yuan Shun), the grandson of Emperor Yuan Hui (Emperor Yuan Shun), who was the Great Khan of Erleboke, this year, was the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, and it was also in this year that Lan Yu rebelled and was killed.
The ancestor of Moxi Mongolia was the Kereh tribe, and his ancestor Wang Han once married Genghis Khan's father Yessuga, and also had a father-son alliance with Genghis Khan, and was finally conquered by Genghis Khan. The Ming army set out from Shanxi and Beiping, swept the eastern part of Monan and Mobei, and Xu Da reached as far as Hangai Mountain when he went north, and the Mongols resisted desperately and finally defeated Xu Da. This war was fought in the territory of Moxi Mongolia. Although Xu Da and Li Wenzhong's exit from the fortress did not achieve their goal, they dealt a heavy blow to the strength of the Mongol army. Moxi Mongolia had the status of "looking down on the kings" in the Yuan Dynasty, and married the golden family for generations. This not only represents its special status, but also shows its strong strength. In the case of the heavy blow to the Mongolian headquarters, Timur did not get close to Moxi Mongolia, but chose to be close to Liaodong, and relied on each other with Nahachu, and was finally stewed by the Ming Dynasty.
From then on, the Mongol Khanate had to move closer to the west and relied on Moxi Mongolia to protect itself. The current reigning Elbok Khan succeeded to the throne with the support of the Moxi Mongols, that is, the Warat people, who successfully drove out Enke Khan.
and Lin City, Wan'an Palace.
Although the city of Helin was captured by Xu Da and Li Wenzhong in the fifth year of Hongwu, the time was very short, and the losses caused were not large. The Ming people have not been out of Mobei for many years, and the city of Helin is still a peaceful and tranquil scene, but the population is very small, far less than the prosperity of the Great Khan of Ogedai when he first built the city.
Elebak Khan likes to wander around the Hui District, and there are often some novelties in the Hui District, although the Chagatai Khanate is not very deferential at present, but the Hui in his country often sells some things to Horin. And today, he came with his younger brother Kharguchuk, and the rare treasures that returned to his hands could no longer attract his attention, he was a little absent-minded, and the corners of his eyes had been involuntarily looking at his brother and daughter-in-law ------ Hong Gaowa, looking at the soft and snow-white skin like milk occasionally exposed in her robe, and listening to her crisp and soft voice like a lark, Elberk Khan couldn't help but feel itchy in his heart; When his brother teased her, the shyness, the happiness, satisfaction, and intoxication hidden in his lips and smile made him a little crazy, and he had an inexplicable impulse......
The golden family is now different from the past, in order to win over the surrounding tribes, Erbok Khan sent his younger brother Halguchuk to envoy Ulianghabu, hoping to marry him, his younger brother is different from himself, is a famous beautiful man, I don't know how many noble women and girls in the grassland are dreaming of becoming his princess. But his younger brother messed up this matter, and turned against the Uliang Habu, and the younger brother was nowhere to be found, and he was angry and sent a large number of cavalry to find his younger brother, after all, he was his own compatriot, and the golden family had already withered away, and there were few relatives left.
I remember that day, my daughter Samur came back from hunting and told me that she had found her uncle, and she said that her uncle had married an aunt like a fairy, but she scoffed at her, fairy? As a Great Khan, what kind of woman has not been seen? And it's also a little funny, this younger brother also has today, isn't he usually not close to women, and he looks like he doesn't want to enter the living? At the request of his daughter, he pardoned his younger brother half-pushed.
But when I saw my brother and daughter-in-law with my own eyes, I realized that I was wrong, and what Samur said was not wrong, she was indeed a fairy. When the younger brother appeared at the door of the hall with Hong Gaowa, the whole hall was silent in an instant, and all the important ministers were shocked by Hong Gaowa's beauty, and he immediately indulged in it.
At this moment, a fat man caught up behind him, and said with a smile on his face: "Great Khan, Lord Ghost Lichi is here, bringing news from the south, asking the Great Khan to discuss matters." ”
When Erlebak Khan heard this, his face immediately became serious, and he said, "Haohai Dayu, what news did the ghost power bring?" ”
The fat man Hao Hai Dayu said: "This, I don't know very well, but it seems that the Ming Dynasty is going to build a city." ”
Building a city? In which year did the Ming Dynasty not build cities? Just because of this? However, thinking of the identity of Ghost Lichi, Erebak Khan still stopped his younger brother in front and said, "Brother, let's go back, Ghost Lichi is here, go and see what news there is from him?" ”
Hearing his brother's words, Kharguchuk replied, "Okay, Brother Khan. Then he said to Hong Gaowa: "Hong Gaowa, I can't go shopping with you, Lord Ghost Lichi is here." ”
"Okay, it's okay, you go get busy, I'll just go back by myself."
After walking a long way, Elbok Khan found that his younger brother turned his head and waved his hand to Hong Gaowa, and Hong Gaowa's crisp laughter came from behind: "You go and get busy, don't worry about me, giggles!" ”