Since then, China's original civilization has lost its true colors.

China's original civilization was formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the princes of a hundred schools of thought were unbridled, there were all kinds of sects, its vigorous and strong and enchanting beauty complemented each other's momentum, and its simple and practical and mystical speculation harmonious coexistence of the structure, so that China's original civilization has an extremely solid nature, which can be called the only civilization in the world. This kind of true color should be summed up in one sentence, that is, "rigidity and softness, strong survival". In other words, Chinese civilization essentially abandons cowardice and the inferior competitiveness of "literature is better than quality".

In this healthy ecological environment of mutual restraint and symbiosis and co-prosperity, conservative and retro Confucianism is not harmful, and has even become a unique cultural landscape that is isolated and poignant. Constrained by strong natural enemies, it cannot flood and endanger society. And its own health side adds connotation to the times. This is the great significance of the civilization ecology. And destroying this civilization ecology will inevitably suffer the punishment of history.

However, since gaining cultural hegemony, Confucianism, the most conservative island in the ocean of China's original civilization, has suddenly become a leader that it has never assumed, and suddenly there is no discipline of any school. Since then, the healthy ecology of Chinese civilization has begun to be unbalanced. The Confucian flood flooded violently throughout the Central Plains cultural circle, and the Central Plains civilization began a long era of Confucian floods. Since then, Confucianism, who wears a crown and sits on the hegemonic power, has been drumming up the muddy water in the sky and beginning to wantonly silt up the most magnificent ecology of China's native civilization. Confucianism has gone farther and farther, and the civilization ecology has become more and more desertified and withered. Forever eroded, eternally silted, the great Chinese original civilization finally gradually lost its true color.

And the current Kublai Khan, as a ruler from a steppe people, is not aware of this.

"What I want to say to the Great Khan is that the Great Khan is moving forward, and you can't stop or go in the wrong direction." Sun Hui said, "If the Great Khan goes south to destroy the Song Dynasty, Mongolia itself will also die because of the Song, and if the Great Khan goes west, no one will be invincible, and no one will achieve a great cause." ”

"The Western countries are not a threat to my Mongolia, but the Song Dynasty is close to the elbow, what do you want me to do if I want to go far away?" Kublai Khan did not seem to accept Sun Hui's suggestion easily.

"I don't want the Great Khan to give up the near and far, but to let the Great Khan give up the difficult and the easy, and not to give up the basics." Sun Hui said, "Don't forget, the Khan kings in the west, there are still many people who have their hearts set on the sea capital. ”

Sun Hui's words suddenly stabbed Kublai Khan's sore spot, and his face instantly became gloomy.

Kublai Khan never forgot that his throne was fiercely contested.

And Sun Hui insisted on instigating Kublai Khan's westward expedition because he knew that after the third westward expedition of Mongolia in history, it gradually fell into division, civil wars continued, its power was greatly weakened, and it was unable to launch the western expedition again, but this had completely destroyed the fighting spirit of European Christians and West Asia with its overwhelming combat effectiveness, and the troubled times of the Crusades also ended.

And one of the ways he wanted to further change the history of the world was for the Mongols to make a fourth expedition to the west.

The Mongol Empire was an emerging centralized slave monarchy. Under the rule of Genghis Khan, the founding heroes were given high political status, and the people were affluent, and the Mongols were no longer just simple nomads. They had a strong desire for a better material life, so foreign conquest became the final result. The Mongols, on the other hand, practiced shamanism and believed that the "immortal heaven" was the supreme god who ruled over everything. Everything for mortals was arranged by the "will of the Immortal Heavens", and Genghis Khan was regarded as the "representative of the Immortal Heavens", and the common people obeyed his orders very much. Genghis Khan believed that it was in accordance with the "will of the Immortals" to rule and conquer the world, so the Mongols launched a series of foreign wars. Military strength was also an important factor in the Mongol expedition to the west. At that time, Genghis Khan had a powerful armed army with a full range of military branches, including cavalry, infantry, artillery, and engineers. The army is well-organized, highly disciplined, officers and men are equal, and there will be no difference in financial resources or power, so the soldiers are loyal and patriotic, forming a strong fighting force and preparing for a large-scale westward expedition.

Historically, the Mongols made three large-scale expeditions to the west, three of which opened up their territories and established the Kipchak Khanate, the Ilkhanate, the Chagatai Khanate, and the Ogedai Khanate, which laid the foundation for the Mongol Empire across Europe and Asia.

The time of Kublai Khan was the time period of the Third Mongol Expedition to the West, but Kublai Khan was fighting fiercely against the Southern Song Dynasty in southern China. The death of Möngke Khan created a vacuum in the khanate, and Kublai Khan quickly rushed back to Mobei to compete with Ali Buge for the throne, and finally obtained the throne through iron and blood, and then several khanates in the west refused to recognize Kublai Khan's suzerainty on the grounds that he did not abide by the election system of the khanate, and the huge Mongol Empire was divided into several relatively independent khanates.

There are two paths in front of Kublai Khan: first, continue to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, the khanates in the west will not listen to themselves if they do not listen to themselves, the prosperous Central Plains, the rich Jiangnan, and the vast sea, where is the new world of the Mongols; Second, after still attacking the Southern Song Dynasty and seizing the land of China, he returned to rely on the abundant resources and China's abundant manpower and material resources to launch a westward expedition to pacify the khanates that did not submit to him, and let them know that Kublai Khan was still the descendant of Temujin and the suzerainty of the Mongol Empire, and that the city of Beijing would still become the capital of the world.

Both of these paths have their own reasons and can be chosen. However, Kublai Khan chose the first path, and after destroying the Southern Song Dynasty, he went on expeditions to Siam, Burma, and Java, and crossed the sea to Japan. In fact, Kublai Khan's southern and eastern expeditions were quite different from the achievements of his brothers' western expeditions.

The Western Expedition was based on the theme of the Mongols' horseback and whip, killing the enemy for thousands of miles, and Kublai Khan's Southern and Eastern Expeditions, although they also achieved some glory and victories, but most of them ended in failure and unadaptation, the most painful of which was the Eastern Expedition to Japan, which was wiped out in Japan twice.

But now, because Sun Hui changed the trajectory of history, Kublai Khan and the Song Dynasty stopped fighting, so that Kublai Khan could free his hands and quell the rebellion between Japan and Haidu at a small cost, which laid a good foundation for his westward expedition.