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In the flower hall of the Yamen of Jia Yidao's ambassador Xuanfu, a few teas wafted with the pleasant fragrance of Na. Jia Rudao sat in the middle of the head, looking easy-going, and asked Li Cuixian who was pretending to be Princess Baoyin in a low voice. It's not a slight nod of appreciation. Chen Dexing, Jiang Wanli and Liao Yingzhong were all sitting upright in the hall.

Jiang Wanli didn't recognize Li Cuixian, he really regarded her as a treasure sound, and listened attentively with his beard. Liao Yingzhong frowned, looking at Li Cuixian and Chen Dexing from time to time, and she didn't know what she was thinking?

"Xuanfu Xianggong, the Great Khan of the Great Mongolian State, was elected by the king of the Golden Family. After the death of the Great Khan, those who had the opportunity to compete for the throne were King Ali Buge, who stayed in Holin, and King Kublai Khan, who controlled the Han land. Moreover, according to Mongolian tradition, King Ali Buko, who remained in Horin, would also serve as a prisoner until the new Great Khan was elected, and the central Ulus directly under the Great Khan would be under the jurisdiction of King Ali Buko. At present, most of the Mongol troops in Sichuan are from the central Ulus, that is, the forces controlled by King Ali Buge. These armies were also the main force of King Ali Bukor. In addition to them, King Ali Buge only owned 5,000 households of Torre Ulus, and the available troops were no more than 10,000, and he could not defeat King Kublai Khan, who controlled the Han land and had the right to use the soldiers and horses of the Han marquis in the north. And to bring tens of thousands of defeated soldiers back to the Mongolian steppe, King Ali Buge's henchmen in the army needed a large amount of money. If King Kublai Khan can come up with a large sum of money, he can also bring these soldiers under his command......"

Li Cuixian gushed out all the inside stories of the power struggle in the Mongol Empire - these things were no secret to the Li family and Princess Baoyin in Yidu. But it was unknown to Jia Yidao, Jiang Wanli and Liao Ying.

Jiang Wanli suddenly coughed. interrupted: "Your Royal Highness Princess, you just said to fight?" Wasn't this Mongol khanate elected by the Kuritai Assembly? Why do you want to fight again? ”

Li Cuixian smiled bitterly and shook her head: "That's what I said. But...... King Kublai Khan and King Ali Buge could not coexist. ”

"Why?" Jiang Wanli asked.

"Because the center of the Mongol Empire can't do without the northern Han land!"

Li Cuixian said eloquently: "Although the Mongol Empire is vast, it is not unified. It was divided among the eight great kings. Among them, the Kipchak grassland and the Hurosi belong to the Jochi lineage, the land in the Western Regions is shared by the Wokotai line and the Chagatai line, and the Khitan and Jurchen hometowns in Liaodong belong to the four kings of the host province. In addition to the place of guarding the stove in the Mongolian headquarters, the Tuolei series also opened up the land of Persia and Great Food. The land under the direct jurisdiction of the Great Khan, except for Mongolia itself, is the northern Han land.

…… However, Mongolia has a cold climate, low resources, and a sparse population, and if it is not supported by the wealth of the Han land, it is simply not enough to subdue the kings. Therefore, whoever is the Great Khan of the Mongols. They must govern the Han land. Otherwise the Mongol Empire will fall apart! Therefore, for King Kublai Khan, the throne of the Great Khan of Mongolia was a must-have. Otherwise he will lose a qiē!

And the same is true for King Ali Buge. If he can't ascend to the throne of the Great Khan, he can only guard 5 thousand households of Tuolei Ulus for the rest of his life and suffer poverty! You must know that it has been decades since the rise of Mongolia, and all the kings are extravagant figures......"

"Princess, you say this to us, what do you mean...... What do you want us to do? Give the New Year's coin to Brother Ali Bu? Jiang Wanli had already heard the doorway, and asked with a frown.

Li Cuixian smiled faintly and nodded, "Don't hide it." The lower one belongs to the Wokotai line, and our Wokotai line is close to King Ali Buge. And I also think that you southerners must also support King Ali Buge. For his territory is far from you, and the territory of King Kublai Khan is near you......"

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It's time now. It was already December of the first year of Kaiqing, and according to the Gregorian calendar, it was January 1260. Time flies. People didn't have time to catch anything, and they disappeared without a trace.

These days. Still, a lot happened. The most important of these was that the last brother of the garrison in Sichuan first withdrew from the Chengdu Fu Road and retreated to the Lizhou Road, which was easier to defend. Among them, the main force of the Mongol army withdrew to Liupan Mountain. and officially announced that Möngke Khan had passed away due to illness......

However, Kublai Khan's 100,000 troops were still stationed at Dasheng Pass, although Ali Buge, who had stayed in Mobei and Lin, had already sent an envoy to arrive at Dashengguan and asked Kublai Khan to go to Mobei as soon as possible to participate in the Kuritai Conference to elect the new Great Khan. But Kublai Khan was reluctant to leave, not for anything else, but to wait for the three-year-old coins promised by the Southern Song Dynasty - 1.5 million copper and 1.5 million pieces of silk.

"Hao Jing, when will Nanban deliver the New Year's coins?"

"Back to the king's words, yesterday the Nanban envoy came to report that the Nanban officials had used the stake sealing warehouse. However, three million coins are not a small number, and they need to be carefully escorted, and they dare not use boats, for fear of capsizing in the river, so they have to use the imperial army to transport them by land. It is estimated that it will take a month to reach the big victory level...... King, it's better to go back to the division and compete with Lin for the throne first. ”

Hearing Hao Jing persuade himself to go north to Helin, Kublai Khan was just silent. Jia Rudao was obviously delaying the payment of the New Year's coins, and Kublai Khan didn't believe that the other party was afraid that the ship carrying the New Year's coins would sink so that he could slowly transport them by land. The 3 million may have arrived in Ezhou, but they just refused to send it!

Kublai Khan guessed that this Jia Rudao must have known how much the 3 million coins meant to himself and to the Mongol Empire! With these 3 million, you can go to Helin openly. The kings of the eastern and western provinces accepted bribes and naturally supported themselves as Great Khan - although most of the kings supported Ali Buge, Kublai Khan seemed to them to be too close to the Han Chinese and was influenced too much - so the only way for Kublai Khan to obtain the throne by peaceful means was to bribe the election!

If Jia Rudao kept withholding the annual coins and refused to give them, then he could only take the next step, accept the support of the generals and some of the kings in Yanjing, and become the Great Khan of Mongolia. Then use force to solve Ali Buge...... And this means a protracted war. A war of Mongols killing Mongols!

Kublai Khan shuddered at the thought that the Mongols might weaken in a fratricidal war. But he was asked to bow to his brother Ali Buge. But he was extremely unwilling.

These days, in addition to presiding over the peace talks with the Southern Song Dynasty. Kublai Khan was calculating the comparison of the strength of the two sides. Ali Buge is the younger brother of the Liushu and Lin headquarters (the youngest son of Tuolei's son), and inherited the entire Tuolei Ulus. At the same time, according to the Mongolian tradition, he could govern the central Ulus after Möngke's death, and his strength should not be underestimated.

(Note: When Genghis Khan divided his sons and brothers, his five younger brothers and nephews were divided into a total of 30 thousand households.) His sisters-in-law Jochi, Chagatai and Ogedei were given nine, eight, and 5,000 households respectively, and the father of Möngke, Kublai Khan, and Ali Buge, Tuolei, also received 5,000 households, but according to the tradition of keeping property among the youngest sons, Tulei also received the power to govern the "Central Ulus" directly under Genghis Khan, so he was the strongest among Genghis Khan's four sons-in-law. ）

However, since the death of Genghis Khan, the central Ulus, which was the public property of the golden family, has been continuously weakened - the three Great Khans of Ögedei, Guiyou, and Möngke. They all continued to divide the tribes under the jurisdiction of the central Ulus into their own line of brothers and nephews. At present, the people directly under the king of the Tuolei lineage, except for Ali Buge, are all from the Central Ulus instead of the Tuolei Ulus. In addition, most of the Mongol soldiers and horses of Möngke Khan, Kublai Khan, and Hulegu who went west to conquer the Great Food were also from the Central Ulus.

Therefore, the power of the central ulus controlled by Ali Buge is to be severely discounted, and only the towing Uluth is real.

And the kings of the Western Dao who supported Ali Buge, although they all had vast fiefs. However, due to the limited number of Mongols they brought with them, their rule over their own fiefdoms was not very secure. I can't spare much strength to support Ali Buge.

As for the host kings, the most powerful of them all, Tachar, was unequivocally in favor of Kublai Khan. The rest of the host kings would certainly not be enemies of Kublai Khan. Because the kings of the host country did not have rich lands like the kings of the western land, their fiefdoms were in the northeast and could not be expanded at all. Thus, Ögedei, Guiyou, and Möngke Khan distributed a portion of the Han people of the Central Plains to the host kings, although these Han people were not directly under the control of the host kings. Just pay taxes to them. Among the Han people who were "distributed" to the Mongol kings were the Han army and the Golden Lotus River shogunate of Kublai Khan.

Therefore, Kublai Khan actually held the money bags of the host kings - of course, the kings of the western province also had some households in Han land, but they had a lot of money. You can not care about the income of the Han land, but the king of the host sect can't. Therefore. Whether the king of the host country agrees with Kublai Khan or not, for his own pocket. In the end, it was only on Kublai Khan's side!

In addition, the northern Han lands controlled by Kublai Khan were also a powerful force. But the population was enough to crush Ali Buge - during the Ogedai period, the total number of households in the northern Han region was about 1.1 million, that is, 1,100 thousand households. By now, the population has grown again, with an estimated 1.5 million households, and the population should exceed 10 million. Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, it is not worth mentioning, but it far exceeds the people controlled by Ali Buge, and the number of Han soldiers who can be mobilized is hundreds of thousands!

With such power, it would not be a problem to defeat Ali Buge. But the question is, can a great khan who seized the throne by civil war be able to convince the public? Will the kings of the Jochi, Ogedai and Chagatai clans, as well as Hulegu, who led the army to attack Persia and the Great Eclipse, break away from the Mongol Great Khan and become independent? Their territory was too far away from the Mongol diaspora and the Central Plains for Kublai Khan to send a large army to fight and reunite the Mongol Empire until the Southern Dynasties were settled.

With a long sigh, Kublai Khan got up from the bed of Hu, whether the Mongol Empire will fall apart is a matter of the future, and now he can only try his best to seize the throne.

Because the northern Han land controlled by Kublai Khan was really rich, Ali Buge would not allow the northern Han land to become Kublai Khan's ulus no matter what......

So Kublai Khan had no choice!

"My lord, the princess's letter has arrived." Liu Bingzhong hurriedly walked over, holding a letter in his hand and handing it to Kublai Khan with both hands.

Kublai Khan took the letter, opened it and glanced at it a few times, then suddenly stood up from the Hu bed, and said with a gloomy face: "Order, prepare to return to Yanjing!" ”

"King, the New Year's coin hasn't ...... yet"

Kublai Khan waved his hand violently, gritted his teeth and said, "The New Year's coin has been given!" It's just not given to us, but sent to Sichuan! Now the Western Route Army has all withdrawn from Sichuan and returned the Lizhou Road to the southerners! Ben Wang ...... was actually tricked by Jia Yidao! (To be continued......)