On the first day of the seventh month of the Song calendar in 323, the third group of Mongol tribes directly under Kublai Khan arrived in the city of Baghdad. When the general in charge of leading the army, Wu Lituoshan, went to the Golden Palace of the Great Khan, and saw a group of laborers dressed in the style of the True God in the streets of the city working under the Mongol overseers, and he felt that the city was full of vitality.

The construction of the Golden Palace has come to an end, and the once broken walls have been repaired, and what remains is simple whitewashing. Under the leadership of the pro-army guards, Wuli Tuoshan Wanhu arrived at the top of the Golden Palace. I saw Kublai Khan sitting high on a Mongolian-style dragon bed, and next to the dragon bed was the secretary's low table. The clerks did not have seats and had to sit cross-legged on cushions.

Kneeling down at the foot of the imperial steps, he saluted Kublai Khan. Kublai Khan said with joy: "You have worked hard to bring so many people here. ”

"Serve the Great Khan." Wuli Tuoshan Wanhu replied loudly.

The interview didn't last long, and after that, the craftsmen and officials in this team were all taken into the Khan Bali City that was being built. Kublai Khan had long expected the arrival of technicians in Baghdad, and on the table in the side hall, the topographical map from Baghdad to Damascus was clearly drawn.

"The situation is ...... It's really the beauty of mountains and rivers. Guo Shoujing couldn't help but praise. The name of Baghdad is of Persian origin and means "gift (dād) of God (bagh)". The city is located in the quintessence of the two river basins, which is very suitable for human survival. It's the Xiaoice era again, and the outdoor temperature in Baghdad is just over 40 degrees Celsius in summer. With Baghdad as the center, the occupation of the two river basins is indeed stronger than the Mongolian Plateau, at least no worse than the Hebei Plain.

Kublai Khan waved his hand to bring the sand table onto the table, and the entire terrain of Baghdad and the old city were made. Pointing to the sand table, Kublai Khan said: "The new royal city is divided into two parts, the inner city is the city of Khan Bali. What kind of shape should be designed for the outer weight, it is necessary to work hard. ”

"Yes." A group of artisan officials responded.

Looking at these guys, Kublai Khan also had some expectations for them in his heart. Upon his arrival in Baghdad, the Great Khan grew fond of the city. The terrain here is flat and there are many merchants. It doesn't rain much, but there is no shortage of water. Arabian horses are also produced in this area. It's just too satisfying for an elderly person who has lived in a cold region for decades.

After asking the artisan officials to discuss how to build the new city, Kublai Khan called Boyan and asked: "After the third group arrives, the number of troops in Baghdad will reach 200,000, including 70,000 soldiers, whether they can go to Damascus." ”

"Great Khan, the traitor Gudier should have fled to the Golden Horde in the north. The Golden Horde to the north colluded with the Cult of God and the Mamluks of Egypt to the south to flank the Crusades between them. To deal with them, there must be at least 100,000 soldiers. ”

Hearing Boyan's cautious answer, Kublai Khan frowned slightly. The soldiers and horses of the leaders of the khanate under the Great Khan were not directly under the direct management of the Great Khan, and now the entire Mongol tribes directly under the Great Khan are more than two million points. According to Boyan's suggestion, since there was no way to confront the Song State, it was better to decisively move the two million people to the Crescent Zone of the Two Rivers Valley and establish the Great Khan's territory from Baghdad to Damascus.

Seeing that the situation was about to open, Boyan's suggestion turned out to be waiting. Kublai Khan's heart couldn't help but be anxious. Before he could say anything, he listened to Boyan continue: "The minister wants to contact the Eastern Romans while sending Princess Maria back to Constantinople. ”

"Hmph, those Crucidian rules are just too many." Kublai Khan's tone was quite dissatisfied. According to the Mongolian style, when the princess of Mary's husband Abhaa died, the princess was to marry Abha's brother.

As a devout Crucidian, the Marshal Boyan certainly did not want Princess Mary to be subject to the Mongol marriage system. From a personal point of view, Marshal Boyan was even more reluctant for Princess Maria to be bound by the Golden Family forever. The marshal said indifferently: "If there is the help of Eastern Rome, our army may be able to use six or seven thousand fewer soldiers and horses." ”

"Do you have to go?" Kublai Khan asked, at this time he really needed Boyan to be by his side to make suggestions.

"This time and again, when the minister comes back, about the fourth and fifth batches of people have already arrived."

More than a year ago, Boyan and others discussed and decided. The Great Khan Kublai Khan's troops were divided into forty batches, and the groups moved westward. After these people moved away, the pastures directly under the Great Khan became vacant, and the nobles and tribal leaders who were willing to go to these pastures became the direct tribes of the Great Khan. Directly obey the orders of the Great Khan Kublai Khan and his successors.

Once the fourth and fifth groups arrived in Baghdad, the Mongol tribe here reached 300,000, the Great Khan's army had 50,000 people, and the remaining 250,000 people could gather 50,000 soldiers and horses. With 100,000 soldiers and horses, it was enough to fight against the descendants of Jochi of the Golden Horde.

Looking at Kublai Khan's hesitant expression, Boyan continued to suggest, "The Great Khan can also send people to the Golden Horde, White Horde, and Blue Horde first, and ask them to send people to attend the Kuritai Conference. ”

Kublai Khan did not hesitate when it came to the Kuritai Conference, and he replied decisively: "You go and return quickly." ”

The seventh month of the Song calendar is the ninth month of the western calendar, and at this time it begins to enter the Xiaoice River weather again, and the widowed Princess Maria is covered in silk cotton fabric clothes, which feels very cool and comfortable. On such a comfortable autumn day, Princess Maria took a sip of black tea from the Lion Kingdom of Sinhala in the far south, looking calm and indifferent.

If it weren't for the priests and nuns in front of her, Princess Mary would have liked to walk around the garden with joy. An hour earlier, the letter had been delivered to Princess Maria. With the permission of the Great Khan, Marshal Boyan led his own army to Tabriz to meet Princess Maria and escort her to her hometown of Constantinople.

Before the princess could rejoice, the priests and nuns, who had agreed to meet, had arrived. The men asked the princess if she would like to visit the newly built church of the nuns. If this topic had been mentioned in a few days, Princess Mary might have felt tempted to check it out. According to the tradition of the Crucidian princesses, once they were widowed, they had to return to their parents' homes to remarry, or to return to their parents' homes to study in monasteries.

"Your Highness, stay in the Ilkhanate. This is what the parishioners expect. The nun said sincerely. Princess Maria had been the spiritual leader of the Ilkhanate Crucidian organization for many years, and most of the faithful did not want the Orthodox princess to leave the Ilkhanate. If the princess can stay in the Ilkhanate, this sacred orthodoxy will be inherited.

The princess's firm reply disappointed them, "I'm going back to Constantinople." ”

The clergy and nuns couldn't help but hang their heads, no matter how down-and-out Eastern Rome was, it still had a thousand-year-old legal system. It was the thousand-year-old legal system of the Roman Empire and the Orthodox legal system of Christendom. Therefore, with the blessing of the princess of the Eastern Roman Empire over the years, the Crusaders of the Ilkhanate are very confident, and they feel closer to God when they pray.

"Will Your Highness come back?" Although he knew that this was impossible, the local bishop couldn't help but ask.

Princess Mary did not answer immediately, but after a long groaning, she replied, "I am tired today, and I will talk about it in a few days." ”

The maids sent the priests and nuns away, and Princess Mary got up and walked into the garden. In Constantinople, there are even more beautiful gardens than the gardens of the Palace of the Ilkhan. In terms of architectural level, Mongolia's accumulation and attainments are far less profound than those of Eastern Rome. In the shade of several fig trees, the princess sat down and took out Boyan's letter and looked again. When it comes to words, today's Boyan is far less passionate than it was twenty years ago. Dry words were written on the letter in earnest but rusty Greek, and Boyan had already set off for Tabriz to meet the princess, and then personally escorted her to Constantinople. Twenty years ago, as a Crucifixion, Boyan met Princess Maria at a ball, and wrote a love poem.

Twenty years have passed, and Princess Mary can still remember the emotion of that time. The Mongols, who had risen in the far east, sent iron horsemen to roll westward. All the nations that stood in the way were conquered and destroyed. The Mongol Khan and his generals seemed to be God's eternal favorites and never suffered any defeat. Mongol emissaries and Mongol monks with such backgrounds wrote love poems in Greek. Princess Mary can still recall her heartbeat.

Before she knew it, the simple piece of letter had been crumpled in Princess Maria's hand. When she noticed this, the princess hurriedly unfolded the letter and folded it, put it in her bosom, and got up and walked briskly back to her bedchamber.

It was not very far from Baghdad to Tabriz, and a few days later the princess received news that the marshal Boyan had arrived outside the city. It didn't take long for new news to arrive, the Grand Marshal of Boyan had arrived outside the palace, and now the Great Khan of the Ilkhanate, Aruhun, had gone to greet him. The princess was putting on her makeup, and her heart became even more anxious when she heard this.

In the mirror, she is already a middle-aged woman, although the princess herself can still see the shadow of her youth from this face, but the glass mirror produced by Da Song is so clear, the crow's feet at the corners of the eyes, the shallow wrinkles on the forehead, and the skin that has actually begun to gradually sag. Twenty years have taken away the princess's youth, and also taken away the red face that she was once very proud of. Suddenly, the princess, who was eagerly waiting to see Boyan, no longer wanted to see Boyan.

At this time, Marshal Boyan was heading to the dormitory under the leadership of Aruhun. The newly enthroned Ilhan was very polite to the great commanders of the Mongol Great Khan Kublai Khan. Originally, he had only heard that the Great Khan's army was brave and good at fighting, and he saw the Great Khan's army break through the city of Tabriz in two days, and the shock that Ilhan Aruhun was shocked is difficult to describe. For the third time, the Ilhan tentatively asked, "Great Shuai, does the Great Khan really want to continue his expedition to the west?" ”

"This is something that the Great Khan decides." Boyan also replied resolutely. Kublai Khan, of course, would have marched westward, and the young Aruhun asked very naïve questions. If he was mature enough, he should show his loyalty to Kublai Khan, who helped him ascend to the throne. Instead of repeatedly inquiring about the strategic goals of Kublai Khan.

Marshal Boyan quickened his pace and went straight to the person he wanted to see the most at this time. War is bound to begin, and the best consolation before the war is nothing more than seeing Princess Mary. Aruhun didn't say anything more, and the group waited outside the palace of Her Royal Highness the princess to wait for the princess's order to receive them.

In the distant Great Song Dynasty, the Empress Dowager had a great deal of actual power. If the emperor was young, the empress dowager would even be directly regent and become the de facto ruler of the Great Song Dynasty. This problem does not exist in Mongolia. Indeed, there were very influential concubines of the former Great Khan, such as Aruhan's grandmother who instigated Ruheteni.

30 years ago, in the year 1250 of the Western calendar. At the meeting, Batu strongly praised Meng Ge's outstanding ability and great achievements in the western expedition, and should be enthroned, and pointed out that your establishment violated the order of Ogedai (Wokotai's death was lost to the throne), and the descendants of Ogedai were not qualified to inherit the throne. The assembly adopted Batu's proposal to elect Möngke as Great Khan.

The two families of Wokotai and Chagatai refused to recognize it, and instigated Luheteni and Meng Ge to send envoys to invite the kings of various clans to the bank of the Troubled River to convene the Kulitai, and Batu sent his brother Belge to lead a large army to accompany Meng Ge to the bank of the Troubled River, but many kings of the two families of Wokotai and Chagatai still refused to answer the call, and the conference was delayed for a long time.

Möngke, Kublai Khan, Hülegü, and Ali Buge were all born to the same mother, and their own mothers instigated the prestige of Lu Heteni to be very high, and they were good at wooing the nobles of the sect, and most of the ministers of the sect finally responded to the summons. At the Kuritai Congress, a resolution was adopted to succeed Möngke as the Great Khan. But the influence of the Mongolian concubines is only that, which requires their personal skills and charm, and there is no guarantee of Mongolian law.

Although the current Princess Mary is the queen of the Great Khan, she is only a queen. At this time, since the Ilkhanate did not give her legal status, the princess also had the personal freedom that she had as a nobleman.

With the guidance of the attendants, Aluhun and Boyan walked into the living room of the dormitory one after the other. When Princess Mary saw Boyan again, she felt that her heart couldn't help beating faster. Twenty years ago, when the princess had the opportunity to get along with Boyan, she was unconsciously attracted by Boyan's calm look.

It was calmness beyond Boyan's age, neither excitement nor deliberateness, Boyan was so calm. It was as if something higher hung over this Mongolian Crucidian monk, so that something else was banished. Sometimes Princess Mary even wondered if it was the Lord who had invested some kind of wisdom in Boyan that made him so special.

The current Boyan is wearing dark blue clothes, and the fabric looks like a big Song product. If Princess Maria had some knowledge of the Great Song Army, she would probably know that the button-down blouse on the upper body and the breeches with enlarged thighs underneath were all costumes of the Great Song cavalry. At this time, in addition to the combat uniform of the Great Song Dynasty cavalry, Marshal Boyan had a striking white cloak with a red Maltese cross on the cloak.

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