The Mongolian robe on the right side, the Mongolian fur hat, the cloth belt, and the Mongolian scimitar on the waist. A hundred guards dressed in Mongolian costumes lined up in a five-by-twenty queue to be inspected by Hao Ren. Hao Ren couldn't help but laugh in his heart when he looked at the bloated clothes on these guys. In the past, these guys wore clothes copied from the Great Song Dynasty, placket clothes, trousers with slightly widened thighs, and armed belts made of nitrate leather.

Seeing that these guys were dressed in Mongolian-style clothes, Hao Ren nodded with satisfaction and shouted to everyone: "Today we will set off for Baghdad, go to mourn Kublai Khan, and participate in the Kuritai Conference." Don't let other Mongolian princes underestimate us. Do you have faith? ”

"Yes!" A kind of unanimous response from the guards.

After inspecting the guards, Hao Ren was ready to set off. Prime Minister Jiang Guangtou asked Hao Ren again: "King, do you have to be the second prince in charge of the country?" ”

"The queen's personality is too weak to be imprisoned." Hao Ren replied.

Jiang Guangtou didn't know what to say, the second prince was just a child, and the so-called prison was just a nominal thing. He could only say the next question, "My lord, if you stop the reinforcements now, it's still too late." When I go to Baghdad to attend the Kuritai Conference, if someone says something, I am afraid that it will be bad for the king. ”

Hao Ren said decisively: "I have discussed in the imperial court, sooner or later we will have to fight with the Semu people, and it is not bad to know their true skills as soon as possible." As for what is said in the court, let them say it. If they are willing to go on a crusade against Poland and the Teutonic Knighthoods, we welcome them. If not, it doesn't matter what they say. Needless to say, I set off. ”

The trip to Baghdad was not accompanied by a hundred guards escorting Hao Ren, a total of one hundred and one people set off. Hao Ren and they set out with the five thousand men sent to Italy. The crowd took a hundred river transport boats and divided into four groups and went down the Dnieper. There are many docks along the river, but there is no way to accommodate a hundred transport ships at the same time, so they have to go separately.

Along the way, there is a lighthouse on the bank of the river every ten miles, and those skilled sailors can even sail at night. The whole Dnieper River is full of boats, so it is not lively. Hao Ren only had to look at those flags to know what was being transported on them. This regulation was formulated by Hao Ren and them. Aside from grain and coal, the Yuan Kingdom did not really have any commodities that could be exported in large quantities. Hang the grain flag and hang the coal flag, this can effectively distinguish between it.

Thinking that he had to make such a decision before, Hao Ren sighed in his heart. The reason for such a decision is not that Hao Ren has delicate observation ability, because the coal ship runs slowly, and everyone is not willing to give way to other ships, and the sailors who run the ship form a grudge and cause death when they beat each other.

Severely punishing the murderer was only to compensate after the fact, and in the end, Yuan Guo had to learn from the Great Song Dynasty and set up the Shipping Order Management Section of the Waterway Bureau of the Ministry of Communications, which was specifically responsible for this matter. and set down detailed rules for overtaking ships to give way. With this management, it seems that there are a lot fewer of such fights.

The ships they were on were in the first flotilla and arrived in Odessa four days later. Hao Ren and the others then transferred to the Da Song Sea ship that had been booked and set off. There was nothing to say all the way, and the Great Song ships sent Hao Ren and them directly to Damascus.

Before leaving, Hao Ren had already sent out a sharp man. Upon arrival in Damascus, a Mongolian convoy arrived to meet them. On the way, he saw that the convoy was full of Mongols, and Hao Ren couldn't help but ask the owner of the convoy where the guys from the True God Sect had gone.

The boss of the convoy replied respectfully: "Back to my lord, after the rebellion of the True God Sect, the Great Khan asked us Mongols to do business, and everyone also made a living. ”

Hao Ren didn't expect such a change in the transportation industry in the territory directly under the Great Khan, and he was very interested. Just ask how much of an impact this change has on everyone. The boss said that he didn't know much, and that he only ran the route from Damascus to Baghdad, and at least so far more than 10,000 Mongolians have relied on this road for food. Originally, these businesses were controlled by the True God cultists.

"Where did the True Gods go?" Hao Ren asked.

"The villain doesn't know. Most of them ran away. ”

The group traveled from Damascus day and night to Baghdad, and on August 25, 332 of the Great Song Dynasty, Hao Ren finally arrived in Baghdad. Fearing that he would be the last to arrive in Baghdad, Hao Ren asked the officials in charge of the Kuritai Conference, and found that he was not the latest. It made him feel so much better.

After resting for one night, Hao Ren went to the place where Kublai Khan's ashes were laid to worship the next day. It is a beautiful garden, there are no mausoleums, no mounds, and a garden has been built on a very flat terrain. In front of a large lawn, the official respectfully said to Hao Ren: "Lord Wang, it's here." ”

This lawn is large, more than 100 meters long and wide. On the green meadows, there is nothing. It took Hao Ren a while to figure out that a golden vase containing the ashes of Kublai Khan was buried directly below a certain lawn here. Although he wanted to ask where the specific location was, Hao Ren couldn't help but ask. Asking this is not suitable.

In the end, Hao Ren could only kneel and salute in front of this large 'cemetery' of more than 10,000 square meters, and Mongolia was not used to using any tribute, so he kowtowed, and this worship ended here.

Some of them got up boredly and prepared to go back to their quarters, and when they walked to the entrance of the cemetery, they saw a group of people waiting outside. The leader was forty or fifty years old, looking shrewd and capable, but he was the minister Yuxi Timur, who had become famous early on. Hao Ren hurriedly went up to greet him, and Yuxi Timur did not greet him, and asked directly: "I don't know who Lord Hao Ren is going to support?" ”

Hao Ren was stunned by such blunt words, and he replied, "Didn't the Great Khan already bestow the crown prince's treasure on Timur?" ”

Yuxi Timur looked at Hao Ren carefully, and then said with a smile: "Lord Hao Ren is really reasonable. But I have always known that the prince likes the system of the Han people, if it is according to the system of the Han people......"

Hao Ren immediately interrupted, "The so-called establishment of succession is just a tradition. It's my big Mongolia, and it's not a tradition. The key is to establish a successor. ”

Yuxi Timur nodded slightly, agreeing with this statement.

The children of the main wife are the sons-in-law, and the so-called heirs mean that the sons of the main wives have the right to inherit. If they are all concubines, then whoever has a noble biological mother will be appointed, regardless of age, which is called "the son is more precious than the mother". There is no difference between the Mongols and the Han in this regard, Hao Ren is also Torrey's own grandson, but his grandmother's status is not high, and she is not a wife, so it is naturally impossible to inherit the status of the Great Khan.

Hao Ren continued bluntly: "As for standing long or young, it's all tradition. Now Kublai Khan has made it clear that he identified whoever is the next Great Khan is the next Great Khan. If what I know is correct, the Great Khan has already bestowed the crown prince treasure on Timur, right? ”

"Yes." Yuxi Timur replied.

"Then what else is there to say, the concubine chosen by the Great Khan is the next Great Khan."

"Huh. The prince is so loyal, I know. Yuxi Timur smiled.

Hao Ren knew that Yuxi Timur was one of Genghis Khan's "Four Masters", and the grandson of the right-hand Wanhu Nayan Borshu. In Mongolia has always been honorable. However, no matter how noble Timur is, he is not as noble as the prince of the Yuxi family. Now that he has made his attitude clear, Hao Ren took his leave. He did not come to Baghdad to cause trouble, but to show his face at the Kuritai Conference to see if Hao Ren's status as the ruler of the country had been stabilized.

The Yuan State is not one of the four khanates, for example, the heir of the Ilkhanate from the Torre family is the Khan, and the heir of the Yuan State is just a lord and a prince. In Kublai Khan's time, Hao Ren didn't even have a chance to determine this, and this time he felt that he had to figure this out.

Returned to the accommodation and had a night's rest. The next morning, guests came. The Khan King of the Ögedai Khanate appeared in front of Hao Ren with a smile on his face, which made Hao Ren immediately wary. Ten years ago, this man escaped from Hao Ren's hands. The other nobles of the Ögedai Khanate were killed, and it was the turn of this person to become the king of the Khan.

This King of Ogedai Khan came up and wanted to drink with Hao Ren, but Hao Ren immediately refused, and he said happily: "King Ögedai Khan, if you have anything, just say it directly." If I am drunk, how can I believe what I say? ”

The Mongolian man is very bold, but Hao Ren's status allows him to refuse anyone's request. I came up and hit a nail. King Ögedei Khan said with some sneering: "But I don't know who Prince Hao Ren wants to support at this Kuritai meeting?" ”

"I remember when the Great Khan convened the current Kuritai Assembly, he made an alliance with everyone, and the heir of the Great Khan was elected by Kublai Khan, and the heirs of each khanate were elected by each khan. If we don't comply with it today, what if the new Great Khan turns his face and doesn't approve of it when our children inherit it? Hao Ren's attitude has never changed.

"No, no, no. Lord Wang, since it is the Great Khan who we support, how can he turn his face and deny it. ”

Hearing this, Hao Ren felt a burst of regret in his heart, and couldn't help but sneer: "Hmph! I advise you not to think so. The system is more reliable than the so-called distant relatives......"

"No, no, no." King Ögedai Khan hurriedly waved his hand, "Lord, I didn't mean that, I mean that the Kuritai Conference was originally an election of the Great Khan, and I think we might as well restore the Kuritai Conference." ”

Hao Renqi squinted at the King of Ogedai Khan, and felt in his heart that the people of the Ogedai family were all rebellious. has been competing with the Torre family for the sweat seat for decades, and finally everyone stopped, can't this guy live honestly?

Thinking of this, Hao Ren immediately went back, "You shouldn't say this now, Kublai Khan said it when he was alive." Now that the Great Khan is gone, how to set the rules back then, what to do now. ”