CHAPTER XVI

Temujin knew that he was dying, and he could feel that his life force was draining, so he had to make a difficult choice now, and that choice was who would become the next generation of Genghis Khan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info All four of his sons have their own tribes, and if he can't convince everyone, an unprecedented civil war is just around the corner.

The generals present also understood this truth, but for their own interests and for the sake of their own lives, they could not retreat in any way. Every shuffle of power on the steppe is accompanied by countless blood, which is one of the reasons why they often do not last long.

Jochi and Chagatai had already become a fire and water, and if it weren't for Temujin pressing on them, they would have come out of the dog's brain. They simply couldn't believe that the other party would show mercy to their men if they became the Great Khan. Then, the candidates for the Great Khan are only two people, Ogedai and Tuolei.

According to Mongol tradition, of course, it was the younger son Tulei who succeeded Temujin. However, because of his age, Wokotai made a lot of achievements in the war to unify the grassland, and also gathered many civil and military generals around him, and even Temujin's current chief minister, Yelu Chucai, also had a very good personal relationship with Wokotai.

After arguing together, Temujin was tired and was about to let everyone go out, when he suddenly remembered that Guo Jing had not said a word in the second-class quarrel just now. He said that the others would go out first, leaving Guo Jing alone to talk secretly in the tent.

Temujin felt very tired, closed his eyes and rested for a while before opening his eyes and said, "Guo Jing, why didn't you say anything just now?" Don't you want to make Tuo Lei a great khan? ”

"Naturally, I want to make Tuo Lei the Great Khan," Guo Jing said, "but the final decision is still to be made by the Great Khan." ”

"Oh, is that so?" Temujin said, "Then if I make Ogedei the Great Khan, will you obey this order?" ”

"Of course it will."

So Temujin summoned the generals to come in and forcibly appointed Ogedai as the next Great Khan on the sickbed. Just when Ogedai couldn't help but be overjoyed, Temujin gave the costumes of the dozens of thousands of households under his direct command to Tuolei. In this way, even if Ogedai became the Great Khan, his strength was not as good as that of the Tuo Lei who failed to become the Great Khan. What surprised Wokotai was still to come, and after Temujin had divided the people, he gave the central capital to Guo Jing.

"What?" Wo Kotai was shocked, in this way, Guo Jing and the strength of the two of them will occupy the largest share in the Mongol Empire, if Tuo Lei wants to ............ Thinking of this, Ogedai hurriedly took a few steps forward, wanting to say something, but heard Temujin continue: "After I die, I will kill everyone in the middle capital. ”

These words are just fluttering, but behind them is to let hundreds of thousands of people die, Rao is Guo Jing is brave and fearless, and he can't help but feel a chill. When he was twelve years old, he went out with Temujin and killed thousands of people with his own hands, but he was still a little uncomfortable with the slaughter of women and children who had no ability to resist.

After hesitating for a moment that he could barely feel, he stepped forward and said, "I beg the Great Khan to take back his fate!" ”

Tuo Lei looked over in surprise, and the others glared at him angrily. In the eyes of these people, massacres are commonplace, even if they are Mongols, they have no less massacres, let alone Han and Jin? But for Guo Jing, since he felt unhappy about this in his heart, it was necessary to stand up and express his thoughts and opinions.

These generals may not just like to slaughter cities, but killing people will inevitably be accompanied by robbery. What the soldiers grabbed, they could also get a share. Moreover, the slaughter of the city can also be used to boost morale, and there is no loss to them.

Guo Jing said: "It is enough to kill those who dare to resist us, if we kill everyone together, what good will it do us?" ”

However, Temujin was speechless at this time, and after struggling for a long time, he finally closed his eyes forever. This is really good news for a lot of people in this world. However, this is not necessarily good news for the people in the central capital. Since Temujin had died in the vicinity of the city, it seemed not so incomprehensible that his generals, and his sons, would want to kill the entire city, because they were barbarians in the first place.

Guo Jing returned to his tent in a gloomy mood, feeling powerless for the first time in his life. In the past, no matter what difficulties and dangers, he also had the confidence to rely on a pair of fists to blast all the way through. But can the current situation be resolved by force? Even if he replied, he didn't agree with his own opinion.

Or maybe it's because you're not strong enough? If you can be ten times stronger, a hundred times stronger, you will probably be able to prevent the next thing. If you can get stronger, then you don't have to worry about anything in the world? If there are different opinions, then you can also use your fists to convince them all.

Persuade? I remember that Mr. once said such a sentence: Convince a person, the Heavenly Demon Blissful Gong. Forcing a man, Sea Lake blasting punches. Can I blast out a blasting punch without regrets?

Even if you can throw a fist like that, it wouldn't be good to kill each other when the Great Khan just died. However, there is a phrase that rises in his heart, "Ignore the mortuary and attack each other." There is nothing new under the sun, and everything that has been done throughout the ages is in some way just a repetition.

So, should you ..........

There was a sudden sound of footsteps outside, and Guo Jing could tell from the footsteps of the man and the smell on his body that the person who came was the Khitan remnant, surnamed Yelu, and the man named Chucai. This person has always been very close to Ogedei, and now he is here, what is the purpose of coming here?

Yelu Chucai is a tall middle-aged man with a serious face with Chinese characters, and he looks very majestic. After coming in, he bowed and saluted, and said respectfully: "I've seen General Guo." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be Master Yelu, did the Great Khan call you?" The Great Khan in Guo Jing's mouth of course refers to the living Wokotai.

"General Guo, the Great Khan asked me to say that he is not unwilling to support your opinion. But he could not oppose the will of the Great Khan in front of the generals. ”

"Really?"

"Yes. The Great Khan also said that as long as you are willing to exchange it for the Monan Shogunate, he is willing to give you the entire Central Capital, even the Dingkou inside. ”

"It's as simple as that?" Guo Jing was noncommittal about this, and asked: "Can the Great Khan suppress the opposition of all the generals?" ”

"General, what the generals are asking for is nothing more than wealth and beauty, not that they have to slaughter the city. If you can meet their requirements and get by on the face, you will probably be fine. Yelu Chucai said: "I just don't know if General Guo is reluctant?" ”

Willing? Guo Jing admired Wokotai a little. Sure enough, will those guys who are close to Confucian scholars like to use power arts? Guo Jing naturally knew that Wokotai's proposal was ill-intentioned. However, now is not the time to turn against him. Even for the sake of the dead Temujin, he can't do it now.

As a man who grew up in Mongolia, he was not afraid of killing and blood. But until then, there's one more thing to do.

Guo Jing said to Yelu Chucai: "I can exchange the territory and troops of Mo Nan for the entire Zhongdu City, but I hope that the Great Khan can restrain the generals to retreat ten miles one after another." ”

This request is nothing, it is only ten miles, and the army will arrive in less than an hour, Yelu Chucai thought about it for a while but did not dare to agree casually. He ran back and forth many times during the night. In the end, the deal was finalized. Guo Jing transferred the entire Monan Shogunate, including the workshops on the ground, the savage tribes that were bound, and the more than one bowl of troops left behind, to Wokotai. And Wokotai promised to hand over the entire Central Capital and the population inside to Guo Jing.

Yelu Chucai couldn't help but say when he left: "The general's move has countless lives, and I have thanked the general on behalf of those people." ”

"You don't have to thank me," Guo Jing shook his head and said, "I just follow my own heart, and it has nothing to do with good or evil." Whether it is saving people or killing people, it is just my personal preference. Today's things may be good for you, but what I do tomorrow may not seem like it to you. ”

The next day, Wokotai really restrained the generals to retreat ten miles to the village. There are still more than 100,000 enemy troops in the city, and since these people can't slaughter the city if they are not angry, they are all waiting to see Guo Jing's jokes.

Only Tuo Lei recently gained tens of thousands of Mongolian troops, and he was not alienated because of the disagreement between the two the day before yesterday, and helped Guo Jing force the Jin soldiers who still controlled half of the city to surrender. Those Jurchens, Han Chinese, Bohai people, Khitans, etc., heard the news of the death of the Great Khan of the Mongols outside the city, and they were all afraid. As soon as they heard that it was the shogun Guo Jing who had come to surrender, they knew that this man was not as brutal as the other Mongol generals, so they rushed to surrender.

There were also some generals who were unwilling to surrender and wanted to resist, and then these people were killed by their original allies, and the rest were sent to Guo Jing's camp with a lot of flowers.

Guo Jing was not polite to these people either, and gave the first order. The command is - "Finish the face!" "Anyone who claims to be a descendant of the Wanyan clan is not allowed to stay. Then there were many Jurchens who were afraid of being affected, so they hurriedly changed into Han costumes, and gave themselves Han sex such as Zhao Qian, Sun and Li.

Even many people with the surname Wanyan also said eloquently: "We were originally savages on the shore of the East China Sea, but we were later caught by Wanyan's family, so we changed our surname to Wanyan." General, general, we have nothing to do with the royal family. In this way, we will change our surname to Guo in the future, do you think? ”

..............

After the first order, Guo Jing continued to say to them: "Originally, the Great Khan ordered to slaughter this city, but I dissuaded it. But the new Great Khan said that if you want to live, you have to come up with enough money! ”

Outside, the brutal Mongols were eyeing each other, and these people did not care about the pain, and after scraping the city, they gathered enough gold and silver treasures. Guo Jing sent someone to give one by one to the generals who led the troops, and he even sent a copy to Tuo Lei Anda's side, but he was rejected by Tuo Lei.

Tuo Lei came to his camp and said, "Father Khan is dead, and I will go back to the steppe to watch for him." Answer, I know that you are unbearable, but you have given all your own people to the Great Khan of Ogedei, so what will you do in the future? After the war, the people's livelihood withered, and the Zhongdu here could not support the hundreds of thousands of people you saved. ”

Guo Jing hammered Tuo Lei's chest, and the face of this tall and strong young man turned pale, because Guo Jing would only be taller and stronger. Then Guo Jing laughed and said, "Didn't you answer you?" ”

For such a sworn brother, Tuo Lei could only shake his head, but he really couldn't care. So after returning to the grassland and burying the title, Tuo Lei returned Guo Jing's old ministry to him and sent a lot of money and materials.

When Temujin was buried, Guo Jing did not follow. Wokotai has already regarded the alliance between Tuo Lei and Guo Jing as a thorn in the flesh, how could he let Guo Jing expand his influence on the grassland? He wished that Guo Jing would stay in Zhongdu from now on, and never set foot on the grassland again.

Guo Jing didn't care about this, and people died like lights going out. The wreckage wasn't the Great Khan he respected, it was just pieces of rotting flesh, and he had something else to do.

Wanyan Honglie was exhausted by a series of defeats before, and soon after returning to Zhongdu, he fell ill, and a few days before the city was broken, when the war was raging, the ambitious King Zhao died in his palace with infinite regret and remorse. Because of the raging war outside, the people in the palace could only bury him hastily.

However, on this day, Guo Jing came to Wanyan Honglie's grave.

"General, death is great, if you destroy the tomb, it will only ruin your reputation," Xie Wenzhou persuaded bitterly: "Why bother? ”

"Reputation?"

Guo Jing admires Xie Wenzhou's talent and learning very much, but he doesn't admire things other than talent so much. As for such a thing as reputation, Guo Jing said to Xie Wenzhou: "I don't care about such a thing as reputation, when the Jin people entered the Central Plains, how could the reputation be good?" In this world, it is force, and only force, that plays a decisive role. ”

Xie Wenzhou couldn't help frowning when he heard these words, shook his head and said, "Win the world immediately, how can you cure it immediately?" ”

The two sentences that Xie Wenzhou said were what Lu Jia said to Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty. It means that it is not possible to rely on force alone, it's just....

"I'm not the emperor."

"The general sits in the central capital, as long as he can take the Jurchen homeland in the east first, and then use the army in the Central Plains, it is the great cause of Gaozu and it is also at his fingertips!"

"Hmph, if life is not happy, it is not interesting to be an emperor!" Guo Jing said to the Wanyan Chen monk who was escorted over on the side: "Do you say that's the case? ”

Monk Wanyan Chen was dismantled, and his body was covered with dark blood clots formed by blood stains, and he looked indescribably embarrassed. After listening to Guo Jing's questioning, he raised his head and shouted: "The prisoner under the stairs, I just want to die quickly!" ”

"But it's easy to kill someone, but it's hard to live people." Guo Jing said: "It's better for you to lower me, although your surname is Wanyan, you are not in the same vein as the royal family of the Jin Kingdom." You are not only a high martial artist, but you can also share the weal and sorrow with the soldiers, and in this troubled world, it is a pity that someone like you dies like this. ”

"Traitor, kill me!"

"That's good," Guo Jing said, "In those three days, I will send you on the road with the thousands of sins of the Wanyan clan." ”

"You ........"

"In the past three days, if you change your mind, I will appoint you as a thousand households, and let you lead the remaining old and weak women and children of the Wanyan clan."

"I ......"

Wanyan Chen still wanted to say something. Guo Jing took care of himself and ordered: "Dig up Yan Honglie's grave for me and drag his body out!" ”

"General!" Xie Wenzhou was frightened and said loudly: "How can you achieve great things if you do this?" ”

However, the soldiers under Guo Jing did not have those concerns, and took shovels and other tools to dig up the tomb of King Zhao Wanyan Honglie, and dragged out the coffin of the owner of the tomb who was hastily buried.

An unpleasant stench mixed with the smell of spices came from the coffin, making people vomit. Xie Wen was disgusted for a while, and although the other people also thought it was very unpleasant, but on the battlefield, it was much more disgusting than this, but no one said more.

Guo Jing looked at the coffin containing Yan Honglie, before that, he had thought of many possibilities. The current situation is just one of those possibilities.

When a man dies, he goes out like a lamp. What was in front of him now was nothing more than a corpse that had lost any sense. Even if he dragged Yan Honglie's body out of the coffin and whipped it three hundred times, he wouldn't make his mood better. As for the revenge of killing his father, he has already avenged it.

Presumably, before his death, Wan Yan Honglie had already experienced the tragedy of the collapse of the country and the death of the family. In the end, when he was surrounded by the Mongol soldiers, he fell ill and died, and when he reached such a point, he had a hatred of killing his father, and he could also write it off.

So............

And he slashed it out.

The palm wind rubs against the atmosphere, creating a blazing heat. This Flame Knife was originally an unpassed secret of the Nyingma Sect of the Great Snow Mountain Esoteric Sect, but if he used the Beast King Fist to promote this move, the power would only be stronger than that of the Nyingma Sect's successive generations. The coffin stuffed with spices was instantly ignited, and the raging fire burned the entire coffin to ashes along with the corpses inside.

Whipping corpses............ It's really not my aesthetic.

Three days later, after several days of torment, especially after the women were crying and crying in front of him, he finally decided to surrender and took Chen as his surname and the monk's name.

In this regard, Guo Jing is not surprised, he has always been generous to death, and it is difficult to be righteous calmly. Even if he Chen Monk has a heart like iron and stone, and has been watching the women and children who are going to die with him for a few days, he has to turn into a finger twister.

It's just that this man will really give in so easily? Guo Jing doesn't think so. But even if he cherishes his homeland, so what? This world is so vast, the Central Plains is not the only place in the world, there are many places that need to be educated. For example, on the island group on the other side of the sea, there is room for him to play as a monk.