Chapter 123: The Golden Family

In the middle of the night, two dark shadows fell softly outside the Khan's tent. Judging from the action of landing, the martial arts of the two black shadows are extremely strong. At this time, a black shadow approached the other two black shadows, and said in his ear: "Brother Tang, judging from what Tartar said just now, this Tartar is so ruthless, he actually wants to use the plague to slaughter the city, so as to achieve the goal of passing through my Jiayu Pass without a single soldier and going straight to the Beijing Division, it seems that this plan Tartar has been planning for a long time!" "Well, in my opinion, this is not the first time that the plague has been used to slaughter the city!" Another dark shadow said. "What, Brother Tang, is there anyone else who has also used this strategy!" Yin Jun glanced at the Tartar Khan's military tent with some disbelieving.

I looked up at the tent of the Tartar Khan for a moment and muttered, "Genghis Khan should have invented this method!" "What, I can't imagine that the dignified hero Genghis Khan also used such a brutal siege method!" Yin Jun said fiercely. "In 1346 AD, when the Mongol army attacked the Black Sea port city of Kaffa, the corpses of people who had died of the plague were thrown into the city by a stone-throwing machine, which originated in Central Asia and was carried by marmots.

Before the Mongol Empire, plague had been introduced to China many times, so although there had been regional plague infections in China, Chinese people had gradually developed immunity to plague, and foreigners had never been exposed to plague before. A Genoese merchant in Kaffa inadvertently brought diseased fleas to the Roman Empire, and the plague spread widely throughout the Roman Empire, becoming known as the "Black Death", as plague patients died of bruised blood under their skin and blackened all over their bodies. The plague was the death of a large number of people in the Roman Empire, and the Mongol army had the antidote to the plague, so when attacking the city, it was naturally fine, so that the Mongol army was invincible in the Roman Empire! I looked at the Tartar Khan's tent and recalled. Hateful, these Tartars are simply inhumane? I couldn't imagine that someone from the dignified Golden Family would do such a despicable thing! Yin Jun scolded angrily and continued: "Then what should we do now? ”

I glanced at the night sky of the grassland, and sighed in my heart: "Now, the Tartars have begun to use the poison of poinsettia to slaughter the city through the corpses, so I must develop an antidote against poinsettia before the Tartars develop an antidote!" Yin Jun nodded and said, "Yes, there is only one way at the moment, but this tartar is so tightly guarded, how do we know the secret recipe of poinsettia antidote?" Besides, all the Langzhong in Jiayu Pass are missing, even if they find the secret recipe, it's too late? Yin Jun said with some concern. I smiled slyly: "Don't worry, although I am not a miracle doctor who rejuvenates my hands, my ancestors used to practice medicine, so I am also familiar with medical skills!" "Okay, I really can't see it, Brother Tang, you are really amazing!" Yin Jun said with excitement on his face. At this time, the great sweat of the big tent suddenly glanced outside the tent, lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then shouted: "Someone! Soon a Mongolian man who seemed to be extremely thin walked in, and in the night, his footwork was calm and powerful, and he carried a bright and flickering large knife, which looked extremely dazzling in the night. Brother Tang, isn't this the Tartar officer we met yesterday? I nodded and said, "Not bad!" At this time, the Tartar officer stood a foot away from the Tartar Khan, clasped his fists and shouted, "Khan! "Hmm!" The Tartar Khan snorted, turned his back and repeated a few times in the big tent before turning his face to look at the officer standing in the big tent, and suddenly said loudly: "Altai, you immediately go to my army to check to see if the plague of poinsettia has spread to our army, if there is, deal with it in time, if not, also take protective measures, dig a big pit around the big tent outside the big tent of each household, fill it with lime to prevent the plague from spreading in our Mongolian army!" "Yes!" The last general commanded. Altai answered. "Brother Tang, have you heard, I think this khan's method of prevention is good!" Yin Jun whispered to me with an excited face. I nodded and said, "Yes, this is indeed a good way to dig deep pits around each house, bury lime deeply, and kill the plague on the wall, not bad!" I said excitedly. But what now? That poinsettia plague is still spreading in our Jiayuguan? And General Hu doesn't seem to know this method of epidemic prevention? Yin Jun said with some concern. Well, what you said is right, now the plague has begun to spread in Jiayuguan, and if we continue like this, I am afraid that by the time we get the secret recipe for the antidote, Jiayuguan has become an empty city, even if we get the secret recipe for the plague at that time, what is the use? "I'm worried." Well, what now? Yoon Jun asked at me almost with tears in his eyes.

"The only way now is to find the secret recipe for the plague as soon as possible. Besides, you have to go back and tell General Hu about this method to prevent the spread of the plague! I said with a commanding tone. No, Brother Tang, what do you think of me Yin Jun, we came together, and if you want to go back, do you want to go back together? Yin Jun said with a look of resolute disagreement. I smiled, and suddenly said with a serious face: "I must go back, now is not the time to be a hero, if I go back late, think about what kind of scene Jiayuguan will be, think about the scene where the Tartar army goes straight to Jiayuguan and smashes my Ming Jingshi!" Yin Jun shuddered, and said with some fear: "Don't talk about Brother Tang, I'll go back!" However, you also have to come back, Miss Sun and I are waiting for you to come back! I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I'll be back!" Yin Jun nodded and said, "This Tartar is so heavily guarded, you?" I saw Yin Jun's concerned look, knowing that he cared about my safety, in order to let him leave with peace of mind, I smiled lightly and said, "Don't worry, Brother Tang, what kind of people are they, these Tartars are nothing!" Yin Jun knew that I was afraid that he would be worried, so he deliberately pretended to be indifferent, and his eyes turned red and said, "Then Brother Tang, you should be more careful, me?" I nodded and said, "Go ahead!" Yin Jun nodded, and ran softly in the direction of Jiayuguan.

When I saw him walking away, I sighed in my heart, and was about to get a little closer to the khan's tent, when suddenly there was a sound behind me, and I was shocked and said, "Has it been discovered by the Tartars?" At this moment, the sound became louder and louder, and I slowly understood that it was approaching me, I tightened the dragon sword in my hand, and looked behind me, only to see a black figure running towards me quickly, and the footwork was extremely sharp and fast.

The "Golden Family" refers to the Mongols of pure origin.

The Mongols had an ancestral grandmother, Alain, who is recorded having two sons with her husband and three more after her husband's death. Her two eldest sons, including her relatives, questioned the matter, and Alain said that the next three sons were her and a yellow-white fairy offspring, the sons of heaven, and from then on, the descendants of these three sons were called Mongols of pure origin. Genghis Khan belongs to one of them, the Erjin clan, in addition, there are also the main beggar clan, Taichi Wu clan and so on. The Khans of Mongolia all came from this family, so they were called the "Golden Family". In fact, after the death of Genghis Khan, only his direct descendants, namely the descendants of Jochi, Chagatai, Ogedai, and Tulei, were called the "Golden Family" and were eligible to inherit the throne of the khanates. After the son of Tuolei, Möngke, took the throne of the Mongol Great Khan, this range was further narrowed to the descendants of Tuolei, and the subsequent emperors of the Yuan Dynasty and the Tatar Khans of the Ming Dynasty were all from this lineage.

In 1368, the Yuan Dynasty, which had enjoyed the fortune of the country for less than a hundred years, was overthrown by an uprising led by Zhu Yuanzhang, and unlike the minority regimes of Liao, Jin, and Western Xia, the last emperor Yuan Shun Emperor Tuhuan Timur neither died in battle nor committed suicide, but led the royal family and the remaining army to retreat to the Mongolian Plateau, the homeland of his ancestors, and completed a "miracle" of a foreign regime retreating in China. This is due to the almost frenzied expansion that began with Genghis Khan, which made the Mongol Empire vast and full of khanates and tribes, while the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was only a part of the Mongol Empire, and the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty was the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, enjoying suzerainty over the major Mongolian khanates and tribes. The fall of the Yuan Dynasty only caused the Mongol Empire to lose the territory of China, while the Mongol Empire still existed.

Emperor Yuan Shun is one of the few emperors of the Yuan Dynasty who has deep contact with Han culture, and most of them fell to the north of the blow, which is great for him, although he is still the Great Khan of the Mongolian tribes, but it can not relieve his sorrow of "going to the country and nostalgia", especially the Ming Dynasty army continued to attack him one after another, which made him panic all day. Finally, on May 23, 1370, he died in grief and depression at Yingchang on the banks of the Shalamulun River.

When Emperor Yuan Shun's son, Aiyu Shiridara, learned of his father's death, he succeeded him at Hala and Lin, and he maintained the remnant Yuan regime for another eight years, and looked forward to one day returning to the throne of China. However, instead of having the opportunity to fulfill this wish, he faced an attack by the Ming army that penetrated deep into the Mongol region. In 1372, the Ming Dynasty general Xu Da led the army to attack Hala and Lin, which is the stronghold of the Mongolian golden family, is a symbol of power and glory, once broken by the Ming army, the Mongol Empire will completely disappear in the world, therefore, the resistance of the Mongols is very fierce, however, known as the "Great Wall" Xu Da is like a bamboo along the way, and Aiyu knows Ridala almost to the edge of despair. Fortunately, the army of the Ming Dynasty was blocked on the banks of the Tula River due to the long battle line and the lack of support.

When he died in 1378 with great regret and was succeeded by his son Timur, the third Emperor of the Remnant Yuan had reduced the territory he had over to the size of the Mongol Empire's early rise, making it impossible to restore his ancestral glory.

In 1388, a 100,000-strong Ming Dynasty army under the leadership of the general Lan Yu defeated the army of Tugusi between the Heleka River and the Krulun River, on the south bank of Lake Bear, and more than 3,000 people were captured by the kings of the remnant Yuan, more than 3,000 officials below Pingzhang and more than 70,000 soldiers.

This defeat deprived the remnants of the Golden Family, the Kublai Khan family, of its supremacy among the Mongols, so much so that most of the Mongol tribes declared their independence from it. In 1399, Guilichi, the leader of the Qiergis tribe along the upper Yenisei River, denied the suzerainty of the last remnant emperor, Elebok, and defeated and killed him in 1399, gaining hegemony over the tribes. At this point, the remnant Yuan regime, which had lasted for 29 years, was destroyed, the legitimate Great Khan of the Mongol Empire ceased to exist, and the Mongol tribes returned to the dispute over the throne of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.