Early the next morning, when Kublai Khan learned that another commander had been assassinated and that his head had been hung at the head of Xiangyang City, he was furious.

But apart from his anger and the horror that followed his wrath, he could not imagine what the Assassins could do if they came and went without a trace, leaving them without a trace. Kublai Khan originally hoped that the first assassination was just a casual act of a Song master, and it was an accidental move. But there was a second time after seven days, and it was not accidental, but inevitable. It is that there are Song masters who are looking for opportunities to assassinate the generals in his army, in order to panic the morale of the army under him, weaken the morale, and make everyone in the army feel at risk, panic, and the army has no fighting spirit.

However, this time, the Golden Wheel Dharma King examined the body, but did not find the kind of poisonous needle last time, and the method of killing was also a little different, and it seems that it was not done by the same person.

Kublai Khan listened to the reasoning of the Golden Wheel Dharma King, frowned, and said, "Could it be that there are several Song masters who have formed a group to carry out this assassination and assassination?"

King Jinlun nodded in a deep voice and said, "That's not impossible. ”

Kublai Khan heard this and said worriedly: "How can that be good, there are already heroes like Guo Jing in Xiangyang City leading a group of heroes to help defend it, and now there is a group of masters who have come to assassinate the generals of our army." As soon as they are bright and dark, I can't storm Xiangyang, and then I will assassinate a general every few days, and within a few months, the army will inevitably be disheartened. ”

King Jinlun said: "I heard that at the Great Victory Pass Heroes Conference that day, the Song people's martial arts heroes respected the old gang leader of the beggar gang, the nine-fingered beggar, Hong Qigong, as the leader of the martial arts alliance. However, the Seven Princes of Hong Shenlong saw the head and the tail, and it was said that they had not appeared in the rivers and lakes for several years, so they elected the deputy alliance leader to actually give orders. There are two left and right leaders in this alliance. Among them, the right deputy leader is Guo Jing, who is a disciple of Hong Qigong. The fourth prince you also saw it in the city when you attacked Xiangyang, and the other leader of the left deputy alliance was Yin Zhiping, the first disciple of the Quanzhen Sect, the first major sect today, and this person has been since the beginning of the war. It has never appeared in Xiangyang City. His position as the left deputy alliance leader is higher than Guo Jing's right deputy alliance leader, and his position is still higher. It stands to reason that he should be the main one and order the Central Plains martial arts heroes to act, but he has never appeared. Therefore, according to the old man, this assassination must have been done by a group of masters led by this person. ”

At the Great Victory Pass Heroes Conference, the election of the two deputy alliance leaders on the left and right is not a particularly secret thing in the rivers and lakes. As long as the Golden Wheel Dharma King has a heart. Naturally, you can find out if you send someone. However, based on the fact that Yin Zhiping had not appeared on the front-line battlefield in Xiangyang City since the start of the war, he deduced that this conclusion was not far from the truth.

"All True Teachings. Kublai Khan's expression moved when he heard this, and he nodded: "I have heard of the name of the Quanzhen Sect, the Changchun Zhenren Qiu of the Quanzhen Sect, when the ancestor Genghis Khan was alive. He also invited him to go to the Western Regions to ask for benefits in person. Now it is said that the Quanzhen Sect is the largest sect in the north, and it has great power in the northern territory of the Han people, with countless followers. Some of them are occupied by our Mongols. The officials we send to the local government often do not speak as effectively as the Quanzhen Sect's local branch watchers. ”

King Jinlun said: "That Yin Zhiping is the eldest disciple of Changchun Ziqiu, and he is also the first disciple of the third generation of Quanzhen Sect. In the future, he will take over the position of the head of the Quanzhen Sect, and now he has a very high reputation in the Central Plains martial arts. has already overshadowed Guo Jing. ”

The Golden Wheel Dharma King said this, but he gritted his teeth in his heart. Then Yin Zhiping can get such a big name as he is now. As a result, he sat on the throne of the Central Plains Martial Arts Left Deputy Alliance, which can be said to be all because of his prestige. In other words, that is, Yin Zhiping stepped on him and ascended to the top. On the day of the Great Victory Guan Heroes Conference, he went to stir up the scene and play prestige, but instead fulfilled Yin Zhiping, every time he thought about it, he hated Yin Zhiping in his heart.

Kublai Khan sighed: "There are so many heroes and heroes among the Song people, but unfortunately they can't be used by me." If Yin Zhiping can be recruited to serve my Great Mongolia, with his status in the Quanzhen Sect and the influence of the Central Plains Martial Arts, he can really count it in one fell swoop. He glanced at King Jinlun, and said secretly in his heart: "If Yin Zhi is willing to serve, it is not impossible to give him a position as a national teacher." ”

After the death of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol state, his third son, Ögedei, succeeded to the throne of the Great Khan of Mongolia. This is also the heir designated by Genghis Khan through consultation with everyone during his lifetime, but Genghis Khan's actual favorite is the fourth son Tulei, who is also his youngest son.

Genghis Khan divided his sons during his lifetime, and Tuo Lei was left with his parents, inheriting his father's troubles and cowardly green companies, pastures, and armies. Genghis Khan's army, most of which was inherited by Tulei.

After the death of Genghis Khan, it is supposed that his designated heir, Ogedei, immediately succeeded to the throne of the Great Khan of Mongolia. However, Mongolia was not a traditional feudal state, but a tribal alliance, so the composition of its political power was not the same as that of the Han dynasty. Although Genghis Khan founded the Mongol state, his Kuriltai system was still in effect. This so-called Kuriltai system is actually a tribal council system. If Ogedai wants to inherit the throne, he must wait until the most important decision of Kuriltai to pass it.

However, some tribes in Kuriltai did not support Ogedei, and the matter dragged on for two years. For the past two years, the position of the Great Khan of Mongolia has been vacant, and he has been supervised by Tuolei.

After a two-year delay, the Mongol kings and important ministers held a meeting to elect the Great Khan, at which some advocated the establishment of Tolei as the Great Khan and opposed Genghis Khan's legacy. The conference was debated for more than a month, and after the eventually, with the full support of Genghis Khan's second son, Chagatai, Kuriltai finally obeyed Genghis Khan's will and passed the establishment of Wogedei as the Great Khan. However, after Ögedei succeeded to the throne as the Great Khan, Tuo Lei was still in the position of superintendent of the state, but his power was reduced.

Only three years after he succeeded to the throne of the Great Khan in Ögedei, he died of illness on the way back to the Mongolian steppe with his army north at the age of 40, which was a very young death. There has always been a rumor in Mongolia that it was Ogedai who was jealous of Tuolei's talent, and was afraid that Tuolei would rob him of the position of Great Khan, so he ordered someone to secretly poison Tuolei. But there is no actual evidence of this, and the rumors are very vague, and no one dares to talk about it publicly. The death of Tuo Lei is really a mystery.

Kublai Khan was the fourth son of Tulei, and although he had never investigated the cause of his father's death on the surface, he had always been very suspicious in his heart. My father has always been in good health, but there are many doubts about how he suddenly fell ill and died. But he suffered from the lack of evidence, and he did not dare to investigate openly. But there were doubts in his heart, although he didn't say it on the surface, he was secretly very wary of Wokotai and regarded it as an enemy.

Now Ogedai died suddenly last year due to alcoholism. Ogedai had also appointed his heir after his death, but after his sudden death, his beloved imperial concubine Naima Zhen went against his wishes and decided to make his son Guiyu Khan.

Without consulting with the Mongol kings and Zhu Nayan, Naimajin used his own power to privately appoint Guiyu as Khan, and relied on the army of the Ögedai Khan under his control to actually control the power of the current Mongolian state.

Moreover, although the nominal position is now the Khan, the actual power is all held by Naimajin, and the nobles have no real power. After the regent of Naima Zhen became the ruler, he formed a party for personal gain, excluded dissidents, and appointed a group of uneducated and unskilled people to serve as officials within the imperial court, which made the current Mongolian government chaotic. It was only with the support of strong external military force that it did not suddenly collapse and collapse.

The title of the first protector of the Great Mongolian Kingdom was conferred by the Empress Dowager Naimazhen. Therefore, although Hu Xinlie also knew that the Golden Wheel Dharma King really had real talent and learning, he respected him very much. But in my heart, I don't recognize the position of the Golden Wheel Dharma King's national teacher.

In his heart, he regarded Wokotai as an enemy, and he looked down on Naimazhen, who is now in charge of the government, and hated it even more for disrupting the government. It's just that his current position, in the central power of Mongolia, does not have much power. Therefore, it can only sting and gather momentum, waiting for future actions. The same is true of his brother Meng Ge, who is closely linked, and both intend to push the family of Fanwokotai and fight for the succession to the throne of their father Tulei.

Kublai Khan did not approve of the position of the national teacher of the Golden Wheel Dharma King, who was appointed by Naimajin, so it was not impossible for him to reward him with the position of national teacher if he could recruit Yin Zhiping.

His Holiness Jinlun was born in the Esoteric sect of Tibetan Buddhism, and there were quite a few Tibetan Buddhists among the Mongolian nobles, so the Esoteric monks were all respected and respected by the Mongols from the Great Khan to the common people. However, the spread of Tibetan Buddhism was limited to the areas of Tibet and the Mongolian steppe, and in the Central Plains, there were very few people who believed in Tantra. In the Central Plains, Buddhism is also dominated by Zen Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism.

Taoism, the traditional religion of China, is also widely followed by followers, especially since Wang Chongyang founded the Quanzhen Sect decades ago. Now in the northern region, there are countless believers of the Quanzhen Sect, and the Taoist temples of other temples are all over the place, and the influence is great.

Kublai Khan was well aware of the importance of the Central Plains to the Mongols, so he thought a lot about how to better govern the occupied Han areas and pacify the Han people. The current status and importance of the Quanzhen Sect in the northern region was naturally considered by him before. If it is really possible to win over the future head of the Quanzhen Sect to work, it will be of great help to Mongolia in governing the northern region, and it is not an exaggeration to reward Yin Zhiping with the position of a national teacher for this.

If you want to rule the Central Plains, you can't rely on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. Tantra has been established for many years, but for thousands of years, it has never made any great development and achievements in the Central Plains. Moreover, Tantric Buddhism did not help him much, so he would not support Tantra to preach in the Central Plains for this reason. Instead of spending such a lot of effort, it is better to choose a ready-made local great sect in the Central Plains to cooperate. (To be continued.) )