After the Mongol army occupied the Central Plains, it came up with the idea that if implemented, the Ming Dynasty might not exist
In 1215 AD, Genghis Khan, with the help of the Khitans, successfully broke through the Great Wall and attacked the Jin Dynasty. Genghis Khan then left the general Muhuali to attack the Central Plains, and he himself led the main army to attack other countries.
Muhua Lixiao was brave and good at fighting, and only used a partial division to beat the Jin army to the head, but after a long time, the disadvantage of insufficient numbers was highlighted. Often, the city that had just been occupied was taken away by the Jin army not long after, and Muhuali had to take the city again, and finally Muhuali died of exhaustion in Wenxi (present-day Wenxi County, Shanxi). Genghis Khan wept bitterly after hearing the news of Muhuali's death, and within a few years, Genghis Khan also died of illness.
After Wo Kuotai ascended the throne, he attacked the city and seized land everywhere according to his father's will, and eventually took Hebei, Shandong, and Shanxi into his pockets, but a problem that followed made the Mongol army distressed.
Because the Central Plains were full of solid cities and pools, and a large number of people were gathered in the city, although many areas were already under their control, the Mongol army was worried that if the Han people rebelled against the city, would they not have to fight again?
In order to avoid the consequences, some Mongol generals proposed that all the men who had already occupied the city be killed, and the women and children should be assigned as slaves, and then bulldozed all the solid cities, and without barriers, the Mongol army could be allowed to gallop.
In fact, this method was often used by the Mongol army during the western expedition, and the reason why the Mongol army adopted this policy was to reduce the number of people in the occupied areas so as to facilitate their stable rule. Once this kind of massacre policy is used in the Central Plains, tens of thousands of people will die tragically under the knife, and words such as "blood flowing into a river" and "corpses all over the field" may not be able to describe the tragic situation of this purgatory on earth, let alone the later Ming Dynasty.
Just as Wokoutai was preparing to make a decision, a person came from the crowd and shouted: "No." This man is Jeroboam.
Yelü Chucai is the ninth grandson of Liao Taizu Yelü Abaoji, a nobleman born with a golden key, because he studied Han culture from an early age, so the degree of Sinicization is very high. After the defeat of the Jin Dynasty, Yelü Chucai turned to Genghis Khan and made many contributions. Genghis Khan once sighed: "This man is a gift from Heaven to my family."
After the death of Genghis Khan, Yelü Chucai supported Wokoutai's ascension to the throne, so Wokoutai regarded Yelü Chucai as a confidant. At this time, the appearance of Yelü Chucai made Wokoutai immediately pause and listen carefully to his opinions.
Yelü Chucai believed that the Mongol army lacked supplies, and the Han people in the Central Plains were good at business and farming, so it was better to collect their various taxes and grain to expand our army, and then the Mongol army had money and grain, and it was only a matter of time before the Mongol army had money and grain, and it was only a matter of time before the world was conquered. After the Mongol generals listened, Mao Sai opened up, and WoKoutai immediately decided that Yelü Chucai would preside over taxes and other matters.
After that, Yelü Chucai set up a ten-way tax collection office, collecting 500,000 silver, 80,000 pieces of cloth, and more than 400,000 stones of grain every year, which gave these barbaric Mongol nobles a taste of sweetness.
If it were not for his persuasion, the land of the Central Plains might no longer exist, and Yelü Chucai, who single-handedly saved tens of millions of people, although not a Han Chinese, saved the Chinese nation and became an eternal hero in people's hearts. Do you have any thoughts about Yerushalayim? Let's talk about it.