In China's five-thousand-year cultural history, there are many heroes haojie who cannot be bypassed, they are talented, extraordinary, and have made a career by relying on their own wisdom.
The man I want to talk about today is such a legend, known as the genghis khan of a generation of arrogance. He fought countless battles in his life and established a huge Mongol Empire, so how many wives did he have in his lifetime? You may be surprised to hear this number.
A generation of arrogance
Genghis Khan was born into a large tribe in the Mongolian plateau, the head of which his father was the head. Unfortunately, his father died when Genghis Khan was very young, and Genghis Khan had to take his mother and brothers to wander the grasslands and live a life of wind and food. The experience of this period of time has shaped the character of Genghis Khan very well, it can be said that the tribulations have forged Genghis Khan, without this experience, then there may not have been a later Mongol Empire.
As Genghis Khan grew up and gained some fame in the steppe, he began to accumulate strength, hoping to return to his father's tribe and seize his own rights. He was brave, intelligent, and charismatic, attracting many depressed talents, and with the help of these people, Genghis Khan took the throne of tribal chief and returned to the place where he began.
After gaining power, Genghis Khan became fascinated by this feeling, and he began to lead his tribe to conquer the surrounding tribes, using force or political co-ordination, defeating several larger tribes one by one, ending years of scattered life on the steppe and reuniting the Mongol tribes. After that, Genghis Khan began to hold steppe congresses, formally established his rule, promoted his ideas, and a unified Mongolia officially appeared.
After the unification of the Mongolian plateau, Genghis Khan's ambitions began to expand, and he was not satisfied with the existing territorial scope, but wanted to acquire larger and more lands. So she began to test the various regimes around her, and soon saw the nature of their fierceness, constantly sending cavalry to harass them, and from time to time she took a piece of meat from these countries and fed herself. Relying on such wolf pack tactics, Genghis Khan was cool to take the Western Xia and achieve the first major victory.
After the destruction of Western Xia, Genghis Khan contracted his minions and quietly accumulated strength, waiting to strike again. In the following years, he continued to bleed the Jin Dynasty, constantly attacked and weakened the strength of the Jin State, and finally decided to unite with the Southern Song Dynasty to destroy the Jin State, officially occupying the vast land north of the Yellow River, and successfully bordering the Southern Song Dynasty. At the same time, he also actively expanded westward, destroying the Western Liao and Khwarazm and occupying large areas of territory in Central Asia.
After his death, the descendants of the Golden Family began a great expansion, constantly attacking westward and southward, destroying the Southern Song Dynasty, northern India, and even some countries in the steppes of Eastern Europe, creating a huge empire spanning Eurasia, and the name of Genghis Khan was widely spread with this expansion, feared by countless people, and remembered by countless descendants.
Genghis Khan promoted the progress of history, promoted the integration of nationalities, and promoted the exchange of human civilizations, so that Europe and Asia had a profound and extensive exchange. Although this exchange was accompanied by bloody killings and brutal governments, it is undeniable that Genghis Khan was indeed an incredible monarch, his exploits carved on the monuments of history, and his prestige was forever sung.
Genghis Khan's wives
But for such a heroic figure, people already know his heroic deeds very well, but they are relatively unfamiliar with his personal private life, do you know how many wives Genghis Khan had?
As the emperor of the feudal empire, Genghis Khan was not short of women, and it can even be said that there were many. According to historical records, the emperor's harem was very large, and Genghis Khan did not give in much, carrying forward the excellent tradition and having many wives. Here are a few women who influenced Genghis Khan's life. First of all, Genghis Khan's first wife, and a person he first liked, was named Boerti, the daughter of the tribal leader next door.
The two of them are considered to be young plum bamboo horses, and they have known each other since they were very young. At that time, the young Genghis Khan followed the elders of the family to be a guest, and saw the beautiful and generous Bo ErTi at the banquet, and was immediately shocked, and he fell in love with Bo Er Ti at first sight and liked this beautiful woman very much. So he and his father put forward the idea of wanting Bo Erti to be his wife, and both parents were very unified in this family affair, after all, the door was right, and the two were similar in age, so the marriage of the two people was fixed at this time.
Later, Genghis Khan's family suffered great changes, and the family was afraid that they could not live forever, and naturally the marriage with Bo Erti was yellow. Genghis Khan did not have the heart to spend the previous month, he single-mindedly accumulated strength and prepared to regain power. Later, with the help of everyone, Genghis Khan unified the steppe and became the Great Khan, he remembered this former wife, but BoErti had married a human wife, and even was pregnant, but Genghis Khan did not care, as long as Bo Erti this person, so he snatched her back.
In the ensuing wars of conquest, Genghis Khan continued to plunder enemy countries, kill men, rob women, and conquer enemy wives and daughters. So there are many similar women in Genghis Khan's life, which are just Genghis Khan's playthings and cannot give him influence. More famous is a woman named Kulan, who is very good at her skills, she was originally the daughter of a surrendered general, but she was able to climb to a high position with excellent wisdom, and Genghis Khan loved her very much.
There is also a pair of sister flowers, the two are the prey of Genghis Khan, and they are also his concubines by wisdom. In order to arrange so many women of his own, Genghis Khan had to separate them to prevent them, set up four ears, and sent a steward to each of them. And Bo Erti, Kulan and two very beautiful sister flowers are among them.
How many women are in this ear of Genghis Khan? This question has not been answered so far, and some people speculate that there should be about 500 women in Genghis Khan, which is a bit shocking, and everyone can't believe it.
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