Mr. Jin Yong's famous work "The Legend of the Archery Hero" has such a plot: After Genghis Khan entered old age, he felt that his energy was not as good as before, and he heard that the Quanzhen Daoist Qiu Zhiji had the art of immortality, so he sent someone to ask Qiu Zhiji for advice on the way of health. Qiu Chuji gladly obeyed his orders and led his disciples to the base camp of Genghis Khan in the Western Regions to advise Genghis Khan. Qiu Chuji was just a Taoist monk of the Quanzhen Sect, how could he be involved with Genghis Khan?
Qiu Chuji, Dao number Changchunzi, one of the seven sons of Quanzhen. Qiu Chuji was born in poverty, his parents died when he was young, and he has longed for a life like a "god" since he was a child. He once lived in seclusion in a big mountain to cultivate, living a life of "wearing pine flowers to eat pine nuts, pine streams and drinking pine winds in the moon". In order to temper his will, Qiu Chuju once came up with a way to throw a copper coin from a high rock cliff into the bushes again and again, and then go to find out the copper coin. At the age of 19, Qiu Zhongji visited Wang Chongyang and inherited the purpose of the Quanzhen Sect created by Wang Chongyang and became a generation of masters. Later, he preached and practiced in Baiyunguan and other places in Beijing, expanded the Quanzhen Sect, and became the founder of the Longmen Sect, Qiu Chuji, who was not only a high-ranking Daoist, but also a person with lofty morals and lofty ideals, who was extremely prestigious at that time. The common people living in the depths of the water regard the Quanzhen Sect as the only light in the darkness, and they are extremely supportive of qiu. It is said that there was an uprising in Shandong at that time, and the local government officials also asked Qiu to intervene to quell the unrest.
With a strong military force, the invincible Genghis Khan paid great attention to selecting and recruiting talented people to help him govern the world in order to realize his plan for great unification. Genghis Khan heard that Qiu Zhiji had a good way of governing the country, so he wanted to ask Qiu Zhiji to be his own national teacher and govern the country for his own peace. So he sent emissaries twice to summon Qiu Zhiji, who knew that Qiu Zhiji lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and the deep people were shallow, and they simply avoided him. However, Genghis Khan did not give up, and in 1219, he sent his close attendant Liu Shenlu for the third time to prepare a light horse and carry a hand edict to invite Qiu Tou to go out of the mountain, and the sincerity of his heart was no less than that of Liu Bei, who was three Gu Maolu. Qiu was finally impressed by Genghis Khan's sincerity and traveled west to meet Genghis Khan. In fact, for Qiu Zhiji, making this decision was not only moved by Genghis Khan's sincerity, but also had another idea, that is, to try to persuade Genghis Khan to "strike and go to Taiping" through this westward journey, which means to let Genghis Khan put down the butcher's knife and achieve peace as soon as possible.
On the way west, Qiu Zhiji and his 18 disciples preached widely to the masses of all ethnic groups and recruited believers. When he traveled to Kobdo in the western part of today's Mongolia, Qiu Chuji left his disciples Song Dao'an and Li Zhichang behind to establish the Quanzhen Taoist Temple and establish the Quanzhen Sect organization. Qiu Zhiji not only preached the True Dharma on the spiritual level, but also put people into practice to understand the teachings. He did a wide range of good deeds along the way, giving away the grain and porridge that Genghis Khan had given him to the hungry in Places like Samarkand in Central Asia. Wherever Qiu Zhiji went, he was greeted by civil and military officials of various prefectures, counties, and provinces. From the end of the fourteenth year to the beginning of the fifteenth year of Jiading (late 1221 to the beginning of 1222), Qiu Chuji and his party waded through mountains and rivers and finally came to the palace of Genghis Khan. The conversations between Qiu Chuji and Genghis Khan were recorded in the records of Yelü Chucai, a famous minister of the Yuan Dynasty, and later compiled into a book called "Records of Xuanfeng Qinghui". In the process of getting along with Genghis Khan, in addition to teaching Genghis Khan the way of health, Qiu Chuji also euphemistically mentioned the ruined scene caused by the Mongol army's western expedition that he saw along the way. Qiu Zhiji advised Genghis Khan to respect heaven and love the people as the basis, and to let the people rest and recuperate, so as to create a peaceful and prosperous era of Guotai and Min'an.
Genghis Khan was impressed by the foresight of Qiu Chuji, believing that Qiu Chuji was a nobleman who helped him to dominate the world, and greatly rewarded Qiu Zhiji, and also honored Qiu Chuji as a "god". Under the influence of Qiu Zhiji, Genghis Khan changed the style of iron-blooded killing in the past, and his ruling policy was somewhat relaxed, and even some armed rebellions were also suppressed to Zhao'an. Qiu Chuji also asked Genghis Khan for the release of more than 30,000 Han Chinese and Jurchens who had become slaves, and Qiu Chuji had a great influence on Genghis Khan, which to a certain extent made Genghis Khan realize the importance of humanized rule, and was more concerned about the economic recovery and easing of ethnic contradictions in the Central Plains. When Qiu Returned to the Central Plains, the wen and military officials who were sent off by the middle road stretched for tens of miles. Genghis Khan decreed that the palace given to qiu was named Changchun Palace, and often sent people to comfort him. Since then, Qiu Chuji's status has been very high, and he has been revered as a "great master", in charge of the World's Daomen, and the Quanzhen Sect has also flourished. Later generations believed that Qiu Zhiji had an important influence on Genghis Khan, and the history books summarized Genghis Khan's recruitment policy and the role of Qiu Zhiji as "stopping killing with one word".