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When it comes to the greatest khan of Mongolia, if Genghis Khan is ranked second, I am afraid that no one will dare to rank first. It is true that this once-prosperous Mongol khan has also been respected and admired by many people throughout the ages. One of the important reasons why Genghis Khan is so admired is that he attaches great importance to the lives of his soldiers and never sends his soldiers to death in vain for his own selfish interests.
You know, almost all the emperors will tell their soldiers to be loyal to themselves and sacrifice for themselves. But Genghis Khan never asked his men like this, and his greatest wish was to reduce the number of sacrifices as much as possible.
However, everyone knows that Genghis Khan fought countless battles in his life, and since there is a war, someone will die on the battlefield. For those soldiers who died, Genghis Khan issued a death order, that is, at all costs, to snatch their bodies back so that they could be buried. Although the Mongol army invaded the outside world, it would slaughter the city at every turn, which was very bloody and violent. However, in their cognition, they are very reluctant to talk about death, especially the extreme disgust with corpses and blood. In those days, Europeans had placed a large number of corpses outside the city gates to intimidate the Mongols, but the Mongols were angered and carried out an even more ferocious massacre.
If it had been a civil war on the steppe, Genghis Khan would not have asked the soldiers to take back the remains of their comrades, but would have let them rot on the steppe or be eaten by the livestock on the steppe. Because in their hearts, this is the best way for the warriors to return to the Immortal Heaven, and it should not hinder it. But if the war takes place on an agricultural land far away from the steppe, Genghis Khan will order the warriors to snatch the corpses back!
Because Genghis Khan made a major discovery, that is, the farming peoples were extremely disrespectful to the remains of Mongol soldiers, perhaps because they felt that these soldiers were too hateful, and their hands were stained with the blood of countless people, and they did not deserve to be forgiven. For example, the most favorite thing for the Jin people to do is to build a Jingguan from the corpses of Mongolian soldiers to show off their own martial arts. The Khwarazm people are even more bizarre, after they get the corpses of the Mongols, they will let the elephants trample them to pieces, so as to please the people. Therefore, Genghis Khan would never accept the treatment of the remains of his soldiers in this way, no matter how much it cost, but also let the remains of the soldiers be buried.
So the first thing the Mongols did after each battle was to collect the remains of their compatriots. It is worth mentioning that these remains have also been carefully cared for, usually placed in leather bags, and then driven by horses or camels, all the way back to the grassland. If there was really no way to pull them back because of special circumstances, then the Mongols would bury them in the grass nearby. The livestock were then allowed to stomp back and forth over the grave to prevent them from being found by enemies or local farmers after they left.
In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of everyone to rob their comrades, Genghis Khan made a lot of efforts, and he also issued a special order that if the slave could bring back the soldier's body, he could disarm the slave, gain freedom, and get him to snatch the livestock of the soldiers. If the Mongols had taken back the remains of their warriors, they would have been able to obtain not only livestock, but also their wives and concubines. In this way, everyone becomes profitable, and the snatching of corpses becomes very desperate. Even at the height of the fighting, Mongol soldiers risked their lives to snatch their bodies back. It has to be said that the Mongolian people are still full of wisdom, in order to better complete the task, they also specially invented a special hook and lasso. This makes it very convenient to snatch more corpses while ensuring your own safety.
However, Genghis Khan's order made the widows complain bitterly, and their husbands died, and they were brothers who had re-inherited them. In any case, they are all familiar people before, and there will be no big problem. But now with this policy, they live every day in fear, afraid that their husband's body will be snatched back by strangers. In this way, they have to marry someone they don't know well, and most of them will be abused and miserable.
However, Genghis Khan did not take these feelings into account, and this order has long become an iron law in the hearts of the Mongols, which has been circulated for hundreds of years. Even after the fall of the Mongol Empire, this command was already ingrained and engraved in the hearts of every Mongol. Just like when the Ming Dynasty and the Mongols fought fiercely, soldiers on both sides would fight for a corpse. In the Mongol perception, corpses were livestock and women, while Ming soldiers relied on corpses in exchange for more rewards.
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