Logically, the emperor's main palace empress is the focus of the mother's world, and should be a figure recorded in the history books. Although it involves the harem, there are also many stories that have been handed down. For example, Genghis Khan's empress dowager, Bo Erti, has been recorded in many historical books, and until now it is also an indispensable role in TV dramas and novels. However, the second empress dowager after her, Empress Dowager Hezhen, was unknown.
After the death of Genghis Khan, the Khan's position passed to Wokoutai. Wo Kuotai's wife, Wokoutai(wà la), became empress dowager. There were many empresses of the Mongol emperors, and they did not attach great importance to this title as the Han Chinese, but the first in the ranking was the lord of the six palaces. At that time, Hezhen was known as the Grand Empress.
However, the presence of this great queen is too low. We don't know which tribe she came from, how she became Wokoutai's wife, or whether she was pampered after marriage. The key reason for her discredit was that when Wokoutai died, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Kiyu, who was not her son. According to Mongol custom, the succession of the Great Khan was confirmed by the Kuritai Assembly, during which time the Mongol Great Khan was vacant for five years, and the power at this time was controlled by Gui's birth mother, Empress Naimajin.
When Wo Kuotai was alive, Nai Ma Zhen was only the sixth empress, and her status was far from that of the truth of The Harmony. However, she led her husband to the eldest son, and used her power to create conditions for her son Guiyu to succeed to the throne. To put it simply, at this time, Bo Lahezhen is like empress dowager Ci'an in the future, and Naima at this time is really like Cixi. It's just that Naima Zhen also became a regent during the empty window of the Khan's throne, but Hezhen did not have any power, and was not as good as Empress Dowager Ci'an.
In fact, it really shouldn't be like this. You know, she and WoKoutai still gave birth to a fifth son. Although he was not the eldest son, the Mongols originally did not have the tradition of the first son to inherit first, so it was more likely that he would inherit the throne of his father Wokoutai Khan, and the Yuan Shi also said that "his father wanted to take the position of his heir". However, Heguo perfectly inherited the problem of wokoutai's alcoholism and died prematurely.
Without sons, the Mongols did not have the same ritual constraints as the Han Chinese, and of course the Competition was not nema Zhen, so they ended up in obscurity. When Wokoutai died, Naima Zhen became regent, and she disappeared as if out of thin air in history, leaving no record of it again.
There was no news, but she had a grandson who made the Mongol Empire restless. Although he died prematurely, he still left a son, Haidu. Originally, Haidu was not due to the position of Great Khan of the Mongols, which was no objection, but a series of changes in the Mongol Empire allowed him to find a perfect excuse.
It turned out that After reigning for only two years, Guiyu died on the way to fight Against Batu, at the age of 43. He also had sons, but he was not able to hold the Khan's throne, and the new Mongol Khan was Möngke, the eldest son of Torre. Since then, the throne of Mongolia has been transferred from the Wokoutai system to the Torre system. This was a big deal, because before Genghis Khan died, all the kings had pledged allegiance to Wokoutai: as long as there was a man in the Wokoutai family, even if it was a piece of stinky meat, he must be honored as a Khan. When Guiyu succeeded to the throne, they made similar oaths.
Haidu thus determined that the successors of the Torre clan were illegitimate. However, he sadly found that after Möngke took office, he severely attacked the Wokoutai people, and the original Wokoutai Khanate existed in name only, and was basically incorporated into other khanates. Haidu was also a talent, and after inheriting some of the fiefdoms of Wokoutai and Guiyu, he continued to expand his power, and finally rebuilt the Wokoutai Khanate with the support of the Chi clan of the Chincha Khanate. As a result, he is considered the de facto founder of the Wokoutai Khanate.
Among the four major Khanates of Mongolia, the Wokoutai Khanate was the weakest in terms of overall strength. But under the leadership of Haidu, he can toss the most. He first provoked Ali Buge and Kublai Khan to compete for the Khan position, posing as a "mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches in the back". Later, he continued to unite with other khanates to challenge the Yuan Empire, and even refused to recognize the status of the Yuan's suzerainty.
The Yuan Empire attacked the Wokoutai Khanate many times, but the Wokoutai Khanate rebelled more often. Moreover, although Haidu has been repeatedly inferior, it has repeatedly lost battles and never given up. Although the Yuan Empire had the advantage of force, it was never able to destroy Haidu in one fell swoop. Kublai Khan took the Southern Song Dynasty, but there was not much he could do about the Wokoutai Khanate. Haidu tossed until the time of Emperor Yuanchengzong, when he was defeated and killed by Haishan in the fifth year of Daedeok. Haishan also created conditions for seizing the throne in the future because of this great merit.
This is today's story, no one would have thought that the empress dowager of the main palace was really obscure, but his grandson made a big fuss, making such a big mongol empire unrest for decades.