"Relatives have far and near, friends have thickness", and the closeness between people sometimes depends on the thickness of feelings, and sometimes depends on the distance of blood. Even the most accomplished celebrities in history have a hard time escaping these laws, and these people often judge their kinship according to their blood lineage, such as Genghis Khan, who unified the various tribes of Mongolia, and gave them different treatment when he divided his brothers and sons.
Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin, Genghis Khan was the honorific title that his men came up with for him, Temujin divided his sons in the West, and his brothers in the East. Moreover, after Temujin's death, his brothers did not have the nominal right to inherit the throne, and even if a younger brother wanted to take the throne of the Great Mongolian State, it was a tragic fate, which showed the great difference in the treatment of younger brothers and sons.
Temujin's four sons divided the land, all in the West
Of course, not every brother and son divided the land, taking the son as an example, temujin only had four sons who were given land and were given the title, and even called the emperor by posterity. Because the Mongols did not have a specific concept of emperor and empress, and believed that emperor and empress were only words used to describe noble status, the phenomenon of multiple empresses coexisting often occurred in Mongolian history, so it is not surprising that later generations will posthumously crown All four sons of Temujin as emperors.
These four sons were all born to Temujin's original wife, and although Temujin had hundreds of concubines, the status of this original wife was transcendent. No matter how many wives Temujin has, she will always be the empress dowager, and she is also a unique existence in Temujin's harem, even in the old age of the original wife, she is also the most favored woman in Temujin's harem, which shows her special status in Temujin.
However, the reason why Temujin only divided these four sons was not out of favoritism for his original wife, but because his other four sons either died early or died early, and did not live to the time of separation. Temujin divided the western lands among his four sons, and the lands here were very vast and very suitable for Mongol expansion.
Since ancient times, the Mongols have liked to invade other tribes or countries in this way to obtain wealth and development sources, and the lands in the West are just close to Europe, which is very suitable for them to expand their territory. The fiefs that the sons received were arguably the best of the Great Mongol States at that time.
The lands divided by the younger brothers were all in the east, and there were dissatisfactions but did not dare to say
On the other hand, Temujin's brothers, their fiefdoms are in the east, according to Temujin's concept, the brothers guard the east, and the sons guard the west, so that the mountains of the Great Mongolian Empire are as indestructible as iron barrels. Although the idea was beautiful and indeed helpful for the defense of the Greater Mongols, the eastern lands assigned to the younger brothers were obviously inferior to the western lands that their sons were given.
Compared with the vastness of the western land, most of the fiefdoms in the east are not too large, and they are very cold and barren. In addition to convenient expansion, the land in the West is also more suitable for farming or animal husbandry development, while the land in the East is not suitable for farming, and the perennial cold weather also makes the Eastern land unsuitable for human habitation.
Apart from that, there was hardly any possibility of expansion in the lands of the East. At that time, the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty did not conquer it, and if the younger brothers wanted to expand, they could only develop towards the sea, that is, Korea, Japan and other places, with the reality that there was almost no navy in the Great Mongolia at that time, and this development direction was certainly not taken into account by the younger brothers.
In the face of such a land, in fact, Temujin's brothers were also very dissatisfied, but Temujin's own prestige was too high and his strength was too strong, and his brothers did not dare to show negative emotions about his decision. After all, the younger brothers had seen Temujin's methods and were worried that Temujin would attack him because of his dissatisfaction.
As early as his childhood, Temujin had killed another half-brother with his brother, which showed that Temujin did not care much about his brother's blood. Faced with temujin, who was determined to kill, the younger brothers could only hold their grievances in their hearts.
There have been brothers who rebelled but the end was tragic, but there are still people who are not dead
In addition to Temujin's personal personality and means that make his brothers afraid, there is another reason why his younger brothers cannot compete with Temujin's sons. In the process of unifying the various tribes of Temujin, the merits of his sons were much higher than those of his younger brothers, perhaps Temujin's genes were relatively good, and his sons were proficient in the military and very capable.
Even so, there was a younger brother who wanted to betray Temujin, this brother was not related to Temujin, he was the adopted son of Temujin's mother, and he was supposedly Temujin's righteous brother. Yidi's early allegiance to Temujin made great contributions to his establishment of fame, and the world-famous title of "Genghis Khan" came from the mouth of Yidi.
It is said that this righteous brother was originally a wizard in the Mongol tribe, who had a high prestige in the tribe and was also the founding hero of the Great Mongolian State. It may be that he is not from a low origin, and he has contributed a lot in the process of establishing the Great Mongolia, so he is very confident in his own strength, and his brother yidi has fought with Temujin for power after the establishment of the Great Mongolia.
Temujin's brothers were actually not as powerful as this righteous brother at that time, let alone as strong as him, but even this righteous brother did not succeed. The result of the struggle for power is that the righteous brother was defeated and killed, and the lessons of the past are so, and the younger brothers certainly do not dare to act rashly.
However, things always turned around, Temujin died while pacifying Western Xia, and a series of power struggles began among his sons, and some of his younger brothers saw the opportunity. One of his younger brothers, Temugo, wanted to take this opportunity to enter the core of power, so he specially rushed to the core of the Great Mongolian regime with his army, ready to intervene in the seizure of power.
epilogue
In fact, Temuge's purpose is not simple, he made a multi-handed plan: if he has no chance to ascend to the throne, then he will choose an heir who he thinks is good to support, help him successfully seize power and use this regency, if luck is good, he may also become a prison state; if Temujin's descendants are too tragic in the process of seizing power, then maybe he can "catch mantises and catch cicadas, and the yellow finches are behind" and take this opportunity to successfully ascend to the throne.
From the original intention, Temuge may be right, but unfortunately he misestimated the strength of Temujin's descendants, and in the end, not only failed to successfully intervene in the struggle for power, but also attracted the disaster of killing. After a series of seizures of power, Temujin's grandson Kiyu ascended the throne and directly executed Temujin. Although Temujin treated temujin differently when dividing the seals, no one could escape this difference between relatives and distances, so this differential treatment did not affect Temujin's reputation.
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