The rise of the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan is only one of the reasons, and not the main reason, the main reason is the Jin Dynasty's order to reduce the number of ding... For the rise of the Mongol Empire, the Jin Dynasty was definitely the greatest contributor.
According to the original meaning of The Ba Jin's edition of Genghis Khan, the submission of two tribes played a crucial role in the rise of the Mongol Empire.
One is the Wu'er (Uyghur) department located in the Xinjiang region.
As mentioned above, the Wu'er Department was an important passage between The Western Xia and the Western Liao in Mongolia... Genghis Khan's destruction of the Western Liao, the Western Xia, and even the Hua Lazi Model, fearing the Wu'er were all important assists.
In contrast to the Western Wu'er, another important tribe that contributed to the rise of the Mongol Empire was the Wangu in the south.
The betrayal of wanggubu caused the vast Hetao region to fall into the hands of the Mongols.
This Loop area is the area of present-day Baotou in Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, unlike the Outer Mongolia region, which can only graze, it is in the south of the Yinshan Mountains, which can both graze and plant... Yinshan, on the other hand, is the dividing line between Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia.
In the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, because there was no yin mountain and natural danger, the Central Plains Dynasty could only choose to use the Great Wall to resist the grassland cavalry.
Once the steppe cavalry occupied the Hetao Plain, they could choose to herd horses and sheep on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, recuperate and recuperate, and once it came to the autumn when the soldiers were strong and strong, they could go south to plunder the Central Plains Dynasty (the Mongols generally chose to fight in the autumn when the grass was high and the horses were fat).
In other words, the Hetao region (Inner Mongolia) was of crucial importance to the security and stability of the Central Plains Dynasty.
This place should have been firmly grasped, but for various reasons, for thousands of years, this area has often been dominated by nomadic people... For example, Wang Gubu.
For the Jin Dynasty, the envelopment of Wang Gubu became one of the prerequisites for settling down in the Central Plains.
To this end, the Jin Dynasty attached great importance to the Hetao region, and while building the Great Wall in Jingzhou, they co-opted the Wanggubu who were entrenched in the Hetao area.
So the question is, Wang Gubu wanted To betray the Jin Dynasty for Mao and defect to Genghis Khan?
This is most likely related to the Jin Dynasty's order to reduce ding!
The cruel order to reduce the number of dings made the entire Mongolian steppe unstable, and the steppe tribes near the border of the Jin Dynasty fled in all directions.
And those scattered and fleeing people are bound to have an impact on the tribes in other parts of the Mongolian steppe.
For example, the Mongol department, which is entrenched in the Mongolian steppe, to the west and north, the Naiman department, and the bald and hemp department.
Refugees are a problem in any era, and this is nomadic people on the steppe who are no exception.
Refugees from the southern part of the steppe ran to other parts of the steppe, and the end result was nothing more than two, either to be fused or eliminated.
In any case, the turbulent environment will trigger the survival competition of the steppe tribes (fighting for water in the grassland)!
It is precisely in the competition for survival that the Mongol tribes stand out again and again and become the final victors.
The Wanggu Ministry will turn to the Mongol Ministry, and the Mongol Ministry's military strength is certainly one reason, but the weakening of the JinGuo is also another reason... The more important reason may be that Wang Gubu has also suffered from the impact of the grassland displaced people.
After all, Wang Gubu has the protection of the Jin Dynasty, the overall environment is still relatively stable, and those scattered grassland refugees will definitely run to Wang Gubu for refuge.
From the time of Emperor Sejong Kim (reigned 1161-1189) to the Battle of Wild Fox Ridge (1211), the order of minus was almost half a century, lasting nearly half a century of killing, stirring up the entire Mongolian steppe into chaos, and the people of the steppe hated the Jin Dynasty to the bone.
The Wanggubu, in terms of culture, language and way of life, are closer to the grassland people, they regard the grassland people as compatriots, and the grassland departments have in-laws, and the attitude of the grassland departments to the Jin Dynasty will naturally have a major impact on the Wanggu tribe.
It can be said that the order to reduce Ding is a big pusher to push the Wanggu Department to the Mongolian Department, and it is also a big pusher for the rise of the Mongol Empire... Even without Genghis Khan, sooner or later another steppe hero would come out to rebel against the Jin Dynasty.
Perhaps the Jurchens learned their lesson, and later the Qing Dynasty adopted a gentle policy towards the major tribes of the Mongolian steppe, giving money to face and giving officials more to do, and taking the initiative to marry with Mongolian tribes.
This approach was extremely effective, and in the Qing Dynasty, the Mongolian steppe was never unified, and even the Dzungars, who had stirred up the Qing Dynasty for more than seventy years, and The Geldan, who openly fought against Kangxi, withered away from the betrayal of him by the steppe departments.
Unfortunately, the lessons of the Jin Dynasty were learned by the Qing Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty did not learn them, and during the Ming Dynasty's Chenghua years, the Northeast adopted the Order of Reducing Ding (Pear Ting Sweeping Caves), and the brutal massacre also aroused the hatred of the Jurchens in the Northeast for the Ming Dynasty...