In 1232, shortly after drinking the "Washing Divine Water" of Wo Kuotai, Tuo Lei suddenly fell ill and died. Wo Kuotai said to Tuo Lei's wife, Zhulu Heteni: "If you marry my eldest son, I can guarantee that I will not move Tuo Lei's fief." However, Zhulu Heteni found a reason to refuse. Perhaps no one could have imagined that the decision to instigate Hotteni would directly change the pattern of history.
Although Mongolia has the custom of "accepting and inheriting marriage", it is reasonable to marry Guiyu, the eldest son of Wokoutai, but the witty Zhulu Heteni understands that it is false to let her marry, and it is true to take the opportunity to occupy the fief of Tuolei. Even if Wo Kuotai has a promise, where does she still have the right to choose if she is married?
The clever Zhulu Heteni was born with management skills, she was good at governing the household, and she was even better at teaching her children. It was she who made the decision not to remarry, and became the future founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan, this is a later story.
Wo Kuotai is indeed very political, but in addition to the suspicion of mutilating his hands and brothers, there is another thing that has also been criticized by later generations, even difficult to talk about. Let's start with Genghis Khan!
Temujin
Genghis Khan's wife, Erthe, gave birth to four sons for him, and these four boys gradually grew into the bravest men in Mongolia. At this time, we have to admire Genghis Khan, who knew how to teach according to his aptitude and assigned different positions to each child according to their talents.
The eldest son, Shuchi, was good at riding and shooting, so he was in charge of hunting. The second son, Chagatai, had a tough personality, so he was in charge of the decrees. Sanziwo Kuotai is good at power strategizing, so he is responsible for the administration of the dynasty. The youngest son has excellent military talent, so he is responsible for commanding the army.
According to Genghis Khan's arrangement, it is not difficult to see in later generations that only Wo Kuotai is being cultivated as a successor. However, Mongolia has always had two old customs of succession system: one is Khuriltai, and the other is the youngest son guarding the stove.
The so-called "khuriletai" is to hold a general assembly to elect the leader, while the "young son guarding the stove" means that the sons are divided into families, and finally the younger son in the family inherits the remaining property and the father's social status. Therefore, Tow Mine has always been the best candidate for an heir.
However, being good at war can indeed win the world, and controlling the world is more suitable for people who understand power and strategy, which is why Genghis Khan chose to be wide-ranging. However, the call for towing mines has always been high, which also troubles Wo Kuotai.
Wokuotai
In 1229, two years after the death of Genghis Khan, the Congress of Khuriltai was convened to discuss the candidate for the Great Khan. According to Genghis Khan's edict, Wo Kuotai should have succeeded to the throne. However, most of the generals advocated obeying the "young son guarding the stove" and unanimously recommended the tow mine.
Tuo Lei was moved, but he lacked strength, at this time his hardcore brother Shuchi was dead, and the edict was the biggest obstacle. So, after more than 40 days of stalemate, the tow mine compromised and wokuotai won.
The position of Wo Kuotai is not stable, after all, the heavy troops of the tow mine are in hand and are deeply supported, and the excellent military talent of the tow mine makes the wo kuotai feel like a needle felt.
In the summer of 1232, the scorching heat and the discouragement of the army forced the troops to return to the dynasty. On this way, Wo Kuotai, who had always been healthy, fell ill, so he appointed his younger brother to tow Lei to serve the sick, but during this period, Wo Kuotai's health never improved.
The accompanying shaman began to open the altar, pretending to be a bowl of talisman water, claiming that it was "washing the sickness of the gods", which should be taken by sincere people, and the great man's illness could be cured. The simple thunder did not think much about it, and took the divine water without hesitation, and drank it for his brother.
Sure enough, the divine water medicine was cured, and the nest and wide platform that had been lying on the sick bed for a long time could actually sit up, and it seemed that those diseases had been resolved. So, Tow Lei left the camp in Wokuotai, but died violently shortly after.
Thunder and the Princess
How long after drinking the water did the tow mine die? The "Yuan History" records that in September 1232, that is, three months after drinking divine water, which seems to have left the relationship between Wo Kuotai and Wokuotai.
However, in the "Secret History of the Mongols", he questioned the death of Tuo Lei, believing that the so-called divine water was completely poisonous water of wizards, and that wizards dared to do so because of the instructions of Wu Kuotai.
There are also three views in the historian community about the death of Tuo Lei, the first must be inclined to kill people with a knife, the second is that the brothers are all deceived by wizards, and the third is that Tuo Lei knows it, but is willing to die for his brother.
In short, no matter what caused Tow Lei to die prematurely at the age of 40, after his death, Wo Kuotai really attacked Tow Lei's family forces.
The first thing Wo Kuotai set his eyes on was Tuo Lei's wife Zhulu Heteni, but the witty Zhulu Heteni knew Wo Kuotai's motives, so he refused on the grounds that "the child is still young". In fact, Kublai Khan, the third son of Zhuluheteni, was already 17 years old at this time, and the youngest son, Ali Buge, was also 13 years old, which had nothing to do with "youth".
Kublai Khan
Today, he paints a portrait of Ali Bugo
He refused to be held hostage by Wokuotai, and after that, he strictly restrained his sons, and when many nobles fought over their wealth, only the line of tow thunder was clean, and it also won a reputation. She loved the people like a son, and the quality of life of the people under her rule was significantly higher than that of other territories, but in the late period of Wokuotai she did an extremely unreasonable thing.
In 1237, a rumor spread among the tribe that Wokuotai had an edict requiring all the girls of this tribe to be matched. As a result, the tribesmen began to marry their daughters within the tribe.
When Wo Kuotai heard the news, he was furious, and then, having lost his mind, he even asked the Zaiyi Thorn tribe to gather all the girls over the age of 7, and those girls who were already married could not escape the doom, and all of them were recalled from their husband's house.
Then came the scene of extreme anger. In the end, all 4,000 girls assembled were ruined by the soldiers of the nest. The cruelest thing is that Wo Kuotai also asked the girl's father and brothers to watch from the sidelines, not to stop it, not to cry, let alone complain at all! At the end of the matter, some of these poor maidens became slaves, and some were given to the old bustards, in short, miserable and could not bear to elaborate.
We cannot deny his political talent, but we cannot ignore his political tactics either. Those brutal and cruel cold-blooded wrists, although they strengthened his position, also chilled the hearts of the people.
At this time, Wo Kuotai did not expect that he planned to get rid of the tow mine, but he still lost, and the position of the big man went around and returned to the trailing mine, which is fate!