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The Mongol Khan who conquered the Southern Song Dynasty died of obesity: on February 18, 1294, Kublai Khan died
Kublai Khan died suddenly in 1294, and many suspected that he had been murdered.
In fact, Kublai Khan was fat to death.
Briefly, how Kublai Khan became a great man.
He was the fourth son of Genghis Khan's younger son, Tuolei.
The custom of the Mongols was that the younger son would inherit the tribe, so Tuolei should be the successor of the Great Khan.
However, the final Khan was Wokoutai.
After wokoutai ascended to power, Tuolei still held a strong military power, but he died violently after just 3 years.
Today's historians are highly suspicious that Tuolei was assassinated by Wokoutai.
After Tuolei's death, Wokoutai thus sat firmly in the seat of the Great Khan for 9 years.
After Wokoutai died violently due to bad drinking, his son Guiyu was as drunk as he was, and he died violently after less than 2 years on the throne.
After Guiyu Yoko's death, several princes of the Wokoutai family rebelled against each other and fought for power, resulting in the rapid decline of the family.
With the support of the Shuchi family, the Tuolei family seized the opportunity to regain the throne of the Great Khan.
Lorray's son, Möngke, inherited the throne.
As a result, the Wokoutai and Chagatai families were extremely dissatisfied with the Tuolei family, and the two sides fought openly and secretly, and even openly fought.
Thus the Mongol Empire began to split, and by the time of Kublai Khan it had completely collapsed.
Unexpectedly, Meng Ge was on an expedition to the Fishing City of the Southern Song Dynasty and was killed by the catapult of the Great Song Dynasty.
After Möngke's death, the Wokoutai and Chagatai families, who had long been dissatisfied, immediately supported the succession of Ali Buge, who remained in the desert, and even the Shuchi family did not oppose it out of reality.
In contrast, Kublai Khan, who had great military power, was supported only by Hulagu, the great Khan of the Ilkhanate.
Thus, Kublai Khan and Ali Bu brother began a great war. After a five-year war, Kublai Khan finally won the battle and poisoned Ali Buge to death.
After Ali Buge was killed, the four khanates of Wokoutai, Chagatai, and the Golden Horde all accused Kublai Khan of usurping the throne, angrily broke away from the control of the empire, and even sent troops to attack Kublai Khan.
Only Hulagu of the Ilkhanate supported Kublai Khan and transferred the main force from the Middle East front to try to support him. As a result, this led to only a mere 10,000 troops in the Mongol Expedition. In Palestine, these Mongol cavalry were defeated by the numerically superior Egyptian Mamluk cavalry corps and did not enter Africa.
Kublai Khan was the Mongol emperor who destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, but he died suddenly and violently when he became famous.
This is not unusual, as many Mongol emperors were.
Mongol emperors in the Yuan Dynasty generally had three serious problems: gluttony; good wine; and lust.
Naturally, the problem of lust was common for emperors, and so were the Han emperors.
However, the Mongol emperor seems to be more exaggerated.
In the case of Genghis Khan, for example, there are more than 40 wives recorded in the history books, divided into different ethnic groups.
In fact, Genghis Khan had many women, including some concubines and even slave girls.
Some historical records record that there were as many as four or five hundred women who served Genghis Khan, and at least more than a hundred people who had relations with him.
This is not uncommon for the Mongol Han. Some sweaty women are too many to remember.
There was a Great Khan who held a banquet for the leaders of the tribes.
After the banquet was over, he saw a beautiful woman walking outside the big tent. The Great Khan was attracted to this beautiful woman and secretly asked the butler, "Which leader's wife is this?" The butler replied puzzled, "Isn't this your wife?" ”
First, the death of Genghis Khan is also related to women.
There are many theories in history about the violent death of Genghis Khan during his conquest of Western Xia.
One is that Genghis Khan, who is in his 60s, forced Western Xia to marry princess Gulbolu Jinguo Hatun to him. On the night of the sleep, the princess used sharp weapons or hidden poison to conspire against Genghis Khan, who died within a few days.
After genghis Khan's death, the Mongol army carried out a brutal genocide against western Xia, and the Dangxiang people were almost killed. Compared with the resistance of the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, the resistance of the Western Xia people was not fierce, and even helped the Mongols to attack the Jin State for a long time.
So, if Genghis Khan really died of illness or fell off a horse, why did he want to genocide the Western Xia? The Mongols are not crazy enough!
It is speculated that Genghis Khan was secretly murdered by the Princess of Western Xia, which is likely to be true.
This theory was first found in the Mongolian Origins, which was written in the first year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1662 AD), and after the Mongol prince presented it to the Qing court, it was included in the "Four Libraries Complete Book" by Qianlong.
As for the wild history, it is even more exaggerated. It was basically impossible for the Princess of Xixia to use sharp weapons or poison to plot secretly.
Without a careful search, the princess could not have served Genghis Khan. Even if the princess hid the poison, it would have been copied long ago. As for the use of sharp weapons to sneak attack Genghis Khan, first, where is the advantageous weapon in the big tent, and second, Genghis Khan is also the emperor on horseback no matter how old he is, I am afraid that one punch can knock the princess fly, and it is impossible to successfully sneak attack.
According to Noshi, the Princess of Western Xia bit off the male root of Genghis Khan, who died of excessive blood loss.
Whether this bite is a historical truth or not is of course impossible to verify now.
Lust was a common phenomenon for emperors, but gluttony and good wine were characteristic of Mongol emperors.
At least two-thirds of the Mongol emperors died of unbridled drinking, causing various diseases, including acute alcoholism. This is also a nomadic trait, and there is nothing surprising about it.
In the bitter cold, wine is the best relief. At that time, the Hun emperor Attila, it was said that he also drank too much alcohol and caused the cerebral blood vessels to burst and die.
Far from it, Wokoutai and the violent death of his son Guiyu are related to rotten drinking.
Wokoutai once said, "Half of this world is for pleasure, and half for the sake of English name." When you relax, your own bondage is relaxed, and when you are restrained, you yourself are bound. ”
After becoming the Great Khan, Wokoutai drank heavily every day.
According to history, Wokoutai drank all night every day, and must be drunk before stopping. Seeing that many of the advice was useless, the minister Yelü Chucai took the iron wine trough and said to Wokoutai: "This iron is eroded by wine, so there is a crack in the mouth, and the five internal organs of the human body are far inferior to iron, so where is the reason for not harming?" ”
Unfortunately, Wokoutai used it as a wind in his ears, or drank heavily every day, and he died of a stroke a few years later.
However, Kublai Khan's death was not mainly due to alcoholism, but gluttony.
It takes long and arduous grazing and fighting, and the adult men in Mongolia tend to eat a lot of food, eating a lot of things at a time, and the meat is mostly half raw and half cooked.
In the Ming Dynasty, Han chinese merchants recorded the diet of Mongolian herders. They can drink only horse milk for two or three days to fill their hunger, or they can eat two or three days' servings at a meal. Common is boiled or roasted meat, which the herders themselves cut with a knife and eat it, and can eat half a sheep in one meal. Han Chinese who saw this scene were often stunned.
Naturally, The Mongols do not often eat mutton because it is not easy to raise livestock. Even if you eat it once in a while, this amount of food is also the king of the big stomach.
Kublai Khan was an alcoholic and very edible.
Like Wokoutai in 1276 (he became the Great Khan in 1260), Kublai Khan stopped fighting on horseback. In the days that followed, he lived in seclusion in the deep palace like a Han emperor until his death in 1294, enjoying more than ten years of Qingfu.
For nearly 20 years, Kublai Khan was rarely active, eating and drinking at every meal.
Yuan Dynasty sources record the recipes of Kublai Khan's meal: high-calorie foods such as boiled lamb and roasted whole lamb are necessary. There are also eggs, saffron mixed with lettuce, baked pancakes, sugar tea, and mare's milk wine. These are just the must-have foods for every meal, and in fact, every meal will have a new variety of multi-course dishes.
By the end of Kublai Khan's life, his weight had increased to 200 or even more than 250 pounds (he was very short) and even ordinary horses could not bear it.
Fortunately, Kublai Khan's physique was still good. So obese and unhealthy, he was 79 years old when he died violently, which is also considered to be the end of his life.
Unfortunately, Kublai Khan had serious complications before his death, including gout and diabetes, which made him miserable.
Writing this, Sa Fat unconsciously shivered.
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