In particular, Kublai Khan, showing talent and different political ideas, made Emperor Möngke feel a little difficult to control, and once snubbed him for a period of time, Kublai Khan had to send his wife and children to the Khan Court to show loyalty in order to eliminate his brother's suspicions.
<h1>1, Emperor Möngke's right and left arm</h1>
Among the brothers, in addition to the three world-famous half-brothers, the more well-known among the half-brothers are Shu Qi and Mu Ge, both of whom are the right and left arms of Emperor Möngke.
After the purge of the opposition, Möngke replanned the various departments, with Nathan Gothal as the chief judge, to identify the heads of the three major territories of North China, Central Asia, and Iran, and to conduct censuses and tax statistics, a measure intended to determine the wealth of the empire and how much manpower could be put into war.
Möngke divided the empire into several divisions: the vast expanse from Central Asia to Choros was given to the rule of Batu of Juchi Uluth, after all, in his ascension, the Batu family had made great efforts and was rewarded accordingly.
The northeastern left-wing brothers, Uluth, were still run by the fourth brother family headed by the Qimu brothers, and at this time the principal of the four brothers' families was still Tatsa'er, the grandson of the Qimu brothers.
The remaining areas were divided between Tuolei's four concubines: Kublai Khan from the southern steppes of Inner Mongolia to the Han Dynasty; the entire territory of West Asia west of the Amu Darya River was ruled by Hulegu; the fiefdom of Tuolei in Western Mongolia was handed over to his younger brother Ali Buge; and the native Mongolian stronghold was ruled by Emperor Möngke.
Although the left-wing brothers Uluth formed Uluth, they could not be compared with the Chincha Khanate in Batu, and the fiefs of Emperor Möngke were one class lower, not as low as those of the left-wing brothers Uluth, but with the influence of Möngke's brothers on the world pattern, they still surpassed the left-wing kings and formed a new fraternal regime.
<h1>2, Möngke's ambition to conquer the world</h1>
In August of the second year of Emperor Xianzong's reign (1252), he ordered his brother Kublai Khan to lead a southern expedition to Dali. In October, the lord of the left wing, the humble Ulugh Ruth, also sent troops to Goryeo, and the reason for the crusade was that the king of Goryeo would not go to the Khanate.
In the first month of the third year of Emperor Xianzong (1253), due to the contradiction between Yegu and Tacha'er, he attacked the Tacha'er camp with resentment, so Möngke deposed Yegu and appointed his close confidant Zara'er as the marshal of the Eastern Expedition, continuing the crusade against Goryeo.
Adopting the conscription method of two young soldiers from ten households on the Mongolian mainland, he began a western expedition, handing over the western territory raids including the land of Iran to Hulagu, and giving An army from Nayansari to attack Kashmir and Hindustan.
He also recruited a thousand gunners and rocketeers from the Han Dynasty, led by guo Kan, a master of siege, to accompany Hulagu on his expedition, and sent his loyalists to be the vanguard, who had already taken the lead in July of the second year, and in October of the third year, Hulagu led the main force to the west.
<h1>3. Kublai Khan, whose brothers were estranged</h1>
Of Tuolei's four concubines, only Kublai Khan was raised by his mother-in-law, so on the surface, Kublai Khan was a concubine and wanted to be intimate with the people of Möngke, but in fact, the relationship between the two of them was the closest.
It is precisely because of this factor (one of the reasons) that Möngke does not seem to be able to trust Kublai Khan as much as he trusts Hulagu, although on the surface, the same four concubines of Tuolei are close four brothers, but the nuances of Möngke's treatment of the three younger brothers are not invisible in between, so for Kublai Khan, it is indeed a sad thing.
Under the influence of the Han dynasty masters, Kublai Khan carried out a series of reforms in his fiefdoms, re-established the Chinese model of government, appeased exiles, banned arbitrary killings, hoarded grain in the fields, straightened out the finances, appointed Confucians to manage the fiefdoms, and achieved great results, initially changing the bad situation of "Han land not governed" since Wokoutai.
Kublai Khan, who tasted the sweetness, let his teenage son Zhenjin also follow Han Confucianism to learn Hanfa, Kublai Khan's act of respecting Hanfa greatly stimulated the Jin Song and Han Confucians, in the nearly twenty years after Jin's death, Han Confucians met for the first time the Mongolian nobles who reused and trusted them, not to mention that the transfer of Chu materials was reused, he was just a self-amusing Bi Jianchi.
In this way, the political differences between Kublai Khan and his brothers became wider and wider, and they gradually drifted apart. At this time, Kublai Khan became the commander of the Southern Expedition.
The southern conquest of the Song Dynasty required the risk of crossing the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Xiangfan lands were easy to defend and difficult to attack, so Kublai Khan suggested taking Dali first, and then encircling the Southern Song Dynasty.
In the second year of Emperor Xianzong (1252), Wang Dechen first entered Shu as a pioneer and opened up a marching road for Kublai Khan. In October of the third year of Emperor Xianzong (1253), Kublai Khan marched from Lintao, Shaanxi, with Wuliang Hetai, the son of Subutai, as his deputy commander, bypassing the ancient road between Chuanzhong and Hanyuan, passing through the valley for more than 2,000 miles, and driving straight into the Jinsha River.
In the first month of the fourth year of Emperor Xianzong (1254), he conquered the state of Dali, and the Han aid Yao Shu said kublai khan with Cao Bin taking jiangnan, and Kublai Khan ordered the killing to be stopped, so the people were a little at ease, and then Kublai Khan left the deputy marshal Wuliang Hetai to continue through Yunnan, and his own class returned to the north.
<h1>4. The estrangement between Möngke and Kublai Khan</h1>
After Möngke ascended the throne, although northern China was divided among Kublai Khan, he also sent Mahemu Yarawachi as the prime minister of the Khanate to rule the Han Dynasty, and the two sides inevitably clashed, and the reason for the conflict was the difference in management methods between Mahemu Yarawachi and Kublai Khan's representative in northern China, Zhao Bi.
Mahemu Yalavachi naturally wanted to introduce the Hui people's financial management model into China, and Kublai Khan's staff as a Han Confucian were of course strongly opposed, and the question of the Mongol Empire's financial management methods, from the Wokoutai era to the Kublai Khan era, was oscillating between the Hui style and the Han style, and the struggle was never stopped.
In the second year of Emperor Xianzong (1252), kublai Khan clashed again with the emperor's close confidant Mahemu Yarawachi and not only (Buzhi'er) because of the indiscriminate killing.
Mahemu Yarawachi and not only were inclined to execute all the Han subjects who had committed transgressions, but sentenced 28 people to death in one day. Kublai Khan accepted the influence of Han Confucianism, in order to calm the people's minds, it was forbidden to kill indiscriminately, and the behavior of Mahemu Yarawachi and Notse Yu'er naturally did not pass, and the two sides quarreled over this.
Not to say that Chincha Khan surpassed the emperor in his fiefdoms, can Kublai Khan compare with the merits of Battu Khan? Of course not! Emperor Möngke said in his heart. Various factors are entangled, and the gap between Möngke and Kublai Khan is getting deeper and deeper.
In the spring of the sixth year of Emperor Xianzong (1256), Kublai Khan established Kaiping Province in Jinlianchuan, a small Chinese-style capital.
Emperor Möngke, who had a world in mind, was angry and did not want to make progress (?) for Kublai Khan as the commander of the Southern Expedition. The act of running his own small family was very dissatisfied, so emperor Möngke's dissatisfaction with his brothers broke out.
<h1>5, the punishment of Emperor Möngke</h1>
At the same time that AlanDar was severely investigating Kublai Khan's fiefdoms, Kublai Khan's post as commander of the Southern Expedition was also removed from the emperor, who asked him to stay at home and rest on the grounds that Kublai Khan was suffering from a foot disease, and all his positions in the army were taken over by his left-wing brother Uluth Khan Tacha'er.
Subsequently, Emperor Möngke convened a meeting of Kuriletai in Habur Habuhei in central Mongolia, announcing that he was preparing for the imperial conquest in an attempt to take the Song state in a short period of time.
The kings dissuaded one after another: His Majesty, as the monarch of the whole world, already has seven brothers, why should he personally fight the enemy? Emperor Möngke was reluctant to follow the example of Wokoutai and sat in his home, so he did not listen to the advice of the kings.
In order to eliminate Emperor Möngke's suspicions, Yao Shu suggested to Kublai Khan: The emperor is a jun and a brother, and the king is an imperial brother, but he is also a courtier, and if the emperor's suspicion is not eliminated this time, the disaster will not be far away. The king should send the princess to the khan court to show his loyalty.
Kublai Khan took Yao Shu's advice and hurriedly sent his wife Chabi and son Zhenjin to the Khan's court, and then in November, Kublai Khan personally went to the Khan's court to see Möngke, and when the brothers met, they were relatively in tears, and Emperor Möngke did not allow his brother to confess for himself, and immediately ordered the dismissal of the examination bureau and the recall of Alan Da'er, and the brothers seemed to have eliminated the gap and restored trust.
<h1>6. Kublai Khan who regained his chance</h1>
At the time of Möngke's feud with Kublai Khan, Tacha'er, the lord of the Zhimuge clan who replaced Kublai Khan in command of the left-wing Eastern Route Army, may have been less than twenty years old at the time, and he was a cousin of Möngke and Kublai Khan's great-great-grandfather.
After receiving Möngke's appointment, he led the left army to attack Xiangfan on both sides of the Han River, but within a few days, he led the army to retreat with the disadvantage of attacking the city.
In short, Tacha'er withdrew, the reason is unknown, his retreat did cause the wrath of Emperor Möngke, who acted decisively while severely reprimanding Tacha'er, while using Kublai Khan to replace Tacha'er, so that Kublai Khan once again gained the power of the Eastern Route Army, and after reorganization, crossed the Yellow River and huaihe south, approached the Yangtze River, and cooperated in the battle.
The great event affecting the world pattern is coming, and Kublai Khan will also take this opportunity to truly go to the stage of history.
<h1>7, Monkey Grid said</h1>
Kublai Khan's record before Möngke's accession to the throne is blank, whether it is Mongolian historical materials, Chinese or Persian historical materials, there is no record of Kublai Khan, and he was able to step onto the historical stage thanks to Möngke's ascension to the throne.
After Möngke ascended the throne, in order to consolidate the power of his own lineage, it was inevitable to re-divide the fiefs and let the brothers gain fiefs, and Kublai Khan naturally obtained more resources and opportunities to show himself.
His first important mission in the empire was to conquer Dali in the south and complete the task well, which not only proved Kublai Khan's talent, but also Möngke's discerning vision, which became the collective glory of the Tuolei family.
Kublai Khan demonstrated his military prowess through the Southern Expedition to Dali, and of course improved his image among the pro-nobility, but this was not enough to qualify him to challenge Emperor Möngke.
In order to make up for the rift in the Mongol community caused by his ascension to the throne, he held high the banner of Genghis Khan's conquest of the world and launched an expedition, so that the elite of the empire had to be busy preparing and carrying out conquests, but ignored other problems, which Kublai Khan could not match.
However, it cannot be denied that Kublai Khan gradually grew up in the time of Möngke and became the most powerful king of the Tuolei clan besides Möngke.
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<h1>References: Dosan Mongol History, Historical Collection, Cambridge Chinese Liaoxia Jinyuan, etc</h1>
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