First of all, we must be clear that the Succession of the Mongol Khans did not have the tradition of "father and son" or "brother to brother". Instead, it was to be elected by the Kuritai Congress.
What factors will be taken into account by the Mongols in the elections at the Kuritai Congress? There are three factors: one is the candidate's military achievements, the second is the will of the elder Khan, and the third is the tradition of the young son to guard the stove.
Of these three, battle merit is the most important. The Mongols had a tradition of conquest of the world, and whoever plundered the more wealth he conquered, the more territory he laid. The higher the battle achievements of those who fight, the more they can get everyone's support. Genghis Khan himself was elected as the Great Khan by everyone by virtue of his military achievements.
(Stills of Genghis Khan)
The will of the elder Khan is also important. The heir established by the Elder Khan will generally be executed by later generations. For example, before the death of Genghis Khan, Wokoutai was designated as the heir, although in terms of military achievements, Tuolei's military achievements were the greatest, and everyone also actively promoted Tuolei and let Tuolei supervise the country for two years. But in the end, Tuolei still had to follow Genghis Khan's will and work with everyone to help Wokoutai to the Khan's position.
The young son Shouzao is naturally also a part that the Mongols have to consider. The reason why Tuolei was able to oversee the country, in addition to his greatest military achievements, was also because he was the youngest son of Genghis Khan. In the history of Mongolia, there have been many incidents in which young sons support the army and rebel, that is, they have a traditional idea of young sons guarding the stove. For example, after the death of Wokoutai, Genghis Khan had a younger brother Temuge who tried to seize the Khan's throne.
After Guiyu's death, his three sons, Kucha, Brain, and Heku, did not have the advantage of obtaining the Khan position
(Takayuki)
First, they have basically no military achievements. First, they are still young, and they are all in their 20s. Second, during the time period when they were in their 20s, the Mongols just did not expand outward. They just want to build a battle achievement, and it's unlikely.
Second, there was no will of the Elder Khan. Guiyu had only been the Great Khan for two years, and his death was very sudden, and after he came to power, he refused to participate in the Kuritai Conference that elected him as the Great Khan because he was not happy. Therefore, after he became the Great Khan, he went to the whole army to fight with Batu. But halfway through, he suddenly died. Therefore, he simply did not have time to choose the successor to the Khan's throne.
Third, the tradition of the young son keeping the stove does not hold. At that time, Guiyu's youngest son was Heku, this was just a teenager, who would choose him?
Fourth, no one held a Kuritai meeting. After Guiyu's death, Guiyu's wife Hai fan's desire for power was very strong, and he called himself a prisoner of the country, and did not take the Great Khan out to choose at all. She was not well imprisoned in the country, superstitiously believed in witchcraft, and caused chaos in the imperial court. His three sons, Kucha, Brainburst, and Heku, were dissatisfied with her actions and drew their swords against her.
(Wokoutai)
Moreover, there is also a contradiction in the entire Wokoutai family, that is, before Wokoutai died, he said that he would pass the Khan's throne to one of his grandsons. But after his death, his widow, Thalegona, did not listen to him, oversaw the country himself, and later used his power to pass the Khan's throne to her own son Guiyu. Therefore, after Guiyu's death, the Lost Gate was also very unconvinced, feeling that the Khan position should have been his own, and it was Guiyu who snatched it for him and wanted to take it back.
It can be said that the people in the entire Wokoutai family are in a mess.
The Wokoutai family was in disarray, and no one mentioned the convening of the Kuritai Assembly to elect the Great Khan.
The Wokoutai family does not choose, there is a person to choose. He was the man Kiyu was trying to attack.
Who was Batu electing? It's Mungo.
in Mungo
Mungo has three advantages:
First, he has distinguished himself in battle. He participated in the first western expedition, and in the second western expedition, he and the veteran general Su Butai were tied for the vanguard and made great achievements. He then participated in the war against the Jinguo in Wokoutai and made a military achievement in the attack on the JinheZhongfu.
Second, Möngke was the eldest son of Tuolei, and the people of the entire Mongol Empire believed that the Khan's position should be Tuolei's, but Genghis Khan specified that the Khan's position had only reached the Wokoutai system, and now the Khan's position should return.
Third, Möngke was the adopted son of Wokoutai, almost the son of Wokoutai, although Genghis Khan said that the Khan's position must be passed on among the descendants of Wokoutai, but since Möngke was the adopted son of Wokoutai, there was nothing wrong with passing it on to Möngke.
Fourth, and most importantly, this Kuritai congress was presided over by Patun, and Batu's forces were extremely strong, and he had a strong military as his backing, so who dared not choose Möngke?
In this way, the Khan position was transferred from the Wokoutai clan to the hands of Meng Ge of the Tuolei clan, and Guiyu's son naturally had no play.
(References: The Secret History of Mongolia, The History of the Yuan)