Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 390 Is Genghis Khan a Roman or a Turkic?
Although this matter was resolved in the end, this kind of confusion occupied a considerable amount of space in the early days of the Purple Horde and has been lingering in all aspects.

Many subsequent changes were not so much the development of the Purple Horde itself as the effect of external forces.

For example, at that time, Mongolian identity, one of the main trends of thought, changed because of changes in the overall environment.

Tuo Huan once told Guo Kang an ancestral joke, saying that Boyan Timur, the founder of the country, had encountered embarrassing identity confusion back then.

When Boyan Timur was in the Golden Horde, he often did business with businessmen from all walks of life to subsidize his livelihood.The languages ​​he is most familiar with are Turkic and Persian.Those businessmen who deal with him also regard him more as a Turkic person.For a long time, he himself thought so.

Later, he met Shi Shoudao, the little mercenary leader who served as a bodyguard for the caravan.When everyone was chatting and bragging, Shi Shoudao said that although these businessmen said that he was a Khitan mercenary, in fact, his family was Turkic.

Boyan Timur and the others didn't take it seriously, but Shi Shoudao still spoke clearly and logically.He said that his ancestors belonged to the Khan lineage of the Western Turks who prospered in the past and died in the past. There are many records in the archives and history books of the Tang Dynasty, and they can still be found now.

What's more embarrassing is that the Turkic people who were active on Boyan Timur's side knew nothing about this Khan, and none of them had heard of Ashina's family.Everyone always thinks that he may be bragging, but they can't find words to refute others. They don't know whether he is bragging or the myth is too old.

Boyan Timur was very curious, so he asked his well-informed friend Guo Gai.After Guo Gai confirmed it for him, everyone understood what was going on.

Guo Gai once traveled on the grasslands and helped them deal with the enemy. He was quite famous in this area, so everyone believed him.But this incident had a huge impact on the entire tribe.

Boyan Timur is better, after all, according to the legend, his family seems to be somewhat related to Dahan.The other leaders are miserable—those who hold Turkic identity are caught in the confusion of "he is Turkic, what am I?"

Therefore, when Boyan Timur led his team to the south, many of his Kipchaks chose to identify with Mongolia - a large part of the reason was because there were really Turks on their side...

Tuo Huan used this to tell Guo Kang that the identity of grassland people actually changed like this.Most of the time, it is not that they themselves want to change, but other influencing factors appear around them, so as a response, they just change.

Not to mention that the Mongolian identity proposed by the grand master was clearly put on the back burner by the Zizhang Khanate, and even began to fade in the various ministries of the Beiya. It was during the time of Basil III.The specific reasons are actually similar.

At that time, in the East, the withdrawal of the Yuan Dynasty from the Central Plains was a foregone conclusion; in the Tianfangjiao world, the most powerful "Mongol" was Timur, who was heavily Turkized.Throughout the Eurasian continent, the original "Mongolia" seems to be fading rapidly, even to the point where people don't know who and what Mongolia is.

Tuo Huan said that when the Purple Horde Khanate and the Chagatai Khanate communicated, the Chagatai envoy told them something:

In the Yuan Dynasty, it was customary to collectively refer to the Mongols as "Duqin Durben", which means "44".Because according to the division of Genghis Khan, Mongolia is divided into 40 households, known as "44 Mongolian".The Oirats in Moxi have [-] households, called "[-] Oirats".These [-] households constitute the main body of Mongolia.

As a result, when the Yuan Dynasty fell, 36 of the [-] Mongolian households voted for Zhu Hongwu Hehan.This is why the Wala people have such a strong sense of existence now - because the Khan of the Yuan Dynasty has never been very popular with the Mongols, and the headquarters have all run away...

In this way, a question arises, who is the suzerain of the Mongols?Is it Zhu Hongwu's Hehan, or the Northern Yuan's Hehan?
Different governments have different answers to this question.The Chagatai Khanate believed that it was Zhu Hongwu Hehan, because they hated the Yuan Dynasty very much. Anyway, as long as it was not the remnants of Kublai Khan, anyone would do; But these two regimes are actually not conquered by the Great Khan himself now - in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, various powerful officials took turns to sit in the manor, and the grand masters had actually controlled the small court.However, in Zhengdong Province, it was self-reliant from beginning to end, so it verbally borrowed the name of Great Khan.

As for the Javanese Yuan, they didn't mention the issue of the Mongolian suzerain much, because they didn't care at all...

Therefore, the Zizhang Khan Court believes that under such circumstances, the Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty is no longer representative, and the original narrative needs to be changed accordingly.

What's more interesting is that the most powerful Mongolian armed forces in the whole world are actually at both ends, that is, in the hands of the Ming Dynasty and the Purple Horde Khanate.And the various Yuan regimes, on the contrary, are the Han people who are the pillars.

Needless to say the Javanese Yuan, the same is true for the Northern Yuan and Zhengdong Provinces.

When the calligrapher Emperor Yuan Shun went "Bei Shou", there were roughly four other armed forces that he could rely on: whether it was Guo Kang's previous world or the situation here, the most powerful one was undoubtedly Wang Baobao's Henan landlord armed forces.This is also the only military force in the Northern Yuan regime that can form a majestic formation and fight the Ming army head-on.

In the past history, this army disintegrated quickly after Wang Baobao's death.After all, their allegiance was not to the Yuan Dynasty, but to Wang Baobao himself.Therefore, after Wang Baobao disappeared, everyone dispersed.Many people returned to the south one after another and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.For example, Zhang Yu and Zhang Fu, father and son of Zhu Di, came here in this way.

But in this world, Wang Baobao led his men to break away from the Han court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and ran to the east to proclaim himself king.Therefore, although the province of Zhengdong is also called "Yuan", it has not even listened to the announcement, and has never paid attention to Han Ting...

After Wang Baobao's power is gone, the most powerful people are the Wala people.They had been defending Moxi before, facing other Khanates whose combat effectiveness was worrying.

Looking at specific battles, sometimes it is more exaggerated than stereotypes-Guo Kang has counted the time, if it is based on historical development, within two years, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate will be Waisi Khan.During his reign, he fought 61 times with the Oirats and won 1 time.

Even with such a record, Waisi Khan is already a warrior recognized by the Oirats.The Eastern Chagatai Khanate performed fairly well when facing other enemies to the west.One can imagine how far everyone else has gone...

(End of this chapter)