In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 275
"Bah!" Yelu Chucai threw the turtle shell and emperor's money to the ground.

He stared at the ground, an expression of disbelief on his face.

The surrounding Mongolian nobles rushed forward and asked, how about this hexagram?

Yelu Chucai looked horrified, and after a moment he said: "If the master is to take care of the corpse, it will be bad. Xiang said: If the master is to take care of the corpse, it will be of no use."

"Damn it, what on earth do you mean, you're talking human language." Temu Ge Or Chijin said angrily.

Yelu Chucai sighed: "This hexagram means that if this person is used to command the army, it will not succeed at all. After today, there will be no auspicious days."

The crowd was in an uproar, and everyone looked at the yurt, wondering who was inside.

Because no one expected that Chagatai had already agreed with Yelu Zhu in advance last night that the tow mine would be placed in the west yurt and Wokuotai would be placed in the east yurt.

Some people also want Yelu Chucai to calculate another yurt, but Yelu Chucai said that divination can only be one hexagram per day. Usually yin and yang are in opposition, and the four phases are natural. This hexagram is bad, and there is no need to calculate the other side, which must be good.

Brother Tiemu Wo Chijin was in a hurry: "Who is inside, pull it out."

Batu and other people around couldn't wait, they lifted the curtain and pulled out the people inside, the scene was full of surprise.

I saw Tuo Lei standing in the crowd with a red face, ashamed, angry and unbelievable.

There is no way Tuo Lei is willing to listen to the fortune telling, because after more than a month of quarrels, there are fewer and fewer people supporting him.

It turned out that it was useless to have many people supporting him, and in the end he compromised.

Now he even didn't expect that even Yelu Chucai counted him as bad.

It made him unable to believe it.

But the fact is before our eyes. Just now, almost all the nobles agreed to make a decision based on divination.

"Tourei, what else do you have to say?" The second brother Chagatai was overjoyed and shouted to him: "Do you still remember what you said before my father Khan died that day? Our Mongolian warriors should speak like tigers Going down the mountain is unstoppable, how can there be any way to go back to the mountain?”

Tuo Lei's face turned even redder, and he looked around, for a moment, wondering if it was because he was afraid of divination, no one around him spoke for him.

Even Batu, who originally supported him the most, didn't say anything.

He looked around, but there seemed to be no one responding. At this moment, he saw Aotun Shiying who was very inconspicuous in the crowd not far away.

I saw Otun Shiying pressing the handle of the knife with one hand and looking at him fiercely.

That expression seemed to be telling Tuolei that as long as Yeke Nayan gives you an order, the slaves will immediately kill these treacherous villains for you.

Aotun Shiying had already prepared troops and horses. As long as Tuo Lei gave an order, he could kill all the people who opposed today.

He believed that only in this way could Tolei completely control the Mongol Empire.

Tuo Lei glanced at him meaningfully, feeling grateful for his loyalty.

But if he really does this, the Great Mongol Empire will immediately fall apart, collapse and separate.

"Hey." Tuo Lei finally sighed, and said to his second brother Chahetai: "Second Brother, I, Tuo Lei, would like to obey my father's last wish, accept everyone's opinions, and choose the real one according to the rules of my Great Mongolia. Sweat profusely.”

As soon as these words came out, Aotun Shiying slowly let go of the knife in his hand with a desperate expression. In an instant, he had a bad premonition that his master, Yeke Nayan's future fate would be very miserable.

"Okay." At this time, Chagatai was overjoyed, and deafening cheers sounded from all around. Someone immediately pulled out Ogedai from another yurt, saying that the election was now officially started, and the Khan would be decided by the number of votes.

Unsurprisingly.

In this vote, Wokuotai won by a slim margin of five votes, and the scene suddenly turned into a sea of ​​joy.

Two years after the death of Genghis Khan, the new ruler who controlled billions of people and covered tens of thousands of miles, who can be called the world's first super empire, was released.

But Wo Kuotai remembered Yeluzhu's reminder that since ancient times, the supreme title that represents the divine right of the monarch has to experience three refusals and three rejections.

He raised the wine glass in his hand high and then smashed it on the ground.

"I, Wo Kuotai, am so virtuous and capable, and why do I have a huge empire with billions of lands? I am terrified, for fear that I will do something wrong."

He shook his head and looked at Tuo Lei: "Or ask everyone to choose another wise man?" Tuo Lei didn't say anything, he understood what Wo Kuotai meant and wanted him to persuade him to come in.

As the second elder brother, Cha Hetai knelt down in front of Wo Kuotai without saying a word, and there were exclamations in the scene.

Chagatai said loudly: "According to the order of the late emperor, you should devote yourself to governing the country with the help of God, make the leaders who have not surrendered ready to serve you with their lives, and make all the Turks and big cannibals obey your orders .”

He didn't call his father Khan the first emperor. In fact, he took the lead to meet his younger brother Wo Kuozhi as a courtier.

Wo Kuotai hurriedly refused: "Although the first emperor ordered me to succeed in the will, I have elder brothers and uncles, especially my younger brother Tuo Lei, who are more suitable to inherit the Khan throne than me. Because according to our Mongolian According to the rules and customs, the youngest son is the head of the family and has the right to take charge of the camp and the house for his father, and Tuo Lei is the youngest son. He is always guarding his father, and he is familiar with the rules and Zhasa (Mongolian, that is, the law). How can I Can you surpass him and ascend to the throne of the Great Khan?"

He himself also said that he was the first emperor, and he obviously wanted to regard himself as the emperor.

At this time, the kings and nobles around said almost in unison: "The first emperor entrusted this matter to you among all his sons and brothers, and gave you the power to dominate everything. How can we change his unshakable authority without authorization?" What about decisions and unswerving orders? Please also ask the Great Khan to ascend the throne." (The above sentences are translations of the original words, so they sound weird.)
Wo Kuotai refused three times, stomped his feet and said: "This is the place where I am being disloyal, unrighteous, benevolent and unfilial." After finishing speaking, he looked at Tuolei again.

At this moment, Tuo Lei knew that it would be impossible for him not to appear.

Wo Kuotai is already saying that he is unkind and unfilial.

Tuo Lei had no choice, in front of all the Mongolian nobles and Zong Wang, he took a few steps forward, plopped, and finally knelt down in front of Wo Kuotai.

The moment Wo Kuotai saw Tuo Lei knelt down, his whole soul seemed to be sublimated, and a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Tuo Lei raised his hand to the sky and said loudly: "I, Tuo Lei, swear to the moonlight and flames, I am willing to assist Wo Kuotai, wake him up when he is sleeping, I am willing to fight for Wo Kuotai, remind him to pay attention to himself I would honor him as our Great Khan, long live—"

"Long live--" Countless people around shouted frantically.

The kings and nobles at the scene were very happy because a new ruler would appear in the Great Mongol Empire and unite all their tribes to continue the important task of conquering the four seas.

Everyone took off their hats from their heads and put their belts on their shoulders. Chagatai held Okuotai's right hand, Tuolei took his left hand, and his uncle Tiemuge Wochijin hugged his waist and held Okuotai's hand in his arms. He took Khan's position.

Tolui raised his cup, and everyone knelt down nine times to congratulate him on ascending to the throne and respectfully call him Khan.

Wo Kuotai ordered to present the property that had been prepared long ago, and generously distributed it to everyone regardless of relatives.When the banquet and gifts were over, he ordered food to be distributed to the spirits of Genghis Khan for three days.At the same time, he selected forty beauties from the clans and families of the ministers, dressed in expensive clothes decorated with gold and precious stones, together with some horses, as sacrifices to the soul of Genghis Khan, and they will be together forever Buried in the tomb of Genghis Khan.

This was a sacrifice of human life, and almost everyone at the scene seemed to be used to it.

After Wo Kuotai ascended the throne, he strictly carried out the will left by Genghis Khan, prepared to destroy gold with all his strength externally, and reused Yelu Chucai, who had helped him a lot internally.

Shi Tuolei reminded him again and again that the people of Song Dynasty are on the rise, and there are countless conspiracies and tricks. Be careful of the people of Song Dynasty, and they can even force Jin to attack Song Dynasty.

Of course Wo Kuotai refused to agree, and prepared to cut gold in accordance with Genghis Khan's last order.

In terms of military affairs, Wo Kuotai was preparing to cut gold, and at the same time sent envoys to the Song Dynasty to discuss matters related to the alliance.

At that time, the close ministers Bie Die and others thought: "It is useless to have the Han people. It is better to drive them all, so that the grass and trees in the Central Plains will flourish and become pasture land, and it will be good for grazing cattle and sheep." Kill them all, and let the Central Plains become a pasture with only grass and trees.

Don't even say that if Tuo Lei ascends the throne, don't repeat this proposal. With Tuo Lei's character, he might really agree.

But Yelu Chucai advised Wo Kuotai, "In such a vast and rich place, what can't be found? How can it be said that it is useless?" He suggested that the original agricultural and handicraft production should be maintained in the Central Plains, and land tax, commercial tax and tax should be collected. Taxes on wine, vinegar, salt and iron.Wo Kuotai agreed to try it out.

In the sixth year of Baoqing (1230), Yelu Chucai established the 10th Road Taxation Office, and both the principal and deputy envoys appointed Confucian scholars.He also played the division of military, civil, and financial duties, the senior officials were in charge of civil affairs, the military administration of the ten thousand households, and the tax office were in charge of money and grain, each of which was not in charge.

All these were strongly opposed by Mongolian dignitaries and Han princes, but the tax office still insisted on collecting taxes. By the autumn of the next year, Ogedai arrived in Xijing (today's Datong), and Yelu Chucai had collected the silver, The coins and rice records were laid out in front of the Khan. The total amount was 50 taels of silver, 40 bolts of silk, and [-] shi of millet.

Wokuotai was overjoyed and praised: "You are so capable. I wonder if there are people like you in the southern country!" On the same day, he gave the seal of Zhongshu Province to Chu Cai and put him in charge of political affairs north of the Yellow River.

In order to facilitate the exchanges of envoys and the transportation of materials, Wo Kuotai implemented the "station red" system, which is the post system.

In the era of Genghis Khan, all taxes and servitude were collected and transferred at will.

Wokuotai established a fixed tax system for pastoral areas.Wokuotai also set up tens of thousands or thousands of households in the Han people's land houses.In addition, Yelu Chucai presided over the administration of the Han people north of the Yellow River, which gave Mongolia the support of military and financial resources from the area north of the Yellow River in the war to destroy the gold.

At the same time, he gave his son Kuoduan the part of Xixia and Xiliao, so that he could conquer Tubo, and he could also prepare food and logistics for the Tuolei West Route Army.

Just as the ruling organization of the Great Mongol Empire began to get on the right track, gradually transforming from a nomadic military group to a centralized \central empire, in the south of the Yellow River, the Great Song Empire was also slowly rising. Khan, who has no time to go south, is conducting a rare expedition in the history of the Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)