Chapter 38: The Great Division of the Mongolian Empire, Small Unity of the Japanese Shogunate

Zhao Jin suffered a fiasco in the Cangling Pass War and was shocked. Tan Ma inquired four, and finally got the exact news in return. It turned out that a great thing happened - Moko Timur Khan was jointly assassinated by Duwa Khan and Haidu Khan!

It is not difficult to understand why Tiegulu and Huyin Changtu's troops have conquered the Cangling Pass, but they have to retreat overnight, and even the bodies and wounded soldiers can't be cleaned up.

Zhao Jin was surprised and happy when he heard the news, and hurriedly ordered Tan Ma: "Come again!"

This event is indeed far-reaching. Soon after, further shocking news came that Duva Khan was also killed by Haidu Khan when he was unprepared!

Haito, the king of the Wokuotai Khanate, is extremely ambitious and extremely unruly. Because Wokutai is the designated heir of Genghis Khan, the Wokutai family should have been in the dominant position in all Mongolia. However, due to the support of the Shuchi family of the Golden Horde Khanate, the Tuolei family usurped the dominance of the Wokutai family. Since then, the Mongol Khan and Kublai Khan of the Tulei family have successively served as the Khans of the whole Mongolia, and the brother of Kublai Khan also established the Illi Khanate through the Western Expedition. On the contrary, the Wokuotai Khanate only has a territory that originally belonged to Western Liao, and the country is small and weak. After Haidu succeeded to the throne, he wanted to break this shrinking situation and kept looking for opportunities.

Another Khanate, Chahetai Khanate, fought in front of Genghis Khan because of the discord between Chahetai and Shuchi, and the descendants of the two families have been at peace. After Chahetai's descendants Duwa succeeded to the throne, they also had the ambition to send people to unite with Haidu to fight against the Golden Horde of the Shuchi family. Haidu and Duwa immediately agreed. Haidu taught Duwa not to act recklessly. On the surface, he should flatter the king of the Golden Curtain Khan Mokuo Timur and wait for a good opportunity.

So, they finally waited for the opportunity for Mekuo Timur to attack India, New Town and Sarai City and be counterattacked by the allied forces of Dongsi. Mokuo Timur's army's morale was low, and the soldiers' confidence in King Khan was shaken. Moku Timur himself also lost his sense and his mind was confused, which was a good opportunity to attack! Haidu and Duwa took the opportunity to assassinate Mokuo Timur and divide their followers! Haidu became more greedy again, so he simply killed Duwa and annexed the two khanates in one fell swoop!

Because Haidu also has the name of Yingwu, many soldiers of the Golden Horde and Chahetai Khanate returned to Haidu. But there are also generals loyal to Moku Temur and Duwa who rose up against Haidu, including Tiegulu, who was fighting at Cangling Pass. Tiegulu and Huyin Changtu returned to fight against Haidu and wanted to avenge Mokuo Timur. Unexpectedly, Huyin Changtu was bought by Haidu, but helped Haidu attack Tiegulu. Tiegulu was defeated and killed, and his men escaped from the Sainnobar tiger alone and defected to Ababa, the king of Illi Khan. Haidu is busy suppressing the rebels, the Alloy Account Khanate, Chahetai Khanate and his original Wokuotai Khanate. This is not easy to be busy! It takes years to deal with such a chaotic situation, which just gives Yan Han time to rest and recuperate.

Moreover, Haidu integrated the three khanates into the "Haidu Khanate", and its power suddenly grew with a clear purpose - in order to regain the dominance of the Wokuotai family in all Mongolia. In this way, Kublai, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, who belonged to the Tuo Lei family, and Abahai, the king of the Elli Khan, will not sit by!

The Illi Khanate has maintained close relations with the Yuan Dynasty, and now it has been cut off from the Haidu Khanate and lost contact. From then on, the Ily Khanate was alone in West Asia, facing many opponents such as the Arabs, crusaders and Byzantium, and had to defend against the attack of the Haidu Khanate, and the environment was dangerous.

The Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty last year and unified China and is preparing to send troops to Japan for the second time. Kublai was very dissatisfied with the failure of the first attack on Japan six years ago, and ordered the coastal provinces and dependent country Goryeo to prepare more ships and mobilized military horses. Kublai is 66 years old. He is afraid that he will not have many days to come and wants to conquer more regions as soon as possible, including the Chen Dynasty (Northern Vietnam), Champa (Southern Vietnam), Bagan Dynasty (Burma), Angkor Dynasty (Cambodia), Suk Thai Dynasty (Thailand) and so on, and even distant Java (Indonesia). At that time, the geographical cognition limit of Asians was Java. Kublai Khan wanted to conquer all regions, including Java, and make the Yuan Dynasty a mixed empire!

Kublai Khan had such a desire, but the important ministers of the Yuan Dynasty had different opinions. Two Pingzhang of Zhongshu Province - Boyan and An Tong, one supports and the other opposes. Bo Yan grew up in the Illi Khanate, was brave and good at fighting, and strongly supported Kublai Khan's expansion of territory. An Tong is the great-grandson of Mu Huali, a famous general under Genghis Khan. He respects Han scholars and doctors. He is greatly influenced by Confucianism and advocates committed to internal affairs to the people's livelihood.

Zhongshu Province is equivalent to the cabinet, and Zhongshu Province is equivalent to the prime minister of the state. However, in recent years, Shangshu Province has become more and more powerful, and gradually has a tendency to keep pace with Zhongshu Province. Shangshu Province's two Pingzhang - Sang Ge and Ahema, can be said to be blaming. They are both good at scraping people's fat and people's ointment. They collude with each other to use the theory of rich countries to seduce Kublai Khan and take the opportunity to enrich their own pockets. Kublai was born in the war and doesn't know much about the economy. Shangshu Province holds the national economic policy and is getting more and more powerful. Sangge and Ahma are eager to have more wars, because once there is a war, they must collect taxes and raise military supplies, which are under the management of Shangshu Province, which is the job of fat and oil!

On this day, in Ahma's mansion, beautiful women lined up two boxes, and domestic prostitutes danced to entertain the ministers. The guests' plans include: Shangshu Province Youping Zhang Sangge, Shangshu Province Zuopingzhang Ahema, Zhongshu Province Right Reference Hao Frame, Zhongshu Province Zuo Shenzhi Gengren, Privy Deputy Envoy Bulu Lost, and Zhang Hui, the deputy envoy of the State, is really strong lineup! Another official who has just been dismissed is Hu Xin, the son of Ahma and the former chief of Dadu Road.

Huxin previously served as the general manager of Dadu Road, which is equivalent to the director of the Capital Administration for Industry and Commerce, which is extremely poor! However, because he was excessively greedy and delincted, he was finally denounced by Zuo Cheng Cui Bin of Zhongshu Province. It turned out that Cui Bin was deeply valued by the prince's true gold. He took it as his responsibility to correct the atmosphere of officials and participated in many corrupt officials one after another. Zhenjin had already heard folk rumors that Ahma's party was domineering and greedy. He deeply disgusted Ahma and supported Cui Bin's impeachment of Ahma's son.

Kublai Khan was confused by Ahma and has always trusted Ahma very much. He thought that he had increased a lot of fiscal revenue to the country and was a good official. Unexpectedly, Ahma set up a pile of harsh taxes and cruelly exploited the people. Although it increased fiscal revenue for a while, it made the people's grievances boil and shake the foundation of the Yuan Dynasty's rule. Moreover, Ahma's measures are exactly "public and private", mainly to create conditions for their own wealth accumulation.

After Cui Bin's strong impeachment, Kublai Khan had to remove Hu Xin's official position, but still favored Ah Ma. Ahema deeply felt that the real gold prince must be his own evil star. If Kublai Khan is still alive, then once Kublai Khan dies and Zhenjin succeeds to the throne, his family will have a bleak future!

"Haha... It's okay. I will make sure to play with Cui Bin properly and let him see our strength!" During the banquet, Bulu lost and patted his chest to Ah Ma. They speak Mongolian.

Zhang Hui smiled and said, "Lord Ahema, after all, Cui Bin is not your old opponent. He can't calm down! If he collects more evidence, can we still sit here calmly?

Geng Ren said cautiously, "Although, adults must not be careless. From now on, we'd better not gather together, so as not to hate the real golden prince, and lest the emperor suspect that we are partying for personal gain.

Hao frame nodded repeatedly: "What Lord Geng said is very reasonable."

Ahema nodded slowly: "It's a pity that such a happy party today will be difficult to have in the future."

"Isn't it?" Brother Sang touched the face of the girl around him: "These women in your house are really good-looking. You are more elegant than those of us who only think about flying eagles and walking horses!"

A Hema laughed and said, "Where are people with their own preferences? I also like flying eagle walking horses. I really want to hunt with Lord Sang more times, but we are in the same dynasty..."

"Yes." Brother Sang sighed: "The emperor is old now and more suspicious. We should not come and go frequently. Lord Ahema, I will protect your children in the future, and you will protect my children. In the words of the Han people, it is 'to take care of each other'!"

Ahema stroked Sang's hand and nodded repeatedly: "That's of course. It's rare for Brother Sang to have such a heart. I, Ah Ma Gong, listen to my orders.

The treacherous ministers talked and drank, and Brother Sang sat down again and got up to leave. Hu Xin knelt down and begged Brother Sang to avenge himself, and he must make Cui Bin die without a burial place. Brother Sang agreed.

After sending Brother Sang away, the rest of the people respected Ahma. Ahema then asked about the project that Zhang Hui was hosting: "Zhang Hui, what happened to the shipbuilding in Liaodong? Before and after, it took a lot of time and money, but the progress was very slow. Several ministers in the court were already dissatisfied.

Zhang Hui, as the "deputy envoy of the country", is also a big corrupt official. "The use of the government of the country" is concurrently held by Ahma. Ask these two people to be responsible for supervising all kinds of things needed by the country and the army. Can they not do anything?

At present, Zhang Hui hurriedly swallowed the wine in her mouth and replied respectfully to Ah Ma: "Don't hide your kindness, Jurchens and North Koreans are not cooperating well, which is the reason; what's more, the wood is not very good, and a few boats went into the water and collapsed..."

Hearing this, several traitors couldn't help laughing: "Hahahaha..."

There is no strange color on Ahma's face - this is expected. But he still asked knowingly, "Why did you still use such bad wood after spending so much money?"

Zhang Huixi smiled and said, "Of course, it is to make your own 'big ship' better!"

Ahema leaned his body towards Zhang Hui: "You are very bold... In case a large army goes into the ship and sinks before it can't drive Japan, how do you tell him?"

Zhang Hui explained, "This is an accident! The previous batch of ships can still sail. The next batch of ships will definitely be built better and safe to drive to Japan!"

Hao Ke said funnyly, "I can drive to Japan, but can I drive back again?" Hahaha..."

Everyone was happy for a while, and Ahma also followed.

After having fun, Ah Ma told Zhang Hui not to "save too much" the money for shipbuilding. On the surface, it is still necessary to do enough work, such as painting the appearance well and building several large ships of particularly magnificent and of high quality - maybe the emperor will personally accept it, and then it will be easy to deal with it!

Using engineering corruption is nothing more than "open source and throttling." "Open source" is to lie about the cost and exaggerate the amount required; "saving" is to cut corners and reduce the actual amount spent; then, the difference in the middle can be divided by corrupt officials. Needless to say, the bigger the difference, the better!

However, shipbuilding and war is a national event, and corruption is not enough. Therefore, Ahema has repeatedly told Zhang Hui that he must control the scale and not be too greedy. Zhang Hui took orders repeatedly, and after the banquet, he went to Liaodong to supervise the warship.

In this way, under the promotion of officials of Shangshu Province, the Yuan Dynasty launched a large-scale attack on Japan and Java, further brewing...

(to be continued in the next section)