Chapter 2 Xiaoyin

Without people's hindsight, some major events that can shock the past and present would have been ordinary in the first place. In 1206, on the banks of the Onan River in the Mongolian Plateau, the leader of a nomadic people became Khan with the support of his millions of people.A new nomadic nation was born. A population of one million was not worth mentioning in the world at that time.What's more, the country made up of this sparse population is so poor and backward. Except for a little reaction from his suzerain, the Jinhui, the Southern Song Dynasty, which "has always regarded Hangzhou as Bianzhou", the Xixia, which has long since suppressed its martial arts, and the Western Liao Dynasty, which lamented that its hegemony is no longer, is expanding wildly and almost becoming the second Arab. Khwarazmo of the empire, no one would be willing to pay a little attention to that barren land.And the kings of the more distant Oros, Arabia, Byzantium, the Holy See, and Western Europe may not even have heard of it.

If it wasn't for this man called "Genghis Khan" who turned the world upside down in the future, who was either dismissive or ignorant of himself, who would remember the river called Onan and the one who elected a leader beside it called "Genghis Khan" What about the Mongolian nation? History is snobbish, because Genghis Khan and his golden family led the Mongols to make countless nations and countries change their direction in the midst of suffering; because in front of them, other heroes from the 13th to 14th centuries have become foils.Therefore, the "Kuriltai Conference" by the Onan River was named "a major event that changed the world".

History is fair again. After the collapse of the empire, what are the Mongols doing on the fragments of the shattered huge territory?How did the nation that once brought nightmares to everyone decline so completely?People don't care anymore, because they are no longer important, they are no longer that frightening "whip of God". The glorious history makes people excited, while the bleak history makes people aftertaste.Maybe we should pay more attention to those bleak histories.