Chapter 15 Wu

In the winter and November of that year, Kublai Khan sent urgent envoys to meet Mengge Khan twice, expressing his intention to return to the Lingbei grassland.When Meng Ge saw the letter, his heart was ups and downs.He didn't believe that Kublai Khan would resolutely leave Kaiping City, which had been painstakingly managed for many years, and he didn't believe that his stubborn, upright and stubborn younger brother would lead his wife and family to defect to Hara Helin.In order to confirm his guess, he issued an edict to allow Kublai Khan to return to the Mobei grassland. After receiving Mengge Khan's edict, Kublai Khan immediately returned to Helin with his family.

The monan grassland is wild and far away. A convoy of war cavalry, family members, and Lele vehicles meanders northward. Kublai Khan sat in a white felt car, opened the curtain, looked at Lian Xixian who was in the car next to him with a pensive look, and asked with a smile, "Hey, Mencius Lian, what are you thinking about?" Yao Shu, who followed closely behind, said, "Brother Shanfu is conceiving another masterpiece? You might as well chant it so that everyone can enjoy it." Lian Xixian was not humble: "Okay. Anyway, there is no other fun in this long journey, so I will just chant a poem to relieve everyone's boredom. How?" In the last sentence, he was obviously asking Kublai Khan.

"Okay!" Before Kublai Khan could answer, Princess Chabi had already agreed. "Just as the princess said. Lian Mencius, let's start." Kublai looked back with a smile, and fell on the face of the fearless and calm Aifei. "This is a poem I wrote when I was the envoy of Xuanfu in Shaanxi. I have the right to make a fool of myself today. I hope you will give me your advice!" Lian Xixian simply jumped out of the felt car and followed Kublai Khan's car on foot, reading aloud in cadence stand up. The beautiful land of Duling has traveled through the ages. Yunyan goes to Tianchiwu, and the Xiangge depends on Zhulou.

Five acres of green grass and barren smoke, one hundred feet of green mist and red house, the universe is left for me. From the beginning of the title of reading, it has been searched forever. Fengchichong, Jingu tree, and a floating gull. What can Peng Shang'er do, he also wants to catch Yu Mou. Awakening Zhongnan Lingyu, and discussing the famous things of the past, who is inferior and who is superior? The dream of the white deer on Lushan Mountain is the autumn of heaven and earth. "What a dream of 'White Deer on Lushan Mountain, it is the autumn of heaven and earth!'" Kublai Khan clapped his palms and laughed.

Laughter was loud, rippling on the vast grassland, this is a rare laughter that people have heard for more than two months. The felt cart staggered forward.The further north we went, the northwest wind blew on the face like a knife with icy snow particles.Kublai Khan put down the felt curtain and wrapped up his thick fur coat tightly.The wind howled, like the wailing of a female wolf after losing her cubs. Harahelin's winter is colder than that of Jinlianchuan. A few days later, the messenger reported to Mengge Khan: Kublai Khan and his family came to see him. Kublai Khan's sudden arrival really surprised Meng Ge. For the sake of caution, he ordered the guards to only allow Kublai Khan to see him.There are three layers of quiver guards and guards with knives guarding inside and outside Mengge Khan's palace tent. They stare at all the pilgrims who enter the palace tent with cold and suspicious eyes.Kublai Khan came to the gate of the palace tent, took the initiative to take off the waist knife and handed it to Chief Ke Xue, and several Ke Xue escorted him into the tent.

Kublai Khan kowtowed nine times on the scarlet carpet: "My brother, Kublai Khan, come to pay my respects!" "Pingshen!" Meng Ge only said this sentence. Kublai Khan looked up at Meng Ge, his bright eyes gradually filled with tears.How many grievances and longings have turned into tears of a man who does not flick easily at this moment. Meng Ge also stared at his younger brother who was full of worries and worries for a long time, and some fragmentary but unforgettable pictures kept flashing in his mind: the sudden death of his father, the perseverance of his mother, the life he and his brothers depended on each other and stood together through thick and thin. Difficult life... Now that the scene is full of emotion, I don't feel a heat in my heart.

After five years of separation, this is the first time the two brothers have met.Missing, suspicion, resentment, pain, no matter how contradictory the mood is, but when the brothers reunite, the kinship of flesh and blood finally surpasses misunderstanding and doubt, and the bond of blood once again tightly connects the two beating hearts together. Everything needs no explanation.Blood, after all, is thicker than water. "Princess Cha must come?" "Come on." "Is the emperor's nephew real gold here too?" "yes." Meng Ge stepped down from the table, supported Kublai Khan who was still kneeling on the ground with both hands, and sighed silently: "You still have the same character as before, why haven't you changed at all over the years? After seven or eight years of experience, you can't do anything wrong. It’s still so careless.” He took his younger brother’s hand and sat side by side with him on the drum stool, “Although what you have done in the Central Plains, Hanzhong and other places these years has achieved some results, but you have nothing to do with it. Your subordinate's unauthorized authority has already aroused criticism from the ruling and opposition parties."

"I know that I am guilty, please the Great Khan to punish me!" Kublai Khan had already controlled his emotions, and replied calmly, "But I also made this decision to protect the interests of the Mongolian country and the dignity of the Great Khan. In fact, it was a last resort. For this reason, if the strong and evil local forces are not eradicated, there will be no peace in Monan Han—" "Okay, don't talk about it anymore, I understand what is right and what is wrong." Brother Meng interrupted Kublai Khan's words. "By the way, I just wanted to tell you that Xu Liegu has entered the army to report (today's Baghdad). The military report from over there said: Xu Liegu has ordered the commander-in-chief of the Persian garrison to lead his army to the right wing, and went south to encircle the report. He once sent envoys to the caliph, but he didn’t want the caliph to be ignorant of current affairs, so he not only arrogantly rejected his peace proposal, but also sent the envoy back after humiliating him.”

Since the farewell between Hara and Lin, Kublai Khan and his sixth younger brother Xu Liewu went their separate ways, occasionally sending messengers to and from each other, mostly talking about marching and fighting.In the following year after the appointment of Kublai Khan as the "Prime Minister of Monan General Affairs", Meng Ge sent Hulagu out of Persia to command an army of more than 300,000 troops to conquer the countries that had not surrendered, and sent the elite troops of the rest of the Mongolian Khanate to accompany him. "I haven't seen my sixth brother for a long time, and I miss him very much. I don't know how he is doing in the west?"

Kublai Khan remembered that after King Zalandin of Khwarazm was eliminated, most of the area from the west of the Amu Darya to the border of Syria was under the rule of Mongolia. Only the Kingdom of Yismain and the Caliphate of Baoda had not yet been conquered, and they often waited for opportunities provocative. Meng Ge Khan said: "According to the battle report: Xu Liewu crossed the Amu Darya River, and the leader of Yismain State sent his younger brother to surrender, but he himself refused to meet Xu Lie Wu in person." At this point, Meng Ge stopped , using a pair of iron tongs to poke the charcoal in the brazier, the red charcoal immediately burst into blue flames.

"This abominable leader Lukh Nuddin! The army is approaching the city, and it has already become a pile of eggs. What conditions are there!" Kublai Khan said. "Yes." Meng Ge's tone was light, "Xu Liegu led the army to besiege the castle in four directions, and the bombardment continued. Luke Nudin couldn't hold on, and he was desperate to surrender. Xu Liegu ordered him to surrender to the rest of the castle." Zhucheng." Kublai Khan had already learned about the later battle situation from the messengers sent by the Khan court to Kaiping City: After the Yisimain castles were breached, Hulagu ordered them to be destroyed, and sent troops to escort Rukh Nudin to Hara and Lin. However, Mengge Khan did not see him, so he ordered his soldiers to take him back to Persia.On the way, Ruknuddin tried to escape, but was shot and killed by Mongolian soldiers.Yisima, who had surrendered, was also killed by the Mongolian army because he wanted to rebel. "This is a letter written by Xu Liegu to you, read it yourself!" Kublai Khan unfolded the letterhead. Mengge Khan watched his fourth brother beaming with joy from the side.Kublai Khan and Xu Liewu were two years apart in age. They grew up together, and their relationship has always been closer than other brothers. "Xu Liegu still respects his fourth brother very much, and I, the Mongolian Khan, am also a little jealous! How about it? After a while, the banquet will be prepared. Shall we toast to Xu Liegu's bravery and achievements?" "My brother can't ask for it. For the glorious journey of my sixth brother and for the health of brother Khan, I will definitely get drunk." Kublai Khan said in a comfortable mood. "What do you think of the reunion and mutual trust between our two brothers?" Kublai Khan's eyes turned red again: "Yes..." "Okay, you don't need to be sad anymore. Yuxi Timur, go and bring in Princess Chabi and Zhenjin. To be honest, I really miss this child Zhenjin." Mengge Khan ordered Xue Changyuxi Timur Son. Yuxi Timur led the way out. After Kublai Khan had an audience, Mengge Khan ordered the abolition of the hook test bureau.The vigorous hook-up test campaign instigated by Alan Daer, Liu Taiping and others just came to nothing.However, in order to give a decent explanation to the Mongolian nobles, Meng Ge issued an edict to revoke all the vassal institutions such as the Xuanfu Department and the Economic Strategy Department set up by Kublai Khan in the Monan Han area, and repatriated the Han officials of the vassal government.Kublai Khan also handed over all his "military and general affairs" powers, and at the same time relieved his nerves that had been stretched for five years. Although the first fierce conflict between "Prairie Culture" and "Central Plains Culture" was resolved in a peaceful and not bloody way, in fact, the most fundamental contradiction is far from being eliminated.If the Mongolian upper class always refuses to accept the Han law, then the dream of the Mongolian Empire to rule the Central Plains for a long time will be difficult to realize.Kublai Khan was aware of this from the very beginning.