Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Chapter 190: Fooling the Khan
After Zhang Yong finished speaking, he looked at Genghis Khan. The meaning was self-evident. There were a lot of people here, because no third person could hear the following conversation.

Genghis Khan nodded, waved his hand, and signaled all the idle people in the tent to go out, leaving only him and Zhang Yong.

"If you have any ideas, you can tell me." Genghis Khan looked at Zhang Yong, nodded, and said.

As a qualified leader, Genghis Khan sometimes chose to listen to the suggestions of his subordinates, such as Mu Huali, Borhu and others.

"Great Khan! Tuolei is your second son, my lord. Originally, he was born according to Mongolian law.

As the youngest son, he should be your heir, but you chose Wokuotai.

Because you, the Great Khan, also understand that Ogedai can better lead the Great Mongolia. "Zhang Yong said.

"Toilei can fight, but he can't suppress the nobles of the Mongolian palace. If I succeed him, the Mongol Empire may fall apart after my death." Genghis Khan said.

He carefully considered his several sons. The only ones who could inherit his mantle were the eldest son and his third son. In the end, for various reasons, Genghis Khan chose the more suitable Ogedai as his successor.

Zhang Yong nodded when he heard this, just as Genghis Khan said.

After the position of Great Khan of Mongolia passed into the hands of Tuo Lei's family, the entire Mongolian country began to fall apart, and even Tuo Lei's sons were fighting with each other.

Meng Ge, the last recognized Great Khan of Mongolia, even killed most of the men of the Ogedei family.

This also caused the huge Mongol Empire to split into the Yuan Empire and the four major khanates. Whether it was the Golden Horde or the Il Khanate, they were all important in their respective positions.

Unfortunately, it all fell apart in the end because of some loose ruling traditions of Mongolia.

"Great Khan! Lord Ogedai, as your true successor, you should give him more opportunities.

Let him serve in the Mongolian army, let him show himself in front of the Mongolian princes and nobles, and establish more military exploits. "Zhang Yong said.

"Haha, I understand what you want to say.

I once gave Wokuotai such an opportunity when we attacked Khwarezm.

I once asked him to lead the army alone. During the Delhi Sultanate, I also asked him to lead the army alone. "Genghis Khan said.

"But this time is different. This time we are facing a truly powerful enemy, the Kingdom of Jin, the mortal enemy of Mongolia, Khwarezm, the strength of the Western Region countries of the Delhi Sultanate.

There is no way to compare with the Jin Kingdom. No matter which dynasty in the Central Plains, even the weakest Xixia, can easily defeat them. "Zhang Yong said.

The previous battle with Khwarezm.to be honest.It was all a small fight. The Mongolian army was basically overwhelming, and it was only a small defeat during the Battle of Baru Bay.

Other battles in the West were sweeping.

But it was completely different from the battle with the Jin Kingdom. Mongolia and the Jin Kingdom fought for more than 20 years.

The war has been going on since the founding of the Great Mongolia. Until now, although Mongolia has an advantage, it does not have an absolute victory.

Even when the Jin State was dealing with Mongolia, it could allocate troops to fight against the Southern Song Dynasty. During the few years of Genghis Khan's Western Expedition, the Jin State's strength recovered well.

Moreover, a more promising monarch finally ushered in. Now if they want to attack the Jin Kingdom and completely destroy the Jin Kingdom, Mongolia must fight with all its strength.

And if we can capture Lintao Mansion, we can directly intimidate Tongguan, Fengxiang Mansion and other places.

Although this is a local war, if Genghis Khan really leads his army out in full force.

Then the Kingdom of Jin will also mobilize all the troops stationed in the north and the troops stationed in the south, and it will turn into a battle with a scale of tens of millions of people.

"What do you mean? This time my main Mongolian army will not attack with all its strength, but will send a small force to fight?" Genghis Khan asked.

"Great Khan! Your army has been fighting for many years. It is time to take them back to the Mongolian grassland to rest for a while. You have not returned to the Mongolian grassland for several years.

This time Lintao Mansion, it is better to hand over the command to me and Mr. Wo Kuotai. I will cooperate with Mr. Wo Kuotai to attack Lintao Mansion.

You and your grassland army, as well as the Polo army in the north, continue to threaten the Kingdom of Jin, making the Kingdom of Jin dare not send too many troops to come to the rescue. "Zhang Yong said.

Hearing this, Genghis Khan also nodded, and the soldiers who followed him on the western expedition.

It can be said that there is no pause for a moment, basically the whole time is played.

He didn't think there was any problem some time ago, but now he has seriously considered what Zhang Yong said.

"Great Khan! Mongolia's territory is too huge now. You need some time to reorganize the army. After this reorganization is completed, we can launch a war to completely destroy the Jin Kingdom." Zhang Yong said.

"Yeluchucai also told me about your opinion. He suggested that I establish a tax system. Even our Mongolian herdsmen will not be immune. Do you think so too?" Genghis Khan asked.

After Genghis Khan unified Mongolia, the Mongolian army would accept his recruitment, but in fact there was no need to pay taxes. Only the areas and people ruled by Mongolia needed to pay taxes.

Yelu Chucai suggested that Genghis Khan start a complete tax system, and no one would be spared.

But Mongolia doesn't have a full currency, so this tax.

Yelu Chucai's suggestion was that one horse out of a hundred horses should be handed over to the state, and so on, one animal out of every hundred animals should be handed over to the state, and the one handed over must be a female.

This tax can be said to be quite preferential treatment. You must know that people in other areas pay one-tenth.

But in fact, this tax is still too cruel for Mongolian herdsmen.Because although they don't have to pay taxes, they have to fight wars. All adult Mongolian men are soldiers.

From the age of 15 to 60, as long as Genghis Khan gave an order, they had to bring their own weapons, horses, and armor to fight on the front line. This severe oppression also caused frequent rebellions on the grasslands.

"Great Khan! Establishing a complete system, a complete tax system, a complete bureaucracy, and even a complete currency is an extremely long process. You can take your time on this." Zhang Yong said.

In fact, Yelu Chucai was right. It was indeed very important to establish a complete tax system, currency system and national system, but he did not understand the Mongols very well.

These grassland rough guys have no interest in these things at all. Even after the Yuan Empire was established, the Mongols were not interested in this matter.

And Zhang Yong could see that Genghis Khan had no idea about this at all.

If you talk too much, you are just asking for trouble. Sometimes honest words are offensive to your ears, so we cannot say honest words.

His real purpose is to gain military power. As for Mongolia establishing a complete tax system, I don't worry about that!

"Actually, I also understand what Yelu Chucai means. He hopes that I will take over the Central Plains.

But I worry that this will affect the fighting spirit of our Mongolians.

The former Rouran Northern Wei, Liao and Jin kingdoms all took control of the Central Plains.

Affected by the glory, wealth and extravagant life of the Central Plains, the grassland people gradually lost their fighting spirit and became weak and vulnerable.

I will not allow future generations to live in the Central Plains. "Genghis Khan said.

He was not the only grassland force that once took control of the Central Plains.

Before him, many, many grassland forces had done it.

But after accepting the system of the Central Plains, all of them disappeared without exception, and their combat effectiveness was even much worse than during the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Therefore, Genghis Khan has already set a rule for his descendants, that is, no matter what.

The core rulers of Mongolia must not enter the Central Plains to live. They must stay on the grasslands and continue to follow their Mongolian herding customs.

(The only rebel was Kublai Khan. It was this guy who changed the rules of Genghis Khan. Several successive great Khans of Mongolia lived in Harakhorin, which is near the capital of Outer Mongolia today.)
Yes, yes, Khan, I just hope you keep this attitude.

A place like the Central Plains can kill people's hearts and make people lose their spirits by playing with things. You must not let your children and grandchildren get involved.

Just stay in the grassland and maintain the fighting power you should have.

Anyway, these are the rules you set, and I must strictly abide by them and implement them resolutely.

I will beat anyone who disobeys this Genghis Khan's order.

The core of Mongolian rule must stay on the grasslands. The Central Plains is not suitable for you and will kill your fighting spirit.

"Great Khan! You are right, if we take over the Central Plains region.

It will indeed greatly reduce the fighting spirit. The Mongols living on the grasslands can indeed maintain the absolute combat effectiveness of the Mongolian army. "Zhang Yong echoed.

"Hahahaha! You are the first to dare to say this to me.

Those Han civil servants, as well as Yelu Chucai, those who surrendered from the Liao and Jin countries.

They all asked me to take over the Central Plains, so wouldn't I be the same as Wanyan Aguda and the Yelu family of Liao?Decades later, even centuries later.

We Mongolians will become the same as the Central Plains people.

Their combat effectiveness and riding and shooting skills will all be lost. I will never allow this. "Genghis Khan nodded and said.

"So you want to adopt a tax farming system and let the Central Plains region pay tribute to you instead of ruling this place, right?" Zhang Yong asked.

"That's right! This is the strategy I came up with. People have conquered the Central Plains Dynasty before, but they all failed.

In the end, they all lost their fighting spirit and couldn't even learn the most basic skills of riding and shooting.

I don’t know how to use this thing that has failed for hundreds of years. I want to use my own, and I’ll tell you about it,” Genghis Khan said.

In the past, the grasslands, whether it was the Liao Kingdom or the Jin Kingdom, were nominally unified.

But it was Genghis Khan who truly achieved unification. Why was he able to achieve unification?That is, he broke the original tradition of the grassland.

The original grasslands were centered on their respective tribes, with small tribes numbering several thousand people and large tribes tens of thousands.

When some tribes become stronger, other small tribes will unite to destroy the stronger tribe.

This resulted in the grassland forces always being in disarray.

But he changed this system. No matter how big or small the tribes were, they were all broken into pieces, and then divided into thousands and ten thousand households.

All Qianhu must be appointed by Genghis Khan and subsequent Great Khans.

Those ten thousand households that Genghis Khan canonized have no actual command power over the thousands of households under his control. All the thousands of households were appointed by Genghis Khan himself.

This also completely prevented a tribe from growing, because he broke up all the tribes into small groups.

Facts have proved that his strategy is effective. More than 20 years have passed since he unified the Mongolian grasslands, and his Great Mongolia has become stronger and stronger.

Nowadays, the nobles in the grassland all want to become one of the hundreds, thousands, or ten thousand households in his army, instead of becoming the leader of a tribe, the Khan!

Except for him, Genghis Khan, there is no one in the grassland.

So he wants to use the same method in the Central Plains region. The most noble title of the Central Plains Dynasty is the emperor, so I don't allow the emperor to exist.

I want to confer a bunch of princes, and here with the king, all the princes must be canonized by me personally.

In this way, the Central Plains dynasty will be like the grassland. This is Genghis Khan's core idea.

Thousands or ten thousand households on the grassland are equivalent to the princes in the Central Plains, and they rule the Central Plains in this way.

Then they will mind their own business and just pay taxes to the Great Mongolia on time.

And Zhang Yong was the first king he singled out to be crowned here.

It is equivalent to ten thousand households in Mongolia, and thousands of Han princes in the north.

In this way, the entire Central Plains dynasty will form a fragmented force. They cannot be unified and cannot threaten the rule of the grassland.

"Khan! You are so wise!" Zhang Yong secretly rejoiced crazily, but on the surface he said with approval.

Although it has been vaguely guessed that Genghis Khan's idea was to adopt a system of enfeoffment and taxation to rule the Central Plains.

But when Khan said it himself, Zhang Yong was completely relieved.

Your method may be very practical on the grasslands, but in the Central Plains, I can only say haha.

Wang is still very important.

“So I’m not too keen on establishing a complete currency and tax system.

But you are right, my army should really go back to the grassland to take a look.

Moreover, I am injured and I have to go to the grassland to recuperate for a while no matter what. Then this battle will be left to you and Ogedai. "Genghis Khan said.

Anyway, Xixia is very close to the Mongolian grassland. Even if he returns with a large army, it won't take much effort. It only takes more than half a month to reach his old camp.

The speed of the National Cavalry's advance is no joke.

"Great Khan! So how many troops do you plan to give Lord Ogedai?" Zhang Yong asked.

"Well! What do you think about letting him take his 2 troops to attack?" Genghis Khan thought for a moment and said.

With its own restraints on the grasslands, Polo's restraints in the north and some restraints from the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom could not allocate much troops. 2 people should be enough.

"Great Khan! There are about 3 people, and 2 people are a little less, but these people cannot be Lord Ogedai's old troops. You have to let him command some other armies.

Nowadays, a large number of gold mines, coal mines and salt mines have been discovered in Xiliao. These are all wealth.Lord Wokuotai's headquarters troops should be stationed there. How about you transfer 3 troops from other places to educate Lord Wokuotai on his command? "Zhang Yong said.

"After talking for a long time, do you want to help Wo Kuotai gain military power?" Genghis Khan smiled, looked at Zhang Yong and asked.

"Great Khan! Master Tuo Lei has 10,000+ troops, but Master Wo Kuotai only has 2 troops. How big is the difference between the two sides?
The last time he was in Xuanhua Mansion, Lord Tuo Lei violated military law. Lord Wo Kuotai thought of his brotherhood and did not harm Lord Tuo Lei.

Now Lord Tuolei should be thinking of brotherhood. Shouldn't he send some troops to support Lord Wokuotai? Zhang Yong asked.

"Well! What you said makes sense. Tuo Lei's troops are indeed too many. Let's give 2 soldiers to his brother!

The remaining 1 people should be mobilized by Wo Kuotai from his own troops. It is enough to have 1 troops stationed in Xiliao. "Genghis Khan said.

Thirty thousand is too much, just ask Tuo Lei to give him [-].

"Great Khan, you have the final say." Zhang Yong said.

If [-] is not enough, then [-] is not bad, as long as the drag mines are weakened.

"Wokuotai's 3 troops are coming from Tolei and himself. Don't you kid support your father-in-law?" Genghis Khan asked.

Although I have exempted you from taxes and military service for five years, if you lead them to fight on your own, that is a different matter.

I won't give you any food, weapons, armor or anything like that. You can do it yourself!

After all, this time I'm trying to gain territory for you, so you have to put in some effort.

"Khan! Zhang Yong will naturally lead his troops to help. After all, you gave me this land. How can I not get it?" Zhang Yong said with a smile.

I don't plan on having sex for free either.

"Hahaha! Okay! I immediately ordered the Mongolian army to start returning to the grassland.

The [-] troops from Wo Kuotai's headquarters and the [-] troops from Tou Lei were left behind, all of which were given to Wo Kuotai's command.

You and Wokuotai join forces to attack Lintao Mansion.

But I hope you won't focus all your attention on Lintao Mansion. If you can expand the results for me, you can expand the results for me. I don't mind having too much territory. "Genghis Khan said.

Zhang Yong nodded and said. : "Khan! Zhang Yong knows."

That is required!I definitely need to expand my results.

Genghis Khan spoke. : "Yeah! That's settled then. When I recover from my injury, I'll go see your farm and the compressed biscuit powder."

"Profuse sweat! Your injury is not completely healed yet. Don't rush to leave now!" Zhang Yong said.

Please sweat!You just have to go down to the ground now. You should wait to ride to my side!

"It's okay. I'll just recuperate for a few days and I'll be fine. I'll find Tuo Lei in a few days and talk to him about this. Go down and rest!"

Zhang Yong nodded, stood up and exited Genghis Khan's military tent.

After another three days of rest, Genghis Khan could walk normally.

Then Zhang Yong, Wo Kuotai, and Tuo Lei were summoned.

(End of this chapter)