Genghis Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, was an eagle-like existence in history, and most of the descriptions about him were heroic and majestic.
But in fact, Genghis Khan was a king of great wisdom, and his wisdom was not only reflected in the military, but also in governing the country as a rare genius.
China has gone through countless dynasties in history, but the Yuan Dynasty was the largest, with a total area of 13.72 million square kilometers, and Genghis Khan even led his army to the Turkish border.
According to European historical records, when Genghis Khan went east to Europe, he was called the "Whip of God" by the Europeans at that time, and believed that it was a punishment from Satan, so how did Genghis Khan start his majestic strategy?
Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin and he was born in Mongolia.
When he was nine years old, his tribe was conspired against and became a prisoner of other tribes, and Temujin's personality changed dramaticallyHe began to become ruthless, and even his own brother was killed.
According to historical records, Temujin was dependent on his mother and siblings as a child, and often went hungry.
Once, his younger brother robbed Temujin of fish and almost beat him to death, but fortunately, his mother educated him in time, so he reined in and began to hide his ambitions and cultivate his subordinates.
When he finally grew up, Temujin wanted to be ashamed, so he joined forces with his father's former subordinates and began to sweep the grasslands.
There is a war with the enemy TaichiuTemujin, who was not afraid of tigers, was decisive on the battlefield and soon gained the upper hand, and after defeating Taichiwu, Temujin became more and more courageous, to recover all the tribes of Mongolia in succession and unify Mongolia.
After becoming the lord of Mongolia, Temujin had an honorific title - Genghis Khan.
But at this time, the grassland was no longer Genghis Khan's main goal, he wanted to unify the Central Plains, so he took the brave and warlike soldiers and horses to start the life of the southern expedition and the northern war.
In 1227, Genghis Khan defeated the Western Xia in one fell swoop, and in 1234, the Mongols defeated the Jin Dynasty, completely taking North China for themselves.
According to the book, since Genghis Khan established the Mongol Han State in 1206, he began to fight on a large scale, successively occupying Western Xia, Jin, Tubo, Dali, Song, Western Liao, etc.
At this point, the Central Plains ended the situation of many countries competing with each other and coexisting, and was completely unified by Genghis Khan.
After Genghis Khan unified the Central Plains, he did not stop the war, but continued to expand his territory and bring soldiers and horses to Europe, which once became a nightmare in Europe.
However, it is said that in the course of the battle, there were three kinds of people who did not kill when Genghis Khan slaughtered the village, so who are these three kinds of people?Why did they get Genghis Khan's forgiveness again, and what wisdom did Genghis Khan show here?
According to historical records, there was not a single grass in the places where Genghis Khan's troops went.
They did not accept surrender, and every time they took the city, they went straight to the massacreOne is afraid that someone will come to him for revenge, and the other is that slaughtering the city can also make an example of chickens and monkeys, so that others can feel awe of themselves.
However, in the process of slaughtering the city, Genghis Khan also had his own considerations, he was not a bloodthirsty demon, but a monarch with great wisdom, so who would he leave behind?And what is the use of these people?
The first of these is children, one might askGenghis Khan himself planted the seeds of revenge since he was a child, and when he grew up, he took revenge to unify Mongolia, why did he leave behind the children who were slaughtered like himself, and was he not afraid that they would take revenge on him when they grew up?
Genghis Khan had already considered this, Genghis Khan left behind children under the age of five, children in this period had no memory of their own, and they were easily subdued, leaving children so that the regions they ruled in the future would have troops available, not empty cities.
The second type of people are young and beautiful women, and this reason can be imagined, on the one hand, young and beautiful women can be used as a consolation for soldiers and improve the combat effectiveness of the army.
On the other hand, women are also left behind in order to be able to reproduce, so that Mongolia's population can increase rapidly and provide more labor for development.
The third type of people are skilled craftsmen, and Genghis Khan left these skilled craftsmen to learn from each other's strengths.
The nomadic Mongolian army is obviously slightly deficient in manufacturing, and the Mongolian troops that have been fighting all year round are very serious in terms of weapon loss, so they need some capable people to make more advanced **.
Each of the three types of people left behind would be of great use to Genghis Khan's future ruleThese are the embodiment of Genghis Khan's great wisdom in order to allow them to conquer more territories and open up more territories for their descendants.
According to historical records, the Yuan Dynasty ruled the Central Plains for 98 years, which is in the middle of the many dynasties in Chinese history, and although it is not the longest in terms of lifespan, it is the largest in terms of the area it rules.
Because after the death of Genghis Khan,His descendants did not rest up, but continued to expand their territory, even bringing armies to Europe.
Historically, there have been three Mongol expeditions to the west, from 1217 to 1223, from 1234 to 1241, and from 1253 to 1258.
The leaders of the three western expeditions were different, the first was Genghis Khan himself leading the army, with the Mongolian desert as the center.
Adopting the strategy of "occupying from near to far" step by step, Genghis Khan's use of gunpowder on the battlefield in this expedition also made Europeans feel the fire of war for the first time.
Genghis Khan did not blindly self-confidence when he led his troops to fight, but learned from each other's strengths, let the Huihui craftsmen who were good at manufacturing build advanced artillery, and synthesized the excellent combat experience of other ethnic groups in tactics to greatly improve the war advantage.
This westward expedition completely changed the pattern of the world, and the Mongol iron cavalry marched into Europe and won a victory, not only destroying Khorezm, but also leading the army across the Taihe Ridge and defeating the Kipchak tribes one by one.
After the death of Genghis Khan, at the behest of Ögedei Khan, the Mongols made a second expedition to Europe.
This time, Ögedai Khan sent his eldest son Batu as a leader, and under the leadership of Batu, the iron cavalry of the Mongol tribes stepped into the kingdom of Haibgar, as well as the Slavic tribes.
It even defeated Kievan Rus', Poland and the Roman Empire, and even Hungary and Bulgaria were conquered by the Mongol iron cavalry, this crusade directly reached the Italian peninsula, and also made the Europeans spread the words "the Mongolian iron cavalry is the devil".
In the third western expedition, the reigning Möngke Khan appointed Hülegü as the commander-in-chief, and conquered Persia, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Syria successively, leaving nothing in his reach.
But this was not the end of the story, as in 1258 the Mongol cavalry marched into Baghdad and in 1260 they conquered Damascus.
According to statistics, Mongolia carried out three expeditions to the west, destroying nearly 40 countries in total, and even the Arab head of state Caliph wrapped in a carpet to trample the war horse to death.
Later, in order to facilitate its rule, the Mongol state established the Chagatai Khanate from a number of countries west of the present-day Aral Sea and north of the Caspian Sea.
The Ögedai Khanate was established west of the upper Ob River to Lake Balkhash, and the Ilkhanate was established in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iran in the two river basins, and the Kipchak Khanate was also established in the areas of Muscovy, Vladimir, Kiev and other principalities.
The iron cavalry of Mongolia changed the pattern of EuropeEurope was even more devastated by the Black Death, which directly brought European civilization to the next stage of development.
Genghis Khan, whose ambition is the most dazzling in all dynasties of ChinaHe rode the Mongol iron horse to every corner of the Central Plains, and even entered Europe, conquering more than 40 European countries at once, which has greatly changed the political and economic landscape of Europe.
Even Marx once commented that Genghis Khan "fought all his life and conquered as many as 720 nations".However, the most regrettable thing is that Genghis Khan spent his whole life and expanded countless territories, but he forgot to inform the governance of the country after that, which may also be one of the reasons for the rapid decline of the Yuan Dynasty.