Tuo Lei arrived at Huolan Bashi nine months ago, in April of the Year of the Tiger in the Mongolian calendar. He received intelligence from the Central Plains reported from the grasslands, and immediately set out to investigate the situation in depth.
In the nine months after his departure, all kinds of news flew like snow flakes to the vast river and the land, and the Bijachi sang it to Genghis Khan in a melodious way.
Shortly after hearing the news, Genghis Khan set out to leave his spring camp west of Samarkand. However, he and his cowards marched at an unusually slow speed. It was not until the spring of the Year of the Rabbit that the huge herd and camel team arrived at the city of Nandala.
This city, in the Mongolian publicity, was the beginning of the entire Western Expedition. Two years ago, it was the Khwarezm general Yinalershu who was stationed here because he coveted the Mongolian caravan's property and falsely accused the merchant of being a female agent. He was executed by the general, which caused Genghis Khan to be furious and launch an army.
Yinalershu was a Kangli native. After he massacred the Mongolian caravan, he dedicated his property to the Queen Mother Tu'er Hankedun, who was also a Kangli native. Tu'er Han Ke Dun had always been autocratic and good at governing, and he did not report his son Maha's misfortune at all.
As a result, at this moment, Maha Mo Suan Duan was ruined and his family was destroyed, and he fled to the islands in the west for refuge. The bald Han Ketun also became a prisoner of the Mongols. On the contrary, the lower-level Kangli warriors were largely incorporated into the Mongolian army and became the main source of the expansion of the Mongolian army.
Kangli people generally have high noses, deep eyes and many beards, making them easy to identify.
At this moment, beside Nianhe Zhongshan, leading the horse and walking slowly, was a Kangli soldier. He noticed Lian Zhongshan's gaze, bowed somewhat humbly, and grinned.
In the eyes of ordinary Kangli people, Ninghe Zhongshan is sitting on a high camel's back, with a special wooden shelf placed on the hump in front of him, a rattan basket for pens and ink hanging next to him, and a wooden frame behind him. With the awning on the hump and the equipment so complete, he must be a great man.
Sticking to the mountains, one can only complain.
This Jurchen was once a subordinate of Tuo Lei, also known as Luhuachi, and now he is Qingxue Bichachi, who is also the close secretary of Genghis Khan. He didn't care to look at the Kangli man anymore, and withdrew his gaze, lying on the wooden shelf and writing line after line.
"Genghis Khan continued to march today, passing by the razed city of Nandala. The Yunduchi troops were galloping in front of the army, with their headquarters following closely behind. Wherever I passed, I could see the remains of buildings, dry canals, and camels everywhere. My feet often trample fragments of painted ceramics."
"It was brought by overland business travelers for hundreds of years. It was once a collection used by local wealthy merchants and officials to show off. Now these fragments, like their owner's corpse, will slowly become one with the gravel, maybe hundreds of Years from now, people won’t be able to see anything here except the green mountains in the distance.”
"The blue mountains are like road signs, and the four grandsons of Mahatma are buried in the mountain col, which proves the unshakable power of Genghis Khan."
Writing on the back of a rickety horse, the handwriting has no bones to speak of. However, Uighur writing is originally a series of continuous strokes. Even if it is written roughly, no one can see it. Mongolians don't pay much attention to the beauty of writing, so they can write whatever they think of.
This is what Genghis Khan required of Bichachi: keep reading and writing. Once Genghis Khan is free, he will randomly summon a certain Bichachi and ask him to read out his records for the Khan's entertainment.
Ninghe Zhongshan hopes that he can have some entertainment value and not be disliked by Khan.
He has worked very hard, but he is still not confident whether he can satisfy the Khan.
Originally, there was no such position as Bichichi in the Mongolian army. After Genghis Khan destroyed the Naiman tribe, he captured Tata Tong'a, a Uighur man, and made him in charge of the money and grain cashier, responsible for delivering important personnel appointments and various military and political orders to the Khan's court. Because the Mongols did not have writing, they relied on oral language when delivering orders. Genghis Khan discovered that Tata Tong'a was proficient in Mongolian and Uighur script, so he asked him to use Uighur script to spell Mongolian as the official script of the Great Mongolia.
Tata Tong'a thus became the great general in Qie Xue's army, and he forcibly promoted this improvised writing.
This is hard to stick to. He has a thorough knowledge of Chinese studies and has written a book. In the past two years, his Mongolian language has gradually become more fluent. As a result, after being transferred to Genghis Khan's side, the first thing
The thing turned out to be that we should learn Uighur writing as soon as possible, otherwise we would lose our heads if we failed to learn it.
It's not enough to just learn the words, you have to write them down and record them every day. What is recorded is something that the most noble reader in the world, who has the power of life and death, needs to read from time to time...
The life I was living today was much more frustrating than when I was under the fourth prince and had such great power.
But it's not just Guan Zhongshan who is feeling aggrieved.
Speaking of being unlucky, Guo Baoyu was the most unlucky when he followed the Fourth Prince as a spy.
Yelu Tuhua once drank the water of the Banjuni River with Genghis Khan. What a senior minister he was. As a result, together with Liu Bolin, we are being pointed at and scolded by the newly appointed Daru Huachi and Uighur Zhenhai every day, which is called humiliation.
The Fourth Prince's loss of power has affected too many people. I can save my life, which is already good!
Random thoughts were running through my mind, and my hand, which was glued to the heavy mountain, kept stopping, and in the blink of an eye, another piece of parchment was filled with writing. In the Kingdom of Jin, he was a Jurchen Jinshi. Even if his boss farts, he can still write a large article with parallel six and four figures on it. At the moment, he doesn't care about literary talent, he just wants to write well. many.
A year or two ago, the Bichachi people would not have been so hard.
The current situation is also related to the competition between Genghis Khan's disciples.
There has always been a vague division of labor among the four legitimate sons of Genghis Khan. As early as when he was stationed on the banks of the Onan River, Jochi was in charge of hunting, Chagatai was in charge of laws, Ogedai was in charge of daily administrative coordination, and Tolei followed Genghis Khan as his daily adviser and assistant.
Before the Mongol army launched its western expedition, Genghis Khan hinted to his disciples that he would select the person with the most outstanding performance as his successor, so all his disciples did their best.
Regardless of others, Chagatai has always been familiar with and good at reciting Genghis Khan's hadith Bilik. The fact that he was able to do this with his impetuous character was not due to his natural talent, but to the Han ministers around him who helped him sort out the history of Genghis Khan's conquests and the various orders issued day and night.
Chagatai took the compiled content and recited it endlessly every day, so whenever Genghis Khan mentioned something, he could jump out and speak clearly.
Genghis Khan was very satisfied with this. After continuously defeating great powers and sweeping across thousands of miles of territory, he also hoped to use this method to promote the great Khan's wisdom and martial prowess, so as to overwhelm some rumors about the failure of the war in the Central Plains.
As a result, every Bichachi is unlucky. From sunrise to sunset every day, everyone becomes a ruthless writing machine.
Suddenly a gust of wind blew, carrying a huge amount of sand and soil, and hit the camels that were riding on the heavy mountains.
When the army passed by here two years ago, it was also spring, there were sparkling beaches everywhere, and it would rain from time to time. The march of the army gives people a particularly solemn and majestic feeling.
At this time, passing through this place, Adhesion Mountain found that the land and air were much drier. That was probably because many residents were killed and the destroyed canals were not repaired in time.
The scorching heat is far away, but the scorching sunshine is already scorching the earth. The dust raised by thousands of people and tens of thousands of horses and camels is almost blocking the sky. The strong wind is blowing, and the day is almost turning into night. A few steps away from the heavy bonding mountain, the face of the Kangli warrior could not be seen clearly.
At this time, all the cavalry must keep an eye on the horse tail of their companions in front. If they deviate from the route, they will get mixed into the dense and loose cavalry. It will take an hour or two to find their own team.
The huge team marched like this in the half-darkness and chaos of smoke and dust. The heavy mountains looked around, and everything they could see was shadowy. This gave him a terrible uneasy feeling.
This horrible feeling soon became more intense. Because a young guard came from the front of the queue and galloped forward, facing the smoke and dust in the sky to find the bonding mountain: "You are on duty today. The Great Khan asked you to come."
Guan Zhongshan was so frightened that he opened his mouth and didn't notice the dust flying straight into his throat. It wasn't until he could hardly breathe that he suddenly choked and coughed, secretly looking at the guard's expression and wondering how Genghis Khan was feeling today.
The Suwei all know that Adhesion Chongshan is Tuo Lei’s confidant, a figure who once held great power;
Adhesion Chongshan is also willing to spend money, so the guards are generally very polite to him.
Seeing his probing eyes, Su Wei looked heavy and shook his head.
The mountains of adhesive were so frightening that my legs were weak. His mind went blank in an instant, and he only remembered that the guard half-supported and half-forced him to pull him to Genghis Khan's main team.
There, he saw Genghis Khan riding a tall horse, as motionless as a stone statue. And the countless people around the Great Khan, such as Huoerchi, Xibaochi, Zhalichi, Yunduchi, etc., and the confidants of various positions all knelt down with pale faces, as if one after another appeared in the wilderness. Concentric circles with the Great Khan as the center.
Nian Zhongshan was sweating profusely. He bent down and passed through the rows of kneeling people. He came to the inner circle closer to the profuse sweat and knelt down.
Genghis Khan's bloodshot eyes looked at the mountain of adhesives, and he raised his hand to indicate, "Write it down."
Adhesive Zhongshan almost frantically took out the pen and ink and spread the parchment on the ground. Then he heard Genghis Khan say in a cold tone: "I will kill him without mercy!"
The Great Khan wants to kill someone. This is a trivial matter. Why should he announce it so solemnly? Since the army's western expedition, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. The blades made of fine steel have been blunted, and the flowing blood has soaked the leather boots. Who has such a special status that the Great Khan wants to kill him, causing so many close servants to panic? Why did he have to call me here to make special records?
Adhesion Chongshan suddenly thought of a possibility. He was so frightened that the blood all over his body turned to ice, and the ice particles stung him so much that his heart was trembling.
Could it be that the fourth prince offended the Khan again?
Could it be that someone else was slandering in front of the Great Khan?
Are these Mongolians crazy? They have forced the fourth prince to such an extent and they still insist on his death? Nianhe Zhongshan has no doubt about the cruelty of this power struggle. If the situation suddenly deteriorates, the fourth prince may lose his life. Everyone who once supported him, including tens of thousands of people including Nianhe Zhongshan himself, will all die!
For a moment, he was afraid, horrified, and desperate. These emotions were even stronger than when he was captured by the Mongols. He was so frightened that he lost all his strength, but from his despair, he had the energy to break a jar.
He suddenly took a few steps on his knees, threw himself at the feet of Genghis Khan, hugged the Khan's calf and shouted, "You can't do it!"
As he shouted, Genghis Khan continued: "I will kill Jochi!"
"ah?"
Adhesive Zhongshan's face was covered with snot and tears. He raised his eyes to look at Genghis Khan, and was kicked away by Genghis Khan.
