Although this matter was finally resolved, this confusion occupied a considerable space in the early days of the Purple Horde Khanate and has been lingering in all aspects.
Many of the subsequent changes were not so much the development of the Purple Horde Khanate as the result of external forces.
For example, Mongolian identity, one of the main trends of thought at that time, also changed due to changes in the overall environment.
Tuohuan once told Guo Kang an ancestral joke, saying that Boyan Timur, the founder of the country, encountered embarrassing identity confusion back then.
When Boyan Timur was in the Golden Horde, he often did business with various businessmen to supplement his livelihood. The languages he is most familiar with are Turkic and Persian. The businessmen who dealt with him also regarded him more as a Turk. As time went by, he thought so himself.
Later, he met Shi Shoudao, a mercenary leader who worked as a bodyguard for the caravan. When everyone was chatting and bragging, Shi Shoudao said that although these businessmen said that he was a Khitan mercenary, in fact, his family was actually Turkic.
Boyan Timur and others did not take it seriously, but Shi Shoudao actually spoke truthfully. He said that his ancestors were from the line of Khans from the rise and fall of the Western Turks. There are many records in the archives and history books of the Tang Dynasty, which can still be found today.
What is more embarrassing is that the Turks who were active in Boyan Timur knew nothing about this Khan, and none of them had heard about the situation of Ashina's family. Everyone always felt that he might be bragging, but they couldn't find anything to say to refute it. They didn't know whether he was bragging or the myth was too old.
Boyan Timur was very curious, so he asked his well-informed friend Guo Gai to ask. After Guo Gai confirmed it for him, everyone understood what was going on.
Guo Gai once traveled on the grassland and helped them deal with their enemies. He was quite famous in this area, so everyone believed in him. But this incident had a huge impact on the entire tribe.
Boyan Timur was a little better. After all, according to legend, his family seemed to be somewhat related to the Great Khan. The other leaders are in dire straits - those who hold Turkic identity are trapped in the confusion of "He is a Turk, what am I?"
Therefore, when Boyan Timur led his troops to go south, many of his Kipchaks chose to identify with Mongolia - a large part of the reason was because they really had Turks here...
Tuohuan used this to tell Guo Kang that this is how the identity of the grassland people actually changes. Most of the time, it's not that they want to change, but other influencing factors around them, so they just change as a response.
Not to mention that the Mongolian identity proposed by Taishi was clearly placed in a secondary position by the Purple Horde Khanate, and even began to fade among the various tribes in Beiya. It was during the reign of Basil III. The specific reasons are actually similar.
At that time, in the East, it was a foregone conclusion that the Yuan Dynasty would withdraw from the Central Plains; in the world of Tianfang Sect, the most powerful "Mongolian" was Timur, who was seriously Turkicized. Across the Eurasian continent, the original "Mongolia" seems to be rapidly fading, to the point where no one knows who and what Mongolia is.
Tuo Huan said that at that time, the Purple Horde Khanate and the Chagatai Khanate were communicating, and the Chagatai envoy told them something:
In the Yuan Dynasty, it was customary to refer to the Mongols as "Duqin Duerben", which means "forty-four". Because according to Genghis Khan's division, this part of Mongolia was divided into 400,000 households, known as "400,000 Mongolia". The Oara people in Moxi have 40,000 households, which are called "40,000 Oirat". The establishment of these 440,000 households constitutes the main body of Mongolia.
As a result, when the Yuan Dynasty fell, thirty-six of the forty Mongol households voted for Zhu Hongwu Hehan. This is also why the Oara people have such a strong presence now - because the Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty has never been very popular with the Mongols, and his headquarters has all disappeared...
In this way, a question arises, who is the suzerain of the Mongols? Is it Zhu Hongwu Hehan, or Beiyuan's Hehan?
Different governments have different answers to this question. The Chagatai Khanate thought it was Zhu Hongwu Hehan, because they hated the Yuan Dynasty, and anyone could do it as long as it was not a remnant of Kublai Khan. The Beiyuan and Zhengdong Provinces believed that the orthodoxy was Hehan in the Northern Yuan Dynasty. But these two regimes were actually not conquered by the Great Khan himself - in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, powerful ministers from all walks of life took turns taking charge, and the grand masters had actually taken control of the small court. In the Zhengdong Province, it was independent from beginning to end, so it only verbally borrowed the name of the Great Khan.
As for the Javanese Yuan, they never mentioned the issue of the Mongolian suzerain, because they didn't care at all...
The Purple Horde Khan therefore believed that under such circumstances, the Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty was no longer representative, and the original narrative needed to be changed accordingly.
What is more interesting is that the most powerful Mongolian armed forces in the entire world are actually at both ends, that is, in the hands of the Ming Dynasty and the Purple Horde Khanate. As for the various Yuan regimes, a closer look shows that the Han people were the backbone.
Not to mention the Javanese Yuan, the same is true for the Northern Yuan and Zhengdong Provinces.
When the calligrapher Yuanshun Emperor "hunted" in the north, there were roughly four armed forces that he could still rely on: Whether it was Guo Kang's past world or the situation here, there is no doubt that the most powerful one is Guo Kang. The Henan landlord armies under Wang Baobao. This was also the only military force in the Beiyuan regime that could form a majestic formation and engage in a decisive battle with the Ming army.
In past history, this army quickly disintegrated after Wang Baobao's death. In the final analysis, their allegiance was not to the Yuan Dynasty, but to Wang Baobao himself. Therefore, after Wang Baobao disappeared, everyone dispersed. Many people returned to the south one after another and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. For example, Zhu Di's men Zhang Yu, Zhang Fu and his son defected in this way.
In this world, Wang Baobao led his men to break away from the Northern Yuan Dynasty and ran to the east to become king on their own. Therefore, although the Zhengdong Province is also called "Yuan", it has never even listened to the propaganda and has not paid attention to the Khan's court at all...
After Wang Baobao's power disappeared, the most powerful people were the Wala people. They had been guarding Moxi before, facing other khanates whose combat effectiveness was worrying.
Looking at specific battle examples, sometimes they are exaggerated than stereotypes - Guo Kang calculated the time and found that if historical development were to be followed, in less than two years, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate would be Waisi Khan. During his reign, he fought 61 battles with the Oara people and won once.
Even with such a record, Waisi Khan is already a warrior recognized by the people of Wala. The Eastern Chagatai Khanate performed reasonably well when facing other enemies in the west. You can imagine how far everyone else has gone...
(End of chapter)
