Chapter 65: Infighting Disaster Begins
After Atai brought the coffin back to Helin, he arranged the funeral of Mengge Khan under the assistant of the Mongolian clan.
After the funeral of Mengge Khan was settled, Alibuge summoned his party confidants Arandal, Berge and others to discuss matters quietly in the tent. As the person Alibuge relied the most, Atai naturally participated in it.
The generals led by Mengge were still confronting the southwest line. These days, the tribes were busy with the funeral of Mengge Khan. Although everyone was concerned about the heir of the Khan throne, they did not dare to ask too much because of Mengge Khan's funeral ceremony. Now that the major event has been completed, it is natural to put this matter on the agenda.
After Atai returned, he did not mention this matter. According to the rules of the Mongolian people, it was a very serious matter to announce the Khan throne. He needed to witness the heavy Mongolian relatives to convince the public. Hulagu was far away in the West, Kublai Khan was confronting Ezhou, and Badu was not in Helin. Many well-known clan relatives were not present. Therefore, the day of electing the Khan must be postponed.
It was precisely because of this that Brother Ali Bu decided to take the initiative and prepare to gain the advantage first, so he secretly summoned his clan confidants whom he had absolutely trust and reached an interest alliance first.
The crowd gathered in the camp, and saw Brother Alibu came to Ada and asked Atai, "Who did you say that you would pass the Khan position to?"
Atai thought for a while and saw that they were all close friends. If they told the truth, they would gain merit and gain prestige among the close friends. According to the truth, "On the death of Khan, the King of the South of the Mo, gave the Khan throne to Kublai Khan, and left a secret copy."
Everyone started to talk as soon as they heard this.
Arandal is a versatile old man. He became Alibuge's minion very early. Alibuge just threw a look at him, and he said happily: "Kublai has made friends with Han people and is deeply influenced by Han Confucianism. If he is a Khan, wouldn't he change the etiquette of our Mongolian clan into the etiquette of the Han people? I don't like to establish Kublai Khan."
Hunduhai also echoed: "Kublai has always valued Han ministers and former Jin ministers. If he was a Khan, the military power of our Mongolian clan would be cut off, and the foundation of our ancestors would be unstable."
Aluhu also said to himself: "The King of Mobei is good at governing his army and has been deeply supported by the Mongolian clan. I support Alibuge for being a Khan."
Brother Alibu looked at Atai. Ada knew that this was about to express his opinion, so he said, "Uncle Fourth and I have always been disagreeing, and we don't support him in our hearts to inherit the Khan throne."
Seeing that everyone expressed their positions, but was unwilling to reveal their ambitions too directly, Ali Bu Ge said tactfully: "Sweat first, don't disobey, let alone my fourth brother is invincible and has heavy troops in his hand."
Arandal is a person who only values interests. Alibu Ge must have promised him many benefits. For the sake of interests, he is willing to do something that others do not want to do. For that little benefit, he was the first to disobey Xiankang's wishes and advocated without hesitation in front of his confidants: "We might as well support the King of Mobei as Khan. As long as Atai, you insist on the King of Mobei, you will pass the throne to the King of Mobei, then everything will be natural." There was no shame on his face, and the suggestion was extremely light.
Ali Buge asked pretentiously: "Is this possible?"
Everyone remained silent. Although they were a die-hard confidant of Alibu Ge, they still did not dare to touch the crime of violating the last order of Sweat. They were all waiting aside and had a neutral attitude.
Seeing this, Atai was secretly happy. The time to establish prestige for himself has come. If he successfully convinced these confidants, Ali Buge will ascend the Khan throne in the future, his position will naturally be much more valuable.
Therefore, in silence, Ada took out the secret fold from his arms and said loudly, "Please look!"
Everyone stared at the secret fold in Ada's hand in a row. The seal on the secret fold had not been removed. Obviously, Ada had not opened it.
In front of everyone, Ada pulled open the seal and opened the secret book, which read two lines of Mongolian text, which meant that "Kublai Khan, the king of the southern desert, ordered all Mongolian tribes to continue to assist Kublai Khan in completing his unfinished great cause."
Atai faced the secret letter head-on. Ali Buge had a feeling of displeasure on his face, thinking that Ada would change his mind at the moment. After everyone saw this, Atai walked to the burning candle with the secret letter and lit the secret letter. Everyone did not stop him, but sighed.
When the secret folds roamed in the camp with blue smoke, everyone calmed down and seemed to smell the smell of fame. Ali Bu Ge felt very calm, and it turned out that Atai still supported him as always.
After all, Atai is still a smart person. He knew that although he could win the trust and reliance of Ali Buge, he could not gain the respect of other clans present, because his identity was different from that of everyone present. He was the son of Xian Khan. Burning down his father Khan's will is disobedience. How could such an unfilial person be respected? He had already thought of a solution to these things when Atai decided to burn the secret letter.
The secret folds burned more and more. Just like the burning ambitions of everyone present, when the secret folds were about to burn out, Atai threw them into the brazier on the ground, and the fire shone on his red face.
"I am the son of Father Khan. I burned the secret note left by Father Khan for great unfilial piety. However, I am still willing to burn it down in the name of unfilial piety. Do you know why?" Atai said excitedly, his eyes scanning everyone.
"Because the future of the entire Mongolian race is more important than unfiliality. Just imagine, if King Nan of Mo ascends the throne of Khan, what will happen to the Mongolian race in the next step? Learn the cultural etiquette of the Han people? Distribute military power to foreign tribes? The clans move south?" Ada's voice asked, questioning the hearts of all the relatives present.
"We Mongolians fought in all directions for the prosperity of the Mongolians. However, the King of Monan devoted himself to Confucianism and did not avoid relatives. At that time, the real power of the Mongolian clan relatives would be completely divided. How could the prosperity of the Mongolians be discussed?" Seeing that everyone was shaken, Atai continued to ask,
"If you think what I say is unreasonable, if you think I am an unfilial son." As Atai said, he took off the sword in his waist, put his hands on him, knelt on the ground, and continued, "Then please let anyone here kill me, the unfilial son, with one knife." Atai then closed his eyes, without fear.
Atai's move is very clever. First, in such a situation, no one must have stepped forward to kill him with a knife. Then, no one will come forward at this time, which is a forgiveness for his unfilial piety. If Ali Buge ascends the throne of Khan in the future, if someone says this, he will have reason to refute it. After all, since he thinks it is unfilial, why didn't he slash himself with one knife at the beginning; second, no one comes forward, which is a kind of accusation to Ali Buge just saying, which is to silently agree with Ali Buge calling him Khan; third, as the son of Mongge Xiankhan, he has taken the lead in burning secret letters for the long-term plan of the Mongolian people, which breaks the barriers between the confidants present for violating Xiankhan. On the grounds of the long-term plan of the Mongolian people, it is also a great thing.
After a long silence, no confidant came forward to make any resentful moves.
Seeing this situation, Alibuge stepped forward and helped Atai up. Arandal was very clever and called out decisively: "Since everyone has no objections, then we will support the King of Mobei as Khan for the long-term plan of the Mongolian tribe!"
Hunduhai and Alu suddenly expressed their agreement, and the confidants also expressed their support.
Brother Ali Bu looked at the clan and generals who supported him, and his ambition was beating faster and faster.
That night, after Alibuge left everyone, he quietly found Atai. Alibuge took out two letters and said, "This is the letter handed over to me by the messenger that day. There are two letters in total, and I opened them all in private."
That day the messenger clearly told Alibuge that he could only disassemble the letter when Hulagu and Kublai Khan returned. Now he has disassembled it privately, which shows that his ambition has remained secretly for a long time.
Atai asked, "What is it written?"
Brother Alibu whispered: "One is a shocking secret, the other is a 'major plan'." Then he handed two letters to Atai.
Atai took the letter from Brother Ali Bu and looked at it, and immediately showed a look of surprise.
Brother Ali Bu reminded: "You only know about this matter and I know about it, and you will definitely not allow a third person to know about it."
After saying that, he burned two letters.
Atai naturally knew what Ali Buge meant. He was grateful for his kindness to help him. Since ancient times, "high merits will shock the master." In order to dispel his vigilance against Ali Buge and to help Ali Buge with all his strength, he deliberately told two major secrets, and Atai naturally received this love.
After reading the two letters, Ali Buge knew the existence of Juxian Pavilion and also knew many things that he shouldn't have known. As the valley master expected, he began to eagerly borrow Juxian Pavilion to get rid of Kublai Khan's threat.
After Ali Buge reached a tacit understanding with Ada, he discussed with Ada: "I know you, the master of Juxian Pavilion and the envoy of Huzhu each have one. I also know that you actually have all the masters in Juxian Pavilion. If you send the masters in it to secretly kill Kublai Khan, "the dragons are gone", then we don't have to worry about Kublai Khan's power."
Atai had this idea for a long time. Since he chose Ali Bu Ge, he knew that he was destined to break up with his fourth uncle. He said from the bottom of his heart: "I think so too."
Brother Alibu said happily: "It's so good, it's not too late. We should arrange this as soon as possible. If your third uncle and other relative ministers come back, it may not be easy to deal with your fourth uncle."
Atai replied coldly: "Don't panic. On the first day after I came back with my father's coffin, I had already sent out the elite masters of Juxian Pavilion. This time, the fourth uncle was doomed."
Brother Ali Bu was stunned. He did not expect that Atai's scheming was so deep, and he couldn't help but be curious about the reason why he hated Kublai Khan so much.
Chapter completed!