After the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, it often took the form of marriage to maintain and consolidate relations with other Mongol regimes. Among these women who are close to each other, one of them has a very legendary experience, her peace road has been walked for more than two years, and after reaching her destination, she found that her fiancé was dead, so she had to remarry her stepson as a wife, and eventually became the queen. This legendary woman was Princess Kokokujin of the Ilkhanate of Hedun (i.e., queen).
During Möngke's tenure as Great Khan of the Mongols, in accordance with Genghis Khan's last wishes to expand his territory and build a domain, he sent his younger brother Hulegu to the west to conquer the Middle East. Hulagu's troops were fierce, and along the way they conquered many Islamic regimes such as Mharayi, the Black-clad Eater (i.e., the Abbasid dynasty of the Arab Empire), the Sultanate of Bar, Syria, the Fulang State, and the Sultanate of Roma, and reached the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. When Kublai Khan succeeded to the throne of the Great Khan, he gave this vast area to his brother Hulagu and gave him the title of Ilkhanate in 1264 AD.
The first Ilkhan Hulagu
Hulagu died one year after he was enthroned, and after that, the eldest son Abaha, the second son Tigu Di'er, and the grandson Aruhun came to power one after another, and they kept their respects to the Yuan Dynasty, which was deeply pleasing to the Ancestors of the Yuan Dynasty. Four years after Aruhun ascended the throne, Queen Brouhan died, and before her death, she requested the establishment of a tribal woman as queen, and Aruhun agreed. Since Bluhan was from the Mongol Boyue Wubu, Aruhun sent three people, Wulu, Abdulha, and The Fireman, to Dadu to meet with Yuan Shizu and ask him to choose the daughter of the former queen's clan as a concubine.
Map of the situation in the Yuan Dynasty and other Mongol khanates
Because the Ilkhanate was thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, and was separated by a vast and dangerous desert, it had passed 5 years from the time when Wulu and other envoys arrived in Dadu, and then to the completion of the task of selecting concubines and the departure to return home. In order to avoid the dangers on the land route, on the return journey, Wulu and the others decided to switch to the sea route.
In the spring of 1291, accompanied by Wulu and others, Kuo Kuozhen boarded a ship from Quanzhou, first arrived at the country of Guawa, then continued to sail from Java, crossed the Indian Ocean, arrived at the port of kurimuzi (near present-day Minab, southeastern Iran), and then took the land route directly to the capital of tabriz, Rao hurriedly, or traveled for two years and two months.
Yuan Shizu agreed to Aruhun's request and sent Kuo Kuozhen to make peace
What Kuo Kuo really did not expect was that she was ordered to come and kiss her from far away, and before she reached her destination, her fiancé had died (Aruhun died of illness in early 1291, and her brother Qihe Du was on the throne), which made her situation very embarrassing. Since Kuo Kuo zhen came to consummate the marriage on the orders of the emperor, the beggar could not "return", plus he already had his own queen, so after careful consideration, it was decided to give Kuo Kuo Zhen to Aruhun's son Hezan.
Thus, in August 1293, Kokokozhen consummated marriage to Ghazan and became the wife of what should have been his stepson (the record of Ghazan marrying Khokuozhen can be seen in the "History Collection" compiled by the Ilkhanate Prime Minister Rasht, which mentions that when Ghazan arrived at Abkha'er, "the envoy fireman and his envoy who had been sent by the former Arukhun Khan to marry the daughter of the late Hedun of Thekhun tribe of Bluhan and his envoy, and came here with the treasures of Kuokuo Zhenhedun and China, and the Khan of Hezan was stationed here and married Kuo kuozhen Hedun. ”）。
Aruhun did not wait for Kuo Kuo-jin to die, and the latter could only marry his son Hezan
Fortunately, Hezan still has pity and love for Kuo Kuozhen, so that the latter does not feel much trouble and sorrow in a foreign land, which can also be regarded as a perfect marriage. Ghazan was the eldest son of Aruhun, extremely capable, ambitious, and proficient in Chinese, and thought he was entitled to succeed him as Khan, but now he was very unwilling to accept the rule of his incompetent uncle. Fortunately, it didn't take long for him to wait for his chance.
It turned out that during the reign of Beggars, he indulged in alcohol and was extremely poor and extravagant, and within a few years, he exhausted the mountains and rivers of the khanate and the people were not happy, and in order to solve the huge deficit in the national treasury, he actually took the way of indiscriminately issuing paper money to deal with it, which provoked more intense resistance. In April 1295, the chancellor Dehe cha'er murdered Qihedu and installed Hulagu's grandson Baidu as king. Baidu was weak and incompetent, and he was simply incapable of governing the khanate, and in this situation, Ghazan stepped forward and, under the banner of crusading against the rebels, raised an army to attack Andu and de-Hecha'er, and seized the khan's position in October of the same year.
Ghazan came to power through a coup d'état and was a very accomplished monarch
After Hezan came to power, while establishing the throne as Hedun, he carried out drastic reforms in the political and economic fields, so that the country could regain its vitality after years of destruction. At the same time, Ghazan also abandoned Lamaism and converted to Islam, transforming the Ilkhanate into a Muslim state. Ghazan Khan died after 9 years on the throne, at the age of 33, but the real situation of Kuokuo is unknown, whether she survived Ghazan's death, and whether she gave birth to children, it is not known.
Historical sources: "Historical Collection", "Imperial Classics"