Genghis Khan left two diametrically opposed wills before his death, on the one hand, in accordance with the custom of "young sons guarding the stove", he left his Mongolian hometown and most of the Mongolian population and wealth to Tuolei, and openly said to his old subordinates: "My property has been given to Tuolei, he is the head of the family, you should go to Tuolei to ask for (rewards)"; On the other hand, he left the khan's throne to Wokoutai and designated Wokoutai as superior to his brothers in the army. This caused a series of chaos, and the person who ended this chaos was Temuge Chijin.
According to Genghis Khan's setting, Wokoutai was the ruler of the entire Mongol Empire, including the kings of the Eastern and Western Provinces (including the Khanates of Shuchi and Chagatai), while Tore was the master of the Mongol holding company, and the two sons should cooperate with each other. The problem was that he only gave four thousand households to Wokoutai, and the military strength of the Wokoutai Khanate was not only inferior to that of the Shuchi Khanate and the Chagatai Khanate (the Mongolian concubines of these two khanates were four thousand households, but the steppe nomads in the khanate, such as the Chincha people of the Shuchi Khanate, were also the pillars of the khanate's armed forces, and Liu Heima of Shanxi was also under their command), let alone the tuolei who supported 100,000 households (the Tuolei family also had the support of the Dong family, shijia and other Han military leaders).
4000 VS 100,000, the thousand households under Tuolei naturally felt that "the advantage is in me", and Tuolei's subordinates repeatedly asked all Mongols to support Tuolei, which was very legacy of Cao Wei and The Western Jin Dynasty. Wo Kuotai also seemed to feel a chill in his back, and did not dare to return to his Mongolian hometown to inherit the position, and pushed away vigorously, allowing Tuolei to supervise the country for two years.
The person who changed this situation was Temuge Chijin, the youngest brother of Genghis Khan and the first churning stick in the early days of the Mongol Empire. Timug Chijin was responsible for keeping his brother's horses during Genghis Khan's conquest, and Genghis Khan remained in his Mongolian hometown during his western expedition, and was Muhuali's superior. When Genghis Khan divided the seals, he received a reward of 5,000 households (Mongolian households), which was higher than that of other kings. Genghis Khan's mother, Khao Erlun, was given three thousand households, and according to the custom of "keeping the birth of the youngest son", the lords of Thekh erlun were also inherited by Temuge Chijin. In 1214 AD, the fiefdom of Temuge Chijin included the area west of the Daxing'an Mountains and south of the Hailar River to the Halaha River, and was the most powerful of the eastern kings. Temuge Chijin presented himself as the "Emperor's Brother-in-Law" and often asked the Goryeo Kingdom to give him gifts, and the Goryeo Kingdom really recruited it.
When Tuolei and Wokoutai were fighting for power, Temuge Chijin also jumped out to inherit his brother's position, on the grounds that he was also the younger son of the family (from the first generation), and he could also be the eldest brother and inherit the army and status left by his brother, posing a great threat to both Wokoutai and Tuolei. People are the sum of social relations, mongolians, especially the Mongols under Tuolei, seem to feel that this statement is reasonable, since it is "young son shou maternity", then the generation of the golden family has not died, why must the second generation of "young son shou maternity"?
This kind of thing is not new, the Jin Dynasty also appeared in that year, and the end was bloody. The ministers under Tuolei and Wokoutai, especially Yelü Chucai and others, were all from the family of jin dynasty officials and eunuchs, and they saw this danger most clearly. So Wokoutai and Tuolei quickly made an agreement, Tuolei gave up the idea of "young son keeping the property" and then became the Great Khan, and Wokoutai ensured the control of the Tuolei family over most of the thousand households in the Mongolian hometown, and the two brothers joined forces to defeat the little uncle Temuge Chijin, forcing all the Mongolian thousand households to swear: "As long as it comes out of the descendants of Wokoutai, even if it is a piece of stinky meat, we will still embrace him as a khan." In this incident, Temuge Chijin was able to make the towing pit miserable. Temuge Chijin Pit was tragically dragged, but he was rewarded by Wokoutai, and he received more than 65,000 households in North China.
Temuge Chijin is very capable of living, and after Wokoutai's death, he is ready to pit the Wokoutai family. After Wokoutai became the Great Khan, he established a territory directly under the Great Khan, centered on The Thorn and The Forest, which covered an area of about 15,000 square kilometers and was covered with craftsmen and farmers from various conquered regions. Except for the cowardly Xue army, there were not many direct troops around the Great Khan, and most of the Mongol soldiers were civilians and soldiers in peacetime under the management of various thousand households and princes. Therefore, after the death of WoKoutai, Temuge Chijin gathered a large army and prepared to go to Helin and "seize the bird position". At that time, Guiyu did not return from participating in the Western Expedition, and the Wokoutai family did not elect a Great Khan, so it was naturally difficult to summon Xue Jun, and the first reaction of the princes of the family was to "order Jia to choose a heart, and to move west to avoid it", preparing to withdraw to the territory of Xinjiang to gather troops and fight to the death. Fortunately, Guiyu returned to the army in time, which successfully succeeded to the throne and executed Temuge Chijin.
Although Temuge Chijin was very deadly, he was the leader of the host kings, and his family was not liquidated. When Möngke purged the Wokoutai family, his family became the main force again, and during the battle between the two capitals of the Yuan Dynasty, his descendants still danced very happily.