Dominating Asia and Europe: Preface to Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan

Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan is the grandson of Genghis Khan and the fourth son of Tuo Lei. His full name is Boljijin Kublai Khan, the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and the fifth generation of Mongolian Khan. 12 15 1260 was born in jinzhongdu (Beijing) on September 23rd, and Kublai Khan became a great Khan in Kaiping, Central Plains. He reigned for 35 years and died in Yuan Dadu (Beijing) on February 28th, 2994 at the age of 78.

In the first year of Xianzong (125 1), Kublai Khan was appointed to take charge of the military affairs in the south of the Han Dynasty. As early as the vassal period, he thought that "the world is promising" and was keen on learning China culture. , Liu, Wang E, Yuan Haowen,,, Shawn Dou, etc. I was invited to ask how to govern Taoism with Confucianism. Shunzhi and Xing Zhou, Han Confucian scholars, were appointed as officials; Establish the capital of song dynasty strategy and rectify Henan's military and political affairs; Tuntian Tang, Deng and other States.

In the third year (1253), Mongolian Khan led the Mongolian army to attack Yunnan, and in the fourth year, Dali was destroyed. In nine years, when the Southern Song Dynasty attacked Ezhou, it learned of the death of Mongo Khan and decided to return to the north to compete for the throne. In ten years, his brother Ali Bouguer was elected as the Great Khan of the Mongolian Empire in Hala and Helinger, while Kublai Khan stood on his own in Kaiping, Central Plains. So the Alibaba brothers and Kublai Khan began to compete for the sweat position. Although Kublai Khan won the battle, he broke away from his rule because he violated the election tradition of Khan and the concept of "practicing Chinese law", and the four great Khan countries except the Central Khan also cut off contacts with him one after another. So far, Kublai Khan's regime only includes the Central Plains, Tibet and Mongolia.

127 1 year, Kublai Khan sealed Dayuan, officially acceded to the throne as emperor, and began to attack the Southern Song Dynasty southward. It took his army six years to capture Xiangyang, an important town, but the progress in the future was quite smooth. 1279, Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea with his 8-year-old emperor Zhao Gui on his back and died in the Southern Song Dynasty. Kublai Khan ruled the whole of China.

Kublai Khan established centralized politics, restored the normal ruling order, and took some measures that were beneficial to agriculture and handicraft production, so that the social economy gradually recovered and developed. So as to develop border areas. The unification of the whole country has initially laid the scale of the national territory and developed the economic and cultural exchanges among all ethnic groups in China. As the master of the world, he has gathered elites of all ethnic groups with an unprecedented open mind and widely absorbed advanced parts of various cultures. He is not only a supporter of Confucianism, but also an enthusiastic Buddhist. He also promised that many of his subjects would convert to Christianity and become protectors of Muslims. He tried to keep a delicate balance between different cultures and achieved admirable success. After the reunification of the whole country, Kublai Khan's conservatism, love for interests, militarism and other negative factors have also developed, and the work of adopting Chinese law and reforming the backward old system has come to a standstill. Even so, the empire he ruled represented the most advanced and affluent oriental culture in the world at that time.

Kublai Khan, as the direct grandson of Genghis Khan, the founder of the largest empire in the world history, not only inherited Genghis Khan's great talent, but also achieved the goal that his grandfather ruled the world. He worked as a military attache for half his life, led the Mongolian army to March in, broke through the Southern Song Dynasty, conquered other parts of China, made a name for himself overseas and invaded Japan twice. His predecessor never dreamed of unifying and ruling the whole known world, and no one in his successor ever dreamed of it again. This book describes Kublai Khan's life in an all-round way, and reproduces a historical figure who has made outstanding contributions from multiple perspectives and angles by using a large number of informative historical materials. This book is illustrated, informative, vivid, touching and fascinating.