Börte

There, they also mentioned this episode, but there, they are much more coming down on the side that there was no doubt.

And here they say Borte was rescued immediately, or she was captured, and then the Merkits hand her over to Toro, and there is no dishonor on her.

Because it seems, and this is part of the secret aspect of the secret history of the Mongols, even if you don't want Jochi to be Khan, you can't say anything about this episode, because then you're impugning on the honor of Borte in Temujin.

And that's, you can't really do that in these other more public-facing accounts like the Yuan Shi, Jamiat Tavarik, and so on.

However, and sorry to cut you off, just one more point there, then you can speak.

kidnapping of Borta...

I just want to ask, do you think, was there any substance to it? Or was it kind of like, you know, maybe Chagata and Ogadai wanting to just discredit Jochi so that it furthers their ambition to succeed the Genghis?

There was obviously something there, all right? If they were not able to, obviously within the imperial family, present this in such a way that there was no doubt so i what i kind of suspect either even the original people involved so temujin borte themselves either they genuinely had no idea or the actual truth was it was really obvious he wasn't and the best they could do with this was this obfuscation i to me this being entirely a creation of jochi's enemies seems extraordinarily unlikely because I don't believe from the data we have that they would make up a story that would impugn on Chinggis and Borte's honor.

Así que recurrió a Togrul y a otro líder llamado Yamuka, y juntos lanzaron una misión de rescate.

reunieron sus fuerzas, coordinaron un ataque, y consiguieron recuperar a Borte de manos de sus captores.

Esta fue una de las primeras operaciones militares reales de Temujin, y funcionó.

Demostró que podía formar alianzas, que podía imponer respeto, que podía conseguir cosas que otros no podían.

Cuando Borte regresó con él, estaba embarazada.

Ahora bien, la cuestión de la paternidad de aquel niño quedó flotando sobre él durante el resto de la historia.

¿Era hijo de Temujin o producto de su secuestro? Nadie lo sabe con certeza, pero Temujin lo aceptó y lo crió como propio.