Tooril Khan

The Conqueror.

So Temujin, we learn his big plan here is to convince this man named Wang Khan, played by a Texas actor, that this man Kumlik is planning

on...

It's the fat man.

everybody wank on tonight jesus christ

so

a part of his plan is he's gonna go he's gonna go send uh he's gonna have spies uh to go check on the situation and he's intentionally gonna waylay them to convince that wang khan uh to convince wang khan that something is rotten in the state of denmark essentially and so he'll believe him and and want to join him and take down uh kublai

I'm glad I wasn't just tired when I was watching that, because every time I watched this, it was late when I watched this.

For nigh on a century, their claim of caesarity over Manchuria, northern China, and the steppelands had proceeded pretty much without fail.

Such it was that an emissary and his retinue was dispatched from Zhongdu, the supreme capital, to Mongolia to secure the submission of this Khan who had replaced Ong, Tengis, or Genghis, or Zengis, or whatever he was calling himself.

Genghis Khan was faced with two options ahead of the arrival of this Jin emissary.

He could either do as Ong had done, offer up his subservience to the southerners and thereby receive some portion of their goods and wealth for distribution among his people, or he could pursue the far more risky, but potentially far more profitable gambit.

He could strike out and attempt to take it all.

The show of submission was, of course, the kowtow, from the Chinese koutou, meaning literally to knock one's head upon the ground.

Then he turned his head towards the palace and beat his head upon the ground in grateful acknowledgment of the imperial bounty, end quote.

Genghis Khan was perfectly aware of this exact ceremony, its expectations, and its significance.

This is the kind of thing that you plagiarize assuming the professor isn't gonna check your work.

So, anyway, Jaghatai starts eating Ong Khan out of house and home, 'cause he's just growing and growing and growing.

I, I-

Yeah.

And, uh, part of the cause for this is because some of his enemies who escaped his consolidation of Mongolia have fled into there.

So, like, one of the son of, um, the Ong Khan, Singum Ilka, he flees into the Tangut Kingdom, and the Mongols use this as a pretext to send forces to bring him.

But then they also start raiding, taking animals and stuff, and it looks like essentially what they're doing is probing to see, all right, how do the Tangut react? How do the Jin react? What's, uh, what are their armies like? And sort of picking up information like this until 1208 when they launch a much more concentrated assault on the Tangut Kingdom.

Uh, this is by the, by the later s- standards of the Mongol campaigns, kind of a small-scale thing.