He is the grandson of Genghis Khan, but because of his father's life experience, he was whispered about by the Mongolian king for thirty years. "The blood of Jochi is impure" and "the bastard is a beggar" - these words were like a knife piercing into the bones of the young Batu. Before his death, his father held his hand and said, "Beat them until they shut up."
Sixteen years later, Batu led an army of 150,000 to the west. From the Volga River to the Danube River, from the Kipchak grassland to the Hungarian plains, his horse hoofs crushed the city gates of Ryazan, burned through the city walls of Kiev, and forced back a hundred thousand Magyar coalition forces on the banks of the Danube River. But after the conquest, he chose to build an unprecedented city on the ruins - Sarai. People of different nationalities, different beliefs, and different languages live side by side in the city. The steeples of churches and the domes of felt tents face each other across the street.
The confrontation with Guyu, the alliance with Meng Ge, the master-disciple friendship with Subotai, and the stay with Borte - behind the iron-blooded journey is a man who has spent half his life questioned about his bloodline, looking for a bigger answer than "proving himself". When he said "I recommend Meng Ge" on the banks of the Onon River, he finally understood: What shuts up everyone is not military exploits, but a city that allows everyone to live.
Open this book and see how a suspected son of a golden family built an empire of his own on the iron heel and ruins.
