Kings of all ages wanted the imperial seal, but who regarded it as a stone and ruled the country?

It is Genghis Khan who regards the jade seal as a stone. Is that it? You can only shoot eagles with a bow? A generation of arrogant Genghis Khan. The imperial seal was cast in Qin Shihuang's time, with eight words engraved on it? Ordered by heaven, both longevity Yongchang? . Therefore, since the Qin Dynasty, kings of all dynasties believed that getting this decree was equal to getting the destiny, and owning this decree was regarded as the orthodox emperor. But Genghis Khan is different. At that time, for the Han people, Genghis Khan was a foreigner, not one of his own. And Genghis Khan didn't have the idea of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. For him, passing the decree is like a broken stone.

Genghis Khan is a Mongolian, and the empire he founded is called the Mongolian khanate. The imperial seal is a treasure of the Han people. When people said the world at that time, they meant the land of China. Obviously, the Mongolian khanate at that time was not here? This world? The scope of. Moreover, the Mongolian khanate established by Genghis Khan with the efforts of his descendants can be called a powerful empire across Eurasia. Genghis Khan and his descendants conquered this huge empire with powerful force, and they did not need any natural imperial power to prove the legitimacy of their rule.

Although the legend of passing the imperial seal is a treasure of luck, it is only a legend. At that time, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty was the holder of the imperial edict, but it was finally destroyed by the descendants of Genghis Khan. For a defeated country, Genghis Khan's descendants did not pay attention to it. At most, it is regarded as a treasure and kept in a treasure chest. In fact, in the final analysis, although the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were sinicized, they still didn't seem to put the Han people in their eyes, so the national seal lost its symbolic significance in their eyes.

Generally speaking, the transmission of the imperial seal is symbolic. Emperors of past dynasties just wanted to consolidate their rule with the meaning it represented, rather than winning the world by saying yes. After the Song Dynasty, the whereabouts of the imperial seal remained a mystery, but later emperors could rule the country without it.