The Successors of Genghis Khan - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian ...

THE SUCCESSORS OF GENGHIS KHAN
and Edgii-Temur and his followers were found guilty. He said:
"Thou belongest to Batu. I will send thy case to him: he knows about
thee." But Chinqai, Qa'an's vizier, said: "Qa'an is Batu's superior.
Who is this fellow that his case should require the consultation of
princes? Qa'an knows what to do with him." Qa'an pardoned him
and having made peace between them sent them all back in the company
of Korgiiz, ordering them to be told: "It is the Great Yasa of
Chingiz-Khan that a lying aigaq be put to death. You ought all of
you to be put to death, but since you have come a long way and your
wives and children are awaiting you, I have spared your lives. Henceforth
do not engage in such action." And he ordered Korgiiz to be
told: "If thou continue [to bear a grudge against them] for their
former crime, thou too wilt be at fault."
A decree was issued that Korgiiz should administer all the countries
that Chormaghun had subjugated beyond the Oxus. He sent on
bearers of these good tidings in advance into Khurasan, whilst he
himself went to visit Tangqut, the brother of Batu. From thence he
set out for Khurasan by way of Khwarazm and alighted at his own
house in Jumada II, 637 [November-December, 1239]. Then,
summoning the emirs and chief men, he had the edicts read out to
them. He also dispatched his son to 'Iraq, Arran, and Adharbaijan,
where, after much disputation with the emirs of Chormaghun, he
took control of those countries in accordance with the decree and
fixed the taxes.
Korgiiz chose Tus365 as his place of residence and began to construct
buildings there. He arrested and imprisoned Sharaf al-Dln
and conferred the office of vizier upon Asil al-Dln Rughadl. Sending
Temur to Qa'an to report his action against Sharaf al-Dln, he himself
followed in person. On his way back he had an argument over money
with one of Chaghatai's emirs, called Kuje'ur,366 somewhere in
Transoxiana. The emir said: "What if I report thee?" And Korgiiz
replied: "To whom wilt thou report me?" Chaghatai had recently
died. The emir wept before Ghaghatai's wife and said: "Korgiiz
said this." The princess sent to Qa'an saying: "Because Chaghatai is
365 The ruins of TUS lie a few miles to the north of Meshed.
366 Elsewhere (Khetagurov, p. 142) Rashid al-Dm calls him Sartaq-K.uje'iir
and says that he was a page (ev-ogklan) of Oghul-Ghaimish.
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