CHAGATAI: Having given the word to Jochi, what purpose have you set, father-Khan? GENGHIS KHAN: Only that he is the eldest among you, which means he has more right to take the throne. CHAGATAI: Although he is older than us, his blood is someone else’s. If you choose him, we will be forced to remain and obediently bow to this filthy Merkit offspring. Jochi rushes at Chagatai and grabs him by the chest. JOCHI: Father-Khan has never alienated me. And what do you even have to do with it? Two-faced bastard; when will you stop freaking out? Grabbing each other, they begin to strangle each other. Genghis Khan, abruptly quitting with ‘finish it!’, sits without saying another word… Tolui and Ogedei separate the grappling brothers. GENGHIS KHAN: Isn’t Jochi your elder brother? Therefore, you have no right to push him aside. Make it so that I no longer see and hear about friction between you two. Offended by Chagatai’s insolence, Borte cannot hold back her tears. TOLUI: Mother, don’t cry. You know Chagatai’s hot temper. When he’s in a fever, he’s not able to control himself. CHAGATAI Tolui, I did not say these words in a fever. Everyone knows that Jochi is not from our clan-tribe. BORTE: Oh, Kagan! Chagatai did not begin to express these reproaches today. All his life he has considered Jochi to be alien in his own family. Although I am mother to all of them, I am first of all a woman, and therefore did not have the spirit to lay out the whole truth. Why, having talked to your sons without witnesses, did you not even try to free me from the slander that stuck as soon as I returned from Merkit captivity? Although it is a shame, I will speak the truth – I came to you with a white hem. When the Merkits took me prisoner, I was already pregnant with Jochi. I pestered at the beginning due to my pregnancy and did not want to eat anything except a tiger kidney. After three days of searching in the forest with the hunters, you brought these buds, fried them on the fire and gave me them to eat. On the way, when we broke away from Jamukha’s nomad, he was born.
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