The Chagatayid Khan Qara Hulegu executed him. In Iran Toregene ordered Korguz arrested and handed over to the widow of Chagatai, whom he had unwisely defied. Her husband's chief secretary, Chinqai, and the administrator, Mahmud Yalavach fled to her son Koden in North China while Turkestani administrator Masud Begh, fled to Batu Khan in Russia. She tried to arrest several of Ögedei's main officials. ![]() She was a Shiite Muslim who deported Shiite shrine of Meshed to Mongolia. With the support of Chagatai and her sons, Toregene assumed complete power as regent in spring 1242 as Great Khatun and dismissed her late husband's ministers and replaced them with her own, the most important of whom was another woman, Fatima, a Tajik or Persian captive from the Middle Eastern campaign. Soon after Ogodei died in 1241, at first power passed to the hands of Moqe, one of Genghis Khan's wives, who Ögedei inherited. Through the influence of Toregene, Ögedei appointed Abd-ur-Rahman as tax farmer in China. Toregene sponsored the reprinting of the Taoist canon in North China. But Toregene still resented Ögedei's officials and the policy of centralizing the administration and lowering tax burdens. She eclipsed all of Ögedei's wives and gradually increased her influence among the court officials. ![]() ![]() While Ögedei's first wife had no sons, Toregene gave birth to five sons. When Genghis conquered the Merkits in 1204, he gave Toregene to Ögedei as his second wife. But Rashid-al-Din Hamadani named his first husband as Dair Usun of the Merkits. Born in the Naiman tribe, Toregene was given as wife to Qudu, the noble of the Merkit clan at first.
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