WI - Genghis Khan lived long enough to defeat his rebellious son Jochi

In OTL Genghis Khan officially chose Ogedei to be his successor causing his other son Jochi to never forgive his father and essentially withdrew from further Mongol wars, into the north, where he refused to come to his father when he was ordered to. With the Khan contemplating a march on his rebellious son at the time of his death.

What if Genghis Khan lived long enough to defeat Jochi (on top of potentially slaying the latter's sons Batu and Berke)?

In the event Batu or Berke are killed during Genghis's march on Jochi, who eventually leads the alternate Golden Horde?

Also does Hulagu Khan managed to avenge his defeat at Ain Jalut (assuming butterflies do not already change it to a Mongol victory), without the OTL Berke-Hulagu civil war in the Transcaucasus that led to the fragmentation of the Mongol empire? And how much longer can the Mongol empire avoid fragmenting in such a scenario?
 
In OTL Genghis Khan officially chose Ogedei to be his successor causing his other son Jochi to never forgive his father and essentially withdrew from further Mongol wars, into the north, where he refused to come to his father when he was ordered to. With the Khan contemplating a march on his rebellious son at the time of his death.

What if Genghis Khan lived long enough to defeat Jochi (on top of potentially slaying the latter's sons Batu and Berke)?

In the event Batu or Berke are killed during Genghis's march on Jochi, who eventually leads the alternate Golden Horde?

Also does Hulagu Khan managed to avenge his defeat at Ain Jalut (assuming butterflies do not already change it to a Mongol victory), without the OTL Berke-Hulagu civil war in the Transcaucasus that led to the fragmentation of the Mongol empire? And how much longer can the Mongol empire avoid fragmenting in such a scenario?

The whole issue of succession and Jochi is somewhat of a grey area:

For example, according to Gumilev, everything had been done in compliance with the Mongolian tradition where the elder sons had been getting their own lands, livestock and subjects and a younger son his father’s main “estate” (which in this case was the Great Khanate). This had little to do with a seniority with the family: in OTL the Great Khan Mongke officially recognized Batu (who remained a subordinated ruler of one of the uluses) as a senior member of the family.

Of course, it is also quite possible that Genghis appointed Ogdai to minimize confrontation within the family: Jochi and Chagatai had been openly at each other throat and if one of them was chosen, the other would most definitely be killed with the whole family. In OTL after being elected, Mongke (son of Tolui and ally of the Jochides) ordered execution of the high-ranking members of the Ogdai and Chagatai clans.

Or perhaps, after evaluating abilities of his sons, he decided that Ogdai is the most suitable one: Jochi was openly criticizing his father’s policies as being too destructive, Chagatai was seemingly just a bellicose and quarrelsome animal comparing to whom his father could pass for a moderate. Ogdai was somewhere in the middle and could continue his father’s political course.

Actually, the only criteria for selecting the future successors formulated by Genghis was to chose one with the brains.

The story about the punished expedition is not very reliable (which is not the same as incorrect) but if it is true, an intended punishment was not extended to the whole family and Genghis did not even depraved him of his ulus, which he could easily do to eliminate any possibility of the resistance. BTW, even within that story Genghis was not planning to march against Jochi in person.
 
What impact would Ghengis marching against Jochi have on the evolution of the Golden Horde as well as Hulagu Khan later plan to avenge Ain Jalut (should the latter unfold like in OTL)?
 
What impact would Ghengis marching against Jochi have on the evolution of the Golden Horde as well as Hulagu Khan later plan to avenge Ain Jalut (should the latter unfold like in OTL)?

The Golden Horde is a popular but anachronistic term. As I said, there are no indications that Genghis was extending alleged displeasure with Jochi on the whole family. Their retained their ulus and Ogdai (and kurultai) confirmed their right to all “Western domains”, provided the necessary troops and made Batu a titular head of the expedition with the numerous Genghizid princes being under his command. In other words, there is no reason to assume that creation of the White and Blue (Kipchak) hordes would be impacted.

As for Hulagu, the events were subject to too many things happening after Genghis death that it is rather difficult to put these two issues together in a meaningful way.
 
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