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Why did Emperor Yuan Renzong suspend the sinicization of the state in the middle of the period?

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In the eleventh year of Dade, Yuan Chengzong died, because Yuan Chengzong's crown prince had already died one step ahead of Chengzong, so after Chengzong's death, there was no direct heir, resulting in an empty situation of the imperial throne. According to the old system of the Yuan Dynasty, Empress Buluhan, the empress of Yuan Chengzong, presided over the Kuriertai Assembly to elect a new monarch, and all the ministers of the clan would participate.

At that time, Buluhan and Zuo Xiang Akutai were preparing to succeed to the throne by Emperor Chengzong Tiemu'er's cousin Ananda the Prince of Anxi, but Emperor Yuanrenzong and his mother returned to Dadu in the name of funeral, and the empress led troops into the inner palace one step at a time, and captured the empress and Zuo Cheng Xiang Akutai, and finally executed the two. Later, Emperor Renzong conspired with the right chancellor Hazahasun to support haishan, the eldest brother north of the unified army, to ascend the throne as emperor. After Haishan ascended the throne as emperor, he met his brother and brother, and his uncles and nephews passed on the tradition. After the death of Emperor Wuzong of Yuan, he succeeded to the throne as the emperor's brother-in-law and became the fourth emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.

Emperor Yuanrenzong was a wise and clear-sighted emperor. At first, he led the soldiers into the palace, captured Broukhan and Zuo Cheng Xiang Akutai, and executed both of them, after the overall situation was decided, all the clan ministers unanimously elected him to succeed him as the new emperor, but at that time he knew that his brother Haishan had a heavy army, and if he ascended the throne, he would not necessarily be able to keep the throne, so he resigned, and left the throne to his brother Haishan, who was only in charge of the imperial government. When Haishan entered the capital, with 30,000 elite soldiers, After Emperor Yuanrenzong gave up the throne to Haishan, he met his brother and brother, and he eventually ascended to the throne, and this throne was extremely secure.

Emperor Renzong of Yuan was one of the few pro-Confucian emperors of the Yuan Dynasty. Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, was also close to The Confucians for a period of time, and used Confucian ministers heavily, but later because of the rebellion of a Han general, Kublai Khan changed his pro-Han policy and implemented a racial system instead, and became close to the Semu people.

Emperor Yuanrenzong may have been because he had studied Confucian texts from Li Meng, the Shaoqing of Taichang, in his early years, and even after being tutored by the crown prince Zhan Shi Wang, he became extremely close to Confucianism after succeeding to the throne, and implemented the system of "ruling the country with Confucianism". Not only did he advocate sinology, but he also began to implement the sinicization of the Materia Medica bureaucracy, first restoring the imperial examination, then translating the Confucian classics into Mongolian for the Mongols and The Semu to read and study, and finally even sponsoring the publication and distribution of Confucian doctrines. It can be said that the Renzong dynasty was able to achieve so much and make the national strength of the Yuan Dynasty reach its peak, and it is absolutely meritorious to "rule the country with Confucianism".

Why did Emperor Yuan Renzong suspend the sinicization of the state in the middle of the period?

Emperor Yuanrenzong was an ambitious emperor. After succeeding to the throne, he began to eliminate the maladministration of the former dynasty, carried out reforms with great fanfare, abolished Shangshu Province, abolished the use of large silver banknotes, reduced redundant personnel, and rectified the government. As a result, the price of goods caused by the large number of banknotes issued by the previous dynasty has risen, the treasury is empty, the financial difficulties are difficult, and the people's living difficulties have been improved. Not only that, in order to consolidate his rule and strengthen the centralization of power, Emperor Renzong ruthlessly extended his hand to the Mongol nobles. The Mongol nobles of the Yuan Dynasty had a high degree of autonomy in their own territories, and although Kublai Khan pursued a policy of centralization, the Mongol kings still had considerable administrative, military, financial, and judicial powers over their territories. Because the privileges of the Mongol nobility were too great, the policy of restricting the nobility that Emperor Yuanrenzong finally pursued was useless if it did not achieve the desired goal. But we can still see from here that this emperor has ambitions to truly control the world.

The national strength of the Yuan Dynasty reached its peak in the Renzong Dynasty, and the reason why it was able to achieve such results was because Renzong implemented the policy of "ruling the country with Confucianism" and promoted the sinicization process of the Yuan Dynasty. However, in July of the fourth year of Yan right, Emperor Renzong allowed Li Meng to dispense with pingzhang's political affairs and reinstated Hanlin Chengzhi. Li Meng withdrew from Zhongshu, marking the suspension of the Sinicization reforms carried out by Emperor Renzong. The benefits of Ming Sinicization to the Yuan Dynasty were so obvious, why did Emperor Yuan Renzong stop the Process of Sinicization of the Yuan Dynasty?

The answer to this question needs to be traced back to the beginning of Emperor Wuzong's succession. After Emperor Yuanwuzong succeeded to the throne, he and Emperor Renzong agreed to be brothers and nephews, and their uncles and nephews inherited each other. After a hundred years of Emperor Yuanrenzong, the emperor's throne should be inherited by Emperor Wuzong's heirs. But in the later years of Emperor Renzong's reign, he did not want to pass the throne to Emperor Wuzong's heirs, but wanted to pass it on to his descendants, so there was a deal.

At that time, although Emperor Renzong practiced Sinicization and the Sinicization process of the Yuan Dynasty was very fast, there were still stubborn conservative forces mainly composed of empress dowagers and clan ministers, who wanted to stick to the habits of the Mongols and were not willing to continue Sinicization. In order to enable his son to succeed to the throne smoothly, Emperor Yuanrenzong ended the Sinicization policy, and the chancellor of the clan supported his son's succession accordingly. Thus, the process of Sinicization of the Yuan Dynasty was terminated.

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