Speaking of the great kings of ancient history, there is such a person who makes posterity can't help but praise it, that is, a generation of heavenly glory Genghis Khan. Under the leadership of Genghis Khan, Mongolia continued to expand abroad, eliminating many countries. By the time of Kublai Khan's reign, the Territory of the Yuan Dynasty established by the Mongols had reached 13.72 million square kilometers, which was enough to see the strength of the Yuan Dynasty at that time. However, after entering the Central Plains, after entering the Central Plains, it was overthrown by the Ming Dynasty after a short period of 98 years.
A figure from the Yuan Dynasty
The ancient Mongols have always been known for their toughness, and the Mongolian iron horse of that year was invincible, and successively attacked the Western Liao, Western Xia, Eastern Xia, Jin and other countries. By 1279, the Yuan army had completely eliminated the Southern Song Dynasty, ending a long period of dogfight and confirming its dominance. However, as strong as the Yuan Dynasty, after conquering jiangshan, it did not hold its own jiangshan for a long time.
The main reasons why the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown in less than a hundred years are as follows:
First, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty themselves had many problems, frequent wars and constant changes in the status quo of the monarch, so that the superficially unified Yuan Dynasty began to split from within, the courtiers centered on interests, colluded with each other, and the court was in chaos. Successes are not replicable, but failures are mostly the same. Since the Unification of the Whole Country, the Yuan Dynasty has not properly controlled the situation and developed steadily since then, but has gone its own way according to the wishes of the Yuan Dynasty at that time.
Stills of Yuan Dynasty characters
(1) It continued to expand externally, and greatly rewarded meritorious ministers, which made the finances of the Yuan Dynasty at that time tight. After the national treasury of the Yuan Dynasty could not cope with this embarrassing situation, it was bound to increase the degree of exploitation of the common people, and the heavy taxes made the lives of the ordinary people more and more difficult.
(II) Frequent changes of monarchs (the Yuan Dynasty changed more than a dozen emperors in less than a hundred years of rule) was bound to make the situation even more turbulent. Because in order to show his "benevolence" or "preferential treatment" to his subordinates, every person in power will vigorously support his cronies and suppress other forces. With such an example, the courtiers could only put their interests first, collude with each other, and make the attack on internal opponents the primary goal, rather than doing their best to seek the well-being of the people.
(3) Different from the "pro-Han policy" of the Northern Wei and Qing Dynasties, after the Yuan Dynasty entered the Central Plains, not only did it not implement Sinicization or implement the policy of the Mongol and Han families, but instead rejected dissidents, divided the people at that time into three, six, nine, and so on, and then implemented a harsh donation tyranny (for example, in the Yuan Dynasty, the low-level people had to buy kitchen knives under the real-name system). Just as there is a so-called resistance under strong pressure, how can such an unjust strategy win the hearts and minds of the people? There is an old saying that goes: those who have gained the path have more help, and those who have lost the way have little help. The Yuan Dynasty, which was increasingly losing the hearts and minds of the people, was bound to suffer repercussions.
Second, more and more rebels, they are not willing to be oppressed by the Yuan Dynasty, and the increasingly fierce uprising makes them finally succeed in overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty oppressors who are pressing on them.
Stills from part of the battle field
In the face of the differential treatment of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, the attitude of the common people naturally changed from silently endured, to intolerable, and then to the final resistance. The first person who dared to eat crab was always regarded as a hero by everyone, and it was precisely because of the increasing number of people who resisted that the people would continue to join these uprisings (in the twentieth year of the Yuan Dynasty, there were more than two hundred peasant uprisings in the Jiangnan region, and by the twenty-sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty, in just six years, the uprisings had doubled to more than four hundred).
Battle scenes
With the passage of time, the intensity of the people's uprising has become greater and greater, and the achievements have become better and better. By 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang's general Xu Da led troops to occupy the capital of Yuan. Since then, the Yuan Dynasty has officially ended. The establishment and collapse of the Yuan Dynasty tells us a truth: if you want to establish a dynasty, you need to be strong and strong, but if you want to consolidate the rule of a dynasty, you must put the interests of the people first, and only if the people have a stable life, the dynasty will be more durable.
Reference: Original History