The Yuan Dynasty was less than a hundred years old, and when it entered the 98th year, it had to face the fragmentation of mountains and rivers, and the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty had never really understood his people since the establishment of the empire.
At the time of the flames, the reigning rulers were already powerless to return to heaven, their armies had once traversed the world, and there were few survivors under the iron horse.
However, in the last years, the former Xiongshi was already weak, and in the face of the siege of Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youyi, Zhang Shicheng and other peasant rebels, the Yuan army was defeated again and again, and finally defeated and invincible, and could only shrink in the north and did not dare to act rashly.
After the defeat of the Yuan army, the southern world presented a three-legged situation, like the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty!
The decline and fall of the empire has appeared more than once in history, as strong as the Great Qin Empire also died, and the Han Dynasty surnamed Liu lasted for hundreds of years and finally came to an end!
However, at that time, the south was not like the Three Kingdoms of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the situation of reunification came quickly and roughly, Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youyi, and Zhang Shicheng attacked each other, and finally Zhu Yuanzhang won, called The King of Wu, and raised troops to the Northern Expedition.
At this time, the Yuan Dynasty was already like a paper tiger, the Ming army was like a bamboo, and soon broke into the capital, the Tianshun Emperor and the nobles retreated, while those relatives and children who had moved for less than a hundred years could not escape.
Faced with the fact that the monarchs, nobles, and remnants of the army had been defeated and fled, the Mengyuan women were defenseless and could only wait on the spot for the Ming army to announce their fate.
Once the Mongolian Yuan occupied the Central Plains and imposed a high-pressure rule on the inside, the brutality of the means is also imaginable.
As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, the Second Emperor was covered in dust, and the foreign tribes were humiliated by the sheep, and the harem women's relatives were insulted and thrown into the army as playthings.
The emperor and nobles could not leave a decent, let alone ordinary people!
Faced with the female relatives of Meng Yuan who had become prisoners, the generals under Zhu Yuanzhang proposed that these female dependents be reduced to military slaves, after all, the generals had defeated Dayuan desperately, and now they should be rewarded to strengthen the hearts of the army.
But after Zhu Yuanzhang listened, he directly rejected this proposal!
In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang made a decision: Let these Mongolian female relatives go! Let them choose for themselves, if they want to return to Mongolia, they will send them back to Mongolia, and those who do not want to go back will stay. However, the female relatives left behind could no longer retain the customs and customs of Dayuan, and they had to marry the Han Chinese.
For this decision, Liu Bowen was very much in favor, saying that it should be so that the remaining talents could be completely integrated into the Han culture.
And this is not too difficult to limit, after all, Jiangshan has changed dynasties, if they still maintain the customs and habits of the Great Yuan after staying, then they will inevitably clash with the Han people, which is unfavorable to them.
I have to say that in dealing with these Mongolian female relatives, Zhu Yuanzhang showed a great deal of magnanimity and benevolence.
How did The Mongol Yuan rule the Han Chinese?
They divided people into four classes, the first class was the Dayuan people, the second class was the Semu people, the third class was the Central Plains people, and the fourth class was the southern people.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a native of Anhui, and Anhui belonged to the south, so his social status was very low and he was seriously exploited by the Yuan people.
For Mengyuan, Zhu Yuanzhang was very hateful, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather and parents were all killed under the oppression of the Mengyuan people, and this life-and-death feud was also the driving force for Zhu Yuanzhang to destroy The Rule of Mengyuan.
He could have taken revenge and vented his anger, but he didn't do so, and he let these Mongolian female relatives choose their own destiny, whether they wanted to leave or stay.
Thus it can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang is very sober, he is not blinded by hatred, he knows very well that the original sin is the ruling class of Mengyuan, and these female dependents themselves have no status within Mengyuan, the sin is not on them, and they are forced to be helpless to follow the migration of the Mongol rulers.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang did this, and there was another consideration, that is, although Meng Yuan abandoned the Central Plains and fled back to the grassland, there were still hundreds of thousands of troops in the grassland, which was a threat and a problem for the newly established Daming!
The proper arrangement of these Mongolian female dependents is also to appease the grassland departments, because once the harsh means are applied to these female dependents, it will inevitably cause resentment among the grassland departments, and treating these Mongolian female dependents with gentle means can eliminate the hostility of the grassland departments.
For Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just established the Ming Dynasty, he needed time to recuperate and did not want the border to be in turmoil, which was undoubtedly the best situation for the people on the border, and the two sides maintained a temporary peace, which was the best choice for a new empire.