History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
Zhu Yuanzhang, as the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, occupies an important place in the list of Chinese feudal emperors, from a cowherd to a king of a country, it has to be said that Zhu Yuanzhang has extraordinary superiority, as can be seen from his treatment of his captives. After Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed the Yuan Dynasty, he did not kill hundreds of thousands of Mongolian women who were taken prisoner, but chose a method that made many people feel incredible.
Zhu Yuanzhang struggled all his life to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty, but after overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty, he did not retaliate against the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the Mongols, as people thought, but instead complained with virtue.
When Emperor Yuanshun was driven out of Beijing by Zhu Yuanzhang, not only were the glory and wealth abandoned, but hundreds of thousands of Mongolian women were also abandoned. Most of these women were the family members and slaves of the Yuan Dynasty nobles, and when Zhu Yuanzhang captured them, some of the soldiers below wanted to kill these Mongols to vent their anger, and some wanted to use them as wives and concubines.
However, for these cruel ideas, Zhu Yuanzhang did not agree, but chose to let all these women go, and the soldiers also praised them for their cleverness after they wanted to understand. This was unexpected at the time, because people knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was an iron-blooded emperor who had always been tough, but this time his approach was very different from his style of doing things.
In fact, there is a great truth hidden in this, because although Emperor Yuanshun escaped at that time, there were still hundreds of thousands of cavalry under his command, and if Zhu Yuanzhang killed all their women, it would incur endless hatred, on the contrary, if it was put back, it would dissolve the hatred to make the Mongol soldiers reduce their resistance, and in the end, the truth was as expected, which was also zhu Yuanzhang's wisdom as an emperor.