The demise of each dynasty is very interesting, almost the demise of many dynasties is related to infighting, such as the Yuan Dynasty is a more significant example, no matter how powerful the external enemy is, the Yuan Dynasty has never forgotten the matter of infighting, and even because of infighting, it directly ignores the existence of external enemies.
When Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youyu, Zhang Shicheng and other forces gradually became stronger, the Yuan Dynasty imperial court should have concentrated its forces on dealing with them as the king's way, but unfortunately the Mongolian Yuan government did not pay any attention to these things at all, and even the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of the great war between Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyu was ignored by the Mongolian Yuan government, and their demise was basically powerless to return to heaven.
The internal strife of the Yuan Dynasty prompted Zhu Yuanzhang and others to become bigger and stronger
In the rebel army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Fang Guozhen was the first person, but later he also surrendered to the Yuan dynasty government under the recruitment of the Yuan court, and even after the later Zhang Shicheng uprising, Fang Guozhen was also ordered to personally recruit Zhang Shicheng and achieve the glorious results of seven battles and seven victories, according to this reality, the Yuan court at that time was not too weak, as long as they concentrated their firepower against the rebel army, there was still a good chance to destroy the rebel army.
Unfortunately, at that time, the Yuan court had no time to take care of the enemies outside, because they had slowly emerged some problems inside, such as the struggle between Wang Baobao's father and Bro Timur's father in the very beginning, which was the main contradiction within the Yuan court, and in the process of the struggle, the two of them also pulled Li Siqi, Zhang Liangbi and others, who were all supporting Bro Timur's father at that time, and in the absence of any way, the two sides could only temporarily stop the war and wait for the opportunity to launch the next round of shuffling.
That is, in the critical stage of the continuous internal struggle of the Yuan court, Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youyu, Zhang Shicheng and other rebel armies continued to grow bigger and stronger, and even Fang Guozhen had already seen some clues, and when Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to win over Fang Guozhen, he resolutely chose to send his second son as a hostage to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang.
People who witnessed the internal struggle in the Yuan court understood that if the Yuan court continued like this, sooner or later it would be doomed, but the Yuan court pretended not to see these things and continued to fight among themselves, so that Fang Guozhen and others had to seek a new way out, and when Zhu Yuanzhang forced Fang Guozhen to take sides by force, Fang Guozhen had no choice but to choose Zhu Yuanzhang's side.
It can be said that at that time, under the influence of the infighting in the Yuan Court, many forces that had surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty jumped out of the yuan dynasty's ruling range in this chaotic situation and submitted to Zhu Yuanzhang and other rebel armies, and as more and more people left the Yuan court, their forces were completely insufficient to suppress the rebel army.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyi fought a great battle, and the Yuan court continued to fight among themselves
Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyu's forces are developing rapidly, if they want to dominate one side, they must first eliminate each other, so the two sides broke out into a battle, the Poyang Lake War was imminent, before the war began, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyu were very worried that the Yuan court would take advantage of the big war between the two sides to take advantage of the situation to deal with both sides, so they waited for a while, and waited until after determining safety before officially launching a big war.
The main reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was able to be sure that the Yuan Dynasty would not take advantage of the situation was that there was another infighting in the Yuan court at that time, and the cause of this infighting was more complicated, caused by the power struggle between the prince and the Yuan Shun Emperor. At that time, a group of people mainly based on Wang Baobao supported the princelings and the empress Dowager Qi, while the people mainly in Bro Timur supported the Yuan Shun Emperor.
In the first stage, a group of people of Bro Timur occupied a dominant position, and after the later princelings and the hou party joined forces, the power of Bro Timur and others obviously dominated, and at this special time, Wang Baobao and others continued to target Emperor Yuanshun and wanted to take the opportunity to directly push Emperor Yuanshun from the throne.
At the time of crisis, Emperor Yuanshun came to Che Baoshuai, killed Bro Timur, and reused Wang Baobao, who, after accepting the benefits of Emperor Yuanshun, reconciled and promised not to abolish Emperor Yuanshun's throne, thus offending the princelings, all of which laid the groundwork for later infighting.
Seeing that the internal strife in the Yuan court was continuous, Zhu Yuanzhang could finally rest assured that he and Chen Youyu would start a big war, and in the Battle of Poyang Lake, Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Chen Youyi's army of 600,000 in four or two thousand pounds and won the victory, and from then on, Zhu Yuanzhang's power was no longer the same, even if Yuanting wanted to conquer Zhu Yuanzhang, it was already too late.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng fought, and the Yuan court continued to fight
Of course, although Zhu Yuanzhang was already very difficult to deal with at that time, Yuan Ting still turned a blind eye, and they were busy launching the next round of infighting. As mentioned earlier, when Wang Baobao's father was fighting with Bro Timur's father, Li Siqi and Zhang Liangbi and others supported Boro Timur, so there was a contradiction between them and Wang Baobao, and when Wang Baobao eradicated Bro Timur, he planned to take advantage of the victory to pursue li Siqi and Zhang Liangbi, Wang Baobao was bound to cut them down and eradicate them, and the civil war was about to break out.
Seeing that Wang Baobao became the target of public criticism, the princelings also began to target Wang Baobao, in order to repay the hatred of Wang Baobao for not heeding the advice and forcing Emperor Yuanshun of the palace, with the joint efforts of everyone, Wang Baobao was finally unable to do so, and Emperor Yuanshun saw that Wang Baobao had become the target of everyone, worried that he would affect himself, and hastily dismissed Wang Baobao from his official position, which can be described as a falling stone.
Wang Baobao, because of Emperor Yuanshun's move, held a grudge against Emperor Yuanshun, and after leaving yuanting, he returned to the local region to support the army and stand on his own, and there was nothing that Yuan Ting could do to take Wang Baobao, and when Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng launched a great war, Wang Baobao was completing a major move to clean up Li Siqi and other Han courtiers, seeing that Yuanting was already in danger, Li Siqi and others were planning to stop the civil war and unanimously go to the outside world, but Wang Baobao was obsessed.
In October 1367, Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Zhang Shicheng and officially sat on the rich land in the south, and the Yuan Shun Emperor, who was sitting in the north at that time, finally began to be afraid, and he reappointed Wang Baobao to lead the world's soldiers and horses against Zhu Yuanzhang, but Wang Baobao held a grudge against The Yuan Shun Emperor and did not act for a long time.
Zhu Yuanzhang was bound to destroy the Yuan Dynasty and send 200,000 troops north to conquer the Yuan army, due to Wang Baobao's hesitation, the Yuan army was soon defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Wang Baobao slipped away in ashes, at this point, the Yuan court had no power to return to heaven, and could only accept a tragic fate.
epilogue
Yuan Ting still had enough strength to suppress the rebel army in the first stage, but because their internal struggle never stopped, thus missing the best opportunity, and later after Zhu Yuanzhang and others became bigger and stronger, Yuan Ting was still fighting infighting, which gave Zhu Yuanzhang the opportunity to annex the south, and when Zhu Yuanzhang sat in the south, the Yuan Ting in the far north had become the end of the strong crossbow, and wanted to confront Zhu Yuanzhang, it was purely a fantasy, and the fate of the yuan dynasty's demise had been nailed down!
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