Speaking of the emperor who started from scratch and came from a reckless background, Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, must be the most typical example, you must know that he was only a poor people, no money and no power, and even solving his own food and clothing is a problem, but who would have thought that later he became the leader of the rebel army and overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang's story is very inspirational, and he also worked hard during his reign, but he also has shortcomings, that is, decisive killing, in order to take power, he also slaughtered a lot of innocent people, which has also become his place to be criticized by the world, then do you know how Zhu Yuanzhang dealt with more than 100,000 Mongolian women after overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty? The truth is unexpected, but it also allows us to see another side of Zhu Yuanzhang.
Officials forced the people to rebel, and the Yuan Dynasty ruled by decay and oppression
As we all know, the Yuan Dynasty was established by the northern minority Mongols, and the founder was the Yuan ancestor Kublai Khan, where the Mongol iron horse stepped on, various large and small regimes surrendered, so the surviving Southern Song Dynasty naturally could not resist, the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty was transferred to the hands of the Mongols, but such a martial and powerful country actually existed for only a hundred years, and was finally overthrown by the reckless Zhu Yuanzhang, so why?
The reason why the Yuan Dynasty had such an end is no wonder to others, it can only be said that the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty at that time were backward in thinking and did not understand the principle of being people-oriented, such as its realization of a relatively primitive slave system system, but since the Qin Dynasty, the mainland has established a feudal absolutist system, but now it is going backwards, so this system must not be long-lasting.
On the basis of this slavery, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty roughly divided the society into four classes according to race, namely Mongols, Semu, Han, Nan, and the highest Mongols, as long as they were Mongols, they were extremely noble, with high social status and privileges.
And the lowest is living in the Han people, because the Central Plains Dynasty was in power by the Han people before, coupled with the suppression of the development of the Mongols for a long time, now they have the opportunity to rise, naturally they will not let go of the Han, so they treat them as slaves.
In addition, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty also set a lot of unreasonable regulations, and it can even be said that they suppressed the development of the Han people, such as the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty did not allow the Han people to enter the dynasty as officials, did not allow the Han people to participate in the imperial examination, and were also restricted to varying degrees in society, which caused many students to be extremely dissatisfied with the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, after all, this is to let them study hard for ten years without results, and there is no opportunity to show their talents.
Moreover, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the people's livelihood was deteriorating and natural disasters were frequent, but the official government not only appeased the people's hearts and carried out people's livelihood relief, but also squeezed the people, which inevitably caused social turmoil and the situation of officials forcing the people to rebel.
Born into poverty, he accidentally changed his destiny
In the turbulent years at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was born in an extremely poor peasant family, not only did not have enough to eat, but also lost his parents and brother when he was young due to official oppression and illness, and finally left him alone, but was later adopted by the kind Wang Da Niang, and he barely survived.
When Zhu Yuanzhang grew up, he also wanted to become independent, but in troubled times, there was no chance to gain a foothold in society, plus he did not have a skill, and even filling his stomach was a problem, and finally he was forced to go to the temple to become a monk.
Unexpectedly, after being a monk for a few years, the temple could not be maintained, and Zhu Yuanzhang was driven out, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang was very down, already poor to the point of begging, and a letter from his friend Tang He brought a turning point in his life, when Tang He joined Guo Zixing's rebel army, seeing the cornered Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to pull him into the group, and Zhu Yuanzhang also had nowhere to go and did not make a living, in order to survive, he was naturally willing to join it.
Unexpectedly, after joining the rebel army, Zhu Yuanzhang was like a different person, not only brave, but also brave and good at fighting, and it didn't take long to have a certain reputation in the army, even Guo Zixing valued him very much, promoted him to a knight, and even gave him his adopted daughter Ma Shixu, this woman was later Empress Ma, and after Guo Zixing's death, he also inherited his army.
After that, Zhu Yuanzhang recruited troops, recruited Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen and other talents, fought side by side with Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other brothers, defeated Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youcheng and other armies, and finally directly attacked the Yellow Dragon, overthrew the corrupt rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and established his own regime.
At that time, Emperor Yuanshun led people to flee long before Zhu Yuanzhang attacked the imperial capital, but he fled in a hurry and could not take all the clansmen, so many Mongols still remained in the Central Plains, including as many as 100,000 Mongolian women, so how did Zhu Yuanzhang deal with the Mongolian women left behind after successfully seizing power?
Change the killing practice of the past, and give it to both grace and power
According to everyone's understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang's past, it will definitely be thought that Zhu Yuanzhang killed decisively, and should kill in the face of the remaining clansmen of the Yuan Dynasty, after all, he is a veteran who has been in the battlefield for a long time, with too much blood on his hands, and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he also killed a lot of founding heroes, created Hu Weiyong, blue jade blood cases, slaughtered many innocent people, before and after adding up to tens of thousands, I think he will not be soft on the enemy.
However, he did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang changed his previous practice and not only let go of these 100,000 Mongolian women, but also released them along with other surrendered Mongols.
However, he released these people conditionally, either he chose to return to the Mobei region, no longer oppose the Ming Dynasty, and no longer enter the Central Plains, or he followed the customs, integrated into the Han people, and intermarried with the Han people, of course, this choice was made to learn Han culture and traditional customs, and there could not be fornication with Mongolian men, otherwise he would still be punished, which solved this tricky matter.
In addition, this policy quickly gained the support of many Mongols, and Zhu Yuanzhang's reputation and prestige were also improved, which laid a good foundation for him to sweep away the remnants of his forces and calm the civil war in the future.
There is a political purpose behind this, through this policy can alleviate the contradictions between the two ethnic groups, dilute the sense of hostility, and largely transform the enemy into a help for future social development.
epilogue
Don't look at Zhu Yuanzhang's reckless origin, but also a martial emperor, but in governing the country and promoting social development, he still has a correct judgment, and at the same time does his best to lead the Ming Dynasty to a certain prosperity, the history is called "the rule of Hongwu", even if the world's evaluation of him is different, but overall it is still flawed, his ability and contribution cannot be denied, can be called a generation of hegemonic emperors.
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