When it comes to Zhu Yuanzhang's greatest place, people often mention "expelling the Tartars." However, the author believes that the greatest thing about Zhu Yuanzhang is not the expulsion of the Mongolian Yuan, but in this matter: how to deal with more than a million Mongolian and other remnants.
Under the high-pressure rule of the Mongolian Yuan, even if Zhu Yuanzhang did not appear, there would be others who would complete the historical task of expelling the Mongolian Yuan. However, on the question of how to treat the Mongolian remnants, it shows Zhu Yuanzhang's broad mind.
In the 45 years from 1234 to 1279, the Mongol Empire produced countless massacres, especially Sichuan, which was almost uninhabited for thousands of miles, almost the same as Sichuan in the late Ming Dynasty. In 1236 (the third year of Song Duanping), Kuaoduan led troops to attack Sichuan, massacred the residents of Chengdu, and the thousand-year-old city was slaughtered, and the remains of the city reached a staggering 1.4 million!
The encounter in Chengdu, Sichuan, is only a window of the times. From south to north, from east to west, the mongol empire is difficult to calculate, and many once prosperous cities in the Southern Song Dynasty were still withered until the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to killing, the Yuan Dynasty also had an all-round suppression of the Han people, such as the four-class system, killing a Han person only needs to accompany a sheep and so on. It can be said that in addition to the Five Hu Chaohua period, the Han people became "two-legged sheep", and the Han people in the Mongolian Yuan period were the most miserable. In particular, the brutal rule of the Mongolian Yuan over the Han people, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was at the bottom of society, was personally experienced.
Remember the leader of a small country with Chinese as the main body said that the Han people have the most revenge, and once they are strong, they will retaliate, so they must contain China.
If this conclusion is correct, then after Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, the most important thing to do was to "produce greater barbarism and lead to greater killing" to commemorate the slaughtered ancestors of the Southern Song Dynasty.
So, what would Zhu Yuanzhang, who was scolded by Yuan Tengfei and others as a "wang baegger" with no culture, do? It should be noted that people from the bottom of society, who have no education, are prone to act extremely, and if Zhu Yuanzhang avenges the ancestors of the Southern Song Dynasty, this is not surprising at all.
In 1367, Zhu Yuanzhang prepared for the Northern Expedition with everything in mind, so he asked the university scholar Song Lian to write a "Fengtian Northern Expedition Text", which was moving.
For example, Mongolians and Semu, although they are not of the Chinese ethnic group, are born between heaven and earth, and those who can know etiquette and righteousness, and are willing to be subjects, are no different from those who are raised in the Middle Xia. Therefore, I hereby advise that it is advisable to know.
It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang did not have any prejudice against the Mongols and the Semu people, as long as he was willing to be a subject, "no different from the people of the Middle Xia", and did not think of killing xue hate, or exterminating them.
Of course, some people say that this is a strategy, in order to disintegrate the enemy and pacify the north faster, and at the same time, this kind of text is more propaganda, equivalent to "saying one thing and doing one set.". So, how did Zhu Yuanzhang treat the Mongol and Semu remnants?
After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of Mongols settled in the south, and after more than a hundred years of reproduction, there were about 1 million Mongolians and Semu people in China. Regarding the mongolian southward movement, Zhao Min in the Book of the Dragon Slaughter in the Heavens, her family moved to Henan for hundreds of years.
Gong Zhi Sai Yin Chi Da Ku, tied out of the Mongolian Boyaitai clan. He first descended from emperor Pinghenan, and settled in Yan because he stayed in Gushi County, Gwangju.
In 1990, An epitaph was excavated in Luoyang, Henan Province, which contained the inscription indicating that the source of Zhao Min and Wang Baobao's family was migrated to Henan from the time of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty.
However, during Xu Da's Northern Expedition, the Yuan Shun Emperor fled north to the grasslands, taking only about 40,000 households, according to the calculation of 4 people per household, less than 200,000 people, and the rest were almost all left.
For these more than 1 million "foreign races", how did Zhu Yuanzhang deal with it?
"Records of Ming Taizu": Its braided hair, vertebral buns, hu clothes hu language Hu surname all prohibited. Considering the profits and losses, they were all cut off from the Sacred Heart, so for more than a hundred years, the Old China was restored.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang decreed that the clothes should be dressed like Tang, hu language, Hu clothing, and Hu names were prohibited, and Mongolian color eyes changed their names and surnames, no different from the Chinese. Here is a background, the Mongolian Yuan rule for more than 80 years, Chinese society "Hu Feng prevailed", and even many people changed to Mongolian surnames, Chinese traditions are also seriously lost, so Zhu Yuanzhang is trying to turn the tide of restoration of China.
In short, Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill them, but only forbade "braided hair, vertebral buns, Hufu Hu surname" and so on. Some people have said that for the Mongolian Semu people, this is the same as the Qing Dynasty's shaving and changing clothes, in fact, it is very different, because these people's ancestors were invaders, and the Qing Dynasty shaving and changing clothes were aimed at "indigenous people".
Of course, later, Zhu Yuanzhang considered the historical "disaster of refugee reception", so under the suggestion of the minister Zeng Bingzheng to prevent trouble before it happened, on the grounds that "it is contrary to the way of the former king to the Jing clan", he forbade the Mongolian color to change their names for easy identification.
In addition, it is forbidden for Mongolians and Semites to intermarry within, that is, women want to marry Han Chinese, and they marry Han women.
All Mongolians and Semites, who listen to Chinese as marriages, must be willing to marry each other, and are not allowed to marry each other. Violators, eighty rods, men and women are enslaved.
The phrase "this kind of self-marriage is not allowed" is what it means. Moreover, in the event of a violation, the penalties are extremely severe.
Therefore, after the integration of one or two generations, the legacy of Mengyuan was completely resolved by Zhu Yuanzhang, which can be described as a great joy for both the remnants and the Han people.
Generally speaking, "barbarism inevitably produces greater barbarism, and killing inevitably leads to greater killing", because the vendetta caused by national vendetta is still common. However, as early as 600 years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang was not blinded by hatred and exterminated the remnants of Mengyuan, but stood at the height of history and resolved this hatred with a broad mind.
From the perspective of today's Chinese nation, Zhu Yuanzhang's treatment of "foreign nationalities" is undoubtedly more in line with the trend of history and is the root cause of China's strength. After all, China is a multi-ethnic country, and national integration and unity are the prerequisites for China's strength today! Because of this, the author believes that the greatest thing about Zhu Yuanzhang is not that he did not expel Meng Yuan, but that it was in this matter!
However, a great and tolerant Zhu Yuanzhang, is now labeled as a "tyrant", "beast of power", etc., which makes people regret it!