Those who are familiar with history know that "Yuan History" is known as the worst of the 24 histories, and among the 24 histories, "Yuan History" is definitely the most difficult to read.
Wei Yuan, a native of the Qing Dynasty, once said in the "New Edition of the History of the Yuan Dynasty": "Since before the National Dynasty, the territory has not been outlined in the Yuan Dynasty, and the history books have not been more than the Yuan Dynasty. "It means that the territory of the Yuan Dynasty is very large, but the book "History of the Yuan" is extremely bad, and some people even say that many of the names in this book are messy, not only can they not be understood when they read, but they also sound like the words of foreign devils.
The first problem in the Yuan History is that the lineage is very chaotic, the entire Yuan Dynasty from the Yuan ancestor Kublai Khan to the end of the Yuan Shun Emperor ruled the whole of China for only 98 years, not half the length of the Qing Dynasty, but the number of emperors produced by this dynasty is 11, compared with the 12 emperors of the Qing Dynasty, the speed of changing the emperor is comparable to five dynasties and ten countries, then this is not the point, the most terrible thing is that the Mongols do not have a descendant to inherit the set. The inheritance between the thrones is like a family, for a while it is the father who dies and the son succeeds, and for a while it is the brother who dies and the brother, and then there are the ancestors and grandchildren, and there are also the side lines to seize the heirs, and even the emperors who retreat and restore, the Yuan Dynasty almost demonstrated all the things that can happen in the process of inheriting the ancient throne, and there are only six generations between the 11 emperors, which is equivalent to saying that half of the people of the same generation pass on the throne to each other, and it is almost a pot of porridge.
It's okay to have a chaotic lineage, what's terrible is that many people's names in the "History of the Yuan" are translated randomly, for example, like Wuliang Hedai, Wuliang Hetai, and Wuliang Heyi, the three names actually refer to the same person, and there are pixel Butai and Xue Butai, in fact, they are also the same person, but they are divided into two biographies, and the general who conquered the Western Regions in this era is called Batu, and in the biography, this name is written as Badu, which is completely two people. Reading such a history book, even if you look for Emperor Yuan Shun, then he will be confused.
This is not over, "Yuan History" will not only give people more than one person, but also more than one person, like Timur, Boyan, and Totokh, can pop up a lot, at first I thought it was one person, but later I found out that it was completely two people, or even three people. In addition, there are also those who misremember the temple number, such as Taizu wrote Taizong, Xianzong wrote Shizu, and Shizu wrote Xianzong.
Wang Huizu of the Qing Dynasty said in his "Yuan Shi Benzheng" that there are nearly 3,700 errors in the "Yuan History", which is not as good as the literature of the stall. "Yuan History" can be written like this, largely because he wrote it too fast. The Yuan History Museum was opened in February of the second year of Hongwu, and the book was completed in August, but this version of the "Yuan History" was so bad that even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't stand it, and it was opened for the second time in the third year of Hongwu.
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was in such a hurry to finish the "History of the Yuan" was because the political value of this book far exceeded the historical value of the Ming Dynasty. In the early days of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the country was actually not safe in the field of national defense, the Ming Dynasty occupied only the southeast, plus North China, and the three sides around it were still the sphere of influence of the Mongols, and it was recorded in the "Ming Taizu Record" that until the 30th year of Hongwu, Mongolia still had huge combat effectiveness in the case of the Ming Dynasty's continuous attack for so many years. This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly sent a large number of sons to the north to be the king of Sai. In order to tell the world that the Yuan Dynasty had completely ended, Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly finished the "History of the Yuan" when he first ascended the throne, with the purpose of nailing him to the coffin board of the Yuan Dynasty.
After the completion of the "History of the Yuan" in the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately told the Yuan Dynasty Sect who was in the river about it, which means that I have finished the "History of the Yuan", and your side will be an illegal organization from today onwards. It is precisely because of this excessive pursuit of legitimacy that the quality of "Yuan History" was let go and became the bottom of the twenty-four histories.