Tinder Project Why did the Mongol iron cavalry that swept across the Eurasian continent disappear in just 100 years?Because these people are just a bunch of reckless men who can only fight, not use their brains. The first thing the Yuan Dynasty did after the unification was to divide the people of the whole country into four classes, the Mongols were the highest, they could do whatever they wanted, the Semu people belonged to the second class, they could be officials, own property and buy and sell freely, and the Han and Nan people were the lowest, and they could not intermarry with the Mongols and the Se Shepherds, nor could they hold the high-level **, and were oppressed and discriminated against.
There are only two consequences of this, firstly, the state will not be at peace, and secondly, it will provoke an uprising. The inequality between ethnic groups is bound to produce contradictions and disputes, and the Han nationality, which has the largest population base, is it not self-defeating?The second reason for the short life of the Yuan Dynasty was that the emperors changed too often. In just 39 years, the Yuan Dynasty has changed seven emperors, just like a family. It's not because Kublai Khan is very capable, but because power is not concentrated in **. The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty had been in charge of the Central Plains for many years, but they still insisted on using Mongolian and were reluctant to speak Chinese. Once an emperor wants to accept Han culture, there will definitely be a bunch of nobles who will lead troops to rebel, so that the regime will inevitably be unstable and copy him. The ministers don't care about the people's livelihood day by day, they only know how to punish the state for long-term peace and stability.
Third, the murderous spirit is too heavy. Genghis Khan fought a lifetime of war, successively destroyed more than 40 countries, conquered more than 700 ethnic groups, and indeed trained an invincible army, but if he continued to fight like this, even the world hegemon could not bear it. After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, it was still obsessed with foreign expansion, either fighting Vietnam, Japan, or Burma. It costs money to fight with a baby, where does the money come from?Looting the people at the bottom?In order to make up for the financial deficit, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty increased taxes again and again, and the people were miserable and could only stand up and resist.
Fourth, it is too forgiving. The leniency here is not just for the people, but for the prisoners. The criminal law of the Yuan Dynasty was very lenient, strictly prohibiting torture to extract confessions, and if you insisted on torture, you had to report it layer by layer. The permission order has not yet been granted, and the prisoner has already escaped from prison. The Yuan Dynasty rarely carried out the death penalty, and no matter how heinous the crime was, he would only be imprisoned for life, and naturally die in prison. For those ***, the Yuan Dynasty is also very considerate, as long as they reform themselves and continue to be officials, they will continue to be officials, just toss like this, the officialdom is inconceivably corrupt, no wonder Zhu Yuanzhang. It is said that the Yuan Dynasty looked at the world broadly, which means that the Yuan Dynasty did not have a complete system and was too lenient for criminals, so the whole country was scattered, and the people were in dire straits. It is also a miracle that such a dynasty can exist for 98 years.