The Ming Dynasty's policy towards the Mongols was the border of rule and tolerance
Although the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was relatively ruthless, the Han people had a low status under their rule and lived a miserable life, but after the Ming Dynasty unified the country, in fact, it was still relatively merciful to the Mongols, and the Ming Dynasty emperor was basically the same to the people of all ethnic groups, not only allowed the Mongols to lose, but also politically actively demanded from the Mongols in the Han interior, but in the north, they were actually given a certain degree of autonomy, and the Mongols of the Ming Dynasty also acted as officials in the Ming Dynasty. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of Mongols as officials was not small at all.
Treat them equally and encourage them to become sinners.
After the overthrow of the Mongol regime, although Zhu Yuanzhang followed the Northern Yuan court, he was still friendly to the Mongols in his territory, but only if they were actively jealous and hateful.
Zhu Yuanzhang said in "The Biography of the Chronicles" that as long as the Mongols surrendered sincerely, he would not kill innocents indiscriminately. Zhu Yuanzhang did exactly that, and basically treated the Mongols who remained within his borders in the same way, not allowing the Han Chinese to kill them without permission. The reason for this is, of course, that it would take a lot of manpower to rebuild production after the chaos of the last years of the Yuan dynasty, but also because the Northern Yuan still posed a serious threat and had to pull the Mongols into their ranks.
Of course, in order to solve *** it mainly implements three policies. First, he asked the Mongols to change their surname to Han, use Chinese characters, and learn to speak Chinese. Second, the Mongols were not allowed to continue to wear Mongol clothes, and they had to wear Han clothes. Third, Mongolian men were not allowed to marry, and Mongolian women had to marry Han Chinese, otherwise they would be listed as slaves or even put to death.
These three measures accelerated the process of sinicization of the Mongols, and the Mongols in the region were soon assimilated by the wider Han Chinese.
Mongol outposts were established in the north and given a certain autonomy.
Since many tribes of the Northern Yuan surrendered to the Ming Dynasty under the continuous attacks of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty successively established more than 20 Mongol garrisons in the eastern and western regions, Monan, northern Gansu and Hami regions, and gave them a certain degree of autonomy to appease their hearts.
Among the more than twenty Mongol garrisons, the commanders were still Mongol feudal lords, and their way of life and production was the same as before. In doing so, they attracted more remnants of the Northern Yuan to surrender, and at the same time, these Mongol tribes also built a barrier on the northern border of the Ming Dynasty, better maintaining stability on the northern border.
At the same time, it should be borne in mind that the Ming emperors, like the Tang emperors, were called in the eyes of the Mongols"Khan", which was a more obvious political sign that they were also seen as Mongol rulers.
Monan Mongols tended to the Ming Dynasty, but the Mongol tribes were long-term.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Yuan court was repeatedly attacked, and soon lost control of the Mongolian ministries, from the early years of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian ministries were in a state of ** for a long time.
Mongolia was originally divided into two parts: the eastern Mongols were mainly nomadic in the south and north of the desert, and when Zhu Di conquered Mongolia in the north, the descendants of the ** family known as the Tatar Khan were ravaged; The western Mongols were mainly nomadic in Moxi, known as the Warat, and rose from among the weaker Tatars.
In the 15th century, Dayan Khan unified Mongolia and briefly came to power. However, after Dayan's death, the Mongol tribes were again **, mainly divided into three parts, namely Southern Mongolia, Northern Mongolia (Khalkha) and Western Mongolia (Erut), during which Altan Khan in Western Mongolia devoted himself to establishing contact with the Ming Dynasty, which had better relations, and improving ** relations.
After the rise of the Jurchens in Liaodong, they allied themselves with the Mongols in Mobei (especially the Khalkha Mongols) and conquered the Mongols in Monan. Later, the Qing army entered the customs and finally pacified the Dzungar tribe in the first year of the Kangxi reign (1757), and the Mongol tribes were completely under the rule of the Qing court.