Chapter 72 Section 3 Special Feelings for the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty

In fact, before deleting Mencius, Zhu Yuanzhang did a lot of things that his ministers didn't understand well. For example, when the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown, the Han people in the Central Plains were all rejoicing and elated, and strongly demanded that Zhu Yuanzhang thoroughly liquidate the crimes of the Yuan Dynasty and punish those rulers of the Yuan Dynasty who oppressed the people. But Zhu Yuanzhang did not do this.When marching into Dadu, he asked the army not to harm the royal family and nobles of the Yuan Dynasty: "The relatives of the Yuan Dynasty should be preserved."

After Emperor Yuanshun fled north in a panic, the Ming army captured the Libala bought by the prince.The ministers requested that a "prisoner offering" ceremony be held in Nanjing to celebrate this great victory.Zhu Yuanzhang refused to agree, on the grounds that it was an insult to the former prince.He said: "Although there was a gift of presenting captives in ancient times, I can't bear to add it." He respected all the captured nobles of the Yuan Dynasty, conferred high titles on them, and gave them extremely generous living conditions, allowing the Han people to continue to treat them. They behaved like a rite.

Even after the overthrow of the Yuan Dynasty, ministers presented chapters of "Jie Zou" one after another, criticizing the innocence of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and praising the majesty of the Hongwu Emperor, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very dissatisfied, because there were words in the memorials that belittled the monarch of the Yuan Dynasty.Zhu Yuanzhang said to the prime minister: "Yuan ruled China for a hundred years, and my parents, such as Qing, depended on him for their birth. Why do you make such frivolous remarks? Change it urgently." For the Han people in the Central Plains, overthrowing the rule of the Yuan people means turning the upside-down world upside down again. It is really a great shame to be ruled by a barbaric horse-riding nation.Therefore, most Han people do not recognize the orthodox status of Yuan rule.For example, Ming Yuzhen, another uprising leader at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, said in the imperial edict: "Before the Yuan Dynasty, Di polluted me in Zhongxia, ethics was obscured, and people were wiped out." The despicableness of the left lapel; revealing it is the meritorious service, and it has become the rule of our civilization."It means sweeping away the accidents in Chinese history and returning to the orthodoxy of the Han nationality.

But Zhu Yuanzhang insisted from beginning to end that the rule of Yuan people was "orthodox".He tried his best to defend the orthodoxy of the Yuan Dynasty from all angles. In his enthronement announcement, he said: "I am the king of the Chinese people. Since the Song Dynasty, the fortune of the Song Dynasty has ended. The emperor ordered the real person to live in the desert and enter China to be the ruler of the world. His father, son and grandson have lived for more than a hundred years, and their fortune has ended today." In other words, the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was ordered by the sky, and it was upright, as a matter of course.It is worth noting that when he said "more than a hundred years", he not only regarded the decades after the Yuan destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty as the orthodoxy, but also regarded the more than ten years of Yuan and Song coexistence as the orthodoxy of the Yuan Dynasty.

He not only recognized the legitimacy of the Yuan Dynasty from the perspective of heavenly principles, but also expressed his gratitude to the rule of the Yuan Dynasty from the perspective of personal feelings: "Although the Yuan Dynasty was barbarian and Di, it came to rule China. Within a hundred years, there will be a large population, and the family will be full. His grandfather also foretold his peace." This seems even more incomprehensible.Under the rule of the Yuan Empire, his father Zhu Wusi migrated around, but he still died of hunger.He, Zhu Yuanzhang, also had a good day.Not only Zhu Yuanzhang was like this, but all Han people suffered from the barbaric rule of the Yuan people: Han people who injured Mongols were sentenced to death, and Mongols who killed Han people only paid a donkey; Turn your hands behind your back and make a bundle to express submission.It stands to reason that he should have a deep-seated hatred for Da Yuan, why did he become so grateful for his achievements?