Why was the Yuan Dynasty destroyed by the Ming Dynasty?

Why was the Yuan Dynasty destroyed by the Ming Dynasty?

In the history of China, the rapid rise and collapse of the Mongolian Empire has been a difficult problem explored by many historians. Mongolian empire can be said to be the strongest empire in human history. From the map, we can see that the vast territory occupied by the Yuan Dynasty at that time, Taiwan Province Province and Tibet were incorporated into Chinese territory for the first time.

The Mongolian Empire is undoubtedly a country with unprecedented strength, but no matter how brave and vast the Mongolian cavalry is, it was finally defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and how did Zhu Yuanzhang use the rise to quickly disintegrate the Mongolian Empire?

Looking back at history, it is not difficult to find that Zhu Yuanzhang's success is not accidental, not only because of the right time and the right place. All three were indispensable to the rapid disintegration of the Yuan Dynasty. The decline of a dynasty is often driven by both internal and external factors. Otherwise, how could anyone dare to touch a stone in such a powerful empire?

First of all, let's talk about internal factors. The first internal cause is mainly martial arts fashion. They are not good at learning cultural knowledge and advocate solving all problems by force. Over time, it is easy to cause public grievances. Secondly, the Mongolian people treat other peoples, especially the Han people, as slaves, and this contradiction became more intense at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

Thirdly, the Mongolian empire at that time did not have a complete legal system, and the only laws were aimed at the Han people, which further caused ethnic contradictions; The fourth senior official is not allowed to use Han Chinese, while Mongols are armed men who don't understand the construction of all walks of life. Therefore, corruption and other ethos have followed.

It was precisely because of these four drawbacks of the Yuan Dynasty that people's grievances arose at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and various localities began to rebel. Zhu Yuanzhang also took advantage of the situation and joined the uprising team at that time. However, another person contributed to the success of Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising, and that was the uprising led by Zhu Guangqing. At that time, the army of the Yuan Dynasty was already in a state of corruption, so the suppression of Zhu Guangqing by the Yuan Dynasty lasted for nearly seven months, creating opportunities for the later world uprising.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang borrowed the power of others in the uprising, and this power was Liu Futong. The Red Scarf Army Uprising established by Liu Futong was active in the hinterland of the Central Plains. Because of this advantage, the capital of the Song Dynasty was directly captured at that time, which greatly defeated the majesty of the Mongolian government and the army famous for its force. After the capital of the capital city of Bianliang, the rebels immediately ordered the ministries to send troops to the Northern Expedition.

Zhang Maogui was the first to be sent. After the occupation of Shandong, Zhang Maogui occupied Liulin outside the Yuan Dynasty. Although the Yuan soldiers defeated Zhang Maogui in Liulin in the end, the Yuan Dynasty was able to stabilize its position, but both the regime and the army began to shake.

Mr. Guan and the troops led by Pan Tou sent troops directly from Shandong, and took a detour from Shanxi to occupy Datong, Yanmen and Yuanshangdu. And based in Datong and other places, it finally captured Liaodong and invaded Korea. It is equivalent to occupying all the territories around the Yuan capital, leaving only one Yuan capital and the surrounding areas such as Henan and Hebei in the Yuan Dynasty. This unit was an insurgent army that dealt the greatest blow to the Yuan Dynasty except Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expeditionary Army.

The Northern Expedition of the Red Scarf Army not only failed to promote the unity within the Yuan Dynasty, but quickly split the Yuan Dynasty into two factions, the Imperial Party and the Post-Party. The imperial party and the post-party are arguing with each other. If the Yuan Dynasty had chosen to support Chen Youliang instead of patronizing internal affairs.

After the party forced Yuan Shundi to abdicate, it sent people to fight in the capital in the name of eliminating traitors and villains, and was finally defeated by Wang Baobao. As a last resort, Yuan Shundi can only make Wang Baobao the king of Yu and order him to go south to suppress the Red Scarf Army in Jianghuai. Obviously, Wang Baobao didn't act, otherwise Zhu Yuanzhang would jump like a chicken.

However, Wang Baobao still played a small mind, and transferred the name of the southern expedition of the Han warlords in Shaanxi, in fact, in order to transfer the tigers on the mountain and occupy Shaanxi. However, when the warlords discovered this conspiracy, they were not to be outdone, but caused a new round of internal warlord scuffle.

In the Yuan Dynasty, after the Ming army successfully crossed the Yellow River, Yuan Shundi restored Wang Baobao's rights and positions, and ordered Wang Baobao to command all military forces to resist the enemy. However, after receiving the imperial edict, Wang Baobao still stood there and let it develop. Finally, the Northern Expeditionary Army entered the Yuan Dynasty, which officially perished. Zhu Yuanzhang is more like the chosen darling of heaven, whether it is the Han and Song regime led by Liu Futong or the Northern Expedition army that attacked the Yuan Dynasty.

Although the internal factors of the Yuan Dynasty were the main factors that led to the demise of the Yuan Dynasty, the military performance in the late Yuan Dynasty was even worse than that of Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, so that the Northern Expedition army was a bit bloodless when it entered the Yuan Dynasty. No matter which dynasty perished, most of them began to corrupt from the inside. When the government was no longer trusted by the people, it was the time when a country was going to perish.