Bloody marriage （雪域寓言）

 

Bloody marriage

 

Maybe many people don’t know what the shocking bad habits of the bloody Yuan Dynasty were? That is: Newlyweds will drop their first child to death.

When the Burmese musician Duoji was chatting in Myanmar, he told Agudengba, Azhuo and Chu Sanxing about a bad habit of fear that was popular in the Yuan Dynasty.

When Dorje talked about those things in Mongolia, he said:

In the Yuan Dynasty, people in the Mongolian territories were divided into two types: grassland hukou and rural hukou. People with grassland household registration enjoy privileges, while people with rural household registration are exclusively exploited by grassland people. If a grassland man kills a rural man, he only needs to pay for a donkey. The lives of rural people in the Yuan Dynasty were not valuable, let alone other aspects.

For example, when the Yuan Dynasty government ruled southern China, it assigned a family of Mongolians to each village. They did not work, but were supported by the people in the village. If the people in the village have something delicious to eat, they must give it to this family first; if they have something fun to eat, they must give it to this family first. Not only that, when people in the village marry a daughter-in-law, they also send the new daughter-in-law to this family first.

In order to keep the Han blood pure, many rural Han people will throw the first child born to their new wife to death because they suspect that the child has Mongolian genes. Only the second child can continue the family line and retain the Han bloodline. Are the Mongols too evil or the Han people too stupid? No one can give the right answer.

When Dorje talked about this, he said:

The 14th century of the Yuan Dynasty was the era of the most frequent natural disasters in the world, and China was no exception. Generally speaking, natural disasters are precursors to peasant uprisings. In order to prevent the Han people in the village from rebelling, all the knives in the villagers' homes were stored in the Mongolian homes. When they wanted to cut vegetables, they had to file a report and apply.

However, the Mongols took over the world and obtained treasures and beauties, but their fighting spirit slowly disappeared.

The person in power in the Yuan Dynasty at this time was Prime Minister Tuotuo. This man was quite smart and knew that blindly putting pressure on the people would not work. Tuotuo keenly saw that the biggest cause of hungry people was the flooding of the Yellow River. So he sounded the charge to regulate the Yellow River, and hundreds of thousands of people were captured to work together to repair the Yellow River. With hundreds of thousands of people gathering together, it would be strange if nothing happens. They originally hated the Mongols deeply. Originally, there were not many people in their own homes and they did not dare to fight openly. Nowadays, all the haters have gathered together, and everyone is already ready for a bloody battle with the Mongols.

Although Prime Minister Tuotuo went everywhere to provide relief, the imperial court had no money. After layers of exploitation, only a little got into the hands of the people. The common people realized that they would die anyway, so it was better to fight for their lives. Mentally, the poor common people had long been ready to rebel.

The military strength of the Mongolian army is indeed world-class, but the Mongolian army at that time had been corrupted; more importantly, the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was too large. In order to defend the land, the army had to be dispersed in various places to truly suppress the army of hundreds of thousands of people. There are very few.

So the Mongols kept printing money and creating inflation, and the money that the people finally saved turned into waste overnight. In order to get more money, the Mongols also invented a special tax method-contracting the tax revenue of each area to businessmen. The Mongolian rulers only cared about how much money the businessman could pay, and never cared about the businessman's method of collecting taxes. Therefore, in order to collect more taxes, businessmen often resort to any means. At this time, the Yuan Dynasty regime can be said to have been rotten to the bone.

However, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even though the Mongols were experiencing internal strife and corruption and adopted a high-pressure policy towards the Central Plains, their rule was still very stable. If no extraordinary events occur, the Mongols can simply enjoy the good times.

Unfortunately, at this time, a religion called the White Lotus began to organize the uprising. Before long, the people revolted. For a time, the world was full of uprising flags. Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang devoted himself to this uprising, and he and his descendants have been engaged in a war to pursue the Mongols.

The unified dynasty established by the Yuan Dynasty surpassed previous ones in terms of territory, ethnic groups, foreign exchanges, transportation construction, and policies. Needless to say, the territory of the Yuan Dynasty is well known to everyone. There are even more integrated ethnic groups, and they are very open to foreign exchanges. They have many contacts with countries all over the Eurasian continent. The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty adhered to the principle and tolerance of opening up to the outside world and embracing all rivers. In order to strengthen and stabilize its rule, communicate with other places and communicate with the central government, the Yuan Dynasty established a developed post system, which made transportation convenient and frequent. All this has provided great convenience for economic, cultural and material communication in various places.

But the wealth of the Mongolians in the Yuan Dynasty first depends on whether they are the Mongolian royal family, nobles, bureaucrats or civilians. It depends on whether they are Mongolian people living in the farming areas of the Central Plains or herdsmen living in the grassland pastoral areas. The wealth of the royal family is no different from that of other eras. As for the Mongolian nobles living in the Mobei region, many of them still use the number of pastures and livestock they own as their wealth standard. Of course, it is not limited to these resources. Under the unified pattern of the Yuan Dynasty, communication between various places was convenient, and many wealth and resources in the Central Plains would also flow to the north.

In the end, the Yuan Dynasty suddenly declined from a huge territory to a land with only a few tents left, and finally they were all swept away by Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming army. The Han people finally ended the era of being ruled by the Mongols. However, the Han rule of the Ming Dynasty was finally overthrown by the Manchus, and the Qing Dynasty once again rewrote the history of Han unification.

Dorje sighed:

These evil deeds and scandalous history of the Yuan Dynasty are rarely mentioned. This is indeed an objective phenomenon.

Compared with other eras, there is indeed a phenomenon that has been ignored in the history of the Yuan Dynasty. For example, the Song Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Qin and Han Dynasties, Qing Dynasty, and even the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin Dynasties are all eras that people talk about. The history of the Yuan Dynasty itself has a certain degree of complexity. The complexity lies in the fact that the multi-ethnic groups and the Mongolian-dominated rulers brought many political, economic, cultural and other elements that were unfamiliar to the Central Plains, as well as a large number of cultures and people from Eurasia. Enter. At the same time, in the vast territory, there are many different regions that need to be integrated under the unified politics. All of this runs through the entire history of the Yuan Dynasty, making this period a turbulent, changeable and complex situation. For ordinary people, General modular cognition creates difficulties.

However, historical facts are not dependent on people's objective understanding. They will neither become enriched because of people's attention nor disappear automatically because of people's neglect. The history that happened in the past exists objectively, so the only difference is that current people’s cognition.

Duoji sang a new folk song "Song of the Dynasty":

 

After Xia, Yin, Shang, Western and Eastern Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States, Emperor Qin harvested,

The Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei, Shu and Wu, the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty also included the Five Hus.

Murong, the Jie family of the Huns, and Tuoba, the Northern Queen, became the lord.

Song, Qi, Liang and Chen were the Southern Dynasties, and Northern Wei, Qi and Zhou were called the Northern Dynasties.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Qi Dynasty and passed on to the Sui Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Chen Dynasty and unified it again.

The Sui Dynasty destroyed the Tang Dynasty and became prosperous and powerful. Each of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms became kings.

Khitan arose in the north and was named Liao Ru Bianliang.

During the Five Dynasties, Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Zhou dynasties, Chen Qiaotou was founded in the Song Dynasty.

The Jurchens established the Jin Dynasty and destroyed the Liao Dynasty first, and then defeated Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Southern Song Dynasty settled in the south of the Yangtze River, and Mongolia emerged as a country named Yuan.

The Jin Dynasty was destroyed, the Song Dynasty was destroyed, and the Yuan Dynasty ruled for ninety years.

There were a total of sixteen monarchs in the Ming Dynasty, and they were named Houjin in the early days of Manchuria.

Later, the name of the Jin Dynasty was changed to Qing Dynasty, and it was called the imperial capital Beijing.

The people awakened to the revolution, and the Qing emperor abdicated and the Republic of China was established.

Nowadays, one country is divided into two systems, and the mainland and Taiwan long for reunification.