As mentioned last time, one of the reasons for the decline and fall of the Yuan Dynasty was the infighting and indiscriminate struggle of the ruling class, but it was actually caused by multiple factors, such as class contradictions.

Later generations certainly don't know how miserable the common people living in the "Yuan Dynasty" were, but they don't know that the conscription and military service during the "Yuan Dynasty" period were the most onerous and deadly in all dynasties! If future generations can travel back to the past through time and space and live in the "Yuan Dynasty", they can only be used as consumables for the "Mengyuan Court".

For example, ordinary "herdsmen" (herdsmen) are both "Mongolian", but because of the difference between the rich and the poor and the class attributes, their status in society is also very different! The "Yuan Dynasty" divided people into "military households", "civilian households", "herdsmen", "artisan households", "hunters" and other "households" according to their occupations.

This kind of "household system" has basically sealed the fate of the common people, because the common people who are "organized into households" have to be slaves to the powerful for generations. The vast majority of ordinary Mongolians were classified as "military households" and "herdsmen", and only a very small number of criminals were classified as "lowly household registrations" such as "peasant households" and "artisan households". As a "herdsman", in addition to grazing cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock to support the family, he must also serve in the military for the imperial court.

However, military supplies such as war horses, weapons, and even rations must be solved by themselves, because the imperial court does not care about these. Take the situation of the brothers of an ordinary "military household" family as an example, the elder brother died on the battlefield that year, leaving the sister-in-law and nephews and nieces without anyone to take care of, according to the nomadic "step-marriage system", the younger brother can legally marry the sister-in-law as his wife and occupy all the property of the elder brother, provided that he must be responsible for raising his nephews and nieces.

However, in reality, the younger brother has already married a wife and had children, and the family is as poor as the brother and sister-in-law's family, so what if they can't help support their big family? Cold! After taking his sister-in-law home, he sold his niece to a rich and noble family as a girl, and used the money from selling his daughter to buy horses, armor, scimitars, bows and arrows for his nephew to fight.

Of course, as long as the little boy can ride a horse and draw a bow and shoot arrows, as long as he can wield a knife and cut people, regardless of age, once he wins the battle, he can pick up some booty, or sell it for money to redeem his sisters, or simply marry and have children. However, if the little boy dies in battle, the game is over!

At this time, occasionally there will be real conscription by the imperial court to fight, and as a "military household", it must go out to fight for its "master". However, even if the elder brother of this family has died on the battlefield, someone still has to replace him on the expedition, because his "military household" household registration is still there, that is, let the living people in the family go out to fight instead of the dead ghosts. At this time, the younger brother, as an adult male, is the first eligible person to be preferred, followed by the nephew or his own son.

If the younger brother is too timid to avoid military service, he will be beheaded if caught, and the entire family will be sold into slavery, and if he resists, he will be put to death. At this time, the younger brother was forced to have no choice but to respond to the call of the imperial court to go on the expedition, but the family was poor, so what could he do?

Easy to do! The "imperial court" allowed the lower class to sell their livestock, pastures, houses (yurts), etc., to raise funds. Of course, if the family is poor and has nothing to sell, they can also sell their wives and children. As a result, by the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, more than 100,000 low-level Mongolian herdsmen had become slaves of eunuchs, Han landlords, and semu merchants in various places, and the vast majority of them were victimized by "conscription", after all, the Mongols were used to this.

Some low-level herders think that they have a large pasture and hundreds of cattle and sheep and can prevaricate by selling livestock products and spending a little "small money", after all, it is also feasible to spend money to find someone to go out for them, as long as there is a certificate issued by the government and successfully recorded, but it is not possible in special periods.

Because the people at the bottom are the "consumables" of the government, and their essence is to be used for loss, so the "war" continues, resulting in the fact that once the battle is lost, the "military household" family will be reduced to a "driving mouth". The so-called "expulsion" is that the "Emperor Mengyuan" rewarded the aristocratic family as "house slaves" ordinary herdsmen, but in fact they are poor.

At this time, the small families of the "herdsman" brothers were poor and could not be sold, but according to the regulations, they still had to serve in the military for the imperial court. So, the younger brother had no choice but to replace the dead elder brother, but the premise was that the sister-in-law could only sell herself, hoping that the little uncle would not let her young son go to war, and at the same time find a way to redeem her minor daughter from the rich family as soon as possible and regain her freedom, which is better than being a girl.

Eventually, my sister-in-law sells herself to you as a "lustful man". The so-called "Semu people" do not refer to their "eyes" to be colorful, but to the people from the Western Regions whose surnames are not common for non-Mongols in Persia, Dashi, Tianzhu, Turkic and other places, and even include the Middle East, Africans, and Europeans in a broad sense.

But in fact, the "Semu people" refer to the exotic people who were conquered by the Mongols and brought the East with them, including "Muslims" who believe in Islam, Slavs who believe in Orthodox Christianity, and even the Tibetans who believe in "Tibetan Buddhism" also belong to the "Semu people", usually referring specifically to "Muslims", because they are accustomed to naming the names of their great-grandfathers, grandfathers, and fathers in front of their names, in a strange form, as if "rolling dice" can be classified by points.

Therefore, the "color eye people" are the "Western Regions Zahu" with strange surnames and a long list of names, not "people with colored eyes". However, the "lust-eyed man" committed by his sister-in-law is also a poor bastard, and he has not yet married a wife in middle age, and his father is a domestic slave of a local Han tyrant and squire who donated money to the "thousand household chiefs" domestic slaves, and he is too poor to be poor, and the reason why he can still buy poor women is because the status of "Semu people" is higher than that of "Han people" and "southerners".

However, the sister-in-law relied on the little money she got from selling herself to solve the problems of the little uncle buying war horses, armor, scimitars, bows and arrows, dry food, and coiling, so that the little uncle "wrought" a "qualification" to die on the battlefield. He is a Mongolian, and he is a "first-class person" among the "fourth-class people" of the Yuan Dynasty!

The "Semu Man" sold by the sister-in-law was a "second-class citizen" of the "Yuan Dynasty", and his status was second only to the "Mongols" and higher than the "Han Chinese" and "Nanren". However, under normal circumstances, this "color eye" is not eligible to be incorporated into a "military household" or a "herdsman", but is incorporated into a "station household", that is, an "official slave" serving in the "post station", because the territory of the "Yuan Dynasty" is vast, the land is vast and sparsely populated, especially in the unexpected places of the "Han Land", and there is only one ending - the whole family is dead!

Why is this so? Originally, the "post station" of the "Yuan Dynasty" was a grass-roots unit specifically responsible for the management of horses, but because the "Yuan Dynasty" was vast and sparsely populated, the distance between its two "post stations" was often hundreds of miles away, resulting in the "public horses" running for a long time, overwork, and extremely high mortality rates, and the consequences were very serious.

The local government of the "Mengyuan Imperial Court" had a rule that the "station household" was fully responsible for the death of the horses of the "post station", and the imperial court would not pay for the "post station" to replenish new horses, and could only be solved by the post guards who were responsible for managing the "post station official horses". To put it simply, it is deliberately squeezing out the little Weibo savings in the "station household".

In the end, the "station households" went bankrupt and could only sell themselves and their families to the "rich masters" as slaves. This is still the situation of ordinary "second-class citizens" in the "Yuan Dynasty", if it is replaced by ordinary people in the "third-class people" and "fourth-class people" such as "Han people" and "southerners", it will be miserable and incomparable!

Because according to the regulations of the "Mengyuan Imperial Court", the ordinary people among the "Han people" and "southern people" not only had to build city walls, river embankments, and palaces for the magnates, but even the "rich masters" could build a latrine for the poor people in vain. Of course, if you can squeeze out some hard-earned money to honor the "rich masters", then you don't have to worry about being targeted and embarrassed. However, once there is no money, then they have to sell their wealth, and they have nothing to sell, sell their sons and daughters, and sell themselves into slavery.

Therefore, the number of "hooligans" in the "Yuan Dynasty" reached the crime of Chinese history, according to historical records, in the middle and late stages of the "Yuan Dynasty", the total number of "hooligans" who fled from the north to the south alone exceeded 5 million, and they also successfully escaped, as for those who failed to escape, I am afraid that it is more than ten times that!

In fact, the more than 5 million "hooligans" recorded are just ordinary "Mongols" and "Semu people", and as the "Han Chinese" at the bottom of society, the number of people who have successfully fled to the south has reached a terrifying 20 million! It accounted for almost one-fifth of the population of the "Yuan Dynasty" at that time! What a scary number is that? That is to say, out of every ten "Yuan Dynasty people", at least three people are forced to become "hooligans", and four of the remaining six or seven people will die!

These "hooligans" are struggling on the death line, and if they want to live, they can only scramble to eat the "dead corpses" on the side of the road, which is the phenomenon of "cannibalism" mentioned in the "Xiao Ling" of "Drunk Taiping". When the end of the Yuan Dynasty caught up with Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition, the officers and soldiers everywhere were about to collapse at the touch of a touch after a little resistance, because the people were unpopular because of the scourge!

The ordinary people of the "Yuan Dynasty" were suffering, despairing, angry, and hated by the scourge of the "Mengyuan Court" and the "local government...... Who will give their lives to the imperial court? Not to mention the "Han people" and "Semu people", even the "Mongols" are mostly looking down on the wind, just to be able to eat a full meal and survive, so the Northern Expedition will be successful.

In fact, no matter which ethnic group the ordinary people at the bottom, they live just to be fed, clothed, and not bullied, and they must continue to live with dignity. Therefore, those "Huayi's distinction", "Wang Tu's hegemony", "the majesty of a great country", "national rejuvenation", and "although it is far away, it must be punished...... Wait for all "grandiose" words to be unrealistic, they are all "nonsense" used to fool the people of the lower classes, or wait for the people to eat enough to hold on to nonsense.

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