Chinese dynasties, the unprecedented vast territory of the Yuan Dynasty but looks very low-key, the history of the historical data than the Han, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties are much less, even the folk fans are happy to see in the wild history of the Yuan Dynasty as the background of few and far between, compared to the age of the brilliant scientific and technological and cultural giants, the sense of the existence of this dynasty, just like a much lower. However, from the "lower sense of existence" of the Yuan dynasty, through that much shorter than the dynasty before and after the throne, but still can find some important cold knowledge, or fresh or hilarious, but are full of beyond the historical thinking.

Cold knowledge of the first: the elephant carries a luxury car

Yuan Dynasty, the implementation of the "two capitals": the metropolis and the capital, every year in the summer, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty to go to the capital to escape the summer heat, cool to the fall and then come back, each time the trip is a great deal of work. According to the Yuan dynasty people's poetry description: "car like running water hair cattle fast, An openwork gold white horse good." Such a big battle, of course, the emperor's car can not be ambiguous, and since the Yuan Shizu Kublai, the Yuan Dynasty emperors only love a luxury car - the elephant carriage.

What is an elephant's carriage? The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey. Even Marco Polo's travels are written about, full of awe.

Cold knowledge two: you even more than I have money?

The Yuan Dynasty less than a century, the giant corruption is famous for more than one, of which the greed is incomparably high-profile when it is the Yuan Shizu era of heavy ministers Sang. Sang is an interpreter from the Yuan dynasty right prime minister, the biggest skill is to accumulate money, Yuan Shizu "big things" to do a lot of money is often tight, but the flexible brains of Sang every time he can get money. Of course, the approach can not be on the stage, not the state officials to sell at a price, is to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall. But the eagerness to use money Kublai which care about these, but instead of Sang as the meat of the heart, but also special to Sang set up a monument to honor his brilliant achievements for the country to make money.

Such favor, simply opened the ancient Chinese history of the precedent. But this Sang not only to the country, money, to their own money is called really positive, to his later fall, its private wealth is also hard to spicy Yuan Shizu's eyes. Sang's home alone searched out the money on the Yuan dynasty treasury reserves, especially Sang's collection of two boxes of valuable pearls, its value than the Yuan Shizu's palace pearls are much more expensive. In addition there are expensive gold silk clothes, Yuan Shizu himself is only but two, Sang with wearing even three, seven smoke Yuan Shizu in a fit of rage to Sang beheaded, merit monument also smashed to pieces: "call you more money than me". Although Sang was chopped, but the Yuan dynasty high official big corruption trend is from Yuan Shizu to Yuan Shun emperor nearly a century flute did not brake.

Cold Knowledge 3: Tear down the wall and repair the wall

In just pacified the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, sitting on the world, there was also a "demolition of the wall movement". How hard to tear down? To "to Zheng Jinling new record", once resisted the Yuan Dynasty Xiangfan area, the original walls were leveled, all changed into arable land. The history of the Yuan is more detailed record, after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, first of all the cities along the Yangtze River, all were shoveled out of the city walls, and in 1278, even the walls of the cities in the southwest of Sichuan and Sichuan were not spared.

Then it was all over Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong. With the Yuan Dynasty literati's various notes, almost all of the various city walls during the Tang and Song dynasties "do not exist today", it can be said that as the Yuan Dynasty army rumbled southward, all the cities in South China, except for a few ancient city walls for flood control, almost all of them have been razed to the ground. City dwellers in and out, often not even find the city gate. Yuan dynasty scholar Chen Dazhen exclaimed: "Tianbing (Yuan soldiers) south, Pingyi city walls, building yulu daisy all swept away", demolition is very thorough. Why do this?

Marco Polo's travels there is a comment: "so that the army can enter the city at will without being blocked, through this kind of control tactics, the subjects remain calm, there is no change". Tear down the walls is to prevent people rely on the walls to rebel, but this strange method can really let the subjects remain calm? It is precisely the big demolition of the walls of 1278, Jiangxi and other provinces of the local officials to the Yuan Dynasty complained that: "now the grass invaders hair", full of a large number of civil unrest, but the city walls are torn down, once the grass invaders hit the hide have no place to hide. Sudden realization of the Yuan dynasty rushed to the order, ordered all over the hurry have to repair the walls, "demolition and repair" of the farce, a toss is several years.

Cold Knowledge 4: usury destroyed the Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Dynasty called "developed commodity economy", the most developed commodity economy is what? Recognized only one deal: usury. Of course, usury in the Yuan Dynasty is called "Han off money", folk also known as "lamb interest". For example, lending out a silver ingot, the first year interest doubled, doubled again in the second year, so the interest rolled over in less than 10 years, the interest rate skyrocketed to more than 1,000 ingots, simply higher than the birth of a sheep and also to money fast. Yuan dynasty "Han off the money" businessmen early most of the princes and nobles for the debt, earn a middleman spread, to help all kinds of aristocrats to get a pot of gold. Later, the Yuan dynasty government also saw the eye red, so good business, the court why can not do?