Earlier, there was a movie called Stop Killing Order, which told the story that during Genghis Khan's expedition to the Khorezm, Qiu Chuji, a real person from the Central Plains, met Genghis Khan not far from Wan Li and advised him to reduce his killing. The central idea of the whole movie is "Don't kill people", and Luye Chucai in the play also holds the same view.
As a serious Khitan, Lu Yechu, who had an enemy with the State of Jin, chose Mongolia, which was as bitter as the State of Jin, as the service object and became the "national minister" of Genghis Khan and Wokuotai, especially Wokuotai.
As a great emperor, Genghis Khan reversed the loose sand situation in Mongolia for thousands of years and established an unprecedented grassland empire. Then Genghis Khan began to expand rapidly to the surrounding areas and gradually established a huge empire across Europe and Asia.
Due to the small number of Mongolians, the strength at the peak was only over 200,000, which caused many problems in the process of conquering the world, such as how to ensure the security of the rear. In Genghis Khan's view, killing the city in the conquered area is undoubtedly the simplest and most effective way, and the vacated farmland can also be used as a pasture for Mongolians to fight around.
Genghis Khan thought so and did the same. In the process of Genghis Khan's conquest of Xixia, Xixia suffered unprecedented slaughter, and the Tangut was almost extinct, and Xixia became a historical symbol.
Mongolia is not soft-hearted when the world hates Xu Jin. By 1234, Mongolia had completely destroyed the state of Jin, and the death and escape of the state of Jin accounted for 89% of the total population of the state of Jin before the Mongolian-Jin War! In other words, Jin lost more than 40 million people in the Mongolian-Jin war for decades!
This is a shocking number.
But this is not enough to be the motivation and reason for Yeluchucai to persuade Genghis Khan and Wokuotai to "stop killing" successfully, because compassion can't impress them. What they care about is whether grass can grow in these areas, and then whether horses can be fattened.
However, Lu Ye Chu Cai provided a better method. He told Khan Wokuotai at that time that if taxes were levied according to the laws of China, the annual income would be "502,000 silver, 82,000 silk and 402,000 millet".
Since the rise of Mongolia, it has been either at war or in the land of war. Although it robbed a lot of treasures, who wouldn't want to lie down and collect money? As for the pasture, the northern prairie runs casually.
As a result, Lu Yechu's persuasion worked. Wokuotai, who was tempted, no longer asked to kill all the Han people in the Central Plains, but asked them to pay taxes to support themselves.
Since ancient times, except for life and death, everything else is a trivial matter. Leaving the life of the Han people means leaving the endless roots, and Lu Ye Chu Cai has made great contributions to this.
However, we have to admit that not killing Han people does not mean that Wokuotai is willing to concentrate on sinicization. In fact, Wokuotai was not only not interested in Sinicization, but was very disgusted with it, which was more or less reflected in Mongolian emperors in previous dynasties.
Yeluchucai is intended to protect the Han people. First, killing people is a matter that harms life and morality. Even if you have hatred for the state of Jin, you will not vent your anger by killing innocent people. Secondly, it can prevent the occurrence of large-scale diseases. There are few Mongols, and the March is fast. So it is basically killed and buried, and a large number of bacteria lead to infectious diseases, which will lead to more serious disasters. That's how the Black Death in Europe came about.
However, the Mongolian people's thinking is obviously not so complicated. Since they don't kill chickens and eat eggs instead, they must let them lay more eggs. Therefore, they understand the purpose of Yelu Chucai as a means of collecting money, which Yelu Chucai did not expect, and Yelu Chucai could not stop it by himself.
Because at this time, Mongolia has eliminated the state of Jin and began to face the fierce collision between Mongolian, Chinese and civilization. In the case that Wokuotai was never interested in localization, Yelu Chucai was doomed to be weak, so Yelu Chucai was excluded and finally died of depression.
But then again, although the huge Mongolian aristocratic group never took the lives of the Han people seriously, it was gradually unable to extricate itself from the pleasure of lying down and making money, and realized the truth of "a long stream of water." Therefore, after the elimination of gold in Mongolia, the number of slaughterhouses decreased significantly.
In the battle of fishing town in 1259, Mongolian Khan Mungo was seriously injured by cannon stones in the Southern Song Dynasty. Before he died, he told his men that the fishing town would be slaughtered in the future. However, after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan did not slaughter fishing towns as instructed by Mongo.
At this time, although Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu was not really sinicized, he appointed the Han nationality to manage and adopted the laws of the Han nationality, and began to truly transform into the Central Plains dynasty. When Kublai Khan unified the whole country, although he resisted sinicization, the massacre almost disappeared.
But in the end, Kublai Khan really gave up the massacre policy, and the military and civilians in the Southern Song Dynasty also fought to the death. It is precisely because of the desperate resistance of the Southern Song Dynasty that the Mongols realized that the Han people would not only be killed, but also would not give in, so they chose a more moderate way of rule.