Those Stinky Things in the Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Dynasty - the first unified dynasty established by northern nomads in Chinese history. It conquered the world with its iron cavalry, but it did not know how to govern the world. It divides the people into four classes: Mongols, Semu people, Han people, and Southerners. Southerners are the last, worse than dogs. It abolished the imperial examinations, burned books, and trampled underfoot the scholars. It took away iron tools, banned weapons, and let farmers dig the ground with their hands. It turned salt into official sales. A pound of salt was more expensive than a pound of rice. People couldn't afford official salt, so they bought private salt. If they were caught, they would be beaten to death. It turned temples into tax-free sanctuaries, large households put their fields under the name of temples, and small farmers were driven into bankruptcy and sold their sons and daughters. It recruited civilians to build the Yellow River, and 150,000 people lay on the embankment like ants, dead of exhaustion, disease, and beatings. Their bodies were thrown into the river without even a grave. These are the "stinky things" of the Yuan Dynasty.