How did Zhu Yuanzhang unify the Northeast when hundreds of thousands of troops occupied it?

The influence of the Yuan Dynasty was wiped out in the early Ming Dynasty. Under the leadership of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Yuan Dynasty in the first year of Hongwu (1368). After the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed, Ming's rule still faced many crises, which mainly came from the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in the northwest and northeast. Zhu Yuanzhang focused on attacking the northwest and the north, and unified the northwest in Hongwu for three years, thus stabilizing the ruling order.

Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately launched an activity to eliminate the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty led by Naha Chu in the northeast. At that time, the biggest leader of the Yuan Dynasty in Jilin was Nabachu. This man is a descendant of Muqali, one of the four outstanding figures in Genghis Khan's period. 1368, the yuan dynasty fled the Mongolian grassland and established? Beiyuan? The regime continued to fight against the Ming Dynasty. Naha Chu became the prime minister and Qiu of the Northern Yuan Dynasty by virtue of his strong military strength. He led hundreds of thousands of troops to occupy the north bank of Liaohe River in Jinshan (now northeast of Shuangliao County, Jilin Province) and continued to fight against the Ming Dynasty in the name of Yuan.

Ming Taizu used two means: recruiting and using soldiers, hoping to unify the Northeast as soon as possible. However, Ma Zhuang, who relied on his own strength, ignored Zhu Yuanzhang's appeal and detained the envoys who came to lobby. In desperation, the Ming dynasty had to send heavy troops to crusade. The Ming Dynasty first sent Ma Yunhe as the commander-in-chief, and went to Liaodong to eradicate the remnants of Yuan, leaving Naha alone. Naha fled everywhere, and finally fled back to Jinshan, where his power was hit and he was restrained.

Based on the principle of appeal, Zhu Yuanzhang never gave up fighting for Naha's departure. Even when he gained the upper hand militarily, he wrote to persuade him to surrender. Zhu Yuanzhang said in his letter: in the life between heaven and earth, he who can observe the changes of heaven and earth and keep abreast of the times is a good husband. As the ancients said, if you live a thousand people, you will be sealed. If you are loyal to Chen Yuan, you will be loyal. Why go against heaven, be ignorant of personnel, and lose morality? Facing the border guards and the national flag, we can win slightly, be equal, and destroy all the harm. However, what happened in the past will not be blamed. What will happen in the future? From now on, if I pass the humble messenger, I will not compare with what I thought the day before yesterday, otherwise I will be bound. Why do you want to see the connection at this time? ?

Zhu Yuanzhang's words of persuasion are reasonable. He not only highly praised Naha for coming out, but also analyzed the actual situation and made a promise that once he surrendered, he would let bygones be bygones. Naha Chu is not indifferent to Zhu Yuanzhang's policy of pleasing and caressing. Because of his military retreat, he also thought about surrendering to the Ming Dynasty. However, this man often has a fluky psychology and thinks that his geographical position is superior and Mazhuang can compete with one of them. Therefore, Naha Chu has been hesitant between surrendering and continuing to fight.

While strengthening the psychological offensive, the Ming government also prepared for the military attack on Naha. Until the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387), in the first month, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Sheng Feng as the general conqueror and led 200,000 troops to the northeast, approaching Naha's lair. Naha knew that his strength was lost and finally led the rest of the soldiers to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. There were more than 3,000 Yuan officials and generals who surrendered with Naha.

This shows that after the collapse of the Yuan regime, a considerable number of Yuan officials retreated to the northeast and gathered under Naha. Therefore, the surrender of Naha not only cleared a big obstacle for the Ming Dynasty to unify the Northeast, but also dealt a heavy blow to the forces of the Yuan Dynasty as a whole. Zhu Yuanzhang also fulfilled his promise of preferential treatment to the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty headed by Naba Chu. In September, Naha led the rest to surrender to Ming, Zhu Yuanzhang? Comfort company, give service, seal Haixi Hou? ,? Eat two thousand stones? .

Seeing that Naha Chu, who had been fighting against the Ming Dynasty, surrendered, the forces gathered in other places in the northeast also surrendered and accepted the reward of the Ming Dynasty. At this point, the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, which occupied the northeast, were all destroyed. After defeating and surrendering Naha's army in Jilin Province today, the Ming army continued to March on Yuhaizi, destroying the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.

At this point, all the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in the Northeast collapsed, and the Ming Dynasty initially established its rule in the Northeast. After that, three headquarters in Liaodong, Daning and Nurgan were established in the northeast, with more than 400 guards under its jurisdiction. Most areas of Jilin are under the jurisdiction of Nur Gandu Division.