Zhu Yuanzhang asked the minister not to belittle the Yuan Dynasty. What's the significance of his doing this?

Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty on the basis of overthrowing the rule of the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, if the orthodox identity of the Yuan Dynasty is excessively belittled, his Daming is also an unjust court. The Yuan Dynasty ruled the Central Plains for nearly a hundred years. Under the national integration, some Mongolians have been sinicized, and now these people are all from the Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to intensify unnecessary contradictions. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang would ask ministers not to belittle the Yuan Dynasty.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Great Ming Dynasty, he eliminated the Northern Yuan regime. At that time, the generals of the Ming Dynasty captured the prince of the Northern Yuan regime. After these members of the Northern Yuan royal family were escorted to the capital, the ministers suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang let the Northern Yuan Prince present a prisoner gift to Zhu Yuanzhang. This is a very humiliating etiquette. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang thought and thought, and felt that it was inappropriate to do so. He told the ministers that the Yuan Dynasty ruled the Central Plains for nearly a hundred years, and the people were also out of the war.

Zhu Yuanzhang did this not because Zhu Yuanzhang had a bad heart, but because the Daming regime had just been established. After all, the Yuan Dynasty was the imperial court that ruled the Central Plains for nearly a hundred years. If the orthodox status of the Yuan Dynasty is so degraded, then Zhu Yuanzhang, who defeated the Yuan Dynasty, is also a man of low status, so the Great Ming Dynasty he established will not be accepted by the world, which gives those eager forces in the early Ming Dynasty a great excuse for refusing to work for the Great Ming Dynasty.

In addition, during the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolians intermarried with Han people. At that time, many people in the Yuan Dynasty had been sinicized, and these people are now Daming people. If you belittle the Yuan Dynasty too much, these people will have the idea of ethnic discrimination. Once it gets worse, it will probably do harm to the rule of the Ming Dynasty. This is why Zhu Yuanzhang asked his ministers not to belittle the Yuan Dynasty.