What was the Yuan Dynasty's frontier policy?

The Yuan Dynasty adopted the Han law, set up provinces and developed post stations to strengthen the management of border minority areas. The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty joined hands with the upper classes of all ethnic groups to ensure the dominance of Mongolian nobles.

Central: the establishment of Zhongshu Province and Zheng Xuan Academy;

Place: Provincial System, Penghu Inspection Office;

Agriculture: Attach importance to agricultural production and popularize cotton planting techniques.

Water conservancy: harness the Yellow River and dig Tonghui River and Huitong River.

Ethnic relations: It emphasizes governing the country with Confucianism and following the laws of China, so as to change the nomadic policy in the past into a settled agricultural policy, protect the vested interests of farmers, and prohibit ethnic people from illegally occupying the legal cultivated land of the majority of Han people.

Politically:

1. Implementing the provincial system: setting up provincial secretariat in the central government and provincial secretariat in the local government, as the agency of provincial secretariat, and the provincial government has three levels of administrative agencies: provincial, state and county.

2. Reuse a large number of Han people as counselors, implement the Han system and carry out reforms.

Economically:

1, attaches great importance to the development of agricultural production, has repeatedly ordered the prohibition of returning farmland to grassland, encouraged people to reclaim land to grow grain, and promoted cotton planting technology to the whole country, and cotton cloth began to become the main clothing for ordinary people.

He presided over the flood control of the Yellow River and dug two new canals (Huitong River and Tonghui River) to make the North-South Grand Canal unblocked again.

Extended data:

Since the Yuan Dynasty, a new administrative division system has emerged in China. The highest administrative division unit is province (province for short), so it is called provincial system period, which lasted from the late period of13rd century to the early 20th century and experienced three dynasties: Yuan, Ming and Qing.

In the middle of Yuan Dynasty, the whole country was divided into Zhongshu Province, Zheng Xuan Academy and 10 Zhongshu Province. There are roads, prefectures and counties in the province, and roads are under the provincial control. Some prefectures and States are under the control of highways, some are under the control of provinces, and some are under the control of the government. Some counties belong to the road management, some to the government management, and some to the state management.

The area directly under the central government of Zhongshu Province, commonly known as "belly", includes Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi and parts of Henan and Inner Mongolia. It is directly under the jurisdiction of Zhongshu Province and does not belong to any province. The full name of "in-line book province" is "in-line book province in such a place", or "in-line book province in such a place" for short.

In addition, the Yuan government also established Zheng Xuan Academy (formerly General Institute), which was in charge of the national Buddhist affairs and the military and political affairs of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (now Tibet).