Let's take a look at the handling of a major literati case at that time in the Yuan Dynasty, and then we can roughly understand their attitude. This case is called "Difficult Poems by Mao Shan", and the protagonist is scholar Liang Dong. He once wrote several poems, "Yun Lan covers the sky, the spring breeze blows the old man's heart, the dragon turns into a sword, and the little dragon sinks into the sea." Maoshan taoist Xu Dodge held a grudge against Liang Dong, so he denounced Liang Dong to the ruler of the Yuan Dynasty for "slandering the imperial court and thinking about the Song Dynasty".
If this matter had been put in the Qing dynasty, it would have been a capital crime, such as the Nanshan case, according to the principle that manslaughter was better than letting go. However, the final judgment given by the Yuan Dynasty was, "Poets should praise their temperament and should not slander their temperament. If it is slander, it is not something that God cannot tolerate. " The meaning is obvious. In the eyes of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, it was a piece of cake. Don't say that people don't "slander mountains", even if they "slander mountains", I'm still open to China. Can you be scolded by several literati? Isn't there such a measure?
Liang Dong's handling of "Mao Shan's poetry is difficult" can be said to be a landmark case of treating literati literary inquisition in Yuan Dynasty. As a result, the Yuan Dynasty became the only dynasty in the history of China with relatively clean records of literary inquisition. Then the question is, was the ruler of the Yuan Dynasty really lenient to the literati or literary inquisition? If so, it's not like their style. Why?
I think this has something to do with the bursting of self-confidence of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. They don't care about this at all. The Yuan Dynasty was different from the Qing Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty largely by its own strength, so it looked down on the Han people in its bones and thought that it could suppress the Han people by force alone, thinking that it could be so arrogant forever! Different from the Qing dynasty, their entry into the customs was mainly related to the guidance of traitors. What they fear most is the Han people. In order to prevent the Han people from rising again, they strictly control their thoughts.
The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty didn't care what people did or thought at all. No matter what you scold, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty still spoke Mongolian, ate mutton and drank yogurt, and didn't want to get in touch with China culture. Moreover, they may not have seen the things of literati, and they may not necessarily understand them. In their eyes, Han people are sheep with two legs, providing them with rent and growing food, and that's all.