>>17773053 (OP)
Kublai Khan gave Korean wives to Han Chinese Southern Song soldiers who would defect to the Yuan dynasty/Mongol empire.
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>court sent a special envoy to Korea to select women for soldiers of the South- ern Chinese . Yuan sent a barbarian betrothal envoy named Xiao Yu to Korea. The letter from the Central Government read:
>The soldiers of the Xiangyang prefecture of the Southern Song request wives, therefore we send envoy Xiao Yu to the Koryŏ State"
>semu soldiers but only for the newly - submissive soldiers of the Southern Song . Why did he not select women from China proper so that the couples would have had a common cultural ... Korean Tribute Women in Mongol Yuan Dynasty 101."