Historically, the succession of dynasties is due to the ruin of the imperial family of the previous dynasty and the uselessness of the emperor, which has led to the extreme hardship of the people's lives. Therefore, at this time, there will be a lot of rebel armies to overthrow the useless imperial power.
What I want to introduce to you today is the uprising of the Red Turban Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty is a behemoth that cannot be ignored in the history of China and even in the history of the world, and this dynasty has influenced not only asia as a whole, but also Europe and even Africa. The entire vast continent of Asia, Africa and Europe was the target of this dynastic conquest.
However, in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, due to the increase in tax revenue, all the people lived under heavy pressure, and at this time, the Red Turban Army revolt was born. Although the General of the Yuan Dynasty led a large army to suppress the rebellion, it was still difficult to quell. This further boosted the morale of the rebel army. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in northern Anhui Province, walked out of the temple where he lived and joined the Red Turban Army.
The leader of the Red Turban Army attached great importance to this young man and focused on cultivating him. So very smoothly after Guo Zixing, Zhu Yuanzhang became a party Haojie and also established the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang, a person who has always had great ambitions in his heart, was assigned an important task within a year of joining the Red Turban Army, that is, to recruit soldiers in Haozhou. It was also at this time that he chose his own henchmen to go all the way south to Chuzhou to recover many bandits and villages.
At this time, he already had 20,000 soldiers under his command, so he adjusted his troops and had Xu Da, Guo Ying, Li Shanchang and other subordinates. At this time, his limelight was in full swing, a middle-aged woman came to his big tent with her child to look for him, Zhu Yuanzhang also immediately looked for her, this woman is also Zhu Yuanzhang's sister-in-law, she called Zhu Yuanzhang's brother, Zhu Yuanzhang was also in tears. I didn't care about the difference between men and women and ethics and morality. It was very exciting for everyone to have relatives alive in that chaotic world, and the child in the woman's hand was his nephew, who was a very strong general named Zhu Wenzheng.
Zhu Yuanzhang's father had a total of six children, four boys and two girls. As mentioned above, the tax revenue at that time was very high, and it was difficult for people to pay this high tax burden, so they hid from debt everywhere. His father and eldest brother both died during the turmoil, and it was at this time that he was separated from his family. It was at this time that Zhu Yuanzhang entered the temple to become a lay disciple.
After becoming a general, Zhu Yuanzhang did not forget to find his relatives, but it was like finding a needle in the sea, but he could not find his family. This encounter was also extremely exciting and fortunate for him, and the family was not a part of the strange man.
Since then, he has cultivated Zhu Wenzheng as his own biological child, of course, this child did not disappoint him and finally became a brave general. In the last period of the chaotic era at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and his sworn enemy Chen Youyu launched a decisive battle in Hongdu, which also laid the foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang's position and laid a solid foundation for the later establishment of the Ming Dynasty.
In this battle, Zhu Wen was defending Chen Youyu in Hongdu for a full eighty-five days, when 600,000 Chen Youyu's army was stopped outside Hongdu, giving Zhu Yuanzhang more time to lay out. In the subsequent Battle of Poyang Lake, he successfully defeated Chen Youyu and became the largest rebel army at that time. You must know that at that time, in order to defend these 600,000 troops, Zhu Wen's defending Hongdu could not even find a complete tile, and Zhu Wen was making great merits in this battle.
After the victory of the war, he was going to start rewarding these fierce generals who fought for themselves, but because Zhu Yuanzhang had raised Zhu Wenzheng's own children at the beginning, he did not treat him at the first time. Although he thought so, Zhu Wenzheng did not think so, and it was difficult for people to accept that he had such a great merit and had not been rewarded. That is, after this, he did a lot of bad things, provoked Zhu Yuanzhang, and threatened to execute him. Zhu Wenzheng took this sentence as true, and he rebelled with his own henchmen.
But at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels had become the climate, and Zhu Yuanzhang could only lock him up, and finally Zhu Wenzheng died in prison. The history books that follow all say that Zhu Yuanzhang killed Zhu Wenzheng, but history is written by the victorious people, and we don't know the specific situation at that time.
After learning that her son was imprisoned, Zhu Yuanzhang's sister-in-law was in tears all day. After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he named his eldest brother the King of Nanchang, and the Wang clan was also known as the princess. At that time, the Wang clan still called Zhu Yuanzhang a younger brother. But Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry. In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang was the first to be the king of the domain, and in addition to his eight sons, he also created Zhu Wenzheng's son. After that, the Wang clan also lived a blessed life with their grandsons.