In 1351, the Yuan dynasty minister Boyan threatened to "kill the five Han people surnamed Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li, and Zhao" to permanently solve the Han people's ability to resist. Emperor YuanShun was even prepared to take this advice, knowing that these five Surnamed Han Chinese accounted for most of the entire Han people. This news soon spread throughout the north and south of the river, and the Han people in the north and south could not help but stir up, and the crowd was indignant. Thus, the vigorous peasant revolt at the end of the Yuan Dynasty broke out.
In Haozhou, Anhui, a rebel army led by Guo Zixing was stationed. The rebel army was recruiting soldiers in the city, when a tramp named Zhu Zhongba passed by and heard the officer who recruited the soldiers say: "As long as you join the rebel army, you will have three meals a day." Zhu Zhongbayi, who had been starving for many days, his eyes lit up when he heard it, and he quickly signed up to join the rebel army.
After Zhu Zhongba joined the rebel army, he fought bravely and fiercely, and obtained a lot of loot in each battle. However, he did not enjoy it exclusively, but gave all the booty to the rebel commander Guo Zixing. This made Guo Zixing very happy. Therefore, Zhu Zhongba was promoted to his own soldier and given the name Zhu Yuanzhang. In a battle, Zhu Yuanzhang was seriously injured in order to protect Guo Zixing, which made Guo Zixing very grateful, so he promoted him three levels in a row and became a senior officer.
Zhu Yuanzhang's record was getting higher and higher, and he already had a very high reputation in the army. This made the narrow-minded Guo Zixing very unhappy, even to the point of disgust, and if this development continued, Zhu Yuanzhang would threaten his position. Finally, Guo Zixing found an opportunity to beat Zhu Yuanzhang into prison. Moreover, he did not give Zhu Yuanzhang food for several days.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was hungry and staring at Venus, he suddenly heard two gentle shouts in his ears: "Big Brother Zhu, Big Brother Zhu!" Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head confusedly and looked at it, it turned out to be Guo Zixing's righteous daughter Ma Xiuying. Ma Xiuying admired Zhu Yuanzhang very much, and the two often frowned. After knowing that Zhu Yuanzhang was imprisoned by his righteous father, Ma Xiuying hurried to the prison to visit the prison.
Zhu Yuanzhang heard Ma Xiuying shouting, quickly climbed up, and said happily: "Sister Xiuying, how did you come?" Ma Xiuying said somewhat shyly, "I... I'm worried that the food in the prison is not good, and I'm afraid you're hungry, so I'll bring you something to eat. With that, Ma Xiuying took out two hot dough cakes from his arms, crossed the fence of the cell door, and stuffed them into Zhu Yuanzhang's hand.
Zhu Yuanzhang touched the bread and was speechless for a long time. Zhu Yuanzhang was very touched by Ma Xiuying's behavior and vowed that if he could marry a girl like Ma Xiuying, he would definitely treat her well. But he sighed secretly in his heart, because at this time he was already dying. Because Zhu Yuanzhang was well aware of Guo Zixing's suspicious nature, Zhu Yuanzhang and his brothers threw their heads and spilled blood and helped him fight a lot of victories, but in exchange for Guo Zixing's jealousy. Guo Zixing will not let go of himself.
Zhu Yuanzhang is full of pessimism about the future, but Ma Xiuying is not too worried in her heart, because she has a way, she will definitely be able to save Zhu Yuanzhang, but she is embarrassed to say it to Zhu Yuanzhang for a while. Now, I can only grit my teeth and go out...
Ma Xiuying found his righteous father Guo Zixing and said firmly, "I will not marry Zhu Zhongba in this life." ”
Guo Zixing was shocked: "He is just a lowly monk, what is good?" ”
Ma Xiuying's attitude was very resolute: "If Brother Zhu dies, I will not live alone." ”
"Are you confused?" Guo Zixing was furious.
But Ma Xiuying's attitude was resolute, and Guo Zixing did not agree to his hunger strike. In the end, Guo Zixing could not help but agree to this family affair.
In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang was released, not only reinstated as an official, but also became Guo Zixing's son-in-law. A series of good things made Zhu Yuanzhang dumbfounded, and later after learning the truth, he cried bitterly. Ma Xiuying saved Zhu Yuanzhang with his lifelong happiness, and Zhu Yuanzhang was moved to tears and wept bitterly, and secretly swore: "In this life and this life, I Zhu Zhongba will certainly live up to Ma Xiuying!" ”
Ma Xiuying is simply Zhu Yuanzhang's lucky star, since marrying Ma Xiuying, Zhu Yuanzhang's career has taken off like a rocket. In the rebel army, with Guo Zixing as a patron, Zhu Yuanzhang soon developed and grew, becoming a backbone of the rebel army.
After driving out the Mongols, Zhu Yuanzhang swept away Chen Youyu, Zhang Shicheng and other forces. Finally, in January 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor at Yingtianfu (Nanjing) and the state name was Daming. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was called empress dowager, and his temperament gradually became violent and cruel, and he slaughtered many heroes. In this regard, Ma Xiuying always bluntly advises and argues according to reason.
The grandson of the famous courtier Song Lian was convicted of the Hu Weiyong case, and Zhu Yuanzhang took the opportunity to execute Song Lian's family. However, Ma Xiuying felt that Zhu Yuanzhang was a bit too much, and did not want Song Lian to suffer, so he advised Zhu Yuanzhang: "Song Lian has great kindness to our Great Ming Dynasty, we can't take revenge, moreover, Song Lian has already returned to his hometown, Song Lian's grandson has nothing to do with Song Lian's crimes, why even Song Lian's family!" But Zhu Yuanzhang still wanted to execute Song Lian. Ma Xiuying began to go on a hunger strike again, trying to protect Song Lian, zhu Yuanzhang was worried about Ma Xiuying's body, and had no choice but to order someone to spare Song Lian's death penalty.
Everyone knows that the general empress is very resentful of the emperor's concubines, but Ma Xiuying is quite tolerant of Zhu Yuanzhang's concubines. Ma Xiuying also never competed with the concubines for jealousy, opposing zhu Yuanzhang's concubines to be called sisters, and when the concubines gave birth to children, Ma Xiuying also took good care of them.
Zhu Yuanzhang also often praised Empress Ma Xiuying, saying that she was li shimin's wife, Changsun Shi. After Ma Xiuying knew, he always said modestly: "I am just what a wife should do, how can He De be compared with the eldest grandson!" Because of this style of strict self-discipline and leniency toward others, Ma Xiuying was deeply loved by the people in the palace.
In 1382, Ma Xiuying fell seriously ill and was about to die soon after. Zhu Yuanzhang turned around in a hurry and roared at the diagnosed Taiyi: "If you can't cure the empress's illness, I will curse your Nine Tribes!" After hearing this, Ma Xiuying sat up and advised Zhu Yuanzhang: "Life and death have a destiny, and we must not implicate others because of me, so that I will not be blind when I die." Soon after, Ma Xiuying died of illness. On the day of Empress Ma's funeral, the city of Nanjing was empty of people, and the people came out of the city to spontaneously send a funeral for Empress Ma. Zhu Yuanzhang was also very sad, so he never made an empress again.
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