It is unimaginable that an eight-year-old beggar was adopted by the emperor as a righteous son, but this scene has really happened in Chinese history. Later, in order to repay the emperor's favor, this little beggar guarded the border of China for generations, so that China had one more province from then on. This person is Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son Mu Ying!
Zhu Yuanzhang was a famous grassroots emperor, who wanted to eat and was born as a monk, and was well aware of the sufferings of the people, so he also hated corrupt officials! Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, the life of the Ming Dynasty officials can be described as "miserable", the monthly salary is only enough to feed and feed, those who dare to embezzle more than sixty taels of silver will be killed, and even face the torture of peeling the skin and grass, and death will not give the corrupt officials a painful pain. Zhu Yuanzhang believed that only when the days of being an official were miserable, the lives of the people of the world could be lived well! Although Zhu Yuanzhang treated officials cruelly, he treated the people like a son.
Conscientious and conscientious, every day is not seeking benefits for the people, but lamenting that his ability is not as good as that of the ancient sages, Zhu Yuanzhang's will makes people move after reading, "Thirty years after the Mandate of Heaven, there is a year of worry and danger, and the daily diligence is not slack, and it is beneficial to the people." Nai is humble, without the knowledge of the ancients, good and evil, not far away. ”
It is not difficult to understand that emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who was so human, would adopt an eight-year-old beggar as a righteous son. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet become emperor, serving under Guo Zixing, and found this little beggar wandering alone on the street, Zhu Yuanzhang recalled his childhood self, and could not help but sigh a thousand times, he had no children, so he took this little beggar back to the military camp, accepted him as a righteous son, and changed his surname to Zhu.
Little Zhu Ying slept with Zhu Yuanzhang in a quilt, and many times snored directly in Zhu Yuanzhang's arms, and the father and son had a deep affection. Zhu Ying grew up in the military camp day by day, and also learned the skill of leading soldiers to fight, and at the age of eighteen, he became a fierce general on his own, and the "History of Ming" said that he was "young and sensitive, and there was no delay in dissecting." ”
Later, Zhu Ying was given the surname Mu, which means Yongmu Emperor En. Mu Ying's southern conquest of the northern war, countless achievements, but never pampered and proud, always know how to correct their position, know how to advance and retreat. Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor by Ying Tian, the world was not stable, and the Northern Yuan strength of mongolia was still a threat, often attacking from the south, and there were also remnants of the Yuan army in the southern region. As a result, Mu Ying swept away the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in Yunnan in one fell swoop, and was ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to stay in Yunnan.
Although the remnants of the previous dynasty in Yunnan and Guangxi were eliminated, the yunnan area was extremely geographically special, the population composition was complex, and serious rebellions often occurred, and it was not firmly controlled by the imperial court. In the most serious case, the rebels claimed to have 300,000 people, and Mu Ying immediately led 30,000 people to help, and was not afraid of danger, and immediately ordered: "Today's matter, there is no retreat." In order to restrain the rebel elephant soldiers, Mu Ying skillfully arranged the fire reinforcements and crossbowmen into three teams, the front team shot, the second team was ready to shoot, and the three teams loaded ammunition to ensure that the firepower could be continuously output. As a result, the rebels were defeated, more than 40,000 people were beheaded, thirty-seven elephants were captured, and the rest of the elephants were all shot to death.
Mu Ying could not help but be a good hand at fighting, developing the economy, improving people's livelihood is even more good at it, vigorously tun tian in Yunnan, building water conservancy, developing salt wells, and determining taxes and servitude according to the actual situation of the people. Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang personally rewarded Mu Ying in Nanjing, he said to him: "Let me sit high and have no worries in the south, Ru Yingye." ”
After empress Ma, who raised Mu Ying from childhood, died of illness, Mu Ying cried and vomited blood, and later zhu Biao, a good brother who had played with him from childhood to adulthood, also died, and Mu Ying, who was mentally devastated, fell ill and died at the age of forty-eight, and the military and civilians cried together in the township alleys. After Mu Ying's death, he was buried in the capital and posthumously honored as the King of Qianning.
Later, his son who made military achievements was promoted to the duke of Qianguo, and the Mu family guarded Yunnan for generations until the end of the Ming Dynasty, worthy of the Mu surname given by Zhu Yuanzhang. Even in "Deer Ding", there are scenes of the descendants of the Mu family.