"Xiaoming King" Han Lin'er's path to the throne
preface
"There is no greater joy in life than to go around hunting down and killing one's enemies, usurping their lands, plundering their wealth, and listening to their wives and children cry.
▲ Soldiers and horses are in chaos
cause
In 1351, the Yellow River flooded, and the Yuan Shun Emperor made Jia Lu the governor of the river and ordered Jia Lu to control the flood of the Yellow River.
▲ Jaru
outcome
In 1366, Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to escort Han Lin'er to respond to the heavens, passing through the Yellow River Valley to capsize, and Han Lin'er unfortunately drowned in the Yellow River.
▲Han Lin'er
disposal
1. Han Lin'er was called emperor
In 1355, with the support of Liu Futong, the leader of the Red Turban Army, Han Lin'er decided to claim the title of emperor at Mi Prefecture (in present-day Hao County, Anhui). The first thing Han Lin'er did after becoming emperor was to revive the Song Dynasty, so he used the Power of the Song Dynasty on himself. Han Lin'er was the son of Han Shantong, the former leader of the Red Turban Army, who originally planned to raise an army against the Yuan, but was betrayed by traitors, and Han Shantong was captured by the Yuan army and was always executed.
▲Han Shantong
2. The Son inherits the father's business
After Han Shantong's death, his son Han Lin'er and his mother Yang Fled to the Wu'an Mountains to escape the Yuan army's pursuit, and Yang Futong did not give up and decided to reorganize the Red Turban Army uprising, which was finally successful. At the same time that Liu Futong was raising troops, he was inquiring about the whereabouts of Han Lin'er's mother and son all the time, and the emperor did not pay off, and Liu Futong finally found Han Lin'er's mother and son in Zhongshan.
Liu Futong and Han Shantong were not bandits, but were famous in their divisions, and originally they were relatives of the Song clan, and they raised troops to revolt under the banner of Kuangfu Song Dynasty. Since Han Shantong claimed to be the eighth grandson of Emperor Huizong of Song, after his death his son should inherit his long-cherished wish to continue the uprising, in order to continue to be famous, Liu Futong put Han Lin'er on the throne and let Han Lin'er lead the Red Turban Army to continue to complete the tasks that Han Shantong had not completed.
▲Liu Futong
3. Win hearts and minds
In 1355, Han Lin'er was proclaimed emperor, the name of the country was Song, and the era name was changed to "Dragon Phoenix". Although Han Lin'er was the emperor, he called himself Xiaoming Wang, because his father Han Shantong was once the leader of the White Lotus Sect, and his father often called himself the Ming King, and the Ming King of the White Lotus Sect represented the savior, so he was the Xiaoming King, who wanted to save Cangsheng from water and fire.
On the surface, Han Lin'er's majesty in the world is majestic, in fact, the power is in the hands of Liu Futong, and he is just a pawn in Liu Futong's hand, but Han Lin'er has a very high heart and is not willing to be Liu Futong's puppet, in order to weaken Liu Futong's leadership in the Red Turban Army, Han Lin'er deliberately favored Du Zundao, Du Zundao can be regarded as an elder figure in the Red Turban Army, the prestige is quite high, and being able to get Du Zundao's support plays a great role in Han Lin'er's position in the Red Turban Army.
Liu Futong saw that Du Zundao's favor in front of the emperor was getting higher and higher than his own, and Du Zundao became more and more crazy after being favored by the emperor, so he was murderous and ordered his soldiers to secretly arrest Du Zundao and assassinate him. After Du Zundao's death, Liu Futong seized the opportunity to ascend to the position of chancellor and add the post of Taibao. Liu Futong was powerful, not only in the imperial court, but also in the outside world to win battles, leading the Red Turban Army to conquer a number of important places, and in 1358, Liu Futong moved from Haozhou to Bieliang.
▲Han Lin'er (stills)
4. The Red Turban Army is trapped
Watch the Red Turban Army triumph day by day. The Yuan army hurriedly stepped up its offensive against the Red Turban Army, and the Yuan general Chakhan Timur led a large army to surround the city of Bieliang, and Liu Futong and Han Lin'er became turtles in the urn. Although Han Lin'er led the Red Turban Army to try to break out of the siege, but was repeatedly beaten back by the Yuan army, Liu Futong was impatient and did not want to be destroyed by the Yuan army, so he led the cavalry to lead Han Lin'er from the siege of Bieliang City to Anfeng.
I thought that Anfeng would be safe and sound, but I didn't expect that this was just the beginning of a nightmare. In 1363, Zhang Shicheng, the leader of the rebel army in Jiangsu, fell into a well, not only did not assist Han Lin'er in opposing the Yuan army, but instead raised an army to attack Han Lin'er, trying to eliminate the Song regime in one fell swoop, Zhang Shicheng led the army to completely surround Han Lin'er, Han Lin'er saw that there was no way at all, and could only wait for death.
▲Zhang Shicheng (stills)
5. Zhu Yuanzhang saved each other
Liu Futong did not want to sit still, and in the midst of the crisis, he remembered Zhu Yuanzhang and wanted to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for help and rescue himself. Zhu Yuanzhang was also a member of the Red Turban Army, but he did not raise an army for the Song regime but wanted to establish a portal on his own, so Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Futong had a disagreement and parted ways. But the situation in front of him was imminent, and Liu Futong could only use a dead horse as a live horse doctor, hoping that Zhu Yuanzhang could rescue him.
Zhu Yuanzhang weighed the pros and cons, believing that once Anfeng lost his hand, it was equivalent to a cold lip, Zhang Shicheng got a great increase in Anfeng's strength, and his own safety would also be threatened, and finally decided to send troops to rescue. Zhang Shicheng was attacked by the enemy and eventually failed to capture Anfeng, and Liu Futong and Han Lin'er were also taken to Chuzhou by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the Song regime was saved since then.
▲Zhu Yuanzhang (stills)
brief summary
Han Lin'er's title of empress marked the further climax of the anti-Yuan struggle, and various heroes followed suit, but also brought the disaster of killing themselves, and became the number one target of the Yuan army and various rebel armies.
【References】:
"The History of the Ming Dynasty in Vernacular Language- The Biography of Han Lin'er and Liu Futong"
"The Change of Dynasties in Chinese History: The Red Turban Army Uprising"
"Detailed Explanation of the Dynasty"