From the beginning of Kublai Khan's establishment of the Yuan Dynasty to the expulsion of the Yuan Shun Emperor from the Central Plains, the Yuan Dynasty ruled the Central Plains for only a hundred years, although it was not the shortest-lived dynasty, but it was also the shortest-lived ethnic minority unified regime.
The reason for this is simply that for a long time in the nest, began to pay harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, fish and meat people. Faced with the oppression of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, the peasants living at the lowest level took up arms and began an uprising, Zhu Yuanzhang was one of the peasant rebels, but before Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne as emperor, he bowed to a man for twelve years, and this person was Han Lin'er.
Han Shantong widely recruited believers and used children's songs to revolt
Talking about Han Lin'er, I had to talk about his father Han Shantong first. Under the harsh laws of the Yuan Dynasty, many people were displaced and lost their land, and without land it meant losing the dependence of life, and the peasants living in the depths of the water began to look for spiritual sustenance.
And Han Shantong's ancestors have been engaged in religious work for generations, and by the time of Han Shantong, the White Lotus Sect has already formed a scale. As the supreme leader of the White Lotus Sect, he recruited believers everywhere, not only the poor people, but even the rich who were rich and well-paid were also pocketed by Han Santong.
And in the chaotic world, Han Shantong wants to take advantage of the chaos to become king and unify the world. He hyped up the eighth grandson of his own person, Emperor Huizong of Song, and many people would wonder why he wanted to be king, so why did he use the name of Emperor Huizong of Song?
Because in ancient times, if you want to overthrow the ruling class, you must pay attention to the name and righteousness, the monarch has no morality, and recruit your own army to overthrow it. When Chen Sheng dazexiang rebelled, it was in the name of reviving the Chu state, and the same was true of Han Shantong's name of beating Emperor Huizong of Song.
And the Song Dynasty was wiped out by the Mongols, and after Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty, discrimination against the Han people has always existed, and the contradiction between the two has become more and more serious, and Han Shantong has seized on this.
At that time, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty recruited 150,000 people to build the Yellow River, and the officials of the Yuan court were full of private pockets, swallowing up the money allocated by the Yuan capital, and countless people did not have enough to eat, clothe and warmth, and had to work during the day.
Han Shantong took advantage of the people who were already complaining, buried a stone man in advance on the river, and then let people sing everywhere about the Mo Dao stone man's eye, provoking the Haihe world to rebel.
The next day, the peasants who repaired the river dug up the stone people and said that the children's songs had been fulfilled, and more and more people were attached to Han Shantong. And Han Shantong quietly armed the believers, because everyone was wrapped in a red turban, so people called the Red Turban Army, ready to overthrow the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.
However, just as Han Shantong was preparing to launch an uprising, he was betrayed by traitors, and the government organized an army to surround the rebel army, and in the fierce battle, Han Shantong was killed by officers and soldiers.
Liu Futong was a major general under Han Shantong, and when he saw That Han Shantong killed, he immediately broke out and spread the news that Han Shantong had been killed by officers and soldiers to the Red Turban Army everywhere. After learning that the leader had been killed, the rebels everywhere carried large banners and killed the officers and soldiers and gentry.
Han Lin'er was put on the throne, and the Red Turban Army uprising was in full swing
After escaping, Liu Futong was not idle, he found Han Lin'er, the son of Han Shantong, who was running around, and raised him to the throne and called him King Xiaoming.
Liu Futong knew that his prestige in the sect was far inferior to that of Han Lin'er, so it was the best choice to have him as king. However, because Han Shantong had been killed in battle, the Red Turban Army did not have a unified command and belonged to the battle of its own.
The Red Turban Army was not united or even attacked each other, and although the generals everywhere respected Han Lin'er as emperor, they actually did not obey Han Lin'er's command. And Han Lin'er did not have his own power, more to obey the minister Liu Futong.
After several years of development, the Red Turban Army in the north already had a scale of more than 100,000 people, and due to the pressure of the rebel army, the Yuan court sent elite troops to suppress it, and Therakhan Timur, who was responsible for leading the team, defeated Liu Futong in one fell swoop and even captured the capital of the Red Turban Army.
In order to continue to suppress the peasant uprising, the Yuan Dynasty once again mobilized heavy troops to attack Liu Futong, and in the face of thousands of Yuan troops, Liu Futong retreated to the city, but the Red Turban Army defending the city was far less numerous than the Yuan army.
After a few weeks of siege, Liu Futong and Han Lin'er planned to break out of the siege, and on the way to the breakthrough, the Red Turban Army around him was killed by the Yuan army, and Liu Futong fled with Han Lin'er and several people around him.
When he was surrounded, Han Lin'er issued a call to the Red Turban Army all over the world, and Zhang Shicheng, who had been lurking in Jiangnan, suddenly sent someone to attack Han Lin'er, and Han Lin'er knew that Zhang Shicheng had bad intentions and let the local Red Turban Army hold the city.
Zhang Shicheng besieged Han Lin'er for several weeks, and the defenders, who had run out of ammunition and food, had reached the point of eating human flesh, and Han Lin'er once again issued a royal summons from King Qin, and finally only Zhu Yuanzhang, who was closest to Han Lin'er, personally led the army to protect Han Lin'er.
Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Zhang Shicheng, escorted Han Lin'er into Ying Tianfu, and personally set up the throne for Han Lin'er, serving him with good wine and vegetables every day. People around him are puzzled, an emperor who lives in name only keeps him useful? This is because Zhu Yuanzhang is shaping his image and winning the hearts and minds of the people in the world.
Zhu Yuanzhang may have been the murderer of Han Lin'er
Just as the so-called one mountain does not allow two tigers, it was not long before Zhu Yuanzhang sent Han Lin'er to Chuzhou, built a palace for him to live in, and would donate goods to Han Lin'er every year.
Since Zhu Yuanzhang was enthroned by Han Lin'er, Zhu Yuanzhang had paid tribute to Han Lin'er for twelve years, and after Zhu Yuanzhang defeated his greatest enemy, Chen Youyu, he was crowned king of Wu, and his power reached its peak in the rebel army.
But Zhu Yuanzhang still did not forget his han lin'er's courtiers. After Zhu Yuanzhang basically pacified the south, he ordered his generals to welcome Han Lin'er to the sky, and Han Lin'er drowned because the ship overturned.
Some people pointed out that the reason why Han Lin'er fell into the water and died was because of Zhu Yuanzhang. Because Zhu Yuanzhang already had the strength to claim the title of emperor, and Zhu Yuanzhang also had the ambition to unify the country and mountains, but Han Lin'er's identity was bound to hinder Zhu Yuanzhang.
Moreover, the rebel army in the south has been unified, and only the Yuan court of the Northern Dynasty is still surviving, so Han Lin'er's value as the leader of the rebel army has ceased to exist.
After Han Lin'er's death, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished Han Lin'er's era name and replaced it with Wu Yuannian, and after a short period of one year, Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor, so it seems that Han Lin'er's death by falling into the river was not an accident, which had a lot to do with Zhu Yuanzhang.
If Han Shantong's uprising had not been betrayed by traitors, then relying on Han Shantong's influence, the possibility of the Red Turban Army gaining the world was very high, and if Liu Futong was killed like Han Shantong, and there was no barrier of the Northern Red Turban Army, then whether Zhu Yuanzhang would be suppressed by the Yuan court in the south is still unknown.
After Zhu Yuanzhang already had absolute power, he still regarded Han Lin'er as orthodox, which was enough to see that Zhu Yuanzhang's emotional intelligence was not low at all.