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The mystery of the collapse of the Han and Song dynasties, why is zhu Yuanzhang establishing the Ming Empire?

Speaking of the name Zhu Yuanzhang, the most profound influence on everyone knows that he is the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and when it comes to his history of his fortune, it is necessary to mention the Yuan Dynasty, which led to the centralization of power in Zhongshu Province, and most of the emperors in the middle were killed by the courtiers, and there were more than a dozen emperors in the imperial state in just eighty-nine years. During the reign of The Last Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Yuanshun, because of his brutality and incompetence, it directly led to the Rebellion of the Red Turban Army, although it was suppressed, but it is known that it was finally destroyed by the Ming. In fact, the earliest in the Red Turban Army uprising was not Zhu Yuanzhang's rebel army, there was a change in the middle, when due to tyranny led to han Shantong Liu Futong led to the peasant army rose up, at that time the ancient superstitious proverbs, to achieve Han Shantong They prepared boulders, and then carved a line, mainly used to boost morale, but unfortunately the uprising was soon discovered by the officials that led to Han Shantong's killing, Liu Futong with a small number of escapes, and finally gathered the people, and established Han Shantong's son Han Lin'er as emperor, and set the capital Bozhou (present-day Bozhou, Anhui), Jianyuan Dragon Phoenix.

The mystery of the collapse of the Han and Song dynasties, why is zhu Yuanzhang establishing the Ming Empire?

Han Lin'er claimed to be the eighth grandson of Emperor Huizong of Song, and Liu Futong claimed to be a descendant of Liu Guangshi, the four famous generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, assisting him in carrying the anti-Yuan banner. Later, he even attacked the Song capital of Fengliang (Kaifeng) for a time, and took it as his capital. But the good times were not long, when the Yuan army gathered the army to start the counterattack, the Song army obviously could not hold back, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang was already a marshal at that time, and adopted Han Lin'er's dragon and phoenix year number, at this time the strength was not strong enough, just he had enough appeal, if you grab him, you can learn cao Cao to blackmail tianzi to order the princes.

The mystery of the collapse of the Han and Song dynasties, why is zhu Yuanzhang establishing the Ming Empire?

In the ninth year of LongFeng (1363), Zhang Shicheng sent his troops to besiege Lü Zhen in Anfeng, Liu Futong was killed in battle, and Han Lin'er was rescued by Zhu Yuanzhang. After that, Han Lin'er was placed in Chuzhou by Zhu Yuanzhang and was still enshrined as emperor. In the tenth year of Longfeng (1364), Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself king of Wu. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang said that the emperor had begun to take shape, and in the south, Chen Youyu was killed and only his youngest son Chen Li was left, and finally attacked the city of Wuchang, and Chen Li surrendered, marking the demise of Chen Youyu. Later in the Yangtze River Basin Zhu Yuanzhang only left Zhang Shicheng, an enemy, considering that he could prepare to establish a state and become emperor, Chen Youyi, once this great enemy was destroyed, Han Lin'er, the puppet emperor, did not need to stay, and finally sent Liao Yongzhong to Chuzhou to pick up King Xiaoming on the way to the capital Ship sank and sank, and the puppet emperor Han Lin'er died. The following year, the capture of Zhang Shicheng alive by the capture of Pingjiang marked the demise of the second powerful force and the complete unification of the Yangtze River Basin. After everything was ready, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne on the fourth day of the first month of the second year, and the state name was Daming, Jianyuan Hongwu. The 276-year-long Ming Dynasty turned a new page in history.

The mystery of the collapse of the Han and Song dynasties, why is zhu Yuanzhang establishing the Ming Empire?

It is not difficult to see from the above description that when Liu Futong went north to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang first started from a small soldier and then became the commander of the army step by step. Because the Yuan army came from the north, the Han and Song regimes better contained the power of the Yuan army, so that the Red Turban Army in the south had enough time to develop alone, and finally slowly annexed Zhu Yuanzhang's family. Although the Han and Song regimes only existed for a short period of ten years, the impact on the establishment of the Ming Dynasty was still quite large, and for a long time in the north to contain the Northern Yuan Army, so that the Yuan Dynasty had no intention of posing a threat to the southern rebel army, and finally although Han Lin'er was saved by Zhu Yuanzhang, it also became his puppet, because only the tools could not escape a dead word in the end. In any case, Han Lin'er is also a very tragic figure in history, who was controlled by people all his life, first Liu Futong controlled him, and then died by becoming a tool for Zhu Yuanzhang to blackmail the Heavenly Son to order the princes. Finally, no matter what, it also contributed to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty!

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