(Yuan Dynasty Shangdu Imperial Palace)
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the people did not have a good life.
The internal turmoil of the Yuan Dynasty government, eight emperors changed in twenty-five years, and the throne was like a roller coaster, which was changed by a whirlwind.
These Mongol nobles fought for power every day, and they simply did not have time to manage the country.
There is no one on the top, and there is chaos below.
Under the rule of Yuan dynasty officials, society was dark and corruption was rampant.
The Yuan government loves to collect money, the Central Plains Dynasty has always asked for money from the people of the world, but it is a field tax, but the Yuan Dynasty can be said to be a "small expert in financial management", ordinary people, fight lawsuits to get money, someone in the family dies, do white things to collect white money, every New Year's Festival, such as the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Arbor Day, Love Tooth Day, to collect holiday money, usually family gatherings, to collect party money.
Basically, no matter what you did in the Yuan Dynasty, the government could ask you to collect money.
You may say, then I don't do anything, I stay at home every day, I can't ask for money.
Sorry, even if you don't do anything, the government still has to collect regular money, what is regular money? This means that the money that must be paid must be paid at a regular timed month.
Even if you just collect money, the Yuan government also engaged in personality discrimination, after entering the Central Plains, the people were divided into "four people", the highest level of people were Mongolians, equivalent to the supreme VIP members, down to the Semu people, that is, some of the Fan state ethnic minorities at that time, Tubo people. The People of the West and so on. This was followed by the Han people in the northern region and finally the Han people in the southern region.
The four people divided the high and low, the welfare treatment is of course different, the Mongolian five insurance and one gold, four dishes and one soup, paid leave, travel abroad, the conditions are quite good,
On the other hand, the lowest level of Han Chinese, but it is said that there is nothing to do, the job is not guaranteed, the treatment is very general, they are discriminated against and excluded in society, and the quality of life can be said to be quite low.
This continued until the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, 1344 AD.
(Yellow River breach)
This year, the Yellow River flooded, Shandong, Henan, Anhui were the most seriously affected, the flood washed the embankment and destroyed the weir, and the people along the coast experienced a "water rafting" in a solid way.
When the floods arrived, it meant that the fields and houses were washed away, the people had no harvest, even the houses were washed away, they were hungry and hungry, and a large number of victims were displaced.
The people of Li were seriously affected, and the Yuan Shun Emperor, who was the ruler of the Yuan Dynasty at the time, naturally wanted to release grain to relieve the disaster.
So he allocated 10,000 catties of grain from the state treasury, intending to distribute it to the affected people.
But there are some subtle changes in the transportation of grain.
When grain starts from the central authorities and passes through various passes, officials in various places always have to withhold a little, and when they go to the prefectural capitals, the governors of the prefectures must also leave some for themselves; when they arrive at local units, local officials cannot sit idle, and they must also keep some of themselves, and when they reach the hands of the servants who are responsible for releasing grain for disaster relief, they must also keep some for themselves to eat.
Ten thousand pounds of fine grain, all the way down, was withheld everywhere, and when it reached the hands of the common people, only the chaff was left, and even some ordinary people could not even receive the chaff.
Zhu Shi, a farmer in Fengyang County, Chuzhou, Anhui Province, did not receive the relief grain sent down, so within a few days, the family died and fled, leaving only a half-grown child.
This child is the protagonist of our story today, Zhu Yuanzhang.
For Zhu Yuanzhang, his small head could not understand all that was happening in front of him.
His parents have been diligent, honest, and generous all their lives, why are they starved to death in the end?
They have been working on the land all their lives, why don't they even have a piece of land to bury them after they die?
He also didn't have time to think about these things, and the most urgent thing was not to be overwhelmed by the loss of his loved ones, but to find a way to survive.
Cornered, Zhu Yuanzhang planned to go to the nearby Huangjue Temple to become a monk, after all, I am a Buddha, compassionate, pudu sentient beings, mixed food is not a big problem.
When the monks' lives were boring and boring, but also quite tired, the monks of Huangjue Temple had a mantra of "compassion for the heart", but they were not compassionate to Zhu Yuanzhang, not only were they not compassionate, but they always forced Zhu Yuanzhang to work.
(Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang)
Under the green lantern ancient Buddha, mop the floor and brush the bowl. In the fog around the sound of cicadas, washing and chopping wood.
Very tired, really tired.
But such a day was already very happy for Zhu Yuanzhang, because after all, he did not have to starve and freeze anymore, and finally had a hot meal to eat.
But the good times did not last long, the famine became more and more serious, the Huangjue Temple also began to cause famine, the temple began to sit and eat the mountain, and even the daily three meals a day could not be guaranteed.
There was no way, Zhu Yuanzhang could only go out to make a relationship and maintain a subsistence and subsistence.
To say it well is to change the fate, to say it badly is to be swept out of the house by the Huangjue Temple, and to rely on begging for food for a living.
Brother Zhu is Brother Zhu, and it is really different from others, others beg for food is begging for food, and he begging for food is growth.
He stopped and walked all the way, and he left his figure in Hefei, Henan, Ruzhou, Chenzhou, Bozhou and other places.
In the process of begging for food, Zhu Yuanzhang saw the outside world, understood the customs and customs of various places, and greatly increased his insight.
It is reasonable to say that at this time, it is already the beginning of the hero, and the life experience has reached another level, and it can start to do something big.
But Zhu Yuanzhang wandered around outside and returned to the Huangjue Temple.
The outside world is wonderful, but it is chaotic.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the peasant revolt had begun, and everywhere was a rebel army rebelling against the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.
Wars are frequent, swords and soldiers are everywhere, so to speak, or the Huangjue Temple is more comfortable.
It was at this time that the appearance of a person broke Zhu Yuanzhang's ordinary life. This man's name was Tang He.
Tang He was Zhu Yuanzhang's playmate when he was a child, and unlike Zhu Yuanzhang, Tang He had a heroic spirit when he played children, so he and Zhu Yuanzhang took a completely different path, that is, to join the rebel army and revolt.
Since he participated in the rebellion earlier, Tang He soon mixed a small official position in an uprising unit.
Of course, he can't forget his former playmate, so he quickly sent an email to Zhu Yuanzhang, meaning that brother I am now mixing well in the ranks of the rebel army, the salary is quite secure, you quickly resign, come and work with me.
After Zhu Yuanzhang read the letter, he quietly deleted the letter and continued to be a monk.
Historically, many historians have analyzed Zhu Yuanzhang, and it can be said that the head is the Tao.
They said that Zhu Yuanzhang was born anti-bone, playing small is the material for rebellion, and within two days after his birth, he rode on a big horse and carried a long gun to fight with the Yuan Dynasty, as if Zhu Yuanzhang was born to resist the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.
But in fact, for a large part of Zhu Yuanzhang's life, he was just a young man who did nothing and was mediocre and cowardly.
He did have a grudge with the Yuan government, because his parents died under the cruel rule of the Yuan Dynasty, but this poor young man with the same life and fate never wanted to take revenge, his dream was very simple, he just wanted to have food to eat, so that he could live.
And rebellion is such a thing, the risk is obviously very large, to join the army is to fight, to fight a war is to go through the days of licking the blood with the knife, if caught, it is a major crime of beheading, so Zhu Yuanzhang is not willing to participate in the rebellion.
However, it is a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang's comfortable life did not last long, because someone wrote him a letter of rebellion, which was soon known to the old monks in the monastery.
The old monk said, good you Zhu Yuanzhang, see you are usually honest and honest, I didn't expect you to rebel, tomorrow I will go to the official palace to report you.
Zhu Yuanzhang panicked, originally he did not want to go, but the matter has reached this point, if he was reported by the old monk, he arrived at the official palace, this matter is not clear, can you still have your own good fruit to eat?
History has produced a node here, and this node will completely change everything in the world.
No way, Zhu Yuanzhang was forced to Liangshan and joined Tang He's rebel army.
(Yuwa portrait)
I think everyone is familiar with the story later, and I can't get tired of listening to it, so I won't repeat it.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who participated in the uprising, became more and more powerful step by step, kicking a small friend, kicking Chen Youyi, punching Zhang Shicheng, and pressing the other leaders of the peasant rebel army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the ground for a good time, and then defeating the Yuan Dynasty and establishing the Ming Dynasty with one stroke.
My generalizations are short, but the story is actually long.
To sum up, Comrade Lao Zhu's success mainly lies in the following points:
First, when Zhu Yuanzhang began to rebel, it was already the late stage of the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and those once huge rebel army teams lost their troops and greatly reduced their strength in the years-long battles with the Yuan Dynasty government, and the Yuan government also consumed a lot of national strength in the siege of many rebel armies.
This led to the fact that when Zhu Yuanzhang became stronger and bigger, the other rebel armies and the Yuan government were already at the end of the crossbow, and Brother Zhu was equivalent to attacking later, so he was very good.
Second, Zhu Yuanzhang is a person who attaches great importance to and is good at managing talents, and he gathered a large number of super-first-class talents at that time, who can lead soldiers, who can fight, who have strategies, who belong to the gold medal team, who want the company to open well, and excellent talents are indispensable. With such a good talent team escorting all the way, what financing listing, straight to the world's top 500, the problem is not big,
The third point is very metaphysical, as an author, I think history is not necessarily inevitable, in fact, it is accidental, the ancients Cloud "have the heart to plant flowers and flowers, no intention to plant willows into the shade", bent on pursuing the imperial map hegemony, such as Chen Youyi, Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and other people, often in the end a void, just want to live well, simple and desireless Zhu Yuanzhang won the final victory.
To some extent, Zhu Yuanzhang is also the son of heavenly choice.
(Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country)
Zhu Yuanzhang, the son of heavenly choice, drove the Mongols who had once swept the world out of the Central Plains, and these Mongols rode high-headed horses and pondered while fleeing for their lives.
They still couldn't figure out the question, where did this ugly-looking young man come from?
How did he destroy our powerful and distant Yuan Dynasty?
Of course, I think the Mongols will never know the answers to these questions.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang, from beginning to end, the simplest and most primitive thoughts and wishes were nothing more than eating a bowl of steaming white rice.
He had always been a kind, honest, peasant son.
If we had not been forced to the end of the road, how could we have achieved great achievements today?
To be alive is everyone's appeal.
Even the emperors who have been famous for thousands of years cannot be an exception.