Haohao's 5,000 years of Chinese history, there have been many emperors, they once flourished for a while, some are the downwind boats in the long river of history, some are medium flowing stones, some are like spring floods, some are like winter ling, some are mud and sand under the water, in short, Haohao history has been thousands of years, rolling red dust for thousands of years, Shi Hai hook sinks, each leading the way, passing on the torch, inheriting the long history of China. With so many emperors, we carefully consider their value and weight in history, and there are still light and heavy.
But there are also some emperors who start from the last few and eventually achieve the cause of the emperor. And he was the best of them, from not having enough to eat, by herding cattle for the landlord's family, and even he didn't even have a proper name, and then a plague took the life of his relatives, and he could only go to the temple to become a monk... He was the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang's life is very legendary, from a cattle herding baby wanderer, and finally became the founding monarch, realizing the counterattack from the grassroots to the emperor. This is no accident, what makes it stand out?
Zhu Yuanzhang
Zhu Yuanzhang was able to rise and successfully seize the world, and stood out among all the people and horses of the peasant uprising, although it was inseparable from the general trend of the times at that time, but more importantly, zhu Yuanzhang himself. He is able to accurately guess the personality types and psychology of many different people.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, zi guorui, formerly known as Zhu Chongba and Zhu Xingzong, his ancestral home was Pei County, Jiangsu, and he was a fellow villager with Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty. Later, the family migrated to Haozhou (濠州, in modern Fengyang, Anhui). When Zhu Yuanzhang was ten years old, he became a cattle herder in the landlord's family. At that time, the society and politics were corrupt, and the people did not have a good life.
Monks
In the third year of Zhengzheng (1343), a drought occurred in Haozhou. The following spring there was a severe plague of locusts and plagues. In less than half a month, Zhu Yuanzhang's father, eldest brother and mother died one after another. Only Zhu Yuanzhang and the second brother were left, but there was no money to buy a coffin, not even the land to bury their parents. In order to survive, Zhu Yuanzhang was forced to separate from his second brother, sister-in-law and nephew.
He went to Huangjue Temple to shave his hair as a monk, and at the age of seventeen, he traveled around and begged and wandered for three years. During this three years of wandering, he traveled all over the famous capital of Huaixi, Dayi, came into contact with the customs and customs of various places, saw the world, broadened his horizons, and accumulated experience in social life, which had a profound impact on Zhu Yuanzhang's life. The three years of traveling in the outer clouds were also the period when the peasant revolt at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was in full swing.
Guo Zixing
In the eleventh year, the Red Banner Army rose up. The following year, Guo Zi raised an army, and tens of thousands of people responded. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang went to join Guo Zixing's Red Turban Army. After Zhu Yuanzhang joined the army, he was brave in battle, resourceful and flexible, and rough in writing and ink, and was quickly appreciated by Guo Zixing. Guo Zixing saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was a talent, so he married his adopted daughter Ma Shi to Zhu Yuanzhang. The troops led by Zhu Yuanzhang to attack the city were strictly disciplined and were constantly promoted.
After Guo Zixing's death, Zhu Yuanzhang became the manager of the team. When Zhu Yuanzhang was the leader of the rebel army, he paid attention to buying people's hearts and minds, and his vision was far greater than the pattern. During this period, he always pursued the strategy of "building a high wall, accumulating grain in a wide area, and slowly becoming king" proposed by Zhu Sheng, and quickly and secretly expanded his strength.
Chen Youyi
However, Zhu Yuanzhang also had many fierce enemies, Chen Youyi in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhang Shicheng in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Fang Guozhen in the southeast, and Chen Youding in the south. Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding's goal was only to protect the land and divide the territory, while Zhang Shicheng was the least determined, and his attitude toward the Yuan Dynasty was wavering. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's confidant was Chen Youyu. After 16 years of conquest, Zhu Yuanzhang unified the country.
Due to his poverty when he was young, Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated many policies to benefit the people during his reign. He ordered peasants to return to farming and rewarded reclamation; vigorously engaged in resettlement of tuntian and military tuns; organized peasants in various localities to build water conservancy projects; he also enriched the people in vain and suppressed the powerful; ordered the emancipation of slaves and slaves; reduced the tax burden, and severely punished corrupt officials;
Xu Da
Zhu Yuanzhang was well aware of the suffering caused by the famine to the peasants, and after he took the throne, he often reduced the taxes of the peasants in the disaster-stricken and war-affected areas, or gave them relief. Zhu Yuanzhang also cherished the people's strength and advocated frugality. Under the impetus of Zhu Yuanzhang's measures, the peasants' enthusiasm for production was high. Through the efforts of the Hongwu period, social production gradually recovered and developed, and history called the rule of Hongwu.
As his time as emperor grew longer, Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicions became heavier and heavier, and he slaughtered all his loyal generals, but at this time he was still not satisfied, and often suspected that the ministers below him had different intentions because of a small matter, and started to kill people.
Zhu Yuanzhang in his later years
After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he transitioned his previous relationship with his subordinates from a relationship of superiors and subordinates to a relationship of kings and subjects. During the thirty years of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he constantly educated them to adhere to the way of the monarch, abide by discipline and law, and promulgate a targeted legal system. The power struggle with the monarch and his subjects, Zhu Yuanzhang transformed into a dispute between the rule of law and the destruction of the rule of law, making full use of his authority as an emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang's life can be described as "worrying about dangers and accumulating heart, and being diligent every day" is not sluggish.