In 1328, in a poor peasant family, the father was 50 years old and the mother was 45 years old, so zhu Zhongba was born. He lived in a large family with two older sisters and three older brothers. Later, the two older sisters married, the two older brothers entered the family, and only the eldest brother married his wife and gave birth to two children at home, and together with Zhu Zhongba formed a family of seven.
On weekdays, his father planted land for The Liu Landlord's family, and he herded cattle for the Liu Landlord's family, although the life was hard, and he did not eat a meal, but he also grew up under the joint efforts and care of the family.
In 1344, when Zhu Zhongba was 16 years old, there was terrible pneumonia in the village, people coughed violently, Zhu Zhongba's 64-year-old father was also infected, and then the eldest brother's family was also infected, because there was no money to buy medicine, in the 17 days after the infection, the father, mother, the eldest brother and a child of the eldest brother, 4 relatives died one after another.
His relatives had died, and Zhu Zhongba was very sad, but he also knew that he wanted to bury his relatives well, but their family did not have any land, so he went to ask the owner of Liu Landlord,and Liu Landlord drove him out.
Their poor sharecropper's family has suffered from years of exploitation by the landlord, and their parents have given you the land that they have worked hard all their life to grow, but when they die, the landlord's family is so mean. In his adolescence, Zhu Zhongba hated the landlords and hated the rich who oppressed the poor.
The kind neighbors helped arrange the aftermath, in addition to hate, Zhu Yuanzhang also felt endearing, thanking the people who helped him in times of difficulty.
The family did not eat at all, the sister-in-law took the child to the mother's family and left, and the once complete extended family was left with zhu zhongba in less than a month, alone...
We now often talk about the impact of an education a person receives as a child on the rest of their lives.
Looking closely at many of the best people at the top of each field, the specific behavior of childhood and adolescence is not something that affects a person's life, but the event that touches the heart.
The experience of 0-16 years old, especially Zhu Zhongba, who died at the age of 16 and became an orphan, has two emotions in his heart, one is hatred, to oppress the poor and weak. The other is gratitude to the people who help themselves.
These two emotions ran through his later life of "fighting the world with martial arts and politics with virtue".
Orphaned, Zhu Zhongba did not have the ability to make an independent living except for cattle herding, and did not know what to do next, so the kind neighbor sent the child to the local temple and asked the abbot to take him in.
Monks in the Yuan Dynasty were a profession that had their own family, their own land, and their own servants. The abbot took Zhu Zhongba into custody, and since then Zhu Zhongba has become a hard laborer in the temple and the abbot's family, doing the most tiring and complicated work, without a moment's rest, eating a bowl of porridge.
However, this kind of life lasted only more than fifty days, a severe drought and locust plague, no one had any money and grain to offer incense, everyone was in danger, the temple could not continue to operate, the abbot dismissed the monks, Zhu Zhongba had nowhere to go, and had to go out every day to ask for a bite of food.
True growth goes through a process of stomping and reassembling oneself, which is painful, like cramping and peeling. The self-esteem that used to care and resolutely maintained was beaten to pieces, and he became an empty shell and nothing. Then a new search begins, which the "mind" initiates on its own initiative, which wants to seek refuge for a lifetime.
That is, a saying once said by a thinker: Born to be a man, and, born again as a man.
Don't know if you've already gone through this stage? Zhu Zhongba did experience it.
If you look at a person's growth from a professional point of view, Zhu Zhongba was 16 years old as a hard laborer, alone, endured scolding and then suffered and tired, and had to endure it, those fifty days of experience were unforgettable for Zhu Yuanzhang, until he became emperor for many years and still clearly remembered every day of the fifty days.
The long-term unbearable hard life has tempered Zhu Zhongba's ability to think independently and observe the color of speech, and he can hear clearly and clearly the words of the abbot and the words of the brothers and masters. The long-term life of enduring humiliation and stealing life has exercised Zhu Zhongba's sense of crisis, he clipped his tail to be a man, scolded and did not return the mouth, did not cause trouble, did not come out, only silently did things, if everyone ignored their own existence, they could be less bullied.
He survived these fifty days, and he knew that as long as he could bear it, he had hope of surviving to tomorrow.
Patience and lack of success became very important qualities in every step of his later fight against the world and the attainment of the world.
Zhu Zhongba, who went out to ask for food, suddenly felt that it was really a piece of cake compared to being a hard laborer, and it was as if he had come out of his cell to let the wind blow, while walking around and asking for food, he saw the mountains and rivers, he also saw the displaced people, there were people who were not as good as himself, people who starved to death on the side of the road, and officers and soldiers who arrested people everywhere to serve.
He continued to grow up to 19 years by asking for food.
Three years later, the famine basically passed, and those who fled or escaped from the country returned to their hometowns one after another, and Zhu Zhongba also returned to the temple. At this time, the people gathered in the temple were all the same as themselves, they no longer excluded each other, but huddled together for warmth, Where Zhu Zhongba ate thin porridge and began to read the scriptures and Confucius.
Just when Zhu Zhongba was planning to be a monk for a lifetime, the first peasant uprising of the Yuan Dynasty began, Han Shantong claimed to be the King of Ming, led the rebel army to grab the granary, opened the warehouse and released grain for the people to eat, and the poor people who could not eat came to defect one after another, and the team expanded rapidly.
At this time, the rebel army closest to Zhu Zhongba was led by Guo Zixing, and they rushed into the homes of landlords, officials, and rich merchants, grabbing, taking, and killing. The temple where Zhu Zhongba was located was not spared and was looted.
People who have read the history of the Ming Dynasty know that Zhu Zhongba cleaned up the temple that had been looted and continued to live a hard life of reading. Later, he met during the meal and introduced himself to Guo Zixing's team.
At the age of 16, he has gone through 6 years of hardships, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who has passed twenty years, in the days of long-term suffering, in addition to stoicism, has also developed a calm and scheming character.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang's lifelong imperial hegemony, stoic personality, independent thinking, and the heart that can no longer be bullied let him go to the end.