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The personal ability of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ming emperor, was the strongest of the founding emperors of China for thousands of years, and the only one who could be compared with it was probably Only Tang Taizong Li Shimin.
But Li Shimin was born as the second son of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor was his cousin, he could lead soldiers to fight in the teens, and on the capital of the family, of course, it was far stronger than Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born a poor peasant and his whole family starved to death in the year of famine.
Compared with Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, Zhu Yuanzhang was also a cloth-clad commoner, started from scratch, and became an emperor.
Similarly, after the founding of the country, it has suffered from war, depression and sparse population.
Liu Bang claimed that the empress could not find four horse-drawn carriages of the same color, although it was very embarrassing.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was called empress dowager, spared no effort in manpower and material resources, and engaged in many large-scale migrations across provinces and thousands of miles, just to fill those barren areas that had been plagued by war for a long time.
When Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Dadu, the territory of the Ming Dynasty:
However, with such a weak foundation of national strength, there were also many Hu horsemen who raided and harassed the border, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not rest and recuperate like Liu Bang, living peacefully within the Great Wall, and even less did he give money to the Hu people outside the Saiwai to give them to their daughters and relatives.
For a person who has begged for a life when he is hungry and cold, is not having a horse a problem? Go to the enemy and grab it.
Every time the Ming army won a great victory in the northern expedition, it was bound to harvest tens of thousands of horses, camels, cattle and sheep.
A southern army that arose in Jianghuai thus formed a powerful cavalry from scratch, and then relied on this iron horse to not only "unify the north from the south" for the first time in history, but also unified the mountains and rivers in thirty years, and the monarch Huayi.
In 1368, at the Battle of Taiyuan, the Ming army annihilated 100,000 Northern Yuan cavalry and 40,000 soldiers, and the enemy general Wang Baobao only led eighteen horses to escape.
In 1368, at the Battle of Kaiping, the Ming army attacked the capital of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Kaiping Province, and captured tens of thousands of its princes, pingzhang, ministers, and generals, with tens of thousands of cars, 3,000 horses, 50,000 cattle, and countless treasures for their children.
1369: At the Battle of Shen'eryu, the Ming army destroyed more than 100,000 northern Yuan troops, captured two northern yuan princes, more than 1,860 ministers and subordinates, more than 84,500 soldiers, and tens of thousands of horses and camels.
1370: At the Battles of Yingchang and Xingzhou, the Ming army won a great victory, capturing hundreds of Northern Yuan princes, concubines, palace maidens, kings, and generals, and collecting the jade seals and golden treasures of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and capturing 53,000 Northern Yuan troops before and after.
1381: In the Battle of Yunnan, the Ming army destroyed more than 100,000 Northern Yuan troops and captured 20,000 people, and the Northern Yuan Liang King committed suicide.
1387: At the Battle of Liaodong, the Northern Yuan lieutenant Naha was forced to surrender, and the Ming army captured 200,000 Northern Yuan troops, and there were more than 3,300 officials and generals.
1388: At the Battle of Yu'erhai, the Ming army won a great victory, capturing 123 empresses, princes, concubines and princesses of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, more than 3,000 officials, a population of more than 77,000, and more than 150,000 horses, alpaces, cattle and sheep. The Northern Yuan perished.
It is no exaggeration to say that the five rulers of the Han Dynasty, Gao Zu, Lü Hou, Emperor Wen, Emperor Jing, and Emperor Wu, lasted a hundred years of hard work, a hundred years of expanding the territory, and Zhu Yuanzhang's reign of thirty years alone was completed.
Before Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the territory of the Ming Dynasty:
On military and political ability, on taowu strategy, on strategic vision and tactical standards, Zhu Yuanzhang is even more outstanding throughout the ages, and it is no exaggeration to say that the role he played in laying the foundation of the Ming Empire alone is equivalent to the sum of the contributions of Liu Bang and Han Chu Sanjie (Han Xin + Zhang Liang + Xiao He) to the foundation of the Han Dynasty.
In the early years of the Han Dynasty, the best commander was Han Xin, the best strategist and strategist was Zhang Liang, and the best logistics and governance was Xiao He. Therefore, Liu Bang will openly say that he is "three inferior", and only uses people as the way of the king.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the best commanders, the best strategists and strategists, and the best logistics and governance talents were all Zhu Yuanzhang!
Liu Bang's own ideas at the beginning, many of them are extremely bad, Liu Bang's biggest advantage is that after being punched in the face by Zhang Liang and Chen Ping's advisers, he can quickly pick out the most correct opinions from a bunch of alternatives, intuitively; really let Liu Bang be a strategist himself, probably third-rate, but being a monarch is super first-class, not good at strategizing and good at judging.
Zhu Yuanzhang was truly capable of strategizing and judging, and he was a genius, and the planning of many major military strategy events was even more long-term than Li Shanchang's Liu Bowen, and when he made important strategic decisions, he repeatedly punched his subordinates in the face, and the results proved afterwards that he was really more intelligent.
When Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the system of ministers, as the emperor and chancellor, he slept at night and did not slacken off, "the ministers did not rise first, the ministers have not slept", and with limited national strength, not only to ensure the needs of the people's livelihood, but also to Xu Da and Lan Yu's many expeditions to the northern expeditions to the north, do the best logistical work.
Moreover, the powerful national strength accumulated by the "reign of Hongwu" for thirty years was able to enable his son Zhu Di to just finish fighting a 4-year-long jingnan war that lasted for millions of corpses.
It can also attack quickly, conquest in all directions, overhaul the canal, sweep southeast Asia by the Daming Marine Division, threaten the Indian Ocean, expand the territory directly under its jurisdiction to Sumatra on the equator, open the old port of Xuanwei Division, Burma/Laos/Vietnam/Thailand (north)/Malacca is all within the territory of Daming, capturing the king of Sri Lanka alive... Become the unprecedented maritime overlord in the history of China for thousands of years!
The opening bowl is called Hanako, when the Hu iron horse occupies Shenzhou and Lu Shen has been nearly a hundred years old,
Not only did it recover Jiangnan, which had been lost in the Southern Song Dynasty for nearly 100 years,
Not only did it recover the Central Plains that the Northern Song Dynasty had lost for nearly 250 years,
Moreover, it recovered the Yunnan, Guizhou, Gansu, Liaodong, Yanyun, and Hetao regions that had been lost for 400 to 500 years in the late Tang Dynasty.
Further take the northeast, occupy Qinghai, collect Tibet, chase the north to the Saibei Shuo Desert, and return the Mongol Yuan Empire, which has dominated Asia for a hundred years, back to the prototype and become a group of nomadic tribes again.
Not only did it re-establish a great Asian empire from scratch, but also five hundred years after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, it rebuilt the East Asian tributary system that was unique to China, and within 200 years of its founding, it was the undisputed first power in the world at that time.
If it is not the real history that really happened, who can imagine such a myth?
If in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, there was no Zhu Yuanzhang and his Ming Dynasty,
Instead, Tsakhan Timur and Wang Baobao established a new Hu dynasty and continued to rule the Central Plains for 300 years.
Then there was the Manchu Qing Dynasty of Emperor Taiji and Dolgun.
Then the time is advanced to the beginning of the 20th century, I am afraid that there is really no "expulsion of the Tartars, restoration of China",
At that time, in the eyes of those who lived in this land, most of those whose blood and ancestors were Han Chinese, but whose living customs and national consciousness had been completely Huized,
The glory of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty is probably the same as the Roman Empire/Byzantine Empire in the eyes of the people of Istanbul today. - This scene is enough to make people shudder!
This is Zhu Yuanzhang's greatest historical merit to our nation, far beyond the brilliant Wenzhi martial arts of his lifetime