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Zhu Yuanzhang, an ancient politician, strategist, military commander and the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very poor when he was a child. He used to herd cattle for the landlord. Zheng Zheng entered Huang Jue Temple for four years (1344). At the age of 25, he took part in the Red Scarf Army uprising led by Guo Zixing against the Yuan Dynasty. In the 16th year of Zheng Zheng (1356), Qing Ji Road was captured and changed to Tianfu.

In the twenty-seventh year of Zheng Zheng (1367), Xu Da and Chang Yuchun were ordered to send troops to the Northern Expedition to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty. At the beginning of the first year of Hongwu (1368), he proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtianfu, with the title of Daming and the title of Hongwu. The capture of Dadu in the autumn of that year ended the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in the whole country. And pacify the southwest, northwest, Liaodong and other places, and finally unify the whole country.

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Zhu Yuanzhang is another founding monarch born in cloth after Liu Bang in the ancient history of China, and also an effective emperor in the late feudal society of China. Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral home was Pei County, Jiangsu Province, and it was not until his parents settled in Taiping Township, Weizhou Zhongli. Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors were farmers.

His father Zhu, hardworking and kind, reclaimed wasteland for the landlord all his life, but in the end he had no land. Zhu Yuanzhang also attended a private school for a few days when he was a child, and soon dropped out of school to graze and began to support his family.

During the period of 1344, Huaibei area suffered from drought and locust plague, and the crops were not harvested. Then there was a plague and countless people died. Zhu Yuanzhang's parents and brothers died in less than half a month, leaving only Zhu Yuanzhang, 17 years old.

Zhu Yuanzhang buried his relatives in a hurry. In order to survive, he went to Huang Jue Temple to be a little boy. But within two months, the abbot of the temple ran out of food and sent Zhu Yuanzhang and his brothers out to travel around the world to make a living. During these four years, Zhu Yuanzhang traveled to many places at the junction of Anhui and Henan, lived a life of living in the wind and sleeping in the open air, and ate up the sufferings of the world, but he also increased his experience and accumulated rich geographical knowledge.

During his reign, Zhu Yuanzhang devoted himself to political affairs all his life and made many achievements, especially creating a large number of systems and regulations, which not only laid the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for nearly 300 years, but also contributed to the social stability and economic prosperity in the early Ming Dynasty and influenced the Qing Dynasty. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the centralized political rule and the unified administrative system of multi-ethnic countries gradually improved.

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