What did Zhu Yuanzhang do before? Can you tell me something about his childhood and how he became emperor?

Zhu Yuanzhang was born in Buyi nationality. His original name was Zhu Zhongba. 10, he and his friends were herding cattle for the landlord Liu Dejia. At the age of 20, he was already a beggar and a monk. At the age of 25, he joined the Red Scarf Army in Guo Zixing. After 15 years of hard work, he became emperor in Nanjing at the age of 40, and Zhu Yuanzhang finally got the result.

There is a story about Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood in Henan:

Zhu Yuanzhang's father is very poor and has no money to marry. There was a local woman who stayed in the mountains since she was a child. She is anonymous and ugly, like an unfinished gorilla. Zhu Yuanzhang's father combined with this woman to carry on the family line and gave birth to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was clever since he was a child and won the love of the villagers. Zhu Yuanzhang's family is poor. In order to make a living, he has to herd cattle and sheep for the landlord's family every day.

One day, Zhu Yuanzhang drove cattle and sheep up the mountain to eat grass and slept alone under a boulder on the mountain. The boulder is like a faucet overlooking the earth. Below the boulder is a big puddle. Although the puddle is located in Yamanoe, there are constant water sources and lush water plants. Zhu Yuanzhang was sleeping when he heard someone talking on the boulder and said, "This place is really a treasure trove of geomantic omen, and the one who gets it wins the world.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a look at two like-minded old people and rode away. He didn't care, only felt that he met a fairy today. In recent years, when Zhu Yuanzhang was about to forget, there was one thing that made him realize one thing. At that time, there was a fortune teller who was proficient in Zhouyi numerology. Zhu Yuanzhang is still herding sheep near the boulder. He found the fortune teller wandering around for a few days, then inserted some sticks around the puddle under the boulder and left.

The next day, the village said that the fortune teller died suddenly at night. The fortune teller has no son, only a few semesters. According to the fortune teller's request, he will be buried tomorrow for several semesters. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to get an electric shock, remembering the dialogue between immortals before. He first went to the mountain and moved the stick inserted by the fortune teller to the puddle by the puddle. Then I went home at night and told my mother that one of her sheep had been lost and asked her to help her find it up the mountain.

His mother followed him up the hill without saying a word. He tricked her into a puddle and then shoved her in. He was about to bury his mother when suddenly there was thunder and lightning and huge stones mixed with mud rolled in the puddle. Zhu Yuanzhang went home and wept bitterly, telling his father that the boulder had crushed his mother. His father was sad for a while and did not doubt Zhu Yuanzhang. Later, the fortune teller was buried and came back nearby. His adopted sons include Xu Da, Tanghe, Zhou Dexing and others.

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Zhu Yuanzhang's Two Contributions:

1. overthrow the yuan dynasty and revitalize the country. Zhu Yuanzhang was born in poverty. Of course, at first he didn't have the political ambition to be an emperor. So Mr. Qian Mu said, "The most honest people in history are Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang." In the ninety-nine years since the Mongols conquered China, the Han people have been second-class citizens and suffered humiliation. Zhu Yuanzhang rebuilt the Han nationality and revived China.

2. Many standards and regulations were formulated, which not only laid the political foundation of the Ming Dynasty for nearly 300 years, but also continued to the Qing Dynasty. That is to say, Zhu Yuanzhang alone laid the political norms and rights protection for the next 500 years.

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