What is the historical account of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding monarch of the Ming Dynasty?

Ju Yuanzhang was poor as a child and worked as a cattle herder for a landowner.

In 1344, he entered the Huangjue Temple, and at the age of 25, he joined the Red Turbans led by Guo Zixing in their revolt against the Yuan Dynasty.

In 1356, he was honored as the Duke of Wu by the generals under his command.

In the same year, he captured the Jixing Road and changed it to Yingtianfu (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu Province). 1367, he ordered Xu Da and Chang Youchun to raise an army for the Northern Expedition under the slogan of "Expel the hu-cruisers and restore China".

Early in 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor of Yingtianfu, with the country's name Da Ming and the year's name Hongwu. In the fall of that year, he captured Metropolitan City, ending the Yuan Dynasty's rule over the country; the Mongolian nobles fled northward, and the 16 states of Youyun ceded by the Later Jin Dynasty were recovered. He also pacified the southwestern, northwestern and northeastern parts of the country and finally unified China.

In 1398 (Hongwu thirty-one years), Zhu Yuanzhang died at the age of 71, his temple name is Taizu, his posthumous name is Open Heaven and Road, Zhao Ji Li great saint to the God of benevolence, Wenyiwu Jundesuccessful Gao Emperor, buried in the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum.

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Zhu Yuanzhang Character Evaluation

Zhu Yuanzhang is one of the most outstanding monarchs in Chinese history. He was a diligent politician and made a lot of achievements, especially the creation of a large number of systems and regulations, which not only laid the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for nearly three hundred years and contributed to the social stability and economic prosperity of the early Ming Dynasty, but also influenced the Qing Dynasty. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the centralized political rule and the administrative system of a unified multi-ethnic state became more and more complete.

Zhu Yuanzhang's most important achievements were expelling the hu-cruisers, removing the riots, saving the Han Chinese nation, pacifying the world, abolishing the racial hierarchy and oppressive policies set by the Mongols, restoring China, and leading the renaissance of the Huaxia. The path he and his civil servants and military generals took from the natural and man-made disasters and starvation in the village of Zhongli to his ascension to the throne in Nanjing was not just for the benefit of private individuals and a certain class of people.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a man with a strong mind and a far-reaching vision, good at managing war and seizing the initiative. Focusing on recruiting, wide range of opinion, strict governance, improve the military system, training and educating the generals, emphasizing that the generals should be knowledge, strategy, benevolence and courage. The advocate of the military in agriculture, and farming and war, to maintain a strong armed forces.

Mao Zedong: Zhu Yuanzhang is the leader of the peasant revolt, is should be recognized, should be written better, do not write so bad (referring to Zhu Yuanzhang's night). Zhu Hongwu is a cattle herder, people are not stupid, he had a strategist named Zhu Sheng, very insightful, Zhu Hongwu listened to Zhu Sheng words "wide grain, high walls, slow to claim the king", and eventually gained the hearts of the people, won the world.

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