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"This is Zhu Yuanzhang? I really didn't expect that he is really good at punishing corrupt officials."

"The measure of peeling and stuffing grass is a bit cruel, but if the effect is good, we Datang can give it a try." Li Longji couldn't help laughing while watching the inventory in the video.

"Your Majesty, if this is the case, I am afraid that the ministers will feel uneasy. How can the civil servants and generals of my Tang Dynasty be compared with these people?"

"Yes, what Concubine Ai said makes sense." Li Longji smiled and glanced at Concubine Yang Gui: "You, you have to take good care of your Yang family. If there are big mistakes again, don't blame them. I am ruthless."

Concubine Yang's face changed slightly: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the concubine will definitely restrain the family and stop them messing around."

Liu Bang, the emperor who started as a pavilion chief, felt a sense of intimacy in his bones after seeing Zhu Yuanzhang.

Both of them belonged to that class that looked down on the rich.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's policy now, he slapped his thigh and jumped up: "I have long said that the position of prime minister cannot be taken. You see, Qin Shihuang was destroyed in Li Si's hands. If the Qin Dynasty did not have Li Si as prime minister, it would be completely gone." Not to the point of perishing."

"So, I decided not to be a prime minister."

Liu Bang's suggestion immediately plunged the court into disputes.

In the end, Xiao He, Han Xin and the others even knelt down, which made Liu Bang unable to come down to the stage. Lu Zhi, who was behind the screen, coughed softly: "Peace them first, this matter will be dealt with later."

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"Such great achievements, such a generation of emperors, who would have thought that he would have been a poor peasant and a cow herder in his early years?"

"Zhu Yuanzhang was not only a beggar, but also a monk."

"At that time, all he thought about was how to fill his stomach."

"I never thought that one day I would change from a monk to a founding emperor."

"If this is a dream, then Tang He is the chief director of this dream."

After Zhu Yuanzhang came to the world, he cried day and night.The parents had no choice but to go to Huangjue Temple to seek help from the gods.

It just so happened that since he went to the temple to pray to the gods, the little Yuanzhang was so peaceful that he didn't cry or make trouble.

In order to commemorate the gods and Buddhas, when Yuanzhang was one year old, Shizhen and his wife entered the temple with their son, offered sacrifices to reward the gods, and gave Yuanzhang another Zen name, Yuanlong.

The summer is gone and the cold is coming, time flies.

Little Yuanzhang grew up quietly in the warm arms of his parents.But the suffering of life is also waiting for his baptism.

Debt and famine stalked Sejin's crumbling hut like the plague.

The innocent and naive little Yuanzhang didn't know the suffering in the world, so he went to Huangjue Temple with his friends when he was free.

Seeing that he was smart and likable, the elders in the temple also took time to teach him how to read and write.

Yuanzhang is also very clever, with a photographic memory, and he knows it by ear.As time goes on, I also have a rough understanding of some ancient and modern characters.

In a blink of an eye, several years have passed.The naive and romantic Zhu Yuanzhang has grown into a handsome young man, and it's time for him to make a living by himself.In this way, he was introduced to the house of Liu Daxiu, a neighbor, to herd cattle.

At first Yuanzhang was determined not to go, but after some hard persuasion by his father, he had to obey his father's order and go to other people's cattle herding to make a living.

The children of the poor are particularly precocious, and Yuan Zhang is still a naughty child when he goes out to make a living.

But he was smart and courageous, and he became a little natural leader among the children.

Xu Da, Tang He and Zhou Dexing, who later became the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty, were all cattle herding partners that Yuan Zhang met at this time.

Once, Zhu Yuanzhang and a group of cowherd boys were herding cattle in the mountains. The sun was still high in the western sky, and the children's stomachs were already growling with hunger.

But holding someone else's job, you have to be under his control. Who dares to go home early?
Zhu Yuanzhang blinked his eyes, thinking about it.

He called his companion, and after giving some orders, he pulled a calf out of the herd, bound its legs with a bridle, and with a yell, felled the calf.

Then everyone peeled the skin, gathered firewood, and lit the fire in a hurry.After a while, the fragrant and tender beef is roasted.

The children who were so hungry, a calf was eaten in the blink of an eye, leaving only a pile of bones.

After a full meal, it's time for the cattle to return to their stalls.

At this time, all the children were beating small drums in their hearts. The cowherd ate the cow, how to explain to the owner?

For a while, they looked at each other and complained to each other.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Let's stop arguing, I came up with the idea, and I will bear the beatings and scolding!"

After all, he led his companions to bury the calf's bones, and sprinkled sand on the blood.

Zhu Yuanzhang tied up the cattle and went to the cattle owner and said: "The calf is disobedient. It got into the cave by itself, and it couldn't be pulled out no matter how hard it was caught in the crevice of the rock. Look, the tail of the cow was pulled off."

That night Zhu Yuanzhang was beaten severely for this incident and lost his job.

But he has won the admiration and trust of his friends.

In the fourth year from Yuan Shundi to Zhengzheng, Zhu Yuanzhang grew up to 17 years old in the storm of suffering.

But at this time, Huaixi's hometown in front of him is suffering from severe drought, locusts and plagues are rampant.

Taiping Township is not peaceful.

The isolated village is even more sparsely populated and desolate.

In a few months, hundreds of people died in Taiping Township.

The disaster finally came to Zhu Yuanzhang's house.

The 64-year-old father was the first to get sick and couldn't afford it, so his life died in Huangquan.

Three days later, the eldest brother Zhu Zhen died of the disease again.

The impoverished Zhu family died three times in less than half a month. Zhu Yuanzhang's sad and difficult scene is really hard to describe.

When parents die of illness, they must be buried as soon as possible to show filial piety.

Later, thanks to the small piece of land given by the neighbor Liu Jizu, there was no way to prepare a coffin, so the three relatives were hastily buried.

The funeral of the father and brother had just finished, and the two brothers, Zhongshu and Uncle, were infected with the epidemic and died together.

In the past, the Zhu family was full of children and grandchildren. In the blink of an eye, only Yuan Zhang, his sister-in-law and nephew were left in a few days.

Zhu Yuanzhang, whose family was ruined, was desperate for a while.

In confusion, Zhu Yuanzhang remembered that when he was a child, his parents had made a wish in Huangjue Temple, and he would sacrifice his life to become a monk when he grew up.

Right now there is no way to go, it is better to go to Huangjue Temple, be ordained as a monk, and have a bowl of light rice to fill your stomach, it is better than starving to death.

The plan was made, and he didn't have time to say hello to his sister-in-law and nephew, so he hurried to Huangjue Temple, worshiped Elder Gao Bin as his teacher, and became a monk in this way.

The road of life is paved with thorns.

Zhu Yuanzhang never dreamed that the monastery where he played and played in childhood became his home today

.With bitterness and hardship in his heart, Zhu Yuanzhang walked into Huangjue Temple.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang was young and entered the temple late, there were a large group of brothers around him, and anyone could order him around.

Zhu Yuanzhang has been sweeping the floor, carrying water, burning incense and lighting candles all day long since he entered the temple gate.

It is often to ring the bell after a meal and push the moon behind closed doors.

The monastery lived on rent collection and alms from faithful men and women.

Nowadays, there are dozens of monks and dozens of mouths in the temple, so there are too many monks and too little porridge, which is not a long-term solution.

Elder Gao Bin had no choice but to send out his disciples one by one, to travel around and make a living by himself.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just entered the temple for 50 days, had to wear a broken hat, carry a small burden on his back, hold a wooden fish in one hand, and hold a tile bowl in the other. .

"You Fang" is also called "begging for alms".It's the jargon of monks.

What Buddhists call begging for alms is actually begging for food.

Zhu Yuanzhang begged all the way and wandered all the way.

Living in the wild in the mountains, visiting villages and households, I have experienced the ups and downs of the world.

When Zhu Yuanzhang traveled to Huaixi, it was the time when Peng Yingyu, Liu Futong and other peasant uprising leaders secretly promoted the White Lotus Sect and organized uprising activities.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang personally experienced the oppression and exploitation of the class, he tasted the hardships of life and witnessed the painful life of farmers.

So the idea of ​​rebellion gradually sprouted in his mind.

Although it was so difficult and painful to live in exile for three years, it did lay the foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang's success in his later career.

In the eighth year from Yuan to Zhengzheng, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to Huangjue Temple with a wooden fish and a clay bowl in both hands after he had experienced the impoverished wandering life.

Stepping into the monastery, I saw a desolate and desolate scene.

There is no other person in the temple, and there is no other way for people.After being asked to stay by the neighbors, Zhu Yuanzhang did not refuse, so he stayed to host temporarily and chatted about his life.

At this time, the land of China was in a period of intensified social contradictions at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

Farmers not only suffered from the cruel exploitation of taxes and corvee by the feudal government, but also the nobles, bureaucrats, landlords and monasteries of the Mongolian and Han ethnic groups frantically annexed land, increased land rent, and ruled and exploited farmers inhumanely.

Coupled with the corruption of the feudal court, the violent expropriation of corrupt officials, and the natural disasters year after year, the majority of farmers went bankrupt.

The desperate Chinese peasants are like a torrent that has been stored for a long time, and will eventually launch a devastating impact on the feudal dams.

Unbearable to endure the exploitation and oppression of the feudal rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, the peasant leader Liu Futong finally raised the banner of righteousness in Yingzhou in the 11th year of the Yuan Dynasty.

Peng Yingyu and Xu Shouhui followed closely behind in the uprising in Hubei.

Fang Guozhen, a local tyrant, and Zhang Shicheng, a salt dealer, fought against the Yuan Dynasty in eastern Zhejiang and northern Jiangsu successively.Soon after, Guo Zixing, a local tyrant in Dingyuan, and his party member Sun Deya, responded by raising troops in Haozhou, attacking and killing state officials and occupying Haozhou City.

At this point, the flames of the peasant uprising blazed across the river north and south.

After Guo Zixing occupied Haozhou, Yuan generals withdrew from Libuhua and were ordered to attack.

But they were afraid of the strength of the rebel army and dared not attack the city.

In order to reward the imperial court, the dignified generals of the Yuan Dynasty went around arresting common people and pretending to be captives of the rebel army.

In this way, the people outside the city of Haozhou fled for their lives after hearing the news, and the villages became ruins.

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about it and was in a dilemma, Tang He, an officer in Guo Zixing's team, sent him a letter, telling him that he was now a small leader, and urged Zhu Yuanzhang to join the army quickly.

After reading the letter from his childhood friend Tang He, he was still hesitant to make up his mind.

A few days later, the brother in the same room suddenly found him and secretly told him that Tang He's letter advising you to join the army has been known, and he will report it to the government.

The situation is critical and there is no room for further hesitation.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was 24 years old at the time, threw down the bowl, packed the letter, bid farewell to Huangjue Temple, where Yiyi's true love was, and rushed to Haozhou City.