How did Zhu Yuanzhang become emperor?

Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a poor peasant family, so he came from the lowest social stratum in China. He is the only founding king with this background: this is a well-known fact in the history of China. On April 15, a 2045-year-old monk came near the city gate of Haozhou and asked to join Guo Zixing's army. This is an unexpected turning point in his life. He immediately became a popular disciple, a trusted assistant, an excellent soldier and a member of the Guo Zixing family. Guo Zixing has two wives, and his brother has two sons the same age as Zhu Yuanzhang. The young wife suggested that this promising young man should be more closely linked with the fate of the Guo family, so she accepted him as her adopted daughter. The young woman was 19 years old and was the daughter of a close friend named Ma. Shortly before his death, Ma entrusted his only son to care. She is the later Ma Huanghou. The relationship between Zhu Yuanzhang and his young wife Guo Zixing later became very important; When Zhu Yuanzhang had an argument with Guo Zixing's sons, she finally stood on his side, and he also took her daughter as his concubine. 1352 and 1353, the yuan army sent by the imperial court attempted to destroy the central and eastern Huaihe River occupied by the rebels. At the end of 1352, they drove Sesame Plum away from his base in Xuzhou, northern Jiangsu. At the beginning of 1353, two of his generals took refuge in Haozhou, which made the already tense resources of this small town even more tense. They call themselves "kings" and are arrogant above Guo Zixing and his marshals. Factional struggle has developed. Guo Zixing supported one of them and the other detained him. Zhu Yuanzhang, who came back from the expedition, found this situation. He took Guo Zixing's young wife and her children to another leader's camp and finally found a way to save Guo Zixing's life. 1352 From the end of winter to June 1353, Haozhou was surrounded by Yuan troops sent by Xuzhou. The deaths of Zuo Cheng, commander of the Yuan Army, and Jia Lu, a water conservancy expert (135 1 year led the river regulation project) liberated Haozhou, thus saving this base area. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang left the army and returned to his village. In his hometown, he recruited more than 700 troops, led by 24 of his former friends and childhood partners, including Xu Da, his future chief of staff (Prime Minister Nakashuyou joined the army to handle state affairs). In the next 20 years, this military leadership group formed the core of his personal entourage. In the next few months, he continued to participate in a wide range of offensive and field command activities, learned how to do it, and formed his own tactical awareness. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/353, Guo Zixing appointed him separately to get rid of the increasingly urgent factional struggle in Haozhou. This is the starting point of independent activities; His official title is Zhen Fu. In the subsequent fighting, he initially withdrew from Dingyuan County in the south. He even went further south, took in a large number of defeated soldiers and deserters along the way, and won several important victories. By the end of the year, he occupied Chuzhou (near the border between Anhui and Jiangsu) and counties near the north bank of the Yangtze River. 1354 stayed in Chuzhou for a whole year until the first half of 1355. This became his base camp, where he established an army loyal to himself, which is said to have reached 30,000 people, and began to assemble local management teams. Li Shanchang (1314-1390) was his first counselor. He is an elite figure in the countryside and a scholar. He defected to Zhu Yuanzhang in 1354 and began to influence this studious young student with history lessons. Li Shanchang was appointed as the secretary of the shogunate by him. 1355 A few months ago, he successfully defended Heyang (or Hezhou, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, now Hexian County), which was besieged by the Yuan Army, and began to pay attention to the rich south bank of the Yangtze River. The most important thing is that he took a fancy to the big city of Nanjing, which was then called Qing Ji and controlled the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. /kloc-at the beginning of 0/355, Guo Zixing died in Heyang. Guo Zixing's sons consider themselves the heirs and heirs of their father; The Emperor of the Red Scarf Army in the Song Dynasty conferred senior positions on his eldest son and an old officer, Guo's brother-in-law, and appointed Zhu Yuanzhang as their deputy. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was surrounded by 24 partners and other important military leaders who came to submit to him in the uprising army. It is Zhu Yuanzhang's personal prestige that unites them around him, not the banner of the Red Scarf Army. Among these new adherents is Chang Yuchun, the most courageous general in Zhu Yuanzhang's army in his later years, and the only one trusted by Xu Da. In addition, Liao Yong 'an and Yu Tonghai, the ship division leaders along the inland waterway in Anhui, also voluntarily defected to Zhu Yuanzhang. They gave Zhu Yuanzhang the means to cross the river by fleet and barge, so that he could fight the water army on the vast front. The long-awaited crossing of the river began. Then attack Nanjing in mid-August. The first battle was unsuccessful, but Zhu Yuanzhang's army stayed in Nanjing and wiped out some surrounding towns. At the end of 65438 AD, the second attack on Nanking killed Guo Zixing's eldest son and Zhang Tianyou, thus getting rid of Zhu Yuanzhang's two immediate bosses. At this time, the whole command is in his hands. 1356, 10 in April, after many battles, Zhu Yuanzhang finally won Nanjing, which was immediately designated as the new capital and renamed Yingtian immediately. In the same week, Zhang Shicheng also crossed the Yangtze River and made Suzhou its capital. Earlier that year, Ni Wenjun made Xu Shouhui emperor of the Red Scarf Army in the south wing, and his title was finished. The new capital was located in Hanyang on the bank of the Yangtze River. One month after the fall of Nanking, Han Liner appointed Zhu Yuanzhang as jiangnan province Pingzhang, and Guo Zixing's only son became his deputy. Guo Zixing's son was convicted of treason and executed. Zhu Yuanzhang has now become the leader of the northern Red Scarf Army based on the Yangtze River and the guardian of the puppet emperor in the entire northern rebel army. He stood out from the crowd and became a leader.

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