Mr. Meng Sen once said: "Since three generations in China, the only people who have won the country are the Han and Ming." Regardless of nationality, the legendary process of Zhu Yuanzhang's seizure of the world deduced a myth of a counterattack from the bottom to the peak. Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang may have a lot of criticism for people like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, why are you the "Four Worlds and Three Princes", and our side is only eight generations of poor peasants?The gap between the bell and drum and the bell begging, you are famous for all the ages, and I am only a "eighty-eight" (Zhu Yuanzhang's original name is Zhu Chongba, that is, Zhu Baba, one is said to be a heavy character generation)?Although there is no material to prove that Zhu Chongba was determined to overthrow the rule of the Yuan Dynasty early on, if possible, he may prefer to live a simple life of "two cows on twenty acres of land, and a hot kang head for his wife and children".
Starting from the famine in the first year, the key words: Zhizheng, drought, Huai River, and the Yellow River burst. When Zhu Yuanzhang was still Zhu Chongba, he didn't smoke (no smoke), didn't drink too much (no money), and as for eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, it was difficult to achieve it according to his family situation. He lives an honest life as a good citizen, fantasizing about the reincarnation of "herding cattle, saving money, giving birth to babies, letting babies herd cattle, saving money, and giving birth to babies". The family is happy, and then they will grow old for the rest of their lives. The rule of the Yuan Dynasty was not benevolent, and life may have been hard, but looking around, except for the landlords and rich gentry, who doesn't live like this?If you can bear it, bear with it!
This continued until the fourth year of the reign. The hard days are finally over, because life can no longer be lived. In the Huaihe River Valley, the birthplace of Zhu Yuanzhang, since Zhu Chongba's birth, he has been suffering from intermittent natural and man-made disasters. The old Zhu family was not favored by the god of luck, and Zhu Chongba's sister-in-law, nephew and even the eldest sister's family passed away one after another. The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind, and an unprecedented famine came in four years. From the beginning of spring, there was a great drought, then a plague of locusts, and then a plague. The triple calamity hit the old Zhu family very hard: on the sixth day of the fourth month, Zhu Chongba's father Zhu Wusi died of the plague;On the ninth day of the first month, the eldest brother also died of illness;Soon after, the eldest nephew also died;On the 22nd, Zhu Chongba's mother, Chen, died of illness. Within half a month, Zhu Chongba lost four relatives. The first seven of the former relatives have not yet arrived, and the latter has already been funeral. What's even more tragic is that the old Zhu family has no land to bury them at all, which is really a truly miserable world. Zhu Yuanzhang's genealogy is dead, after all, he has to be buried, although April is not the height of summer, but the body cannot stay at home forever. At this time, Zhu Chongba was left with only his second brother, and the brothers were full of helplessness, so they imagined that Liu De, the landlord they had been serving, could give some land to bury their relatives. Liu De said, your parents have indeed helped me do a lot of things, and I also see it in my eyes, and I feel very sympathetic to your family's experience, but if you want land, you can't!I don't know what Liu De thinks of his move after 20 years, and he may regret throwing his big mouth, right?In the end, it was Liu Jizu, the landlord who had helped the old Zhu family, to provide a piece of land, so that the Zhu brothers could bury their relatives. "The people you have helped will not necessarily help you, but the people who have helped you will definitely help you again. At this time, it is necessary to insert a sentence, Zhu Yuanzhang, who finally seized the world, did not forget the favor received by Zhu Chongba in the eighth era, and in the eleventh year of Hongwu, he promulgated the "Posthumous Gift of Yihui Marquis Liu Jizu", and the rural landlord became a marquis, and Liu Jizu's descendants also benefited. Mourning the difficulties of people's livelihood, key words: displacement, helplessness, change, fuse.
The problem of the dead has been solved, but the problem of the living has not been solved. The sister-in-law took the little nephew back to her parents' home, but the brothers had no home to return to. The surrounding relatives searched for it one by one, but there was no place to go to. Doing odd jobs next to each other, while trying to make a living, when there was really no way, someone gave the second brother of the Zhu family an idea, and if it didn't work, let Zhu Chongba go to the temple to be a monk. Considering that Zhu Chong was still young in the eighth year, devoting himself to the temple may be a way to live. The underage Zhu Chongba then had his first career - a monk. In the temple, although he did not experience the equality of all beings as the Buddha said, he at least had something to eat. And this food was earned by him with hard work, and this life lasted for four years.
The experience of the old Zhu family is indeed tragic, but under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, there is more than one miserable peasant like Zhu Yuanzhang. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Huai River valley suffered from droughts, locust plagues and plagues, and the Yellow River burst its banks in the north. The experience of past dynasties has shown that the bursting of the Yellow River's banks is not a trivial matter. After some arguments in the court, the restoration of the Yellow River embankment began. But with a repair, the problem becomes more and more complicated. The connection between the canals and the capital in the Yuan Dynasty was a depressing problem for Emperor Shun. Because compared with other Yuan Dynasty emperors, he is diligent and loves the people. When the Huai River was plagued, he ordered reliefThe rule of law is not good, and the "Righteous Rules" are promulgated;The Yellow River burst its banks, and he followed the advice of the prime minister to repair it. But what else do you want from me?After allocating the money, you will honestly repair the Yellow River to live, where is there so much to do?As Xilaile said: "It's like a person who is hungry and wants to eat a nest, but he can't eat one." After eating eight in a row, I was still not full, and after eating the ninth, I was full. Can you say that he just ate the ninth full-fed?"Emperor Shun was unlucky, he was the ninth nest head, and the troubles caused by the previous emperors made the people's resentment boiling. The problems within the empire are difficult to return, and the efforts of Emperor Shun in the next few years are useless, especially the ** in the court, and the decrees cannot be implemented by most of the capital.