Chen Youliang Statue).
In 1320 AD, a fisherman's family in Xiantao, Hubei Province, was born a child named Chen Youliang.
The Chen family has five sons, and Chen Youliang has three sons in the family.
Chen Youliang's father, Chen Pu, is an honest fisherman, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, the Chen family's life is not good, but at least they can barely eat.
Unlike Zhu Chongba, who was born eight years later in Guzhuang Village, Taiping Township, Anhui Province, and spent the first half of his life as a monk except for herding cattle, and being a beggar as a monk, Chen Youliang showed his difference when he was a teenager.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was herding cattle, he must not have the sentiment of Li Mi to hang books on the horns, so naturally there was no official like Yang Su to appreciate him, but Chen Youliang is different, this benevolent brother has studied poetry since he was a child, although he is not good at learning, but he is also a half-literate person.
"History of the Ming Dynasty": Read less and understand the meaning of the text.In addition to learning the teachings of the sages, Chen Youliang also likes to practice so many sets of fists and feet in his spare time, so if you look at it this way, it can barely be called both civil and military.
However, after all, the Chen family is essentially a peasant class, so under the increasingly serious dark rule of the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Youliang has also been starved, bullied, beaten, and wandered in confusion and humility at the bottom of society.
Corrupt rule at the end of the Yuan Dynasty).
Among the heroes in the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang of Huaixi was born as a tenant, worked as a monk, and worked as a beggar.
Fang Guozhen in eastern Zhejiang is a smuggler of salt, Zhang Shicheng in Jiangnan is a descendant of "Tingmin", who has made a living by ferrying people by boat for generations, and Xu Shouhui of Lianghu has made a living by walking the streets and alleys and selling cloth.
Not to mention the earlier Red Turban Army uprising, Han Shantong was a river worker who built the canal, and only Liu Futong was a merchant and could barely make a living.
In the future, they all used to show off their might on the stage of history and worship the king, but in fact, they were all just hard-working people with the same experience at first.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was a monk in Huangjue Temple, his childhood friend Tang He had already joined the rebel army and became a thousand households in the army.
As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang read the letter, remained silent, and after burning it, everything was as usual, and nothing happened.
It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang does not really want to revolt, if possible, he is willing to drum the morning bell at dusk and be a monk in Huangjue Temple for a lifetime.
Zhu Yuanzhang may not believe in Buddhism, but at least under the influence of this kind of green lantern ancient Buddha, he will start to reflect on the meaning of life from time to time, and this reflection can provide some kind of explanation for the suffering of life, so that he understands that the reason why he has endured so much suffering is not because he has done something wrong, but because he has a profound and mysterious reason that transcends the current time and space.
Therefore, we have to admit that the future winner of the competition at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the future founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, did not want to rebel at all.
If it weren't for the fact that someone wanted to go to the government to report that Zhu Yuanzhang was implicated in the bandits, forcing him to just go to Liangshan with his scalp, then it was very likely that Chen Youliang would stand out later.
Because in contrast, Chen Youliang seems to have been born to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty.
In the fifteenth year of Zhizheng, when the rebel army captured his hometown, he did not hesitate and immediately defected to Ni Wenjun, the leader of the rebel army.
If Guo Zixing of Haozhou City has the grace of knowing Zhu Yuanzhang, then Ni Wenjun, the leader of the rebel army at this time, has a reinvention of Chen Youliang.
It's just that this "reinvention work" is really a bit cruel, because two years later, that is, in the seventeenth year of Zhizheng, Chen Youliang, who had already developed in the rebel army, decisively killed Ni Wenjun and annexed his troops.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was being squeezed out and suppressed by Guo Zixing, locked in a dark cellar, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was almost starving to death, had the only meal a day was the freshly baked pancakes that his wife Ma hid in his chest.
In order to secretly deliver food to Zhu Yuanzhang, Ma burned his chest several times, it is really called a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for.
It's a pity that Chen Youliang doesn't have Zhu Yuanzhang's bearing, and Ni Wenjun doesn't have Guo Zixing's cunning.
The leader of Ni Wenjun is another leader of the Red Turban Army, Xu Shouhui.
Xu Shouhui at the height of his heyday, with millions of soldiers, occupied almost half of the Yuan Dynasty.
And Chen Youliang, who killed Ni Wenjun, soon joined Xu Shouhui's command and became the right-hand man of Xu Shouhui Group.
However, in the twentieth year of Zhizheng, the same thing happened again, Chen Youliang sent people to attack and kill Xu Shouhui, annexed Xu Shouhui's forces, and by the way, he called the emperor and became the founding emperor of the Chen Han regime.
It can be seen that Chen Youliang's family history is a bloody history of killing.
Probably because Chen Youliang, who has such a cruel and tyrannical temperament, is difficult to have sages around him, so no one told him that in the current situation, only "building a high wall, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king" is the key to victory.
The place where Chen Youliang ascended the throne was in the quarrying Wutong Temple (Ma'anshan).
The fanaticism of claiming that the emperor founded the country made Chen Youliang too late to prepare, he didn't have time to build a palace, he didn't have time to buy a cost, but he happily ascended the throne in front of the temple that had fallen into disrepair and was already somewhat mottled and broken.
"History of the Ming Dynasty": There will be strong wind and rain, and the ministers will congratulate the sand bank, and they will not be able to make a ceremony.Interestingly, on the day Chen Youliang ascended the throne, the heavens were not beautiful, the wind suddenly rose, the torrential rain poured, and the subordinates did not care about the persuasion of the above, so they had to kneel on the beach in a disorderly manner, and did things in a hasty manner.
Looking from a distance in the mist and rain, the king is not like a king, and the minister is not like a minister, but it looks like an absurd farce.
On that day, Emperor Chen Youliang was drenched in a soup chicken.
To be honest, Chen Youliang is called the emperor, not because he is blindly called the emperor, but because he does have the bargaining chips in his hand to be the emperor.
He occupies Jiangxi, two lakes, two vast lands, millions of soldiers, thousands of generals, looking at it, what Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shicheng really can't even count as a dish.
But before he could make a move, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't sit still.
There is Zhang Shicheng in front and Chen Youliang in the back, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who is caught in the middle, is uncomfortable for a day or two.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang understands that Zhang Shicheng is not to be afraid, because he has been in Jiangnan for too long, and he has been eroded by Jiangnan's wine and wealth.
His real opponent is Chen Youliang.
After all, even Liu Ji, who was a folk image who could fight Zhuge Liang, told him so.
Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to fight Chen Youliang, but the problem he had to face was that if he confronted him head-on, the little force in his hand would not be enough for others to stuff their teeth.
If you can't hit it hard, you can only play yin.
So, Zhu Yuanzhang found a person, this person's name is Kang Maocai.
Kang Maocai was originally a general of the Yuan Dynasty, and later defected to Zhu Yuanzhang, he himself was mediocre and had nothing to remarkable.
But if it is to be done, it must be relied on now.
Because Kang Maocai and Chen Youliang have always had old friends, they have a good relationship, and they can be called iron buddies.
So, our iron buddy Kang Mao wrote a fraudulent letter to lure Chen Youliang to take the initiative, Chen Youliang believed it was true, and led his troops to forge ahead, but he was ambushed by Zhu Yuanzhang, was beaten to pieces, and returned home.
Kang Maocai image).
The place where Chen Youliang was defeated and fled was in Longwan, which is the outskirts of today's Nanjing.
The mountains are undulating in the distance, the water is murmuring in the distance, the white clouds above the head are long, and the feet are bloodstained.
Chen Youliang never imagined that he had played eagle all his life, but today he was pecked by a sparrow.
Actually, it's easy to understand.
The Bible says that whoever wields the sword dies by the sword.
If you Chen Youliang made a fortune by betraying others and succeeded by deceiving others, then you can't guarantee that others will not betray and deceive you.
The fiasco in Longwan caused a chain reaction of Chen Youliang's group, Chen's power was not as good as day by day, Chen Youliang did not stop doing anything, simply built warships with the strength of the country, gathered heavy troops, and launched a decisive battle with Zhu Yuanzhang at Poyang Lake.
As the largest freshwater lake in China, Poyang Lake is very famous.
The author once went to visit once a few years ago, and when he looked at it from afar, the entire Poyang Lake looked like a swan with its head held high.
The terrain of the lake is flat, the shore of the lake is stretched and curved, the water and the sky are connected on the surface of the lake, and there is no end, and being in such a scenery makes the author can't help but think of the famous sentence of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Bo:
Luoxia and lonely birds fly together, and the autumn water is the same color as the sky.
It's hard to imagine that one afternoon hundreds of years ago, one of the biggest water battles of the Middle Ages took place here.
Huge ships, dense arrows, earth-shattering shouts of killing, red-stained lakes.
However, when we think of water battles, we always think of the Battle of Chibi.
Unfortunately, Chen Youliang obviously hadn't read "Three Kingdoms", let alone knew about the Battle of Chibi, so he connected all the warships with iron cables during the battle, and then Zhu Yuanzhang burned them with fire.
When the flames were burning in the sky, Chen Youliang, who was trying to survive in vain, led his troops to fight and desperately broke through, but was shot in the head by Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinate Guo Ying with an arrow and died on the spot.
"History of the Ming Dynasty": Sudden stray arrows, Guan Qing and cranial death.died so suddenly that Chen Youliang didn't have time to recall his life before he died.
However, this kind of life full of blood and violence, killing and betrayal, there is nothing to remember.
The difficult years of fishing for a living, the uprising of rebellion, the bloody killing of the emperor's road, the melancholy and frustration of Longwan, and the monstrous waves of Poyang Lake.
It's over, it's all over.
He has also rebelled against the rule of darkness and decay like a hero, and he has also shown his domineering and prestige.
It's just that he still failed in the end, and the victory belongs to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang image).
In the author's opinion, Chen Youliang is, in the traditional sense, undoubtedly a bad person.
Treacherous, ruthless, cruel, and bad.
Because, Chen Youliang knows that only people like him can survive in troubled times.
But what he doesn't know is that being a person who advocates violence and does not pay attention to morality can indeed survive in troubled times, but he can't break the situation in troubled times and achieve the final victory in troubled times.
Because, the most convincing and powerful ** in the world is definitely not violence and conquest, but peace and benevolence.
Zhu Yuanzhang understands this truth, so this bitter child in Guzhuang Village can go to the end step by step.