Chapter One: Childhood

  We start from an archive

  Name: Zhu Yuanzhang

  Alias (nickname): Zhu Chongba, Zhu Guorui

  Sex: Male

  Nationality: Han

  Blood Type: ?

  Education: No degree, none of the traditional Chinese scholarly titles such as Xiucai, Juren or Jinshi; later self-studied.

  Occupation: Emperor Family

  Origin: (at least three generations) poor peasant

  Favorite color: Yellow (this seems like there's no choice)

  Social relationship: Father: Zhu Wusi Peasant

  Mother: Chen Shi (peasant)

  Your motto: What's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine.

  Main experiences:

  1328-1344: Herding cattle

  1344-1347: Being a monk, mainly going out to beg for food

  1347-1352: Became a monk, main job was striking the bell

  1352-1368: Rebelled (this fierce one)

  1368-1398 Mainly worked as an emperor

  Everything started from that night in 1328, when Zhu Wusi's wife, Chen Shi, gave birth to a baby boy. Everyone knew that this baby boy was later known as Zhu Yuanzhang. Whenever an emperor is born, there are always some strange phenomena recorded in the history books afterwards.

  For example, gusts of wind, heavy rain, fragrant aromas, twinkling stars in the sky, and red lights everywhere. In short, it's all about telling you that this person is different from others. Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang was no exception. When he was born, the ground was filled with red light, and at night, strange lights appeared in the house, causing neighbors to think there was a fire and come to rescue (Ming Shilu).

  However, at that time, peasant Zhu Wusi's mood was not like the anxious and joyful fathers we see outside the hospital delivery room today. As a father of three sons and two daughters, the first thing to consider was the problem of food.

  Farmer Zhu Wusi's work consists of two parts, he has a tofu shop, but mainly still relies on farming the land of the landlord's family to make a living, which determines that as a member of this laborer's family, in order to survive, one can only keep working non-stop.

  One month after Zhu Biao's birth, his parents gave him a name (as was the custom at that time): Zhu Chongba, also known as Zhu Bao. Here we introduce the characteristics of the names in the Zhu Chongba family.

  Zhu Bao Yu's great-grandfather's name: Zhu Bai Liu

  Zhu Chongba's great-grandfather's name: Zhu Si Jiu

  Zhu Bao's grandfather's name: Zhu Chuyi

  His father was introduced by us before, named Zhu Wu Si

  The reason for taking such a name is not because the Zhu family was engaged in mathematics, but because during the Yuan Dynasty, ordinary people who could not attend school or become officials did not have names and could only be named by adding their parents' ages or birth dates. (Those who registered households would definitely be dazzled)

  Zhu Chongba spent his childhood in a thatched cottage with good ventilation and lighting, where he mainly worked as a cowherd for landlord Liu De. He had always wanted to read books, but Zhu Wusi couldn't afford the tuition fees. Unlike Li Mi who hung books on an ox horn, or Yang Su who was recognized by a high-ranking official, Zhu Chongba honestly herded cows for Liu De for twelve years.

  Because he wants to eat

  At this time, Zhu Zhongba's dream was to live a good life. By the age of 16, Wu Lao Tai from Tuo Village would act as matchmaker and find a diligent and hardworking girl to be his daughter-in-law. Then he would have children of his own, possibly named Zhu San'er or Zhu Si Ling. When Zhu San'er and others grew up, they would go to Liu Xiaode's house to herd cattle.

  This was Zhu Zhanji's happy longing for his future life at the age of sixteen.

  At this time, China was under the extremely corrupt rule of the Yuan dynasty. The Mongol conquerors seemed to not consider the common people under their rule as human beings. They even frequently considered killing all these local inhabitants and using the land for grazing (Yuan History). From taxes to labor services, any conceivable subject that humans could think of were used to collect money. During festivals, they would collect "festival money", when working, there was "regular example money", when filing a lawsuit, there was "public affairs money". Are you afraid? If I don't go out, is it not okay? If I don't do anything, is it not okay? That's also not okay, even without any reason, they would still want money and collect "flower scattering money".

  Thus, after more than sixty years of Mongol rule in China, their national machine had reached an unbearable point, and the Yuan Empire was like a camel that could not bear its burden, waiting for the last straw.

  The straw arrived very quickly

  1344 is a year of special significance, in this year, heaven finally prepared to abandon the Yuan, bringing two disasters to China, and also digging a grave for the Yuan, writing an epitaph: A stone man with one eye, stirring up the Yellow River, the world rebels.

  He thought of everything and even prepared a successor for Yuan: Zhu Di.

  Of course, Zhu Di would never have thought that heaven would entrust him with such an important task.

  He was seventeen years old this year.

  A disaster is about to befall him soon, but at the same time, a great career is waiting for him. Only by going through hardships like the legendary phoenix, throwing himself into the fire, and being tempered thousands of times can he be reborn from the ashes and become a brilliant divine bird.

  Zhu Chongba, come on, the God of Fate is waiting for you!