Zhu Yuanzhang was very poor when he was a child. He used to herd cattle for the landlord. In the fourth year of Zheng Zheng (1344), he entered Huang Jue Temple and traveled around, which increased his knowledge. At the age of 25, he joined the Red Scarf Army led by Guo Zixing and rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty. In the 16th year of Zheng Zhi (1356), Qing Ji Road was captured and renamed Yingtian. Later, Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and other separatist forces were eliminated, claiming to be the king of Wu.
In the twenty-seventh year of Zheng Zheng (1367), with the call of "expelling Land Rover and restoring China", Xu Da and Chang Yuchun sent troops to the Northern Expedition to overthrow the rule of the Yuan Dynasty. In the first month of the first year of Hongwu (1368), the emperor was located in Yingtianfu, with the name Daming and the year Hongwu.
In the autumn of the same year, most of them were captured, ending the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in the whole country. Later, the southwest, northwest and Liaodong were pacified, and finally the whole country was unified.
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During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, politically, he strengthened centralization, abolished the prime minister and the Ministry of Finance, set up three divisions to divide local power, and severely punished corrupt officials and lawless scholars; Military implementation of health care center system; Economically, we will make great efforts to resettle the land and the army, build water conservancy projects, reduce tax burdens, survey the land nationwide, and check household registration. Culturally, pay close attention to education, advocate imperial examination, establish imperial academy to train talents; In foreign relations, establish a "country that does not levy." Under his rule, social production gradually recovered and developed, which was called "the rule of Hongwu" in history.
In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang died at the age of seventy-one. Posthumous title was buried in the Ming Tombs in the name of "Creation of the Earth, Achievement of Great Sage, Benevolence and High Emperor".