On a rainy night, he cried out, "By Heaven's command, may my reign endure forever!"
From then on, he began to write the pages of history himself.
When he became a beggar, he declared, "How can sparrows understand the ambitions of a swan?"
When he saw rebels who didn't know what banner to rally under, he said, "The Azure Heaven is dead; the Yellow Heaven shall rise. In the year of Jiazi, all under Heaven shall prosper!" Then he styled himself the Heavenly Treasure General.
When he saw a crowd of people so poor they couldn't eat their fill or keep warm, he said, "Are kings and generals born to their stations?"
