In the spring of the third year of Hongwu's reign, a crying baby was born in the small village of Fengyang Prefecture. No one would have thought that this peasant boy, whose swaddling clothes were made of old cloth, would step on the thunder of Daming Ke's weightlifting success and walk on the shocking Qingyun Road between the Jiuchong Palace and the countryside. From eavesdropping outside the window of the village school when he was a child, to chatting with Confucian scholars in the Fengtian Palace; from measuring floods in the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers with bare feet, to taking charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs to reform the tax system. He witnessed the fall of the founding nobles and experienced the smoke of the Jingnan War. On the scale of imperial power and people's livelihood, he weighed the peace policy for all eternity with the pure heart of a humble family.
