In the fifteenth year of Hongwu's reign, Guangxi was plagued by malaria.
Li Changan opened his eyes and became a laborer building the palace. Blood bubbles are layered on calluses, moldy rice is mixed with sand, and the overseer's whip is dipped in salt water, making blood grooves with each whip. On a rainy night, the supervisor drove hundreds of people into waist-deep torrents in order to save time for the construction work - this was not building the city, but sending them to their deaths.
He just wanted to live.
But when the workers were taking down the last half bag of musty rice, when the supervisor was beating the seriously ill man to death, when the whip was coming towards him - Li Changan tightened his grip on the pickaxe in his hand.
"We are all raised by our father and our mother. Why is your life important and our life is grass?"
That night, it rained heavily. He took eight hundred dying civilians with him, used sharpened wooden stakes and pickaxes to dig into the earth, seized knives, killed the officials, and burned the deeds of betrayal.
"From today on, you are no longer slaves. We are - the revolutionary army!"
When the news reached Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious. Han Guan, the commander of the Guangxi capital, led an army of 30,000 to encircle and suppress the army. Li Changan deployed dismounted formations, dug trenches, and fired muskets, and was defeated in the first battle. Han Guan only escaped with his own life. Lan Yu came and was defeated. Zhu Di came and was defeated.
With Guangdong and Guangxi established, he abolished the monarchy, established a federation, equalized land and exempted taxes, creating a situation that had not been seen in thousands of years.
Cross the Yangtze River in the north and sail to the Western Ocean in the south. The Dutch fleet was defeated in the Penghu Sea battle, Kyushu landed and surrendered to the Japanese vassals, and a decisive battle was fought with the European coalition forces in the Indian Ocean - the muzzle of the ironclad ship was aimed at the setting sun of the old world.
"I don't want to be an emperor. I want there to be no emperor in this land."
His name is Li Changan. The world owed him a way to survive. He will give this world justice.
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The writing is very objective and vividly demonstrates the hard work of the people at the bottom. Come on
The writing is very objective and vividly demonstrates the hard work of the people at the bottom. Come on