In the twenty-eighth year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtian, the country was named Daming, and the founding of the Yuan Dynasty was Hongwu.
In August of the first year of Hongwu, the Ming army captured the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty fled north, and the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed.
In the second year of Hongwu's reign, the Ming army's main force was the Northern Expedition, the Western Expedition, and the Southern Expedition, sweeping the world...
In the third year of Hongwu, I, Li Yi, rebelled, overthrew the Ming Dynasty, and crushed Emperor Hongwu...