Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang

One bowl from the start, a kingdom in the end! The most audacious Zhu Yuanzhang in history, defying fate and rewriting his destiny!

From a beggar so hungry he had to eat dirt to the emperor who sits upon the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang tells you: get it all done in one go. Just do it!

This novel takes you through Zhu Yuanzhang's exhilarating life: his parents starve to death, and he begs for food as a monk? A hellish start! But he refuses to believe in fate. With a bowl and a begging bowl, he travels far and wide, seeing every shade of human fortune and misfortune, while forging a heart of iron and a ruthless eye.

The chaos of war, the struggle for supremacy, and thrills that explode! His rivals? All just experience points! He crushes the million-strong navy of Chen Youliang, the “Jiangnan Crocodile,” with a single blow, then sets Lake Poyang ablaze in a fire attack that opens the road to victory! He tramples Zhang Shicheng, the “rich lord,” into the ground, showing you what it means when even real “cash power” fails! The northern campaign against the Yuan? He tears straight through them! “Drive out the barbarians and restore China”: he gives voice to the era and lays the foundation for three centuries of Han rule!

But that is only the beginning! After ascending the throne, Emperor Hongwu proves to be the toughest of them all. Corrupt officials? He has them skinned and stuffed, without mercy! Abolish the chancellorship? He takes sole control of imperial power: what he says goes! He forges an empire where everyone is pushed to their limits, leaving every meritorious official and noble trembling in fear.

Yet beneath a solitary lamp in the dead of night, he still remembers the woman who warmed his bread against her chest, and the old brothers who helped him conquer the realm but met tragic ends... He won the world, but lost all tenderness?

This book brings you the most blood-pumping rise from nothing, the most legendary romance, the cruelest power struggles, and the most complex human nature. It is more than history: it is an epic about a living person struggling, striving, destroying, and creating amid a world in chaos.