Introduction: Hong Jin Lie In 1351 AD, the Yellow River burst at the Baimao Embankment in Henan Province. The turbid waves flooded the farmland and displaced tens of millions of people. Tuo Tuo, the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty, ordered 150,000 civilians to be recruited, and Jia Lu, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was in charge of regulating the river. This was originally a move that benefited the country and the people, but it turned sour during the execution - officials at all levels exploited the government at all levels, the people were starved of food, and the supervisors were whipped like rain. What's even more deadly is that in the old course of the Yellow River, a one-eyed stone man was dug up, with the words "One eye of the stone man stirs up rebellion in the Yellow River" engraved on its back.
This stone man was buried by people sent by Han Shantong and Liu Futong, the leaders of the White Lotus Sect. The news quickly spread among the people, and people's hearts were filled with excitement. In May, Han Shantong gathered three thousand people at Bailu Village in Yingzhou, killed white horses and black cattle, and offered sacrifices to heaven and earth. He claimed to be the eighth grandson of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and launched the banner of "Three thousand tigers will reach the land of Youyan; dragons will fly in ninety-five, and the sky of the Song Dynasty will be reopened." However, news of the uprising was leaked, and Han Shantong was arrested and killed.
Liu Futong escaped from the siege and led his troops to conquer Yingzhou, igniting the raging fire of the peasant uprising in the late Yuan Dynasty. The rebels wore red scarves on their heads and were known as the "Red Scarf Army." Between the Jianghuai River and the Huaihe River, there are many candidates. In this torrent, the fate of a young man named Zhu Yuanzhang is quietly changing.
