Taming the Dragon: Zhu Yuanzhang from Cowherd Boy to Hongwu Emperor

In the fourth year of the Zhizheng period, there was a severe drought in Haozhou. Zhu Chongba squatted on the slope and watched Liu De snatch the last bit of food. Suddenly, two lines of numbers jumped out of thin air in front of his eyes—— [Liu De: Pain 89] [Zhu Chongba: Pain 95] For the first time he understood: It turns out that the people who robbed him of food were suffering even more than he was. He was seventeen years old that year, and he didn't know that these eyes would eventually shake up the world. Twenty years later, he was sitting in the Golden Palace, full of civil and military officials, suffering an average of 85%. Thirty years later, he held Lan Yu's hand and watched the string of numbers return from 99 to zero. Thirty-one years later, he looked at his numerical value, which jumped from 99 to 100. When you close your eyes, you have a smile on your face. Six hundred years later, historians are still arguing: Is Zhu Yuanzhang a tyrant or a benevolent king? Only he knows the answer: "The people I kill are all my children." —— This is a book that will completely subvert your knowledge of Zhu Yuanzhang. Open it and you will understand that history is never what you think it is.