Introduction to the novel "Zhu Yuanzhang's Counterattack on Life"
He climbed out of the mud and became king in troubled times
In the fourth year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River burst and locusts plagued thousands of miles. In Zhongli, Haozhou, the ground is red and scorched.
Sixteen-year-old Zhu Chongba watched as the corpses of his parents and brother were wrapped in straw mats and buried in the loess. There was not even a decent cemetery. Plague, famine, exorbitant taxes - this cannibalistic world left only a broken bowl and a devastated home for this cowherd boy.
In order to survive, he was ordained and entered the Huangjue Temple, but he could not even become a monk. There was no food in the temple, so he could only wander around begging for alms. During the three years of begging, he slept in ruined temples, ate Guanyin soil, and saw the hell on earth where people changed their lives to eat. The cold wind of the troubled times blew across the young man's rugged back, but pressed a seed of unwillingness firmly into his hot chest.
"Why in this world can it only belong to Master Mongolia?"
In the twelfth year of Zhizheng year, a message ignited Huaixi. Twenty-five-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang threw away his broken bowl and defected to the Red Scarf Army. From the ninth captain to the commander-in-chief, he stepped over the mountains of corpses of his colleagues and waded through the rivers of blood of the enemy. He endured hibernation under Guo Zixing's tent and married Ma Xiuying; he acquired tiger generals such as Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, and recruited advisers such as Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen. He adopted the nine-character mantra of "build walls high, accumulate grain widely, and become king slowly" and quietly grew stronger among the heroes.
But the road to counterattack has always been paved with bones.
Poyang Lake, 600,000 versus 200,000. Chen Youliang's huge stern ship covered the sky and blocked out the sun, and the arrows flowed like rain. Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the bow of the ship, his face as solid as stone illuminated by the firelight. "Today, I will either die in the belly of a fish, or - poke a hole in the sky!"
A fire destroyed the Han army flag
