He has only one question in his life: How can he not starve to death?
Zhu Chongba, the eighth eldest son, was the son of a sharecropper.
He herded cattle at the age of seven, his parents starved to death at the age of sixteen, became a monk at the age of seventeen, begged at the age of twenty, and rebelled at the age of twenty-four.
What happened later was written in the history books - his name was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He killed many people and saved many others.
But what the history books don't write is:
——Why did the boy who knelt at the entrance of the village begging for a piece of land later become a murderous king?
——What does the woman who held the pancake in her chest and burned herself mean to him?
——Where did those brothers who followed him crawl out of the mud end up?
This is a history of "people", not of "emperors".
It doesn't talk about power, it doesn't talk about thick and thin, and it doesn't talk about palace struggle.
It only tells one thing - it took a person a lifetime to go from having nothing to owning the world; but he never healed the fear in his heart.
If you think Zhu Yuanzhang in history books is scary, then you should read this book - after reading it, you will find that he is also very pitiful.
