Hongwu Consolidation: Journey to the West

"Hongwu Kanhe: Journey to the West" - an arrow engraved with the word "Gui" shoots through the bloody fog of the Western Expedition in the early Ming Dynasty. In the third year of Hongwu's reign, he returned to the army for rewarded silver, but witnessed the atrocities of the Yuan army and the corruption of military rations in the northwest wind and snow: the uncooked moldy rice porridge contained "gibberellus filaments", the trachoma in the copper seal exposed the loopholes in the "prospecting system", and the "earth atmosphere image" of the soul stone pile was originally the crystallization of radon gas in uranium mines... He grew from a soldier who "sold his life for money" to a guardian who saw clearly that "the system is the sword and the human heart is the sheath". The book uses a "micro-history" approach to dismantle the gears of the military merit assessment system, the remaining members of the military household, and the squadron system: the eleven brothers fought for the "red stamp of exemption from military service" and lost their legs, used herbal medicine to break official corruption, and understood the pain of war tearing apart families from the identity of a Mongolian soldier as a "signing army". Marmots in the northwest warned of plague, Artemia in Qinghai reflected a shadow, and folk wisdom was hidden in the miasma-repelling sachets in southern Jiangxi - the scenery is no longer the background and has become a "silent witness" of history. From the demons in Shen'eryu to appeasement in Hezhou, from suppressing bandits in Ganzhou to cultivating "Gui Xue" in military camps, the arrow of return has transformed from a weapon of revenge into a weapon of protection. When the jade pendant was broken into two halves, half buried in the land guarding the army, and the other half hung around his daughter's neck, he finally understood: the so-called "return" is just to let more people watch the snow in peace. This is a war epic of "history of artifacts", and a guardian elegy of "little people leveraging the big era" - the arrow points to the mountains and rivers; the arrow tail is tied to the people's hearts.