Hongwu Behemoth

In 1344 AD, the "Little Ice Age" of the fourteenth century created boundless hell. Seventeen-year-old Zhu Chongba watched helplessly as his parents and eldest brother died of starvation and illness within seventeen days amid locusts and a high temperature of 42 degrees Celsius. When he used his bleeding nails to dig a shallow hole for his father in the cracked loess, the morals, beliefs and tenderness established by mankind for thousands of years were completely digested in his stomach acid. Zhu Yuanzhang's life is a history of extreme fear of "disorder" and "hunger". When all uncertain "variables" were physically erased, the seventy-one-year-old emperor sat alone in the huge palace and suddenly discovered that he was the desperate beast locked in the deepest part of the cage.