The Anthology of Hongwu

Troubled times are coming, and the red land in Huaixi is thousands of miles away. Zhu Chongba, a cowherd boy, experienced a great disaster in the fourth year of Zhizheng. His parents and brothers all died of famine and plague. His family was ruined and he had no place to bury his relatives. In order to survive, he entered the Huangjue Temple and became a monk. He also became a wandering monk, begging along the streets, struggling on the edge of death in a countryside strewn with bones. A letter from Tang He pushed him into the chaos of Haozhou Red Turban. Starting from a low-level soldier, he survived the infighting of the rebel army, gathered heroes, recruited talents, adhered to the strategy of building walls high, hoarding grain widely, and becoming king slowly, and accumulated strength while being surrounded by heroes. The fire in Poyang Lake was raging, and he fought with Chen Youliang to the death; his troops came to Pingjiang River and defeated Zhang Shicheng; then Wang's army made a northern expedition to expel the barbarians and regain his homeland in the Central Plains. This book does not make any magic changes, does not make jokes, and rejects time travel and golden fingers. It uses "Records of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty" and "History of the Ming Dynasty" as its skeleton to restore the cruelty of the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Watch an orphan boy from Haozhou go through thorny steps and finally reach the top of Yingtian and found the Ming Dynasty.