Zhu Yuanzhang, a peasant, is ugly and mediocre in talent, but one thing is that he can use people.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was young, he used to herd cattle for the landlord. In the fourth year of Zheng Zheng (1344), there was a drought in the Huaihe River, and Zhu Yuanzhang's father, mother and brother died one after another. He worked in Huang Jue Temple when he was a child. Less than two months after entering the temple, due to the difficulty in renting the temple in the famine year, the temple owner sealed the warehouse and dismissed the monks, so Zhu Yuanzhang had to leave his hometown and become a monk. When he was young, he was very poor and once became a monk in Huang Jue Temple. At the age of 25, he joined the Red Scarf Army led by Guo Zixing to resist the tyranny of Mongolian Yuan. After Guo's death, he commanded Guo Department and served as deputy marshal left. And then promoted with the meritorious military service. In the 16th year of Zheng Zheng (1356), the generals appointed Zhu Yuanzhang as the Duke of Wu. In the 24th year of Zheng Zheng (1364), Wu became king. In the first year of Hongwu (1368), after basically defeating the peasant uprising army and sweeping away the remnants of Yuan, he proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing, with the title Daming and the title Hongwu. In the thirty-first year of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign (1368- 1398), China's unified feudal regime, the Ming Dynasty, was established. During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, in order to alleviate the sharp and complicated class contradictions, ethnic contradictions and contradictions among various groups within the ruling class, he implemented a series of policies conducive to social progress, such as resisting foreign invasion, innovating politics, developing production and stabilizing people's livelihood, and vigorously strengthened the centralized rule of absolute monarchy in politics, economy, military and ideology. In line with this, in terms of legal thought, I think that "I will kill China" in view of all kinds of disadvantages caused by lax law and discipline at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.