Who was the poorest emperor in Chinese history?
Emperor is the supreme ruler of Chinese feudal society , and has the supreme power of life and death. In the thousands of years of history of China, founding emperors generally had extraordinary courage and talent, while most of the later emperors were hereditary, but there were also many emperors who started from scratch.
In Chinese feudal history, the people who moved from the lower class to the emperor mainly include Han Gaozu Liu Bang, Zhaolie Emperor Liu Bei, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang , etc. Among them, Zhu Yuanzhang was the poorest born in the world. He was a veritable beggar emperor. He grew from a cowherd to a founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Such entrepreneurial experience was amazing.
Modern people have a comment about Zhu Yuanzhang, a grassroots emperor, saying that "the beginning is a bowl, and the country depends entirely on fighting."
The Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, from 1328 to 1398, was originally named Zhu Chongba and Zhu Xingzong . The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty reigned for 30 years, with the reign of " Hongwu ".
1328, Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a poor peasant family in Zhongli, Haozhou. He was poor when he was young and was sent to the next village by his father to herd cattle for the landlord's house. When he was very young, both his parents died. In order to bury his parents, he sold himself to bury them.
1344, I entered Huangjue Temple to be a monk, traveling around and increasing my experiences.
1353, at the age of 25, he joined the Red Turban Army led by Guo Zixing , and resisted Yuan Dynasty .
1356, captured Jiqing Road and renamed Yingtian.
1364, Zhu Yuanzhang was called King of Wu and successively eliminated separatist forces such as Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng . In
1367, with the call of "expelling the barbarians and restoring China", he sent troops to fight the Northern Expedition to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty.
1368, that is, the emperor was located in Yingtian Prefecture , with the country's name Ming Dynasty and the year name Hongwu. He captured Dadu and ended the Yuan Dynasty's rule in the whole country. Later, southwest , northwest, Liaodong and other places were pacified, and finally unified the whole country.
During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he strengthened the centralized system of , abolished the Prime Minister and the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat, set up three departments to control local power, and severely punish corrupt officials and illegal nobles. Military, the garage system is implemented; economically, the immigration and military farms are carried out, the construction of water conservancy, tax reduction and exemption, the measurement of national land, and household registration are checked. In terms of culture, we should focus on education, promote the imperial examinations, and establish the Imperial College for training talents; in terms of foreign relations, we should establish the "HTM2 Country of Non-Salvation" . Under his rule, social production gradually recovered and developed, which is known in history as " Hongwu Governance ".
In the 31st year of Hongwu (1398), Zhu Yuanzhang died of illness at the age of 71. He was posthumously named "The Emperor of the Great Sage of Kaitian Xingdao Zhaoji" and was beheaded by the Emperor of the Great Sage of the Great Spirit, and was benevolent, righteous, and martial, and handsome”. The temple name was Taizu and was buried in the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. The grandson of the throne was passed on Zhu Yunwen .
