Zhu Yuanzhang not only wants to set up his own door, but to follow Liu Bang's example to dominate the world, Li Shanchang, Feng Guosheng and others helped him establish this goal very early, and there is also a set of policies around this goal to advocate benevolence and righteousness and win people's hearts, and Zhu Yuanzhang implemented these policies at the first time.

One day, Zhu Yuanzhang walked out of the yamen and saw a child standing outside the door looking in, so he stepped forward and asked, "What are you looking at here?"

The child said, "I'm waiting for my father." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Where is your father?"

Child: "Raising horses in an official house." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Where's your mother?"

Child: "Also under the official family, my father said that he didn't dare to recognize his mother, he could only call her sister, my mother can't go home, my father can go home, I don't dare to enter the door, I wait here every day for my father, and my father hasn't come back today." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was very sad to hear this, and at this time his staff Fan Chang said: "How can you achieve great things if you get a city and let the people's wives separate?"

So Zhu Yuanzhang decided to start by returning the women and straightening out military discipline. The next day, he gathered all the officers together and said: "Everyone who has come here from Chuzhou, and some people have taken away the wives and daughters of other people, separated the wives and wives of the people, and dare not speak out in anger. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the married men in the city to gather in front of the yamen, stand on both sides, let the women walk out of the yamen one by one, and announced: "If it is a couple, it will recognize each other, and if it is not a couple, it is not allowed to claim it casually." ”

Many women walked out of the yamen and returned to their husbands, and families were reunited. In this way, the image of the army and the relationship between the military and the people have been improved, but Zhu Yuanzhang only liberated married women, and acquiesced to the seizure of unmarried women, which is also a compromise with reality.

Zhu Yuanzhang profoundly realized that only by improving the relationship between the military and the people and winning the support and support of the masses can the army develop and grow, and the political power can maintain peace and stability for a long time, so every time he conquers a place, he affirms military discipline, does not kill people, does not rob money, and takes all kinds of measures to appease people's hearts.

At that time, the world was in turmoil, the Quartet was divided, and the war was in vain, Zhu Yuanzhang hoped that God could show him a clear way, and he ordered the strategist Fan Chang to write a prayer and pray to God: "When there is chaos today, the lives are devastated, if the Yuan Dynasty is not exhausted, I hope that God will eliminate the heroes as soon as possible, and I Zhu Yuanzhang is also among the heroes, please start from me, if God is disgusted with the Yuan Dynasty, I hope that those who have the mandate of heaven will replace them, so as not to suffer the common people." Dead or alive, please fulfill within three months. ”

However, God did not eliminate Zhu Yuanzhang, but his father-in-law tried to beat him back to his original form. Zhu Yuanzhang established his personal prestige in Hezhou, promoted and appointed his cronies, formed his own team, and intercepted the spoils of war, these news reached Guo Zixing's ears, Guo Zixing was very angry, he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang began to engage in self-reliance again, so he rushed to Hezhou Xingshi overnight to ask for the guilt.

Guo Zixing's enemy Sun Deya came to Hezhou one step earlier than him, Sun Deya's troops had not eaten a full meal for a long time, they came to Hezhou and begged to go to the city for dinner, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he and Guo Zixing did not deal with each other, but he made an argument to open the door and accept it.

Zhu Yuanzhang learned that Guo Zixing was coming, and hurriedly went to meet him, and after Guo Zixing saw Zhu Yuanzhang, he was angry and didn't say a word to him. Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he was wrong, knelt on the ground, silent, Guo Zixing suddenly asked: "Who is kneeling below?"

Zhu Yuanzhang replied: "Zhu Yuanzhang, the manager." ”

Guo Zixing shouted: "Are you guilty? Where can you escape?"

Zhu Yuanzhang played the card of family affection, and shifted the focus and said: "If the children are guilty, where can they escape? Sooner or later, the affairs at home will be easy to say, and the affairs outside must be handled immediately." ”

Guo Zixing hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?"

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and whispered in Guo Zixing's ear: "Sun Deya is here with me, there are many people, you have to be careful that he harms you, it is best to be on guard." ”

When Sun Deya heard that Guo Zixing was coming, he was uneasy in his heart, and before waiting for dawn, he sent someone to send a message to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your family's Yueweng suddenly came here, I am inconvenient to live, and I want to immediately go to other places." ”

Seeing that the plan was about to fail, Zhu Yuanzhang was very anxious, on the one hand, he hurriedly sent someone to report to Guo Zixing, and on the other hand, he gave Sun Deya a bad idea, he said: "Even if the marshal insists on leaving, I am not good at forcing him to stay, but the two armies are in the same city, and the first army suddenly has a big action, I am afraid that it will cause a shock. Sun Deya felt that it made sense and agreed.

Zhu Yuanzhang's suggestion was very vicious, he asked the former army to go first, leaving Sun Deya behind, the purpose was to disperse Sun Deya's military strength, so that Guo Zixing could attack Sun Deya who was stranded behind. In order to paralyze Sun Deya, Zhu Yuanzhang volunteered to escort the former army first.

Zhu Yuanzhang escorted the front army for more than 20 miles, when the news came that the rear army had been attacked, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the goal was achieved, and ran back on the horse, and Sun Deya's cronies took a lot of effort to catch up with him. After the arrest of Zhu Yuanzhang, Sun Deya's subordinates sent people to Hezhou to inquire about the news, and as soon as the spies entered the door, they saw Sun Deya being chained around his neck and drinking opposite Guo Zixing, and Guo Zixing was preparing to send Sun Deya on the road.

Just when Guo Zixing was happy to enmity and revenge, he was shocked when he heard the news that Zhu Yuanzhang was captured, and was willing to exchange Sun Deya for Zhu Yuanzhang, but neither of the two families refused to release him first, and they argued for a long time, and finally adopted a compromise approach, Guo Zixing first sent the general Xu Da to Sun Ying as a hostage in exchange for Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang released Sun Deya after returning to the camp, and Sun Deya returned to the camp and then released Xu Da.

This time, Guo Zixing could have taken revenge, but the cooked duck flew, and what made him even more angry was that Zhu Yuanzhang, who he had been focusing on cultivating and relying on very much, always wanted to leave him, and got together with his enemy, betrayal and collaborator hurt Guo Zixing like two sharp knives, he was very annoyed and sad, and he couldn't afford to be sick from then on, and died soon after.

Zhu Yuanzhang was pleased with Guo Zixing's death, and God finally helped him remove this stumbling block, so he could rest assured and boldly start anew. After Guo Zixing's death, his son Guo Tianxu and his brother-in-law Zhang Tianyou became the main leaders of the rebel army, and they still nominally belonged to Liu Futong's Red Turban Army.

In order to establish his leadership position with the help of the Longfeng regime, Guo Tianxu sent Zhang Tianyou to Bozhou to be crowned, and the Longfeng regime named Guo Tianxu as marshal, Zhang Tianyou as the right deputy marshal, and Zhu Yuanzhang as the left deputy marshal.

Zhu Yuanzhang is very dissatisfied with this appointment, but he has no intention of competing with Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou for leadership, he can set himself up as a king and do what he wants, but Guo Tianxu is unwilling to let go, in his opinion, Zhu Yuanzhang's strong team is part of his father's inheritance and should belong to him, so he grabbed Zhu Yuanzhang and did not let go, no matter where Zhu Yuanzhang went, they followed him, lingering like a rubber plaster, Zhu Yuanzhang's countermeasure was to use it and wait for the opportunity to get rid of it.

For the next move, Zhu Yuanzhang has long planned to cross the river to the south, which can solve the difficulty of food shortage in Hezhou from the immediate point of view, and occupy Nanjing and win the world in the long run, but also to get rid of Guo Tianxu's entanglement.

Zhu Yuanzhang already had enough troops under him, not long ago Deng Yu, a native of Hongxian County, and a native of Huaiyuan often came to defect in Chun, which increased his strength, but he did not have the boats and well-trained sailors needed to cross the river. Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about crossing the river, and suddenly reported that the Chaohu Water Division came to ask for a meeting, the Chaohu Water Division belonged to the side branch of the Tianwan Red Army, and was once under the leadership of Peng Yingyu against the Yuan, after Peng Yingyu was defeated and killed, the uprising was at a low ebb, and this army fled to the Chaohu area under the leadership of Li Guosheng and others.

Later, the uprising set off a high point again, and this team was resurrected again, but they were hit by the pro-Yuan rebel army Zuo Junbi, and they were trapped in Chaohu Lake, lacking food and clothing, and their lives were very difficult. In order to get out of the predicament, Li Guosheng and others sent Yu Tonghai to Zhu Yuanzhang for help, in their opinion, the Red Army in the world is one, and Zhu Yuanzhang should be able to help them fight Zuo Junbi.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the news, he sighed: "God help me!" personally led his troops to Chaohu Lake to receive this water division, so that Zhu Yuanzhang had a boat and crossed the river on the agenda. Zhu Yuanzhang led the sailors straight to the quarry, taking advantage of the northwest wind, the fleet soon arrived on the other side, Chang Yuchun was the first to jump ashore, after a fierce battle, captured the Niuzhuji beachhead, and took advantage of the victory to capture the quarry.

After capturing the quarry, the rebels obtained a large amount of food and property, and the soldiers planned to go back with the rich booty to reunite with their relatives, but Zhu Yuanzhang planned to continue to develop in the south of the Yangtze River, in order to cut off the soldiers' heart to return north, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to cut off all the ship cables, let the boats drift away along the river, the soldiers were very surprised, Zhu Yuanzhang explained: "There is a Taiping Prefecture in front, money and women are everywhere, if you break through this city, take the spoils as you like, and then you go back to Hezhou." ”

In order to drive the soldiers to serve, Zhu Yuanzhang had to lure them with money and beautiful women, which also shows that there was a common bandit habit in the army at that time.

Wangmei quenched thirst and received results, the righteous army soon captured Taiping, captured the guard Naha out alive, and Jin Yi, the governor of Taiping Road, committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, just when the soldiers were ready to do it themselves, Zhu Yuanzhang broke his promise and posted a notice written by Li Shanchang in advance, prohibiting the soldiers from robbing and killing individual soldiers to set an example. After entering the city, Zhu Yuanzhang recruited talents and calmed people's hearts, which was his established policy.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very lenient to the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a generous treatment to the captured Naha, and released him. "Bury him.

This was Zhu Yuanzhang's usual policy, and he still adopted a lenient attitude towards the Yuan clan until he conquered Beiping. Zhu Yuanzhang's approach is not just a political need, but from the heart, which is completely different from all the anti-Yuan armed forces at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.