Han Shantong and Liu Futong led the Red Turban Army uprising, and Guo Zixing responded, gathered a crowd to revolt, and captured Haozhou. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a civilian, was invited by Tang He to defect to Guo Zixing, made many military exploits, was highly respected and trusted by Guo Zixing, and married Guo Zixing's adopted daughter Ma as his wife.

Zhu Yuanzhang was in Guo Zixing's army, and he joined the Red Turban Army the year after the uprising broke out. Zhu Yuanzhang's maternal grandfather's surname is Chen, and in his early years, he served in the army under Zhang Shijie, a famous anti-Yuan general in the late Southern Song Dynasty, and participated in the final desperate battle between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, and the Battle of Yashan in Xinhui County, Guangdong.

In this war, Lu Xiufu of the Southern Song Dynasty ordered his wife and children to jump into the sea, and then threw himself into the sea with the six-year-old little emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty on his back, thus announcing the official end of the Southern Song Empire. Zhu Yuanzhang's maternal grandfather, Mr. Chen, was knocked into the sea in a fierce battle, and was rescued by a legendary person in a mess of chaos, and fled back to his hometown after a lot of hardships, and since then he has lived in the countryside, relying on witchcraft, divination, and feng shui to make a living, and died at the age of ninety-nine.

Zhu Yuanzhang's mother is the second girl of the Chen family, who has been cheerful and generous since she was a child, and is deeply loved by her father. So the old gentleman who has experienced the vicissitudes of life taught her to read and write, told her about the history and customs of various places, when she grew up, Chen Erniang can sing and dance, and is often very popular in the countryside Spring Festival games and social dramas, although she gave birth to Zhu Yuanzhang, although it was a thousand hardships, his mother still sent him to a private school, and read books for nearly two years.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so poor in his childhood that he had to become a monk and fasted everywhere to survive, as if he were a poor Han man who was oppressed, and the real situation may be much more complicated. Zhu Yuanzhang's brother-in-law Li Zhen's family was very rich, and it was difficult to preserve the family property in the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang's participation in the rebel army is related to his experience as a monk, Maitreya, White Lotus, Mingjiao, etc. are inextricably linked with Buddhism, Zhu Yuanzhang will inevitably come into contact with them after joining the Buddhist family, on the other hand, he traveled in southern Henan and Anhui for three years, these places are the areas where the White Lotus Sect is thriving, and the disciples are everywhere, Zhu Yuanzhang is inevitably influenced by the White Lotus Sect, and if there is no help from the followers of the White Lotus Sect, it is difficult for him to eat everywhere in three years.

Among the founding emperors in Chinese history, only Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bang were born in commoners, and Liu Bang had the position of pavilion chief slightly better than Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang was completely poor and self-made. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's starting point was very high, and he quickly sought a high position after joining Guo Zixing's rebel army, becoming Guo Zixing's right-hand man, and later entered the inner circle through nepotism.

Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance is majestic, his appearance is majestic, his bones are at the top, and his temperament is profound, his ambition is unpredictable, and strangers only need to take a look at it to know that this person is by no means an idle person. Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang came to Haozhou to defect to Guo Zixing, Guo Zixing was surprised by his appearance and stayed as a personal soldier. Because Zhu Yuanzhang always wins battles, Guo Zixing married his daughter to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Guo Zixing married his adopted daughter Ma Dajia to Zhu Yuanzhang in order to rely on him to expand his strength. Later, after Zhu Yuanzhang became powerful, he married Guo Zixing's biological daughter and gave birth to three sons, namely the later King of Shu, the King of Gu and the Acting King, but Guo Zixing did not know at this time that almost all of his children died at the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Haozhou was behind enemy lines and did not engage the main force of the Yuan army, but the internal fighting was fierce. There were Sun, Lu, Yu, and Pan who got up with Guo Zixing, and no one obeyed anyone, and the reason why they got together was just to keep each other warm.

Guo Zixing was born in a rich family, has a sense of superiority, the other four people were born poor, behaved coarsely, full of gangsterism, Guo Zixing therefore looked down on them, in fact, Guo Zixing's family did not eat a few days of full food, his father Guo Gong was poor when he was young, and he went to Dingyuan to make a living from fortune telling, there was a rich family in the county, and there was a blind girl in the family who could not marry, Guo Gongyi gritted his teeth and married this blind girl, and since then the husband has lived a well-off life with a wife, and later gave birth to Guo Zixing.

Heroes don't ask where they come from, don't ask where they come from if they have money, although Guo Zixing's money is not very tough, but this does not affect his sense of superiority. Sun Deya and others were unhappy with Guo Zixing's contempt, and these four poor ghosts joined forces to marginalize Guo Zixing. Guo Zixing, who was born in the rich, wanted to distribute grain to the common people, while Sun Deya, who was born in the poor, and four others wanted to steal food from the rich.

At this time, the Xuzhou Red Army was defeated by the Yuan army, Peng Da and Zhao Junyong led the defeated soldiers to Haozhou, although they had just suffered defeat, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, their strength and prestige should not be underestimated, so the five heroes of Haozhou pushed Xuzhou to be the main hero.

The contradictions within the rebel army were not alleviated by the arrival of the two, but a new rift arose, because Guo Zixing recruited Peng Dawei as a backer, while Sun Deya and others drew Zhao Junyong to contend with them, and the two sides soon clashed.

One day, Sun Deya said to Zhao Junyong: "Guo Zixing only knows that there is General Peng, but he doesn't know that there is you." ”

Zhao Junyong was very angry after hearing this, arrested Guo Zixing, and locked him in Sun Deya's house, Guo Zixing's two sons and adopted son-in-law Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly asked Peng Da for help, Peng Da was furious after listening to the crying of the three, and said: "With me here, who dares to touch your father?" After speaking, he led the troops to Sun Deya's house to rescue Guo Zixing.

At this time, the Yuan army followed the pursuit of Peng Da and Zhao Junyong to Haozhou, responsible for the management of the Yellow River Shangshu Jialu led the troops to surround Haozhou, the enemy is current, everyone had to suspend the infighting, pick up the guy to defend the city, they repelled the Yuan army's many attacks, to ensure that the city gate is not lost, five months later Jia Lu died of illness, the Yuan army broke the siege and left.

During the Battle of Haozhou, many landlords armed to help the Yuan army fight, after the Yuan army withdrew, these teams were confused and at a loss, and the Red Army in the city took the opportunity to attack everywhere, annex these armed forces, and expand their own power. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang also returned to his hometown and recruited more than 700 stragglers, Guo Zixing was very happy and appointed him as the pacification, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to live under the people for a long time, he wanted to establish an armed force of his own.

Zhu Yuanzhang was ambitious, unwilling to be controlled by others, and always intended to stand on his own, long before the arrival of the Xuzhou Shuangxiong, he tried to encourage Guo Zixing to leave his partner and develop independently. At that time, Guo Zixing was being squeezed out by the other four generals, and Zhu Yuanzhang said to him: "They are getting closer and closer now, and we are becoming more and more isolated, and we will definitely be suppressed by them after a long time." Because the situation was acceptable at that time, Guo Zixing did not agree to his request.

Soon after being promoted to the post of Pacification, Zhu Yuanzhang abandoned the team of more than 700 people under his jurisdiction and left Haozhou with only twenty-four cronies. The reason why he is so confident is because there are many soldiers, and he is good at recruiting. But this time Zhu Yuanzhang was very unsuccessful, he wandered around for a while, did not recruit any team, and he fell ill again, so he had to return to Haozhou in disgrace and return to Guo Zixing's arms, and his first solo flight ended in failure.

But Guo Zixing's life was not easy, soon after the war, Peng Da fell ill and died, Guo Zixing lost his backer, Zhao Junyong led the main force of the righteous army to attack Jiangsu Yixu, and tried to attack Xuzhou from there, back to his former territory, Guo Zixing was also held hostage to the north, and the situation was precarious.

Guo Zixing's difficulties made Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to preserve his strength and avoid being annexed by Zhao Junyong, Guo Zixing had to divide a part of the army to Zhu Yuanzhang to lead, Zhu Yuanzhang got his wish, mastered a strong army, and went south to capture Chuzhou. In Dingyuan, Zhu Yuanzhang designed and recruited 3,000 militia from Zhangjiabao, and later raided and surrendered Miao Daheng's 20,000 pro-Yuan rebels, with which Zhu Yuanzhang captured Chuzhou.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Fei Ju rode horses, took nine infantry to Zhangjiabao to appease the militia, walked to the Baogong River, and saw from a distance that the militia camp was neat, and the bows and crossbows were outward, and the foot soldiers were very frightened and wanted to retreat, Zhu Yuanzhang stopped the escapees, led everyone to the camp, and explained the intention.

In view of the prestige of Haozhou, the leader of the people's army basically agreed to join the group, and agreed to formally settle down three days later, after reaching an agreement, Zhu Yuanzhang went back to Guo Zixing to return to his life, and Fei Ju stayed in the private sector to continue to contact, but individual militia generals opposed joining the gang and wanted to maintain independence or take refuge in other rebel armies, Fei Ju saw this and hurriedly went back to report, so Zhu Yuanzhang and Fei Ju took 300 people to do the work again, and they designed to arrest the leader of the militia, thus recovering more than 3,000 people.

On the way to Chuzhou, the brothers Feng Guoyong and Feng Guosheng from Dingyuan came to take refuge, and they suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang capture Nanjing, and use Nanjing as a base to go out to conquer and dominate the world. Later, another Dingyuan man, Li Shanchang, suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang learn from Liu Bang, buy people's hearts, and be good at knowing people.

Zhu Yuanzhang recognized the suggestions of the three very much, and kept them as cronies, Li Shanchang is the local lieutenant governor, has a certain talent and popularity, Zhu Yuanzhang has special trust in him, Li Shanchang asked Zhu Yuanzhang to learn Liu Bang at the same time, he also regarded himself as Xiao He, and assisted Zhu Yuanzhang loyally and became his right-hand man. The Feng brothers returned with their troops, and Zhu Yuanzhang put them in charge of the army, and the two brothers successively served as Zhu Yuanzhang's pro-army commander-in-chief and garrison commander.

At the beginning of the army, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a lofty ambition to pacify the world, and at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was different from many heroes, which was also an important reason for his eventual success.

When Zhu Yuanzhang captured Chuzhou, Zhao Junyong and others were trying to murder Guo Zixing, Zhu Yuanzhang wrote to Zhao Junyong: "When the king was poor, Guo opened his door and accepted it, and his kindness was deep. The king can't report it, but listens to the villain's greedy words and cuts off his wings, which will break the trust of the hero, I think it is very inappropriate for the king to do this. Besides, there are many soldiers under Guo Gong, won't you regret killing him?"

Zhao Junyong was very hesitant after seeing the letter, and Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to bribe him, Guo Zixing was spared, and then Guo Zixing led more than 10,000 people to Chuzhou.

As soon as Guo Zixing arrived in Chuzhou, he immediately put Zhu Yuanzhang in his shadow, set out to recover the capital given to Zhu Yuanzhang earlier, and planned to take it away with interest, he reprimanded Zhu Yuanzhang's assistants one by one, and even wanted to poach Li Shanchang, but Li Shanchang did not pamper him, but chose to continue to stay by Zhu Yuanzhang's side, and Zhu Yuanzhang was very grateful for this.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to get out of Guo Zixing's control, Guo Zixing was always on guard, and contradictions and struggles were inevitable. Guo Zixing consulted with Zhu Yuanzhang when he encountered an emergency, and he was very close to him, and once the matter was resolved, he listened to slander and alienated Zhu Yuanzhang and trimmed his feathers.

In order to eliminate Guo Zixing's vigilance, Zhu Yuanzhang had to behave obediently, and Ma also did the work from the side, giving the spoils of war offered by the soldiers to Guo Zixing's wife, so that she could secretly protect and maintain Guo Zixing's trust in Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not hand over military power, and still tried in every possible way to develop independently from Guo Zixing, and did not hesitate to take risks for this.