Spring went to autumn, something happened to Xiao Zhu's classmates, Li's child was born safely, and he was a healthy boy, although he didn't choose a name, but he thought it should be the Qin King Zhu Fan in history.

And the mother Ma has no signs of pregnancy, this is really puzzling, is it wrong, or there is a problem with the historical records?

Or is history really starting to change!

Zhu marked the "Chronicles of Nanjing Taichang Temple", which recorded that Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, and Zhu Li, the king of Jin, were born to Concubine Li Shu.

But this Li doesn't seem to be Concubine Li either?

Xiao Zhu's little head is about to explode, and the historical records of the Ming Dynasty are a little messy.

For example, the later Yan King Zhu Di claimed that the emperor Zhu Di claimed to be born to Queen Ma and was his son-in-law.

This is based on the record of "King Yan's Decree" that "Gu Yu is a bandit talent, the son of his father, Emperor Gao, the son of Empress Gao, the son of Empress Gao, the younger brother of the crown prince, and the eldest of all kings."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, He Qiaoyuan's "Book of Fujian", Tan Qianzhi's "Guoyu", "National History Examination", and Li Qingzhi's "Sanyuan Notes" have all been recorded, according to the "Nanjing Taichang Temple Chronicles" written by Wang Zongyuan of the Ming Dynasty. "Nanjing Taichang Temple Chronicles" does state that Zhu Di's mother is Concubine Qi.

Xiao Zhu has given up thinking, it doesn't matter, anyway, as long as he is born to Queen Ma, it is enough!

In the seventeenth year of Zhizheng (1357), Geng Bingwenke Changxing, Xu Dake Changzhou, and Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the army to capture Ningguo. Subsequently, Zhao Jizuke, Jiangyin, Xu Dake, Changshu. Hu Dahai Ke Huizhou, Changyu Chun Ke Chi Zhou, Miao Daheng Ke Yangzhou.

In the nineteenth year of Zheng (1359), Zhu Yuanzhang successively conquered the rest of eastern Zhejiang, often encountered Chunke Quzhou, Hu Dahai Kechuzhou, so far Zhu Yuanzhang controlled the left of the Jiangjiang and the right of Zhejiang, and was adjacent to Chen Youliang's department to the west. In May of that year, King Xiaoming promoted Zhu Yuanzhang to the post of Zuo Cheng of Yitong Sansi, Jiangnan and other places in Zhongshu Province, and in the first month of the twenty-first year (1361), Zhu Yuanzhang was named the Duke of Wu.

At this time, although Zhu Yuanzhang had 100,000 troops, he still occupied very little territory, and he was surrounded by enemies on all sides.

To the east and south is the Yuan army, to the southeast is Zhang Shicheng, and to the west is Xu Shouhui, although they are both anti-Yuan forces, but Zhang and Xu are hostile to each other with King Xiaoming.

However, the main force of the Red Turban Army led by King Xiaoming and Liu Futong in the north greatly contained the Yuan army, and the strength of Zhang Shicheng and Xu Shouhui was not enough to annex Zhu Yuanzhang.

In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang is temporarily facing a good development opportunity.

In the twentieth year of Zhizheng (1360), Liu Ji was invited by Zhu Yuanzhang to Yingtian (now Nanjing) and appointed him as a minister.

In view of the situation at that time, Liu Ji proposed to Zhu Yuanzhang to avoid two-front battles and break through each other, which was adopted. After completing the deployment of "building a high wall", Zhu Yuanzhang began to implement the "extensive accumulation of grain".

In order to solve the grain problem, in addition to mobilizing the people to carry out production, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to implement the Tuntian Law, vigorously develop the army's tuntian, and appointed Marshal Kang Maocai as the envoy of the capital water camp, responsible for the construction of water conservancy, and assigned generals to cultivate and farm land in various places.

After a few years of work, Xingtun was everywhere, the treasury was full, and the military rations were sufficient. In the twentieth year of Zhizheng (1360), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that the "village grain" should no longer be levied to reduce the burden on the peasants. In order to accumulate grain, Zhu Yuanzhang explicitly ordered a ban on alcohol, but Hu Sanshe, the son of his general Hu Dahai, violated the ban with others and made profits from brewing wine privately.

Someone admonished that Hu Dahai was attacking Shaoxing at this time, hoping that Zhu Yuanzhang could put Hu Sanshe on Hu Dahai's face. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and resolutely strict with military discipline, so he killed Hu Sanshe by himself.

While winning the hearts and minds of the people, Zhu Yuanzhang also continued to recruit talents, especially intellectuals, and Zhu Yuanzhang also built a special Lixian Hall in Yingtian to receive them.

These people played an important role in Zhu Yuanzhang's process of unifying the whole country. Zhu Yuanzhang respected Confucianism very much, and he once summoned the Confucian scholar Tang Zhongshi in the eighteenth year of Zhizheng (1358) to ask Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, and Yuan Shizu how to pacify the world, which also showed that Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to create a new dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang established a base with Yingtian as the center, with Chen Youliang in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhang Shicheng in the lower reaches, Fang Guozhen in the southeast, and Chen Youding in the south.

Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding's goal was to protect the land and divide the territory, while Zhang Shicheng did not have much ambition for the two ends of the Yuan Dynasty; Chen Youliang was the strongest, and he was the most dangerous enemy that Zhu Yuanzhang encountered after occupying Yingtian.

Chen Youliang was originally a subordinate of Ni Wenjun, a general under Xu Shouhui. Later, he killed Ni Wenjun and held Xu Shouhui hostage in the twentieth year of Zhizheng (1360) and captured Taiping and quarrying.

So Chen Youliang thought that Yingtian was within reach, so he killed Xu Shouhui, called the emperor in quarrying, the country was called Han, and changed the righteousness of the Yuan.