At this moment, Wu Junzhen, Ma Wei and Liu Ruilin, who were riding north through the Beizhili Hejian Mansion, looked at the surrounding terrain while riding a horse, and found that there was a thorny jungle area in front of them.

Wu Junzhen, who was a little tired, rode a horse to catch up with Ma Wei, picked up the water bag on his waist and took a sip, and asked, "Brother Ma, how long do you say we have been in a hurry?" This Gyeonggi area is too far away, right? Do you think we can still enter Beijing? I don't know what the situation is? ”

In the face of this sentence, Ma Wei was naturally a little excited, and he didn't know how to answer, because he said a lot of things to let King Qin's division resolutely go north to rescue the driver, and he pulled the whole team north regardless of safety, which had already aroused everyone's suspicions?

As expected, Oh Jun-jin asked, why did Ma Wei know that Gyeonggi was in danger? And the thing about the fall?

This was almost all expected by him before the report of the northern war reached everyone from the hands of the heralds! Could it be that Ma Wei can learn astronomy? Or can you predict the prophet?

However, in order to divert this topic, Ma Wei directly asked, "Brother Wu, do you remember what we experienced in Tongguan Weicha before? I accidentally saw some information about the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and there was an outbreak in the Central Plains, so I also speculated! I didn't expect it to be so accurate. ”

I learned that Ma Wei still knows the history of the founding of the Ming Dynasty? This made Wu Junzhen a little interested, after all, he came to this place, and he had served the court for more than a year, and he still didn't know how the court came?

So Ma Wei successfully shifted the topic to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty...... founding of the country.

It is said that as early as the Great Mengyuan Empire, Zayadu Khan Yuan Wenzong Huaiwang to the Shunyuan Emperor: Erjin Tutimur, the first year of the Tianli Calendar 1328 AD, at dusk in a peasant house in Haozhou City, Jiangbei Province, Henan Province, the fire was in the sky, alarming the master wearing a robe and holding a Zen staff, he saw someone knocking on the door and entering the courtyard to ask for water to drink.

When the middle-aged man kindly handed him a bowl of water to drink, there was news of dystocia in the house? There were also a few children crying!

The master couldn't bear to take out an elixir from his womb and let Mrs. Zun take it to save her life, and finally the baby was successfully born, and the mother and child survived the catastrophe safely.

However, this unusual young man, because of his fate with the master, gave him a piece of Maitreya Buddha jade, and left the farmer's house, and the young man was ranked "the eighth" in the family, so he was called "Zhu Chongba".

Because this farmer surnamed Zhu is not rich, and he has to raise 6 children (eldest brother: Zhu Chongwu, second brother: Zhu Chongliu, third brother: Zhu Chongqi, eldest sister: Zhu Fushi, second sister: Zhu Xunu), and it happened to encounter a drought and disaster, and the family could not pay the taxes stipulated by the government, so that Zhu Wusi, as a father, had to let the young children be self-reliant.

Among them, Zhu Chongba was so thin as skin and bones due to malnutrition and frailty, and his father: Zhu Wusi and mother: Chen Erniang were very distressed! But he is very superstitious, believing that only Guanyin Bodhisattva can save his life and bless him to live safely.

So they sent the young Zhu Chongba to the nearby Huangjue Temple, and asked Zhu Chongba to worship the abbot of the temple: Gao Bin, who was self-reliant for the master to recite scriptures in the temple, but did not shave his hair for lay disciples.

When Zhu Chongba was 10 years old, Zhu Wusi moved to Taiping Township again in order to avoid heavy servitude, and Zhu Chongba also went down the mountain to go home to help his parents share expenses with his brothers and sisters.

In the process of herding cattle, Zhu Chongba got acquainted with Xu Da, Tang He, Zhou Dexing and other friends in the next village, and everyone soon became the best friends.

Usually when everyone is bored with herding cattle together, there is always something interesting to do? And Zhu Chongba has been smart and naughty since he was a child, and he once read books for a few days, so he has the most ghost ideas, and the game he often plays is to play the emperor himself, he wears rags, tears palm leaves into wisps, sticks them to his mouth as a beard, and puts a car spoke plate on his head as a flat crown.

Then sit on the mound, pretend to call the emperor, and let the friends each pick up a wooden plank, hold it with both hands, and kneel three times and knock and shout long live, Zhu Chongba happily shouted every time, "Zhong Aiqing is flat!" ”

But I can only reward my friends with some wild fruits picked as rewards, barely making everyone happy.

However, when you are a cowherding baby, it is naturally indispensable to be beaten and scolded by the owner often, and you often can't eat enough, only hungry to herd cattle! Over time, it caused a big event?

It is said that one day when the cattle were herding, Zhu Chongba, Xu Da, Tang He, and Zhou Dexing all felt very hungry, leaning on each other in their arms and dreaming of having food in front of them. That is, everyone worked together to kill a calf, roast it with raw wood and eat it.

It didn't take long for everyone to eat only a cowhide, a bunch of bones and a cow's tail, and everyone panicked after eating the calf! Thought; How should I treat the members diplomatically when I go back?

Everyone was worried and complained about each other, but Zhu Chongba stood up and put forward an idea? He asked everyone to bury the bones and hides of the cow in the ground, to cover up the bloodstains, and after sticking the tail of the ox into the rock crevice in the mountain, he said that the calf had gone into the cave and could not pull it out?

After hearing this idea, everyone agreed, but of course this naïve idea can't be hidden from Liu Yuanwai! Having said that, no one dares to admit it? Or Zhu Chongba volunteered to stand up and admit it, but naturally Zhu Chongba was beaten by the servants and rushed back home, and Zhu Wusi added the debt to compensate the calf, but Zhu Chongba won the trust of his friends because he dared to act.

To the Mengyuan Wuhatu Khan Yuan Huizong to the Zhengpu Emperor: Er'er Jin Tu Timur, the period of the third year of the Zhengzheng A.D. 1343, Haozhou City had a catastrophic drought!

This was followed by a severe locust plague in the spring of the following year, and the Yellow River dam burst! The crops were eaten clean by locusts, and large areas of land creatures were flooded, and the plague was caused by the fact that the dead people and animal carcasses were not dealt with in time!

For a time, every household was dying, and more than a dozen or even dozens of people died in a village a day! All the major provinces in the Central Plains have suffered serious disasters.

made Zhu Chongba's family also infected with the plague, and the 64-year-old father: Zhu Wusi, mother: Chen Erniang, eldest brother: Zhu Chongwu, sister-in-law: Wang, nephew: Zhu Laiwang, third brother: Zhu Chongqi, third sister-in-law: Liu, nephew: Zhu Shengbao, died of illness in the village one after another!

And the eldest sister: Zhu Fushi, was married into Wang Qi's family early, and the second sister was married into a Xiucai with slightly better economic conditions: Li Zhen, and the only second brother left in the house: Zhu Chongliu, and Zhu Chongba stuck at home.

Even Zhu Chongba's uncle: Zhu Wuyi, the eldest son in the family: Zhu Chongyi, the second son: Zhu Chong's second son, the third son: Zhu Chong's third son, and the fourth son: Zhu Chongsi, all died of plague and infectious diseases at home one after another!

Seeing that relatives are dying one by one, there is no copper plate at home to buy a coffin, and there is not even a piece of land to bury relatives! Regrettable father: Zhu Wusi, and uncle: Zhu Wuyi, the two of them have worked hard all their lives, have no place to stand in life, and have no place to bury themselves in death.

made the young Zhu Chongba and his second brother: Zhu Chongliu, hug each other and cry loudly, and the crying continued! also alarmed the neighbor's wailang: Liu Jizu, who was kind-hearted, gave them a cemetery.

Only then did the two brothers stop crying, and hurriedly found a few worn-out clothes to wrap the corpses, and buried their parents on the land of the Liu family.

After burying their relatives and families, in order to survive, Zhu Chongba and Zhu Chongliu were forced to separate, and they each escaped to seek food and clothing outside, but Zhu Chongba didn't know where to go? I remembered the Huangjue Temple that had been a lay disciple before.

So he went to the abbot again: Gao Bin, and shaved as a monk in the temple, and made a small line of children's law "Rujing" also has a stable place, there is a place to eat, there is a place to sleep, he sweeps the floor in the temple every day, incense, bells, drums, cooking, laundry, busy all day long, but sometimes he is still reprimanded by the abbot, but also deliberately hones his willpower.

As soon as the days were long, he held his breath, and he didn't understand why the abbot wanted to make things difficult for him?

One day, he swept the floor and tripped over the Garan Divine Seat, so angry that he picked up a broom and hit the Garan God four or five times.

Another time, the abbot saw that the candles on the main hall were bitten by rats, so he reprimanded Rujing in public, which made Rujing very irritable! He thought to himself; The god Garan can't even control what is in front of him, so how can he manage the temple? Even more so that he was scolded, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he casually found a pen in his hand and wrote the big characters of "Three Thousand Miles of Distribution" behind the back of the god of Garan, which also reflected Rujing's character of not being willing to be oppressed.

Soon after, due to natural disasters, some refugees fled to the mountains to ask for food, resulting in insufficient food for the monks in the monastery, and no alms and sesame oil money in the monastery.

In order to keep the Huangjue Temple, the abbot had to stop the porridge and scatter the monks, and sent the monks to travel around the fate, among which Rujing only did a fifty-day walking child, and he could not chant the scriptures and do Buddhist things, but there was no way, he had to pretend to be a monk, leaving the temple to wander the dervishes, this year Zhu Chongba was only 17 years old.

Rujing begged while walking, he heard people say that where the year is good, he will go wherever he goes, he walked from Haozhou City, Jiangbei Province, Henan Province to the south to Hefei County, Luzhou Road, Huaixi Road.

Then turn west into Henan Jiangbei Province Bianliang Road, to Gushi County, Xinyang Prefecture, and then to the north to Ruzhou, Chenzhou and other places, but also east through Luyi County, Guide Fu Bozhou, in the seventh year of Mengyuan to Zheng 1347 A.D. and returned to Huangjue Temple.

In these three years of wandering, Rujing traveled all over the famous capital of Huaixi Road, got in touch with the customs and customs of various places, saw the world, broadened his horizons, and accumulated experience in social life.

At the same time, the three years that Rujing traveled abroad were also a period of turbulence for rebel armies in various places. There is a widespread saying in the society that "King Ming was born, Pudu sentient beings", and the White Lotus Sect in the north is also carrying out the same propaganda, so Rujing is also exposed to such propaganda in his wanderings, he witnessed the current situation of the imperial court's lax management of the disaster and the deterioration of the people's lives, and realized that the chaos in the world will soon come, so after he returned to the Huangjue Temple, he began to study diligently, make friends, and prepare to do a great job.

On May 13, 1351, the 11th year of the reign of the Mengyuan Dynasty, the people were hit by oppression and natural disasters, and happened to encounter the breach of the Yellow River embankment, and the imperial court forcibly conscripted 150,000 migrant laborers to build the Yellow River embankment.

This made Han Shantong, who was born in a relatively wealthy family and believed in the White Lotus Sect, and Liu Futong, who believed in Maitreya Buddha, think that the time had come, and deliberately buried the mud bodhisattva in the quicksand of the Yellow River, and let people dig it out and make up the ballad (one eye of the stone man, inciting the Yellow River to rebel in the world) and spread it among the people.