In fact, we can't call him Zhu Yuanzhang now, because in the era of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han and Nan people were not qualified to take names, and some were just strings of code names piled up with numbers.

For example, his Lao Tzu: Zhu Wusi, Zhu is the surname of their family, and there is no way to change this.

He is the fifth oldest among everyone, so he takes a fifth first, and Zhu Wusi's Laozi, that is, Zhu Chongba's grandfather, was born in the fourth when he gave birth to his father, so he was named a four, so his name naturally became Zhu Wusi, which is a requirement of the political environment, and no one dares to disobey it.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there were several other ways to start the name, that is, to add the numbers in the parents' names, such as Lao Tzu Zhu Wusi, Lao Ma Zi Zhang Ersan, and the son's name Zhu Qiqi, or use the name from the month of birth.

I don't know if you have noticed the three inconspicuous thugs around Zhao Min when you watch movies and TV series, I don't mean to say that the two elders of Xuan Ming, who are the two masters of Ruyang Palace, but the other three.

They were in the Wudang faction hall and Zhang Wuji, and then they were injured and disabled.

Maybe many people will think that Ah Da, Ah Er, and Ah San are just their code names.

But I think that's the real names of all three of them.

The three of them should be similar to Zhu Chongba's name, they are all named directly according to the number, just like those cats and dogs, they have no identity or status at all!

One of the biggest advantages of choosing a name in this way is that it is easy to remember and it is easier and more convenient to choose a name when you encounter twins or multiple births.

Whoever is taken out of the mother's belly first is called the boss, and then the second and third are in the back row.

It's simple and straightforward, and it doesn't waste time.

It's also easy to tell.

Unlike our current schools, if a teacher encounters a twin, he has to make a special mark, and if he encounters a triplet or a multiple, the teacher will stop the food directly, and symbolically skip them when the roll call is called, so as not to be ridiculed by Zhang Guan Li Dai.

Why Zhu Yuanzhang started according to the family name, I don't know this, it doesn't matter anymore, because the name is just a code name, and in the eyes of the Yuan Dynasty, in addition to pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, the Han people are redundant, and they even want to change the great land of the Central Plains into a grassland for them to raise cattle and sheep.

They don't care what it's called.

【Brutal Rule】

It may be possible to live a life of herding cattle for the landlords, but the heavier burden on them is the taxes of the ruling class.

In the era of the reign of the Yuan Dynasty, except for the members of the aristocracy, that is, the highest Mongols, all low-class people were required to pay taxes, and those who farmed the land had an annual land tax, those who herded cattle had an annual cattle tax, and those who worked had to pay taxes every year, even if they were idle at home, they had to pay taxes, in short, as long as people could think of it, they had to pay taxes, and people who couldn't think of it had to pay taxes.

That's why I say that the people who survived that era were miracles.

In fact, this also illustrates a truth from another aspect, under this kind of violent rule that does not even have the right to obtain a name, does not have enough food and clothing, and has to pay taxes constantly, the demise of the Yuan Dynasty is inevitable.

Because where there is a class, there will be contradictions, and where there are contradictions, there will inevitably be struggles, small fights are indispensable, and there will inevitably be big chaos in groups, which is the bane that Genghis Khan himself planted for himself, and it is also a stick left to his descendants that will be ignited*.

Even if there was no Zhu Chongba in that era, there would inevitably be characters such as Wang Ba, Zhao Si and so on.

The overthrow of its rule is also an inevitable process.

In such a difficult but barely happy day, Zhu Chongba barely lived to be seventeen years old. This age is unimaginable for us now, and I can't imagine how their family of eight could survive in such crowded and poor days.

But it's a fact that maybe people who haven't really experienced that kind of life have no say.

It is in this difficult life that the state apparatus, which has been tired for a long time, finally ushered in a last weight that has been pressed to its last level, and this weight has a resounding name.

The stone man has one eye, inciting the Yellow River to rebel against the world!

The thing is probably like this, because there is drought and no rain in many places in the south, and in our present year, because of the balance of yin and yang, a drought in one place must have a flood in one place, that is, at that time, the south was excessively dry and the north was flooded. Shandong, which borders the Yellow River, has been hit hard.

The first is the bursting of the Yellow River embankment, which displaced the victims.

If this situation were to be put in place now, it would definitely be immediately relieved, and it was not negotiable.

But at that time, there were two different opinions at the top of the Yuan Dynasty, one side advocated repairing the Yellow River, while the other side thought that it could not be repaired, maybe in their opinion, it would cost money to repair the river, and the gold they enjoyed every day would inevitably be reduced, or they didn't care about the other party's life or death, rather than spending money to save people, it was better to let them fend for themselves, anyway, China lacks everything, that is, there will never be a shortage of population.

In the end, the result of the confrontation between the two sides was to repair the river (at this point, there was barely some humanity, and those animals made a little difference), since it was better to repair the river, pay for it!

Where does all this money come from?

Ask the emperor Lao'er first, Emperor Yuan Shun said don't ask me for it, if you don't want it, your pocket is cleaner than your face.

Ask the ministers, the ministers stared at me one by one and said, don't ask me, don't ask me if you don't want money, don't give it if you want to ask for it, don't ask me anyway.

Who else can I ask for at this time, okay, then let's ask for it, anyway, they are out of one, and two are also out.

One or two more shouldn't be a big problem.

In this way, the money for the management of the Yellow River was spread on the poor people.

Even so, he was able to scrape together the money that had been governed.

I have to say that it was indeed a regime that broke out of iron hooves at that time.

If you have enough money, where will you find the repairers?

This is easier to do, there are many people in Yanbian of the Yellow River, gather them together and let them repair, anyway, you don't need to worry about them when you eat and drink, you don't need to care about them when you sleep, and you don't need to pay them wages, but the task must be completed, this is a death order given to them by the high-level, and they also give death orders to the people below.

If you can't complete the task, you'll all die.

It was under these circumstances that the work to repair the Yellow River began.

Who are the most popular people in the first place for this kind of benefit project, anyway, it will not be the poor people.

The first to welcome was the Zhongshu Province, because the silver for the repair had to be collected from them and then allocated, which could be stripped of half of it, and the original reserve fund was 10 million taels, but once it passed from their hands, only 5 million cars remained.

Then there are local states and counties, anyway, the money is in front of them, and the construction of rivers and dams is something that cannot see the silver, and they dare not check it if they don't check it at the top and at the bottom, and they can peel off a layer of it.

In this way, the money that can really be repaired to the Yellow River is very small.

Even so, Emperor Yuan Shun was still very pleased, because in his opinion, he was doing something that conformed to the will of heaven, was benefiting all the people, and was a great political achievement, which should be recorded in the annals of history.

This is the time to celebrate with a concert.

【Separation of flesh and bone】

It was in this environment of flooding in the north and drought in the south that the real disaster befell Zhu Chongba, because in the year of the great drought, his father Zhu Wusi starved to death on the sixth day of the fourth month.

On the ninth day of the first month, his eldest brother starved to death.

Twelve, and the eldest son of his eldest brother starved to death.

Twenty-two, his mother Chen starved to death.

In the face of such a disaster, Zhu Chongba felt tragic pain.

It was at this moment that the seeds of revenge began to sprout in his immature heart!

We all know that there will be a big epidemic after the catastrophe, and the Zhu family has not been spared, a large family has a fever, weakness, vomiting and diarrhea one after another, it was fine at first, but within a few days, a good person died of breath.

In those days when animals were worth more than people, it was not uncommon for people to die.

I guess in the eyes of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, they wished that all the common people would starve to death, so that they could free up a large area and save themselves from occupying the pit and not.

When the time comes, they can turn their land into farms, let them raise cattle and sheep, and when they are in a good mood, they can ride horses and shoot arrows in front of their homes, and kill chickens and sheep.

It was under this haze that people did not go to their hearts at first, because in such a day when there was no harvest, it was too common for people to starve to death, but within a few days, the same situation happened in many places, and then people knew that there was a plague.

In these days when the heavens should not be called the earth, the villagers who had relatives outside also fled, and the few people left behind were also surviving, waiting for the judgment of fate.

At this time, the first problem Zhu Yuanzhang faced was to bury his parents.

The deceased is great, and the earth is peaceful.

What seems to be normal now. But it was a great problem for Zhu Yuanzhang at that time.

Because he first had to face the problem of landless burial, as a farmer, it was reasonable to have a few acres of thin land, but for the political system at that time, tenants only had the right to rent land, and had no rights at all.

To put it bluntly, it is to work for the landlord, lease the landlord's field, pay the rent on time every year, start from the wasteland in the first two years, pay less rent when the harvest is less, and immediately increase the rent when the field is fattened, this kind of thing was too common at that time.

Anyway, it's up to you whether you rent it or not, if you have land, it is capital, and if you don't have land, you should be exploited, and you deserve to be unlucky.

This is the environment of the times.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's first thought was the landlord Liu De, because his father had planted him a lifetime of land, and he should always be rewarded with a piece of land for burial.

Starling's idea is good, but the reality is cruel.

When he said what he thought, he was greeted not by good news, but by a stick with thick arms, and he blasted out the cowherd baby in a fierce way.

Although the history books do not write whether the starling had the feeling of borrowing the scene to be lyrical at that time, I think he should have cried at that time.

Although he was poor before, he barely had enough food and clothing, and he didn't have the pain of life and death.

But now that his parents and relatives have died one after another within a few days, it is a bolt from the blue for Zhu Yuanzhang, and for a child who has not grown his hair in his teens, he will inevitably be deeply hit.

Of course, he may not have cried at that time, and if he hadn't cried, then this person would be even more terrible.

A vicious wolf that can lick his wounds on his own is the most formidable existence.

Maybe it was because he saw that this kid was too pitiful, and God rarely showed kindness, just when Zhu Chongba was desperate, the neighbors nearby saw him pitiful and gave him a place for the old man to be buried.

Once there was a place, the little starling and the second brother who was the only living in the family rushed to the burial place with the corpse of their relatives wrapped in a roll of straw mats with the dismantled door panel.

God is not beautiful, just as the two of them carried to the bottom of the hillside, a sudden rainstorm lightning and thunder, the dark clouds pressed the sky as if it was about to collapse, the two brothers hurriedly put down the body to find a place to hide from the rain. It didn't take much effort, after the rain and the sky was clear, the two brothers came back and looked at it, completely dumbfounded, because the body that was originally placed at the bottom of the hillside was completely buried by the landslide, which is called heavenly burial as the saying goes.

And decades later, this place became the imperial tomb of the Zhu family.

It has a well-known name: Xiaoling!

The honest Zhu Wusi planted the land for the landlord all his life, and he didn't even have a decent coffin until he died, and the cemetery was all given by others.

Life is so down, what else can you ask for!

Later, after Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he also wrote a few sentences to express the pain in his heart at that time: There was no coffin, he was malignantly injured, he was covered up three feet, and he laid what a elixir!

After the family was destroyed, the only remaining brothers had to continue to live.

What should we do?

After all, his second brother is a little older, so he wants to go out to earn a living.

After a brief discussion with Zhu Yuanzhang, there was no other way, so he simply packed his bags, got up and left, and the two brothers said goodbye to each other after a few words of greeting.

was originally a happy family, but at this time, there was really only one starling left.

At this time, I think Zhu Yuanzhang really felt the horror of loneliness, and his young heart became more and more cold.

Seeing that the neighbor who barely survived by begging for food all day long suggested that Zhu Chongba might as well go to the temple to shave his ordination, because Zhu Yuanzhang always had a relationship with the temple, after all, he was born in the temple, and being a monk was better than starving to death.

Zhu Yuanzhang has no way left and right, and there is no other way, being a monk can be regarded as a way out.

After all, the emperor can't be fooled, but the monk can still be a monk.

Anyway, it's no problem for his head to ring the bell.

In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was forced to be helpless, became a monk and became a monk.