Zhu Yuanzhang

Author: Fang Wenzhai
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Mao Zedong was deeply interested in Zhu Yuanzhang, a cowherd born into poverty with no noble connections or influential background, who rose to power through sheer determination. From the "Chronicle of Mao Zedong," it can be seen that during the tense and busy times of the Three Great Battles, the only book Mao read was "The Biography of Zhu Yuanzhang." The horrifying scenes of flaying human skin, severing tendons, cutting fingers, chopping feet, amputating hands, hooking intestines, and castrating—each and every one of these atrocities were committed by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, who was once an ugly and despised cowherd. This book provides a comprehensive, vivid, and lifelike introduction to Zhu Yuanzhang's entrepreneurial spirit, diligent governance, suppression of corruption, penchant for violence, and his rather bizarre and extraordinary life, aiming to present to readers a Zhu Yuanzhang who is flesh and blood, real, and alive. This is a biography that depicts the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, from his impoverished origins as a shepherd for a landlord to his participation in the peasant uprising and his eventual rise as the "Hongwu" Emperor, who implemented a series of policies to stabilize the people. It reveals the magnificent life of this remarkable individual. This book provides a comprehensive, vivid, and lifelike introduction to Zhu Yuanzhang's entrepreneurial spirit, diligent governance, suppression of corruption, penchant for violence, and his rather bizarre and extraordinary life, aiming to present to readers a Zhu Yuanzhang who is flesh and blood, real, and alive.