On September 18 (1328, 10, 2 1), the only farmer in China's history, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, was born in the middle of Haozhou (now east of Fengyang County). Because of his poor family, young Zhu Yuanzhang spared cattle and farmed fields. In the fourth year of Zheng Zheng (1344), Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk in Huangsi at the age of 16, and soon began to wander around. In the epitaph, he vividly described this bumpy life: "Smoke suddenly enters, and the ancient temple is missed at dusk." Looking up at the cliff, Cui Wei leans against the blue, and listens to the ape sing jathyapple bleak. I have a long soul and found my parents, but I am lonely and wandering. The west wind is full of cranes, and the Russian frost flies. My body is like a canopy and my heart is boiling. "The life of a wandering monk has enabled Zhu Yuanzhang to travel all over the country, and his will and physical strength have been greatly exercised. He became familiar with the folk customs in the west of Huai River, enriched his own experience and laid a solid foundation for his later military career and founding the country.
While Zhu Yuanzhang was traveling in the west of Huai River, the Red Scarf Army Uprising that shocked the whole country broke out. In the 12th year of Zheng Zheng (1352), Zhu Yuanzhang came to Haozhou and joined the army in Guo Zixing. He was quickly favored by the people, became the son-in-law of Marshal Guo Zixing, and changed his name to Zhu Chongba, the word Guo Rui, when he was young. Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang has pursued the policy of "killing one person well", closely uniting a large number of outstanding civil servants and military commanders and mobilizing various forces. 16 years has planned a series of military actions such as crossing the Chu River, crossing the river, Jing Chu, Ping wuyue, Fu Guang Min and entering the Central Plains, which shows his outstanding military talent, foresight and calm personality. In the first year of Hongwu (1368), on the fourth day of the first month, Dingding changed its name to Daming, established Yuan Hongwu and established the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang reigned for thirty-one years. In order to consolidate the central government, he carried out drastic reforms in politics, economy, ideology and culture and formulated a series of new policies. On the one hand, he restored the costumes of the Han nationality, revived the social economy in the early Ming Dynasty, and severely punished corrupt officials. On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang also built a spy network (calibration, Royal Guards) and Daxing Wenzi Prison. The "Li Family's Left Alliance" is used to restrain people's freedom of movement, while spy means and literary inquisition are used to root out dissidents for officials. Hulan's prison, Zhu Yuanzhang killed talents. In the 13th year of Hongwu (1380), Zhu Yuanzhang executed the left prime minister Hu for bending the law and conspiring against it, and then built a party prison, killing more than 30,000 people in ten years. In the 26th year of Hongwu (1393), Zhu Yuanzhang executed the general and Liang Guogong's aquamarine for treason, killing more than ten thousand heroes. Zhu Yuanzhang often found fault with the details written by literati. For example, when Zhu Yuanzhang joined the Red Scarf Army in his early years, he was regarded as a "red thief" and a "red bandit" by the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. When he became emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely taboo about "thieves", and the experience of monks also made Zhu Yuanzhang unhappy. All words related to monks are also taboo. Xu Yikui, a professor at Fu Xue in Hangzhou, said in "Congratulatory Speech" that "under the skylight, natural saints rule the world". Zhu Yuanzhang suspected that Xu Yikui was turning a corner and scolded him: "All born monks call me a monk; Light is hairless, calling me bald; The voice of' then' approached the thief and called me a thief. "Xu Yikui was ordered to execute the death penalty. Even words that have nothing to do with "thief", "thief" and "monk" can be found out by Zhu Yuanzhang. For example, the word "imperial concubine" is pronounced as "imperial concubine", the word "special" is regarded as "bad" and "Zhu", and the word "virtue" in the poem is removed.
Zhu Yuanzhang's local concept is particularly heavy. After he ascended the throne of the emperor, he, like Xiang Yu, held the mentality of "returning to his hometown with clothes on" and "offering sacrifices to his ancestors", and ordered to build a capital in Fengyang, his hometown, repair the imperial tomb, set up a health center, build high walls, build temples, emigrate to wasteland and build water conservancy projects. It took millions of labor and money to finally build Fengyang, a backwater, into a magnificent and colorful capital. Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial industry has become an important part of Fengyang's history, with far-reaching and lasting influence. The stone carvings of Zhongducheng and Huangling 1982 are listed as national key cultural relics protection units.