How did Zhu Yuanzhang become emperor?

At the age of 25, he joined the Red Scarf Army led by Guo Zixing. After Guo's death, he commanded Guo Department and served as deputy marshal left. Subsequently, he continued to be promoted by virtue of his military exploits. In the seventh year (136 1), Longfeng was named the Duke of Wu, and in the tenth year he called himself the King of Wu.

In the 28th year of Yuan Dynasty (1368), after basically defeating the peasant rebels and the remnants of Yuan Dynasty, he proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing, with the titles Daming and Hongwu, and established a unified feudal regime throughout the country.

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After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he immediately called the ministers of civil and military affairs to discuss the state affairs, and discussed why the powerful Yuan Dynasty perished, what was the urgent task of the Daming Dynasty, and how to make the Daming regime stable for a long time.

Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang summed up everyone's opinions: "At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, politics was still very clear. Later, the nobles enjoyed power, evil spirits were favored, and relatives were appointed to form cronies. Officials at home and abroad were greedy and shameless, so they relaxed their laws, and Ji Gang became worse and worse, and eventually collapsed, which was hopeless.

Now, at the beginning of Daming's founding, we must be serious about statutes, which is the foundation of governing the world. In view of these problems, Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated a new law and carried out a series of reforms on the feudal political system, official system and measures to govern the people.

Zhu Yuanzhang first started with the reform of political institutions and official system. At the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's accession to the throne, he basically followed the system of the Yuan Dynasty, and set up the Central Book Province around the Prime Minister, which was in charge of six departments: officials, households, ceremonies, soldiers, punishments and workers.

The local government set up a province to take charge of local military and political affairs. This was an expedient measure to stabilize society at that time. After the regime gradually stabilized, Zhu Yuanzhang planned to rebuild the new regime.

The practice in the first paragraph also fully proves that the yuan system must be changed, otherwise the legacy will be endless. After careful planning, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to adopt the strategy of "local first, then central" to reform political institutions.

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