O Primeiro Sogro Imperial da Dinastia Ming
Na primavera do segundo ano de Hongwu, um jovem chegou a Xinfengli conduzindo um burro e apoiando um caixão. Zhu Yuanzhang tornou-se meu cunhado? Então eu sou o primeiro tio materno do Império Ming!
O Primeiro Sogro Imperial da Dinastia Ming
A swift horse galloped into Yingtian Prefecture, its rider hunched low over the saddle, looking exhausted and covered in the dust of the road.
The commoners hurried to step aside; over these past few years, they had grown accustomed to such sights.
Last year, the Emperor had founded the dynasty, declaring the state name "Great Ming" and the era name "Hongwu."
The year before that, the Great General of the Northern Expedition, Xu Da, and the Deputy General, Chang Yuchun, had led an army of 250,000 to march north. After nearly a year of fierce fighting, the army had fully reclaimed the regions of Qi, Lu, He, Luo, Yan, Ji, Qin, and Jin.
The Yuan Emperor had fled north in a panic, and the Han people had finally recovered the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which had been lost for over four hundred years.
Even now, the Northern Expeditionary forces were still locked in intense combat with the remnants of the Yuan court. Although the Yuan Dynasty had withdrawn from the Central Plains, it still maintained a government structure. After the Ming army occupied Shanxi, the Yuan forces still held over one hundred thousand troops in Shaanxi and Gansu.
The world was not yet at peace; the remnants of the Yuan court in the north remained a grave threat. Ming Yuzhen and his son Ming Sheng held Sichuan, while the Yuan Prince of Liang, Basalawarmi, and the Duan clan of Dali occupied Yunnan.
War still raged, but the people of the realm generally understood that the Hongwu Emperor had claimed the Middle Kingdom, and this empire now
