Zhu Yuanzhang has been reading books on history recently, because taking history as a mirror can help us understand gains and losses, and using history as a mirror can help us understand rise and fall.
Among all the emperors, Zhu Yuanzhang admired Liu Bang the most.
For Liu Bang, he didn't have a deep understanding of him before, but now once he gets a deeper understanding, he feels that there is still a certain gap between himself and Liu Bang.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang's background was also very ordinary. At his worst, he worked as a beggar and a monk.
But after joining the army, he defected to Marshal Guo Zixing and became Guo Zixing's adopted son.
His current power was developed on the basis of Marshal Guo Zixing. In other words, Zhu Yuanzhang's capital to start his business was different from that of Liu Bang.
Liu Bang was a pavilion chief. At that time, he revolted in Mangdang Mountain, gathered 3,000 of his disciples, captured Peixian County, and called himself Peigong.
He did not rely on others, he laid the foundation for everything himself. Fan Kuai and Xiao He were both from Peixian County. Zhu Yuanzhang felt that this made him inferior to Liu Bang.
Also, Zhu Yuanzhang is still around 30 years old, while Liu Bang was already 48 when he started the uprising.
For a man who is nearly 50 years old to achieve such a career, it really puts Zhu Yuanzhang to shame.
Later great men commented that Liu Bang was the most powerful among emperors.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang will not belittle himself. What he is doing now is something Liu Bang cannot do. The knowledge he knows now about future generations is also unknown to Liu Bang.
He has a very clear understanding of his situation and is full of confidence in the upcoming wars.
The establishment of a dynasty needs to go through the test of blood and fire. This is an eternal law, and it is something that no one can do.
Now the Yuan Dynasty is completely corrupt, is in decline, and is about to collapse.
Now Zhu Yuanzhang is very clear that there are many heroes in the world. It seems that there are many forces, but now his main enemy is not the Tatars of the Yuan Dynasty, but Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng. This is Zhu Yuanzhang's analysis of the general trend of the world.
Now he is actively preparing for war, but he will not take the initiative to provoke a war. This is his current strategy.
Also, Zhu Yuanzhang is now opening up financial avenues, vigorously developing, making money, increasing food reserves and doing overseas business, all in order to increase his economic strength and lay a good economic foundation for future wars.
After all, the economic base determines the superstructure. If his rebel brothers don't have enough to eat and don't have enough clothes to wear, who will work for him? This is something he sees very clearly.
Now Zhu Yuanzhang will not be so pessimistic and disappointed about the future, nor will he be ecstatic.
He knows some big things and knows the ultimate trajectory of some things.
However, he still has to be very active in observing and thinking about how these details develop during these historical events.
Zhu Yuanzhang would not leave this matter to others.
Liu Bowen under him is very powerful, and so is Li Shanchang, but they can only make suggestions for Zhu Yuanzhang, and the person who makes the final decision is Zhu Yuanzhang.
This is Zhu Yuanzhang's principle.
After all, the things many people say and the strategies they offer are based on their own opinions.
Sometimes they do not think from the perspective of the entire world.
Zhu Yuanzhang also knew this very well, so Zhu Yuanzhang would adopt the ideas they came up with if they were realistic.
Zhu Yuanzhang would also ignore anything that did not meet current requirements.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang respected these people under his command very much and would not make them feel embarrassed.
It can be said that the current Zhu Yuanzhang is a very courteous and virtuous corporal. This is not to praise Zhu Yuanzhang, in fact, he is such a character.
When Shen Wansan saw that the seawater desalination project built by Zhu Yuanzhang produced a lot of salt and produced a lot of fresh water, was he really ecstatic?
Because salt is quite valuable at this time, and the profits are also very huge.
Being able to extract salt from seawater, and the cost is so low, is a big business!
Shen Wansan suggested to Zhu Yuanzhang that he should expand the sea salt project so that production could be carried out on many islands.
In this case, it also blocks the possibility of others wanting to learn his technology.
Because the island is on the vast sea, as long as you do a good job of security, your production will be a very top-secret place.
Zhu Yuanzhang left this matter entirely to Shen Wansan, Wei Chen, and Xue Gang.
This is called employing people without suspicion, and not using people who are suspicious, because now the war is about to break out, and he has to deal with the war.
After all, if the war fails, then all his efforts will be in vain.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang saw these things very clearly, he made very correct choices.
Because that’s how everything is, once you understand it and develop it according to your own ideas, that’s it.
Zhu Yuanzhang now recalls the wars in his memory and then deduce them.
Based on the latest information he now has on these maps, he conducts careful research.
This is what he wants to do.
He must have the spirit of a hero, because this world is fought for him.
This is the source of Zhu Yuanzhang's struggle. He must have the heroic spirit to take over this important historical task.
Now that he has come, let him be at ease. No matter what happened to him in the past, he must do this well with the most positive attitude now.
Zhu Yuanzhang was still reading the story of Liu Bang. Liu Bang was very good at understanding people and assigning them tasks. He knew that he could not defeat Xiang Yu on the battlefield.
He tried his best to gather other generals, and finally found the genius Han Xin. He completely handed over his power to Han Xin, and finally achieved miraculous results.
Although the army led by Liu Bang himself suffered repeated defeats, he still suffered repeated defeats.
It can be said that Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought and basically lost every battle, but he was never discouraged. In the end, he finally won the last battle with Xiang Yu.
Xiang Yu and Liu Bang fought so many wars, and only failed once, resulting in their death and the destruction of their country. However, Liu Bang only won once, but was crowned emperor and established the Han Dynasty for 400 years.
So this is what makes Liu Bang extraordinary. He knows where his shortcomings are and what he should do.
Moreover, he knows people very well and can see a person's true ability. He is also courageous and good at delegating power.
Zhu Yuanzhang admired this very much.
Now he has no doubts about the generals under his command, but he is not as good as Liu Bang when it comes to fully delegating power.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also considering whether he should do this. After all, he was suspicious of some people.
After Zhu Yuanzhang read the history books, he took a walk in the back garden of Jinling Marshal's Mansion.
He wanted to relax his mind a little and stop thinking about these things for the time being.
This may also allow him to gain unexpected gains.
