Chapter 104 Section 1 One Big News, Two Special People

Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown was called Zhongli in ancient times, it was promoted to Haozhou in Yuan Dynasty, and it was renamed Fengyang in Ming Dynasty.It is an inconspicuous little place in the Huaihe River Basin. Except for the occasional appearance in historical records when the two sides of the Huaihe River became a battleground for military strategists, few people mentioned it.However, Zhu Yuanzhang's fortune changed Fengyang's status drastically. In March of the twenty-sixth year of Zhizheng (AD 1366), a major news reached Nanjing: Haozhou, the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang, was captured by Zhu Jun.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very excited.After joining the army, he only recruited soldiers once when he returned to Zhongli in the thirteenth year of Zhengzheng, and he never returned to his hometown after that.Now counting on one's fingers, it has been a full thirteen years. He has been in the army for more than ten years, and his spirit is high day and night. He seems to have forgotten the existence of his hometown.However, when the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang realized that deep down in his heart, he actually missed that barren land all the time. After all, all his memories before the age of twenty-five were stored there.

The pressure of the struggle for survival has suppressed his longing for his hometown, and now the general situation of the country has initially become clear, and he has two thirds of the world, so he can breathe a sigh of relief.After receiving the news that his hometown had been recovered, Zhu Yuanzhang found that his homesickness was like a flood bursting an embankment, and it was out of control.The memory of my hometown was fully revived in my mind at once, and flashed piece by piece.He said with emotion: "Hao, my family is also. If the economy is like this, I have a country and no home!" The day when Haozhou was captured happened to be the anniversary of the death of Zhu Yuanzhang's elder brother, just three days after the anniversary of his father's death. There are still thirteen days left before the anniversary of his mother's death.At this time, the first battle plan to destroy Soochow was about to be completed, and the second battle plan had not yet started. He decided to use the short interval to go back to Haozhou for grave sweeping.

In April of the twenty-sixth year of Zhengzheng, Zhu Yuanzhang got up from Nanjing.There are also two special characters in the entourage, one is Liu Da and the other is Cao Xiu.