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  2. Hongwu Emperor - Wikipedia

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    After joining the rebels, he went by the name Zhu Yuanzhang. His father, Zhu Wusi, lived in Nanjing but fled to the countryside to avoid tax collectors. His paternal grandfather was a gold miner, and his maternal grandfather was a fortune-teller and seer. In 1344, during a plague epidemic, Zhu Yuanzhang's parents and two brothers died.

  3. Military conquests of the Ming dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Early in his reign, Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor), the founder of the Ming dynasty, laid down instructions to later generations that included advice to the Chief Military Commission on those countries that supposedly posed a threat to the Ming polity, and those that did not. He stated that those to the north were dangerous, while those to the ...

  4. He Who Drowned the World - Wikipedia

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    In He Who Drowned the World, Zhu Chongba, now Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is finally triumphant, happily married to a woman who knows the secret of her identity, and victorious, having liberated southern China from its Mongol masters. But her ambition is not yet satisfied: she means now to seize the throne and crown herself emperor.

  5. Four Major Cases of the early Ming dynasty - Wikipedia

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    In particular, Zhu Yuanzhang executed all 70 members of Li Shanchang's family. But Zhu went further and executed 30,000 people in total. [9] [10] [11] Liu Ji poisoned by Hu Weiyong and Zhu Yuanzhang. Li Shanchang and Liu Ji were political enemies. Zhu Yuanzhang paid Liu a salary of 240 stones (石), but paid Li a salary of 4000 stones. [12] Liu ...

  6. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  7. Battle of Lake Poyang - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Lake Poyang (Chinese: 鄱陽湖之戰; pinyin: Póyáng Hú Zhīzhàn) was a naval battle which took place (30 August – 4 October 1363) [note 1] between the rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang during the Red Turban Rebellion which led to the fall of the Yuan dynasty.

  8. Zhang (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Zhang ( ⓘ; traditional Chinese: 張; simplified Chinese: 张) is the third most common surname in China and Taiwan (commonly spelled as Chang in Taiwan), and it is one of the most common surnames in the world.

  9. Yuan (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Yuan (袁, Mandarin pronunciation: ⓘ) is a Chinese surname ranked 37th in China by population in 2019. [1] [2] In Standard Chinese, the surname is transliterated Yuán (hanyu pinyin) or Yüen 2" ().