China: Zhu Yuanzhang

In 1352, Zhu Yuanzhang joined the Guo Zixin detachments, a native of the peasants whose family was killed by an epidemic, which at one time was a wandering monk. He showed leadership and organizational skills and in 1355 after the death of Guo Zixin led his army.

The following year, Zhu Yuanzhang made his bid City Yingtian (Nanjing), entrenched in a rich and economically developed area of the lower reaches of the river. Changjiang. Here he organized the army and began building a state apparatus on the basis of traditional Chinese principles, but with certain elements adopted by the Mongols (especially in the military organization).

Initially, Zhu Yuanzhang nominally subordinated to the "Red Army", but after their defeat in 1363, he headed already completely independent insurgency. In the years 1363-1365. His troops routed the grouping of the strengthened rebel leader Chen Yuliang, and then - the troops of Zhang Shichen and Fang Guozhen. The territory, subordinated to Zhu Yuanzhang, expanded, his army increased and became stronger. In 1367, his commander Lia Da made a trip to the North and expelled the Mongol rulers from China. In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor of the new Ming empire (1368-1644), whose capital originally remained in Intiana.

The main task of the new authorities in the field of foreign policy was the expulsion of the Mongols and their proteges from all over the country and preventing the relapse of the Mongol invasion. China: Zhu Yuanzhang ....

By 1372 attempts by the Mongolian khans to regain lost ground in China were reflected. The displacement of the former authorities from individual regions of the country went on until 1387. By the time indicated, the boundaries of the Ming Empire had stabilized: in the north-east they covered the Liaodong Peninsula and the lower reaches of the River. Liaohe, in the north they walked along the Great Wall of China, leaving the Ordos behind the Mongols, in the west included the southeastern part of Gansu and the narrow Gansu corridor up to Dunhuang, in the southwest captured Sichuan and Yunnan.

In the south at the beginning of the XV century. - at the height of military and political power of Ming - an attempt was made to conquer Vietnam. In 1406-1407 years. Chinese troops occupied the country. But the Vietnamese people did not reconcile and conducted a stubborn struggle for liberation. As a result, by 1428 the Chinese troops were forced to leave.

China: Zhu Yuanzhang