Zhu Yuanzhang

"A good millitary man first surpress moving enemies with stability, then bewilder them with ease, finally crush them with joy."

- Zhu Yuan Zhang The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founder and first emperor of China's Ming dynasty.

In the middle of the 14th century, with famine, plagues, and peasant revolts sweeping across China, Zhu Yuanzhang rose to command the force that conquered China and ended the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty, forcing the Mongols to retreat to the Central Asian steppes. Following his seizure of the Yuan capital, Khanbaliq (present-day Beijing), Zhu claimed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Ming dynasty in 1368. Trusting only in his family, he made his many sons powerful feudal princes along the northern marshes and the Yangtze valley.[

The emperor continued to hunt for the Mongols after founding the dynasty, believing that the Mongols would always be a threat for Ming if they hadn't been eliminated. So he organized his troops to march into the Northern part in order to completely kick the Mongolians out of sight. These long marches led by Zhu himself had been proved successful due to the fact that Mongolian harassment in Northern boarder disappeared for decades of years.