During the war years, the people were in dire straits. At the end of the yuan dynasty, the people's living conditions were bad, the court was incompetent, and the people complained bitterly. Not only that, the court had no time to take care of people's livelihood, and was also involved in party disputes. The Crown Prince and Yuan Shundi fought their own battles, and the infighting never stopped. At this time, the sudden emergence of Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang quickly attracted countless people to join and quickly expanded each other's team.
With the best opportunity to fight, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang's basic strategy of reunifying the South is peasant uprising, but their ideas are totally unnecessary. Chen Youliang regards mountains as king and pays more attention to his own power, while Zhu Yuanzhang pursues people's livelihood. At that time, there was endless internal strife in the Yuan Dynasty, and the south was in the leisure of no one. Both Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang want to take the south as their base and start a counterattack. Whoever occupies the south first will take the lead, so they must go to war.
The strategy of "live first and then settle in" is the way to survive. The Yuan Dynasty at that time was not an iron wall. Zhu Yuanzhang knew that his nemesis was Chen Youliang and the king of the uprising, not the chaotic Yuan Dynasty. Facing the same situation, if we want to unify the whole country, unless we accept Chen Youliang for our own use, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang are evenly matched and full of contradictions. Since you can't save * * *, you can only save one and change it.
Zhu Yuanzhang chose to defeat Chen Youliang first and master the greatest advantage, so as to take advantage of the situation, win the Yuan Dynasty and unify the whole country. Facts have proved that this is a very wise choice, and his wisdom has created a new era.