After Zhu Yuanzhang ended the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and 70 years before the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the development of the Ming Dynasty was very great. During the rest period, firstly, the royal family, the fenced bamboo forest and some landlord classes all gained great benefits, while the lower class people at that time suffered serious exploitation although they avoided the pain of war. However, Zhu Yuanzhang has been cracking down on corruption during his reign, but it is obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang has not done this. After his death, corruption in the Ming Dynasty became even worse.

At that time, there was a social problem in the Ming dynasty, that is, the land was scattered during the land merger period. At that time, there were no so-called big landlords, but at 1377, there were 38,094 tenants in six countries of new noble. In the last year, there were only 1 1,000 households, indicating that there were more than 20,000 households in just one year, quadrupling.

1377, Zhu Yuanzhang specially ordered some retired officials to buy his apprentice Zhu Yuanzhang in his hometown. This was originally intended to appease subordinates, but after they got there, these officials began to use the preferential policies given by Zhu Yuanzhang to annex land on a large scale. On the surface, Zhu Yuanzhang exempted some local taxes, but actually provided a loophole for these officials.

Because we can imagine that the newly established treasury in the Ming Dynasty was already in deficit, and Zhu Yuanzhang exempted officials from taxes on a large scale. As a result, the tax at that time was passed on to the local people. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he could ease the policies of the local people, but it aggravated their difficulties. Coupled with some local management corruption and some natural disasters, the life of farmers at that time was actually very difficult. Until 70 years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the peasant uprising in the Ming Dynasty continued. Mainly distributed in the southeast, south and west of Ming Dynasty. When these areas were big, hundreds of thousands of people took part in the uprising. Such an enterprise scale is very rare for a stable and long-term dynasty.