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...erstwhile general of the rebel Han regime named Ming Yuzhen; and Wu in the rich Yangtze delta area, under a former Grand Canal boatman named Zhang Shicheng. A onetime salt trader and smuggler named Fang Guozhen had simultaneously established an autonomous coastal satrapy in Zhejiang. While Yuan chieftains contended with one another for dominance at the capital, Dadu (present-day Beijing), and...
...event perhaps contrived by Zhu. In the same year Zhang Shicheng was captured and brought to Nanjing, where he committed suicide. Other rebels decided to submit or were eliminated. One such was Fang Guozhen, one of the first to rebel against the Mongols, who had operated as a pirate along the coast; when he surrendered to Zhu, he was given honours and a stipend but no real power. On the...
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