In the fifteenth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang (played by Chen) revisited the temple with his wife. When he saw the majestic Huang Jue Temple, he was very happy and recalled all the hardships he had started there: in Huang Jue Temple in Haozhou, Zhu Yuanzhang was a young monk who carried water and did rough work. The Zen master in the temple saw that he was clever, but he had no Zen mind before the Buddha, so he was taught to read history books well. Due to repeated defeats and famines, there was not enough porridge for monks in the temple, so Zhu Yuanzhang had to run around and began a four-year begging career. He fainted from hunger several times and was later rescued. Although I don't have enough to eat, I secretly observe the changes in my temples; When the Yuan Dynasty was in turmoil, he decided that this was a great opportunity to be a hero in troubled times, so he joined the Guo Zixing Red Scarf Army and became Guo Zixing (played by Tang Guoqiang).

Guo Zixing was kidnapped by the gangster Zhao Junyong. Zhu Yuanzhang designed to marry Guo Zixing's daughter Ma Xiuying (played by Xu Fan), and took the opportunity to defeat Zhao Junyong and rescue Guo Zixing. Guo Zixing was moved to marry his adopted daughter Ma Xiuying to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang led the troops to fight, repeatedly made meritorious military service, and his prestige became higher and higher. Many people with lofty ideals defected to his flag. Guo Zixing listened to rumors and wanted to keep all Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers as his own. Zhu Yuanzhang retired and forbeared, and readily agreed, winning the trust of Guo Zixing and the sympathy of the soldiers. After Guo Zixing's death, Zhu Yuanzhang led the army. He was kind to his advisers and won the hearts of the people. It was a few minutes in the world: Chen Youliang (played by Qingxiang Li) was in the west, Zhang Shicheng was in the east, and Wang Xiaoming was fighting the Yuan Army in the north, so Zhu Yuanzhang advanced to the south of the Yangtze River and gradually embraced him.

There are large areas of land such as Jianghuai, Huguang, Fujian and Zhejiang, and he began to recruit wise men and seek great cause. At this time, the master of Buddhism (played by Princess Shin) recommended the "Four Saints of Zhejiang" to him. After the army captured Maozhou, some officers and men began to commit fornication. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Zhu Yuanzhang killed the officers and men by mistake, and dedicated it to his own beauty, Su (played by Pan Yuchen), who set off a crusade against him. In order to make up for his own mistakes, Zhu Yuanzhang was heartbroken and resolutely set up a "guilt monument" in front of Su's tomb, frankly repented, and finally won the attachment of the "four sages of Zhejiang"; At this point, the rebels from all walks of life are surging and dominating one side. Zhu Yuanzhang tried his best, kept a straight face, accepted the advice of the Buddhist master "Build a wall to accumulate grain, and slowly become king", bowed to the north of Wang Xiaoming, devoted himself to expanding his territory and team, waited for the opportunity, and never publicized his arrogance.

Under the stratagem of Liu Bowen (played by Hong Tao), Zhu Yuanzhang defeated the armies of Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng. At this time, Wang Xiaoming in the north made a decree to take Jinling as Beijing. On the surface, Zhu Yuanzhang promised to meet him by the river, but secretly, Wang Xiaoming drowned. When xiao ming wang died, Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor and established the Ming Dynasty.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, everything remained to be done, and all counties returned to the wind. As the founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang emphasized honesty and self-discipline: yang xian (played by Wang), the prime minister, cheated for his nephew's hometown test, and was caught by Zhu Yuanzhang on the spot and beheaded yang xian; Minister Li Shanchang (played by Jiang Hua) accepts bribes from his nephew, and Zhu Yuanzhang orders him to strip grass to warn everyone; Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew (played by Wang) sold officials and bought officials, and set up private slaves. Zhu Yuanzhang's loyalty is above family loyalty, and he hopes his children will take warning. He returned to work after taking the local exam. He appointed people on their merits, reduced or exempted taxes, punished corrupt officials, visited incognito, and plowed the fields himself, which was once praised by the people as heaven.

But Zhu Yuanzhang's lust and greed also expanded rapidly with the addition of the imperial robe. He began to hold general elections for women's monasteries to enrich the harem. He captured the love of Jin Ju, the maid of the Queen (played by Zhao), his separated wife and sister (played by Xiao Xiaobao) and his lover Lan Yu (played by Li), and Chu, a talented woman (played), disguised as a man, took part in the provincial examination and won the first place. Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Chu's saving his life and lusted after his beauty, forcing him to fight to the death. Although there were many concubines, Zhu Yuanzhang was impressed by the virtue of Queen Ma Xiuying and respected her very much. When he heard that people in the street abused the queen with riddles, he killed the whole street in a rage.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not sit back and relax after he laid the country. He always felt that the imperial court was in danger everywhere, and the dispute between monarch and minister and the dispute over rights was like an arrow leaving the string. Chen Youliang's Queen Dalan (played by Kadi Linna) was occupied by Zhu Yuanzhang, who was pregnant with Chen Youliang's flesh and blood. After giving birth to the posthumous son Zhu Xi, he vowed to retake the country and avenge Chen Youliang, so he wooed the minister Hu (played) in an attempt to get Zhu Yuanzhang to abolish the prince; After being caught by Zhu Yuanzhang, Dalan used Wanshou Festival to assassinate Zhu Yuanzhang. Monks in Huang Jue Temple realized their hatred for Zhu Yuanzhang, cut off their tongues and madly retaliated against Zhu Yuanzhang. Minister Hu used Zhu Yuanzhang's trust in himself to design and frame Zhongliang, establish cronies, expand his wings, and draw Zhu Yuanzhang's former enemies to his own hands to seize imperial power; General aquamarine was stationed at the border, held the military power, took credit for himself, had an affair with Zhu Yuanzhang's concubine, and hoped to rebel against the court.

Zhu Yuanzhang smashed the "monument of guilty self" in front of Su's tomb, and set up a Royal Guards and Daxing Literary Prison, which showed the power and ferocity of imperial power to the fullest. Hu wanted to take this opportunity to kill Zhu Yuanzhang because he had ancient blowout wine at home. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Liu Luyu's army to surround Hu Fu, arrest Hu, and behead Hu and his henchmen. General aquamarine planned a rebellion, and Zhu Yuanzhang took the lead, captured it, dismembered it, and killed all the more than 10 thousand people involved. Suspicion and fear led Zhu Yuanzhang to kill people. He almost killed the founding fathers and heroes. While defending the Daming Mountain he laid with sweat and sweat, he also felt a sense of loneliness that he had imperial power but was "unattainable".