After Zhu Yuanzhang crossed the river and captured Yingtian (now Nanjing), he officially became a separatist force. In order to stabilize his power and ease the hostility of Yuan Ting and other rebel forces, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted the policy of "building a wall, accumulating grain, and slowly claiming the throne" put forward by Zhu Sheng, a counselor in the founding strategy. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't claim the title of king or emperor as Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang did in the early days, and he was still politically attached to the Longfeng regime in Han Liner, and was named the martial Lord of China. After defeating Chen Youliang, the biggest rival in the world, and establishing his absolute superiority of dominating the world, Zhu Yuanzhang accepted the suggestions of officials and changed his name to the King of Wu. People call the Wu regime established by Zhu Yuanzhang the Western Wu, and the Wu regime established by Zhang Shicheng in Suzhou the Wu Dong.

So, since Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, he used the titles of Wu Zetian and King Wu. But why did you choose "Daming" instead of "Wu" as the national title after you proclaimed yourself emperor? The author believes that there are mainly the following reasons.

First of all, use the religious influence of Zoroastrianism (Manichaeism) and Anbailism to suppress Xiaoming with "Daming", thus showing that you are the real destiny in the world.

After the Southern Song Dynasty, Zoroastrianism introduced from Persia (now Iran) was related to Anbailism, and the insurgents of the Red Scarf Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty were basically Anbailists. Leaders of the Red Scarf Army, such as Korea, Japan, etc., were inspired by the predictions that "Maitreya Buddha was born, was born" and had a far-reaching influence among the people. History: ... (Shan Tong) advocated: "The world was in chaos, Maitreya was born, and the Ming king was born. People in Jianghuai, Henan, suddenly believed. "

However, Han Liner of Longfeng regime claimed to be "Wang Xiaoming", and Zhu Yuanzhang took "Daming" as the country name instead of "Wu" (the official country name of the Ming Dynasty was "Daming", which was different from the previous single-word country name dynasty), so "Daming" could be used to suppress "Xiaoming" in Han Liner. Thus, it shows the believers of Ambry that they are the real fate of "Maitreya was born, and Ming Wang was born", and Han Liner is just a fake master.

Secondly, breaking off the relationship with the Longfeng regime in Han Liner politically can also eliminate the notoriety of "regicide" to a certain extent.

In fact, Han Liner is only the object of Zhu Yuanzhang's political attachment, and they are not really subordinate to the monarch and subjects. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Liao Yongzhong to sink and killed Han Liner, which is essentially different from Chen Youliang's killing of Xu Shouhui. Xu Shouhui is the real monarch of Chen Youliang, while Han Liner is only the nominal monarch of Zhu Yuanzhang.

The titles of Wu Guogong and Wu Wang used by Zhu Yuanzhang were all vassals of Han Liner by Han Liner in political names. Zhu Yuanzhang did not use "Wu" as the title, but also to cut with the Longfeng regime. It shows that he is not a vassal of Han Liner and has no direct inheritance relationship with Longfeng regime. So, even if Han Liner dies, he can't get rid of the suspicion. But because I don't recognize your legitimacy, you are not my monarch, and even if I kill you, I am not regicide.

Third, "Wu" has typical regional characteristics in the south of the Yangtze River and is not suitable as the title of the unified dynasty.

In the history of China, the names of many dynasties and separatist regimes were mostly taken from the names of northern governors in the pre-Qin period, especially the more powerful names of northern governors. For example, Zhou, Qin, Wei, Jin, Tang (Tang is actually another name for Jin, and Jin was changed from Tang), Zhao, Yan, Qi and so on.

Although Chu, Wu and Yue in the south were also popular during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, they were obviously not as popular as the names of northern governors. Its root lies in that, in the traditional sense, China is located in the Yellow River valley in the north, and Chu, Wu and Yue in the south are just the Na 'an regime. Therefore, the names of northern governors can show that Chinese civilization is in full swing. However, the names of southern governors always give people a feeling of being in the corner. As the dominant southern regime, "Wu" is more appropriate. As the title of the unified dynasty, "Wu" is not appropriate. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang did not continue to use "Wu" as the national title.