Fang Guozhen

…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 in the North China Plain, these rebel states to the south wrangled for survival and supremacy. Out of…

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 other hand, Chen Youting, a Yuan loyalist…