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The Hongwu emperor; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who later became the Hongwu emperor, captured Nanjing in 1356.1
After seizing the city, he used it as a strategic base near the Yangtze River delta to establish an effective administration and eventually launch his campaign to unify China and found the Ming dynasty.12