The introducer of heavy bamboo as a punishment at court, mentioning his humble origins was a hanging
The introducer of heavy bamboo as a punishment at court, mentioning his humble origins was a hanging offense.  His small but swift barges defeated Ch'en Yu-liang's huge fleet of war junks at the three-day battle of Po-yang Lake. When his prime minister Hu Wei-yung was implicated in a plot to overthrow him, he had him executed along with 30,000 conspirators. A member of Kuo Tzuhsing's rebel forces, he eventually became Kuo's second-in-command and married his adopted daughter, the princess Ma.  FTP, name this Chinese emperor, who ruled from 1368-98, the founder of the Ming dynasty.
The introducer of heavy bamboo as a punishment at court, mentioning his humble origins was a hanging offense.  
Chu Yuan-Chang or Hung Wu or Shih Kao-Ti or Ming T'ai Tsu