Zhu Yuanzhang experienced ups and downs in his life, his family's ancestors lived by farming, and they could only go hungry in the face of natural disasters. His parents and brother died of starvation. In order to survive, Zhu Yuanzhang went up the mountain to work as a monk and begged down the mountain. Even in childhood, he had to herd cattle for the landlord's family to get food and clothing. He can be said to have gone through hardships before he walked on the dragon chair. As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in order to consolidate his rule, he did a reprehensible thing, that is, to kill the founding hero.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was no longer an ordinary person in the original, and he was also worried that someone would compete with him for power and thrones, such as the famous Blue Jade Case, which involved a large number of people, reaching 15,000 people. It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang's personality is still a lot of doubts, and he is also fierce enough. He also once entertained the courtiers, ostensibly to reward everyone, but this was a "Hongmen banquet".
Mainly for his grandson Zhu Yunjiao to eradicate the troubles, to get rid of those ministers with different intentions, as long as those who do not meet his wishes, or people who are too powerful, will lose their lives in the feast. But there are two people who can escape the disaster, they are Liu Bowen and Xu Da, why can these two ministers escape the disaster?
Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang's dishes at the banquet tasted very light, only green vegetables, green onion tofu soup, fried radish and so on. The minister was reluctant to eat it when he saw it, and felt that he had no appetite and was difficult to swallow. After all, these ministers usually eat mountain treasures and seafood at home, and suddenly changing them into vegetarian dishes eaten by ordinary people will become very unaccustomed.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw the situation and quickly asked the imperial chef to change several meat dishes, two of which were rabbit meat and dog meat. As soon as the ministers saw that there was meat to eat, they immediately became appetizing and immediately moved their chopsticks to eat. A few people were happy and drank a little wine. Chat and drink in your seat. This scene looked very festive and lively, but Liu Bowen did not eat a bite, thought for a while, turned his head and whispered to Xu Da beside him: "We are going to die." Xu Da had not yet figured out the situation in front of him, and he quickly whispered, "Why did you say this?" ”
Liu Bowen continued: "Rabbits are cooked by dead dogs, and when rabbits are hunted and killed, the hounds also lose their value and can only be boiled and eaten. It means that after the success of the matter, all the people who have done the credit will be killed. Now, the fate of those of us who have made meritorious achievements is like that of this hound. Xu Da broke out in a cold sweat after listening to it, and did not move his chopsticks like Liu Bowen.
Later, the ministers who ate the meat dishes did not survive. One after another, they were executed under various names. It is not an easy task to run errands around the emperor, although he is high and powerful, living a rich life, but it is difficult to ensure that one day he will suddenly fall to the ground. As the saying goes, a companion is like a companion of a tiger, a little carelessness, the courtiers are easy to lose their lives, encountering an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang, among the ministers, there are people who can keep the peace of life, it is already very lucky.