Throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, he governed well during the Hongwu years, and indeed there was political purging, and there was no miasma of black smoke and miasma such as the dictatorship of eunuchs in later generations, the overthrow of the king of the clan, and the failure of the emperor to rule.
However, during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he was cruel and murderous, and the anti-corruption officials and officials were defiled to the point of madness, and everything was too late, and Zhu Yuanzhang's brutal and concise governing philosophy, self-esteem, suspicion and other despicable character traits led to the mass death of officials at that time.
It is said that once Zhu Yuanzhang fell, a hero came forward to help, and zhu Yuanzhang was dissatisfied and killed him. What is the reason for the kindness to help but be killed? All this has to start from the big battle between Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyu, the rise of a military general.
The time is set back to 1363, that year, the beautiful Poyang Lake has set off a storm, the time has finally come to this day, we started from the destruction of the family to ask for food, zhu Yuanzhang ushered in his life's old enemy Chen Youyu. At the beginning of the great war, Chen Youyu, who had 600,000 sailors in the "invincible division", should have won the fighter.
However, zhu Yuanzhang did not prevent Zhu Yuanzhang from taking advantage of the small boats, "left and right Fengyuan" and "left and right to open the bow" to burn the chen army's large ship company camp, and Zhao Yong was the most courageous general who burned down the enemy ships, and took advantage of the chaos in the fire to pursue and kill Chen Youyu, and made a great contribution. After the first appearance of his strength, he made great achievements in the Southern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Nanxiong.
When Zhao Yong was forty-six years old, he followed the founding father Xu Da deep into the Mongolian steppe to conquer the remnants of the previous dynasty, and once again made great contributions to avoiding future troubles, so that the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty could no longer become a climate, and could only submit to The Ming. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed, set up a banquet to celebrate, and rewarded the meritorious heroes.
During the banquet, because it was to celebrate the great victory of the war, the courtiers feasted and drank, and their happiness was harmonious. Who expected that at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang fell in the middle of the banquet, fell to the ground, and his body was in a bad shape. The courtiers knew that Zhu Yuanzhang's self-esteem was heavy, and he did not allow others to see him out of trouble, so he still drank and chatted for a while, as if nothing happened.
Zhao Yong, as one of the protagonists at this banquet, saw that the emperor fell down and was ignored, and under doubt, he still ran to help him in a sincere panic, and pretended not to see that it was a great disloyalty.
For a while, the situation was embarrassing, and everyone pretended not to know, but Zhu Yuanzhang's self-esteem was very angry, and he couldn't bear it on his face, but in his heart he wrote a note to this hero who didn't know how to do evil, and decided to settle the account after the autumn, and even very dissatisfied with wanting to kill him.
In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, in 1380, the Hu Weiyong case broke out, which was widely implicated, the prime minister Hu Weiyong was killed, the left and right ministers were deposed, zhongshu province was deposed, and many founding merits were sat consecutively. At that time, Zhao Yong was also implicated, but the generals of his same level were only dismissed from their posts and investigated, and Zhao Yong was brutally killed, causing his family to be exiled.
It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang decided on the life and death of Zhao Yong, he said it lightly: Kill. It was to avenge the embarrassment at the banquet many years ago. Zhu Yuanzhang's narrow-mindedness can be seen from this.
Therefore, under the absolute monarchy of feudal society, the ability alone is not enough to navigate the ups and downs of the eunuch sea, and the merit alone is not enough to sit on the mountain and eat the sky, and if you want to survive, you must also read the minds of those in power. Otherwise, Zhao Yong would not have dreamed that his death was due to a kind support at a banquet many years ago.
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