In history, emperors punished sinners, and the most serious thing was to "zhulian nine tribes". In fact, there is also the saying of "Ten Tribes" on top of it, so what does the tenth tribe of the "Ten Tribes" refer to, that is, even the protégés and friends of sinners must be killed, so that there is no one in the world who knows him anymore.
Historically, only Fang Xiaoru was subjected to such torture, and the person who carried out this torture was Emperor Zhu Di. So why was Fang Xiaoru tortured like this? Next, I will talk about the story between Fang Xiaoru and Zhu Di.
This story also starts from our protagonist Fang Xiaoru. Fang Xiaoru (方孝孺), a native of Ninghai, with the character Xizhi (希直), was once known as ''Sunzhi'' as his studyhouse, and because his hometown used to belong to The City of Suicheng, he was called 'Mr. Suicheng';' Because when he was a professor in Hanzhong Province, King Xian of Shu gave him the name of "Zhengxue", also known as "Mr. Zhengxue".'
Fang Xiaoru was intelligent and studious since childhood, alert and agile, and when he grew up, he worshiped the great Confucian Song Lian as a teacher and was respected by his peers. From this, we can see that Fang Xiaoru was a very famous literati of the Ming Dynasty and a Confucian scholar. Fang Xiaoru, who was talented and outstanding, was summoned to the capital by Emperor Hui as an official in the thirty-first year of Hongwu, and successively served as a Hanlin attendant and a Hanlin scholar, which shows that Emperor Hui used him very much.
The climax of the story occurs in July of the first year of Jianwen, when Zhu Di, the King of Yan stationed in Beiping, swore an oath of "JingNan" in the name of "Qing Junfang", and swung his army south to beijing, and finally occupied the capital. In order to become the emperor in a justified manner, Zhu Di recruited the great scholar Fang Xiaoru, hoping that he would write an edict for the new emperor to take the throne.
Fang Xiaoru had loyalty to Emperor Hui in his heart, and the backbone of the literati did not allow him to write an edict for Zhu Di, and Fang Xiaoru scolded Zhu Di. Zhu Di threatened him with the annihilation of the Ten Tribes, and Fang Xiaoru was not afraid, "What about destroying the Ten Tribes?" Zhu Di ordered the ten clans of Filial Piety, 873 dead, and the execution to stop for seven days.
Therefore, the loyal and patriotic Fang Xiaoru eventually died at the hands of the cruel Zhu Di, taking the lives of many innocent people, which shows that Zhu Di is also a fierce person, so after Fang Xiaoru's death, who did Zhu Di find to write the edict?
After Fang Xiaoru's death, Zhu Di again asked Wang Dashan to write, wang Dashan, who was not inferior to The Rain Fang Xiaoru's literary master, the political minister. He was simple in nature, and he was known as the Five Talents of the Southeast with Xie Jin, Wang Wei, wang Lian, etc. There are "Nai Xuan Collection" and "Heavenly Travel Draft". There is a record in the wild history that Wang Dashan saw Fang Xiaoru's fate and had to help Zhu Di write.
However, Zhu Di was openly polite to him, and when he helped Zhu Di write the edict, Zhu Di still did some superficial work and gave him the title of official.
However, Zhu Di still looked down on Wang Dashan, and then wanted to kill him. So once, Zhu Di deliberately made it difficult for him, so he asked him about 10 strange words to read, Wang Dashan only recognized 8, and Zhu Di deliberately showed a very angry look after listening to it, and shouted: What do you want to use. Wang Shanda was terrified after hearing this, and then he understood that It turned out that Zhu Di was purely trying to make things difficult for himself, so he committed suicide after he returned home.
Why did Zhu Di want to kill Wang Dashan? For Zhu Di, Wang Dashan did not pose any threat.
The reason is that Zhu Di does not like such unfaithful officials, and Zhu Di hates people who flatter. Zhu Di felt that Wang Dashan had betrayed Emperor Jianwen today, and he could betray him tomorrow. So Zhu Di started to kill, but he didn't want to show it on the surface, so he designed the method of strange characters to make wang Dashan difficult.
The above statement appears in the wild history, but there is another version in the main history. It turned out that Wang Dashan died, but several of Wang Dashan's friends ended up in a bleak situation, such as Xie Jin, who committed suicide and died. Perhaps it was passed down by folk legends, and he put the bleak ending of his friend on Wang Dashan, and he had this strange story.
From the above, we can see that as a person, we must not swing left and right like Wang Dashan, and not strengthen our position, otherwise in the end, the most unfortunate person will be ourselves, and we must be a loyal and patriotic upright person like Fang Xiaoru, which is the right way in the world, and after death, we can also leave ourselves a good reputation and be deeply remembered by future generations. That's all I have to say in today's story.