The Ming Dynasty was the last dynasty in Chinese history ruled by the Han Chinese, and the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was born in cloth clothes, and after decades and hardships and dangers, he finally "snatched" power from the hands of the Yuan people and unified the world. However, after Zhu Yuanzhang gained the right to rule, his temperament changed greatly, and he became more and more suspicious, even the "brothers" who had followed him to fight in the world were merciless, which eventually led to almost one-third of the officials dying under his "butcher's knife", and those who held high positions of power were more likely to be jealous of him, but the six founding kings of the Ming Dynasty survived the death and died well.
As for why Zhu Yuanzhang wantonly "purged" the court after claiming to be the empress, the reason was still selfishness. We may wish to think about how Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, born in a poor family, ate the last meal without eating, and when his parents died, they could only wrap things up in worn-out clothes; they also begged for food as monks, scolded and fought. This is a bitter child who can't be bitter any longer, who would have thought that he would be able to destroy yuan and become emperor in the future! He was an emperor who had suffered hardships and designed to kill King Xiaoming, and he understood how his world came to be obtained, saying that the empress naturally had to think more than others. On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded these heroes who helped him win the world, but at the same time, he was afraid that their high positions and powers would endanger his throne; on the other hand, he also needed to find a stable and controllable court for his children, and ministers like Hu Weiyong must not stay.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who became emperor, was brutal and indiscriminate, and many civilian and military generals did not let go, and in the "Qing suppression" again and again, the court changed blood, but six of the Ming dynasty generals were able to survive unharmed.
The six founding generals of the Ming Dynasty were Chang Yuchun, Tang He, Mu Ying, Xu Da, Li Wenzhong and Deng Yu. These six were deeply loved and trusted by the emperor before they died, which was also an important reason why they could enjoy their old age in peace, after all, life and death were all between the emperor's thoughts.
First of all, Xu Da, Xu Da is known as the first hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Xu Da was four years younger than Zhu Yuanzhang, born in a peasant family, and joined Zhu Yuanzhang's account at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang was still working as an errand boy under Guo Ziyi. Soon after Xu arrived at the barracks, Zhu Yuanzhang found that this man was brave in battle. During the attack on Chuzhou in the fourteenth year of Zhizheng, Xu Da charged forward on the battlefield, bravely killed the enemy, and was a fierce general. Until the sixteenth year of Zhizheng, during which he participated in the quarry, Jiqing and other Jiangnan regions were also very brave and successfully captured. From the nineteenth year to the twenty-fourth year of Zhizheng, when Zhu Yuanzhang was expending efforts to deal with Chen Youyu, Xu Da obeyed Zhu Yuanzhang's dispatches and took the lead in going to Hongdu to repel Chen Youyu's fierce attack. Soon Chen Youyu turned his gun and aimed it at Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youyu led 600,000 troops, Zhu Yuanzhang only had 200,000, in the case of an extreme disparity in the strength of the two sides, Xu Da and Chen Youyu fought fiercely all night, and together with Zhu Yuanzhang finally annihilated Chen Youyi's 600,000 troops. In the 25th year of Zhizheng, Xu Da was appointed as the chief military officer and led 200,000 troops to attack Zhang Shicheng, eventually forcing Zhang Shicheng to hang himself. In the 27th year of Zhengzheng, Xu Da became a general of the Conquest and began the Northern Expedition, until Hongwu conquered Tongzhou in the first year, and the Yuan Dynasty fell. Soon after, he was ordered to go north to conquer the Northern Yuan and suppress the remnants of the Mongol forces. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the imperial court gave his mansion the title of "Great Attack Fang", and Xu Da died of illness two years later at the age of 53. His whole life had been in the southern conquest and the northern war, how could Zhu Yuanzhang "bear it" to doubt him and kill him?
Tang He, compared with Xu Da, is more cautious, intelligent and alert, and is a military expert. He was three years older than Zhu Yuanzhang, the first person to lead Zhu Yuanzhang to the anti-Yuan rule, although when Zhu Yuanzhang was under Guo Zixing's account, Zhu Yuanzhang gradually surpassed Tang He in terms of official positions and rewards, but Tang He knew in his heart that Zhu Yuanzhang was a person who had achieved great things, and he willingly followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight in the world. Like Xu Da, he participated in the battle to suppress Chen Youyu and Zhang Shicheng, and his contribution was indispensable. Defeat Boyan Timur, capture barbarian leaders, capture tens of thousands of enemies, etc... If you let Tang He be a strategist, he is also fully capable of taking responsibility, because he is not only smart, but also good at reading other people's minds. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the world was at peace and society was stable. At this time, Tang He gradually realized that Zhu Yuanzhang was becoming more and more sensitive and suspicious, so he wisely returned to his hometown until his death. Tang He and Zhu Yuanzhang were still childhood playmates in the same village, in addition, Zhu Yuanzhang saw Tang He voluntarily surrender his military power, had no intention of glory and wealth, and let down his guard against him, which were also two reasons why Tang He could enjoy his old age safely.
Let's talk about often spring. Chang Yuchun is two years younger than Zhu Yuanzhang, this person is more arrogant, but the strength is really there. The poor family was born, forced by life, and worked as a bandit in his early years, and then abandoned the thief as a good thing. After following Zhu Yuanzhang, he participated in the Battle of Quzhou, and since then he has killed a bloody road, and after a long period of fierce fighting, he finally let the Yuan soldiers lose their dominant position in Quzhou. The Battle of JiuhuaShan solved the primary difficulty of the battle for the soldiers to find water at that time, and then followed Xu Da and others to break Chen Youyu and capture the Capital of Yuan, and finally died of illness on the way back to the south, at the age of forty-nine. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet established the Ming Dynasty, and it can be said that Chang Yuchun did not persist until the period when Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne of God and was suspicious and "escaped" a disaster.
Mu Ying, at the age of eight, was adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang as a righteous son to participate in the peasant uprising, taught him to read and write, and began to serve in the army at the age of eighteen. From three to fourteen years, Hongwu followed Zhu Yuanzhang on his journey to seize the world, during which Mu Ying attacked Sichuan and Tibet, captured Tumen Gorge, captured the Duke of Yuan Dynasty, and followed Xu Da on the Northern Expedition, and his combat experience was already very rich. Later, he pacified wusa and dongchuan, and once guarded Yunnan alone, but soon died of excessive vomiting of blood due to the death of his own righteous mare empress and crown prince Zhu Biao, only forty-eight years old. Although Mu Ying was not Zhu Yuanzhang's biological son, he treated him as if he were his own and cultivated with his heart, and Zhu Yuanzhang was deeply saddened to learn the news of his death.
Li Wenzhong, who was the nephew of Zhu Yuanzhang, was both a general who led troops to fight and a courtier who commanded the battle. When Li Wenzhong was twelve years old, his mother died, and his father took him to Zhu Yuanzhang, who liked him very much and adopted him as an adopted son. In the journey of following Zhu Yuanzhang to lead the army to fight, he successfully pinned down Zhang Shicheng, Pingding Jianzhou, Yanzhou and other places, zhu Yuanzhang trusted and valued him more and more. Later, he followed Chang Yuchun to conquer the Northern Yuan and quell the rebellion with Mu Ying, until Hongwu was treated at home due to illness in the sixteenth year, zhu Yuanzhang personally visited the disease, and finally died of illness. Zhu Yuanzhang suspected that the doctor at that time, Huazhong, had been poisoned, so he ordered his expulsion, and all the other doctors and their relatives were executed, which showed that Li Wenzhong's death made Zhu Yuanzhang feel sad.
Finally, there was Deng Yu. Deng Yu was a tall man with a strong body, wit and courage, and from the point of view of his stature, he was a good material for leading soldiers to fight. He led his own troops at the age of sixteen, and later led his own troops to join Zhu Yuanzhang in Xuyi County, and after following Zhu Yuanzhang, he also went south to fight in the northern war, crossing the Yangtze River, attacking Taiping, taking the Zhenjiang River and pingding Tubo, and achieving many achievements in battle. After conquering Tubo, Banshi returned to the dynasty, died of illness on the way, and was crowned the King of Ninghe by Zhu Yuanzhang. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang established Daming, but the situation in the whole country was not yet stable, and the remnants of the Yuan army were still being suppressed, and Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet shown his suspicion at this time.
The above six are the founding generals of the Ming Dynasty in history, who have dedicated their lives to the Ming Dynasty, and fortunately their supporters have not failed them!