Zhu Yuanzhang, as the emperor with the lowest status in Chinese history, his journey to start a business can be described as arduous and bumpy, And Zhu Yuanzhang was able to seize the world, and a large part of the reasons for Zhu Yuanzhang's ability to win the world belonged to his subordinates, such as Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong, who made hanma merits and laid a solid foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang's rule.
In 1355, Hu Weiyong defected to Zhu Yuanzhang, who was still the king of Wu under Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, and served as the chief bookkeeper, and his extensive talent and excellent astute ability were fully recognized by Zhu Yuanzhang, and in 1367 he was appointed as the Taichang Shaoqing.
Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty in 1368, the year name Hongwu, Hu Weiyong also rose in the water, Hongwu three years he served as the governor of Zhongshu Province, and later as the right minister, in 1377 Hu Weiyong officially became the left minister, ranking first among the hundred officials.
This is inseparable from Zhu Yuanzhang's trust in him, Hu Weiyong himself treats the affairs entrusted to him by Zhu Yuanzhang, but also trembling, carefully and cautiously completing step by step, so Zhu Yuanzhang is very satisfied with him.
However, as Hu Weiyong became an official to a chancellor, he was slowly not satisfied with his position, his ambitions grew with the improvement of his status and power, and the major events of life, killing, and deposing within the imperial court sometimes did not report to Zhu Yuanzhang Hu Weiyong on his own, and he also had to take the chapters of the internal and external departments to see if there were any people who spoke badly about himself.
Yushi Liu Ji had impeached him at the imperial court, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not bother, but Hu Weiyong held a grudge in his heart, and once he took the opportunity to poison Liu Ji's meal and kill Liu Ji, so that no one in the imperial court dared to say that Hu Weiyong was not. Slowly, Hu Weiyong also began to peek into Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial throne.
While colluding with Li Shanchang and other important courtiers, he also plotted to send Lin Xian, the commander of Mingzhou Wei, out to sea in Japan to contact Wu Kou, and agreed to raise an army at a time, and Hu Weiyong also conspired with his own henchmen in the imperial court, hoping to one day directly eliminate Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Hu Weiyong suddenly told Zhu Yuanzhang when he was in the court one day that he had excavated Liquan (liquan is also wine) in the well in his home, and invited Zhu Yuanzhang to be able to go to the banquet to drink together, Zhu Yuanzhang felt very fresh, after all, Liquan was just a myth made up by ancient people in the past, he agreed, and after the next dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang prepared a carriage and horses, and gladly went to find out.
In fact, this is just a story made up by Hu Weiyong, in order to attract Zhu Yuanzhang to take the bait, in Hu Weiyong's mansion has long been arranged densely packed with knives and axes, but all this was seen by the eunuch named Yunjie who guarded the Xihua Gate, and when Zhu Yuanzhang's car passed through the Xihua Gate, Yun Qi chased after it and did not let the vehicle go forward.
But because he ran too fast, gasped for breath, did not have time to speak, just pulled the horse to not let go, Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry, thinking that he was very rude, let the left and right with a melon hammer hammer, Yun Qi was beaten to death, but before he lost his breath, he still was still dying and pointing at Hu Weiyong's mansion.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also a very suspicious person, he immediately felt that something was wrong, so he climbed the city tower of Xihua Gate and looked up at Hu Weiyong's mansion, and sure enough, he found a lot of knives and axemen inside, Zhu Yuanzhang was horrified, hurriedly got up and drove back to the palace, and then sent people and horses to catch Hu Weiyong at the door and arrest him for rebellion.
At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang did not forget the little eunuch who was blocked by death, zhu Yuanzhang posthumously gave him the title of Zuo Shaojian, and during the later Jiajing Emperor period, he was posthumously awarded the title of Si Li eunuch as a reward for his sacrifice to save the car.