Since Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he has attached importance to the Jiangshan Sheji and the interests of the people as the premise, although he is more suspicious and has eliminated many eunuchs and ministers, but he regards the people as a treasure. He has always known the meaning of this sentence, so he must not do anything that endangers the interests of the people, let alone let his princes and ministers touch the bottom limit.
However, some princes believed that if they did wrong, they would be stripped of their titles at most, and they could not execute themselves. But this kind of thinking is a big mistake, in principle, Zhu Yuanzhang will not be soft, nor will he give in. From an early age, he hated corrupt officials, so after becoming emperor, he studied dozens of tortures in order to punish these corrupt people. However, his own horse was looking for stubble, and finally he was executed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
It is said that Zhu treats his relatives ruthlessly, in fact, he has his own grievances, and the son of heaven should be guilty of the same crime as the common people when he breaks the law, and this is true for his son-in-law, and even more so for his son. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang made his sons the king of the domain and let them go to various places to guard the towns, of which his tenth son Zhu Tan was sealed in Shandong. The punishment is insulting, what mistake did Zhu Tan make? Why did Zhu Yuanzhang torture him?
He once explained to these princes that they must love the people like sons, be kind to the people of the land, and must not cause trouble or act recklessly. Everyone obeyed the emperor's teachings, but Zhu Tan was not afraid of death, but went to Shandong, not only did not guard the land well, but studied alchemy. Even Princess Tang was involved, and also volunteered to take the genitals of 100 boys as medicine, and as soon as the news came out, the people were restless and panicked. After all, the paper could not contain the fire, and the matter was soon exposed, and Zhu Yuanzhang stabbed Tang Shi to death and tortured Zhu Tan.
Punishment is a very insulting criminal law, it is not a cruel criminal law, that is, to strip any part of the person's hair. This kind of criminal law makes it worse for a tortured person to die, and accepting this criminal law not only humiliates himself, but also humiliates his ancestors, and the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang punishes Zhu Tan in this way is to warn him of the seriousness of the matter. It is also a warning to other princes and ministers not to do anything that harms the face of their ancestors, let alone violate their own principles and limits.
This kind of criminal law is actually more uncomfortable than death, it seems that this time Zhu Tan really angered Zhu Yuanzhang, otherwise Zhu Yuanzhang would not have used this criminal law in this way. Zhu Tan was Zhu Yuanzhang's tenth son, and his mother was guo Ningfei, the favorite concubine of his father, because of his mother's favor, so Zhu Yuanzhang was also very fond of and liked this son, but because of his indisputable anger, Zhu Yuanzhang no longer had any hope for him.
Zhu Tan's deeds also made the princes a little alarmed, and Zhu Yuanzhang's approach actually had some meaning of killing chickens and scaring monkeys, after all, the newly established Ming Dynasty could not be destroyed in the hands of these ignorant people!