As we all know, the ancient royal power struggle was very fierce, especially the king's power that had been painstakingly torn down and rebuilt. At the beginning of the establishment, they encountered various difficulties, and many leaders often killed the founding heroes to avoid the high merits and threats to their own position. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, zhu Yuanzhang, in order to consolidate his position, also killed many founding heroes, and killed all but left one person, this person is Xu Da. Zhu Yuanzhang killed countless people but left Xu Da, which made many people very puzzled, so what is the reason?
Xu Da is one of Zhu Yuanzhang's many founding heroes, and the relationship between the two has always been very good. But in the face of power, there are only monarchs and no brothers. Xu Da's loyalty to Zhu Yuanzhang was tested by many tests, and in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang dared to share the honor with Xu Da, but Xu Da flatly refused. You can call brothers, but you can't share the honor of brothers.
Zhu Yuanzhang mainly left Xu Da for the following reasons: The first point is that Xu Da has a clear distinction between primary and secondary, and he is very modest. Whether it was before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da followed Zhu Yuanzhang, or after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da led troops to go out every year, contributing all his strength to Zhu Yuanzhang. When he was praised, Xu Da was also very modest, and he would not let his credit overshadow Zhu Yuanzhang.
The second reason why Zhu Yuanzhang left Xu Da was because of Xu Da's life-saving grace to himself. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was only an inconspicuous deputy general. Being able to be saved by Xu Da when he was inconspicuous, and Xu Da almost exchanged his life for Zhu Yuanzhang, becoming a hostage himself, and may face the threat of his life at any time, which also made Zhu Yuanzhang grateful to him a hundred times.
The third reason why Zhu Yuanzhang left Xu Da was that Xu Da still knew how to respect Zhu Yuanzhang after he had real power. Whether it was zhu Yuanzhang's old knowledge or the talents that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to reuse, Xu Da could have handled it on his own after the successful conquest, but he would have written to Zhu Yuanzhang, and after telling Zhu Yuanzhang, he would seek a way to deal with it. This also allowed Zhu Yuanzhang to truly feel the supremacy of the king from Xu Da.
It is precisely for these three reasons that Zhu Yuanzhang left Xu Da's life alone on the basis of almost killing all the founding heroes. And willing to share with Xu Da, and also ridiculed Xu Da, and eventually the two also coexisted in the name of brothers.
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