Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was benevolent and loved the people, but in terms of governing officials, he was extremely cruel and cruel, and he was not soft on officials, even his father-in-law Hu Mei. The root cause is to trace the origin of Taizu. Zhu Yuanzhang was born into a very poor family, and in order to eat enough, he worked as a cow herder, a monk, and even begged along the street.
After Zhu Yuanzhang defected to Guo Zixing's Red Turban Army, he completed the turning point of his fate, he rose from an ordinary soldier, step by step to the chief soldier, and then to the commander, after experiencing countless battles, he finally established his Ming Dynasty, thus coming to the world and spurring Siyu.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hu Mei's identity was the founding hero and zhu Yuanzhang's father-in-law, but in the end he could not escape the fate of being killed. Hu Mei was another rebel general, Chen Youyu, and was the governor of Jiangxi Province under Chen Youyi's "Han" regime, stationed in Nanchang, and was a "high official" who controlled a province. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers begged Chen Youyou for forgiveness and captured Jiangzhou in one fell swoop, and when he heard that Hu Mei was Chen Youyi's right-hand man and that there were still many soldiers and horses under him, he wanted to persuade him to surrender.
At that time, the overall situation had been decided, Chen Youyu was no longer able to fight against Zhu Yuanzhang's army, coupled with the repeated persuasion of those around him, and finally Hu Mei decided to submit to Zhu Yuanzhang, but he was afraid that his military power would be deprived of his military power and become a useless person, so he proposed two conditions for submission: the first was that he could not lower his title, and the second was to continue to retain his army. Under the persuasion of Liu Bowen to "put the overall situation first", Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to Hu Mei's request.
After submitting to Zhu Yuanzhang, Hu Mei did not disappoint him, led his former subordinates to attack the city and plunder the land for Zhu Yuanzhang, made great achievements, successively participated in the pacification of Chen Li, eliminated Zhang Shicheng, and later took the lead alone, served as the general of Zhengnan, led a large army to pacify Fujian, and became the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang praised him: "Ru returned with the Chen clan, and I have been loyal for several years. "After the establishment of daming, Zhu Yuanzhang did not treat Hu Mei, who had made great achievements in battle, and made him the Marquis of Yuzhang, and later changed to the Marquis of Linchuan, with as many as 1,500 stones, enough to live a rich life;
In addition, he was given a death-free iron coupon and hereditary replacement. What makes Hu Mei go further is his daughter. Hu Mei's eldest daughter was beautiful in appearance, graceful in stature, meek and knowledgeable in personality, quite loved by Zhu Yuanzhang, was accepted as a noble concubine, and soon gave birth to a dragon son for Zhu Yuanzhang- Zhu Bai, the King of Xiang, which can be said to be favored, and Hu Mei's status has also risen.
With the efforts of the father and daughter, the Hu family became a powerful man in the DPRK for a while, attracting much attention. However, the power of the Hu family was so great that Zhu Yuanzhang became suspicious. In 1384, Hu Mei was murdered by Zhu Yuanzhang for disturbing the palace ban.
In the "History of Ming", it is recorded that "Hu Mei, because the eldest daughter was a noble concubine, accompanied her son-in-law into the chaotic palace, and when the incident occurred, her son-in-law was tortured to death, and Mei Ci committed suicide." At that time, Hu Mei received the favor of the emperor, and his power was constantly rising, so he was pampered and proud, and entered and exited the palace at will. Not only that, but he also went in with his son-in-law, obviously not paying attention to the palace rules, which caused rumors to spread, and eventually he was given death by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he also lost his life with his son-in-law.
Although Hu Mei was guilty of disturbing the palace ban, as a founding hero and the abbot of the country, the sin did not lead to death, and the reason why he died was because the emperor wanted him to die. Zhu Yuanzhang went from having nothing to a generation of kings, wary and suspicious of everything around him. Hu Mei was a founding minister, who won the hearts and minds of many ministers of the DPRK and China, and also had his own army, a high position of power, coupled with the special status of his foreign relatives, if he wanted to usurp the throne and seize power, it would be endless trouble.
With the blessing of various reasons, Zhu Yuanzhang executed Hu Mei for the sake of his Jiangshan Sheji and his Ming Dynasty on the grounds of disturbing the palace ban, and solved his troubles. Companion Jun is like a companion tiger, Hu Mei finally failed to escape Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicions.
Reference: History of the Ming Dynasty?