Speaking of the founding generals, we are most familiar with Han Xin, known as the "Three Masters of the Early Han Dynasty", Cheng Yaojin, who is widely mentioned in colloquialisms and folklore, and Shi Shouxin, who assisted in the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty...
Among the three people listed, in addition to Han Xin being killed by Lü Hou and ending up destroying the clan, Cheng Yaojin and Shi Shouxin both ended up with a good ending, of which Cheng Biting Jin also became the elder of the Three Dynasties.
However, most of the founding generals did not have such luck, and most of them were suspected by the emperor and framed by the courtiers after making great achievements in battle, and they went away with injustice.
The founding general of the Ming Dynasty, Lan Yu, who was deeply appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang in his early years of southern conquest and northern warfare, was later ruined by his own wanton arrogance and distrust of the emperor.
After Lan Yu's death, the Ming Dynasty had many major events such as the rebellion of Zhu Di, the King of Yan, which had nothing to do with Blue Jade, but when posterity mentioned this history, it was always indispensable to mention this deceased general, saying that if Blue Jade was still alive, Zhu Di would not dare to rebel. So what kind of life did this famous general go through, so that he could have the majesty of being made such a hypothesis by posterity?
The Southern Expedition to the North showed its might
When Lan Yu first joined the army, he only held the position of managing the army and Zhenfu under the command of King Chang Yuchun of Kaiping, the main job was to manage the local army, in this position that seemed difficult to exert his fists, Lan Yu still showed his outstanding military talent, both brave and courageous, which made Chang Yuchun praise him and often praised him in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, he also attracted Zhu Yuanzhang's attention, and was successively crowned as Ren Qianhu and DuDuFu Youshi, which was only the beginning of his career as a horseman.
From the fourth year of Hongwu, that is, in 1371 AD, he made several conquests and repeatedly performed qi feats: entering the Shu land in the west and conquering Jinli; going north to the desert, defeating and expanding the territory, and capturing Ulaanbaatar; occupying Xinghe and capturing important prisoners of war; heroically marching west to quell the Tubo rebellion; and capturing Kunming without spending a single soldier... Such a battle achievement can be described as the general of the country, during this period, the spirited blue jade gradually increased the rank of knight, received countless rewards, and became famous.
In his military career, one of the battles that best reflected his contribution to the Ming Dynasty was the Battle of Yu'erhai to wipe out the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.
In 1388 AD, the Yuan Lord and his remaining forces were stationed near the Yu'er Sea, and Lan Yu was ordered to lead an army of 150,000 people to the north to conquest.
At that time, the enemy was far from anticipating this conquest, neglected to take precautions, under the cover of the wind and dust, the forward Wang Bi appointed by Lan Yu led the elite troops to press the enemy camp, the Yuan army panicked to deal with it, and soon collapsed into an army, except for the Yuan Lord and the Crown Prince Tianbaonu and dozens of other horsemen who were able to escape by chance, other princes and concubines, officers and generals, etc., were all captured, and countless treasures and armor were captured, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy, and crowned Lan Yu as the Duke of Liangguo, at that time, the Manchu Dynasty military generals, no one could stand out.
He was eventually charged with treason
Blue Jade, who has made great achievements in battle, did not learn the lessons of the founding generals of successive dynasties, and thus learned the wisdom of Mingzhe to protect himself. It is precisely because of these honors and praises that he began to look at no one, exposing his arrogant and arrogant side.
There are several typical examples in the history books that reflect this. First, he had raised many Zhuang slaves, righteous sons, etc., and allowed them to use their identities to forcibly rob and rob one party, and Lan Yu himself had also been exposed for his evil deeds of forcibly occupying dongchang mintian, and YuShi inquired according to the rules, but was driven out of the house by the angry Blue Jade.
The second is a pass called "Xifeng Pass" on the way to a triumphant expedition, because it was night shift, and the gatekeeper failed to open the official in time to release it, and Lan Yu did not hesitate to destroy the pass and enter... How could all these emperors not have heard of it? But at this time, the emperor did not find an opportunity to punish the arrogant blue jade, and one of the big reasons was the crown prince Zhu Biao.
Since the ancient emperor killed the heroes, it was all worried that the heroes who held the military power would endanger their own ruling position, at that time Zhu Yuanzhang was bent on assisting the crown prince Zhu Biao as king, and Lan Yu was the uncle of the crown princess, and had a very good relationship with the prince, therefore, in supporting the prince, the attitude of the emperor and the blue jade coincided, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the blue jade did not have the intention of rebellion, moreover, with the assistance of the blue jade, the position of the prince was more stable, compared with this, the arrogance of the blue jade was not worth mentioning.
However, the good times were not long, no one expected that the prince would die unexpectedly, for Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to stabilize the Ming Dynasty, he must choose the next imperial candidate, the young Zhu Yunjiao became the first candidate, but he knew that the former prince's power group was difficult for Zhu Yunjiao to use, and had to kill the killer, and the blue jade that originally made Zhu Yuanzhang feel suspicious was naturally among them.
In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Lan Yu was killed for treason, and was cruelly treated by skinning and grass, and a generation of famous generals had a miserable end, which made people lament.
Later generations assert whether it is empty or not
In 1402 AD, Zhu Di, who launched the famous Battle of Jingnan in history, attacked the imperial capital and took the throne, and the evaluation of the emperor in later generations was mixed, and naturally there were often people who made the assumption that there was no such rebellion, and blue jade was inevitably often moved out as a roadblock for Zhu Di.
Later generations believe that if The Blue Jade is alive, the reason why Zhu Di did not dare to rebel is the objective military ability, and for the Blue Jade who has made great achievements in battle, his military skills have long been mentioned in the previous article, and there is no need to repeat it, let alone doubt it.
The Yan king Zhu Di was much inferior in comparison, the reason why Zhu Di was able to successfully rebel, the component of military strength was not much, relying more on ambition, courage and courage, the reason for this, Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to be the fundamental reason, in order to support Zhu Yunjiao, he did not hesitate to kill many generals, resulting in almost no generals in the DPRK to be available, naturally it is difficult to resist the rebel attack, if Lan Yu is alive, Zhu Di will not be able to compete with it on the battlefield, and may even have no intention of rebellion under this deterrence.
Rather, it is the subjective reason for Sapphire itself, that is, although Sapphire is strong, will he choose to be loyal to Zhu Yunjiao instead of defecting to Zhu Di? The answer is yes, because as early as when he was assisting the prince, he despised many princes, including the King of Yan, with the temperament of blue jade, if he knew that the King of Yan wanted to rebel, he would definitely laugh and be indignant, and take it as his duty to suppress the rebels. Combining these two points, the world's assumptions are not unfounded.
brief summary:
History has no if, the Ming Dynasty that Zhu Di took over still survived for a thousand years, and the end of the blue jade generation of famous generals who died unjustly was finally irreparable, but he himself could not escape the blame, relying on merit and no one in sight seems to be a common disease of many military generals, but it is still the wisdom of Mingzhe to protect himself is more beneficial than his own body!