There is an old Saying in China called "accompanying the king like accompanying the tiger", which can be described as not false at all, the emperor of the ancient feudal society had the right to at least accidentally injure, and it can be said that he had the power to kill everyone. An indiscretion with the emperor will lose his head, and many times caution is useless, and when the emperor wants to cure you of your sins, there is no need for a reason. Looking back at Chinese history, Zhu Yuanzhang can undoubtedly be regarded as a fierce tiger among fierce tigers.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a grass-roots emperor, the poor family could not even eat, until the third year of Zhengzheng (1343), Haozhou drought, Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest brother and parents died in the famine, Zhu Yuanzhang and the remaining brothers in the family, can only be forced to separate, each escape.
Zhu Yuanzhang experienced several years of wandering years, saw all the sufferings of the world, and also suffered a lot, and finally resolutely threw himself into the rebel army that rebelled against the tyrannical Yuan, and then pulled up his own team and went all the way south to establish the Ming Dynasty as emperor in Nanjing, ending the years of war in the Central Plains.
However, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, his personality also underwent a great change, and he could even be described as "tyrannical and unrestrained", immersed in the brothers who followed him to fight the world, such as Li Shanchang, Liu Ji, Hu Weiyong, Lan Yu and others, and even slashed the domain in a big way, that is, he was afraid that these people would rebel after his death and help his emperor Zhu Yunjiao remove obstacles.
In the thirty-first year of Hongwu (1398), the 71-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang had almost killed all the heroes who fought together in the world. But he did not stop there, and on his deathbed, Zhu Yuanzhang also issued a ruthless order, he ordered all the concubines in the harem to be martyred for themselves.
But one of the concubines was lucky to survive, and this concubine was Zhang Meiren. Zhang Meiren was able to survive not because she was favored by Zhu Yuanzhang, but because of her daughter. When Zhu Yuanzhang was over sixty years old, Zhang Meiren actually gave birth to a cute little daughter for him.
Zhu Yuanzhang is already old at this time, and the sudden appearance of such a "intimate little cotton jacket" in life is naturally overjoyed, in fact, many men like their sons in order to pass on the generations, and liking their daughters is from the heart. This young daughter was named Princess Baoqing shortly after her birth, which shows Zhu Yuanzhang's love for her.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang's body at this time was not as good as before, often unable to sleep at night, and was plagued by diseases. Perhaps it was for this reason that Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more tyrannical in his later years, but Zhu Yuanzhang was very gentle and fond of his little daughter, and often summoned Princess Baoqing to come to the sickbed.
Once Zhu Yuanzhang inadvertently mentioned to Princess Baoqing that her illness could not get better, and Princess Baoqing actually said with tears in her eyes: "Father Emperor will be fine, definitely."
Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned after hearing this sentence. Since he ascended to the throne, he had seen the praise and hypocrisy of his courtiers, but he knew that no one had come from the heart. Only Princess Baoqing, who was only 3 years old at this time, said her true words with tears.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it for a moment, Princess Baoqing was so reluctant to herself, I am afraid that she would be even more reluctant to bring her up from childhood to her mother. So he sighed deeply and ordered that Princess Baoqing's birth mother, Zhang Xuanmiao, should not be buried again. Zhang Guifei survived because of the 9 words her daughter said in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, and became the only concubine in Zhu Yuanzhang's harem who was not martyred.