The "History of Ming" records: Taizu used the wisdom of the gods and martial arts, embraced the aspirations of the people of the world, took advantage of the good times, Haojie Jingcong, suppressed chaos and destruction, and became an emperor in fifteen years. Rise of cloth, dying Haiyu, unprecedented in the Western Han Dynasty also...
Zhu Yuanzhang was originally born in cloth, and he knew the life of the people at the bottom very well, and later Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor and established the Ming Dynasty, still did not forget the past years, so he paid great attention to the people's livelihood, so he set up a "sanatorium", stipulating: "Those who cannot be born of the people's loneliness and disability are allowed to be admitted to the hospital." ”
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, also wrote this policy into the "Great Ming Law": "Whoever widows, widows, loneliness, and illness, who are poor and have no relatives to rely on, cannot survive on their own, and those who are in the court should adopt and not adopt, the staff is sixty; if they should be given food and clothing and the officials are reduced, they should be imprisoned for self-theft." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang also also respected the elderly in the world, and issued edicts and decrees, so that all localities should treat the elderly kindly, and county officials should also regularly send rice noodles and clothes for condolences, and also stipulated: "Those who are more than seventy years old, Xu Ling's son will be served and exempted from his errands." ”
It can be seen that the social welfare of Zhu Yuanzhang's period was very good, but Zhu Yuanzhang, like many founding emperors, had many speculations about the founding heroes, and changed the pro-military capital Wei mansion to JinyiWei, who was responsible for monitoring officials, and by the end of Zhu Yuanzhang's later years, there were almost no founding heroes who had been born and died with him.
Li Shanchang, a native of Dingyuan, became Zhu Yuanzhang's staff officer when Zhu Yuanzhang pacified Chuzhou, when Guo Zixing, the leader of the peasant rebel army, was still alive, and because he suspected that Zhu Yuanzhang had two hearts, he gradually deprived him of his military power, and wanted Li Shanchang to assist him, but Li Shanchang resolutely refused and always followed Zhu Yuanzhang.
Later, Li Shanchang also made many contributions to Zhu Yuanzhang, comparable to the Han Dynasty Chancellor Xiao He, Hongwu Three Years (1370), Zhu Yuanzhang was a great meritorious servant, and li Shanchang was awarded the title of Founding Auxiliary Transport Tuicheng Shouzheng Zhengwen Chen, Tejin Guanglu Dafu, Zuo Zhuguo, Taishi, Zhongshu Zuo Cheng Xiang, and was named the Duke of Korea, Nian Lu 4,000 stones, and his descendants were hereditary. He also granted iron coupons to exempt Li Shanchang from two deaths and his son from one death.
However, although Li Shanchang was generous and gentle on the outside, he was very jealous in his heart, and as long as there were courtiers who provoked Li Shanchang's dissatisfaction, Li Shanchang would "make a small report" to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang also treated Li Shanchang in his past love.
Therefore, Li Shanchang's position of power soon reached its peak, so the arrogance in his heart would sometimes be inadvertently manifested on the surface, and Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally very disgusted by this, but he still treated Li Shanchang very favorably.
When Li Shanchang resigned due to illness and returned to his hometown, Ming Taizu generously rewarded Li Shanchang with a lot of land, set up 150 tombkeeping households, gave 1,500 tenant households, and 20 honor guards.
Liu Bowen, who compared himself to Zhuge Liang, was also a founding father and once made great contributions to Zhu Yuanzhang, but after Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen disagreed, he also consulted Zhu Yuanzhang, so Liu Bowen resigned and went into hiding, but still had ties with the imperial court.
In the eighth year of Hongwu (1375), Liu Bowen was infected with wind and cold, and Zhu Yuanzhang sent the right chancellor Hu Weiyong to visit with the imperial doctor, but Liu Bowen died soon after.
Hu Weiyong was able to serve as the Right Minister, on the recommendation of Li Shanchang, and Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang were also related, but in the thirteenth year of Hongwu (1380), Hu Weiyong was killed for rebellion, and was widely implicated.
Although Li Shanchang did not fall quickly, but Li Shanchang did not die well, Hongwu twenty-three years (1390), Li Shanchang was more than 70 years old, the scenery was long gone, but also needed to go to the land to farm, it was also in this year, li Cunyi's father and son who had interacted with Hu Weiyong confessed to Li Shanchang.
When Hu Weiyong planned to rebel, he co-opted Li Shanchang, but Li Shanchang said: "I am old, and when I die, you should do it yourself." ”
Li Shanchang neither stopped Hu Weiyong nor reported to Ming Taizu that Hu Weiyong was plotting rebellion, which was naturally regarded as disloyal by Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that Li Shanchang be beheaded.
References: Records of Ming Taizu, Biography of Ming Shi Li Shanchang