When it comes to Zhu Yuanzhang, everyone is not unfamiliar, he is the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in his later years, he was known for his penchant for killing in Chinese history, killing nearly 150,000 officials, and he was also the emperor who killed the most heroes in Chinese history.
Li Shanchang was a hero who fought with Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world, and Wang Guoyong once wrote to Zhu Yuanzhang, saying that Li Shanchang and him were the same heart, and were the first heroes of the Ming Dynasty. However, for Li Shanchang, the first meritorious man, Zhu Yuanzhang was not soft,700 people in his family when Li Shanchang was 76 years old.
With the exception of Li Shanchang's son, daughter-in-law and his two grandchildren, none of his relatives were spared. The reason why these people were not killed by Zhu Yuanzhang was because Li Shanchang's daughter-in-law was Zhu Yuanzhang's daughter, so Li Shanchang's two grandsons were also Zhu Yuanzhang's nephews.
First, Zhu Yuanzhang suffered a lot as a teenager, saying that the empress dowager eliminated the founding heroes, and was very eager to kill in his later years
Li Shanchang was a hero who accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world and made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, so why would Zhu Yuanzhang cut him all over the door in his later years and behead him so fiercely? In fact, this is all because Li Shanchang is proud of his pampering, and it is he who has gone step by step to the abyss.
We all know that Zhu Yuanzhang was a cowherd when he was a teenager, when he was sixteen years old, his parents died, and since then he has lived a life of upheaval and displacement, in order to live in the chaotic world, he also went to the temple to be a monk, but within a few days, the temple was scattered. Zhu Yuanzhang was bullied as a teenager, so this also had a great impact on his character, he hated the people of the upper class, and at the same time began to learn to be patient.
The 25-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang began to join the army, brave and strategic, with his decisive killing, won the hearts of the army, deeply supported by the people, everyone thought that he would be a good emperor, but after he ascended the throne, he became very suspicious and murderous.
The experience of the teenager made him hate the upper echelons of officials, and his jealousy of the educated also made him extremely cruel, some people said that he was afraid that after his death, his descendants would not be able to suppress these heroes, but in any case, during his reign, not only did he kill many founding fathers, but also slaughtered as many as 20,000 ministers of culture and military affairs.
Second, Zhu Yuanzhang reused Li Shanchang, the Ming Dynasty tended to be unified and prosperous, and the contradiction between imperial power and relative power intensified
Although Zhu Yuanzhang began to mutilate the heroes who fought with him after he ascended the throne and became emperor, he still had great trust and reliance on Li Shanchang at first. Li Shanchang was the first to follow Zhu Yuanzhang, and he was also a fellow villager of Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zhu Yuanzhang's friendship with him was also relatively deep.
Li Shanchang had been holding the position of aide around Zhu Yuanzhang, and after Zhu Yuanzhang became the King of Wu, he made Li Shanchang the Right Minister, because the Yuan Dynasty was dominated by the right, which shows the high status of Li Shanchang in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart. And Li Shanchang also assisted Zhu Yuanzhang with his own ability and made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty. He not only provided logistical support for the supply of troops, but also formulated a series of legal regulations for the Ming Dynasty.
With the help of Li Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have added a pair of powerful wings. In the first year of the State of Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang made the meritorious Li Shanchang the Duke of Xuanguo. Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang was a great meritorious hero, Li Shanchang was given the title of Duke of Korea for supporting logistics, and his descendants were hereditary, and Li Shanchang was also likened by Zhu Yuanzhang to Xiao He of the Han Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang's love for Li Shanchang is undeniable, but after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, as the situation began to tend to be stable and unified, the contradiction between xiangquan and imperial power was also becoming more and more obvious, so the relationship between Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shanchang gradually became suspicious, and Zhu Yuanzhang began to dislike this hero who fought with himself more and more. Therefore, there was also the result that Zhu Yuanzhang cut Li Shanchang through the door.
Third, Li Shanchang was pampered and arrogant, became more and more greedy, and intended to rebel, resulting in being beheaded by the door in his later years
First of all, it is Li Shanchang's pampering and arrogance. In 1371, Li Shanchang resigned from zhu yuanzhang to return to his hometown because of illness, and Zhu Yuanzhang also gave him a large piece of land in Haozhou, more than 1,500 tenants, and twenty honor guards. A year later, Li Shanchang was well, and Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to re-become an official and overseer of Linhao Palace, and Zhu Yuanzhang really pampered him.
However, Li Shanchang was even more inflated in the face of Zhu Yuanzhang's favor, he did not think of gratitude, and only tried his best to establish prestige in the DPRK, and when Zhu Yuanzhang was ill, he did not even visit once. When dealing with the affairs to be handled, he did not report to Zhu Yuanzhang, but always used his own ideas to handle them. This made Zhu Yuanzhang begin to resent him.
Secondly, as Li Shanchang had more and more, he also became more and more greedy, and in the face of Zhu Yuanzhang, he also had no concept of a monarch. In 1385, Li Shanchang's younger brother Li Cunyi was accused of being a pawn of Hu Weiyong, and Zhu Yuanzhang, remembering that he was Li Shanchang's younger brother, did not directly behead him, but only sent him to Chongming. But in this regard, Li Shanchang did not express anything, not even apologize.
In 1390, Li Shanchang, who was already 76 years old, borrowed 300 guards from Tang He in order to build a mansion for himself, Zhu Yuanzhang was very dissatisfied after he knew it, and in April of the same year, Li Shanchang, a relative of Ding Bin, was sent to the frontier by Zhu Yuanzhang for committing crimes.
Li Shanchang repeatedly approached Zhu Yuanzhang and asked Zhu Yuanzhang to spare Ding Bin, which made Zhu Yuanzhang feel that his power had been desecrated and he was very angry, so he severely punished Ding Bin. At the same time, this incident also laid the fuse for Zhu Yuanzhang to copy and behead Li Shanchang.
In the end, Li Shanchang was no longer so loyal to Zhu Yuanzhang, which was the most important reason why Zhu Yuanzhang copied him all over the door. Ding Bin was originally only a small person, but because he had once been an official in Hu Weiyong's family, and this Hu Weiyong tried to rebel after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Ding Bin knew a lot of secrets in Hu Weiyong's home.
After Ding Bin could not withstand Zhu Yuanzhang's interrogation, he gave everything he knew. Therefore, Li Shanchang's younger brother Li Cunyi was arrested for colluding with Hu Weiyong.
After Li Shanchang's brother was arrested, he also confessed all the affairs between Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong, saying that when Hu Weiyong tried to rebel, because Li Shanchang was highly respected in the imperial court, he wanted to win him over, so he asked him to be a lobbyist. However, he could not say that Li Shanchang was moved, so Hu Weiyong asked Yang Wenyu to go and be a lobbyist.
Yang Wenyu was an old friend of Li Shanchang, and after the incident was completed, he was appointed the king of the land of Huaixi, and Li Shanchang was somewhat moved in the face of such conditions. When Hu Weiyong heard about it, he personally went to lobby, but Li Shanchang finally stayed sober and refused his request.
Although Li Shanchang refused to help Hu Weiyong plot a rebellion, he did not tell Zhu Yuanzhang about this matter, which was equivalent to plotting rebellion, and Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry about this, and in a fit of anger, he beheaded Li Shanchang, and even his family members were all beheaded.
bibliography:
History of the Ming Dynasty
"Those Things of the Ming Dynasty"