When each new dynasty is established, the world will be unified, but when the emperor sits firmly in the country, he will turn the butcher's knife to his founding father, is the emperor himself ruthless or for another reason? I'll take you today to reveal it.
Why many founding emperors like to kill heroes, the answer is actually very simple
As the saying goes: a son of heaven and a courtier. Every dynasty brings a long period of war, and when it comes to ending the war, the most important thing for each emperor is two things. The first is to recuperate and restore the productive forces of the people, and the second is to consolidate the rule and make the people obey. Therefore, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, many policies conducive to the people's livelihood will be promulgated to liberate the people's productive forces.
The most difficult way to consolidate rule is to remove the external threat of the ruling clique, to eliminate the remnants of the previous dynasty, and to maintain its legitimacy, and on the other hand, to solve the internal problems of its own ruling clique and eliminate those uncertainties. For example, Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, was the first person in history to struggle from the grassroots to become an emperor, which completely confirmed the argument that "the prince will have a kind of Xiangning". Several kings with different surnames who founded the Han Dynasty were swept away one by one, all because they did not trust them enough, afraid that they would support the army and respect themselves, the Han Dynasty was a sub-feudal system, with its own fiefdoms and laws, with its own army, it would not stop the central government's orders, and completely lived an emperor's life in its own territory.
To say that the fear of the sub-feudal system of the princes being too large is a reason for the emperor to kill the project, then in the later period, there was no sub-feudal system, why there was still a matter of killing the heroes, because in the later period of feudal society, both eunuchs or ministers would form a party and private, and the Tang Dynasty also triggered the Anshi rebellion, so to learn a lesson, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang killed many heroes, the crown prince Zhu Biao was very dissatisfied with this, Zhu Yuanzhang threw a thorny wooden stick to Zhu Biao to let him pick up, Zhu Biao of course did not pick it up, Zhu Yuanzhang said: I am removing the thorns on the stick for you.
Of course, there are also emperors who are not so bloody, such as Tang Taizong Li Shimin, he painted 24 meritorious portraits placed in the Ling Xiao Pavilion for people to worship, in fact, these are all superficial kung fu, many ministers also know the "cunning rabbit death, lackey cooking" principle, either secluded or degraded by Tang Taizong out of Beijing, and then let the descendants recall, the above ministers are grateful.
Therefore, the reasons why the emperor killed the heroes were: First, to sweep away the unstable elements in the system and stabilize the rule. Second, it is not conducive to the rule of future generations to prevent ministers from forming parties for personal gain and controlling the government of the dynasty. Third, the minister is arrogant and arrogant, and he wants to rebel and stand on his own, and seek his own death.