The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not very good in terms of overall quality, there were a lot of strange emperors, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the lowly born not to mention, he did a lot of strange things during his reign, and the massacre of heroes was counted as one, these cases implicated many people, Hu Weiyong's case killed tens of thousands of people, this Hu Weiyong is still Zhu Yuanzhang's family.
Zhu Yuanzhang set extremely generous welfare standards for the descendants of the Zhu family, not paying grain, not undertaking various labors of the state, as well as vast fiefdoms, and a large amount of silver money, these descendants really eat, drink, and sleep like pigs, and the rest is to breed offspring.
The punishment formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang is also extremely terrible, hating corrupt officials hates corrupt officials, and cannot blindly treat officials with cruel punishments, the Ming Dynasty officials' Feng Lu is a rare low standard in history, the most senior civilian official Zheng Yipin's annual Feng Lu is 1044 stones of rice, and the lowest first-class official is 60 stones from jiupin Nian Feng Lu.
This standard does not seem to be low, in fact, it is only a short period of time to be effectively implemented, after which it was discounted, the rice was reduced, silk, hemp and other items were added, and a paper currency called "Daming Pass Treasure Banknote" was also added, due to the issuance of too many Daming Treasure banknotes, almost became waste paper, according to relevant experts, the actual Feng Lu of Ming Officials was only 4% of the nominal Feng Lu.
Under such circumstances, the corruption of the Ming Dynasty was still very serious, and Zhu Yuanzhang thought that this was caused by his own punishment not being severe enough, so he began to implement the terrible punishment of peeling the grass, and set up a temple in the south of the court, called the Pichang Temple, and the skins of the officials who were skinned and grass were placed in the temple, and many people, including the general Lan Yu, were tortured in this way.
It can be imagined that this kind of torture is related to Zhu Yuanzhang's rebellious experience, the army he commanded at that time was called the Huai Right Army, and the Huai Right Army liked to mutilate living beings in history, and it is conceivable how vicious Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was, such a founding emperor took the lead, and what future generations could do was really unimaginable.
Zhu Dishi called Yongle the Great, the only person in history who ordered the ten clans of the courtiers was Zhu Di, and Fang Xiaoru also became the first and only person in history to be condemned to the ten clans, just for a letter of ascension to the throne, how many people were killed, since he already had great power, what did he care about these hypocritical rituals? Fang Xiaoru didn't write about the distribution of far evil military states, and even others were not necessary.
Besides, if you really hate it, kill a Fang Xiaoru, even if it is yours, the whole world is yours, and you are still afraid of him as a weak scholar? No matter how big a storm he can set off, it is not a big deal to lock up those who dare to make trouble. As a result, this Zhu Di put Fang Xiaoru on the Ten Tribes, leaving a great notoriety! There was also the launching of the Battle of Jingnan to seize power, which was a matter for the Zhu family but it was also very disgraceful.
Speaking of the later Zhu Qi Town, a foolish literary and artistic young man, who could not shoulder the burden on his shoulders, could not carry a basket in his hand, and was served all day by eunuchs and palace women, and he did not even know what Gange was, and he actually wanted to go to the front line, and he was fooled by a eunuch.
It was a joke, and as a result, he was led to the front line by this eunuch, and when he saw dead bodies everywhere, Zhu Qizhen was afraid. This is the real test of life and death, not poetry and song, not song and dance, but a military struggle between you and me, Zhu Qizhen quickly retreated under the advice of the eunuch Wang Zhen.
In order to show off, this Wang Zhen asked Zhu Qizhen to pass through Weizhou, Hebei, which was his hometown to let him show his face as a eunuch. As a result, Wang Zhen was afraid that the army would trample on the crops of his hometown, and changed the route again, causing The weight to be unable to keep up, so he waited in place. At this time, he also came with the cavalry of Vala first, and Zhu Qizhen was captured.
It was all a big joke, an emperor who had never had war experience and probably had not even participated in general military training, wanted to personally conscript the imperial car to fight against the Wallachian cavalry that could fight, and this decision was very sudden, the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty did not have time to transfer back to the Beijing Division, Zhu Qizhen set off with hundreds of thousands of troops pieced together, which was really ignorant and fearless.
In order to reduce the losses of the Ming Dynasty, Yu Qian supported zhu Qiyu the prince of Qi, honored Zhu Qizhen as emperor of Taishang, and won the defense of Beijing. A year later, the captive was welcomed back, and seven years later, the town of Zhu Qi actually launched a rebellion to seize the door, and then killed Yu Qian, and Zhu Qiyu was put under house arrest and died.
Zhu Qizhen has a set of infighting, but the foreign war is very layman, probably say these few, there are Ming Emperors who like to do carpentry work, there are long-term non-dynasty, and there is a gluttony and death, the Ming Emperor is more strange. Based on these classic events, it is not surprising that Yi Zhongtian explained that the emperor of the dynasty was the worst emperor in Chinese history.