Sometimes, the truth of history is not as simple as it seems.
Twenty-three years after Hongwu, Li Shanchang, who had returned to his hometown, was also held accountable by Zhu Yuanzhang for the "Hu Weiyong case" ten years ago, and finally cut the grass and roots, and killed them all.
What is extermination?
Almost all the Li family and those associated with him were almost slaughtered. Li Shanchang, who was fourteen years older than Zhu Yuanzhang at that time, died before his eightieth birthday. It just so happens that he is also one of the people who own the Danshu Iron Coupon, and has this so-called "life preserver" of the Daming Hypnotic.
From Hongwu's twenty-three years perspective, it has been ten years since the Hu Weiyong case, and Hu Weiyong has also been dead for ten years, and it seems that this case, which has been in place for ten years, is so strange.
But in fact, few people know that Li Shanchang was once the leader of The Western Xungui of Huaixi in the early Ming Dynasty, and Hu Weiyong and Lan Yu were all hand-pulled by Li Shanchang.
Even after Li Shanchang stepped down from his post, he still influenced the political trend of the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent. After the death of Liu Ji, the leader of the Zhejiang Eastern Clique, who was fighting against the Huaixi Xungui headed by Li Shanchang, that is, Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang's balancing act failed. He also had to wait for the opportunity to personally go down, Lan Yu, Hu Weiyong, and finally Li Shanchang.
Kill Zhu Biao and plead bitterly, but still want to kill, killing the world in shock, so that the scene of Great Ming's glory and contradictions was opened.
Li Shanchang, leader of the Huaixi Gang: Daming's ladder to the clouds
In 1368, the Ming Dynasty was founded.
Compared with Liu Bowen, Song Lian and others frequently emphasized in later works, in fact, in real history, Li Shanchang was the first literati hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
When the time goes back to 1353, this year, Zhu Yuanzhang is still conquering Chuzhou, this year is also a year of large-scale expansion of Zhu Yuanzhang's entrepreneurial group, first in his hometown to pull Xu Da and Zhou Dexing into the red turban team, often said to fight brothers, this year Zhu Yuanzhang, and they are still brothers.
In the process of going south, Li Shanchang met with this young man who was fourteen years younger than him, and this meeting changed the trajectory of the two people's lives.
Taizu slightly Chuyang, good at greeting the Gurudwara. Knowing that he is the elder of the middle school, Li Zhi, and the secretary of the palm. He calmly asked, "When will the battle in all four directions be fixed?" "Qin chaos, Han Gao clothing, open-mindedness and generosity, knowing people and good responsibilities, not fond of killing, five years into the emperor's business."
This year, Guo Zixing is still there. Zhu Yuanzhang was not yet the King of Wu, and Li Shanchang taught him that he should learn from Liu Bang, know people and make good use of them, and not kill people indiscriminately, Zhu Yuanzhang listened. Just at the beginning of this story, Zhu Yuanzhang, like Liu Bang, was a sage, but the title of empress dowager was also like Liu Bang, and he slaughtered on a large scale.
Compared with Zhu Sheng's later "building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king", Li Shanchang's long company obviously made Zhu Yuanzhang progress a lot. In later generations, Zhu Yuanzhang was a learned person, and Li Shanchang was originally a well-known bachelor, so it has to be said that Li Shanchang was half a guide for Zhu Yuanzhang in his knowledge and political thinking.
When Zhu Yuanzhang became the King of Wu, he was trained to promote Li Shanchang:
Taizu was the King of Wu and worshipped the Right Xiangguo. Good at learning stories, ruling like a stream, and adept at resignation.
Li Shanchang's role was very large, equivalent to Li Shimin's Fang Xuanling and Du Ruyi, and Li Shanchang's personality was not as strong as Wei Zheng's, and he was quite liked by this peasant army leader with strong self-esteem.
Zhu Yuanzhang's rapid rise is closely related to Li Shanchang.
The reason why Li Shanchang can be called the "chief of Huaixi" is because of Li Shanchang's great merits, followed Zhu Yuanzhang for a long time, and was deeply trusted by Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the history of the rise of Zhu Yuanzhang, which we are familiar with, it seems that there is no worry about military food and military salaries, which is actually Li Shanchang's important role in it:
Before and after the conquest of the generals, they were all ordered to live and guard, the officials were obeyed, the residents were blocked, and the transfer of soldiers was not lacking.
He was also adept at practice than the civilian officials who could only give advice. In Huaixi Xungui, Xu Da, Zhou Dexing and others all had great respect for him, in fact, Li Shanchang just did not go to the battlefield, otherwise, it was not too much to say that he was a high-ranking lord, and Zhu Yuanzhang also listened to his words and reasonably distributed the work of his subordinates, so on the one hand, the civil officials were building the prototype of Daming, and in 1368, Xu Da attacked dadu in the north and the Yuan Dynasty collapsed.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Shanchang is daming's ladder to the clouds.
Zhu Yuanzhang can succeed, in addition to the background of the times, there are also such a central figure as Li Shanchang at work, and compared to him, Liu Ji in the real history, most of the time appears as a "Xuanguan", to put it bluntly, Zhu Yuanzhang reuses Liu Ji, more is to value Liu Ji's spirit of god nagging, but in actual policy, Liu Ji is not at all better than Li Shanchang.
When discussing the merits and rewards, Liu Ji, who represented the Zhejiang East Group and the Huaixi Group for half his life, was only the title of Chengyi Bo, while Li Shanchang was the Duke of Korea, the Taishi, and the Zhongshu Zuo Cheng Xiang.
Speaking of thorough points, Liu Ji received two hundred and forty stones a year, while Li Shanchang received four thousand stones.
By the way, the salary of Daming civil servants is really too low.
Li Shanchang's fatal index: supporting Hu Weiyong
Li Shanchang has a talented fellow named Hu Weiyong.
Hu Weiyong defected to Zhu Yuanzhang in 1355 and also belonged to the Huaixi Xungui, similarly, Li Shanchang was more capable and older than him, so Hu Weiyong always respected Li Shanchang.
The historical Hu Weiyong is a person who is very good at seeing and doing things, so Zhu Yuanzhang also admires him, and Li Shanchang is even more so. Later, Hu Weiyong's ascension came from the help of Li Shanchang, who was Hu Weiyong's workplace benefactor.
In 1367, the year zhu Yuanzhang became king, Li Shanchang first recommended Hu Weiyong to become the taichang shaoqing, so Hu Weiyong entered the most central group before the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
In the sixth year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang, who had been retired for two years, once again recommended Hu Weiyong as the right minister, which was one step away from the tens of thousands of people below one person, which showed how much Li Shanchang helped him.
But what kind of person is Hu Weiyong?
Later generations commented on him:
"Those who have been engraved will be happy, so Yang Xian, Wang Guangyang, and Hu Weiyong have successively ascended to the throne, although they have been deposed one after another, and there have been many mistakes in the country."
Yes, when Hu Weiyong faced Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shanchang, he was more of a flatterer, and his ability did exist, but the wind bone did not. Later, Hu Weiyong did a big thing and almost overturned Daming, but before he could overturn Daming, he turned himself over.
He wants to rebel.
Ten years after Hongwu, after Hu Weiyong became the left chancellor, he began to follow Yang Xian's old path, nepotism, and dictatorship.
After that, he contacted Lu Zhongheng and Fei Ju, who had been punished by Zhu Yuanzhang in the imperial court, and suggested that they unite against Zhu Yuanzhang. At this time, he secretly claimed to the Northern Yuan and collaborated with Japan, almost repeating the situation in which China was subverted.
But all this was eventually exposed.
In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Hu Weiyong was executed as a rebel, and Zhu Yuanzhang, after experiencing Yang Xian and Hu Weiyong, knew that this position was a time bomb, and then abolished the chancellor.
But how did all this have a fatal connection with Li Shanchang?
Lee, who had an ambiguous political attitude, eventually suffered
Before Hu Weiyong was exposed, he was bold enough to consult Li Shanchang on the rebellion.
Under normal circumstances, Hu Weiyong's behavior is purely looking for death, and Li Shanchang should report Hu Weiyong for the sake of glory and wealth, but Li Shanchang replied:
I am old, I am dead, ru and so on are self-made
The meaning of this sentence is very simple, Li Shanchang's meaning is to wait until he dies, and then they will rebel. Therefore, in the Case of Hu Weiyong, Li Shanchang already had two hearts, which was also learned by Zhu Yuanzhang later.
In addition, when Lan Yu was hunting down the Mongols in the fishing sea, he got a letter from the Mongols who colluded with Hu Weiyong at that time, but Li Shanchang did not report the matter. This did not involve the later Blue Jade's intention to rebel, and on this matter, zhu Yuanzhang's dislike for Li Shanchang deepened.
The elderly Li Shanchang was very strange, borrowing the forbidden army to repair the house, and Zhu Yuanzhang pardoned his family and he did not say thank you.
Finally, in 1390, the 79-year-old Li Shanchang's entire family was murdered, except for Li Qi, who married Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest daughter, to survive. But li qi and the princess were exiled, including their family, which was even uglier than death, and equal to death.
Therefore, li shanchang, who retired, is actually only a superficial phenomenon.
As the leader of the Xungui of Huaixi, his influence on the court was too strong, and it was not so much that Yang Xian, Hu Weiyong and others were dictatorial, but rather that Li Shanchang was the beginning of the dictatorship of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Xian was overthrown by him, and Hu Weiyong was even promoted by him.
But then again, since ancient times, there have been sayings that those who have gained the Tao have more help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help.
Li Shanchang, who was a confidant with Zhu Yuanzhang at that time, why didn't he help Zhu Yuanzhang? And Why did Hu Weiyong still think of rebellion, and then to the later Blue Jade, why did he also think of rebellion, and led a large number of central officials of the Ming Dynasty, so the Blue Jade case was murdered more than fifteen thousand people.
One example is the exception, but everyone is like that, and that's weird.
But history, or history, is the notebook of the victor.
Li Shan is bad, Hu Weiyong is bad, Lan Yu is also bad, and even a large number of Ming Dynasty officials are bad, is Zhu Yuanzhang really no problem?
Why tang Taizong also led a group of capable people but was able to firmly control it, why was it that the rebellious Song Taizu was able to safely transition to the hidden danger period of the great outbreak of generals in the early Northern Song Dynasty, while Zhu Yuanzhang could not.
Is it really this batch of Huaixi gangs in the early Ming Dynasty that had a rebellious gene?
Too frequent coincidences of history cannot be justified. Zhu Yuanzhang's methods were fierce, or he already had a beast in his heart. He had the merit of restoring Huaxia, but Li Shanchang, Lan Yu and others also had it, and the reason why he could kill and kill at will was nothing more than the existence of the contradiction between the monarch and the subject.
Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty's Danshu iron coupons would not have become a joke of ancient and modern times. It's even worse than a Ponzi scheme.