As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang was poor when he was young, he used to herd cattle for Liu De's landlord, worked as a monk, and worked as a beggar, so he was also known as the "Beggar Emperor", and at the age of 25, he participated in the Red Turban Army uprising led by Guo Zixing against the Yuan Dynasty, and has since begun to develop. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, because of his suspicious nature, he was afraid that others would seize his throne and usurp his Ming Dynasty, and in order to pave the way for future generations, he killed many founding heroes.
For example, the historical figure we want to introduce today is also the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, and also the righteous son of Zhu Yuanzhang, who made great contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. But why was he finally killed by Zhu Yuanzhang? And this incident even involved 15,000 people!
(Zhu Yuanzhang stills)
This historical figure is named Lan Yu, who is chang Yuchun's brother-in-law, and Chang Yuchun is the father-in-law of prince Zhu Biao, so as the uncle of the crown princess, Blue Jade vigorously maintains the prince's status as a prince. The "History of Ming" contains: Blue Jade, Dingyuan People. King Kaiping often met Chun's brother.
He was brave in nature and strong in martial arts, and had won many battle achievements. At the time of the uprising, Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to win over some capable craftsmen, adopted them all as righteous sons. And blue jade has also become one of Zhu Yuanzhang's more than twenty righteous sons, and Chang Yuchun has also praised blue jade in front of Zhu Yuanzhang many times.
Blue Jade faithfully did things for Zhu Yuanzhang, and was able to successfully lay the foundation of daming, and Blue Jade's credit was great. However, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he became suspicious of the heroes and brothers who had followed him to fight in the country. In this way, Hu Weiyong, Li Shanchang and others were all killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
So what exactly did Sapphire do wrong? Why is it inevitable to die in the end?
(Sapphire stills)
In the above we learned that Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to win people's hearts, received many righteous sons. And Sapphire did the same, and he even received hundreds of righteous sons, which were scattered everywhere.
Once, when Zhu Yuanzhang was inspecting the military camp, he met a righteous son of Lan Yu, who only listened to Lan Yu's words in his behavior. This made Zhu Yuanzhang feel very uncomfortable in his heart, as an emperor, someone dared not listen to him, and in this way, Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicions gradually arose.
In addition, Blue Jade has a lonely and arrogant personality, does not know how to interact with people at all, he has offended many ministers in the imperial court, and these ministers often tell Zhu Yuanzhang bad things about Blue Jade, zhu Yuanzhang himself is a very suspicious person, the so-called three people into tigers, that is, he is more and more suspicious of Blue Jade has different intentions.
In addition, Blue Jade himself was proud of his achievements, because he had made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Yuanzhang treated him with courtesy, and Blue Jade became increasingly arrogant and arrogant, and raised many zhuang slaves and righteous sons, taking advantage of the situation to run amok. Blue Jade once forcibly occupied dongchang mintian and was questioned by Yushi, who was furious and drove Yushi away.
Later, when returning from the Northern Expedition to the south, when they arrived at Xifeng Pass at night, the officials guarding the customs failed to open the door in time to accept it, and Lan Yu destroyed the pass and broke through the door. When this news reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, he was very unhappy.
At first, Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted to make Blue Jade the Duke of Liang, but because Blue Jade had some mistakes, he changed the Liang character to Liang and ordered people to engrave these faults on the hereditary certificates. Lan Yu still did not change, and when serving the emperor's wine banquet, he spoke proudly, which made Zhu Yuanzhang even more unhappy, and many times in public, he expressed his dissatisfaction with Zhu Yuanzhang, and his dissatisfaction was often secretly told to Zhu Yuanzhang.
As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang's Jinyi guard is everywhere, and it happens that a sentence by Lan Yu once, "I am suspicious of me", was conveyed to Zhu Yuanzhang by Jinyi Wei. At this time, the crown prince Zhu Biao, who had a good relationship with Lan Yu, unfortunately died early, and Zhu Yuanzhang originally gave his son Zhu Biao to form a super-first-class martial arts group in the Ming Dynasty at that time.
Unexpectedly, the crown prince Zhu Biao died early, the emperor's grandson was young, and Zhu Yuanzhang was very jealous of Lan Yu and others seizing power at this time, so Lan Yu was secretly investigated, and finally involved in the "Blue Jade Case". In the end, all the members of this group of martial artists were slaughtered and cleaned up, and they fell to the fate of Zhou Yafu. Zhu Yuanzhang pushed the boat along the water, executed Blue Jade, and even used capital punishment to "peel the grass". The blue jade human skin was found in the altar during the peasant revolt at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Not only that, some imperial court officials who were usually good friends with Blue Jade were also framed for rebellion, and Zhu Yuanzhang followed the vine and touched the melon, and successively killed many princes and many officials of the imperial court, and these people who were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang were even as many as fifteen thousand people.
Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated the "Record of Rebel Ministers" in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, when the number of people named "Blue Party" was nearly a thousand, and when he issued the "Edict of Pardoning the Blue Party Hu Dang", he said: "The courtiers of the Qing Dynasty and their unfaithful li shanchang and others, yin and misfortune, things, people are ambushed." This year, the blue thieves are in chaos, plotting to leak and capture, and the clan has been punished by 15,000 people. Those who have not yet exhausted have been forgiven. He is still suspicious and ignorant, still doubtful, and restless. In the world today, except for those who have already committed crimes and have been taken to the officials, they will not be pardoned, and those who have committed crimes and those who have not committed crimes will not be pardoned, and they will not be forgiven, regardless of the Blue Party or the Hu Party. ”
The "Blue Jade Case" is one of the four major cases of Hongwu, and it is also a major unjust case in the early Ming Dynasty, and poor Blue Jade and those heroes who once made great contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty have been loyal all their lives, but in the end they were killed by the emperor they supported, how chilling.
The "History of Ming" once commented on Blue Jade: Rao yong and strategic, with great general talent. "Ruling the world cannot be impossible, and when the grass is ignorant, the law is still sparse, and the law of the day of peace is gradually becoming dense, and the situation is fixed." Every time the commentators complain about the birds, they say that they are out of the suspicion of the British Lord, and they are not the words of the mastery. The husband is determined to be as determined as a rock, pointing to thousands of miles, running away in fear, why should he be suspicious and spare no effort?
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, Records of the Contrarians, etc