Many Qing Dynasty people and their descendants said that Zhu Yuanzhang was mean and widowed and slaughtered heroes, but looking at the Ming history compiled by The Qing Dynasty, we found that many interesting stories happened between Zhu Yuanzhang and his heroes. Let's tell a more relaxed story today, let's take a look at Zhu Yuanzhang's careful and atmospheric story of his old friends: there is a founding hero, who is Zhu Yuanzhang's hair. This person can annoy Zhu Yuanzhang in one sentence, and he can also laugh at Zhu Yuanzhang in one sentence, he did not become the founding duke, but in the end he was named a king with a different surname.
After this person got Zhu Yuanzhang's Danshu iron coupon that crowned him as the Duke of Guo, he cried and laughed: Why is there still my trouble engraved on it? Such a Danshu iron coupon is really impossible to take out and show off to others.
The founding hero of the Ming Dynasty who did not become the founding prince of the country and was finally awarded the title of King of a Different Surname is called Tang He, the character Dingchen, and lives in the same village as Zhu Yuanzhang.
Tang He "Young have a strange ambition, playful and taste riding and shooting, and the group of people." (Ming Shi Liechuan 14th, the same below) "This shows that when I was a child playing a game of war, Tang He commanded Zhu Yuanzhang. However, when Zhu Yuanzhang joined Guo Zixing's army, Tang He, the head of the thousands, paid great respect to the nine-man leader Zhu Yuanzhang, although the nine-man leader still wrote a letter himself: "He Chang Taizu is three years old, and he is very restrained and restrained, and Taizu is very pleased." ”??
When he was young, Tang He was tall and had a large amount of wine, and when he drank wine, he did not open the door: "Seven feet long, he is more strategic, more sensitive and wise, and he has a lot of wine." ”
The ming and qing dynasties were seven feet long, eight feet taller than the Han Dynasty, and Tang He's height should be two meters away, such a person had a great advantage in fighting in the era of cold weapons, so Tang He was not afraid of anyone. Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng fought to the death, Tang He led the troops alone, and every battle was won: during the defense of Changzhou, Zhang Shicheng first provoked, and was beaten back by Tang He's old fist (struck but captured thousands). Coming and going without being rude, Tang He attacked Zhang Shicheng's general Mo Tianyou in a fit of rage, beat Mo Tianyou away, and captured Mo Tianyou's wife alive.
Tang He was angry and defeated Zhang Shicheng's water army at Yangshan, and the enemy army alone captured forty-nine thousand households. Zhang Shicheng's younger brother Zhang Shixin besieged Changxing, and Tang and Xingye rushed to the aid of 8,000 people in a battle. When attacking Jiangzhou, Tang He was injured by the stone cannon of the human family (that word cannot be typed, the left, center, and right structure, the three words of stone, horse, and jiao are combined together, and the cannon is read, and Fan Li, Cao Cao, and Zhuge Liang in the history of Zhengshi have all used it, in fact, it is also a stone thrower) and injured his left arm. Zhu Yuanzhang quickly summoned Fa Xiao back to the base camp to heal his wounds, and as soon as the wounds were healed, Tang He immediately ran back to the front line and took Jiangzhou.
That is, after repeated battles and victories, Tang He, who was guarding Changzhou, got into an awkward relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang.
The reason for the awkwardness was that Tang He made some kind of request to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not agree (try to ask Taizu, not allowed). Rejected by Zhu Yuanzhang, Tang He was very depressed. Depressed Tang He got drunk and began to talk nonsense: "My town and this city, if you sit on the roof, the left is left, and the right is right." This sentence does not need to be explained, and anyone who has read the "Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin" knows that when Xiang Yu sent Xuyi ren Wushi to lobby Han Xin, he also said something similar: "The affairs of the two kings today are under the feet." The right shot of the foot is the victory of the Han King, and the left shot is the victory of the Xiang Wang. ”
Although Zhu Yuanzhang had never been to school, he was very cultured, and when he heard this, he was annoyed: "Your boy still wants to learn Han Xin?" See how I pack you up!" At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was not old, and his wife Xianzi was filial piety, and he did not like to kill people, so although he was annoyed, he did not arrest Tang He and spank him at that time, but firmly remembered this matter in his heart, and later finally found a stubble and fiercely rectified Tang He: "Taizu heard about it, and the Ping zhongyuan division also discussed merit, and sent Chen Youding to the remnants of the eight counties during the conquest of Fujian, and the eight counties were harassed, and the division was returned, and he was attacked by the Thieves of Xiulan Mountain, and he lost his second command, so he was not allowed to be crowned a duke." ”
In a word, annoyed with Zhu Yuanzhang, Tang He did not become the founding duke, but he no longer dared to complain (it was very strange that Tang and drunken gaffes, Zhu Yuanzhang knew), Zhu Yuanzhang scolded him no matter how much, he did not return the mouth: "Cut Shu back, count his teasing sins." Thank you very much, but already. "If Tang He is not a wise man, if he still dares to sharpen his mouth at this time, then he will become the first hero of Zhu Yuanzhang's slaughter, and he will die unjustly at all."
Tang He was eventually promoted from Marquis of Zhongshan to Duke of Xinguo, but Zhu Yuanzhang pranked him again, making it impossible for his canonized Danshu iron coupons (to avoid death and seals are engraved on the iron coupons tu dan) to show off: "His letter Guo Gongye, like his Changzhou time mistakes, engraved coupons." "This is miserable: the Danshu iron coupon has become a memorized document, how can this make Tang he sleep well?"
Empress Ma and crown prince Zhu Biao died one after another, xu da the Duke of Wei and Li Wenzhong the Duke of Cao were also gone, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who had entered old age, wanted to take back the military power of the heroes. However, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally would not learn from Zhao Kuangyin's "cup of wine to release military power" - only the stolen Jiangshan was most afraid of the rebellion of the military generals, and Zhu Yuanzhang's Jiangshan was naturally not afraid to shoot down with a knife and a gun. However, considering that he was old, the founding heroes had heavy troops in their hands, and the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunjiao was relatively weak, old Mr. Zhu was a little worried and could not sleep.
At this time, the clever Tang He seized the opportunity to present a pillow: "The courtier dog horsetooth (the humble name of age) is long, and cannot be driven by the resumption of his duties, and he wishes to return to his hometown for the ruins of the coffin, so as to wait for the skeleton (in the official article, the beggar skeleton means to ask for retirement). ”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Tang He say this, he smiled so much that his head wrinkles were opened (Emperor Dayue). He immediately ordered himself to pay for Tang He to build a house in Fengyang, and incidentally built the retirement and pension places of other meritorious people: "Li Zhi Zhi Zhi Di Zhongdu (Ming Dynasty Three Capitals: Zhongdu Fengyang, Nan Du Yingtian, Northern Capital Shuntian), and for the Dukes and Hou Zhidi." Unfortunately, none of the remaining founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty could understand Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions like Tang He did.
Fengyang's Xinguo Gongfu was built, and Tang He did not delay a day, and immediately moved with his wife and children. When he led his wife to resign to Zhu Yuanzhang, he also received a large amount of gold and silver treasures: "He Shuai's wife, His Majesty, gave three hundred and two gold, two thousand platinum, three thousand ingots, and forty pairs of color coins, and Lady Hu also gave it." And the book of the seal was bowed, and the meritorious men were modbi. ”
Tang He was really too clever: "I brought your sister-in-law with me, and the gift should also have her share, right?" In fact, Tang He had been fighting for so many years, and he didn't care about Zhu Yuanzhang's thousands of taels of gold and silver, what he wanted to tell Zhu Yuanzhang was, "I'm a greedy and cheap person, and I don't have any big success!" ”
"The heroes of the heroes are not as rich as Zhu Yuanzhang's rewards," but the wisdom of Tang He's achievements and retreats.
A certain best-selling author imagined out of thin air that Zhu Yuanzhang also wanted to kill Tang He, which is nonsense. The "History of Ming", which refuses to let go of any opportunity to smear Zhu Yuanzhang, also says that there is really brotherhood between Zhu Yuanzhang and Tang He: "(Hongwu) Twenty-seven years, the illness can not be revived (the illness can not afford it). When Di Si saw this, he commanded the ann chariot to enter the temple, and the hand was thrown into the mozhi, and the old hàn (the door of the lane) and the difficulties of the soldiers were well known. And can not be right (before got a problem of not being able to speak, "feeling sick and aphasia"), just the head. The emperor was drooling, and the generous gift of gold was used for burial expenses. He died in August of the next year, at the age of seventy, and was posthumously awarded the title of King of Dong'ou and Xiangwu. ”
He did not become the founding duke, but in the end he was crowned a king with a different surname. Zhu Yuanzhang and Tang and the two little brothers can be described as a good beginning and an end. Not only did Tang He himself die well, but he was also a descendant of the Tang family, and he also had a good relationship with the Zhu Ming royal family, "passing on the knighthood to the Ming Dynasty is absolute".
Let's not discuss whether the heroes that Zhu Yuanzhang killed quickly became corrupt and degenerate after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and have become more brutal and abusive upstarts than the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty. Just looking at Tang He who had a different heart but was not beheaded, and was still reused after being repeatedly beaten, it can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang did not necessarily want to exhaust the heroes and generals.
So we can't help but have such an association: If the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty had Tang and half of his wisdom, would it be necessary for Zhu Yuanzhang to kill him?