Under the command of every founding emperor, there must be a group of Xiao Yong generals, Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, Li Shimin, and so on, and so on, just as the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, had famous generals such as Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Fu Youde, Feng Sheng, and Lan Yu.
Zhu Yuanzhang was not only good at recruiting generals, but also good at cultivating generals, and his subordinates Li Wenzhong, Deng Yu, Mu Ying, and so on all started from an early age, and at first many of them did not know anything about war, and simply relied on a fierce force to survive on the battlefield and accumulate a lot of experience, so as to gradually grow into a general who could stand alone.
The protagonist of this article, Lu Zhongheng, can also be regarded as a cultivation general.
According to the historical records, Lu Zhonghun was a native of Haozhou, which is today's Fengyang, Anhui, and when he was seventeen years old, his family was plundered by the rebels, and his parents and brothers died, leaving him alone, running around hungry.
Once, he came across a tall general who passed by him with a group of men and horses. When the general saw that he was pitiful, he called him over and asked him to fight with him.
It doesn't matter whether to fight or not to fight, the key is to be able to fill his stomach every day, which is a great gift for Lu Zhongheng at that time, so Lu Zhongheng happily agreed.
The general who took him with him was the later Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. It is no exaggeration to say that if Zhu Yuanzhang had not taken the initiative to accept it at that time, Lu Zhongheng would probably have starved to death in the wilderness like other displaced people.
Lu Zhongheng grew up very quickly after Zhu Yuanzhang, and when he first went to the battlefield, he followed General Xu Da's ass and personally cut off six Yuan troops, which was already a very proud record for him, a stunned Young Man who had no experience in major wars.
In the later Battle of Poyang Lake, Lu Zhongheng drove a small boat to attack Chen Youyi's fleet, and this courage amazed Zhu Yuanzhang, and he was soon promoted to the commander of the Hussar Guard because of his merits, and he had become a young general with considerable achievements.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Zhongheng was sent to the battlefield of Guangdong, at this time he began to show his side of leading the army independently, and with a single blow, he successively laid down Yingde, Qingyuan, Lianzhou, Zhaoqing and other places, living up to Zhu Yuanzhang's expectations.
In the third year of Hongwu, when he was a great meritorious hero, Lu Zhongheng was named the Marquis of Ji'an and got a Danshu iron coupon that could avoid death, at this time Lu Zhongheng had reached the peak of his life, and the person he should thank most was Zhu Yuanzhang, who promoted him.
It's just that once people gain wealth, they are easily overwhelmed, and they become more and more arrogant, doing many out-of-the-ordinary affairs, embezzling many people's land, etc. Zhu Yuanzhang endured these illegal things again and again.
In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the Hu Weiyong case broke out, and some people reported that Lu Zhongheng and Hu Weiyong exchanged letters with each other, and demanded that Lu Zhongheng be severely punished, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not investigate deeply in his past friendship.
Ten years later, one of Lu Zhongheng's domestic slaves reported that Lu Zhongheng and Tang Shengzong had secretly participated in Hu Weiyong's rebellion. Zhu Yuanzhang would not let him go anymore, and in anger, he immediately ordered his entire family to be killed.
Whether Lu Zhongheng was involved in Hu Weiyong's rebellion or not is now unclear, but looking at his life, he can indeed be called a sentence, cheng also Zhu Yuanzhang, defeat also Zhu Yuanzhang!