Zhou Dexing was a famous founding general of the Ming Dynasty and one of the twenty-four generals of Huaixi, and he and Zhu Yuanzhang had known each other for a long time, and they were also fellow countrymen, the kind that played from childhood to adulthood. Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his hometown to recruit troops in 1353 AD, Zhou Dexing himself turned to Zhu Yuanzhang at this time.
Soon, Zhou Dexing followed a large army to capture Chuzhou and Hezhou, and then followed Zhu Yuanzhang across the river, and made many military achievements, and was awarded the title of Grand Marshal of the Left Wing.
Zhou Dexing repeatedly took Jinhua, Anqing and other places with his army, and won the battle to rescue Anfeng, and then followed Xu Da and took several cities.
Finally, in the third year of Hongwu, when Zhu Yuanzhang was a meritorious warrior, Zhou Dexing was awarded the title of Marquis of Jiangxia for his merits, eating 1,500 stones, and also received a Danshu iron coupon that could be avoided from death.
In the same year, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed him as the general of Zhengnan to quell the rebellion in Dongmiao, Changsha. Later, he assisted Tang He in his conquest of Ming Xia.
In the following days, Zhou Dexing still built meritorious deeds for the Ming Dynasty from time to time, and he received many rewards, his power had already reached the peak, and he relied on the relationship between Zhu Yuanzhang's fellow villagers, and repeatedly did a lot of things that went out of the ordinary, Zhu Yuanzhang remembered the friendship of the past, and forgave him!
After the Hu Weiyong case, many heroes in the imperial court were involved, and Zhou Dexing was still safe and sound, and Zhu Yuanzhang also watched the deaths of other heroes one after another, so he was very kind to the living Zhou Dexing and asked him to go to Fujian to manage affairs. He was also given two thousand ingots to build a tomb and a Shinto monument.
Originally, according to the normal script, Zhou Dexing should be able to die well, but unfortunately it happened that the crown prince Zhu Biao died, Zhu Yuanzhang began to succeed to the throne smoothly for the little emperor Sun, he began to attack the only remaining heroes, and the famous Zhou Dexing was naturally among them.
Zhou Dexing had a son named Zhou Ji, who was a typical clumsy disciple, who had a large number of wives and concubines at home, went out to look for flowers and ask for willows, and even dared to mess with the palace women, which was probably a serious violation of the laws of Daming at that time.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Zhou Ji to be killed along with his father Zhou Dexing, which really responded to the old saying that the son is not the fault of the godfather!
Of course, this is just a joke, even if there is no son Zhou Ji's chaos, the author believes that Zhu Yuanzhang will also find other reasons to solve Zhou Dexing, this meritorious old minister!