The most ruthless imperial family, the emperor's eyes only have interests and no friendship, no matter how much merit has been made, once the use value is lost, in the eyes of the emperor is a dispensable person. In order to stabilize their own country, the founding monarchs of the past generations did not hesitate to kill the founding heroes, and among these monarchs, it is indispensable to say that the figure of Zhu Yuanzhang, the grandfather of the Ming Dynasty, is indispensable.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was more suspicious of the founding heroes, created many major cases in his later years, killing almost all the founding heroes. One of the heroes once saved Zhu Yuanzhang from 9 arrows on the battlefield, Zhu Yuanzhang was moved to make a promise that he would never fail, but 27 years later, Zhu Yuanzhang broke his promise and cut him all over the door, leaving only his 7-year-old grandson, chen de, who was the Duke of Daming.
Commit yourself to the Ming Lord and protect Zhu Yuanzhang's safety
After all, with the lowest starting point of "starting a bowl", he grew all the way to the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and the greatest achievement of his life was to drive out the Tartars, restore Chinese orthodoxy, and establish the last Han dynasty in ancient history. Chen De played a very important role in Zhu Yuanzhang's entire military career, and it can even be said that without Chen De's sacrifice to save each other, it is still unknown whether Zhu Yuanzhang can unify the world and establish the Ming Dynasty.
Chen De and Zhu Yuanzhang are fellow countrymen, in the second year of Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising in his hometown to recruit soldiers, Chen De joined the rebel army without hesitation, although Chen De's ancestors were peasants with their backs to the loess soil for generations, there was no culture, but a brute force can not be underestimated, and fighting is a good hand.
Chen De, along with Zhu Yuanzhang's generals such as Tang He and Xu Da, charged the battlefield and made great achievements in battle, from the fourteenth year of Zhizheng to the nineteenth year of Zhizheng, capturing more than ten cities, Chen De was also promoted to the vanguard of the former capital of the account for his military merits, and later followed Chang Yuchun when he conquered Quzhou.
If Chen De continued to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, he would inevitably become an excellent general in the future, but at this time, with the gradual expansion of Zhu Yuanzhang's team, his personal safety became the top priority. In order to ensure the safety of the commander-in-chief, a group of absolutely loyal and brave soldiers must be selected as guards, and Chen De is not only Zhu Yuanzhang's fellow countryman, loyalty is also guaranteed, and at the same time, his brave performance on the battlefield is also obvious to all, so Chen De, Together with Han Cheng and others, form a solid shield to protect Zhu Yuanzhang's safety.
In the Battle of Poyang Lake, he was shot with 9 arrows in order to save Zhu Yuanzhang
The moment when Chen De really established his merit was at the Battle of Poyang Lake, a water battle between Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyi, and it is no exaggeration to say that the victory or defeat of this war determines who is entitled to dominate the world. From the perspective of paper strength alone, the strength of Zhu Yuanzhang's department is far lower than that of Chen Youyu's department, and it should be known that Chen Youyu is known as the leader of 600,000 and all of them are large ships, while Zhu Yuanzhang only has 200,000 people, and the boats used for water combat are also grass boats and wooden boats, which is very shabby compared with Chen Youyu.
But the outcome of a war depends more than just numbers and equipment. Zhu Yuanzhang turned passive into active, taking advantage of the characteristics of small boats being more flexible than large ships and the high morale of the generals, and beat Chen Youyi's army to a gradual defeat, but after all, there was a huge disparity in strength, and even if Zhu Yuanzhang's troops achieved a slight advantage, their own losses were quite huge, so the situation fell into a stalemate.
At this time, Zhang Dingbian, the "first fierce general" under Chen Youyi, decided to adopt the strategy of capturing the thief first and personally led three warships to zhu Yuanzhang's flagship. At that time, the Ming Shui Army thought that this was just an ordinary cruise of Chen Youyi's warship, and it did not have the slightest defense against Zhang Dingbian's raid, and actually let it burst into the flagship of the Ming Shui Army, directly threatening Zhu Yuanzhang's personal safety.
By the time Zhu Yuanzhang's guards reacted to the rescue, Zhang Dingbian had already broken through the perimeter defense and rushed straight to the flagship of the Ming Army, unfortunately, the flagship of the Ming Army was actually stranded at this time, Zhang Dingyuan could not help but be overjoyed at a glance, even the heavens were helping him, and he hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen to shoot, thinking that this wave would definitely take Zhu Yuanzhang away.
In the face of the enemy's ferocious attack and the rain of arrows, the generals Han Cheng, Chen Zhaoxian, and others who guarded Zhu Yuanzhang's safety were killed one after another, while Chen De threw himself on Zhu Yuanzhang to block the feather arrows flying from the opposite side, even if he was hit by 9 arrows, he did not flinch, until the Ming reinforcements arrived and repelled Zhang Dingbian's fleet.
Afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Chen De, who was lying on the hospital bed, and was so moved that he immediately promised: "Never fail Qing." According to historical records, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang treated this former benefactor with great courtesy, named him the Marquis of Linjiang, and enjoyed all the glory and wealth in his life, and after his death, Zhu Yuanzhang also specially posthumously named him the Duke of Qiguo and ordered him to quit the dynasty for three days.
Chen De's descendants were implicated in a major case and were tragically raided
Zhu Yuanzhang started from the end of the year, on the surface did not care about his cloth identity, but there must be some mustard in his heart, as he grew older, his suspicions became more and more serious, deeply afraid that those founding heroes who were also from peasant origins would overthrow the Daming Dynasty he had worked hard to establish, in order to inherit the Ming Dynasty forever, Zhu Yuanzhang began to disregard friendship and wave the butcher knife to the founding heroes.
In fact, some of the founding feats eradicated by Zhu Yuanzhang were indeed evil and deserved to be killed, such as Blue Jade's arrogance and arrogance, and even dared to insult the Northern Yuan Imperial Concubine without authorization, but there were also some heroes who died unjustly, without any evidence. No matter how deep the friendship with the emperor and how much merit he has made, as long as he threatens his throne, no matter who he is, he will die.
Just two years after Chen De's death, Zhu Yuanzhang created the Hu Weiyong case, which involved a wide range of people, not only the prime minister Li Shanchang was executed, but Chen De's son Chen Yong was also involved. According to relevant documents, Chen Yong was reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang for his defeat in the Western Expedition, so he harbored a grudge and conspired with Hu Weiyong to rebel.
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he heard that Chen Yong had participated in Hu Weiyong's rebellion, and ordered Chen Yong's execution, so 27 years after Chen De saved Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen De's descendants were tragically raided. Perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang remembered chen de's 9 arrows to save his life and his original promise of "never failing to live up to Qing" after giving the order, so he sent a kind heart to Chen De to leave a grandson to live in the world to avoid his incense from being cut off.
In the ancient society where imperial power was supreme, the fate of the family and individual could not be in their own hands, only by the likes and dislikes of the monarch, if they had to meet the ming lord such as Tang Taizong, they could not only grasp the power and enjoy the glory and wealth before they died, but also enjoy the temple after death and accept the incense sacrifice of the future generations. Some of the treatment is inferior, such as Song Taizu, although he cannot allow the heroes to hold the military power in their hands, but they can also be rich and noble for a lifetime, and the most "unlucky" is to meet such a "boss" as Ming Taizu, but they cannot share the blessings together, which is chilling.