Before Li Shanchang was beheaded, he pulled out the gold medal to avoid death, and Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: You look at the 5 words on the back
Speaking of emperors, in fact, many of them were born into the nobility, and originally belonged to the "people on the top" at that time. For example, Li Yuan, the emperor of Tang Gaozu, had already been enthroned as the Duke of Tang as early as the age of seven. And the identity of Song Tai Zhao Kuangyin is not simple, growing up in a military family. However, there are also examples of commoners becoming emperors. Today, let's talk about the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, he was born poor, the previous generations of Zhu Yuanzhang's family were based on agriculture for their livelihood, and he was herding cattle in the landlord's house since he was a child, and it was not easy for him to become an emperor.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed King of Wu, he made Li Shanchang the Right Xiangguo. Because Li Shanchang was familiar with allusions, he was very efficient in his work, and was good at drafting proclamations, advising Zhu Yuanzhang, and restoring the law of money. Li Changshan can be described in terms of talent and erudition, who was also the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty and held an important position.
In 1368, the Ming Dynasty was established, and Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor. Subsequently, in 1370, Lee Sun-jang became the Duke of Korea, and also allowed the knighthood to be hereditary, giving him a gold medal to avoid death. We all know about the existence of the deathless gold medal in some costume TV series, and those who can get it have the opportunity to exonerate themselves from capital crimes. And Li Shanchang was able to spare himself the opportunity to be spared 2 capital crimes, and in the court, few people could compete with Li Shanchang, which showed that Zhu Yuanzhang was very important to him.
Although Li Shanchang is talented, there are also many shortcomings in his personality. Although on the surface it seems to be polite to people, in fact, only the ministers in the court are slightly disrespectful to him, Li Shanchang will complain in front of the emperor, there were once two people who lost their official positions because of Li Shanchang, many ministers have a lot of dissatisfaction with him, but they do not dare to really offend Li Shanchang.
In 1374, Zhu Yuanzhang made Li Cunyi,Li Shanchang's younger brother Li Cunyi the Prince of Taibu Temple, and made Li Cunyi's two sons, Li Shen and Li You, officials, already very caring for their family. However, in 1380, Hu Weiyong, who was recommended by Li Shanchang, was killed for trying to plot. At that time, many people were implicated, but the emperor was still very tolerant of Li Shanchang, so he could still serve as an official in the imperial court, but Li Shanchang did not appreciate the emperor's grace of not killing.
In the 23rd year of Hongwu (1930), Li Shanchang was already 77 years old, and someone presented evidence of contacts between Li Cunyi and Hu Weiyong to Ming Taizu. Li Cunyi's father and son were arrested, and because the confessions of the two involved Li Shanchang. Zhu Yuanzhang had already been very dissatisfied with Li Shanchang because he was not grateful.
This time, Zhu Yuanzhang just found an outlet, so he executed Li Shanchang's entire family, including his wife, daughters, brothers and nephews, a total of more than seventy people. At that time, Li Shanchang originally wanted to use the death-free gold medal, but Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to see the 5 characters on the back of the gold medal: in addition to plotting against the great rebellion, in the end he could only accept his fate of being killed.