How strange is Zhu Yuanzhang's reason for killing the founding heroes? It's ridiculous to hear
Since ancient times, many monarchs in our country have done such a desperate thing as killing heroes, and in the entrepreneurial stage of Yanlu Lanyi, they have put their hearts on everyone and entrusted them with heavy responsibilities, but when the dynasty is established and the world is determined, they will worry that the high-powered heroes will threaten themselves or their descendants, so they often mercilessly kill them. For example, after Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he successively cleaned up Han Xin, Peng Yue, Yingbu and other kings with different surnames. In addition to Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang can also be called the "grandmaster" level figure who killed heroes in ancient times, and according to statistics, most of the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty were not spared.
Then, Liu Bang first forced the heroes to rebel, and then eliminated them in the name of crusade, what method did Zhu Yuanzhang rely on to kill the heroes, and why did many people say that his methods were strange?
When it comes to Zhu Yuanzhang's "strange way" of killing heroes, I am afraid that many people will first think of Xu Da, a famous general who is known as "the first hero of the founding of the country". As one of Zhu Yuanzhang's most trusted generals, Xu Da had courage and strategy, and his military achievements were outstanding, but he was not greedy for fame and fortune and was cautious, which can be said to be deeply meaningful. In the canonical history, Xu Da is recorded to have died of a serious illness in Beiping, and after his death, Zhu Yuanzhang was deeply saddened and cared for his family, and the two became like a pair of model monarchs.
However, in the pen of Xu Zhenqing, who was called the "Four Great Talents of Jiangnan" together with Tang Bohu and others, Xu Da was poisoned by Zhu Yuanzhang with poison for his meritorious master. Another Ming Dynasty scholar, Wang Wenlu, recorded that at that time, Xu Da had back gangrene and could not eat the "hair" that would aggravate the skin disease, and Zhu Yuanzhang specially gave a steamed goose that was the most taboo for back gangrene patients. Zhu Yuanzhang gave the goose, which was actually equivalent to giving poison and white silk to the minister, so after Xu Da saw the steamed goose, he immediately knew the emperor's holy will, and died at home soon after.
Although it is from an unfounded wild history, many people have spread the legend that Xu Da died by eating steamed geese because it was interesting. Gradually, many people even regarded it as a historical fact. If Xu Da only died helplessly in the wild history, then the death of Blue Jade is a real tragedy. Blue Jade belongs to the younger one of the founding generals, he is brave in battle, wisdom and courage, so he has always been a great general, responsible for the northern Yuan.
Lan Yu was originally the uncle of the crown prince Zhu Biao, and it was reasonable to say that the future was bright, but Zhu Biao's untimely death turned him from a capable general into a threat to the throne.
In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393), Zhu Yuanzhang arrested Lan Yu for treason, raided his home and clan, and peeled off his skin to deter unscrupulous people. As soon as Lan Yu died, Zhu Yuanzhang used the topic to investigate and punish the officials associated with it, killing more than fifteen thousand people in one breath.
The scale of the "Blue Jade Case" is extremely large, comparable to the "Hu Weiyong Case" is even bigger than it. Hu Weiyong was originally also a founding hero, he was cautious at first, and was deeply trusted by Zhu Yuanzhang, but as his power grew, he began to directly take many things into his own hands, which made Zhu Yuanzhang, who had a strong desire for power, feel very dissatisfied.
In the twelfth year of Hongwu (1379), someone accused Hu Weiyong of plotting rebellion, and Zhu Yuanzhang pushed the boat along the water, arrested and executed him, and joined the nine tribes.
Ten years after his death, Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated a "Record of Manifesting traitors", which dealt with Li Shanchang, the founding father who had been praised by himself as not inferior to Xiao He, and others. For this seventy-seven-year-old old minister, Zhu Yuanzhang gave the punishment on the grounds of collusion with Hu Weiyong and not reporting it knowing his intention to rebel.
After Li Shanchang and his entire family of more than seventy people were killed together, Yubu Langzhong Kingdom used Zeng Shangshu to file a petition for his grievances, according to Zhu Yuanzhang's consistent personality, he should have been punished together, but the latter did not treat him well, so it can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang may be a little weak in his heart.
In short, in the case of Hu Weiyong alone, Lu Zhongheng, marquis of Ji'an, Tang Shengzong of Yan'an, Fei Ju of Pingliang, Marquis Zhao Yong of Nanxiong, Marquis Zheng Yuchun of Xingyang, Marquis Huangbin of Yichun, Marquis Luju of Henan, and others among the founding heroes of the founding heroes were successively implicated and killed. Even Yang Jing, the Marquis of Yingyang and Marquis Gu of Jining, who had died at that time, were also affected and classified as traitors. If zhu Yuanzhang also labeled them as conspirators when hu Weiyong, Li Shanchang, Lan Yu, and others were executed, then the death of the famous general Fu Youde is truly strange, because his death was for no reason.
Fu Youde was one of the more famous founding generals, and Zhu Yuanzhang also gave him a high evaluation of "On the merits of the generals, Fu Youde is the first". In the seventeenth year of Hongwu (1384), in view of Fu Youde's merits, Zhu Yuanzhang gave him the "World Coupon", which is commonly known as the Danshu Iron Coupon, however, ten years later, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly gave it to death, completely ignoring the original reward.
Whether it is in the "History of Ming" or the "Record of Taizu", fu Youde's death is a brush stroke, which makes people wonder what big mistake Fu Youde made. Some of the heroes who were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang were given goose, some were skinned, some plants even tens of thousands of people, and some history books did not dare to record, which is really very strange.