In ancient times, because of the struggle for power, wars were frequent, and the biggest victims of wars were often ordinary civilians, as the poet Zhang Yanghao once wrote: "Xing, the people suffer, die, the people suffer", no matter who the final victor is, the people suffer greatly.
Even if they lose their lives in the chaos of war, even if they greet the new regime and the victors, they will not be able to escape this fate, just as there was such an incident in history, the general returned triumphantly, and the people of the whole city came out to greet him, but the general smiled and ordered his subordinates to slaughter the city.
Abandoning the dark and casting the light, he followed Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the four sides
The general mentioned above is the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, Chang Yuchun, who, like Zhu Yuanzhang, was born in a poor peasant family, and had not received any education since childhood, the only outstanding thing is that he is strong and brave, and his strength is difficult for ordinary people to compare, more importantly, he and Zhu Yuanzhang have a strong resistance to the dark and decadent rule of the Ming Dynasty, so at the time of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty's rule, Chang Yuchun has chosen to fall into the grass to seek the life he wants.
However, over time, he also found that this is not the way to go, after all, it is impossible to be a bandit all his life, such an identity will not only be disgusted by the people, but also more likely to be destroyed by the imperial court in the future, and naturally there will be no good future in the end, so he wants to join the various rebel armies that rose at that time, and wants to make a meritorious career, which is better than being a bandit for a lifetime.
After thinking about it, he chose Zhu Yuanzhang, who was from the same origin as himself at that time, and perhaps it was the same experience that made Chang Yuchun have a high degree of trust in Zhu Yuanzhang, and he made such a choice.
And facts have proved that Chang Yuchun's choice is certainly not wrong, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang Lixian corporal, recruit talents, although in the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang did not pay too much attention to Chang Yuchun this person, just regarded him as a soldier who came to himself, but what Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect was that Chang Yuchun's performance was too prominent later, this person was not only brave and good at war, but also had certain military talents, which also made Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards him have a great change.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang continued to promote Chang Yuchun, until he became his right-hand man, Chang Yuchun's thousand-mile horse can also be regarded as encountering a good Bole, a brave martial art is also useful, in order to repay Zhu Yuanzhang's kindness, Chang Yuchun for his saddle horse, many times are a pioneer, fighting on the battlefield, it is his dedication to lay the world of the Ming Dynasty.
Brutal killing character
For Chang Yuchun, you may never imagine that such a great general who founded the Ming Dynasty was actually a brutal and unkind general who liked to kill, and his most typical practice was to massacre the entire people in the city after taking a city, which is what we call tucheng, and it is reasonable to say that as a victor, you should give preferential treatment to prisoners, not to mention the unarmed people, but Chang Yuchun never thought about this.
Perhaps he had once been a bandit with an extremely murderous nature, or he had paid no attention to the preciousness of life in the years of conquest, or perhaps the pain of the Yuan Dynasty's oppression had made him take crazy revenge to vent his resentment, and slaughtering may have become a pleasure for him.
His practice also made many people feel frightened, for example, once when Chang Yuchun pursued the enemy army to Xinzhou, the people in the city were wantonly slaughtered by him, countless dead and wounded, and most of the people in the whole city fled in advance.
In the face of the surrendered people, why choose to slaughter!
Although the slaughter of the city is a common thing for Chang Yuchun, the people slaughtered are only a small number of people in the city, and some of them are the troops who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and were loyal to the people of the Yuan Dynasty, which is no pity for Chang Yuchun to kill, and Zhu Yuanzhang will not blame it.
However, once when Chang Yuchun broke through the enemy's defenses, he won the victory in the war and returned to the city, and the people here all came out to greet him and surrendered to him, because these people were also fed up with the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and wanted to welcome the new regime, and what was unexpected was that Chang Yuchun not only did not accept the surrender of the people, but waved his hand, and then sneered and said to his subordinates: Slaughter the city.
So why did Chang Yuchun make such a choice? Obviously, the people have already defected to the army of the Ming Dynasty, so wouldn't it have lost the hearts of the people? And the reason for this is really ridiculous, the welcome card held by the surrendered people at that time was actually a word to celebrate the victory of the Yuan army, which naturally caused a great misunderstanding, and surrendered well, but it did not expect to become a naked provocation, and it is no wonder that Chang Yuchun would kill these people.
But no matter what the reason, Chang Yuchun's approach has always been inhuman, and it is extremely lacking in moralism, as a victor, not only can not slaughter the people, but also do their best to protect them, only in this way, in the future, can win the support of the people, but also can really establish the regime of the Ming Dynasty, but for this at this time Chang Yuchun did not realize that in his eyes force is everything, only through force can we win the control of the world.
However, after this, a more bizarre thing happened, that is, Chang Yuchun died suddenly and violently on the way back to the south, but he did not suffer from diseases, nor did he have any hidden diseases, and at this time he was also in his prime, just 40 years old, it is reasonable to say that he should not die for no reason, so some people speculated whether he had created too many sins, so he was punished, of course, this is just a superstitious statement, as for the real cause of death, there is no exact explanation, who can think of such a fierce general to say that it is gone, It's a pity.
epilogue
Although Chang Yuchun created a lot of sins before his death, in any case, he was the founding general of the Ming Dynasty after all, and his personal ability was beyond doubt, and he made great contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, so that after his death, Zhu Yuanzhang, as emperor, also personally attended his funeral and also rewarded him.
Even his son was thus stained with light, and such an approach was worthy of Chang Yuchun's life's contribution, and perhaps such an ending was the best for Chang Yuchun, which was better than being executed by Zhu Yuanzhang for false charges.
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