Hu Weiyong was the last prime minister in ancient Chinese history, and his life was full of legends, because the Hu Weiyong case caused by him became a rare major case in ancient history, and the number of people involved in the whole case was as high as about 30,000, and many high-ranking officials of the DPRK and China were killed, which is enough to see how much its impact is.
From Hu Weiyong's appointment as prime minister to his final execution by Zhu Yuanzhang, a total of 7 years, some people think that the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was able to endure seven years was mainly for a bureau, and Hu Weiyong just happened to be the best candidate to enter the game, and even some people thought that Hu Weiyong did not plot rebellion, in fact, is this really the case?
Zhu Yuanzhang reused Hu Weiyong
Zhu Yuanzhang is a very suspicious, and very obsessed with power emperor, since he ascended the throne, he began to deal with the power around him, among the ownership ministers, the prime minister Li Shanchang is the largest one, originally Zhu Yuanzhang just became emperor, did not plan to set up a position as prime minister, but because the Huaixi Xungui clique in the DPRK is too influential, plus they are all heroes who followed him to fight the country, Zhu Yuanzhang is not good at not giving face, so he appointed Li Shanchang as the prime minister in the second year after ascending the throne.
Li Shanchang this person in Zhu Yuanzhang's entrepreneurial period, has already shown quite good management skills, Zhu Yuanzhang let him be the prime minister, the main hope is to be able to use Li Shanchang's hand to stabilize the Xungui clique, convenient for himself to stabilize the imperial power, but no one thought that Li Shanchang is not a person without ambition, after becoming the prime minister, he began to become blind, privately forming a party for personal gain, there is a great intention to work against Zhu Yuanzhang, so that Zhu Yuanzhang is very afraid.
It was at this time that Zhu Yuanzhang had the idea of letting Li Shanchang go home for the elderly, and then went to ask Liu Bowen who was the most suitable to be the prime minister after Li Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang first asked Yang Xian whether it was suitable, and as a result, Liu Bowen said that Yang Xian did not have the measure of a prime minister, and then Zhu Yuanzhang asked Wang Guangyang how, and liu Bowen said that he was narrow-minded, and finally Zhu Yuanzhang asked Hu Weiyong how, Liu Bowen still gave a negative answer.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Liu Bowen had denied all three of them, and said that he wanted Liu Bowen to be the prime minister, and as a result, Liu Bowen said that he was incompetent and incompetent, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not continue to embarrass Liu Bowen, after this incident, Liu Bowen also understood some of Zhu Yuanzhang's ideas, so he repeatedly asked Zhu Yuanzhang to return to his hometown, Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that Liu Bowen would return to his hometown and marry the party for personal gain, so he let Liu Bowen live in the home of his son in the capital, so as to facilitate his supervision of Liu Bowen.
Obviously, Liu Bowen had already said that Yang Xian, Wang Guangyang, and Hu Weiyong were not suitable to be prime ministers, but later Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to let the three people become prime ministers, and the first person to appoint them was Yang Xian, and Zhu Yuanzhang this time first let Yang Xian serve as the right chancellor of Zhongshu Province, which was the deputy position of prime minister, and the prime minister at that time was still Li Shanchang, and as a result, after Yang Xian took the throne, he began to exclude Li Shanchang and suppress Wang Guangyang, and his shortcomings were fully revealed, and in the end, he was executed by Zhu Yuanzhang before he officially became prime minister.
Perhaps many people are still more curious, why did Zhu Yuanzhang continue to let Li Shanchang as the prime minister at that time, in fact, this is mainly hindered by the face of the Xungui Group, Li Shanchang's influence is too large, Zhu Yuanzhang is worried that suddenly letting him go home for the elderly will cause dissatisfaction among officials, so he can only slowly cultivate new people, and then replace Li Shanchang when the time is ripe.
After Yang Xian was killed, Zhu Yuanzhang began to appoint Wang Guangyang as the right chancellor, and as a result, during Wang Guangyang's reign, he did not do anything and was afraid of his hands and feet, which made Zhu Yuanzhang even more dissatisfied, directly dismissed him, and let Hu Weiyong replace Wang Guangyang, at that time Hu Weiyong was recommended by Li Shanchang, so later after Li Shanchang returned home to retire, Hu Weiyong replaced Li Shanchang's position as prime minister, after all, it was his own family, Hu Weiyong replaced Li Shanchang without causing unnecessary fluctuations.
It can be said that the reason why Hu Weiyong was able to become the prime minister, in addition to being recommended by Li Shanchang, there was also an important factor that he was relatively good at currying favor with Zhu Yuanzhang, and he was able to observe and see what he liked, and Zhu Yuanzhang even thought that Hu Weiyong was a loyal minister around him, so he would let him replace Li Shanchang.
Hu Weiyong began to monopolize power
However, Hu Weiyong also has obvious shortcomings, just like Liu Bowen said at that time, he is not suitable to be the prime minister. After becoming prime minister, Hu Weiyong began to suppress dissidents, and even Wang Guangyang, the right minister who was reused by Zhu Yuanzhang again, was also suppressed, and Zhu Yuanzhang watched Hu Weiyong continue to go to his opposite side and finally planned to take a shot.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked Hu Weiyong to send medicine to Liu Bowen, who was ill at home, and as a result, Liu Bowen died shortly after the medicine was delivered, and Yushi Zhongzhong Beitui began to report Hu Weiyong and Wang Guangyang, who were fighting to the death, saying that Liu Bowen's death was related to the two, it was Hu Weiyong who was poisoned at that time, Wang Guangyang knew about it and did not report it, and both of them were guilty.
Zhu Yuanzhang took this opportunity to start suppressing Hu Weiyong, who was already married to Li Shanchang's family, and was very frightened after being suppressed by Zhu Yuanzhang, he was worried that what he had done in the past would be discovered by Zhu Yuanzhang, and then he might really lose his life, in order to survive, Hu Weiyong planned to fight to the death.
After Hu Weiyong made up his mind, he began to contact the rebel team, he went to find Li Shanchang's help, and as a result, Li Shanchang refused to participate on the grounds that he was old, but for Hu Weiyong's rebellion, Li Shanchang did not report or stop it, which laid the groundwork for the subsequent collapse of Li Shanchang's family.
Here Hu Weiyong was secretly plotting a rebellion, and Zhu Yuanzhang had already arranged for Tu Jie and others to monitor Hu Weiyong's every move, and when Hu Weiyong was ready to rebel, Zhu Yuanzhang seized the opportunity to send a large army to drive straight in, killing Hu Weiyong by surprise, and finally Hu Weiyong was killed for the crime of treason, and Li Shanchang was also implicated because he did not report it, and more than seventy members of the whole family were executed.
Things developed to this point, Zhu Yuanzhang also took the opportunity to abolish the prime minister system, and since then there has been no prime minister, Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor's power has once again been concentrated, but later Zhu Yuanzhang himself handled the government affairs for a period of time, found that it was too tired, he set up a four auxiliary officer system to help him handle government affairs, and after Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, he set up a cabinet system, and from then on the cabinet replaced the prime minister system.
Why did Zhu Yuanzhang wait seven years before killing Hu Weiyong?
From hu Weiyong's appointment as prime minister to his murder, it took a total of seven years, and many people were more curious, why did Zhu Yuanzhang wait seven years to eradicate it? Obviously, Hu Weiyong showed some problems as soon as he took office, why didn't Zhu Yuanzhang directly attack him at that time?
In fact, the answer to this question is very simple and cruel at the same time, and in general, it can be divided into two levels, one is not dare, and the other is not.
From the level of daring, Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to set up a prime minister at the beginning, but because the influence of the Xungui clique was too great, Zhu Yuanzhang let Li Shanchang as the prime minister to stabilize them, purely from this move, we understand that at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial power was not so concentrated later, he still had a certain fear, he did not dare to attack Li Shanchang and others, for fear that it would directly affect his throne.
In the same way, Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang and others were in the same group, and letting Hu Weiyong become the prime minister represented the interests of the Xungui clique; in the historical background at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang did not dare to do anything to Hu Weiyong, and could only wait for the opportunity, and the process of waiting for the opportunity was the essential reason why Zhu Yuanzhang could not do it.
From the time Tu Jie first reported That Hu Weiyong had killed Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang had not dared to move Hu Weiyong, but could not move him, and needed to wait for a better opportunity to take it down in one fell swoop, and at the same time could also take the opportunity to abolish the prime minister system. It can be said that before this incident, Zhu Yuanzhang had been indulging Hu Weiyong, the purpose was to hope that Hu Weiyong could do something wrong, and later he constantly put pressure on Hu Weiyong, hoping that he would commit more excessive behavior, there is no doubt that rebellion is the worst behavior, just Hu Weiyong did what Zhu Yuanzhang wanted him to do, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang did it again, only then can he convince the public and find the best reason to abolish the system of prime ministers.
Judging from the whole process of Hu Weiyong's killing, Zhu Yuanzhang still has everything under control, as for some people saying that Hu Weiyong did not rebel, it is completely the crime of rebellion imposed on him by Zhu Yuanzhang, I think this statement is a bit exaggerated, after all, from the perspective of interests, Zhu Yuanzhang does not need to do this, from the perspective of human nature, Zhu Yuanzhang has a better way to clean up Hu Weiyong, so why should he take the risk?
Don't say that people like Hu Weiyong will rebel, even if they are replaced by most people, under Zhu Yuanzhang's series of operations, they will also rebel, I don't believe we can analyze it in combination with the situation mentioned above, Zhu Yuanzhang has always been very conniving at Hu Weiyong when he just became prime minister, even if Hu Weiyong is dictatorial, Zhu Yuanzhang will turn a blind eye, many people impeach Hu Weiyong, Zhu Yuanzhang pretends not to see.
The old saying has clouds "carrying sharp weapons, killing hearts from the beginning", Hu Weiyong himself is already in a high position, Zhu Yuanzhang also connived at him in every way, in the long run, Hu Weiyong will inevitably have an illusion, thinking that Zhu Yuanzhang may also be a faint person, plus he is in a high position, there are many people around him who are flattered, such as those who say that Hu Weiyong's ancestral tomb is shining, is the most typical person who promotes the waves, they will make Hu Weiyong, who has no one in sight, feel that he can replace Zhu Yuanzhang as emperor.
When Hu Weiyong already had the idea of becoming an emperor and rebelling in his heart, And Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed it again, Hu Weiyong would inevitably rush to the doctor to speed up the pace of rebellion, and once this happened, it would be just as Zhu Yuanzhang wished. We can imagine that Zhu Yuanzhang can go from a beggar to an emperor in a chaotic world, if there is no level of mastery, simply relying on opportunism, how can he sit firmly on the throne?
epilogue
Although Hu Weiyong's death is closely related to his own personality, the more important reason is because of the existence of these Xungui cliques, which has an impact on Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial power, they do not die, Zhu Yuanzhang can't sleep well, their ending is actually doomed from the beginning!
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