There are always many striking similarities in history, for example, there are many similarities between Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Especially to see that they are all self-made, they are all with their own group of fellow villagers, out to fight the world, the magic is that their fellow villagers are still talented, very capable.
What is even more coincidental is that after these two won the world, they both carried out a large-scale massacre of heroes, and the more those who made great achievements, the final fate was very tragic.
But in the final analysis, Liu Bang's massacre of Han Xin and Peng Yue was entirely out of historical necessity and a need for the transition from a feudal society to a centralized state.
Moreover, Liu Bang was actually very good for the people who followed him to do the revolution at the beginning, although there were also suspicions and precautions, but that belonged to the normal operation of an emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang in this regard, but is really too fierce, not only outsiders want to kill, even the compatriots who followed him into death must also kill, the most classic is that he killed Li Shanchang, the so-called first hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and Xiao He's same status, actually hid for 20 years, did not hide the fate of being killed.
Li Shanchang was Zhu Yuanzhang's fellow countryman, and when Zhu Yuanzhang was still very weak, he came to join him, which may be Li Shanchang's extraordinary vision, Li Shanchang has always been a very important role in Zhu Yuanzhang's army, and has long been in an important staff position.
And often use the story of Han Gaozu Liu Bang to zhu Yuanzhang should take the strategy at the moment, it can be said that in a crowd of rebels, it is precisely with Li Shanchang that Zhu Yuanzhang has a fundamental difference from others, the grand strategy and big vision of the big pattern, Li Shanchang put himself in Xiao He's position, and he is indeed worthy of this positioning.
It may be that he contacted Zhu Yuanzhang very early, Li Shanchang essentially knew Zhu Yuanzhang very well, in the first year of Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang was a great meritorious man, Li Shanchang became the first, Hongwu was once again added to the rank of knight in three years, but in the fourth year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang immediately retreated in a hurry, and resigning from the official due to illness was the most decent excuse.
Maybe at that time Zhu Yuanzhang was still looking at the face of his fellow countrymen and heroes, or it may be that Zhu Yuanzhang at this time had not lost his mind as brutal as later, and for Li Shanchang's resignation, Zhu Yuanzhang was accurate.
Originally thought that I could land safely, but I did not expect that the time after that has never stopped, and what is even more funny is that the so-called resignation of the official due to illness, after which Li Shanchang actually lived for another twenty years.
Too long is not a good thing, this is another twenty years to live, Gou Yan did not expect to be able to escape Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher knife in the end, saying that he plotted rebellion, a person who resigned for 20 years plotted rebellion, in short, the emperor said that there is, then there is.
Li Shanchang judged the situation and knew that Zhu Yuanzhang could not tolerate him and retired at the peak, so why did Zhu Yuanzhang refuse to spare his life for the first meritorious man who had been retired for 20 years?
Because Li Shanchang's energy was too great, he was retired, but his sons, his brothers, and his family were still active in daming's court, and each of the four major cases of Hongwu implicated countless people, and for Li Shanchang's family, it would suffer at any time.
Zhu Yuanzhang's purpose is very clear, he wants to cut off everything that may threaten the imperial power, even if it is not at all, the complete abolition of the beggar system is the best example, many times it is not that you have done anything wrong, but because it is you, so you must die.
So in the 23rd year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang was still killed, there were many crimes, and it was also very nonsensical, anyway, Daming's laws were all set by Zhu Yuanzhang alone, and the difference between what crimes were convicted was not big, and even with a family of more than seventy people, all of them fell to the ground together.
Li Shanchang was very powerful and far-sighted, but unfortunately he met Zhu Yuanzhang, an emperor with the same longevity and the same meticulous thoughts, two very hard people, who met, and finally could only end in tragedy.