There is an old Chinese saying that "a companion is like a companion of a tiger". And just after Zhu Yuanzhang achieved a counterattack from a beggar to the founder of the Ming Dynasty, after tasting the supreme right to kill and kill in his hand, "the dragon has reverse scales, and if it touches it, it will die" has become synonymous with The Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang like a curse.
The Empty Seal case implicated hundreds of officials; the Hu Weiyong case and the Li Shanchang case, which lasted more than ten years and killed more than 30,000 people; the Guo Huan case, which linked the officials of zhizhi province, tens of thousands of people died...
When his most beloved son, Zhu Biao, died, he chose to establish his gentle grandson Zhu Yunjiao as the crown prince. The change of the crown prince naturally brought about another major purge of the korean situation. However, at this time, the blue jade that was still the confidant of Prince Zhu Biao naturally did not expect the fierce means of the emperor who was already a dying old man under the emperor's heart technique.
Poor warrior who had made great military achievements, in the Battle of Yu'erhai, gave the Northern Yuan King's court the "Shame of Jingkang", captured the uncounted general, and still threatened to the left and right, "Jade is not happy to live under the two dukes of Song and Ying, saying: 'I can't bear Taishiye'". ——Am I not as good as the merits of Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, and others, and I have to live below the two, and I am not worthy to be a master? Grandpa Mao has a saying: "Complaining too much to prevent broken intestines", and for Blue Jade, he naturally does not understand. He also chattered and did not forget to add a sentence of "I am suspicious of me", so another Hongwu case - the Blue Jade case broke out.
In this big case, As the first offender, Liangguo Gong Lanyu naturally could not escape the guilt. Not to mention, Blue Jade still had the fact that at the end of the Battle of Yu'erhai, on the way back to the division, there were obscene and insulting princesses of the Yuan Dynasty, wantonly indulging soldiers, and arrogantly bombarding Xifeng Pass. The crime of conspiracy to rebel was "nailed down", and he was also punished by Zhu Yuanzhang with the criminal law of peeling the skin, peeling the skin and grass, and hanging the city to show the public. Since then, Fu Youde, Feng Sheng and other dukes and princes have all been implicated, and the number of people killed has reached 15,000.
However, in this case, as a senior general under Lan Yu, one person was naturally implicated, but instead of being killed, Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to return to his hometown and return home for the elderly.
He was Yu Tongyuan, the Marquis of Yue.
In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, his father Yu Tingyu initially followed the Xiaoming king Han Lin'er to rebel against the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and then when Zhu Yuanzhang intended to attack the Jiangnan region, he led a fleet of sailors to surrender, and also successfully laid a solid foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang to stand in Yingtian (Nanjing), but then died on the battlefield.
Yu Tingyu's sons Yu Tonghai and Yu Tongyuan subsequently became important vassals under Zhu Yuanzhang, and Yu Tonghai later died tragically, and his brother Yu Tongyuan succeeded the eldest brother, continued to be the former horse of Zhu Yuanzhang, and participated in almost all the major military activities in the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, following the Blue Jade Northern Expedition to the Yuan Dynasty; and then following Liao Yongzhong in his crusade against the Bactrian regime in Sichuan; defending Yunnan and conquering southern Man, and the military career of these classes also made him die early at the age of 44.
As the youngest of the three brothers, Yu Tongyuan was also a general tiger, who followed his father and brother to participate in many military operations and made great achievements. In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang remembered that he was loyal to the martyrs, and three of the four fathers and sons died for the loyalty of the country, so he was made the Marquis of Yue, and his father and brother were posthumously sealed.
At that time, in the border areas of Yunnan and Sichuan, rebellions occurred from time to time. After following the Conquest of Lan Yu, the Duke of Liangguo, Yu Tongyuan was ordered to guard the Jiannan region for generations. When the Blue Jade case broke out, in fact, as blue jade's general Yue Yue Hou was inescapable, but Zhu Yuanzhang was also thinking of the loyalty of the Yu family, he chose to give him back to his hometown and let him return home to retire.
For Yu Tongyuan, this was not the end of his political life, when Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he was reinstated as a knight, in the face of Zhu Di's Jingnan army, he led his troops to resist, and finally lost the enemy and died in the battle, which can also be regarded as repaying Zhu Yuanzhang's grace of not killing, and even more loyal to his courtiers.
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, written by Qing, Zhang Tingyu, etc
Records of Ming Taizu