After the establishment of the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang treated those brothers who followed him to fight the world in the southern conquest and the northern war. But it didn't take long for him to change, unexpectedly. It can be said that most of the heroes have been eliminated for various reasons, but they have left his hair small soup and.
But in fact, in addition to Tang He, there is another person who can protect himself. He is Zhu Sheng, who proposed "building a high wall, accumulating grain in a wide range, and slowly becoming king", but he is an important adviser around Zhu Yuanzhang, so how did he do it?
Zhu Sheng's fame was much worse than that of Liu Bowen, who was also a courtier. Zhu Yuanzhang once made an extreme evaluation of Zhu Sheng: "The strategy of the national dynasty is unparalleled, and the first in the Hanlin article", which shows that Zhu Sheng's merits are not much compared to Liu Bowen.
Zhu Sheng once served as an official of the Yuan Dynasty, but later gave up his official position and lived in seclusion to teach. Like many famous strategists in history, he was also on this road, and was recommended to Zhu Yuanzhang, and after defecting to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Sheng provided a large number of strategies in the military, and the merit was still great.
However, Zhu Sheng, who had made such a great contribution, did not have any title after the founding of the country, which was logically undeserved. After all, after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Zhu Sheng was summoned to the imperial city of Ying Tianfu to continue to serve as a courtier, and was also promoted to a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and a scholar of the Eastern Pavilion, a scholar of Jiayi, and a scholar of the Zhizhi system, and studied the history of the country and became an adviser to the emperor.
In fact, this shows Zhu Sheng's cleverness, he already feels that Zhu Yuanzhang is very suspicious, instead of accompanying the king all day like a companion tiger, it is better to retreat early. Therefore, when everyone was addicted to the magnates, only Zhu Sheng kept his brain awake, and he did not accept Zhu Yuanzhang's reward, but only begged himself to return to his hometown and resign his official position and live in seclusion.
Moreover, Zhu Sheng did not return to his hometown of Xiuning, nor did he go to Shimen, Shexian County, Anhui Province, where he was originally a hermit, but took his wife to the Yihuai area of the Jiang River, arrived in the East China Sea and transferred to Xixi Xuyu, and built a house in Nanlonggang.
He also did this to Zhu Yuanzhang Mingzhi, he had no other heart, he was old, and he just wanted to live his last days in a down-to-earth manner.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, Zhu Sheng is an honest man, and Zhu Yuanzhang once praised Zhu Sheng as "an honest man and a hero among the old Cheng Xianda." But this was not enough to reassure Zhu Yuanzhang, the key was that Zhu Sheng was too old. At that time, Zhu Sheng was already seventy-one years old, and in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, he could not set off any big waves.
After all, Zhu Sheng is not Liu Bowen, he quit the official field early, and he did not establish his own team and cronies around him, nor did he fight for power and profit in the official field like Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang, so that Old Zhu was not at ease.
Of course, the most crucial thing is that Zhu Sheng died in the third year of Hongwu. You must know that at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the energy to calm down and deal with those founding heroes.
So although they all died well, he and Tang He were not quite the same.