Chinese pay attention to "killing people to pay for their lives, paying off debts", and in essence, they have a strong sense of revenge. There is also a saying that "this vendetta does not repay the non-gentleman". Others bully you when you are weak, and when you are brilliant, you must return it, this kind of thinking is not uncommon in ancient China. It is common in many martial arts novels and rendition novels.
Speaking of this, Xiaobian reminded me of a story about Zhu Yuanzhang. It is about Zhu Yuanzhang's being bullied, and after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, how did he deal with the person who bullied him? You know, he's notoriously harsh.
This story should also start from Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors. We all know that Zhu Yuanzhang is a native of Fengyang, Anhui, but he is not an authentic local, but he has come from other places. Jinling, also known as Nanjing. Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors lived in Jinling, the family had land, and was a self-cultivating farmer, you know, the self-cultivating farmers could be regarded as middle-class at that time, compared to the huge tenants.
But the bad is that Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors did not have a good time. At that time, the Yuan Dynasty set the capital of Beijing, and Beijing was short of grain, and the southern production, in order to achieve the allocation of grain, so the Yuan Dynasty decided to repair the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and levy servitude along the way. Jinling, which is very close to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, of course, cannot escape, and Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors know what a living road this is, and they can't come back when they go. So in order to survive, they ran all the way to Xuyi County.
Xuyi County, low-lying terrain, river networks, eight years of flood disasters, here is not standing at all. Although Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors were very industrious, they could not catch up with the sins of the old heavens, and the floods that did not last for many years left them with no harvest, so Zhu Yuanzhang's family fled again, this time to Fengyang, Anhui Province, and took root here.
Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors finally found a good place to rest, so they continued to exert their industrious qualities and prepared to make the leap from tenants to self-cultivators again. But at this time, the Yuan Dynasty, the greedy nature has been exposed. Their officials are corrupt and oppress the people very harshly. Under such circumstances, Zhu Yuanzhang's family had a more difficult life.
In order to share the burden of the family, Zhu Yuanzhang took the initiative to go to the landlord's house to herd cattle. This landlord's name is Liu De, and he is not a good person, nor is he a bad person. The Yuan Dynasty exploited more and more severely, and Zhu Yuanzhang's father could not survive, so he hanged himself at home.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw his father hanged, very painful. But the family had no money, no funeral, and no place to bury their father. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang thought of Liu De and hoped that Liu De would give himself a place to bury his father. But Liu De did not agree, and Zhu Yuanzhang knelt down and begged him to be useless.
In the end, Liu De's brother Liu Jizu really couldn't bear to look at it, so he gave Zhu Yuanzhang a piece of land in his own land and asked him to bury his father. Zhu Yuanzhang was very grateful to him, and after burying his father, he went out of the house. A few years later, when Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his hometown, Liu De remembered the things that he did not lend Zhu Yuanzhang at that time, so he was scared to death. But Zhu Yuanzhang did not care at all, and did not blame him for giving him land and property. After Zhu Yuanzhang learned of Liu Jizu's death, he was very sad, so he gave him a knighthood to his descendants, which could be hereditary. Liu Jizu's descendants then hereditary titles until the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang, a person who said that he killed heroes indiscriminately, was actually for the stability after the Ming Dynasty. He was an accomplished emperor, but a little paranoid. Judging from the fact that he did not blame Liu De, this person was not murderous by nature, but the situation at that time required it.