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Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor, is very unusual, and many of the things he does are mostly incomprehensible. In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, a major event occurred in the city of Nanjing that shocked the government and the opposition, and Hu Mei, the Marquis of Linchuan, was suddenly thrown into prison and later given to death, and his family was not spared. What is even more strange is that after Hu Mei's death, Ming Taizu did not disclose his crimes, and the hundred officials of the DPRK and China were frightened not lightly, until six years later, Zhu Yuanzhang personally revealed the truth of this matter!
Hu Mei, whose original name was Hu Tingrui, was a native of Qiuyang, Hubei Province, and was an important general under Chen Youyi and served as the chancellor of Jiangxi Province. After Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Jiangzhou, Hu Mei surrendered, but he made a condition that he could not disband his troops. Zhu Yuanzhang was very dissatisfied with this, but his military master Liu Bowen persuaded him, so Zhu Yuanzhang accepted Hu Mei's request. Zhu Yuanzhang did not lose a single soldier and occupied Jiangxi Province. After that, Hu Mei followed Zhu Yuanzhang on his eastern expedition to the west and made great military achievements.
Zhu Yuanzhang declared himself empress dowager, and appointed Hu Mei as Zhongshu Pingzhang and Tongzhi Zhan Shiyuan. In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang was a great founding hero, and Hu Mei was given the title of Marquis of Yuzhang (later renamed Marquis of Linchuan), "eating 1,500 stones and giving the world coupons". Zhu Yuanzhang highly praised Hu Mei, and Hu Mei's daughter also entered the harem and became Zhu Yuanzhang's concubine. In other words, Hu Mei was both the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty and a foreign relative of the Ming Dynasty, and he was a "xun and a relative", and Hu Mei became the most famous father-in-law of Zhu Yuanzhang after Guo Zixing, the father of Empress Ma.
However, no one expected that Hu Mei in Hongwu's 17th year was suddenly sent to prison to die and beheaded by the door. The hundred officials were very confused, because Zhu Yuanzhang only killed Hu Tingrui at that time, and did not disclose his guilt, until 6 years later, in the 23rd year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang's rebellion broke out, and tens of thousands of people were implicated. "The emperor decreed that the traitor party, Yan Mei, because the eldest daughter was a noble concubine, accompanied her son-in-law into the chaotic palace forbiding, and the matter was realized." Taking advantage of her daughter's status as a noble concubine, Hu Mei often entered and left the harem, so she was given death by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Many people wonder, as a father, can he enter the harem to see his daughter and be executed? It turned out that at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated a very strict system of palace prohibition, ordering that "the empress dowager is not allowed to be seen by the courtiers, and the women are ordered to come to the court on the Middle Palace Thousand Autumn Festival and the winter solstice, the New Dan, and the monthly synodic, and their midwinter, summer, rain and snow are exempted from the dynasty", and "women who are not destined are not allowed to enter the harem". Although "entering the chaotic palace ban" is indeed a felony, Hu Mei is after all a founding hero, and those who hold the "iron coupon for avoiding death" can avoid death in addition to the crime of treason. Zhu Yuanzhang was not good at publicizing his crimes, but could only give him death, and many years later he listed Hu Mei as a Hu Party, which made it seem "justified".
When the hundred officials learned the truth, they trembled, and none of them dared to cry out for Hu Mei. Zhu Yuanzhang had never truly trusted anyone, and the only thing he trusted was himself. Hu Mei was a general before, Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that he would have selfish intentions after him, in addition, Hu Mei still had meritorious servants, meritorious masters, heavy soldiers in hand, more importantly, his own private troops, Zhu Yuanzhang was even more dissatisfied, of course, there was also a point because she was the father of the noble concubine, that is, a foreign relative, she was worried that Hu Mei would support his own grandson as emperor, so based on these three points, he also wanted to execute Hu Mei secretly, as for the crime, just come to one!
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