Marquis Fei Ju of Pingliang was a well-known founding general of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the twenty-four generals of Huaixi, who was born burly and majestic from a young age, and who was proficient in martial arts, quickly attracted the attention of Zhu Yuanzhang in a street sale, and the two met and hated each other late, so they married as brothers.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was not yet independent, and he did things for his father-in-law, Guo Zixing, and won the weight of the other party. He had heard that there were a large number of militias in the distant Zhangjia fort, and if they could be incorporated, it would be a great achievement.
Zhu Yuanzhang volunteered to ask Guo Zixing for instructions to collect the militia on the zhangjiabao side! The total number of these militias was about 3,000 people, and they were isolated and short of food, and they had the idea of defecting to Guo Zixing, but they were hesitant.
Therefore, in order to gain the trust of the other party, Zhu Yuanzhang only took Fei Ju and nine other soldiers to persuade him to surrender!
After Zhu Yuanzhang took these ten people to the vicinity of Zhangjiabao, he saw that the other side was lined up in a position, which was very imposing, and the nine soldiers except Fei Ju all had the idea of retreating, but they were strongly dissuaded by Zhu Yuanzhang.
In order to further express his sincerity, Zhu Yuanzhang crossed the river with these men and had a conversation with his leader, which went well and the other side agreed to surrender. Zhu Yuanzhang gave them three days to tidy up, and then left Fei Ju to show them the way, while he himself left with the remaining nine people.
However, soon after Fei Ju discovered that the other party intended to repent, he quickly rushed to Haozhou to report to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately took Fei Ju and three hundred other soldiers and pawns to Zhangjiabao again, grabbed the leader of the other side with a plan, and successfully reorganized all three thousand militiamen.
From this incident, Fei Ju's contribution was very great, and soon after, with his own wisdom, he collected eight hundred soldiers and soldiers entrenched in the Open Nose Mountain for Zhu Yuanzhang, which can be described as resourceful.
Later, Fei Ju followed the large army and successively recaptured Lingbi, Sizhou, Chuzhou, Hezhou and other places, and after Geng Bingwen conquered the Changxing stronghold, he accompanied Geng Bingwen to garrison there as a deputy general, defeated Zhang Shicheng's attacks many times, and also captured his marshal Song Xingzu, so that Zhang Shicheng did not dare to think about Changxing for many years.
Later, Fei Ju led the water army from the sea and land, cooperated with Tang and fang Guozhen, successfully pacified the eastern Zhejiang region, and then took advantage of the victory to pursue and go south to attack the Fujian warlord Chen Youding.
It is precisely because of so many military achievements that in the third year of Hongwu, when Zhu Yuanzhang was a great prince, Fei Ju was able to obtain the Marquis of Pingliang, eating 1,500 stones, and in Zhu Yuanzhang's own ranking of meritorious heroes, he won the eighteenth place, and obtained a hereditary death-free iron coupon!
According to the provisions of the iron coupon for death,In addition to such a major crime as treason, the rest of the capital crimes are exempt from death, but there are times stipulated, that is, they can be exempted twice, and when they are used, they can also spare their sons from death.
However, for Fei Ju, this death-free iron coupon was of no use at all, because the crime that Zhu Yuanzhang later gave him was to plot rebellion as a member of Hu Weiyong's party. Allowing Fei Ju to argue for himself in this way is of no avail. Along with those who died together, there were Lu Zhongheng, Tang Shengzong, Zhao Yong, and so on!