Zhu Yuanzhang was probably the busiest emperor in history, not only had to be busy dealing with political affairs and spoiling the harem, but also had to take time to find trouble for the heroes in various ways.
But like what cooking and killing Chang Yuchun's wife to make jealous women's soup, giving Xu Da a roast goose to cause him to get sick, poisoning Liu Bowen, peeling oranges for Zhu Di to kill him, etc., that is more than a bizarre, Zhu Yuanzhang seems to live in a film and television drama, mechanically staged one clip after another according to the plot of the script.
Of course, the most outrageous thing is the bridge section of "Burning the Meritorious Hero Building", Liu Bowen saw Zhu Yuanzhang's killing machine from three dishes, which happened in this story.
It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, he was suspicious of the old brothers who had followed him from birth to death, and he was always worried that they would seize the throne of his own family, so he wanted to kill them in order to protect the Zhu family for thousands of years.
How does it work? Zhu Yuanzhang came up with a poisonous plan, and the fire was made, and all of them were burned to death.
One day, Zhu Yuanzhang told the heroes that he would build a "meritorious building" to commend the great achievements of all the heroes. Everyone is very happy to hear it and looks forward to the construction of this building as soon as possible.
After a period of time, the "Meritorious Servant Building" was completed, and Zhu Yuanzhang chose an auspicious day of the zodiac, and set up a banquet in the building to entertain the meritorious servants, and all the gongs, hous, and uncles were invited.
The emperor set up a banquet, and the courtiers must go to the banquet as soon as possible, so as not to be disrespectful. After becoming a high-ranking official, everyone was busy, and this time it was not easy to get together, they were very happy, and they arrived at the Gongchen Building early, while bragging and chatting while waiting for the emperor to arrive.
After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang came, and the courtiers quickly got up to salute. Zhu Yuanzhang did not say nonsense, and directly announced the opening of the banquet.
But as soon as this dish came up, everyone stayed. Why? Because it's all greens and turnips and the like.
Although most of the people present here are from poor backgrounds, their living conditions have been greatly improved since the beginning of the incident, and they have not eaten these light and tasteless vegetarian dishes for many years, and they can't eat them, but this is the emperor's guest, and they have to eat if they can't eat.
Looking at the way everyone can't swallow, Zhu Yuanzhang's face is not very good, saying that our family is not well-off, and we used to eat these dishes with relish, how can we do this now? O man, you can't forget your roots.
Listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, others were especially good, Liu Bowen immediately raised his heart, why did the emperor say such a thing? It doesn't look good.
Since they don't like to eat, Zhu Yuanzhang is not reluctant, with a big hand, let people remove the vegetarian dishes, on a round of oil and water full of meat dishes, chicken, duck and fish meat, mountain treasures and seafood, wine and delicacies are all available.
The heroes were happy, yes, this is the specification that the emperor should have for a guest. Green vegetables and turnips or something, is a choice that was forced to do before, since there is better, why should you grievance yourself? Not so pretentious.
At the end of the meal, the finale is three dishes that are not very expensive, but very tasty, braised rabbit meat, dog meat with sauce and steamed bird's nest.
The more Liu Bowen looked at it, the more wrong it was, why was this dish so strange? No, this is clearly the meaning of rabbit dead dog cooking, bird bow hiding. The emperor is moved to kill!
Looking around, the emperor sat on the upper seat and sneered, none of the heroes noticed the mystery, taking a sip of food and wine, eating happily.
Liu Bowen broke out in a cold sweat and secretly pulled Xu Da, who was sitting next to him, to give him a look and signal him to follow him next. Xu Da and Liu Bowen have a good friendship, although they don't know which one this is, but they still nod their heads slightly, indicating that they understand.
Seeing that the heroes were all drunk, they were extremely relaxed mentally. Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and left with a fierce heart.
Liu Bowen hurriedly pulled Xu Da to keep up, and after going out the door, Zhu Yuanzhang found that they were following behind, hesitated, and finally did not say anything, only let them go home early.
Just out of a certain road, I listened to the sound of "bang", the "Meritorious Building" was burned by the fire, the flames reflected half of the sky, such a big fire could not be saved, and none of the people who remained inside escaped.
Xu Da's legs were soft, and only then did he know that Liu Bowen had saved his life. After that, the two took the initiative to give up their power and stay away from the political center, but they still did not escape Zhu Yuanzhang's poisoning.
But dear friends, the above content must not be taken seriously, this is just the Qing people's slander of Zhu Yuanzhang.
On the one hand, the Shunzhi Emperor repeatedly worshiped the tomb of the Chongzhen Emperor and shed a few tears; on the other hand, as long as the opportunity was found, the Qing court spared no effort to smear the Ming Dynasty, as the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was the most miserable, carrying many inexplicable pots, and the coffin board was almost unable to hold down.
But they didn't make up a story. Let's say these three dishes, if Zhu Yuanzhang wants to kill the heroes, why should he remind them with dishes? Besides, rabbits and dead dogs cooking and birds hiding with bows are not a good reputation for the emperor, why did Zhu Yuanzhang use these three dishes to satirize himself? Isn't this sick?
The main evidence is that none of the Ming Dynasty heroes died in the fire.
In short, as an ancient emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang has its own historical limitations, not perfect, but also a generation of male lords and Ming jun. The Manchus fabricated so many outrageous rumors about him, but only to consolidate their own rule.