The death-free gold medal, also known as the "golden coupon" and the "Danshu iron coupon", is a kind of privileged certificate awarded by the feudal emperor to the minister of great merit. The coupons are often inscribed with the merits made by the ministers, the so-called "merit against the pass", at a critical moment can take out the iron scroll to save their own life. During the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang awarded many such death-free gold medals to his founding heroes, but at the critical moment, they were not used, Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: You look carefully at the words on it.
Zhu Yuanzhang, formerly known as Zhu Zhongba, his parents have not read any books, because Zhu Yuanzhang is the eighth oldest in the family, so he is called Zhu Zhongba. Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors have been farmers for generations, and if there is no accident, he will also live a lifetime facing the loess with his back to the sky.
However, due to the great drought in Haozhou, Zhu Yuanzhang's parents and eldest brother died in the famine one after another, and in order to live, Zhu Yuanzhang had to leave his hometown and become a wandering beggar.
On the wandering road, Zhu Yuanzhang saw too many lives and deaths, and there were more dry bones on the side of the road than grain in the field. Zhu Yuanzhang secretly vowed that he would overthrow the tyrannical Yuan and recreate and establish a new and bright dynasty.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang joined the army and relied on his shrewd ability to pull up his own team step by step. Zhu Yuanzhang finally stood out among many rebel armies, which had a lot to do with the fact that he gathered a group of top talents of the times. For example, Li Shanchang is as important to Zhu Yuanzhang as Zhuge Liang Pang Shiyuan is to Liu Bei.
On many important strategic issues, it was Li Shanchang who helped Zhu Yuanzhang. For example, when Zhu Yuanzhang was still a fledgling stunned young man, he asked Li Shanchang, if there is such a big chaos today, when will it be stable? Why couldn't Li Shanchang hear the meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang's words? "How can I calm the war and become emperor?"
Li Shanchang told Zhu Yuanzhang: "Qin chaos, Han Gao raised cloth, open-mindedness and generosity, knew people well, did not like to kill, and became an emperor in five years." The present Yuan Gang is in disorder, and the world is falling apart. Gonghao production, not far from Pei. The mountains and rivers are kingly, and the public deserves it. What the law does, the world is not determined. ”
This means that Zhu Yuanzhang should learn from Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, "open-minded and generous, know people well, and do not like to kill people" The world will soon be pacified.
In the first month of the first year of Hongwu (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang took the throne as emperor at Yingtianfu and set the name of Daming. After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he naturally first made a great meritorious contribution. Li Shanchang initially served as The Left Chancellor and later as the Duke of Xuanguo. At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also issued iron coupons to 34 meritorious heroes, who could avoid death at a critical moment.
And Li Shanchang is very powerful, he is not only the first person to get the Danshu iron coupon, but also his Danshu iron coupon can avoid two deaths. Not only can he avoid death, but he can also avoid death if his son makes a mistake in the future. However, in the twenty-third year of Hongwu (1390), when Li Shanchang was involved in The case of Hu Weiyong, Li Shanchang took out the Danshu iron coupon, and not only was he not spared death, Zhu Yuanzhang also executed more than seventy people in Li Shanchang's entire family.
It turned out that on the back of the Danshu iron coupon was also engraved a line: "Except for plotting rebellion and rebellion", which is the so-called "the king let the subject die, and the subject had to die". The deathless gold medal was awarded by the emperor, so how could the emperor be restricted? Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of Li Shanchang was nothing more than a paving stone for the abolition of the beggar system. At the same time, it is also to avoid any chaos caused by these powerful heroes after their own death. So how can a deathless gold medal offset the "sin of desire"?