Liao Yongzhong was a well-known founding general in the early Ming Dynasty, he also had an older brother named Liao Yong'an who was also a capable general under Zhu Yuanzhang, the personalities of both brothers belonged to the kind of more heroic, often with great ambitions in their chests, not willing to just defend the warriors in the township, they knew that if they wanted to survive in the chaotic world, they had to find a big tree to rely on, and the big tree they chose was Zhu Yuanzhang, who was not too strong at that time.
Although Liao Yongzhong was no better than such first-class famous generals as Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, his merits were also directly comparable to Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, and Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo!
In the most critical battle of Poyang Lake, when Chen Youyu knew his plan, he ordered his subordinate general Zhang Dingyuan to lead his troops to break through, and coincidentally encountered Zhu Yuanzhang's ship.
Zhang Dingyuan immediately rushed straight towards Zhu Yuanzhang, and Old Zhu was suddenly in danger. After Liao Yongzhong saw it, he immediately took a clipper to pursue, released several dark arrows, and successfully shot Zhang Dingyuan and protected Zhu Yuanzhang's safety.
Subsequently, Chen Youyu wanted to lead the remnants to break through, but was intercepted by Liao Yongzhong! In this battle, his performance can be described as a great achievement, and then he moved to Luzhou, Anfeng, Jiangxi, Huaidong and other places, assisted the large army to pacify Zhang Shicheng, and then led the marine division by sea, cooperated with Tang He to take Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding, and pacified Fujian and Guangdong! Subsequently, he advanced into Guangxi, surrendered Yuan Dalu Huachi, and the Guangxi region was flat!
With such outstanding military achievements, Liao Yong was loyal to Hongwu for three years, and was named the Marquis of Deqing by Zhu Yuanzhang, eating 1,500 stones!
However, such a famous general with great merit was given to death by Zhu Yuanzhang early, on the grounds that he had usurped some dragon and phoenix items.
However, for such a reason, many people in later generations do not approve of it, and they feel that things are not as simple as they seem on the surface.
In fact, Liao Yongzhong's death can be traced back to 1366 AD, zhu Yuanzhang gave Liao Yongzhong a special task, let him go to pick up Han Lin'er and return to Yingtian!
This Han Lin'er was not an ordinary person, he had been the nominal co-leader of the rebel army in the world, zhu Yuanzhang's top boss, but in the process of Liao Yongzhong's escort, he accidentally drowned the boat.
Liao Yongzhong was born as a water master, guarding such a heavyweight figure, so could such a serious accident occur?
So this matter can only be a conspiracy, who is the creator of this conspiracy, Liao Yongzhong? Or Zhu Yuanzhang? Many people believe that Han Lin'er's drowning was instructed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and then carried out by Liao Yongzhong.
But Zhu Yuanzhang was a wise man, and when someone like Han Lin'er died at the hands of his own generals, he would not have shown the people of the world that the nominal co-lord of this rebel army was killed by my old Zhu! Looking at it this way, wouldn't Zhu Yuanzhang's operation be superfluous?
Therefore, it is very likely that the matter is like this, Han Lin'er's death was Liao Yongzhong's good at making claims, spying on the Holy Will, and taking the initiative to kill Zhu Yuanzhang. Liao Yongzhong sensed that Han Lin'er's existence was definitely a major obstacle to Zhu Yuanzhang's claim to the throne, so in order to please Zhu Yuanzhang, he took the initiative to create this capsizing accident!
However, what Liao Yongzhong did not expect was that his operation undoubtedly made Zhu Yuanzhang carry the black cauldron for him. The people of the world must have been more willing to believe that he had done this at the behest of Zhu Yuanzhang!
Later, when he was rewarded, Liao Yongzhong's merit was originally enough to be made a duke, but because of Han Lin'er's incident, he changed to a marquis. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's evaluation of Liao Yongzhong was as follows: "When Yongzhong fought in Poyang, he forgot his body to resist the enemy, which can be described as a strange man. However, the Confucians who are good at it are born to spy on the will, and they are knighted, so they stop being crowned marquises and are not justified. ”
From this "voyeuristic intention", it can be basically concluded that Han Lin'er's death is Liao Yongzhong's own idea!
Later, yang xian was killed, and Liao Yongzhong was found to be closely related to him, but Zhu Yuanzhang considered that he had a lot of military achievements, so he did not pursue it.
However, not long after, Liao Yongzhong was found to have usurped dragons and phoenixes and other items, and Zhu Yuanzhang made up his mind and ordered him to die! When he died, He only died in March of the eighth year of Hongwu, which can be described as the earliest batch of heroes who died!