There was a famous founding general of the Ming Dynasty, who destroyed the Northern Yuan with his military feats, but his small mistakes repeatedly violated Zhu Yuanzhang's bottom line, and finally zhu Yuanzhang stripped the streets to show the public, implicating the whole clan, this tough general is blue jade. The "Blue Jade Case" shocked the Ming Dynasty, involving tens of thousands of people executed by the same party, and this case was also one of the most famous tragedies in the early Ming Dynasty.
Why was Blue Jade treated like this for his repeated military achievements, was it really because he defiled the Northern Yuan Imperial Concubine?
Blue Jade status is revered, he is often the brother of Chun's wife, and Chang Yu Chun's daughter is the crown prince Zhu Biaozheng Concubine, according to this relationship, Blue Jade is the prince's uncle, a staunch prince supporter, so Blue Jade is the core figure of the martial arts group left by Zhu Yuanzhang for The crown prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang will not extend a butcher knife to Blue Jade because of some small things, it is certain that the defilement of the enemy imperial concubine is not the main reason for Blue Jade's reprimand.
So why was such a legendary warrior suddenly killed as a chaotic thief, was It that Zhu Yuanzhang could not tolerate the founding heroes, or did Blue Jade really deserve to die? Next, let's take a closer look.
He made countless contributions and was awarded the title of Duke of Liangguo
Blue Jade was quite talented in the military, fighting on the battlefield quite bravely, brother-in-law Chang Yuchun did not praise him in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, but at that time Zhu Yuanzhang had Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Li Wenzhong and other famous generals around him, Blue Jade did not get Zhu Yuanzhang's attention, but Blue Jade made a lot of contributions when he went out to Tibet and other places in Yunnan, and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he was awarded the title of Marquis of Yongchang for his merits.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang repeatedly sent large expeditions to the Northern Yuan regime, hoping to annihilate the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in one fell swoop. Several expeditions have achieved results, but never solved the problem of the Northern Yuan, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang has been in power for more than twenty years, the founding generals of the DPRK are old and dead, and they can no longer take on the heavy responsibility of cutting the Yuan, and the younger generation of generals has the best performance of Blue Jade, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Blue Jade as a commander and led more than 100,000 troops to march out to Northern Yuan.
At this time, the Northern Yuan regime was hiding in the fishing sea, where the geographical location was remote and the environment was harsh, the Northern Yuan regime thought that hiding here could sit back and relax, but did not expect that The blue jade was braving the cold to go straight to the fishing sea under the condition of insufficient grain and grass, causing a fatal blow to the enemy.
The Blue Jade Department not only captured a large number of Yuan troops, but also captured many Northern Yuan officials, royal children and concubines, and even the ancestral jade seal of the Yuan Dynasty was captured by Blue Jade. When the news of the victory reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, he was overjoyed and praised Lan Yu in front of Manchu Wenwu as his Huo Andi and Wei Qing.
He is proud of his achievements and arrogant, and he has formed a party for personal gain
Perhaps thinking that she has achieved great merit, the blue jade is somewhat "floating", and defiled the Imperial Concubine of the Northern Yuan on the way to the triumph of the army, this Imperial Concubine has a rather strong personality, and after being insulted, she consciously lives in the world without face and directly commits suicide. It is conceivable that Zhu Yuanzhang should be so angry after learning this news, although Lan Yu insulted the imperial concubine of the enemy country, but it was the imperial concubine after all, and Lan Yu did not put the imperial power in his eyes at all, let alone put him Zhu Yuanzhang in his eyes!
After all, Blue Jade had made a new great contribution, and Zhu Yuanzhang could not punish him for falling into a harsh reputation for treating meritorious people badly, but Blue Jade had actually intensified and acted more arrogantly. On the way back to the dynasty, Blue Jade directly ordered his men to attack the city gate because the "Xifengkou" guards did not open the city gate in time, which directly angered Zhu Yuanzhang, and changed the original reward for the blue jade "Liang Guogong" to "Liang GuoGong" to warn Blue Jade.
The History of Ming records: "In the beginning, the emperor wanted to seal the Duke of Yuliang, but changed it to cool, but still engraved it too much. ”
Blue Jade is indeed very strong in fighting, but he did not understand Zhu Yuanzhang's warning intentions to him, and still went his own way in the imperial court, storing private slaves, selling salt, and expelling the imperial history, and what made Zhu Yuanzhang even more uneasy was that Blue Jade also wantonly installed his so-called righteous sons in the army, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang definitely wanted to take Blue Jade down and punish him, but considering that zhu Biao might need him to stabilize the group of military generals after he took the throne, he had been forced to endure and did not do anything.
But unexpected things happened, the crown prince Zhu Biao died unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang considered supporting the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunjiao to ascend the throne, considering that after a hundred years, no one in the DPRK and China could suppress the blue jade, which would become a huge threat after the grandson Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne, and the "blue jade case" also came out at the right time.
Sapphire was blamed for the reason
First of all, the death of crown prince Zhu Biao was too sudden, which at first glance seems absurd, is there a direct relationship between Zhu Biao's death and The killing of Lan Yu? The answer is of course there is a relationship. As mentioned earlier, there is a relationship between Blue Jade and Zhu Biao, and for ordinary people, this relationship may not be so important, but it is not necessarily for the royal family.
Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to his eldest son Zhu Biao, and began to cultivate Zhu Biao's ability to govern the country very early, and there was another important task for founding heroes like Xu Da and Lan Yu, that is, to assist the crown prince Zhu Biao, not to mention that Lan Yu was still Zhu Biao's wife and uncle, and the relationship was quite close. However, Zhu Biao's life was not long, and Zhu Yuanzhang also made Zhu Yunjiao the emperor's grandson, and the team that originally assisted Zhu Biao certainly could not be fully applied to Zhu Yunjiao, and blue jade was one of the objects that had to be removed, because he was not related to Zhu Yunjiao.
The second is that Blue Jade is proud and wanton, which is also the direct reason for Blue Jade's killing. After the older generation of military generals in the DPRK withered one after another, Blue Jade became the leading figure of the generation of young generals, and after destroying the Northern Yuan, Blue Jade acted more arrogantly, such as forcibly occupying the people's fields, installing righteous sons in the army, etc. Zhu Yuanzhang did not give Blue Jade a chance, and repeatedly rebuked him in the hope that he could restrain some, obviously Blue Jade did not take Zhu Yuanzhang's rebuke seriously.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang sealed Blue Jade as Taifu, and Blue Jade was not satisfied, privately complaining that Zhu Yuanzhang did not make him a Taishi, Zhu Yuanzhang was very unhappy after knowing it, and all the suggestions put forward by Blue Jade were not adopted, which made Blue Jade very dissatisfied. Zhu Yuanzhang was already very suspicious, and Blue Jade's various behaviors made Zhu Yuanzhang even more uneasy, suspecting that Blue Jade wanted to rebel, so Zhu Yuanzhang simply killed all the Blue Jade party to avoid future troubles.
epilogue
Many historians believe that Blue Jade was wronged for rebellion, because there is no direct evidence to prove that Blue Jade wanted to rebel, but the evil things he did were enough for Zhu Yuanzhang to kill several times. Unfortunately, many Hong Wugong courtiers were also killed for being involved in the "Blue Jade Case", and all those who should not have been killed were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang's purpose of paving the way for Zhu Yunjiao was also achieved.
Later, someone raised a question, if Lan Yu had not died, would Zhu Di have dared to launch a rebellion in the Battle of Jingnan? Unfortunately, history did not have if, after Zhu Di rebelled, Zhu Yunjiao could no longer find a general like Blue Jade who could fight a good war in the DPRK.
Reference: History of the Ming Dynasty