Hu Weiyong was the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty and the last minister in Chinese history, but in the end he was exterminated by Zhu Yuanzhang on the grounds of conspiracy, and many ministers buried him. Is there any other reason why Hu Weiyong really had the audacity to usurp the world of the old Zhu family?
In the sixth year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang, who was also a founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, recommended to Zhu Yuanzhang that Hu Weiyong, who was also related to his in-laws, be appointed as the chancellor, and this burden was enough to serve for seven years. However, during these seven years of intercourse, Hu Weiyong behaved unsatisfactorily, and he constantly installed cronies in the DPRK and China, excluding dissidents, so that his party influence spread throughout the entire government and the opposition.
In addition to liking to exclude dissidents, Hu Weiyong's biggest problem is that he is too arbitrary, many cases of life and death, he has handled them without authorization, and for those who are not conducive to his own chapters, they have all withheld themselves, which makes Zhu Yuanzhang, who has a strong desire for power, deeply unhappy, and he vaguely feels that the power in Hu Weiyong's hands has threatened the imperial power in his hands.
On this day of the thirteenth year of Hongwu, an old well in Hu Weiyong's home suddenly appeared out of thin air, and he thought that this was a sign of good fortune and invited Zhu Yuanzhang to come and see it. Zhu Yuanzhang heard this and quickly went happily, but when he reached the halfway point, the eunuch Yunqi suddenly pulled on the reins on his own initiative, so nervous that he could not speak, but desperately pointed at the Hu family.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the situation was not right, so he hurried back the same way, and when he looked at the city tower, he found that the sky above Hu Weiyong's house was dusty, and the back of the wall was full of soldiers.
Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately furious, and used this as an excuse to conclude that Hu Weiyong had a disobedient heart and had the intention of plotting rebellion, and arrested and executed Hu Weiyong on the same day, at the same time, a large number of people close to Hu Weiyong were implicated, even Li Shanchang, who recommended him as chancellor, could not avoid it, and a total of more than 30,000 people were executed before and after, which is the famous Hu Weiyong case in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
From the above description, we can know that the whole thing has developed too strangely, and it can already be described as metaphysics. In fact, according to the research of later historians, there is no such thing as a eunuch pulling the reins, and even the figure of the eunuch Yunqi is most likely fabricated by Zhengshi.
Many historical texts of the Ming Dynasty have many contradictions in the records of this matter, and whether Hu Weiyong really conspired against him has also been questioned by many scholars. It is even recorded in the official history book "History of Ming": "Hu Weiyong is dead, and his reverse is still not revealed!" ”
From this, we can see that Hu Weiyong is an unjust case. In fact, as the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, how to behave is a difficult matter, it is not possible to monopolize power without authorization, nor can it be a vegetarian meal in a corpse position, no matter what Hu Weiyong does, he cannot lift Zhu Yuanzhang's taboo against xiangquan, and his monopoly on power has undoubtedly aggravated this, making Zhu Yuanzhang feel the crisis of power being sidelined, so he quickly found an excuse to quickly get rid of Hu Weiyong and other cadres, so he abolished Xiangquan and concentrated the power in himself.
From this, we can see that the key to Hu Weiyong's case is the contradiction between the power of the two sides and the imperial power.