Zhu Yuanzhang's father-in-law entered the palace to see his daughter, why was he ordered to die soon after he returned?
Self-made founding kings are extremely rare, and Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang happen to be the best in this regard. Zhu Yuanzhang was born into a commoner family, his parents and brothers died one after another, the cattle were spared, the meal was also passed, and the monk was also served. The saddest thing in the world, Zhu Yuanzhang has experienced all of them, so Zhu Yuanzhang's heart has become extremely strong.
Zhu Yuanzhang's life and death and Shunchang's rebellion have a great relationship with his early experience. We can see why Zhao Kuangyin used a cup of wine to release the military power to deprive the general of his military power, because he was not righteous in the country and lacked courage. And Zhu Yuanzhang used the simplest way to deal with the problem, that is, "killing", even if Zhu Yuanzhang killed countless people, but the Ming Empire still stood firm, the main reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang's prestige is there, making people have to be convinced.
As an emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang's harem also has many concubines, so naturally the old man is also indispensable. The old man who entered the palace to visit his daughter was named Hu Mei, Hu Mei, whose original name was Hu Tingrui, originally Hu Mei was a subordinate of Chen Youyi, and after Zhu Yuanzhang captured Jiangzhou, Hu Mei had plans to surrender.
Although Chen Youyu was a great talent, he was a ruthless leader, and many people defected to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was already weak at that time, so naturally he accepted it all, and as long as he abandoned the dark and cast the light, he tried his best to reuse it.
After the surrender, Hu Mei also spared no effort to serve Zhu Yuanzhang, and made great achievements in the conquest of Zhang Shicheng and the attack on Fujian. After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, Hu Mei was appointed Zhongshu Pingzhang. In the third year of Hongwu, Hu Mei was given the title of Marquis of Yuzhang, with an annual salary of 1,500 stones, and Zhu Yuanzhang was not thin to Hu Mei.
Historical records:
"Twenty-three years later, Li Shanchang was defeated, and the emperor decreed that the party should be betrayed, and Yan Mei, because the eldest daughter was a noble concubine, took her son-in-law into the chaotic palace and was forbidden, and the matter was realized, and the son-in-law was tortured to death, and Mei Gave herself to commit suicide."
In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Hu Mei was arrested and imprisoned for committing crimes, and in the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Hu Mei's son-in-law was killed, and Hu Mei was also asked to commit suicide. For Hu Mei, Zhu Yuanzhang was already polite, so why was Hu Mei given death?
First of all, Zhu Yuanzhang kills people almost without a reason!
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the early death was not necessarily a bad thing, and putting zhu Yuanzhang as a leader on the stall may be the biggest mistake of these founding fathers. Chang Yuchun, as the strongest general in the early Ming Dynasty, was killed in the war of unification, and as a general, this is also the best ending. If Chang Yuchun could live for a few more years, with his worldly merits, he might not be able to escape the doom of being killed.
For example, Fu Youde, Lan Yu, Feng Sheng, Zhou Dexing, and others were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang one after another, some of them deserved to be guilty, some of them were implicated in being killed, and most of the reasons for their killing were due to Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicions. Zhu Yuanzhang, a person with a heavy desire for power, can be seen from his abolition of the prime minister that the thinking of the family world is deeply rooted.
In the Song Dynasty, although it was impossible to rule together in the true sense of kings and subjects, the treatment of scholars was extremely high, and in ruling the country, scholars played an important role. However, in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, the whole world is his Zhu Yuanzhang alone, as long as those who disobey him, it is bound to die.
Zhu Yuanzhang wants to kill people very simply, since he is the rule-maker, then the law cannot restrain him, if he wants to kill others, he can arbitrarily set a crime, and there is no excuse for the crime. Like the founding general Lan Yu, he was the strongest general of the Ming Dynasty after Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, leading the Ming army to conquer the north and make great achievements, and his final crime was rebellion.
Even though Lan Yu had many misdeeds in his behavior, with his background and strength, he could not have the idea of rebellion. Lan Yu was already an extremely popular courtier at that time, and he was still the uncle of the crown princess and a loyal supporter of the crown prince Zhu Biao, on what grounds did he rebel? Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to keep the blue jade for the prince to use, but once the prince died, the blue jade had no reason to exist.
For Hu Mei, it is basically the same operation. Hu Mei is not a front-line hero, but also Chen You's forgiveness, if Zhu Yuanzhang includes him in the list of kills, Hu Mei is also a foil role, and the reason for killing is also to grab a big hand.
Of course, it can't be ignored that Hu Mei did make a mistake first!
In the Han Dynasty, foreign relatives were the main roles in the political arena, and the most trusted force of the emperors was foreign relatives, such as Wei Qing, Huo Zhiyi, and Wang Mang, who were all foreign relatives, and the Han Dynasty also suffered a great loss from foreign relatives in power. Zhu Yuanzhang did not read much, but he was well aware of the drawbacks of foreign relatives interfering in politics, and he was extremely resentful of this matter.
It is almost a capital offense for the court ministers to collude with the garrison generals, and it is also a felony to cling to the court officials if they are foreign relatives. Hu Mei married her daughter to Zhu Yuanzhang, and with this relationship, Hu Mei was also a little overwhelmed. Once, Hu Mei took her son-in-law into the palace to see her daughter, which is a very normal family gathering to talk about now.
However, during the Hongwu years, this matter was extremely sensitive, the concubine's family was a foreign relative, and the foreign relative had already violated the rules when he came to the palace, so it gave Zhu Yuanzhang a reason to kill people.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was extremely suspicious, naturally would not give up this handle, he was worried that Hu Mei had a plot, it was better to simply kill, he would rather kill a thousand wrong than let go of one, which is roughly Zhu Yuanzhang's principle of handling things. Hu Mei was not the first to be killed, and certainly not the last.
Then there is the fact that Hu Mei is implicated by Li Shanchang!
In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the Hu Weiyong case broke out, and Zhu Yuanzhang used the killing of Hu Weiyong as an excuse to depose the prime minister, implicating up to 30,000 people who were killed. Hu Weiyong was recommended by Li Shanchang, and Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong were married in-laws, which can be said to be closely related, but at the time of Hu Weiyong's case, Zhu Yuanzhang did not let the case-handling personnel investigate Li Shanchang.
This is mainly due to the credit of Li Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang compared Li Shanchang to Xiao He, which shows how much Li Shanchang's merits to the Ming Dynasty are, no matter how much Zhu Yuanzhang is still a person with feelings, he does not want to do things too desperately.
In the twenty-third year of Hongwu, because of Li Shanchang's various excessive actions, coupled with Zhu Yuanzhang's increasingly violent temperament, Li Shanchang was once again implicated in the Hu Weiyong case, and Li Shanchang's family of more than seventy members was killed.
Since the knife had been stained with blood again, he was not afraid of a few more, so Hu Mei was pulled to hell by Li Shanchang's train. When the great cause is not accomplished, Zhu Yuanzhang can choose to be patient, make full use of all the resources that can be used, and use all the forces that can be recruited for his use.
When the throne is settled and the rivers and mountains are surrounded, Zhu Yuanzhang's nature will be exposed, the birds will be exhausted, the good bows will be hidden, the cunning rabbits will die, and the lackeys will cook. Among them, Hu Mei is only a small role, and countless people have died under the butcher's knife for no reason.
In other words, being an official in the Hongwu Dynasty was a high-risk profession, and if you want to die well, the best way is to not be an official as much as possible.
Not to mention the old man, even his concubines were not spared, and after Zhu Yuanzhang took the throne, he also restored the cruel burial system. In the Records of the Collected Works of Tong Shi, it is recorded that:
"Taizu buried Xiaoling with forty-six concubines, and among them, only a dozen people were martyred in the palace!"
Although Zhu Yuanzhang treated the common people well, he was also too cruel to treat his own people!