Zhu Yuanzhang, can be regarded as an emperor of the ages, his life is full of legend, from a fallen beggar, and finally became an emperor, the evaluation of him in later generations, there is an unprecedented comment, "deguozheng", this evaluation is very high, that is, he can become an emperor, is a very reasonable and legitimate existence. The evaluation of him in history is also very positive, although he vigorously killed meritorious ministers in his later years, which also has some criticisms, but it is undeniable that compared with the founding emperors of previous dynasties, the process of his obtaining the throne can be regarded as a counterattack by civilians. Although Liu Bang also became emperor from a commoner, Liu Bang was after all a pavilion chief, and Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed slowly rising from the lowest level to the peak step by step.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang's birth is very low, he has personally experienced the suffering of the common people, so he cherishes the people even more, so for those corrupt officials, there is a hatred in his bones, even if many court officials are working for him, but when he sees these officials, he does not have a good face, and even the Ming Dynasty officials' Feng Lu is very poor, perhaps because he is not accustomed to the exploitation of the people by the officials of the imperial court, so his exploitation of officials is also very serious. Especially for some corrupt officials, his punishment methods were very cruel, resulting in a great reduction in corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the imperial court during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang is very capable in controlling corruption, and he also has a lot of eyeliner under the sky, and even makes the law very strict, many officials are also very smart, good at finding loopholes in the law, so as to enrich themselves. In the nineteenth year of Hongwu, a serious drought broke out in the Huainan region, and Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to this, very actively carried out various disaster relief activities, and also opened warehouses to release grain to help the people tide over difficulties. However, unlike previous disaster relief, Zhu Yuanzhang also made a private visit to a micro-service in addition to arranging various tasks. It is not because he thinks it is funny, but Huainan is a very special place for Zhu Yuanzhang, although he started in Bozhou, but he stayed in Huainan for a very long time, so he also has a deep affection for Huainan. Even in order to ensure the number of local people, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to migrate a large number of people from other places to live here.
Huainan is a very important place in his heart, he is also full of feelings for Huainan, so there is a drought in Huainan, he is also very concerned, so he decided to micro-service private visits to further understand the local people's livelihood. It should be known that Zhu Yuanzhang was a beggar for a period of time before he became a fortune, so he repeated the old thing and disguised himself as a beggar who wanted food, but when he personally came into contact with the people, he was very angry. Because he had already arranged a lot of disaster relief work, and also ordered the opening of warehouses to release grain, it is reasonable to say that after this whole set of work, even if the people do not have enough to eat, at least they do not have to go hungry. However, when he came to Huainan, he found that there was no food for disaster relief everywhere, and when he saw everything in front of him, he knew that when the grain and silver money he ordered for disaster relief came to the hands of the common people, there was not much left, and obviously most of it was embezzled by corrupt officials.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry about this, and at the same time very afraid, because it reminded him of an incident that happened at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Although the imperial court found a large amount of grain for disaster relief, most of the grain and silver money were exploited layer by layer because of the corruption of internal officials, and the people could not live on their lives, and eventually rose up, which led to great chaos in the world. For this incident, Zhu Yuanzhang remembers it very deeply, because it is because of this incident that he embarked on the road of rebellion. I didn't expect that after more than 20 years, this kind of thing would happen again. He originally thought that the world he ruled was now very peaceful, and there were many officials singing praises and praises in front of him every day, he also thought that if everything was prosperous today, he did not expect that what he saw and heard was very similar to when the Yuan Dynasty fell, so Zhu Yuanzhang was also very afraid at this time, afraid of the world chaos again.
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately used all his eyeliner and began to investigate, and finally found 5 Yipin members. He even thought that if he did not make a private visit this time, and did not discover these corrupt things, it would not be long before the Ming Dynasty he had worked so hard to build would repeat the same mistakes as the yuan dynasty fell. The more he thought about it, the more he was afraid, and he was so frightened that he rushed back to the palace and beheaded these 5 ministers, but he did not have any softness of heart. Perhaps in the eyes of many people, although these 5 ministers broke the law, but the crime did not lead to death, but if analyzed from a political point of view, this matter is not only about corruption, which has affected Zhu Yuanzhang's dynastic rule. Coupled with the fact that Zhu Yuanzhang had experienced the demise of the Yuan Dynasty and encountered the importance of the people's hearts, he did not care whether these 5 ministers had committed crimes in the end, he only knew that as long as he killed these 5 people, he could help him stabilize the people's hearts and dissipate a turmoil into invisibility, which was a stable and profitable business. Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed a fierce figure, as long as Jiangshan can be stable and does not care about the fierceness of the heart, otherwise he would not have killed so many meritorious ministers in his old age in order to maintain the rule of Jiangshan.