It is not uncommon for China's founding emperors to kill meritorious ministers, but it is also rare to see someone as fierce as Zhu Yuanzhang. In order to "pave the way" for Emperor Jianwen, Zhu Yuanzhang killed many powerful ministers, but because of this, it led to the lack of powerful generals in the hands of Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunjiao during zhu Di's rebellion, which made Zhu Di take advantage of it.
The "beggar emperor" Zhu Yuanzhang was able to successfully ascend the throne and start the Ming Dynasty thanks to his civilian officials and military generals, but these people usually ended up in a very miserable situation. Zhu Yuanzhang had a fierce general named Chang Yuchun, and his wife's younger brother was named Lan Yu, a martial artist who was strong in martial arts and good at using soldiers.
In the early years, when Blue Jade joined the army, he was just an ordinary soldier, and through his own efforts, he continued to make meritorious achievements on the battlefield, and later was promoted by General Chang Yuchun and became a powerful general under Zhu Yuanzhang, and when Chang Yuchun, Bo Youde, Xu Da and other veteran generals were old and weak, Blue Jade became the strongest combat force of Daming at that time.
First, the "God of War" blue jade, repeatedly made military merits
Blue Jade not only has an amazing force value, but also is not as brave as other military generals, he also knows how to use the war situation to formulate tactical plans, so he is almost invincible and invincible. A brave and resourceful warrior like Sapphire is naturally deeply loved by Zhu Yuanzhang.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the world was still in strife, and there were remnants of the Northern Yuan in the north, as long as the time was ripe, they would go south to enter the Central Plains; the Southwest Sichuan Yunnan region had not been subdued, and the Ming Dynasty at this time was constantly engaged in foreign wars and the situation was unstable.
Zhu Yuanzhang sent Blue Jade to conquer the remnants of the former Yuan's soldiers and horses, and for a long time, Blue Jade basically did not stop, marching south and fighting in the north, which made great contributions to Daming's sitting in the country. Blue Jade also lived up to expectations, invincible in attack, and fought the Mongols without any ability to fight back, and the former Yuan's army was almost wiped out.
In the twenty-first year of Hongwu, Lan Yu led 150,000 Ming troops to the Northern Expedition to conquer The Former Yuan, marched to Lake Baikal, still did not see the enemy soldiers, so he planned to return to the dynasty, but The Marquis of Dingyuan Wang Bi said: "We led an army of more than 100,000 people, and we did not see the enemy army to return to the dynasty, are we not afraid of the emperor's sin?" So Sapphire ordered the army to live in the cave, and found the enemy camp at night eighty miles away.
Lan Yu then ordered Wang Bi to be the forward and led the cavalry to approach the enemy camp at a rapid pace. At that time, the wind was howling yellow sand, and almost nothing could be seen at night, and the Yuan army thought that the Ming army lacked grain and grass and could not go deep, so it did not take much precautions. For the actions of the Ming army, the Yuan army was almost unaware, and when the Ming army arrived, the Yuan army panicked and immediately rushed to the battle and was defeated.
This battle made Blue Jade's reputation greatly shocked, except for the Yuan King and the crown prince and dozens of other horses escaped, the others were either killed in battle or captured, a total of 3,000 Yuan Dynasty officials and more than 100 concubines and princesses were captured. The good news spread back to Emperor Zhu of Nanjing, who made Lanyu the Duke of Liangguo.
Second, Zhu Yuanzhang had high hopes
Lan Yu was the younger brother of Chang Yuchun's wife, and Chang Yuchun married her daughter to Zhu Biao, the son of Zhu Yuanzhang, so Lan Yu became related to Zhu Biao. Not only that, but his private relationship with Zhu Biao was also very harmonious, and in the imperial court, Blue Jade would maintain Zhu Biao's prestige, while being lukewarm to other princes. Not only that, he was worried that Zhu Biao's foundation in the imperial court was unstable, so he helped Zhu Biao eliminate the internal threats.
Zhu Yuanzhang took a fancy to this point of sapphire and tried his best to cultivate sapphire so that it could be used by Crown Prince Zhu Biao in the future. When Zhu Biao was alive, Zhu Yuanzhang was very relieved about blue jade.
When Zhu Biao was crown prince, Lan Yu began to observe Zhu Di, the King of Yan, and he believed that Zhu Di's actions in Beijing were like emperors, and he would rebel in the future. Lan Yu warned Zhu Biao that Zhu Di should be eliminated as soon as possible to avoid the trouble, but Zhu Biao did not care about this, believing that Zhu Di was very respectful to himself. In fact, if Zhu Biao had not died early, Blue Jade would not have been connected to the Nine Tribes by Zhu Yuanzhang, and with Blue Jade alive, with Zhu Di's strength, he would definitely not dare to usurp the throne.
Although Lan Yu was a powerful warrior with countless achievements, he also began to show off in the army after he was knighted, and he did not pay attention to the military discipline of the country and the law at all. After garrisoning Xifan and gaining power, he acted arbitrarily and beat up the officials appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zhu Yuanzhang once asked the blue-robed to return to Beijing to be disposed of.
After Lan Yu defeated the Yuan army, he allowed his army to occupy countless adulterous Mongol women, and when the Banshi returned to the city, because the soldiers guarding the city opened the door late, they let the army enter the city and set fire to the city, causing life to be destroyed. Although Zhu Yuanzhang knew it, he turned a blind eye, because he had other arrangements for Blue Jade, and he hoped that Blue Jade would become the right and left arm of Crown Prince Zhu Biao in the future, so that his heir would sit firmly in Jiangshan.
Third, the prince died early, and the blue jade disaster was imminent
When Zhu Biao was alive, the Blue Jade Sealed Officials and Knights did their best, and no matter how badly Blue Jade behaved, Zhu Yuanzhang tried his best to tolerate it. Unfortunately, Tiangong was not beautiful, and in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang had the idea of moving the capital to Xi'an, so he sent Zhu Biao to inspect Shaanxi, and soon after Zhu Biao returned to Beijing, he became seriously ill and returned to the west.
Zhu Biao fell ill and died, Zhu Yuanzhang was in pain, and in August, he buried Zhu Biao on the east side of Xiaoling tomb and posthumously awarded the title of "Prince Yiwen". After Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yuanzhang made the young Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao his successor. However, Zhu Yunjiao was too young to have prestige in the imperial court and could not control the hundred officials in the court, so Zhu Yuanzhang began to eliminate the civil and military ministers who were a threat to Zhu Yunjiao in order to make Zhu Yunjiao take the throne smoothly, which caused a bloody storm.
Zhu Biao's death caused Blue Jade to lose the last barrier. Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted Blue Jade to become Zhu Biao's right hand, but now that Zhu Biao is dead, Blue Jade has lost its meaning of existence, and Blue Jade has great power in the DPRK, holding a lot of military power, and arrogant, becoming the biggest threat to Zhu Yunjiao in the future.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly executed Blue Jade for treason, and killed people related to Blue Jade, and as many as fifteen thousand people died because of Blue Jade before and after, which was the "Blue Jade Case" that shocked the world. In the future, although the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao successfully ascended the throne, almost all the powerful civil and military officials in the imperial court were slaughtered, which also left Zhu Yunjiao with no available talent, giving Zhu Di the opportunity to get up and usurp the world.
Even so, Zhu Di also took a lot of effort to invade Nanjing and establish himself as emperor. Therefore, if Blue Jade did not die, Zhu Di could not rebel, and even if a rebellion occurred, it would be quelled quickly. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang also had his own considerations for doing so, because even if the power fell into the hands of Zhu Di, Jiangshan also belonged to the Zhu family, but if he kept the blue jade, zhu Jiangshan might be renamed and changed his surname.
4. Summary
As soon as Zhu Biao died, blue jade became a threat in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes and was tragically destroyed. Blue Jade's military talent is superior, if Blue Jade is still alive, it is impossible to have a rebellion by Zhu Di later, but the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao will usher in a greater threat, and Zhu's world may also change hands.