"If you want to be called emperor, you will inevitably harden your heart in cold blood." This seems to have been confirmed by any founding monarch.
In order to obtain the throne, Li Shimin shot and killed two brothers, forcing the old father to abdicate, and In order to seize the world, Wu Zetian killed his daughter and married Empress Wang, and then killed his sons and abolished them. In the end, the emperor succeeded.
If you want to do things on your own, you can't help but be fierce, and a good person often can't become a good leader.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was a ruthless man, he killed the heroes only to ensure the throne of his family for thousands of generations, but also after spoiling a beauty, he disregarded his friendship and dragged people out and cut them, who is this innocent beauty, and what happened to the story?
Being an emperor is not easy
Generally speaking, the emperor who fights the world has the support of the forces behind him or the big family, and the worst is also a general, who has been honed in the army and has a certain class division with ordinary flat-headed people.
But Zhu Yuanzhang was a true emperor from the people.
Later historians always like to call Zhu Yuanzhang the grassroots emperor, but in fact, he may not even be a grassroots.
Zhu Yuanzhang was born into an extremely ordinary peasant family, and during the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers divided people into four categories, and Zhu Yuanzhang was the lowest level of Han Chinese.
Probably because of the grasslands, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty also once thought of killing some people to herd sheep in the vacated area, because this plan was firmly rejected by the ministers who were too bloody.
After Zhu Yuanzhang was born, he faced the dilemma of not having enough to eat, the rulers were corrupt and greedy, they did not care what happened to the people, and they would only use violence to suppress the poor people.
In this case, Zhu Yuanzhang began to herd sheep for the landlord's family when he was very young, and earned himself a mouthful of food to eat. His parents also worked hard to farm, hoping to feed several children.
However, luck did not come to this poor family in the end, a plague directly took away Zhu Yuanzhang's parents, and the famine after the plague took away several of his brothers, leaving him and his second brother to make a living.
They were once so poor that they had no money to buy coffins to house the bodies of their relatives, and finally the neighbors could not bear it, and gave them a few acres of thin land to resettle their relatives, so that they would not let their relatives die on the street.
Leaving the small village where he had been living, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have any ability, so he joined the Beggar Gang.
Later, he became a monk again, but this monk was not good, he wanted to cook rice and wash, and if he did not do well, he would be reprimanded by the old monk, and later the local famine also began, and the monks in the temple could not eat, so they had to start sending the low-level monks to let them travel around, in fact, they were still begging.
Zhu Yuanzhang began his own wandering life, he set out from Haozhou to the south, traveled to most of China and then returned to the Huangjue Temple, these three years of travel effectively broadened Zhu Yuanzhang's vision, let him deeper understand the suffering of the people at that time.
In the three years of Yunyou, it was also the most turbulent three years of the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and the society at that time has been circulating: "The Ming King was born, and all sentient beings were pudu", which gave Zhu Yuanzhang a theoretical basis for his future title of king and emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had traveled for several years, eventually joined Guo Zixing's Red Turban Army and achieved good results in several battles, which made Guo Zixing admire this young man very much, often discuss military and political affairs with Zhu Yuanzhang, and also married his adopted daughter Ma Shi to her.
In the later period, Zhu Yuanzhang's power expanded, and he directly came out of his own portal, and the self-reliance portal needed a lot of strategists and military generals, so Zhu Yuanzhang sent his subordinates to paste the "recruitment revelation" on the city wall of Jiangnan, hoping to harvest good talents.
However, I didn't expect to receive a beauty for myself.
A beauty with a thin life
As soon as this notice was posted, a bunch of people gathered around, but at that time, everyone's food and clothing were a problem, and whoever had the spare money to learn to recognize words was basically illiterate, and they couldn't understand it when they looked at it.
At this time, a beautiful person stood up to explain the meaning of the announcement to everyone, explained the meaning of the announcement to everyone, and explained it clearly to the local residents in an easy-to-understand way.
Next to Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son Zhu Wenzheng and Hu Dahai's son Hu Deji just saw this scene, and the gentle and beautiful woman explained to the people in soft language, which made them understand what a beautiful person is.
There was no legal or moral saying in those days, so they directly took the woman into captivity for the sake of causing trouble to the people. This unlucky woman is Su Tanmei.
Su Tanmei and Chu Fangyu are called "Jiangnan Suchu", and both are famous talented women in the Jiangnan region. Although Zhu Wenzheng liked it, he did not dare to hide it privately, and directly gave Su Tanmei to his father Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang also heard of this woman's talent name, today at first sight stunned, the ancients often said that "the belly has poetry and books to read from the hua" full of poetry books let Su Tanmei temperament extraordinary, not only beautiful, but also the spirit of cultural people from the inside out, Zhu Yuanzhang was ashamed of himself at first sight, although he was the leader of the hegemonic side, but there would still be an inferiority complex in front of the talented woman.
Zhu Yuanzhang could not speak for half a day, and finally said: "No matter how hard-hearted men are, they will be moved by you." He spoiled her like a baby for a night.
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was immersed in gentle township, a scandal broke out under his command. General Hu Deji was a general who often used his lower body to think about problems, and after winning a war, he directly snatched the women in the Qinglou to his home to accompany him to have fun.
Zhu Yuanzhang naturally would not allow such a person to destroy military discipline, and planned to kill him to support military discipline.
Hu Deji was naturally not convinced, and he argued that it was because of the precedent that he followed suit, with cars in front and ruts in the back.
Zhu Yuanzhang naturally understood what he meant, because he also occupied the people's daughters, so it was indeed a bad head, where could Zhu Yuanzhang tolerate his own pigtails being caught by his subordinates, so he did not stop doing two, and directly sent someone to kill Su Tanmei.
Su Tanmei was originally a carefree woman, but she was forced to lose her freedom because of the power struggle between men, and she was killed on a trumped-up crime, and she never thought of entering the palace to serve Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning.
But Zhu Yuanzhang turned her into a tool person who could maintain his military discipline and maintain his supreme image, and he got benefits, but Su Tanmei innocently lost her life, which was really sad and regrettable.
summary
This beautiful woman was only 24 years old when she was killed, in that dark era, women were directly regarded as appendages of men, and they would be abandoned if they were not needed, which was the wrong thing that Zhu Yuanzhang and his son did, but she innocently carried the pot, which was really the tragedy of that era.
From this incident, we can see Zhu Yuanzhang's sensitive and suspicious personality, which also laid the groundwork for his wanton massacre of heroes in the future.