But anyone who is not in the right position and is not confident enough always likes to do two things: one is to desperately emphasize that he is destined for the sake of his destiny and that the method of obtaining the position is absolutely correct; the other is to engage in secret service rule and use violent means to force people to shut up. Zhu Di fought for the throne that should have belonged to his nephew by launching a war, and he naturally knew in his heart how unseemly his means were. In order to silence the people of the world, On the one hand, Zhu Di erased the relevant historical records by re-revising the "Records of Taizu" and other methods to make people gradually forget that period of history, on the other hand, he engaged in secret rule by supporting two officials of Wen and Wu, and the military attache was the Ji Gang that he had talked about before (see my previous article "He is the first secret agent leader of the Ming Dynasty: Easily kill the great talent, and the emperor's woman also dares to rob!"). "), the civil official is the Chen Ying who appears in the Ji Gang chapter.
Ji Gang, the head of the Jinyi Guard
Chen Ying is a native of Chuzhou, and Zhu Yuanzhang is also a fellow countryman, and he and Zhu Yuanzhang also have similarities in personality: they are both cruel. In the early years, Chen Ying was recommended as a student because of her talent, and after graduation, she entered the supervision system. After Zhu Yunjiao succeeded to the throne, he was transferred to Beiping, and during his term of office he sided with the right side: he was reported to have accepted bribes from Zhu Di and was demoted to Guangxi.
After Zhu Di usurped the throne, he naturally could not forget this old brother, and transferred him back from Guangxi to do his old job, and achieved the status of the left deputy capital of the Metropolitan Inspection Bureau (Executive Vice President of the Supreme People's Procuratorate). As soon as Chen Ying, who had returned the favor to the leader, took office, he said to Zhu Di: "Your Majesty has become an emperor by his ability, and the people dare to disobey!" Those like Qi Tai, Huang Guan, and others who do not obey the order and swear to follow Jianwen to the death should be sentenced to treason, please continue to hunt down! Zhu Di, who is murderous, felt that it was a bit excessive: "The traitors to be killed are only Qi Tai and a few of them, and most of the other people are still good, so don't harm the innocent." ”
Huang Guan statue
Chen Ying, who fully understood the leader's intentions, did not bother to find anyone else, but only those who named them suffered a great disaster: Qi Tai and others were not only in a different place, but also none of the wives and children in the family were spared, and the lucky distribution was distributed, and the unlucky ones died with the owner of the family (it is said that Fang Xiaoru was cursed by the Ten Tribes to have his credit). Not only are the people in the family unlucky, But Chen Ying, who can relate to each other, is also dragged into the water; An official named Hu Yan was punished and implicated hundreds of family members to die together! Even Chen Ying himself looked miserable, but he still defended: "If we don't put these people on the hat of rebellion, what do you want us to do?" Under such guidelines, the "Jianwen loyalists" were finally eliminated.
Fang Xiaoru
In terms of harming colleagues, Chen Ying treated the civilian officials and military attaches equally: not only did they clean up the civilian officials and military attaches together (Qi Tai and Huang Guan were civilian ministers, while Sheng Yong and Geng Bingwen, who were killed at the same time, were military generals), but he also impeached jianwen's widows and Yan Wang's concubines, and even more importantly, whether you were a sesame official or a relative of the imperial state, he also handled it together! Li Jinglong, the biggest transport brigade leader in the course of Zhu Dijing's disaster, the first meritorious servant who opened the gates of Nanjing, and his cousin, was sued by Chen Ying shortly after Zhu Di usurped the throne; the grain ship on the sea overturned in a storm, and Chen Ying also had to let the soldiers in charge of escorting him compensate; the two horses were also impeached by him for a small matter; and even the Criminal Department Shangshu, who was specially in charge of justice, was killed by Chen Ying!
Li Jinglong
Chen Ying not only dared to get along with the Han people, but he also dared to mess with the Shaomin brothers. A leader of an ethnic minority harassed a state on the border and took Zhizhou captive. After Zhu Di heard about it, he sent an emissary to question him, and by the way, he showed the strength of the empire, and the leader immediately learned to be obedient, immediately returned all the people and things he had stolen, and sent his brother to the capital to be a hostage. It is said that this matter is not necessary to make a big deal so far, but Chen Ying jumped out again and demanded that the hostages be held for trial, and Zhu Di, who proceeded from a national perspective, naturally would not agree, and criticized Chen Ying for being too reckless in this way.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di
Although the mad dog that bites people can temporarily gain the love of the owner, but too fierce will sooner or later cause the owner's jealousy and even disgust, not to mention that the owner may also change. Zhu Di did need someone like Chen Ying to take his place to clean up Emperor Jianwen's loyal subjects, but when these people who opposed him were cleansed, the lackey gradually lost its role. What's more, Zhu Di is still an accomplished emperor, he relatively needs more talents to build the country, and Chen Ying has no talent to speak of in building the country, but instead repeatedly sabotages, which makes Zhu Di gradually dislike him, not to mention that Zhu Di will die sooner or later, and the prince will take over sooner or later.
When Zhu Di went out to inspect the country, the crown prince supervised the country, and Chen Ying, who did not take the crown prince in his eyes, began to pit people even more: he impeached a military chief who accepted bribes, and the wife of the chief minister did not accept the complaint, and the prince accepted it, and asked the ministers of all ministries to try it together. But after waiting for half a day, the principal who was sent to prison did not come, only a bribe came. Everyone was horrified, and then they found out that the main agent and the other three suspects had been killed for a few days! Only after another trial did we know that this incident was only because a few of Chen Ying's dog legs went to the military headquarters to borrow people and did not borrow them, and their masters created a crime to pit people!
Crown Prince and future Emperor Renzong Zhu Gaozi
The generous crown prince originally did not intend to clean up Chen Ying, but soon after he did another thing that completely angered the prince: a scholar was punished for committing a crime and was punished as a taixue's brother-in-law, and the prince felt that this was too harsh for the readers, so he had to change the sentence of the relevant unit, and Chen Ying confronted the prince again. The crown prince finally couldn't help but refute: "Aiqing's intentions are too mean, and the country's principles and policies must not be understood. ”
Chen Ying also thought that he had the favor of the emperor and did not take the prince's words to heart. It was just that Zhu Di finally began to get bored with him, and soon after the inspection returned, he found a crime and executed Chen Ying. On the day of Chen Ying's death, the people all clapped their hands and applauded, and the capital was full of joy and thunder.
As the saying goes: Many unrighteous deeds will kill themselves. There is nothing wrong with Chen Ying climbing Zhu Di, but he blindly frames his colleagues, or even fabricates fabrications out of thin air, to pit people, not only to provoke anger and resentment, but also to eventually be abandoned after losing all use value. Although the so-called retribution is nonsense, sometimes it actually has its own internal inevitable laws.