We may have heard of the most cruel criminal law than the extermination of the Nine Tribes! But what many people don't know is that in Chinese history, the annihilation of the Nine Tribes is not the most cruel, there is a great Confucian, he was exterminated by the emperor because of a word, the Ten Tribes. This was the only person in Chinese history who was exterminated by the Ten Tribes, and he was also a famous person at that time, a very influential figure, but in the end, because of his own words, the Ten Tribes were exterminated.
Many people want to know, how big a crime was committed, the emperor wanted to destroy his ten tribes, in the feudal society, even if it is a crime to gather people to rebel, it is only a crime of destroying the nine tribes, a person with no power to tie the chicken, and a famous scholar, is it appropriate for the emperor to destroy his ten tribes?
Of course, there is no point in discussing whether it is appropriate now, this matter may not be worth it at all in the present, whether it is the emperor or the scholar, but at that time, maybe the emperor destroyed his ten tribes and it was difficult to calm the anger in his heart!
The Ming Dynasty is one of the most bizarre feudal dynasties in Chinese history, except for the first few emperors, the back is basically very mysterious, many imperial court officials have been officials for a lifetime, and may not even have seen the emperor's face. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were keen to pursue the art of immortality, and their emperors did almost the same as part-time jobs, which was completely based on mood. The Jiajing Emperor did not go to the dynasty for more than twenty years, but the Ming Dynasty still operated as always, and it was still the most powerful dynasty in the world.
Fang Xiaoru, a famous scholar of the Ming Dynasty, was a famous scholar at that time and a very backbone thinker. He was the one who had exterminated the Ten Tribes by the Emperor, the only one in Chinese history, and this emperor was Zhu Di, the King of Yan. And Zhu Di's extermination of Fang Xiaoru's Ten Clans was not actually because Fang Xiaoru had committed any heinous crimes, but because of Fang Xiaoru's integrity.
Perhaps in our current view, Fang Xiaoru is simply superfluous, and even a little foolish. But in feudal society, loyalty is the first quality, Fang Xiaoru can become a scholar and famous person admired by later generations, which is inseparable from his integrity, if he was a person who knew the times at that time as a junjie, perhaps he would not have left his name in history, nor would he have become a generation of great Confucians, so that future generations would remember.
During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, in order to ensure that the Zhu family was not remembered by outsiders, he used various means to eliminate those who were a threat to Daming Jiangshan one by one. Feudal society titles are passed from father to son, if there is no accident, it will not break this rule, this accident, most of them are no sons or sons are really too incompetent to hand over power to people other than sons.
Zhu Yuanzhang broke this tradition by passing the throne to his grandson Zhu Yunjiao, which to some extent left a hidden danger for Zhu Di's rebellion later. Zhu Di's later replacement of Zhu Yunjiao did not mean anything, but became an inevitability. Unlike Zhu Yunjiao, Zhu Di was the son of Zhu Yuanzhang's son, who had the right to inherit Zhu Yuanzhang's throne, and after Zhu Yuanzhang passed the throne to Zhu Yunzhang, in Zhu Di's view, it was Zhu Yunjiao's conspiracy to usurp the throne, which was not allowed, so he later took the throne from his nephew, and Fang Xiaoru, who was loyal to Zhu Yunjiao, killed more than 800 people of his ten tribes because of his loyalty.
After Zhu Di attacked Beijing, many officials saw the wind and made zhu di surrender, but the scholar Fang Xiaoru vowed to die unyieldingly. Zhu Di ordered Fang Xiaoru to write an abdication edict for Zhu Yunjiao, but Fang Xiaoru did not comply. Zhu Di scolded, "If you don't surrender and don't write an edict of abdication, I will destroy your Nine Tribes." ”
Fang Xiaoru is really gang! In the face of Zhu Di's threat, people directly came to say, "Even if you destroy my Ten Tribes, why don't you, I just don't want to be a slave to the country, and I won't write you an abdication edict." "If the Manchu Qing dynasty had such benevolent men, would the Eight-Power Alliance still be able to invade Beijing?"
Although Fang Xiaoru was eventually exterminated by the Ten Tribes, and more than 800 people lost their lives because of his tough words, his blood and integrity remained forever in the history books and became a model of admiration for future generations.
The reason why the Chinese nation can continue to this day and become an invincible ancient civilization is actually because we have tough guys like Fang Xiaoru, who are the backbone and soul of the Chinese nation and the inheritors of the Chinese spirit.
Fang Xiaoru is perhaps the most innocent, and if even loyalty is guilty, what else can we believe? The reason why Zhu Di killed Fang Xiaoru may have been forced by the situation at that time, but killing such a big Confucian was actually not good for his rule at all.
The only person in Chinese history who was exterminated by the Ten Ethnic Groups was only because of a sentence, he used the lives of more than 800 ethnic groups to save his integrity, which is really worthy of the national model, ZhengZheng iron bone.