In 1402, Zhu Di looked at the four big characters on the ground and looked up at Fang Xiaoru: "You don't write, aren't you afraid that I will destroy your Nine Tribes?" There was a hint of coldness and anger in his words. Fang Xiaoru looked directly into Zhu Di's cold eyes, "What about the Ten Tribes?" Eight days later, 873 lives fell at Jubaomen in Nanjing.
It was Fang Xiaoru's Ten Tribes.
"Nine tribes" is an ancient punishment, based on the parties, counting four generations up and four generations down, including the generation of the parties, it is exactly the nine ethnic groups. The so-called "Nine Tribes" is to kill these nine generations of people cleanly, leaving no one behind, which can be said to be the most cruel punishment in ancient times.
However, in order to get revenge on Fang Xiaoru and to make him submit to himself, in the list of massacres, Zhu Di forcibly added a clan to him.
This tenth clan was Fang Xiaoru's past friends, and in order to make up the numbers, all those who had correspondence with Fang Xiaoru were included in Zhu Di.
What exactly did Fang Xiaoru do that made Zhu Di so unhappy that he wanted to punish him so heavily.
This has to start with an edict.
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In July 1402, Zhu Di's army finally reached Jinling City, the soldiers guarding the city opened the city gates and surrendered, and Zhu Di, the King of Yan, entered the capital, and the "Battle of Jingnan", which lasted for four years, finally ended with Zhu Di's victory.
From the day he decided to fight for the throne, Zhu Di had been fantasizing about the day he ascended the throne, and on this day, Zhu Di had waited too long and paid too much, and he would not allow a single mistake to appear.
Therefore, after taking the Ming Dynasty, the first thing he did was to eliminate those military generals who always stood by Emperor Jianwen's side, advised and escorted Emperor Jianwen, and opposed him to sit on the throne.
Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Jing Qing, and others were killed by the entire clan, and these people were loyal courtiers who swore to follow Emperor Jianwen to the death. But in this group, Fang Xiaoru was left behind.
At that time, in addition to being a doctor of literature around Emperor Jianwen, Fang Xiaoru served as a think tank for Emperor Jianwen in the four-year Jing dynasty, and advised Emperor Jianwen all the way.
He is also a Scholar with a Confucian mandate all over the world, with the title of "Reading Seed", and is a model for the people who read in the world.
Before Zhu Di attacked the capital, his military master had told him, "If Your Highness invades the capital, as a seed of study, Fang Xiaoru will certainly not surrender, but Your Highness you must not kill him." ”
With the instructions of the military master, Zhu Di certainly did not dare to slacken off. What's more, as a model of readers in the world, Zhu Di felt that if Fang Xiaoru could personally draft an edict indicating his ascension to the throne, he would certainly be able to play a better role in appeasing the hearts of the people in the world.
Therefore, he ordered someone to invite Fang Xiaoru to the Golden Ruan Hall and asked him to take out a pen and paper, hoping that he would write down the edict of succession.
As a minister chosen by Zhu Yuanzhang for Emperor Jianwen, in fang xiaoru's eyes, Zhu Di was a chaotic courtier who plotted to seize the throne and committed rebellion.
Therefore, facing Zhu Di, who was sitting on the emperor's throne, Fang Xiaoru neither saluted nor looked at him, but just cried.
Facing the pen and ink paper in front of him, Fang Xiaoru did not hesitate to write down four big words: Yan Thief usurped the throne.
Looking at these four rebellious words in front of him, Zhu Di was furious, and he stared at Fang Xiaoru coldly, gritting his teeth and spitting out a few words: "You don't write, aren't you afraid that I will destroy your Nine Tribes?" ”
Fang Xiaoru didn't even give Zhu Di a look in his eyes, and sneered, "What about the Ten Tribes of Jie?" Firm voices echoed in the great hall, without a trace of fear.
Looking at Fang Xiaoru's appearance of not being afraid of death, Zhu Di, who was extremely angry, suddenly smiled and waved his hand, letting people leave Fang Xiaoru behind.
No one knows that behind Zhu Dipi's laughter and non-smiling, an extremely cruel plan has been formed.
The massacre lasted for 7 days, and 873 innocent lives fell in pools of blood. Fang Xiaoru used the lives of these people to pave a path of loyalty to his subjects, and expressed his loyalty to Emperor Jianwen with his own practical actions.
Unfortunately, his righteous deeds, Emperor Jianwen will never know, before his death, Emperor Jianwen had burned down his palace, and did not know the end.
As a generation of national soldiers, Fang Xiaoru did not care about his own death at all, but we could not know the pain in his heart as he watched his relatives and friends being killed in front of him.
The history books record that for every person who was cursed, Zhu Di would personally ask Fang Xiaoru if he had any regrets. In exchange, it was only Fang Xiaoru's disdain and anger.
In the face of Fang Xiaoru's insults, Zhu Di finally lost his last patience, and he had people pry open the corners of Fang Xiaoru's mouth with a knife, cut off his tongue, and punished Ling Chi.
A generation of celebrities has come to the end of their lives, only 45 years old.
Fang Xiaoru's death is really regrettable.
He was a truly dignified intellectual, a well-deserved loyalist.
Although, in the eyes of many people, his loyalty was only a kind of foolish loyalty to the emperor, not worth mentioning, and he also paid a painful price for it.
However, the reason why people are human is not the length of life, but the persistence, hard work for their own beliefs, and indomitability.
Compared with those who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and who sell their masters for glory, this firmness alone is enough to make my generation remember.
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