In 1393, Lan Yu, the terminator of the Yuan Dynasty, was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang for plotting treason.
Lan Yu is the brother-in-law of Chang Yuchun, who joined the military camp very early, perhaps under the influence of his brother-in-law, and fought bravely and fiercely.
Chang Yuchun also often praised blue jade in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Yuanzhang had been pressing blue jade for 10 years without use. Until chang yuchun, Xu Da and other generals died one after another, blue jade ushered in its own era!
Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty regime and sent troops to the Northern Expedition several times, but did not completely eliminate the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty. The Northern Yuan forces often harassed the Daming border, which made Zhu Yuanzhang a headache.
In order to completely eliminate the threat of northern yuan, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to carry out the northern expedition again, eradicating northern yuan in one fell swoop, so that it would never have the opportunity to turn over.
However, at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly found that he had no generals available. Xu Da and Chang Yuchun died successively, most of the other generals died at their own hands, and although Feng Sheng and Deng Yu were still alive, they were also old and frail.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and found that only blue jade was available, and had high hopes for him.
Blue Jade's luck was not good, there were too many famous generals who followed Zhu Yuanzhang, whether in personal strength or combat experience, they were much worse than people, so he could only follow behind the famous generals to make a pioneer.
With his own efforts and the promotion of his brother-in-law Chang Yuchun, Blue Jade slowly gained prestige in the army.
Beginning in the fourth year of Hongwu, Lan Yu successively followed Fu Youde and Mu Ying in his conquests of Sichuan and Yunnan, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Yongchang by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang also made Lan Yu's daughter a concubine of Zhu Chun, the King of Shu.
Zhu Yuanzhang's reward for blue jade in this way is not only to see the leadership ability of blue jade, but also to make him the right arm of prince Zhu Biao.
Twenty years after Hongwu, Blue Jade ushered in his highlight moment. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Feng Sheng to be the general of conquest and Lan Yu to be the deputy general to attack Northern Yuan.
First, the snow night surprise attack, killing the Gyeongju shogun Guolai, and then the soldiers did not bloodshed, and took in the Yuan Dynasty general Naha and 200,000 troops.
These achievements greatly excited Zhu Yuanzhang, and even more made Blue Jade proud.
"Why is he still a vice admiral when he does this?"
Blue Jade's thoughts seemed to be enlightened, and soon after, the general Feng Sheng was arrested by Zhu Yuanzhang for personal problems, and Blue Jade temporarily took over the command of Shuai Yin to lead the army.
The throne of the commander who dreamed of it was inexplicably obtained, and Sapphire was happy like a dream.
In the twenty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Lan Yu to lead an army of 150,000 to clear the desert and directly attack the Yuting.
The two armies fought at the Fishing Sea (Lake Baikal), and the Ming army won a great victory. This battle completely eliminated the armed forces of the Yuan Dynasty, captured more than 3,000 princes and nobles, more than 70,000 soldiers, and captured the seal that the Yuan Dynasty had used for more than a hundred years.
After Zhu Yuanzhang received the news of the victory, he compared Lan Yu to Wei Qing and Li Jing in front of Manchu Wenwu.
Sapphire's prestige has reached its peak!
Zhu Yuanzhang was very harsh on officials, and even if a brother who was born into death committed a crime, he would be dealt with severely.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also very tolerant when dealing with civilians and prisoners other than officials.
In order to reassure the captives, he slept alone with the captives, and when he heard that Lan Yu had bullied the concubines of the Northern Yuan Emperor, he was greatly annoyed and once wanted to punish him.
Since Lan Yu annihilated the Yuan Army, he had also become arrogant and arrogant.
On the way back to the north after the victory, because the checkpoint was slow to open, he ordered the soldiers to break through the city wall and force their way in.
These two events made Lan Yu have no good feelings in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, and he had planned to make him the Duke of Liang, but changed Liang to Liang.
Lan Yu did not notice the change in Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude toward him at all, and unscrupulously used his power in the army and arbitrarily appointed his own cronies.
Once, Zhu Yuanzhang had something to say to Lan Yu, asking several generals who were following Behind Lan Yu to retreat.
To Zhu Yuanzhang's surprise, those generals did not listen to him at all, and it was not until After Lan Yu reprimanded them that these few people obediently retreated.
Zhu Yuanzhang was originally a lord who loved to find stubble, and Blue Jade deliberately sent people's heads like this, and Zhu Yuanzhang had no reason not to receive them.
In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Jinyi Wei denounced Lan Yu for rebellion, and soon Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Lan Yu to be arrested and imprisoned.
To say that Blue Jade is arrogant and lawless, everyone believes it, but if he tries to rebel, I am afraid that he will not be able to convince the public.
As the saying goes, if you want to add to your sins, there is no excuse for that.
Under the cruel means of Jinyiwei, Lan Yu confessed to the crime and was detained, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not intend to close the case just by killing Lan Yu, but continued to investigate along the spurious evidence of Lan Yu's confession.
The Blue Jade Case, one of the four major cases of Hongwu, officially began, and the total number of people implicated exceeded 15,000, including the first duke, the second uncle, and the thirteenth marquis, and the lieutenant general was almost killed.
Blue Jade's fate was extremely cruel, and Zhu Yuanzhang had planned to chop him up, but for the sake of his children's relatives, he only peeled his skin, which was considered to be a whole corpse.
In order to cultivate Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang spent a lot of effort, and the people that Zhu Biao could not suppress were all disposed of in advance.
The sudden death of Crown Prince Zhu Biao forced his plans to be adjusted.
Blue Jade is Chang Yuchun's brother-in-law, Chang YuChun is Zhu Biao's father-in-law, and in terms of discussion, Zhu Biao wants to call Blue Jade an uncle.
At first, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to support blue jade as a big help to Zhu Biao, but after Zhu Biao's death, his grandson Zhu Yunjiao succeeded to the throne.
The young Zhu Yunjiao had no prestige in the army and could not serve the people in the dprk, so Zhu Yuanzhang had to clear the way for his grandson again, and the former left and right arm had become the current stumbling block.
Blue Jade had to be removed, because Zhu Yunjiao couldn't hold it down at all, so Blue Jade died of arrogance and also died of politics!
Zhu Yuanzhang naively thought that the descendants of the old Zhu family would unite and govern the country well, but the fourth son, Zhu Di, succeeded in usurping the throne shortly after his death. If he knew about it underground, I was afraid that he would also be blown up.
