In 1390, the 77-year-old Li Shanchang was sentenced to the "Nine Tribes", and before he died, he turned over the Danshu iron coupon given by Zhu Yuanzhang and pleaded with Zhu Yuanzhang to spare his life. Li Shanchang took a closer look, and immediately his face was like dead ash...
When Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne, he gave Li Shanchang a high evaluation, comparing him to the second Xiao He. And Li Shanchang also lived up to expectations, not only repeatedly showing strange tricks, but also recruiting a lot of talents for Zhu Yuanzhang's team.
Later generations also compared it to Zhang Liang, who also had the talent of "strategizing and winning thousands of miles away".
After Zhu Yuanzhang successfully ascended the throne as emperor, he began to discuss merits and rewards, and selected the six people with the greatest merits and were crowned as dukes. Among them, Li Shanchang ranked first, was named Zuo Xiangguo, and also gave him the "Danshu Iron Coupon" that could avoid death twice, which can be said to be highly valued.
And why would such a "right and left arm", who was favored by Zhu Yuanzhang, die step by step?
After gaining power and rewards, Li Shanchang not only did not act in a low-key manner, but was proud of his achievements. In the early stage, it only received some benefits, and in the later stage, it directly began to close and cultivate its own forces, and gradually formed the "Huaixi Group".
The members of the "Huaixi Clique", at the behest of Li Shanchang, violated the rules of etiquette and acted recklessly, indulging in the glory and wealth brought to them by power. Even the domestic servants and maids in their houses are running amok in the people, and there is no one in sight.
The growing strength of this force, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally saw it in his eyes, but nian in Li Shanchang's merits to the imperial court, his son also married his daughter, which can also be regarded as a family, so he turned a blind eye. It was only ordered to cut Li Shanchang's Feng Lu as a warning.
This did not make Li Shanchang restrain his behavior, but instead made enemies everywhere in the imperial court. Li Shanchang is a scheming and narrow-minded person.
Li Shanchang is superficially kind and amiable, but when someone harms his interests, he will inevitably find ways to fight back. Most of his colleagues dared to be angry with him!
In the later period, Zhu Yuanzhang's jealousy also became heavier and heavier, in order to clear the obstacles for his son, in order to maintain the world of the Zhu family, he began to kill some heroes.
After Li Shanchang realized that something was wrong, he resigned from his post to Zhu Yuanzhang and returned to the countryside to retire. However, he could not stop when he resigned at home.
Because his younger brother Li Cunyi followed Hu Weiyong in his rebellion, he himself was also implicated. Li Shanchang knew that Hu Weiyong was planning to rebel, but he did not report it, and Zhu Yuanzhang was killed.
When the officials of the DPRK and China saw that Li Shanchang had lost Zhu Yuanzhang's trust, they drafted a letter of impeachment, and even the servants of Li Shanchang's family turned against him and exposed his ugly deeds.
And what really led to Li Shanchang's extermination of the Nine Tribes was a sentence by Qin Tianjian: "The celestial phenomenon has a star change, indicating that there will be disasters. ”
In 1390, before his death, Li Shanchang took out the "Danshu Iron Coupon" given by Zhu Yuanzhang, hoping to survive. Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, "You take a serious look at what is written on it!" ”
Li Shanchang took a closer look, only to find that it was impressively written: "Eliminate the great crime of conspiracy and rebellion"! He sat paralyzed on the ground in fright, and was finally killed.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was not relieved enough, so he wrote Li Shanchang's crimes into a "Record of Showing the Traitorous Party" and published it to the public.
Tracing the trajectory of Li Shanchang's life, from the founding hero to the end of his life, there are two main reasons:
First, the heart is narrow-minded and cannot tolerate people
In the "Wisdom Tank", Li Shanchang is described as follows: "Noble and rich, slightly arrogant, scheming but not far-sighted"
It was precisely because of Li Shanchang's narrow-mindedness that he established many enemies in the DPRK. Seeing that Li Shanchang had difficulties, they were bound to "fall into the well" at a critical moment, and Zhu Yuanzhang just wanted to pull him aside, which would inevitably cause resistance from the group of ministers.
Second, forming a party for personal gain and being proud of one's achievements
"Forming parties for personal gain and pulling together gangs and factions" happens to be the most taboo thing for Zhu Yuanzhang, and Li Shanchang, as the core figure of the "Huaixi Clique," is bound to bear the brunt of it.
Third, they do not know how to converge and are deeply involved in the storm of "plotting rebellion"
After returning home, you should live in peace. And he pulled himself and Hu Weiyong together, not only failed to save his life, but more than 70 members of the whole family were also killed.
Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely fond of and trusting of Li Shanchang, otherwise he would not have given him the right to avoid death and promised his daughter to his son.
However, Li Shanchang's desires and ambitions are not small, and when he is blinded by interests, he loses the instinct to judge, which also leads him to step into the abyss step by step.
Life is full of temptations, we must know how to stop at the right time, and when we know that there is danger, we should know how to stop in time and carefully analyze the stakes.
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