The first episode of the TV series "Mountains and Rivers Moon Ming" has two mentions of roasted geese, the first is that Xu Da and his son Xu Yungong, Xu Zengshou, and the younger daughter Xu Miaojin stole roasted geese together, and were caught by the eldest daughter Xu Miaoyun, who was scolded and confused, and the lesson was dumb, and the foodie temperament that disregarded the body made a generation of famous generals look a little more angry and cute.
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The second place is that Zhu Yuanzhang set up a family banquet, and Empress Ma brought a pot of roasted geese. Xu Da did not smile when he saw his favorite roast goose, but turned to a dignified face. He said that he had eaten the roast goose made by Ma Queen three times before, but he was invited to eat it because of something difficult. The first time Chen Youyi invaded Ying tian, His Majesty ordered his subjects and the King of Kaiping to set up an ambush at Jiuhua Mountain, and nine died in this battle; the second time he went out to attack Zhang Shicheng, and His Majesty said that this victory would be determined by Jiangnan; the third time, His Majesty let his subjects and the King of Kaiping lead an army to conquer Dadu. This is the fourth time, the Northern Expedition was decided by the imperial court meeting yesterday, I wonder if Your Majesty has any difficult things for the subjects to do?
I don't know how Xu Da will die later in the "Mountains and Rivers Moon Ming" TV series, but the frequent mention of roasted geese in the opening paragraph should be the foreshadowing for subsequent development. There are wild histories and folklore that Xu Da suffered from gangrene, and in ancient times, when there was no anti-inflammatory medicine, this disease could also kill people. And roast goose is a hair object, and people with sores cannot eat hair products. Zhu Yuanzhang gave the roast goose to Xu Da, who died shortly after eating it.
However, after reading the "History of Ming", I felt that these rumors were untenable.
Xu Da, as Zhu Yuanzhang's youngest, has always been an extremely trusting confidant, and the two have a deep friendship from childhood to adulthood. Xu Da was not only good at governing the army and fighting wars, but also had a steady personality and was cautious, and he accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang all the way to the south to fight in the north and the east to the west, and made great contributions to Daming.
Zhu Yuanzhang has no culture, but he is a cruel person, from his killing of the early Ming Dynasty general, it can be seen that he not only killed people with great fanfare, but also engaged in zhulian, so if he wanted Xu Da to die, he could find a reason at will, and there were many ways. Zhu Yuanzhang killed Blue Jade, peeled the skin and grass, convicted him of conspiracy to rebel, planted the three tribes, made a bad reputation, and killed fifteen thousand people for renewal. Zhu Yuanzhang killed Li Shanchang, saying that he was implicated in the Hu Weiyong case, but at this time, many years had passed since the Hu Weiyong case, and more than seventy people, including Li Shanchang's wife, daughters, nephews, and nephews, were executed, and Li Shanchang was already seventy-seven years old at this time.
The "History of Ming" records that after Xu Da's death, Zhu Yuanzhang gave him endless mourning, personally went to the funeral to show his sorrow, listed him as the first hero of the founding of the country, posthumously named him the King of Zhongshan, the nickname "Wuning", and gave him the third prince. The Yin of The Funeral Bell Mountain, the Imperial Shinto Inscription.
It can be seen from the above that Xu Da could not have been secretly killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, who gave Xu Da a good death, so that his descendants were not only uninvolved, but also enjoyed supreme glory.