Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da
Birds hide with bows, rabbits cook with dead dogs. This idiom, applied to Liu Bang of Han Gaozu and Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of Ming Taizu, is very appropriate. Zhu Yuanzhang used Liu Bang as a benchmark everywhere, Li Shan was as good as Xiao He, Liu was based on him like Zhang Liang, and their respective groups of martial generals, very similar. However, compared with Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang is more dark-hearted, or fierce. Whatever the motive, his knife was sharper than Liu Bang's.
These days, "Mountains and Rivers Moonlight" is being broadcast. Watching this kind of TV series, although I also know that I can't watch it as a correct history, as long as it is not a cross-over drama, I believe that the general life of many major characters will not be too far behind. Therefore, when you look at it, you will feel that the ending is known, and there is a sense of powerlessness in an instant. For example, the great general Xu Da, the TV series did not take long to be the plot of Zhu Yuanzhang and his family, and a dish at the family banquet was a roast goose made for him by Empress Ma.
Xu Miaoyun
This is the foreshadowing for Xu Da's ending, who does not know that Xu Da died after eating the roast goose sent by Zhu Yuanzhang? Xu Da's eldest daughter, Xu Miaoyun, who later became Empress Zhu Di of Ming Chengzu, had two brothers, Xu Huizu and Xu Zengshou. How did these two people end up? In the Battle of Jingnan, Xu Huizu was a loyal servant of Jianwen, and Zhu Di killed him, but he was calm, and took out the Danshu iron coupon that Zhu Yuanzhang gave him to his family that year, and Zhu Di did not help him.
Xu Zengshou
In fact, Zhu Di really wouldn't do anything with him. Xu Huizu was his brother-in-law and empress Xu's younger brother. Not to mention the personal relationship, if Zhu Di cut him, how to explain it to the dead old man Xu Dashu? Another point is that the brother-in-law Xu Zengshou was in the city of Nanjing at that time to give him a message, was discovered by Emperor Jianwen, and in anger, he cut it with a knife. Therefore, no matter what, Zhu Di would not really kill Xu Huizu, and later he was imprisoned, and he died of illness in his forties (a self-inflicted suicide).
Sapphire
Sapphire is a fierce character in the film, and it is true in history. Although he was not a founding father, he was the number one military figure in the Ming court after Xu Da and Chang Yuchun. In the "History of Ming", it is said, "Zhongshan and Kaiping are neither, but the total army is counted." But this type of person has one thing in common, being proud of their achievements and arrogant. This is a bit like the great general Nian Tangyao of the later Qing Yongzheng Dynasty, but the blue jade is obviously a few grades higher than the Nian Tangyao. Therefore, after the "Blue Jade Case", he died completely and quickly, without turning over a single splash.
Lee Sun-chang
Hu Weiyong did not say anything, there was more than enough to die, and the historical evaluation of him was not high. In the official revision of the History of Ming in the Qing Dynasty, Hu Weiyong was included in the "Biography of a Traitor", but Blue Jade was not involved in it. After Hu Weiyong's death, it was Li Shanchang's turn to promote him in the first place. This big man of the Huaixi Xungui clique was once the only duke among Hongwu's three-year civil servants, who was before Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, which shows his status, seniority and merit. However, he was not Xiao He after all, and Zhu Yuanzhang was not Liu Bang.
When you see Fu Youde, who has worked hard under Xu Da's tent, you will remember Zhu Yuanzhang's evaluation of him: "On the merits of the generals, Fu Youde is the first." "But the Danshu iron coupons given by the emperor are just mascots, who really takes Lao Zhu's verbal praise seriously." Compared with other old brothers, Fu Youde died a bit of a humiliating, or unjust death. Although he was punished by Zhu Yuanzhang for his son's affairs, Fu Youde, who had long been holding his breath, chose to carry the heads of his two sons to see him, and killed himself in public, the scene was bloody and lamentable.
Li Wenzhong
There was also Li Wenzhong, the Duke of Cao, who was Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew and the fourth-ranked general in the list of meritorious men, with outstanding military achievements. He didn't mix it up by hugging the emperor's uncle's thigh, but by making a real knife and a real gun in the pile of dead people. According to historical records, Li Wenzhong was extremely brave in battle, "fierce in the face of the battle, strong in the face of great enemies", and repeatedly built up qigong; he was also able to not only use martial arts, but also be able to write, and was known in the world as a Confucian general. However, after he was released from the military power, he worried about the country and the people, and occasionally had words of advice, which made Zhu Yuanzhang unhappy and sick.
Liu Ji, that is, Liu Bowen, is almost a multi-wise and almost demon figure after Zhuge Liang, who has been repeatedly interpreted by later commentaries and film and television works. He was Zhu Yuanzhang's chief staff officer, the head of the think tank regiment, and the founding hero of the country. However, he who had been dealing with Hu Weiyong all along was eventually seized by the latter and fiercely participated in a book, making Zhu Yuanzhang "look at him differently". After the illness, Zhu Yuanzhang sent his sworn enemy Hu Weiyong to visit and sent a medicine, "living in January and dying."
Liao Yongzhong, a pot-carrying man like Hu Weiyong, was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang in the eighth year of Hongwu. Zhou Dexing, the little friend who was "rarely compatible" with Zhu Yuanzhang, "sat and died". And Feng Sheng, give death... After saying that these old brothers had all killed almost everything, Zhu Yuanzhang could finally sit back and hand over the class to his grandson Zhu Yunjiao. To digress, if there is another possibility below, Zhu Yuanzhang wants to pull the flag and rebel again, will those old brothers who know each other in a small way still follow him faithfully?
Boyan Timur
Therefore, now watching "Mountains and Rivers Moon Ming", because the ending is known, it is like seeing a living corpse galloping on the battlefield and fighting in front of the court. The only eye-catching thing is that among the prisoners captured by the Ming army, the footage of a boy named Boyan Timur is swept away. This makes people wonder: should not be the one who was called a brother and brother decades later when he was called a brother in the "Northern Hunt" of Emperor Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen (Zhu Di's great-grandson). It reminds people of a saying: when is the retribution for wrongs... No, the story is cozy.
After the change of civil engineering, Zhu Qi town was also detained first, and died nine times on the grassland. However, Zhu Qizhen was a charismatic young emperor who actually got to know a lot of bold grassland men. For example, Ye Xian's younger brother Boyan Timur was very respectful to Zhu Qizhen, and once made a crying and laughing request to the visiting Ming envoys - after Zhu Qizhen returned, Zhu Qiyu must return the throne to him! Zhu Qi town returned to the south, Boyan Timur escorted thousands of miles, until the border of Daming, when the tears fell like rain when they parted...