Everyone familiar with history will be very impressed with Zhu Yuanzhang, just like the popularity on the Internet now, opening a bowl and laying a huge foundation. In addition to admiring him, we will also feel that he is really too cruel, the massacre hero, the founding fathers are simply one hundred, only Tang He, Mu Ying, Geng Bingwen and a few others are left. In my opinion, soup and immortality, there are two reasons.
First, Tang he was too clever
Tang He, also known as Ding Chen, was a native of Haozhou and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was also a fellow of Fengyang. Tang He was also the introducer of Zhu Yuanzhang to join the peasant uprising army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, so Tang He and Zhu Yuanzhang were fellow villagers and comrades-in-arms from the beginning, which can be described as a deep feeling.
Tang He once went crazy with alcohol and offended Zhu Yuanzhang, he drank too much wine when he was guarding Changzhou, he wanted to see Zhu Yuanzhang but did not see it, he was dissatisfied: "I sit in this city, look to the right to the right, look to the left to the left!" ”
What does this sentence mean? This means that this city is the most powerful city for me, and if I want to take him to the enemy, you can't do anything about it. In fact, Tang He didn't have any bad ideas, he just wanted Zhu Yuanzhang to respect him more. But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think so, what do you mean by that? Threaten me?
The Ming Shi Tang He Biography records that Tang "and Shen Min are multi-wise, and quite drunk." When guarding Changzhou, he tried to ask Taizu for something to do, but he was drunk and complained: "If I sit on the roof of this city, if I look at the left, the right is right." Taizu heard it. ”
Tang He and Xu Da can be said to be the first and second bearers in the Ming army, and later because of drunken gaffes and defeat, the gap between the two was huge when they discussed the merits and rewards after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. For example, Xu Da was enfeoffed as the Duke of Wei, Lu Five Thousand Stones, Tang He? He was not named a marquis until the following year, and the marquis was a duke, and his salary was only fifteen hundred stones. By the time of Tang and the dukedom, it was the eleventh year of the founding of the country, and Zhu Yuanzhang was particularly careful to engrave the drunken gaffe on the Danshu iron coupon.
History of The Ming Dynasty. Tang He Biography: "The Ping zhongyuan division also discussed merit, and sent Chen Youding to the remnants of the eight counties during the conquest of Min, and the division was returned, which was attacked by the Thieves of Xiulan Mountain, and lost the second command, so it was not allowed to be crowned a duke."
In addition, Tang He is undoubtedly a person who knows Zhu Yuanzhang very well and is also very intelligent, and the "History of Ming" says that he "Dong Ou begged to return to the first place, and perfected himself with Mingzhe", "Outstanding beyond the reach of man".
Tang He was the first of the generals to know Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts, he took the initiative to take the lead in handing over the military power, and thought of unloading his armor and returning to his hometown, saying to Zhu Yuanzhang: "I am old, no, let me go home for the elderly." ”
History of The Ming Dynasty. Tang He Biography: "The courtier dog has long horse teeth and is unable to be driven by the resumption of his duties, and he wishes to return to his hometown, for the ruins of the coffin, to wait for the bones." ”
This operation made Zhu Yuanzhang's dragon heart rejoice, "Li Zhi Zhi Zhi Di Zhongdu", and gave him a supervisor to prevent the fat difference of Wushu Haicheng, and also let his tenth son Zhu Tan marry Tang He's daughter as a princess, so that Tang He also became an imperial relative like Xu Da.
In the later years of Tang and his old age, he was more cautious, he raised more than a hundred concubines at home, drank and danced every day, his days were not too comfortable, and he did not talk to people about national affairs, this is the wisdom of Tang He, why? Because Zhu Yuanzhang was particularly taboo about forming a party for personal gain, wasn't fu Youde harmoniously discarded by Zhu Yuanzhang in this way?
A few years later, Tang He fell ill and lost his voice, and Zhu Yuanzhang visited him the same day when he heard the news. Tang He was seriously ill, "the emperor is a runny nose, and the generous gift of gold is a funeral fee." After Tang He's death, the emperor posthumously enfeoffed the title of King of Dong'ou (東瓯王), Yu Xiangwu (谥襄武).
Let's first look at the other four people who are also very important, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Li Wenzhong, and Liu Ji, how did they all die?
Chang Yuchun died suddenly when he was forty years old, and Zhu Yuanzhang personally went to Chang Yuchun's wedding, and also mourned Chang Yuchun according to the specifications of Song Taizong's memorial service to Zhao Pu.
At this time, it was impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang to kill Chang Yuchun, because when he was still employing people, it was impossible to cut off his arm.
In the "Biography of Ming Shi Chang Yu Chun", it is recorded: "Shi Huan, Ci liu hechuan, violently ill, only forty years old. Taizu heard this and mourned greatly. After the funeral to Longjiang, he personally went out to pay tribute, and ordered the ceremonial official Yi Tianzi to pay a mourning ceremony for the minister. On the agenda, use the story of Song Taizong's funeral of Zhao Pu, the king of Han. The system is called "can".
Xu Da fell ill and died at the age of fifty-four, and Zhu Yuanzhang posthumously honored him as the King of Zhongshan and gave him the title of King of Zhongshan, which was not a small gift.
And Li Wenzhong is a little different, when he was sick, the doctor went to treat him, the result was not cured, died, Zhu Yuanzhang suspected that this healer was poisoned, directly lowered his title and posthumously named Li Wenzhong as the King of Qiyang, the nickname Wujing.
From this record, we can well see that after Xu Da and Li Wenzhong died, they were both posthumously sealed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Xu Da did not eat roast goose to death.
And Liu Bowen's time was Hu Weiyong's ghost, and it is recorded in the Biography of Ming Shi Liu Ji that Hu Weiyongfang took zuo cheng in charge of the province, threatened the past, and made the official Zhen Ji, saying that there was a royal spirit in the foreign land, and The base was a tomb, and the people were fuhe, so please set up an inspection to drive out the people. Although the emperor did not sin against Ki, he was quite moved, so he took Kilu. ”
The "History of Ming" also records that Liu Bowen was recuperating in Beijing, and Hu Weiyong sent someone to see him, and as a result, after taking the medicine, a stone grew in his stomach, and he died from then on.
It can be seen that the "History of Ming" does not say that Liu Ji was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, but that Hu Weiyong drugged Liu Ji. There is also Zhu Yuanzhang who has great respect for Liu Bowen, saying more than once that he is his own Zhang Liang, and every time he sees Liu Bowen, he does not shout his name, but respectfully calls Mr. Liu.
Who were these people Zhu Yuanzhang killed? The most famous are the "Hu Weiyong Case" and the "Blue Jade Case", which involved as many as 40,000 people in the past fourteen years, and The Huaixi Xungui who started the army with Zhu Yuanzhang was killed cleanly, why was this so?
The important reason was that they did not understand the emperor's mind, and they did not know that zhu Yuanzhang at this time was no longer Zhu Zhongba, who was sitting on the ground with them drinking wine and cursing his mother, but the emperor sitting on the dragon chair.
In fact, what they did was a bit unbearable for anyone, let alone a person like Zhu Yuanzhang, who was already fierce. Let me give you a few examples.
Whenever Lan Yu went to a place, he allowed his soldiers to harass the people, and later when he returned home, his domestic slaves were simply lawless, and his subordinates did not even listen to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, but only listened to Lan Yu alone.
Hu Weiyong, when he was a chancellor, repeatedly stole the limelight of Zhu Yuanzhang, and also formed a party for personal gain, excluding dissidents, pretending to be the emperor and ordering Liu Bowen to be killed.
And Lee Sun-chang? His problem can be said to be the biggest, his desire for power is too strong, and hu Weiyong colluded, after Zhu Yuanzhang let him retire, he still did not restrain himself, forced a comeback, and privately used the army and his family to oppress the people.
Who can stand this pile of pieces? Inevitably, it was too much, and so did the other Huaixi generals, who were united around these people and wanted to compete with the imperial power? What is this for? Who do you destroy?