Among the heroes of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there are not many people like Xu Da and Mu Ying who started and ended well with Zhu Yuanzhang, before Hu Weiyong was cursed, and later Li Shanchang and Lan Yu were killed, Zhu Yuanzhang killed because they were suspected of plotting against him, and there were tens of thousands of people who were killed.
Lan Yu was the last of these three to be killed, as Chang Yuchun's wife and brother, the uncle of Crown Princess Zhu Biao, and became a famous coach after Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, he was Zhu Yuanzhang's right-hand man in his later years, why can't he always give Zhu Yuanzhang a good relationship like these two?
Lan Yu is different from Hu and Li, people rebel and everything is carried out in secret, and there is a city government, while Lan Yu is willful and often openly expresses his dissatisfaction, which has aroused the vigilance of Zhu Yuanzhang's mustard and his subordinate Jinyiwei.
People are all house slaves who surrendered themselves to accuse their masters of rebellion, but Lan Yu was denounced by Zhu Yuanzhang's Jinyi Wei and took her life.
Meet the spring to meet, the later main general
When Lan Yu first joined the army, he served under Chang Yuchun's men, fighting bravely and strategically, Zhu Yuanzhang because Chang Yuchun often praised Lan Yu in front of himself, so he gradually understood and appreciated Lan Yu, in other words, Lan Yu was the younger brother of Zhu Yuanzhang's younger brother from the beginning.
In 1370~1380, although Lanyu made many combat achievements, more than half of the battles were fought with the commander, and there was no experience in controlling a large number of troops.
In the 10 years from 1380 to 1390, Lanyu was still the adjutant general in the first 5 years, but during this period, Zhu Yuanzhang promised Lanyu's daughter to his son Zhu Chun in order to show his appreciation for him.
The battle of "catching children and fish in the sea" is also a crime
In 1388, Lan Yu's most ambitious time came, and he was ordered to lead an army of 150,000 to conquer the Northern Yuan forces, and directly dealt a fatal blow to the Northern Yuan government during the Battle of "Yuerhai" and destroyed its official system.
Only a few people in the Northern Yuan imperial family, such as the emperor and the crown prince, fled, and the Ming army first captured more than 100 people such as concubines, princes and princesses, and later captured more than 3,000 officials at all levels, hundreds of thousands of commoners and men, cattle, sheep, carts and horses.
When the good news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy, because at this time, the founding generals of the Ming Dynasty were old and dead, and now they were greatly boosted by blue jade, how could they not be happy and comfortable.
However, Lan Yu is proud and arrogant, and when the master returned to the dynasty this time, because when he arrived at Xifeng Pass at night, he was not accepted by opening the door in time, so he was furious and ruined the pass, but people are doing things according to the rules, and you Lan Yu is too fat, right?
In addition, Lan Yu saw that the captured concubine of the Yuan Lord was beautiful, so she forcibly defiled the people, causing people to commit suicide in shame, and Zhu Yuanzhang was greatly annoyed and changed the title of Liang Guogong who was going to be given to him to Liang Guogong.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang also engraved his mistakes on the certificate of hereditary title, hoping that he would take it as a warning, but Lan Yu did not repent, but instead spoke out at the banquet hosted by the emperor.
Maybe he thinks that the Mongols are barbaric, and women whose fathers die and sons, brothers die, and people themselves are not taboo, I am taboo about anything. But he forgot that the Mongols had been in the Central Plains for a hundred years, and such vices had long been curbed a lot.
Besides, you are a dignified general, isn't this embarrassing for Daming? What will the people of the Central Plains say, although the Northern Yuan government has basically been destroyed, but there are still more Mongols, can ethnic harmony not continue?
This great achievement, because of his character, also evolved into a great fault, became the beginning of his "coolness", after being awarded the crown prince and the prince, Lan Yu was even more dissatisfied, and said openly that he should be a taishi.
Guang accepted Yizi, and the defendant rebelled
Lan Yu this person also loves money and is flattered, grabbed a lot of people's land, not to mention, but also raised a lot of righteous sons and slaves, coincidentally, Zhu Yuanzhang also likes to accept righteous sons, which makes Zhu Yuanzhang very annoyed, do you want to be the emperor?
However, at that time, Zhu Biao was still alive, and with him in the middle, Zhu Yuanzhang would not easily attack Lanyu, and in 1390, the imperial court also ordered to send Lanyu to conquer parts of Hunan and Guizhou.
In 1391, he sent him to conquer some areas such as Gansu and Yunnan, which is enough to show that Zhu Yuanzhang still has a residual love for blue jade.
Until Zhu Biao's death in May 1392, in 1393, Lan Yu was denounced by Jinyiwei for rebellion, and after being taken to a cell, a list of people he had all conspired against was published.
Zhu Yuanzhang skinned him and filled him with grass, exterminated the three tribes, and more than 10,000 people were implicated and killed, although Zhu Yuanzhang was jealous of heroes, but if Lan Yu was cautious in his words and actions, he would not end up like this.