Grassroots Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang left a strong mark in the long river of feudal history on the mainland. As a poor man, he has finally achieved great things because of various opportunities, but many difficulties can be learned by future generations from some of his stories.
No one can succeed casually, there are many tribulations on the road to success, Zhu Yuanzhang can become a generation of founding emperors, and these tribulations he experienced have a great impact on him.
Earlier, Zhu Yuanzhang had feelings and righteousness, and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was considerate of the people, but in the late Zhu Yuanzhang, he appeared to be cruel and murderous.
The blue jade case, listed as one of the "four major cases of Hongwu", on private blue jade is a veritable imperial prince and state qi, on the gong blue jade is the founding general of the Ming Dynasty.
No matter from any point of view, Blue Jade is an extremely important person to Zhu Yuanzhang. So why did Zhu Yuanzhang have to kill Blue Jade?
In fact, as long as you look back at what Lan Yu said after Zhu Biao's death, you can understand Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions.
The battle for the throne
In the feudal period, successive dynasties regarded the succession of the imperial throne as a top priority, and the Ming Dynasty was no exception. When Zhu Yuanzhang established himself as the king of Wu, he made his eldest son Zhu Biao a son.
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After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Biao, who had been the son of the world, naturally became the crown prince.
Zhu Yuanzhang loves Zhu Biao very much, and also attaches great importance to Zhu Biao's education.
Because he was born as a poor man in his early years, he had no knowledge at all, and he completely relied on various opportunities to "have to" to survive.
However, as the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang hoped that Zhu Biao would become a well-rounded and good emperor, so he hired many teachers for Zhu Biao. And he repeatedly asked these teachers, "My child is going to govern the country in the future, so the most important thing is to be righteous, and if the heart is not right, everything will be crooked." ”
It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang at this time is still very sensible.
Not only that, after Zhu Biao grew up, Zhu Yuanzhang also specially ordered Zhu Biao to go to the dynasty with him every day to handle some government affairs for him, so as to exercise Zhu Biao's ability. He also taught Zhu Biao his experience as an emperor, hoping that he would become a Ming monarch.
Under the careful teaching of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao grew up very fast, handled various government affairs handily, and won the respect of ministers. And several of Zhu Biao's younger brothers were also convinced by him, and did not have the slightest intention of prying about the position of Crown Prince.
However, the good times did not last long, because Zhu Biao was too worried that he would live up to Zhu Yuanzhang's high expectations, so he personally did everything and tried to do his best, so he neglected his body, accumulated work and illness, and unfortunately died early.
When Zhu Biao was alive, due to his ability in all aspects, no one coveted his position as crown prince, but after Zhu Biao's death, the position of crown prince was vacant. According to the inheritance system at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to choose one of Zhu Biao's children as the imperial grandson, that is, the crown prince.
At that time, only Zhu Yunjiang and Zhu Yunxi met the conditions. And it was this establishment of the reserve that made Zhu Yuanzhang open a storm.
Arrogant blue jade
In terms of generation, Zhu Yunjiao and Zhu Yunxi are both the juniors of Lan Yu, but in fact, there is only Zhu Yunxi who is related to Lan Yu, because he is born to the daughter of Zhu Biao and Chang Yuchun, and Lan Yu is Zhu Biao's brother-in-law, which means that Lan Yu is Zhu Yunxi's uncle.
Therefore, in Lan Yu's heart, of course, he hoped that Zhu Yunxi would be able to inherit the throne in the future. But the truth was exactly the opposite, Zhu Yuanzhang finally chose Zhu Yunjiang, which made Lan Yu extremely dissatisfied.
After Lan Yu's return from the Western Expedition, when Zhu Yuanzhang commended him, he named him "Prince Dowager".
In fact, this official position does not have much real power, it is nothing more than a kind of reputation to show his identity, and when the "prince" takes the throne, he may be able to use this title to get some promotions again.
But Lan Yu was very dissatisfied with Zhu Yuanzhang's canonization, and said bluntly, "Can't I be a tai master?" ”。 It was precisely because Lan Yu said these words that he attracted the scourge of killing.
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It shows that from the point of view, Lan Yu's words only dislike the official position that Zhu Yuanzhang canonized him is too low, but the meaning expressed in it is not only that.
Because if Lan Yu wants to be the prince prince, there must be a premise, then Zhu Yunxi is the prince. Therefore, Lan Yu obviously wanted to complain about Zhu Yunxi and question Zhu Yuanzhang's decision on the establishment of the reserve.
Zhu Yuanzhang was already worried that Zhu Yunjiang would not be able to sit on the throne because of his lack of ability, so he did everything possible to pave the way for Zhu Yunjiang and eliminate all obstacles that might threaten him, even his own son.
At this time, Lan Yu's words undoubtedly wrote his name on Zhu Yuanzhang's elimination list.
Blue Jade case
In the 26th year of Hongwu, under the planning of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Lanyu case was "successfully detected", and Lan Yu, who had military power, strength, and "tendency to rebel", bore the brunt of the raid and beheaded his family, and at the same time, the case was widely implicated, involving tens of thousands of people, of whom nearly 20,000 were executed.
The blue jade case, from a certain point of view, can be said to be designed by Zhu Yuanzhang. However, the death of Blue Jade was not aggrieved.
First of all, Lan Yu himself is proud of his achievements, and has made Zhu Yuanzhang unable to come to the stage on many occasions, but Zhu Yuanzhang has always remembered the brotherly love of the past and only punished him with small punishments.
However, after Zhu Biao's death, the establishment of the reserve has always made Zhu Yuanzhang, who "time is running out", rack his brains, in order to be able to let Zhu Yunjiang smoothly ascend the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang at this time did whatever it takes, and at this time, Lan Yu "committed crimes against the wind". This directly made Zhu Yuanzhang attack him without any scruples.
After all, Lan Yu at that time was a heavy soldier, not only a founding general, but also a royal family, if after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, he really made a move on Zhu Yunjiang, then the probability of success would be very high.
Therefore, the death of Lan Yu was directly related to what he said at that time, and his position was opposed to Zhu Yuanzhang's ideas, and Zhu Yuanzhang had to get rid of him just in case.