In the twenty-third year of Hongwu (1390), Zhu Yuanzhang asked the general Fei Ju with a murderous face: "I treat you well, why do you want to rebel?"
"The emperor is clear-sighted, and the ministers are loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Fei Ju tried his best to argue.
"Li Shanchang has been recruited, are you still hard-mouthed?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a sneer.
After hearing this, Fei Ju stopped talking, and hung his head in despair, he understood that once the emperor determined who was guilty, there would definitely be "evidence", which was called "If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse", and it is useless to justify.
"Plead guilty. Seeing that the other party was no longer speechless, Zhu Yuanzhang gave an order with a blushing face, "Come on, behead Fei Ju all over the door." ”
"Your Majesty, Weichen has followed the emperor for decades, born and died, hoping that the emperor will be gracious, spare the life of his grandson, and leave a pulse of incense for the Fei family. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a long time and said: "For your sake of going to the soup for Daming, you will save him from death." ”
When Fei Ju heard this, he was so excited that he burst into tears, and he couldn't stop kowtowing: "Thank you, Lord Longen!"
But Fei Ju was happy too early, his grandson was beheaded in the end, not that Zhu Yuanzhang was not trustworthy, it was this child who said a word and committed the Tianwei of Emperor Hongwu.
Lu Xun once said that once a slave becomes a slave, it is even more excessive than the master, why is this not the case with Zhu Yuanzhang.
In his early years, Emperor Zhu was originally the most miserable grassroots, destitute, and used to beg along the streets. His parents died, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't even have a cemetery to bury them, and he was about to throw his body into the wilderness, but a landlord gave him a piece of wasteland out of sympathy, and his parents were buried.
If you are poor, you will think about change, and it is precisely because Zhu Yuanzhang is too poor that he has the idea of uprising.
He threw himself into the torrent of the Red Turban Army uprising, charging into battle to overthrow the reactionary rule of the Yuan Dynasty.
Accidentally, Zhu Yuanzhang actually succeeded, eliminated competitors such as Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, overthrew the Yuan Dynasty regime, and ascended the throne as emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang came from such a humble background, shouldn't he be merciful after becoming the emperor? Because the more this is the case, the more he feels that a happy life is not easy to come by, the more he wants to live for generations, and the more he is afraid of losing his country. This time, I became suspicious, and I felt that the people around me seemed to have a backbone in the back of their heads, and they could murder themselves and seize the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, those brothers who once followed Zhu Yuanzhang, fought bloody battles for his birth and death, became unlucky ones one by one and were sent to the guillotine on various charges, most of whom were accused of "rebellion".
In fact, as long as you think about it with your brain, these charges are "trumped-up".
Of course, these generals have been murderous in their careers, and none of them are good at stubble. But it is not by chance that they finally chose to follow Zhu Yuanzhang, an important reason is that they are inferior to Lao Zhu in all aspects.
Let's ask, who doesn't want to be the boss, who doesn't want to be the king? However, Tie's facts have proved that he is only a general, and his comprehensive ability is not as good as that of Zhu Yuanzhang, so he can only let others be the leader. After understanding this truth, they could only follow Zhu Yuanzhang and fight for others with all their hearts, the other party ate meat and drank soup by themselves.
That being the case, how could they rebel?
Actually, it's not that I don't want to, but I don't dare. Rebellion needs the situation, needs opportunities, and the cost performance is particularly low, once the uprising fails, the glory and wealth are gone, and the net worth will be lost.
If you really want to provoke a rebellion, when Zhu Yuanzhang was not the emperor, being a Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng is the best opportunity, after the new emperor ascended the throne, the people's hearts were initially decided, all kinds of waste were prosperous, and the people wanted to live a more stable life, and the best opportunity to rebel was lost, not to be forced to a dead end, and no one would joke with their lives to rebel.
Therefore, most of the heroes who were killed were wronged, and in the final analysis, Zhu Yuanzhang came from a humble background and had no self-confidence. is also the founding emperor, and Zhao Kuangyin, a descendant of the general, is very confident, just a glass of wine to release military power, and did not take an excessive way to stage the drama of "rabbit dead dog cooking".
Anyway, when they met a boss like Zhu Yuanzhang, they were unlucky.
So, how many heroes did Zhu Yuanzhang kill?
According to historical records, there were 34 influential founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty, and 30 of them had their heads cut off. Among them, Li Shanchang, who was retired when he was killed, was over the age of old, and he was not spared and was beheaded and exterminated.
Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of Li Shanchang was actually a drunkard, not alcohol, and hoped that this case would achieve the goal of eliminating "hidden dangers", implicate more people, and find excuses for killing.
Fei Ju, mentioned at the beginning of the article, is a victim of Li Shanchang's case.
Fei Ju is a native of Wuhe, Anhui Province, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, his family is poor, and he also belongs to the bottom of society. Although Fei Ju is not well fed and clothed, he has a good body, eight feet tall, a tiger's back, and great strength, and he is born to be a general. The fortune teller told Fei's father: "This child is not simple, he is a pillar of the country." The father was convinced when he heard this, so he let his son follow the famous master to Xi martial arts and learn the eighteen martial arts.
On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang asked for food on the street and was ridiculed by the evil youth.
"Shout grandpa, what I have in my hand is yours. "The evil boy was holding a piece of pancake, and there was a piece of meat in it, and the smell was attractive. Zhu Yuanzhang listened to the smoke and glared angrily at the evil youth, but he was a foreigner, so he could only swallow his anger.
At this moment, a young man stepped forward, pointed at the evil young man and said, "Where did you come from, bastard, talking nonsense here, eat me with a punch!" After speaking, an old fist came down, and the evil young man cried and called his mother, and slipped away with his tail between his legs.
This young man who has seen uneven roads is Fei Ju.
As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the young man was extraordinary, he became a good friend with him.
After Zhu Yuanzhang and Guo Zixing rebelled, they learned an important piece of news: there was a militia team in Zhangjiabao, Dingyuan, Anhui Province, and they didn't have a good leader, so they were so miserable that they couldn't even eat.
After Guo Zixing found out, he had the idea of sending someone to recruit them, but there was no suitable candidate.
Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed when he heard about it, at this time, he had just chased Guo Zixing's adopted daughter (later Queen Ma) into his hands, and he had no prestige in the rebel army, and he urgently needed to make meritorious contributions to prove himself. So Zhu Yuanzhang came to the tent and said to Guo Zixing: "Father-in-law, let me go!"
When Guo Zixing heard this, he immediately agreed.
Zhu Yuanzhang has no martial arts, and he dared to go completely because he had his younger brother Fei Ju to give him courage. With Fei Ju's assistance, they went to the Baogong River, suppressed the army, and collected more than 3,000 people.
After this incident, Guo Zixing paid more attention to Zhu Yuanzhang. Later, Fei Ju made persistent efforts and came forward to incorporate an armed force in Huobi Mountain.
In fact, compared to Fei Ju's later contributions, this is not worth mentioning.
After that, under the leadership of Zhu Yuanzhang, Fei Ju seized Lingbi, attacked Si, Chu, Pingjiangdong, fought Changxing, passed the pass and cut the generals, and was invincible. Let Fei Ju assist Geng Bingwen and serve as the marshal. It was also with the assistance of Fei Ju that Zhu Yuanzhang defeated his rival Zhang Shicheng and removed the biggest obstacle on the road to becoming emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang also treated Fei Ju a lot, and after three years in Hongwu, he was named the Marquis of Pingliang, and there were 1,500 stones per year. Fei Ju was encouraged to make new contributions. In the fourth year of Hongwu, there was a rebellion in Yunnan, Fei Ju followed Fu Youde to go, and after a series of hard battles, captured the rebel leader.
After Yunnan was pacified, Fei Ju did not stop and seized Dali in one go, stabilizing the situation in the southwest. Soon after the withdrawal of the Ming Dynasty government troops, the ethnic minorities rebelled again, and Fei Ju took the lead and went out again, finally pacifying the "barbarians".
Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and let Fei Ju serve as the head of the local administration. In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, Fei Ju sent troops to quell the rebellion in Guangdong. At this time, Fei Ju simply became Zhu Yuanzhang's firefighter, and wherever there was danger, he would appear there.
However, as the situation gradually stabilized, Fei Ju had become redundant for Daming, and it was time for the bird to hide it. In the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Fei Ju, who served as a governor in Yunnan, suddenly received a holy decree from Zhu Yuanzhang, saying, "I miss you."
Fei Ju also had feelings for Emperor Zhu, and after seeing the holy decree, he didn't think much about it and left to return to Beijing. Who knew that as soon as he returned to the capital, he was controlled, and the five flowers were tied up.
As he struggled, he asked, "Why did you arrest me?"
"You are plotting rebellion. The chief of Dali Temple replied coldly.
"You are framed, I want to see the emperor, he is a wise old man. ”
"Don't be sentimental, without the emperor's decree, who would dare to arrest you?"
"I have a merit to the Ming Dynasty, you can't do this to me. ”
"Hmph, in terms of merit, Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang are not more meritorious than you? The chief of Dali Temple sneered.
When Fei Ju heard this, he woke up like a dream, he forgot that after the founding emperors of the previous dynasties laid down the country, such an operation belonged to the basic exercises, and it was normal to do so. Most of those emperors have the same virtue, and they can only share weal and woe, not happiness. It's not that he doesn't understand history, but he can't resist the temptation, and he can't retreat as quickly as Fan Li.
Now, the head is about to fall to the ground, who can blame it? Fei Ju hung his head weakly, completely desperate.
But the day before the execution, perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang remembered his old feelings and appeared in the prison, which rekindled hope in Fei Ju's heart.
This led to the scene at the beginning of the article, Zhu Yuanzhang was extrajudicial and decided to let go of Fei Ju's grandson, 10-year-old Fei Xing, and renew the incense for the Fei family.
At this time, his subordinates reported and said a sentence in Zhu Yuanzhang's ear: "That kid Fei Xing said 8 words when we were raiding our house." ”
"Which eight words?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked curiously,
"Under the nest, there are no eggs?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his face was gloomy, and his murderous intent rose again: This child can say this at a young age, and when he grows up, he will be able to repay it? It seems that I can't have the kindness of a woman, otherwise, raising a tiger will be a disaster, and the future will be endless. followed Zhu Yuanzhang to make a holy decree, and the Fei family did not leave any of them, and all of them were killed!
The fate of most villains, who died of talking too much, also unfortunately fell on 10-year-old Fei Xing.
Reference: "History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Fei Ju"