Zhu Yuanzhang planned to kill Li Shanchang. Li Shanchang pleaded: "The old minister is over seventy years old, what else can he do?" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "Sima Yi was also more than seventy years old when he rebelled. These words left Li Shanchang speechless, and his family of more than 70 was also executed.
So Li Shanchang's death, is it Sima Yi's fault? This is not necessarily, even if there is no Sima Yi, Li Shanchang will not be able to escape death, this is the so-called "If you want to add to his crime, why should there be no excuse?" ”
Without Sima Yi's rebellion, Zhu Yuanzhang would still find other reasons to kill Li Shanchang, but what did Li Shanchang do to cause Zhu Yuanzhang's murderous intentions?
Li Shanchang's ability is outstanding, and he has been with Zhu Yuanzhang for the longest time, Zhu Yuanzhang trusts him in every way, he is not deferential and humble to Zhu Yuanzhang like an ordinary courtier, and sometimes even inadvertently makes a contempt for Zhu Yuanzhang.
He was too arbitrary in appointing officials, squeezing out some influential figures, and in the late period, he was even more inseparable from Liu Bowen, and Zhu Yuanzhang, as the emperor, naturally paid attention to these trends and looked for opportunities to weaken Li Shanchang's power.
Hu Weiyong had made a lot of contributions to the newly founded Ming Dynasty, but he was the last person in Chinese history to serve as prime minister, and after he was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang for treason, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system.
Hu Weiyong's death alerted Zhu Yuanzhang, he suspected that Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong were related, but Li Shanchang was the founder of the country after all, so Zhu Yuanzhang still chose to believe it, but this incident also planted the seeds of doubt in his heart.
In order to leave a better court environment for his son, Zhu Yuanzhang began to liquidate some faulty heroes, and Li Shanchang was included in it.
In the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang was so retired that he made a big mistake, he borrowed 300 soldiers from Tang He to build houses, and it was this action that angered Zhu Yuanzhang, a retired courtier, can actually use soldiers, which has violated Zhu Yuanzhang's bottom line.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not directly look for Li Shanchang, but found his relative Ding Bin, under severe torture, he confessed a conversation between Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang, the general meaning is that Hu Weiyong asked Li Shanchang for his opinion, Li Shanchang said that he was old and dying, and when he died, they could do whatever they wanted, and they would put it on the shelf.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought that Li Shanchang said this, which was equivalent to having the intention of rebellion, and Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have grabbed Li Shanchang's handle and let him break it by himself.
So, Li Shanchang asked Zhu Yuanzhang before committing suicide: "The minister is 70 years old, what else can he do?" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang moved out of Sima Yi's rebellion, so that Li Shanchang had nothing to say, and in this way, Li Shanchang came to the end of his life.
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(Information source: Strait Shinkansen, "One Point Audio|Zhu Yuanzhang: Kill Li Shanchang, will Zhu Yuanzhang be safe?") (People's Information)
