In the seventh year of Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty (1374), a major case occurred in the famous city of Suzhou in Jiangnan, and the governor of Suzhou, Wei Guan, gao qi, and others were executed by the ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was an extremely cruel waist beheading.
When Wei Guan arrived in Suzhou two years ago, he was a talented man and a doer, who changed the harsh wounds of his predecessor, the prefect Chen Ning, and won the trust of the people of Suzhou.
However, Wei Guan's move to rebuild suzhou mansion caused him to kill himself.
Suzhou Prefecture was the seat of the prefect of Suzhou, but at the end of the Yuan Dynasty it was the palace of Zhang Shicheng, the king of Wu, who fought with Zhu Yuanzhang for many years and was supported by the Jiangnan people, who was very annoyed by this.
When Wei Guan was rebuilding Suzhou Prefecture, according to the old custom, he invited Gao Qi to write the Shangliang Wen, and Gao Qi was also associated with the troublesome Suzhou Prefecture.
Gao Qi was a famous poet in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, who was known as Li Bai regeneration, and he also compared himself to "Xianqing"; although Zhang Shicheng's ruling ability was average, he attached more importance to the literati, and Gao Qi also received good treatment from Zhang Shicheng.
After Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed Zhang Shicheng, Gao Qi experienced war and the death of his relatives, and hid outside the city to live in seclusion; it was not until Zhu Yuanzhang established Daming and recruited the people under the heavens to revise the "History of the Yuan", and Gao Qi went out of the mountains again.
Zhu Yuanzhang's great deeds made Gao Qi naturally have a sense of reverence for him, and once called Zhu Yuanzhang a "saint" and "a true dragon" in his poems, which was also a sincere support for the new heavenly son.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang was born at the bottom, and his desire for power and wealth was particularly strong, resulting in very strict requirements for his subordinates, often torturing and even directly killing, so that many officials at that time had to prepare for their wives and children every time they entered the dynasty.
Gao Qi was also aware of this abnormal atmosphere, and he was once again dead to his career, and after the completion of the Yuan Shi in the third year of hongwu (1370) of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang personally summoned Gao Qi and granted him the high position of right attendant of the household.
This was a vice-ministerial position and held a key position, but Zhu Yuanzhang resolutely resigned from gao qi for this beautiful difference, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not embarrass him, asking Yousi to "give back the platinum" to Gao Qi.
The writer Huang Bo, in the book "The Most Regrettable Piece of The Country: Zhu Yuanzhang in Traditional Political Culture", believes that Zhu Yuanzhang started to kill Gao at this moment, because in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, if a literati like Gao Qi did not cooperate with the imperial court, there would only be a dead end.
Of course, there are other triggers for Gao Qi's death.
Gao Qi's "Shangliang Wen" written for Wei Guan's reconstruction of Suzhou Fu has been lost, but according to sporadic records, there are four characters of "Dragon Pan Tiger", the dragon was the symbol of the emperor in ancient times, and the tiger was not a small Suzhou Mansion that could bear it; especially in Suzhou Prefecture, where Zhang Shicheng, the former King of Wu, had stayed, this word could only be used on Zhang Shicheng, which was absolutely intolerable to Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was also a saying that Gao Qi was caused by writing poems satirizing Zhu Yuanzhang, and he once wrote in the poem "Palace Girl Map" that "who is forbidden to come in the palace at night".
We all know that there was only the emperor in the palace, and it was Zhu Yuanzhang who was a real man at that time, and Gao Qi said that there would be someone in the palace in the middle of the night, which was very direct.
The History of Ming, which was revised by the Qing Dynasty, and Qian Qianyi, a famous scholar in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, all believed that Zhu Yuanzhang might have killed Gao Qi because Zhu Yuanzhang had indeed killed many people.
But if we analyze it carefully, we will find that what Zhu Yuanzhang cares about, I am afraid that it is really not such a sentence or two, the root lies in Gao Qi's non-cooperation in that year, this refusal makes Zhu Yuanzhang very unhappy, coupled with the fact that Gao Qi, who is idle among the residents, writes some poems that look disrespectful from time to time, and it is natural to be caught with the handle to vent his anger.
Zhu Yuanzhang is a highly controversial and legendary emperor, if you want to make a not very comprehensive, but more in-depth understanding of him, "The Most Regrettable Piece of The Country: Zhu Yuanzhang in Traditional Political Culture" is worth reading carefully.