Cao Wei had five sons and good generals, Shu Han had five tiger generals, and there were also six heavenly kings among the founding fathers of the early Ming Dynasty—these six heavenly kings were not singing, but kings with different surnames who were personally given by Zhu Yuanzhang, the great tomorrow's son.
Zhang Tingyu, the president of the History of Ming, also expressed admiration and envy: "The generals of Mingxing are headed by the six kings. Not alone, but also by its loyalty to the Lord. Zhongshan has a heavy and scheming attitude, and his merits are not broken, and he has never been able to surpass the ancient fame. Kaiping destroyed the front, and the direction of Bike, Zhiyong was not under the middle of the mountain. Pro-Mo is like Qiyang, the old is like Dong'ou, and Ninghe and Qianning are all sent by the heart of the young. Khan Ma Xuanlao, pure diligence, often Bingyao, Xun is not ashamed. ”
Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, Chang Yuchun, the king of Kaiping, Li Wenzhong, the king of Qiyang, Tang He, the king of Dong'ou, Deng Yu, the king of Ninghe, and Mu Ying, the king of Qianning, these are the six heavenly kings of Zhu Yuanzhang, and from their endings, it seems that Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards the heroes can also be seen - in addition to the Han Dynasty, no dynasty has so many founding kings.
Liu Bang is why to clean up the king with different surnames, the "History" is very clear: most of them are not Liu Bang's real sense of the courtiers, saying that they are the entrepreneurial partners of the Han Group seems more appropriate, Liu Bang cut off the king of the different surnames, in fact, is a continuation of the struggle for hegemony among the princes - Liu Bang does not kill them, they will kill Liu Bang, and it is better to honor the emperor than to be the emperor himself.
Unlike the semi-partnership relationship between Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty and the king with a different surname, the relationship between Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and the Six Heavenly Kings was an out-and-out monarch.
In fact, if we look closely at the "History of Ming" repaired by the Qing Dynasty, we will find that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we have always faced two serious problems: one is the party struggle between the Huaixi faction headed by Li Shanchang and the Zhejiang Eastern clique headed by Liu Bowen; the other is that the founding fathers of the country quickly became corrupt and degenerate, and many people seized the fields and houses to bully men and women, becoming even more ferocious than the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty they overthrew.
This may be a historical cycle: after the oppressed groups have achieved the Jiangshan Society, the good ones do not learn the bad ones, and soon they live up to the way they hate them—not necessarily hate, but envy and envy, and many people hate the privileged class, mainly because they hate themselves for not being one of them.
In order to show that its entry into the Central Plains was the destiny of heaven, the Qing Dynasty naturally wanted to smear the heroes that Zhu Yuanzhang had killed, so the number of heroes that Zhu Yuanzhang killed was deliberately exaggerated, but why they killed, it was resolutely unwilling to write clearly, because in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty monarchs, the meritorious people were blessed with righteousness, corruption and corruption were commonplace, and the "Great Qing Law" only applied to the common people, unless they committed the crime of rebellion, the high-ranking officials and nobles could not be killed.
Zhu Yuanzhang killed which princes, and leave him alone, let's only talk about these six great generals who were crowned kings today -- the youngest of them was also a duke before they died.
Zhu Yuanzhang drove the first six heavenly kings, and the first in line was of course Xu Da Xu Tiande: "Xu Da, the word Tiande, Hao Ren, Shiye Farmer." Da Shao has great ambitions, long height and cheeks, and is strong and courageous. ”
Xu Da was the first military general of the founding of the Ming Dynasty and the younger brother of Zhu Yuanzhang (Xu was four years younger than Zhu), but Zhu Yuanzhang often called him "Brother Xu": "Every spring rises, and the winter twilight is called back, which is normal." He also gave the seal of the general, gave Himmu a feast, feasted and drank, and was called a brother in cloth, and Da Yue was more and more prudent. ”
Xu Da never dared to think of himself as the "hero big brother", which was a hundred times more intelligent than the rising star Lan Yu and the famous Qing Dynasty general Nian Qianyao. The modest Xu Da followed Zhu Yuanzhang all his life, which was the real "brother of the righteous emperor and the emperor". In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, Xu Daxue died, and Zhu Yuanzhang was in pain: "The emperor has quit the dynasty and is mourning and mourning. He was posthumously awarded the title of King of Zhongshan, Emperor Wuning, and was given the title of King of the Third Dynasty. The Yin of The Funeral Bell Mountain, the Imperial Shinto Inscription. Worthy of the Taimiao Temple, portrait of the Hero Temple, the first place. ”
"Zhu Yuanzhang gave the goose to kill Xu Da", that is the novelist's saying, not worth refuting, because the storyteller thinks that the emperor is like the common people, the best thing to eat is pork stew noodles.
If Xu Da had been assassinated by Zhu Yuanzhang, the historians of the Qing Dynasty would not have spared such a good fierce material, but they had to admit that the relationship between Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da was indeed ferromagnetic: "Ordered to come out, successful and spinning, not reckless, women have nothing to love, treasures are not taken, Zhongzheng has no flaws, the sun and the moon are clear, and the great general is only one." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang gave the humble and benevolent Xu Da supreme glory, and although Chang Yuchun was a little cruel, Zhu Yuanzhang did not treat him like this, but only bitterly advised him before going out on the expedition: "You don't have to move to slaughter the city in the future, you have killed all the people, we have no one else, so what is the use?" ”
Chang Yuchun was two years older than Xu Da and two years younger than Zhu Yuanzhang, and he still listened to the words of the elder brother, and after conquering Ganzhou, he did not slaughter the city, and Zhu Yuanzhang was happy: "Taizu is very happy, and he gives praise to the book." ”
Chang encountered the triumph of the Northern Expedition in Spring, with 10,000 prisoners, 10,000 large carts, 3,000 horses, 50,000 cattle and countless other children's treasures ready to be dedicated to Zhu Yuanzhang, but he did not expect to die of an acute illness in Liuhechuan, and Zhu Yuanzhang was also heartbroken: "Taizu heard about it, and mourned greatly." Mourned to Longjiang, personally out of the dian, gifted Yiyun Tuicheng Xuande Jingyuan meritorious servant, Kaifu Yi Tongsan division, Shangzhu Guo, Taibao, Zhongshu Right Chancellor, posthumously crowned Kaiping King, Yu Zhongwu. Worthy of the Taimiao Temple, portrait of the Hero Temple, the second place. ”
Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, and the king of Kaiping often met with Chunsheng rong and died, and the treatment of the other "four heavenly kings" was not bad, Li Wenzhong died, and Zhu Yuanzhang, in his heartache, suspected that someone had been poisoned, and carried out a severe investigation: "The emperor personally came to see it, so that Hou Huazhong of Huai'an took care of medicine." He died in March next year, at the age of forty-six. The emperor suspected poisoning, degraded the lord, and let his family belong to Jianchangwei, and all the doctors and wives were beheaded. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang stripped Marquis Huazhong of Huai'an and beheaded the doctor's entire family, but this was not to kill people and kill his mouth—if he had instructed people to poison Li Wenzhong, Huazhong would not have survived at all.
In the tenth year of Hongwu, Deng Yu died of illness in Shouchun and was posthumously honored as the King of Ninghe; in the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, Tang He died of illness at home and was posthumously crowned king of Dong'ou. The author of a certain best-selling book does not know whether he has crossed over, but actually read the subtext of Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes when he and Tang he said goodbye: "One begs for life, and one restrains the killing heart."
The author does not know whether the man hid behind the curtain and used mind reading to live in the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, but the Qing people revised the "History of Ming", but the record of that meeting was completely different: "Zhao Yi an an car into the pilgrimage, hand rubbing Mozhi, and the old and the difficult things of the military revival are well known." And can't be right, just the head of the audit. The emperor was drooling, and the generous gift of gold was used for burial expenses. ”
This is the normal human feelings between two normal old men and old partners, but somehow this affectionate reminiscence is full of swords and swords in the eyes of some people - readers Zhu Jun imagine, who will kill the elder brother who is too sick to speak (Tang He is two years older than Zhu Yuanzhang)?
The princes who were posthumously honored by the first five dukes all died normally, and the sixth Heavenly King, Mu Ying, the adopted son of Zhu Yuanzhang, cried himself to death: "In June of the twenty-fifth year, I heard the crown prince Xue, and wept extremely sadly. At the beginning, Empress Gao collapsed, and Ying cried until she vomited blood. To the feeling of illness, died in the town, at the age of forty-eight. The military and civilians cried in the alleys, and the distant yi were all drooling. He was buried as the King of Jingshi and posthumously awarded the title of King of Qianning. ”
If Zhu Yuanzhang was a mean and unkind person, how could Mu Ying have such a deep affection for the Zhu family?
Zhu Yuanzhang drove the first six heavenly kings, none of them were killed, which was related to their strict self-discipline, and Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, and Wang Guangyang all had a way to take death, especially Zhu Liangzu and Lan Yu, who were arrogant and arrogant, and whoever became emperor could be killed and could not be left behind.
Someone once made a statistic: There were one hundred and four princes in the early Ming Dynasty, and only twenty-six were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, of which sixteen died in the "Hu and Lan case", as for Zhu Yuanzhang killing 150,000 officials, it is even more unreliable -- the establishment of officials in the early Ming Dynasty was only 30,000, and to reach this number, did Zhu Yuanzhang not want to cut five leeks?