<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > preface</h1>
Since ancient times, people in high positions have a common disease, that is, suspicion is very serious, and sometimes even their own sons can not believe. Tang Taizong has always been the image of a Ming Emperor in the minds of posterity, and unlike other founding emperors, Tang Taizong not only did not slaughter the heroes, but also did not suppress them, and even gave them military power to continue to make contributions to the Tang Dynasty. And like Liu Bang, the Ancestor of The Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, and the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, without exception, all opened their knives to the founding heroes, especially Zhu Yuanzhang, with the help of the four major cases of the early Ming Dynasty - the Hu Weiyong case, the Empty Seal Case, the Guo Heng Case, and the Blue Jade Case, the 34 founding heroes were basically rectified. But even so, it is still impossible to erase that Tang Taizong's throne was built on the corpses of his brother Li Jiancheng and his younger brother Li Yuanji.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > born reckless and defensive of everyone</h1>
The greater the power, the more people coveted the position, and the more suspicious the people in high positions, as was the case with the emperors of the various dynasties. The above-mentioned Zhu Yuanzhang is the most typical example, even if he has already secured the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang is still defensive about everyone around him, and will make an amazing act of slaughtering the founding heroes. This is largely related to the environment in which he grew up, taking Tang Taizong Li Shimin as an example, the reason why Li Shimin did not exterminate the heroes after usurping the throne Is that in addition to Li Shimin's extremely high personal charm and leadership ability, there is also an important reason that Li Shimin was originally a member of the imperial family.
Zhu Yuanzhang was different, born a commoner, he did not understand the deceit of the court, nor did he have any royal relatives, his throne was fought by brute force, and he who had few cronies around him would naturally be defensive of everyone around him. Zhu Yuanzhang said that there was also an incident that happened to the empress, which was enough to show that he was suspicious. Once, when he was reviewing the recital, a palace maid came to bring him porridge late at night, and not only did not get his appreciation, but was also cruelly beheaded.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > first ascended the throne, worked hard, and loved the people</h1>
After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne, he did many practical things for the people, first rewarding the reclamation of the land, to a large extent improving the current situation of insufficient grain in the country, and then building water conservancy to open the way for the reclamation of the land, reducing the tax burden, severely punishing corrupt officials, and improving the peasants' lives.
At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also drastically changed the imperial court's hundred officials system, the most important of which was the abolition of the Xiang system and Zhongshu Province, which occurred on the fifth day after the death of Hu Weiyong, the last minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the six departments were directly under the administration of the emperor. But at the same time, the move also made him one of the most diligent emperors in Chinese history, dealing with more than 200 pieces of music and more than 400 state affairs a day, and he hardly had a day off from the time he ascended the throne to his death.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > palace maid send porridge late at night to arouse suspicion</h1>
Late that night, everyone fell into a deep sleep, and everything was silent. However, the Fengxian Hall revealed a flickering light, and there was a case table in the hall, and both ends of the case were filled with the folds presented by the courtiers in the daytime, and Zhu Yuanzhang sat in front of the desk and wrote the word "read" in a note dipped in ink with a brush dipped in ink. The eunuch who was serving beside Zhu Yuanzhang did not know where to go at this moment, and the entire Fengxian Hall sat alone with Zhu Yuanzhang alone, at this time, a palace maid with a bowl of hot porridge in her hand and hired Tingting to walk in.
Zhu Yuanzhang finished reading a recital, this time just looked up to loosen his bones, and when he looked up, he saw the maid who was serving porridge in front of him - unlike other palace women, this palace girl was dressed more gorgeously, and seemed to have deliberately put on makeup, the eyes were eyes, and the nose was nose, and when she approached, a strong fragrance of fat powder drifted over, and Zhu Yuanzhang frowned. The palace maid smiled and placed the bowl of porridge in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, and then approached the fold spread out on the case at a speed that was difficult for others to detect, and seemed to say very respectfully: "This is a porridge specially boiled by the slave, which adds lilies, silver ear fungus and other things, which has the miraculous effect of purifying the heart and nourishing the lungs, and I hope that the emperor will use it slowly." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head slightly, saw that there was no one around, and suddenly loudly rebuked the palace maid in front of him, asking her to call the eunuch in. The palace maid was frightened, immediately knelt down, trotted out, and the eunuch who had been waiting outside the palace heard Zhu Yuanzhang's message and rushed in, and as soon as Zhu Yuanzhang saw him, he ordered him to immediately execute the palace maid who had just come to deliver the porridge, and take a silver needle to try the poison, and then let him try the poison of the bowl of porridge in front of him. After the eunuchs did it one by one, the silver needles did not turn black, and Zhu Yuanzhang let the eunuchs fill a small bowl to drink, and when they saw that the eunuchs did not react, they put their minds at ease.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > conclusion</h1>
Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious of this palace maid because he noticed two details, one was that since there was a palace maid who came in and waited outside the door without notice, which showed that the eunuch was likely to be bribed; second, the eunuch did not dare to disturb him at the important moment when he was approving the recital, but the palace maid in front of him walked in without any scruples. There is a reason why Zhu Yuanzhang can be emperor, but it is also because of his overly ordinary carefulness and vigilance that Zhu Yuanzhang spent the rest of his life with conspiracies and loneliness.