As we all know, often after a founding emperor ascends the throne, he will kill the great heroes who have assisted him, for no other reason than to fear that they will be highly successful and overthrow themselves as emperors in the future.
Or they are afraid that after their own death, their children and grandchildren will not be able to suppress these great heroes and let themselves work hard to fight the country and mountains change masters. Zhu Yuanzhang was the most powerful emperor among these emperors who killed meritorious heroes.
Originally, this was not to blame, after all, most of the newly appointed founding emperors of previous dynasties were like this, but Zhu Yuanzhang did things too far. As a result, it caused himself a lot of trouble, and he was still spurned by everyone thousands of years later.
The hero that Zhu Yuanzhang should not have killed the most was actually Xu Da. Xu Da was Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood friend, and the two grew up together. Originally, this kind of friendship was different from the feelings between other monarchs and courtiers in adulthood. Not to mention that Xu Da was not a mediocre person, he was one of the most outstanding military geniuses of the Ming Dynasty.
Following Zhu Yuanzhang, from the time when Zhu Yuanzhang was a small centurion or the like, he followed him, and always accompanied him to the southern expedition to the northern war, born into death, and was Zhu Yuanzhang's right and left arm to lay the world.
Even regardless of friendship, only merit and loyalty, Xu Da was also the first choice for people that Zhu Yuanzhang could not kill. Unfortunately, in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang still killed Xu Da for various reasons.
The trigger for Xu Da's death was Lady Xu Da, who had a flamboyant personality, believing that her husband had worked hard and had a good relationship with Empress Ma, so she spoke ill of Empress Ma, and after Zhu Yuanzhang knew about it, she executed her.
After his wife's death, Xu Da did not have any resentment towards Zhu Yuanzhang because of his wife's faults, coupled with the disparity between him and Zhu Yuanzhang. However, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that Xu Da was indifferent to the death of his wife, thinking that Xu Da's reaction must be catty.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang tried Xu Da many times, and Xu Da was worried all the time and fell ill. Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that Xu Da was pretending to be ill, so he suddenly broke into Xu Da's room, and when he saw that Xu Da was really seriously ill, he comforted him a few words.
When Xu Da's health slowly improved, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Xu Da could not eat goose meat because of this disease, so he rewarded Xu Da goose meat. After Xu Da saw the goose meat, he knew very well in his heart that Zhu Yuanzhang could not keep himself. So he could only tearfully eat the goose meat given by the emperor, and then arrange his own posthumous affairs, and a generation of famous generals fell because of this.
Xu Da was so loyal to Zhu Yuanzhang, and his hard work was so high that he was forcibly killed by Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang's life, this stain can not be washed away.
Do you think it is appropriate for Zhu Yuanzhang to do this?