In 755, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the general An Lushan brazenly raised his butcher's knife to the Tang Empire, and the panicked Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled to Sichuan with his favorite concubine Yang Yuhuan.
Although the Tang Empire later quelled the rebellion, the three towns of Heshuo, which initially rebelled against the Tang, have always been separated from the central government, forming a region independent of the central government.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, this area was sold to the Liao state by the biggest traitor Shi Jingyao, and since then, Beijing has become the "southern" capital of the Liao, and the entire Central Plains region has no danger to defend, which has completely changed the situation of confrontation between the north and the south.
During the period when the Liao and the Northern Song Dynasty were opposed, the Northern Song Dynasty from Song Taizu to the Song Shenzong, how many times tried to recover this place, several times sent troops, but the results were all unsuccessful, and they could not be unified.
Until the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the unification of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people in the Central Plains for Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, it simply became a distant memory, became a thing in books.
The dream-like longing for the Youyun region was finally realized in the hands of Xu Da, and in November of the twenty-seventh year of Zhengzheng (1367), Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Xu Da as the general of the conquest and Chang Yuchun as the deputy general, leading a 250,000-strong army to carry out the Northern Expedition.
On August 2 of the first year of Hongwu (1368), Xu Da besieged the Capital of Yuan, and the Yuan Shun Emperor at this time had already fled, and from this moment on, the Youyun region, which had been lost for hundreds of years, once again returned to the embrace of the Central Plains regime, and history will always remember the name of Xu Da, the first general of the Ming Dynasty.
Xu Da is Zhu Yuanzhang's small hair, it is also strange to say, there are many similarities between Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bang, and the most incredible similarity is that the two of them are super powerful.
Many people are dying of no talent, and Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang's partners in open crotch pants are super talents, maybe this is the mandate of heaven, Xu Da's destiny is to create their own history.
Xu Da appeared as Zhu Yuanzhang's confidant from the beginning, and when Zhu Yuanzhang's wings grew stronger and richer, he slowly recruited talents, especially after obtaining Song Qian, Zhang Yi, Liu Ji, and Ye Chen, who were known as the four scholars of eastern Zhejiang at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had completely distinguished himself from other peasant rebel armies and became the most powerful contender in the world.
However, in this way, it turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang directly commanded the army, and it was very inappropriate for Zhu Yuanzhang to personally take command, because Zhu Yuanzhang still had more things to do, and there were still various aspects of the work to be handled, such as the system and the rules, regulations, and personnel, so Xu Da replaced Zhu Yuanzhang as the commander of the army.
Xu Da not only can fight, but also has a stable personality, and as a famous general, Chang Yuchun, the combat style is to rush forward desperately, and his personality is impatient, killing and falling at every turn.
Therefore, with such a stable commander as Xu Da sitting in the town, Zhu Yuanzhang marched south to the north, eastern and western, and after more than ten years, he finally unified the world, especially Yanyun's homeland once again returned to the embrace of the Central Plains regime.
General Patton once said that the best destination for a general is to die from the last bullet of the enemy, which is most appropriate to apply to the generals of the Hongwu years.
On July 7, the second year of Hongwu (1369), Chang Yuchun led his division from Kaiping to the south, traveled to Liuhechuan, suddenly fell ill, only forty years old, Zhu Yuanzhang heard the news, greatly shaken, a generation of famous generals suddenly fell, everyone was surprised.
Some people say that this is caused by changing the spring to kill and descend, purely the boring words of the later generations of sour and rotten Confucians, and Chang Yuchun's death may be a good thing for himself, because Zhu Yuanzhang, who was committed to learning from Liu Bang, also began to learn liu bang to cut off the heroes after the world was pacified.
Unlike Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang either did not do it or did it absolutely, and all those famous generals in the early Ming Dynasty were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, not only killing people, Zhu Yuanzhang was most criticized for being widely criticized, even with the family's relatives.
It seems that only Tang He was able to die well, and it was because Tang He gave up his military power early, and he was also a fellow of Zhu Yuanzhang, when he wrote a letter to zhu Yuanzhang to see the Red Turban Army, when Zhu Yuanzhang was still a big head soldier, Tang He was already the head of a thousand households, a lifetime of protection, and in the end, there was only Tang He.
In fact, there is Xu Da who has a good death, but in many notes and folklore, Xu Da was also killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, which is widely spread in the folk and is also in line with Zhu Yuanzhang's consistent style, the earliest from the "Long Xing Ci Ji":
Xu Da was sick and boiled, and the emperor gave him steamed geese, and the goose was most taboo for gangrene, and he ate it with runny nose and died.
That is to say, Xu Da got gangrene, that is, the sores that occurred under the local skin, in the ancient times when there was no anti-inflammatory drug, this kind of can also kill people, and according to traditional medical theory, burning geese is a hair object, people with sores can not eat hair, Xu Da looked at this goose, he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to kill himself.
This kind of folk rumor and wild history, Zhao Liejun believes that it is not credible, let's look at the death of another general, Lan Yu, we will know why this rumor is not credible.
In Chinese history, foreign relations have always been bad words, but there are exceptions, the two great generals in China, Wei Qing and Huo Goyi, are foreign relatives, Wei Qing is the brother-in-law of Emperor Wu of Han, Huo Qiyi is Wei Qing's nephew, proper foreign relations, but Wei Qing and Huo Goyi are recognized as the most powerful generals in Chinese history.
History is always strikingly similar, the second generation of famous generals of the Ming Dynasty, Blue Jade, just happens to be Chang Yuchun's brother-in-law, and Chang Yuchun died early, so in the army, Xu Da is very caring for Blue Jade, don't think that this is just ordinary brotherhood, Xu Da can defeat Mongolia, the strongest army on land, that vision is also very accurate, Blue Jade is by no means relying on nepotism to ascend to the throne, his wonderful even surpasses Chang Yuchun.
As mentioned earlier, Zhu Yuanzhang is very similar to Liu Bang, and it is strikingly similar, Liu Bang takes the world, and it is easy to defeat the external enemy (Qin Dynasty), mainly fighting with the internal enemy.
Interestingly, Zhu Yuanzhang's most arduous and dangerous time was not to attack the Yuan Dynasty, but to fight with those rebel armies at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the most important of which were Chen Youyi and Zhang Shicheng.
When Xu Da and Chang Yuchun led their troops all the way north, the Mongol emperor Yuan Shun Emperor had been scared away, and the strong Yuan capital was thus occupied by Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, and the Yuan Dynasty collapsed, and then their goal turned to internal unification, continuing the eastern expedition to the west and the southern conquest of the northern war.
The fleeing Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty took away the army and a set of men and horses, but also retained considerable strength, known in history as the Northern Yuan, and the Northern Yuan also became the biggest border problem in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and like the nomadic people in the past, they also came from time to time to harass the Ming Dynasty, and when they fought, they ran, and robbed and left, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very annoyed.
In the twenty-first year of Hongwu (1388), while he was still alive, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to completely destroy the Northern Yuan, and at this time Lan Yu finally ascended to the position of protagonist, before he was promoted by Xu Da, he fought bravely, but he was always said to be the second chang yu chun, this time he would use practical actions to prove that he would also become a generation of famous generals, and was a famous general with Xu Da Chang Yu Chun.
At this time, the Northern Yuan Emperor gave full play to the advantages of his cavalry, not to fight but to flee, this time he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang had moved a large army, so he kept running north, fishing for the sea, that is, Lake Baikal.
This time it was really far enough, I thought that the Ming army could not find here at all, but the Northern Yuan did not expect that the Ming army at this time was the most powerful army in the world, they crossed the vast desert and had been looking for the Northern Yuan army, their patience was very terrible, and this time, no one gave Blue Jade guidance, everything depended on himself.
In the most difficult time, many people thought of coming to the class to return to the dynasty, but in the end, Blue Jade chose to continue to move forward, this is the role of the commander on the battlefield, other people's opinions are everything, and the decision can only be made by himself, just at the moment when Blue Jade decides to continue to move forward, he has become a famous general for thousands of years.
In the end, the blue jade army found the location of the northern yuan's imperial court, and the Ming army that fell from the sky completely frightened the northern yuan, this time the yuan lord ran fast enough, but the others were not so lucky.
His second son, Di Baonu, concubines, and princesses, more than 3,000 officials and subordinates of Wu Wang Duo'er, DaiWang Dalima and Pingzhang, more than 77,000 men and women, fu edicts, gold and silver seals and other items, horses, camels, cattle, and sheep more than 150,000 heads, these are nothing, and most importantly, this battle captured the yuan jade seal.
Before they often ran, but no matter what, they would take the jade seal, but this time even the jade seal was lost, which not only meant the complete destruction of the Northern Yuan, but also meant that from then on they would not be worthy of sitting on an equal footing with the Ming Dynasty, they became thieves and Kou, before at least there was also the jade seal and the imperial court team, this time it was completely planted.
When the news reached Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed, and feng Lanyu removed the great troubles in the north for the Duke of Liangguo, and Blue Jade's prestige reached its peak, but the next thing was completely out of control.
According to the history books, after Blue Jade achieved such great achievements, it was a bit floating, and various things are not listed here, because there is no meaning, Blue Jade was killed for only one reason, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kill him, and the reasons could be found out at will.
One of them was that he bullied the Yuan Concubine, and as a result, the concubine was very strong and committed suicide, and as a result, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and directly turned the Liang GuoGong, who was originally preparing to be sealed, into the Duke of Liang.
Blue Jade did not look for death, he was a great soldier, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who found him and wanted him to die, Zhu Yuanzhang not only wanted to kill people, but also wanted to kill people and curse his heart, to make you stink, and to curse you, but everyone knew that you were a bad egg and deserved it.
In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393), Jinyiwei commanded Jiang Yong to report Lanyu's rebellion, and Jinyiwei was directly under Zhu Yuanzhang's department, and this way of denunciation was really direct.
Then Lan Yu went to prison, this way of trying cases, are a say b, b and say c, etc., can pull out a lot of people, as long as you are willing to pull, and finally identified as Blue Jade rebellion of the same party, Jingchuan Marquis Cao Zhen, He shou Marquis Zhang Yi, Marquis Zhu Shou of Dingyuan Marquis, Marquis Wang Bi of Dingyuan, Dong Zheng Bo He Rong, the official Shangshu Zhan Hui, Hubu Waiter Fu Youwen and so on.
These are only official positions to the title of knight, if you write them all, it is estimated that at least forty-five thousand words, because in this case, the blue jade was skinned and grassed, raided the family, exterminated the three tribes, and planted and introduced, from the Gonghou Bo to the civil and military officials, about fifteen thousand people were killed.
Fifteen thousand people, even if only the name is written, it must be more than forty thousand words, let alone add titles, and all of them are included in the "Record of The Contrarian", which is a typical murderous heart, and has been humiliated for generations.
Through the fate of Blue Jade, we look at Xu Da's ending, Zhu Yuanzhang kills people, never depends on how much you have done, whether you have a personal relationship with me, he kills people only to see if you threaten the rule of the old Zhu family.
Xu Da's ending, the "History of Ming" records as follows, after Xu Da's death, Zhu Yuanzhang personally went to the funeral to show his sorrow, listed him as the first hero of the founding of the country, posthumously named him the King of Zhongshan, the nickname "Wuning", and gave him the third prince. The Yin of The Funeral Bell Mountain, the Imperial Shinto Inscription.
This is the end of the good, Zhu Yuanzhang is a cruel person, he never had to pretend to do these things, he wants Xu Da to die, he can find a reason at will, don't believe it, you see when he killed Li Shanchang, the first hero of the early Ming Dynasty, he said that he was involved in the Hu Weiyong case, and when he killed Li Shanchang, the Hu Weiyong case had already happened for ten years.
If you want to kill you, there are many ways, and you also have to make a big show of it, so that your relatives and descendants are implicated, which is Zhu Yuanzhang's character.
But Xu Da, after he died, Zhu Yuanzhang gave him endless mourning, which can only show that Xu Da's death really has nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang never needs to kill secretly.
More importantly, taking ten thousand steps back, Xu Da was really killed by Zhu Yuanzhang with a roast goose, which is also called a good ending, because this is secret, and external propaganda is a disease and death, which is also a way of good death.
Because you are not convicted, you yourself include your relatives, and everyone is safe and sound, and there is no prison disaster, which is a proper end in ancient times, which attached great importance to family inheritance.
Coincidentally, Zhu Yuanzhang let Xu Da die well, but there was a lot of trouble left for Zhu Di, because Xu Da was Zhu Di's old man, and if Xu Da was convicted and Zhu Di became emperor, it would become a very headache to not rehabilitate the old man.
On the whole, Xu Da died of illness, not like folklore, Zhu Yuanzhang was indiscriminately killed, but he was a ruthless person who came over in plain sight, and he would never let you have the chance to turn over, he would not sneak xu Da to death, and give him and his family so much glory after death.
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