There is such an emperor, born into poverty, from a beggar all the way to the emperor. He was sensible and diligent in his administration, but he killed the founding heroes.
There is such an emperor who cares about the people and severely punishes corrupt officials, and the scale of anti-corruption is the largest in history.
Do you know how he went from being a beggar to an emperor? Is it capable? Or do you guys help each other?
Do you know how he, who came from the grassroots, played with the power of the DPRK between the palms of his hands?
Did the death of the founding hero Liu Bowen have anything to do with him?
Was the Great General Blue Jade genuinely plotting rebellion, or was someone deliberately framed? What secrets are hidden behind absurd evidence?
With mixed reputations, is he a tyrant or a mingjun?
Today, let us go back to history and start with the long-sealed secrets about Zhu Yuanzhang.
Ming Taizu, Zhu Yuanzhang, was born into a poor peasant family in Fengyang, Anhui. Zi Guorui, because he was born on the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth lunar month, was originally named Zhu Zhongba. The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the era name was "Hongwu". His father, Zhu Wusi, was an authentic peasant who lived by renting the land of the landlord, and his life was very difficult and difficult. When Zhu Yuanzhang was born, he had three older brothers and two older sisters. This makes it even worse for already impoverished families. Often without enough to eat, officials at the end of the Yuan Dynasty were very vicious in squeezing the people, the taxes were too heavy, and they raided their homes to grab grain without money to pay taxes, coupled with successive years of famine, which dealt a heavy blow to this dilapidated family, and in just a few years, Zhu Yuanzhang's third sister-in-law and nephew starved to death one after another, and soon the eldest sister and eldest brother-in-law's family all died. In the fourth year of Zhizheng (1344 AD), droughts and insect plagues that had not been encountered in a hundred years followed, and the crops that had been reduced by drought were eaten by locusts. Then there was a plague, and Zhu Yuanzhang's family was destroyed. First Zhu Yuanzhang's father died of the plague, then the eldest brother Zhu Zhongsi and his son also died of the plague, and a few days later, Zhu Yuanzhang's 59-year-old mother also died of illness.
After Zhu Yuanzhang and his second brother buried their parents and eldest brother, they also fell into a desperate situation, the eldest sister-in-law took her son back to her mother's house, she and the second brother stayed up for several months and were cornered, the second brother went out to escape, Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk at Huangjue Temple.
At that time, the monk's life was relatively better, the temple had self-reserved land, grain self-sufficiency, and from time to time there was the donor's incense money, Zhu Yuanzhang was a monk in the temple, but also hard work, carrying water to plant land, washing clothes and cooking, just like doing long work in the landlord's home, because he could have food to eat, Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied. However, year after year, the Huangjue Temple was also affected, and the abbot took a look at it and simply let the monks go out to make friends, in fact, they wanted food. Family after family knocked on the door, nodding their heads, and there was almost no dignity to speak of. It was also this extraordinary experience that laid a strong psychological foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang and laid the first foundation for his later great achievements.
The darkness and injustice under the Mongol rule, the corrupt officials of the Manchu society, the officials' actions and the wandering of the people caused by the unhappiness of the people, and the displacement were like a sharp sword deeply inserted into Zhu Yuanzhang's heart. In 1353, Zhu Yuanzhang was 25 years old, and one day he received a letter from his friend Tang He, which said: I have now defected to the Red Turban Army led by Guo Zixing in Haozhou and rebelled against the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang read the letter and secretly burned it. Originally, things would have turned into ashes like this letter, Zhu Zhongba is still Zhu Zhongba, and there will be no later Zhu Yuanzhang in history. However, a brother-in-law told Zhu Yuanzhang that he had been reported to have secretly dealings with the rebel army, and that the officers and soldiers would soon bring people to arrest him. This forced Zhu Yuanzhang to Liangshan alive, and he fled to Haozhou overnight, and at this time Haozhou was already besieged by the Yuan army, zhu Yuanzhang cut a path into the city, but was unexpectedly arrested by the rebel army defending the city as a traitor. Guo Zixing ordered Zhu Yuanzhang to be dragged out and cut down, he thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely kneel down and beg for forgiveness at this time, but Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said to Guo Zixing, "It was Tang He who let me come", Guo Zixing looked at this person surprisingly calm and calm, and it was Recommended by Tang He, so he made him his own guard.
In the course of his struggle against the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang showed superior leadership, detailed and well-planned battle plans, and was very strategically strategic. With The help of Tang He along the way, his status gradually improved to become an officer. The booty and gold and silver jewelry captured in each battle were never privately hidden by Zhu Yuanzhang, and all were dedicated to Marshal Guo Zixing. Guo Zixing rewarded Zhu Yuanzhang with treasures and silver, and Zhu Yuanzhang also distributed them to his soldiers, a move that won the hearts of the people and made Zhu Yuanzhang obey in the center of the soldiers' hearts. In the process of the uprising, Zhu Yuanzhang found that Guo Zixing was narrow-minded and short-sighted. He constantly co-opted and cultivated Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Li Wenzhong, Tang He, Liu Bowen and others to destroy Chen Youyu, defeat Zhang Shicheng, and annihilate Fang Guozhen. In July 1363, the Battle of Poyang Lake officially began, and Zhu Yuanzhang led his troops to defeat Chen Youyi in one fell swoop, a historically famous water war that can be equated with the Battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms period. After eliminating Chen Youyu, the largest separatist force in the south, Zhu Yuanzhang called himself "King Wu", and on the grounds that he was willing to accept the leadership of King Xiaoming, he took King Xiaoming to Chuzhou and drowned Him as he crossed the river by boat. In 1367, Zhang Shicheng's separatist forces were also completely destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he ordered Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to lead troops to the Northern Expedition and occupy Shandong. In 1368, Zhu Zhongba changed his name to Zhu Yuanzhang, taking the meaning of destroying the Yuan Dynasty, the word Guorui, which means national auspicious Rui. The Yuan Dynasty, which ruled China for 97 years, was overthrown and the Ming Dynasty officially began.
It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang, who was called emperor, was a good commander in the eyes of his subordinates, a good brother in the hearts of his friends, he fought righteously and neglected wealth, re-trusted righteousness, and his extraordinary experience and extraordinary counterattack road made the world clap their hands and praise. However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who claimed to be the empress, dreamed of establishing a world pattern, and he divided more than 20 children across the country and gave them military power, but the once poor birth and the encounters of his youth made the good emperor extremely inferior, sensitive and anxious, and also suffered from a series of psychological diseases such as persecution paranoia. He was very worried that these heroes would seize their own country and affect his authority and rule. A brutal massacre ensued, and Zhu Yuanzhang slaughtered more than 40,000 heroes in peacetime. He first set up a bureau to kill the Ming dynasty general Lan Yu in the name of rebellion. Lan Yu, a famous military general of the Ming Dynasty, followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world and guard the frontier, and was also a generation of famous generals in history, which made great contributions to the stability of the Ming Dynasty.
Blue jade is a military general, the personality is flying, but in terms of war is almost a victorious general, Zhu Yuanzhang initially appreciated blue jade, praised blue jade at the same time gave blue jade a lot of gold and silver jewelry, in the eyes of the minister, blue jade is Zhu Yuanzhang's proud love general, it is also such a situation, blue jade became pampered and proud to do some things that made Zhu Yuanzhang less satisfied, in order to take care of the overall situation, Zhu Yuanzhang did not say anything. However, the next three events completely changed the fate of Sapphire.
Occupy farmland and drive the imperial history.
When Lan Yu was fighting, he intentionally or unintentionally expropriated the farmland of the people, and Yu Shi was ordered to investigate the matter, and the grumpy Lan Yu drove Yu Shi away indiscriminately, which made Zhu Yuanzhang feel that Lan Yu did not take himself seriously.
Break the gates and destroy the walls.
When Blue Jade was fighting the Yuan Army, once returned in the middle of the night, XifengGuan had already closed the city gate, and the official guarding the door opened the door a little slower, which made Blue Jade impatient, and he actually let his men destroy the city gate and drive straight in.
Concubine Zhan Yuan, acting recklessly.
After expelling the Yuan Emperor, Blue Jade forcibly took possession of the Yuan Concubine, but the fierce Yuan Concubine hanged herself. Although Yuan Fei was a prisoner, after all, she was an imperial concubine, and he forcibly possessed zhu Yuanzhang without zhu Yuanzhang's consent and hanged himself, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry. In addition, Blue Jade acted arbitrarily in the military, promoting and dismissing officers at will.
In 1393, an official of the Jinyi Wei dynasty accused Blue Jade of rebellion, and after Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he sent someone to take Down Blue Jade, put him in a dungeon and tortured him, and executed the next day. It was also this case that implicated more than 15,000 innocent people. However, many doubts in this case deserve the world's consideration.
Zero confessions
In order to warn the people of the world, Zhu Yuanzhang compiled a copy of the "Record of The Rebels", but the main criminal, Lan Yu, did not confess under the severe torture of Jinyiwei. It can be seen that there are other hidden circumstances in this case.
It is unreasonable to rebel in time and space.
History records that Blue Jade was planning a rebellion on the road from Chengdu to Nanjing, this road is about 3500 kilometers, it only took 17 days to catch the road, and it took more than 200 kilometers to catch up every day, and at the same time to plan rebellion, which obviously does not conform to the style of Blue Jade. The timing of the rebellion is also uncertain, and many unknowns and unstable factors are not a careful plan at all.
The status of the candidates for rebellion is too low
History records that the same party that Sapphire chose to rebel with are all ordinary people with extremely low status, and these people will not have any positive help for rebellion, and it is obviously unreasonable for Blue Jade, who is a general, to tell them such a big thing as rebellion.
Seeing this, you should have your own answer in front of the screen, yes, this is an unjust case created by Zhu Yuanzhang, the purpose is to get rid of the blue jade, stabilize his country and regime.
If you look at it in the long run, the Blue Jade case still has a little bit of truth. Then Liu Bowen's death completely exposed Zhu Yuanzhang's cruelty and ruthlessness to posterity.
Liu Bowen was a politician and writer in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and the founding father of the Ming Dynasty. This man is proficient in astronomy, the art of war, the I Ching, and the Qi men. Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to this person, and every time he makes an important decision, he will listen to Liu Bowen's opinions, and Liu Bowen once told Zhu Yuanzhang that Hu Weiyong could not be reused, and this word reached Hu Weiyong's ears, which made Hu Weiyong always hold a grudge in his heart. Hu Weiyong co-opted Li Shanchang to blame Liu Bowen for the crime of not being raining in the capital, and wrote to Zhu Yuanzhang to deal with Liu Bowen, who took the initiative to resign when he saw this and returned to his hometown to hide in the countryside.
Liu Bowen, who returned to his hometown, lived a reclusive life, and his ears did not hear anything outside the window. Despite his caution, Hu Weiyong still refused to let Liu Bowen go, and sent people to assassinate Liu Bowen many times, but Liu Bowen, who was proficient in Zhou Yi's gossip, had long foresaw Hu Weiyong's thoughts, and he hid from it again and again. However, once Liu Bowen got a relatively serious cold, Zhu Yuanzhang learned of this and sent Hu Weiyong to visit with the imperial doctor, and after eating the medicine prescribed by Hu Weiyong, Liu Bowen's health deteriorated day by day, and he died not long after.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew the friction between Liu Bo and Hu Weiyong, and deliberately let Hu Weiyong visit, the intention of which was to believe that you in front of the screen must have your own opinion.
Behind Zhu Yuanzhang's brutality, there is also a warm side. First of all, he understood the people very well, and he was well aware of their sufferings. During his reign, he launched six large-scale anti-corruption campaigns. A total of 150,000 corrupt officials were killed, which made the officials who had careful thoughts feel frightened. His mausoleum has been stolen for more than 600 years. The two decrees issued during his reign also showed his love for the people.
If the people see that good officials have been framed and are allowed to block the road and seek redress, the good officials that the people need are the good officials needed by the imperial court, and they can be reinstated.
If the people feel that any official is not a good official, they can send a complaint to the imperial court, and officials along the way must not stop it.
However, the ideal is very full, and the reality is very bone. These two policies also failed after Zhu Yuanzhang's death. After a long day of daily work and worry, Zhu Yuanzhang died in 1398 at the age of 70, which was considered a long life at that time. Well, about the story of Zhu Yuanzhang, today will talk about this, what are your different opinions, welcome to leave a message below the screen, I am Qi Tanjun, we will see you in the next issue!