In fact, Xie Zaixing did not defect to Zhang Shicheng for no reason, and the reasons for his rebellion can be seen from the following points.

A chance encounter in Qinglou in the early years made Zhu Yuanzhang aware of Xie Zaixing's greed for ink, and in order to punish Xie Zaixing, he transferred Xie Zaixing to Zhuquan to guard the gate, and married Xie Zaixing's eldest daughter Xie Cuiying to Zhu Wenzheng.

Xie Zaixing was already dissatisfied at that time, but complaining was complaining, and he had not thought of being a traitor at that time.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang remembered that he was a veteran who followed him, and he had also made great contributions, and the two sides became in-laws, so he re-promoted him to be the guard general of Zhuquan, which is equivalent to the highest administrator of Zhuquan.

Xie Zaixing did his best to defend Zhuquan and made many meritorious contributions. When the enemy attacked, he always took the lead and fought bravely. In particular, Zhang Shicheng built a dam upstream in order to capture Zhuquan, and a flood would definitely flood his city. In order to protect the people of the city, Xie Zaixing took the risk to sneak into the enemy's range to dig the dam, and was later discovered by the enemy to pursue with all his might, and the soldiers who destroyed the dam suffered heavy casualties, and even he almost couldn't come back.

However, after the siege of Zhuquan was lifted, Zhu Yuanzhang vigorously praised Zhu Wenzhong and Zhu Wenzheng, and only hastily mentioned Xie Zaixing's name in the commendation letter

Xie Zaixing was very unconvinced, he thought that in the face of 100,000 enemy troops, he, the general defending the city, was the hardest, but Zhu Yuanzhang gave most of the credit to his two nephews, which was too biased.

And Zhu Wenzheng didn't have any respect when he saw him, his father-in-law, so he couldn't hold his face in front of the soldiers. Thinking that this son-in-law was not recognized by him at all, but was shoehorned by Zhu Yuanzhang, he was angry.

At this time, he still didn't think about betraying Zhu Yuanzhang.

Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to be drafted, he specially asked the relationship to get the portrait of his second daughter Xie Cui'e into the roster. Who would have thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would take it upon himself to give his second daughter to Xu Da without even saying hello.

Although Xu Da is Zhu Yuanzhang's confidant and general, the official is the prime minister, but Xu Da already has a wife, and he said when he accepted Xie Cui'e that he would not divorce his bad wife, so Xie Cui'e can only be regarded as a concubine.

Although Xu Da's wife died later and Xie Cui'e was corrected, Xie Zaixing didn't know what was going on at that time. He was immediately so angry that he scolded Zhu Yuanzhang for being domineering and domineering, and he didn't like his daughter, so why didn't he know him, and he didn't care if he agreed or not, he forced his daughter to marry off, and kept it over and over again.

These two marriages have made Xie Zaixing a laughing stock in the army, the eldest daughter married a boy who has no one in his eyes, and the second daughter can only be a concubine. Xie Zaixing was ashamed, stealing chickens and rice, and he was so angry that he lay on the bed for three days, and the resentment against Zhu Yuanzhang in his heart became deeper and deeper.

Li Menggeng's arrival became the last straw that broke the camel's back, prompting Xie Zaixing to really make up his mind to betray Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Zhu Yuanzhang took control of the Shadow Guard Organization, he not only continued to arrange people in the enemy camp, but also sent people to quietly monitor his officials. He found out that Xie Zaixing's henchmen, Zuo Guan and Mi Wanhu, had taken the prohibited items of the military camp to Yangzhou to trade and sell them privately, and he was worried that they would leak military affairs, so he asked Ying Wei to detain Zuo and Mi for interrogation.

The henchmen will trade the prohibited items in the army privately, and it is impossible for Xie Zaixing, as their commander, not to know the inside story, maybe he is still in the same stream. Zhu Yuanzhang remembered that he had meritorious service in guarding Zhuquan, but still did not punish him, but only killed the head of Zuo and Mi Wanhu, and hung their heads on Xie Zaixing's council hall as a warning, and at the same time sent Li Mengeng, a member of the army, to Zhuquan to control his military horses.

Xie Zaixing not only did not appreciate Zhu Yuanzhang's forgiveness, but felt that Zhu Yuanzhang sent Li Mengeng to deal with him and get rid of his official position. As the main general of all the people, but he has to obey Li Menggeng's mediation in everything, how can he be willing?

He was ashamed that he was no longer powerless, and complained to his henchmen, "I don't even let my own daughter get married, there is the same supply and distribution of goods, and let me be the master but obey the moderation of others, what is the meaning of such a day?"

The henchman said: "Then we might as well take refuge in Zhang Shicheng, I heard that he treats his subordinates very well." "Xie Zaixing lost his power, and these people have no future for development, so of course they have to find another way.

Since you don't make me feel better, I won't let you do it either!

So the first thing Xie Zaixing did after he recovered from his illness was to kill Luan Feng, the prefect of the Privy Mansion, and his crazy revenge had made him lose his mind, and he didn't even let Luan Feng's wife and children go. He also took Li Mengeng, who joined the army, as well as marshals Wang Yu and Chen Gang, and went to Shaoxing to surrender Zhu Yuanzhang's sworn enemy Zhang Shicheng.

Zhu Yuanzhang was angry, he didn't expect that Xie Zaixing would part ways with him when victory was in sight, and he didn't expect that he didn't blame Xie Zaixing for his past, but instead became a tiger returning to the mountain, and eventually caused a disaster.

He said angrily to the civil and military officials: "He was greedy for bribes, I didn't kill him, but sent him to guard all the crimes and meritorious service." I didn't punish him for trading in the forbidden items in the army, but I just sent someone to supervise him not to commit it again. Zhu Wenzheng and Xu Da are not outsiders, I found two good relatives for his two daughters, he is not only ungrateful but also resentful of me, which is even more hateful than Shao Rong and Zhao Jizu!"

Shao Rong and Zhao Jizu were rebel generals who had just been executed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not dare to rebel in order to control the soldiers who were selling their lives, and set the rule that the soldiers' families were not allowed to follow the army very early. The high-ranking Shao Rong and Zhao Jizu were unable to reunite with their wives and children because they had been fighting abroad for many years, so they planned to assassinate Zhu Yuanzhang in anger, but the matter was revealed and was denounced, and Zhu Yuanzhang immediately sentenced them to death.

This time, he compared Xie Zaixing with Shao and Zhao, obviously he had murderous intent towards Xie Zaixing.

All civil and military officials know that Zhu Yuanzhang is an enraged lion at this moment, who dares to say that his behavior of marrying off other people's daughters casually is wrong, and they all desperately denounce Xie Zaixing's wolf heart and dog lungs, and he has lived up to the love and cultivation of the prince.

Li Wenzhong took the initiative to ask, "Xie Zaixing's rebellion is because my nephew has no way to govern the army, and my nephew is willing to lead the army to recruit him, so don't be angry for him." ”

Li Wenzhong has led troops to expeditions many times, and his military exploits are outstanding, and he is now an official to Doctor Ronglu and Pingzhang of Zhejiang Province. Speaking of which, Xie Zaixing is his subordinate, so he will blame himself for Xie Zaixing's rebellion.

By the way, Li Wenzhong has changed back to his previous surname and is no longer called Zhu Wenzhong.

Zhu Yuanzhang has five biological sons, considering that Li Zhen only has such a single seedling, in order to prevent the Li family from becoming an heir, he was allowed to restore the surname Li, and his uncle and nephew will be commensurate in the future.

Seeing that someone came out to take responsibility for Xie Zaixing's rebellion, Zhu Yuanzhang's expression eased a little and agreed to Li Wenzhong's request.