Why did Zhu Yuanzhang kill those heroes?

One is because those nobles have merit to the Ming Dynasty, and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, they began to enjoy the fruits and began to bend the law to harm the people. They feel that they have won the country by themselves and should enjoy it to the fullest.

If you have fought all your life, you can't enjoy it?

Human nature makes them not take the law of the Ming Dynasty into account after they succeed.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang also gave them glory and wealth, but how could the glory and wealth given by Zhu Yuanzhang satisfy their appetite? The human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant, that is human nature.

Therefore, it is very rare in history to be able to maintain the original intention of the founding heroes after success.

Only Fan Li, Zhang Liang and others did it.

Therefore, there are too few heroes in history who have received a good death.

Zhu Yuanzhang's thought at that time was that you do have great merit and can enjoy it, but you don't need to harm the people. It is natural for meritorious heroes to be rewarded, but it should not be lawless.

Those Huaixi nobles bent the law and harmed the people, this is the most direct reason for Zhu Yuanzhang to kill them.

Second, even Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that after they grew stronger, they would harm the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, the tail is too big to fall, and the kings of the later generations of the Ming Dynasty can't control them. And history has also appeared countless times, and the descendants of those heroes will eventually become the biggest moths that plague the people.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about later, and in the Ming Chengzu period, the emperor would not be able to move those feudal nobles.

In the end, the emperor had no choice but to share the world with the scholars.

Emperor Chongzhen may have understood this truth before he died, so his last words said that all ministers in the world can be killed!

The subordinate refers to the scholar class.

His ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to share the world with the people, but he said: "I want to share the world with the scholars." ”

The results are obvious to all.

Chongzhen was able to understand this truth before he died, and understood that sharing the world with the people was the long-term plan of the dynasty, which proved that he was not stupid. Of course, if he is given another chance to be reborn, even if he understands it, he will not be able to fight against the feudal aristocracy.

Because the feudal aristocracy at that time had grown into towering trees, the emperor who lacked ability really couldn't shake it.

Qin Yu's words just now revealed the second reason why Emperor Zhu killed the heroes, so Zhu Yuanzhang applauded, feeling that Qin Yu had said something in his heart.

Maybe he didn't know very well before that the harm of the scholar class to the imperial court was just vaguely felt that there was such a danger.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born with the ability to perceive danger.

And now, Qin Yu is telling him clearly and clearly, which makes him suddenly enlightened.

"Fortunately, Mr. Qin is here, otherwise, our Ming Dynasty will follow in the footsteps of other dynasties and perish in less than three hundred years." Zhu Yuanzhang secretly thought in his heart, "We used killing before, and we wanted to stop the development and growth of the scholars. ”

"And Mr. Qin uses the system, the public land system, to prevent them from annexing land."

"Mr. Qin's strategy is much more clever than ours."

"Fortunately, he appeared in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, and those scholars were still babies in the cradle. If he was born during the second and third generations of emperors of the Ming Dynasty, even if the emperor at that time listened to his strategy and wanted to implement the public land system, he would not be able to do it. ”

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"Therefore, almost ninety-nine percent of the emperors in history are using the technique of controlling the people." Qin Yu said, "Colluded with the feudal aristocracy and joined hands to bully the thousands of ordinary people under his rule." ”

"If some of them really want to benefit the people at the bottom, those nobles will say: The emperor wants to help the people at the bottom, and you will pass our level first."

"Of course, the vast majority of emperors were originally born into the aristocratic class, and they never thought of standing aside from ordinary people."

"Without the experience of being a farmer, you wouldn't really treat ordinary people as human beings. They simply don't have the concept of working for the welfare of the people of the world, so they can't realize that the art of controlling the people is wrong. ”

"In history, only Emperor Zhu, who was born as a peasant, put forward the concept of 'sharing the world with the people'. It is precisely because of the existence of this concept that the Ming Dynasty is the only feudal dynasty in history that has a chance to exceed three hundred years. ”

"It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang can't restrict the development of feudal aristocracy from the system because of the limitations of his thinking."

"I didn't really do it, share the world with the people, and form a community of interests with the people at the bottom."

"If he did it, maybe it would still be the Ming Dynasty now."

"Sir's right." Zhu Yuanzhang said, thinking secretly in his heart: Mr. Qin, aren't you here, you have already taught us how to prevent the feudal aristocracy from growing, and how to really share the world with the people.

Your appearance has allowed Daming to be passed down for generations.

"In addition, there are some emperors who use the art of controlling the people, completely because they are stupid." Qin Yu continued, "Emperor Qianlong once said that the main purpose of the imperial examination was to form a cage and trap the literati in a cage so that they would not have the heart to oppose his rule. ”

"What kind of system of thirty-three taels of silver?"

"He didn't know at all that the fate of the dynasty and the fate of the nation were ultimately decided by the people at the bottom, not by those nobles."

"When the nation is in danger, the aristocracy will only flee abroad to continue their rich life."

"Emperor Qianlong's control of the people like that is completely asking for his own death."

"So in the late Qianlong period, the Qing Dynasty began to decline. The prosperous family background left by his father was defeated by him. ”

"Don't think that the power of the people is small, once they erupt, they will be unstoppable."

"The emperor doesn't even have a chance to regret it."

"The main body of a dynasty and the main body of the nation are the people at the bottom with the largest number of people, not those few so-called elites."

"Sir is right." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"To sum up......," Qin Yu said, "The reason why the ancient emperors all used the technique of controlling the people is that they themselves are the aristocratic class, and they have never regarded the people at the bottom as their own, Lao Tzu is the elite class, when did you and your group of ants be their own people?" However, they had to admit the strength of the people, because many dynasties were overthrown by the people's uprisings. ”

"So when they face the common people, they are weak-hearted, unconfident, and even afraid. They haven't thought about the people at all, can they not be weak-hearted, can they not be afraid that the people will rebel against them? ”

"In the end, because some emperors are stupid, they don't know at all, and the common people are the key factor in determining the rise and fall of the dynasty. They felt that it was the scholarly class that determined the rise and fall of the dynasty. ”