Zhu Yuanzhang slaughtered heroes from beginning to end

The fate of Zhu Yuanzhang's so-called Hongwu warriors is nothing more than three kinds, the first is to be convicted and killed; the second is the death of an innocent person; The third is to get away with it. The third type was very rare in the Hongwu Dynasty, only limited to Tang He, Deng Yu, Guo Ying, Mu Ying, Geng Bingwen and a few others. Among them, Deng Yue died early, his son still did not escape, Mu Yingyuan Town Yunnan, Guo Ying because of Concubine Ning, Geng Bingwen escaped temporarily, but Yongle Shi inevitably died. Therefore, there is only soup and one person in the bag.

If Zhu Yuanzhang is judged by his merits and scale, above Song Taizu, the two people after him who are known as the heroes and talents of the moment, Kangxi and *, have a low evaluation of Zhu Yuanzhang, although Kangxi himself has the political intention of using Zhu Yuanzhang to alleviate national contradictions, but if it is not admiration, there is no need to say slogan-style comments such as "Zhilong Tang and Song Dynasty" to this victorious Taizu, and * has always had no eyes left, but he has a soft spot for Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is not a blind worship without reason.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born recklessly, when in troubled times, at the right time, the heroes rose together, the situation was not inferior to the end of the Sui Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had no shade to rely on, and there was no reliable background, so he seized the world with his bare hands, so it was not a boast for him to be proud of himself later. Some important systems founded by Zhu Yuanzhang have influenced modern times for five or six hundred years, and it cannot but be said that his people's abilities are outstanding. Zhu Yuanzhang is also known for his efforts to govern the country among the founding emperors of the past dynasties, he is good at politics, profound vision, in the governance of the country to correct the mistakes of the Yuan Dynasty, won the situation of the people well-off, in his 31 years in power, the people have been able to be coarse, it is really rare. However, many historians do not use this to buy Zhu Yuanzhang's account, although Zhu Yuanzhang is dedicated and hardworking, but the evaluation he received is really low, at least not proportional to his personal efforts. Even in the * era, the upper echelons have repeatedly promoted Zhu Yuanzhang, but you can still hear many cynicism about this Ming Taizu from different levels, * After his death, Zhu Yuanzhang's works were listed one after another, and to this day, Zhu Yuanzhang is still hateful in people's minds. Why? In addition to the notorious feudal shackles such as Bagu, it is the shadow left by his wanton slaughter of heroes in his later years to future generations, so studying the fate of Hong Wugong is also a good aid for an overall understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang's administration.

As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang launched two large-scale political massacres in order to consolidate the world, which is also known as the Hu Lan Party Prison, and after these two concentrated killings, the Huaixi political group, which had been active in Chinese politics for 30 years in the 14th century, collapsed and ceased to exist. However, these two massacres are only an important chapter in Zhu Yuanzhang's huge plan to kill the heroes, not all, in fact, if you read carefully, Zhu Yuanzhang began to systematically purge the heroes as early as the seventh year of Hongwu, just because the number was smaller, the means were more hidden, and the methods were softer, so it was not eye-catching.

Ten years before Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang killed a total of two heroes, and if Liu Bowen, whose cause of death is unknown, is counted, there are three. They are: Huai'an Hou Hua Yunlong, Deqing Hou Liao Yongzhong. Both of them were charged with violations. Hua Yunlong was offended because of "according to the Yuan Xiang to get rid of the first house, and usurped the things in the Yuan Palace", the "History of the Ming Dynasty" did not explain the cause of Hua Yunlong's death, but vaguely said that he "did not come to Beijing, the Taoist pawn", but also said a little detail in an unknown way - "Summoning (Hua Yunlong) to return, ordering He Wenhui to go to the past." Who is He Wenhui? Just take a look at his biography in the history of the Ming Dynasty to know that this is a military spy with the same name as Li Wenzhong and others, Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son, and he has been responsible for replacing Zhu Yuanzhang for many years to supervise the generals of the unified army, similar to the later Jinyi Wei leader, and it is obviously particularly meaningful to be sent to Beiping in his capacity. According to Tan Qian's research, Hua Yunlong was given to die, and the death was decent, because then Zhu Yuanzhang let his son Huazhong replace the marquis, and the hero was not removed, which should be the "good death" of the Hongwu Dynasty.

Liao Yongzhong, Marquis of Deqing, is a brother who jointly assists Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is particularly worth mentioning that Liao Yongzhong did a big thing for Zhu Yuanzhang, that is, he was ordered to scuttle the boat of Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, and relieved Zhu Yuanzhang's worries, however, in order to cover up his true intentions, Zhu Yuanzhang did not give Liao Yongzhong a reward, of course, the reason is still the same old, that is, to get close to Confucianism, spy on me, etc. Once upon a time, Liao Yongzhong almost killed himself in Poyang Lake, Zhu Yuanzhang's handwriting: "Superior generals, Zhimai Xiongshi" was given to Liao Yongzhong, and then Pingshu, with Yongzhong's military merits the highest, called "Fu Yi Liao Er" (meaning Fu Youde first, Liao Yongzhong second), Hongwu eight years, Yongzhong because of "usurpation of dragons and phoenixes and lawlessness, give death", five years later, his son Liao Quan was allowed to attack the lord, and Liao Yongzhong's grandson Liao Yong's brother is a disciple of Fang Xiaoru, and was later ordered to persuade Fang Xiaoru to surrender, but was killed (the reason was to collect Fang Xiaoru's body).

Zhu Yuanzhang himself came from a humble background and was well aware of the people's suffering, so he hated the things that officials violated, and during his time in power, he punished corruption, misappropriation, empty seals, theft of wages and other crimes with the heaviest punishment, and did not hesitate to put them in a shocking way. Therefore, even if heroes such as Fu Youde, Zhou Dexing and others use merit to mess with the law, Zhu Yuanzhang can't tolerate it, and Zhu Yuanzhang's own horse was executed because of the law, so other people are even more indifferent. However, only things like the so-called transgression of the dragon and phoenix are the most vague, similar to unwarranted, for example, later Ming Chengzu was jealous of Geng Bingwen, so he instructed Chen Ying to expose Geng Bingwen on such a charge, so that Bingwen committed suicide, it can be seen that this crime can actually be said to be a crime of desire, and there is an essential difference from the sins of Zhu Liangzu and others. However, when it is linked to the words of "don't bully and don't hide" in the "General Training of the World" issued by Zhu Yuanzhang when Hua Yunlong gave him death, it is not difficult to understand Liao Yongzhong and Hua Yunlong's way of taking death.

Liu Bowen's death is quite bizarre, Liu Bowen and Yang Xian are both thorns in the side of the Huaixi Group, so although Liu Bowen made great achievements, he stopped being crowned an earl, and he returned to his hometown in the early years of Hongwu. According to the dialogue between Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen's second son Liu Jing, Liu Bowen died in the hands of Hu Weiyong, but, in the eighth year of Hongwu, when Liu Bowen died, Hu Weiyong was favored Zhenglong, like the sun, and the reason for Liu Bowen's entry into Beijing was caused by Hu Weiyong's separation from Zhu Yuanzhang according to the Ming history, but the author of the Ming history also pointed out in a more obscure manner: "Although the emperor did not sin Ji (Liu Bowen), he was quite moved and seized Jilu." Ji was afraid of Xie, but stayed in Beijing and did not dare to return. "Liu Bowen was taken away from the title when he was alive, and the punishment was obviously quite serious, Liu Bowen ordered Zhu Yuanzhang to make many strange schemes, Zhu Yuanzhang of course could not but consider the rationality and irrationality of his existence. And Liu Bowen can accept the medicine of the doctor recommended by Hu Weiyong without doubt, so naturally the doctor has a background. Liu Bowen himself foresaw this: "I want to be a testament, but it is useless." However, after the defeat, the upper must think about me, ask something, and think it is a secret performance. Therefore, Liu Bowen's descendants saw that Zhu Yuanzhang never mentioned Hu Weiyong's problem, and he didn't say a word about Zhu Yuanzhang, and related to the strange causes of death of Xu Da and Li Wenzhong later, it proved that Liu Bowen's death should not be solved by Hu Weiyong's level.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he has always reminded himself of the maladministration of the Yuan Dynasty, and he has repeatedly stated: "The great disadvantage of the Yuan: the king cannot bow to the government, so the minister can be autocratic." ("Ming Taizu Records" volume 59) from Zhu Yuanzhang called the period of King Wu, Li Shanchang and Xu Da were the right and left prime ministers of Zhongshu Province, but in the fourth year of Hongwu after the founding of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang let Li Shanchang become a minister, although Xu Da has been serving as the prime minister of Zhongshu Province, but Xu Changnian led the troops outside and did not participate in the government politics, at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's cronies were Wang Guangyang and Yang Xian, and then, Yang Xian was framed and killed by the Huaixi Group, and Wang Guangyang became Zhu Yuanzhang's actual prime minister. Zhu Yuanzhang compared him to Zhang Liang's first-class figure. At this time, Hu Weiyong entered the ranks of Zaizhi.

Hu Weiyong is Zhu Yuanzhang who took refuge in the third year after Zhu Yuanzhang raised the army, he is a native of Dingyuan, Anhui, and is the origin of the core of Huaixi Group. Hu Weiyong mixed under Zhu Yuanzhang for 12 years before he became the county master, but later, due to Li Shanchang's citation, he was quickly promoted to the governor of Zhongshu Province, and then replaced Wang Guangyang as Zuo Cheng of Zhongshu Province, after Yang Xian's death, Hu Weiyong gradually became favored, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Bowen about the selection of the prime minister Hu Weiyong was already listed in it, this was three years before Hongwu, it can be seen that Hu Weiyong's status in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes at that time.

However, including Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang, they don't understand Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention, Zhu Yuanzhang actually didn't want to set up the prime minister for a long time, the reason why he asked Li Shanchang to resign as prime minister and degrade Wang Guangyang was not to make room for Hu Weiyong, but to create a pretext for himself to be the prime minister, which only the smart Wang Guangyang understood, so when Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to come back to be the right prime minister to clamp down on Hu Weiyong, Wang Guangyang just drank and didn't ask about government affairs, and it was almost difficult to understand when he contacted Wang Guangyang's previous "repeated loyalty", but in fact, Wang Guangyang saw through Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention, and it was precisely for this reason that Zhu Yuanzhang later made up his mind to kill Wang Guangyang.

The reason why Hu Weiyong was promoted and reused is not entirely due to Li Shanchang's contributions, Zhu Yuanzhang has never been willing to pretend to be with people in terms of employing people, not to mention such an important position as the prime minister, although Zhu Yuanzhang relied on the Huaixi group to start, but once it is done, this full-fledged political and military group will become a thorn in Zhu Yuanzhang's back, and he will want to get rid of it quickly. Li Shanchang is the head of the Wenchen of the Huaixi Group, and after years of operating the territory, he has formed a unique political force, so although Zhu Yuanzhang verbally said that the benevolent "merit is very great, it is appropriate to enter the big country." And secretly instructed Wang Guangyang and Chen Ning to impeach Li Shanchang and ruin Li Shanchang's political reputation. Hu Weiyong is just a document under Zhu Yuanzhang's original account, Zhu Yuanzhang took a fancy to Hu Weiyong and had no henchmen and was the strength of Li Shanchang's camp, so he decided to raise Hu Weiyong to restrain Shanchang, however, he didn't expect that Hu Weiyong couldn't realize that the emperor's original intention was just to turn the prime minister into a senior secretary and assistant's grand strategic intention, but instead stepped up to have a good personal relationship with Li Shanchang, which made Zhu Yuanzhang nervous, annoyed, and unimportant. History said that Hu Weiyong "tasted the song and took it as his intention, spoiled and prosperous, was alone for a few years, lived and killed, or did not act." The internal and external divisions must first read it, and those who harm themselves will hide it and keep it from hearing about it. The zealous people from all over the world and the heroes of the martial arts who are derelict in their duties, fight for their doors, give them gold silks, famous horses, and play well, which are innumerable. "Hu Weiyong's actions and Zhu Yuanzhang's guiding ideology in his bones "the supreme position, the power that can be exercised, the rewards and punishments are seized, and the self-dictatorship can be taken away" are completely at odds with each other, and the emperor can't kill him anymore, and there is a feeling that time is not waiting.

Zhu Yuanzhang's steps were very compact, first killing Wang Guangyang, who he had always felt was wrong, and then making Tu Jieshang change his mind, saying that Hu Weiyong contacted Chen Ning and others to prepare a rebellion, and killed a large number of heroes, including officials who were attached to Hu Weiyong and officials of the six ministries. More than 15,000 officials, big and small, were executed, and then in the 19th year of Hongwu, they made up evidence of Hu Weiyong's collusion, and then killed Tang Shengzong, Lu Zhongheng, Fei Ju, and Zhao Yong, and finally even Li Shanchang became the last member of the Hu Party. Among them, Lu Zhongheng, the Marquis of Ji'an, began to follow Zhu Yuanzhang in the uprising at the age of seventeen, Zhu Yuanzhang said that he was "the heart of the heart when I first started", and then in the process of the so-called rebellion and interrogation, Zhu Yuanzhang clearly knew that Lu Zhongheng was not a big rebel in the real sense, and still made up an excuse by himself to say: "I blame him for being in a noble position and having a gloomy color" This is simply a trumped-up charge. Pingliang Hou Fei Ju even gave Zhu Yuanzhang the life of his son Fei Chao, and in turn, Zhu Yuanzhang said that it was Hu Dang, and Zhu Yuanzhang said that Fei Ju was "Ju Xi made Gusu unworthy of his purpose, and I tried to blame him, so I wanted to rebel!" "The old accounts have been turned over, and it can be seen that Fei Ju can't die if he doesn't die. This is something that the author of "History of the Ming Dynasty" can't even see.

After Hu Weiyong's death, Zhu Yuanzhang resolutely abolished the prime minister system, revealing his true thoughts that he had been planning for a long time.

Although Li Shanchang's younger brother Li Cunyi has an in-law relationship with Hu Weiyong, he did not implicate Li Shanchang, but only belittled Li Cunyi, but Li Shanchang didn't thank him for some reason, which made Zhu Yuanzhang's boss unhappy, and in connection with Li Shanchang's arrogant practices in the early years of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang was ready to do something to Li Shanchang.

Dealing with heroes like Li Shanchang is the first, naturally it can't be as simple as dealing with Hu Weiyong, but Li Shanchang borrowed 300 people from Tang He for the sake of building a mansion, and let Tang He denounce it, and the good chief pleaded with Ding Bin, which made Zhu Yuanzhang seize the handle and use harsh torture to extract a confession from Ding Bin, and came up with the so-called evidence that Li Cunyi took Hu Weiyong's message to invite Li Shanchang to join the rebellion alliance, and there is also circumstantial evidence that Li Shanchang did not report Hu Weiyong's traffic robbery, in short, A house slave actually lifted all the words that his master said in the secret room to the front of the palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang calmly gave an order in this way: The relatives of the good fathers and the country, they know that they will not make a move, and they will be suspicious and wait and see, and they will be rebellious. However, he still didn't kill the good man, until there was a division that said that the stars changed, and he needed to kill the minister to eliminate the disaster, so the good chief made the last contribution to Zhu Yuanzhang, and more than 70 members of the family were killed at the same time. Give iron coupons, avoid two deaths, and avoid one death of the son, "with His Majesty of the same heart, out of ten thousand deaths to take the world, the lord first, the birth of the prince, the death of the king, the male princess, relatives worship officials, the distinction between people and ministers is extreme" has been called "Sai Xiao He" for many times called the greatest meritorious remuneration of "Sai Xiao He".

After Li Shanchang's unjust death, Langzhong Kingdom used the above table to protest, and Zhu Yuanzhang's violent personality turned out to be a poor source of words, and he was speechless.

The Hu Weiyong case marked the basic eradication of the civilian power of the Huaixi clique. The next target is the military general's power.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the leaders of the military generals were Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, after three years of Hongwu, he often commanded the troops outside, and the people who exterminated the Northern Yuan forces were Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, Deng Yu, Tang He, Feng Sheng and others, and after the death of Xu Da and Li Wenzhong, the basic three of Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, and Lan Yu in the Kejing Desert. Among them, Lan Yu became the main military assistant of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in his later years, and Zhu Yuanzhang compared him to Wei Qing, which shows that trust is special and favored. However, it is also because of this brother-in-law of Kaiping King Chang Yuchun and the military leader of the Huaixi Group, in the years before Zhu Yuanzhang's death, he actually set off a political murder case that was bigger than the case of Hu Weiyong. The reasons are naturally more complex.

Lan Yu himself, known in history: "Rao Yong is strategic, and he has great talents." Zhongshan and Kaiping did not, but the total army was counted, and many meritorious services were made. "Especially in the twenty-first year of Hongwu, Lan Yu defeated the Yuan army in the fishing sea," killing the Taiwei barbarians, etc.,

Descend to the crowd. The Yuan Lord and the crown prince Tianbaonu rode away dozens of times. Jade chased after it with fine horses, but it was too late. More than 100 people were given the second son, the slave, the concubine, and the princess. He also seized 3,000 officials and subordinates below King Duoer, Dai Wang Darima and Pingzhang, more than 77,000 men and women, as well as treasure seals, gold medals, gold and silver seals, and more than 150,000 horses, camels, cattle and sheep. Burning his armor and accumulating it is not counted. "This is a decisive battle for the Northern Yuan after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, so far, the Northern Yuan has been in a slump, and does not dare to compare with the Ming Dynasty head-on with the north." In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu (1392 AD), the Yuan general Yuelu Timur rebelled in Jianchang. Lan Yu led the troops to quell the chaos, captured the father and son of Yuelu Timur, sent them to Beijing to be beheaded, and entered the crown prince. In his early years, Lan Yu followed Mu Ying, Fu Youde, Feng Sheng and others or Dingyunnan, or Pingshuzhong, or conquered the desert, and his military achievements were incomparable. However, Lan Yu himself is a martial artist, and he obviously underestimated Zhu Yuanzhang's favor, thinking that he could be born for generations, so he often exposed the arrogance of the heroes, "dethroned the generals, and stopped self-specialization", and when he returned from Pingbei, someone accused Lan Yu * Concubine Yuan, and broke into the peak of Xi, Lan Yu had the greatest military merits and was named Taifu, and I actually said: Am I not worthy of being a Taishi? Lan Yu's godsons are too many, this is related to the tradition of the rebel army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's godsons are said to have dozens of people, the key is that these righteous sons of Lan Yu are ordinary dogs, and they cause trouble everywhere, Yushi denounced them, and Lanyu drove Yushi away in a fit of anger. Zhu Yuanzhang once wrote in the iron coupon issued to Lan Yu that Lan Yu's lawlessness was to warn Lan Yu to guard the distinction between people and ministers, but Lan Yu did not pay attention to it, in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, the crown prince Zhu Biao died, and the emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Yun was weak, Zhu Yuanzhang began to feel unhappy with the existence of heroes, and at this time, Lan Yu, who had always violated the law, became the first target.

As early as the beginning of the Hu Weiyong case in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang began to plan to kill the generals, but it has not yet been spread out on a large scale, after Hongwu killed Lu Zhongheng, Fei Ju and others in the twenty-third year, Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude has been quite obvious, especially in August of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, the illegal killing of his old friend Jiangxia Hou Zhou Dexing caused a lot of waves among the heroes, among Zhu Yuanzhang's fellow villagers and friends, the best relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang in his childhood is Zhou Dexing and Tang He, Zhou Dexing is older, Zhu Yuanzhang called him a brother, Hongwu 14 years Wuxi chaos, Zhu Yuanzhang regardless of Zhou Dexing's age, still asked Zhou Dexing to come forward, and also put on a high hat for Zhou Dexing, saying that Dexing is Ma Yuan and Zhao Chongguo, later, there was something in Fujian, Zhu Yuanzhang found Zhou Dexing again, and said more earnestly, "Fujian's work is unfinished, although Qing is old, he is still reluctant to do it", as a result, Zhou Dexing still inevitably gave the end of death, even so, Lan Yu did not feel that Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher's knife was forcing into him. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang would not give up the slaughter because of Lan Yu's unawareness. On the contrary, the pace of slaughter was accelerated.

In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Jin Yiwei commanded Jiang Zhen to be ordered to report Lan Yu and Lan Yu to raise domestic slaves in private, and there will be changes. He also detained Chahan, the son of the Yuan general Nahachu, and interrogated the Mongolian general about his dealings with Lan Yu. Zhu Yuanzhang sentenced Lan Yu to death for the crime of treason, implicated the thirteen marquis and the second uncle, and killed more than 20,000 people before and after, and the army was empty. and Hu Weiyong's case also fabricated the so-called evidence of the inside and outside of the court, and the fabrication method is worse than Hu Weiyong's case, in the late Ming Dynasty Gu Yingtai's "Ming History Chronicle" openly doubted the authenticity of Lan Yu's rebellion, Gu Yingtai pointed out that Lan Yu's death was due to Zhu Yuanzhang's "suspicion of the big picture" belongs to "Fu Hui is difficult to understand", and the author of "History of the Ming Dynasty", which is the most concealed by Zhu Yuanzhang, does not believe in Lan Yu's rebellion, and still classifies Lan Yu in this biography series, and is not included in the biography of traitors like Hu Weiyong.

Soon after Lan Yu's death, Wang Bi, the Marquis of Dingyuan, said to Fu Youde: The emperor was killed in his old age, and my generation has almost no such thing. As a result, the conversation was detected by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Wang Bi died. Wang Bi is known as the "King of Double Swords", brave and good at fighting, ten thousand people are not dang, even Chang Yuchun salutes him, and his daughter marries Zhu Yuanzhang's son King Chu, and she is still not exempt from death as an in-law. After Wang Bi's death, Zhu Yuanzhang simply killed the last two famous generals Feng Sheng and Fu Youde. Fu Youde and his people can fight habitually, for the crown of generals, once changed its master three times (Liu Futong, Ming Yuzhen, Chen Youliang), and finally chose to follow Zhu Yuanzhang, history called Fu Youde "dumb jumping, risking a hundred deaths." From the bias to the general, every battle must be the first soldier. Although it was created, it was effective. "Successively from Xu Da, Feng Sheng and others to pacify Yunnan and Sichuan, with outstanding achievements. The son Princess Shang, the daughter became the emperor's grandson and daughter-in-law, and the door was precious, however, Fu Youde never dreamed that soon after Lan Yu's death, he would be put on top of the meat case and become the target of Zhu Yuanzhang's killing. Fu Youde's death was also regarded as an unjust, false and wrongful case in the Ming Dynasty, and later, when the Ming Dynasty was filial piety, the King of Jin, as a prince, personally sent a letter to the emperor asking for Fu Youde to be rehabilitated, but it was not allowed until the Southern Ming Hongguang was rehabilitated, and at this time the Ming Dynasty was close to extinction.

Feng Sheng and his brother Feng Guoyong followed Zhu Yuanzhang to raise troops together, and he was a famous general, "there are eight people who are respected by the edicts, and the victory ranks third", second only to Xu Da and Chang Yuchun. Later, because he was convicted in the process of conquering the Northern Yuan Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang killed the heroes, Feng Sheng was not at ease, and came to Nanjing to see Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang comforted him, who knows, turned his head and gave him death. The six founding dukes of the early Ming Dynasty, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun (actually his son Chang Mao), Deng Yu, Feng Sheng, Li Wenzhong, Li Shanchang, if Xu Da was assassinated, then none of these six people could be said to have died well except for Deng Yue's early death. And Feng Sheng's death is the most strange, even those who protect Zhu Yuanzhang like "History of the Ming Dynasty" have to say, "Taizu is high in the Spring and Autumn Period, and he is more suspicious." The most victories, the number of small reasons to lose the emperor's will", in this way, Feng Sheng is neither trapped in the prison of the Hu Lan Party, nor other arrogant lawlessness, it is really Zhu Yuanzhang who is just finding fault and killing people. Therefore, when talking about Feng Sheng's death, Tan Qian said with regret: "It has only been two months since Fu Youde's death, and the fierceness of the opening side will be exhausted" Feng Sheng, like Fu Youde, did not give Zhaoxue until the Southern Ming Dynasty. Hundreds of years have passed.

In addition, let's take a look at the fate of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, who is known as "ordered to come out, succeed and spin, not reserved, women have nothing to love, treasure has nothing to take, Zhongzheng is flawless, the sun and the moon are clear, and the general is only one person", Xu Da is a hero who is rarely called a brother by Zhu Yuanzhang after being called the emperor, Xu Da himself has been very cautious, Hu Weiyong wants to cling to him, Xu Da is afraid of it, so Zhu Yuanzhang rewards him the most, Xu Da's three daughters, the eldest daughter is Zhu Di's queen, the second princess, and Princess Ci'an. The eldest son Huizu was named the Duke of Wei and the Emperor, and the youngest son Zengshou died at the hands of Emperor Jianwen because he sent a message to Zhu Di and was posthumously named the Duke of Dingguo, one family and two dukes, and the Ming generation was also Xu Da's family. Xu Da died in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, there is a popular saying that Xu Da was sick and could not eat steamed food, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he deliberately gave Xu Da to eat steamed goose, and as a result, he died of gangrene. Although this statement is not found in the official history, experts in the history of the Ming Dynasty have not dared to easily deny it, including Wu Han who still did not give up this statement in the reprint after revising his work "The Biography of Zhu Yuanzhang" under the implication situation.

If we take a look at the causes of death of Liu Bowen and Li Wenzhong and Zhu Wenzheng, we can know why the historians have been unwilling to give up this statement, Liu Bowen's death I have already mentioned, Ming Taizu and Ming Chengzu have always felt guilty about Liu Bowen's affairs, which in itself shows that the cause of Liu Bowen's death is not normal, and the emperor himself also knows. Liu Bowen's earl is hereditary, not hereditary, but Zhu Yuanzhang was merciful and let Liu Bowen's descendants be hereditary, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was pointed at his nose by Liu Bowen's second son Liu Jing and scolded: "Your Highness will not escape the word 'usurpation' after a hundred generations." However, when Yousi was ready to leave Liu Jing's family, Ming Chengzu did not allow it, which is really incredible in Zhu Di, who invented melon and man, and it is even more incredible that Zhu Houxi, the Jiajing Emperor who has imitated Zhu Di all his life, actually raised Liu Bowen's position to Xu Datong and was named Taishi.

Li Wenzhong is Zhu Yuanzhang's top cronies, not only a nephew but also a righteous son, counting the total military power, leading many expeditions, and was named Cao Guogong at the beginning of the country, and posthumously crowned the king of the county and enjoyed the Taimiao. Li Wenzhong and his people were "like Confucians", close to scholars, and had repeatedly dissuaded Zhu Yuanzhang from "killing less, and admonishing the emperor to conquer Japan, and the eunuchs were too prosperous, and it was not the righteousness of the Son of Heaven who was not close to the punishment of the people"

Zhu Yuanzhang was unhappy, in the sixteenth year of Hongwu, Li Wenzhong fell ill, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Huai'an Hou Huazhong to care for medicine (Hua Yunlong's son), and as a result, Li Wenzhong died of illness after only a few months of kung fu. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, "all the doctors and wives were beheaded", and Hou Huazhong of Huai'an was also punished and then killed. Historians have always pointed out that Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of Central China was to kill people and destroy his mouth, and "History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Li Wenzhong" said, "The emperor is suspected of being poisoned, demoted to Zhongjue, and let his family belong to Jianchangwei", just imagine, Central China is under Li Wenzhong, and the seniors are also under Li Wenzhong, and there has never been grudges entangled, why do you want to poison Li Wenzhong? At least one of the things revealed here is that Li Wenzhong did not die a natural death. It's just that he didn't explain whether the murderer of Li Wenzhong was Huazhong or Zhu Yuanzhang, but a discerning person can know it at a glance, so Wu Han's claim in his work that Li Wenzhong died at the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang is not false. As for his nephew Zhu Wenzheng, the history of the Ming Dynasty did not specify the cause of his death, but judging from the records, it was not a good death, so historians generally take Wenzheng to die of whipping, similar to Zhu Liangzu.

The only one among the heroes who can protect the leader is Tang He, Tang He is straightforward, but he is not stupid, he thinks that his merits are far above Deng Yu, but the reward is below Deng Yu, so, when he was drinking, he complained to Zhu Yuanzhang, calling himself "left Gu is left, right Gu is right", and later found that Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to be with the heroes always, so he immediately tolerated and apologized, and his attitude has been very deferential, especially after the death of Xu Da and Li Wenzhong, Tang He self-relieved the military power, plus exposed Li Shanchang's meritorious service, so, after his death, he was named the king of the county, Enjoy the same treatment as Li Wenzhong. However, if Tang He's prudence hadn't died in the crucial year of the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, I am afraid that he would not necessarily have died on the pillow. This can be seen from the fact that Tang He's descendants have not been able to attack the lord for forty years since Tang He's death. Tang He's title was not recorded as a hereditary commander until the time of Xiaozong, and the marquis was returned to the marquis in the eleventh year of Jiajing. There is another person among the generals who is also relatively lucky, that is Mu Ying, but it is because the military affairs of the southwest are urgent and cannot be separated from his cronies, so Zhu Yuanzhang let Mu Ying lead Yunnan and become the screen of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, it is recorded that Song Lian's cause of death was illness because he was able to benefit from the guarantee of Empress Ma, while Tan Qian is recorded as suicide in the "Guoyi" ("Guoyi" volume 7). Qing Dynasty scholar Zhao Yi said of Zhu Yuanzhang: "Borrowing all the heroes to take the world, and the world is established, that is, to take all the people in the world and kill them, its cruelty is unprecedented." "It's a definitive comment. Sima Wengong's comments on Yang Jian in the "Zizhi Tongjian" are basically taken from the "Book of Sui", because he is not used to Yang Jian.

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