Chapter 266: Hu Weiyong's case

"At the same time, most of the prime ministers in Zhu Yuanzhang's life are virtuous prime ministers, and it can be said that they basically can't find the crime of committing adultery, so chasing after the wind and shadows can be said to be the most important means of reducing power."

"Thirteen years after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Hu Weiyong's home found a spring, due to the influence of feudal ideas at that time, Hu Weiyong thought it was a good omen, and wanted Zhu Yuanzhang to go to his home to check."

"But Hu Weiyong didn't expect that his actions would bring him death."

"When Zhu Yuanzhang went to Hu Weiyong's house, the eunuchs around him felt that the situation was wrong, so Zhu Yuanzhang went to the city gate to watch Hu Weiyong's house, and found a large number of Tibetan soldiers.

"Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and executed Hu Weiyong, Chen Ning and others on the same day on charges of perverting the law and slandering the virtuous and harming politics."

"At the same time, a large number of fathers and generals, including the first hero of the founding of the country, such as Lee Sun-chang, the first hero of the founding of the country, were implicated in the death of more than 30,000 people, which is known as the Hu Weiyong case."

"And the truth has always been unclear, maybe it is really Hu Weiyong's conspiracy to rebel, or maybe it is Zhu Yuanzhang's deliberate means to reduce the prime minister's power, who knows?"

"Why is Li Shanchang involved in this, this Hu Weiyong was actually recommended by Li Shanchang, and Li Shanchang's nephew Li You married Hu Weiyong's daughter, so if Hu Weiyong committed a crime, then Li Shanchang can't run away, after all, Li Shanchang is also under Hu Weiyong's hands, the Nine Clans."

"If the killing of Hu Weiyong was Zhu Yuanzhang's attempt to abolish the prime minister system, then the killing of Li Shanchang was purely to eliminate the heroes."

"The hero of the founding of the country, when he opened the country, played a groundbreaking role, he was a hero, but after the founding of the country, the hero was the threat, and no one would let his threat live."

"But it's not easy to kill heroes, because people have great merit, and if you kill someone for no reason, what will be the result? No one could have predicted. ”

"Therefore, to kill the hero, we must find a suitable reason, and Hu Weiyong's case is because we have no way of knowing that aspect, only Zhu Yuanzhang himself knows."

Some people may think that Zhu Yuanzhang is not such a person, but he is a generation of cloth clothes who have conquered the world, who can understand him? Even if Hu Weiyong deserved it, why did Li Shanchang kill him? ”

"Li Shanchang was killed ten years after the Hu Weiyong case broke out, why is he still involved in this case ten years later?"

"I personally think that the reason for killing Li Shanchang may be really difficult to find, just like Yue Fei, a trumped-up charge."

"Li Shanchang is Zhu Yuanzhang's most trusted minister, I don't know if Zhu Yuanzhang has a time when he can't do it."

"In other words, if Li Shanchang had died earlier, there would have been no tragedy, but Li Shanchang could have lived, and he lived to be 76 years old in one breath."

"Zhu Yuanzhang must not be able to stand it, if he continues to live like this, it is possible that he will be gone, Li Shanchang is still alive, paving the way for his eldest grandson, if he doesn't kill you, kill whom."

"In this case, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to raise the butcher's knife and slaughter all the more than 70 members of Li Shanchang's family."

"And the reason makes people laugh out of their big teeth, it is actually related to Hu Weiyong's case ten years ago, and the emperor really dares to find any reason for killing people."

Yang Guang: Haha! It's really quite alive, can you not die, this reason is strong!

Qin Shi Huang: It is true that there is a long life, this problem is really a common problem of emperors, and everyone is like this, killing heroes.

Yongzheng: Actually, Li Shanchang deserves to die, Hu Weiyong deserves it, you Li Shanchang is a hero who recommended his fellow villager and in-law Hu Weiyong to serve as the right prime minister.

Later, he was promoted to the post of Prime Minister of Zuo, who served as Prime Minister for 7 years, and during his term of office, he planted friends all over the DPRK and China, sparing no effort to crack down on dissidents, which made the power of the Huaixi Friends clique continue to expand.

Liu Bowen, you should know about it, right? He once assisted Zhu Yuanzhang and made great contributions, but because of the contradictions between others and the Huaixi Peng Party group, he has not been reused.

In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang was crowned a hero, Liu Bowen was only named a sincere uncle, and the age was only 240 stones.

And Li Shanchang was awarded the title of Korean Gong, with 4,000 stones.

The following year, people returned to their hometowns, just because they said to Zhu Yuanzhang that Hu Weiyong was not suitable for entering the picture, they hated him and were directly dismissed and dismissed.

And in the eighth year of Hongwu, Liu Bowen was sick, and Hu Weiyong sent a doctor to visit, but Liu Bowen returned to the West soon after taking the medicine. Such a big political issue, how can Zhu Yuanzhang let you live for the sake of succession.

Kangxi: Haha! Thorough! Is it such a big rat that steals and eats you every day, and still raises him without killing him?

Shangguan Wan'er: Isn't this just a mouse? I'll steal your house, you can't catch me, I'll steal next time, hehe!

Cao Cao: What kind of metaphor are you all talking about? But that's right, if you don't converge, can you still be kept alive?

"Emperor Yongzheng's point of view is also right, in fact, the crux of the Hu case is that he is too arbitrary, and many major cases such as life and death and dethronement, he often does not ask Zhu Yuanzhang for instructions, and handles them without authorization, which naturally makes Zhu Yuanzhang, who has a strong desire for power, deeply feel the crisis of the prime minister's dictatorship and the fall of imperial power."

"After getting rid of Hu Weiyong, Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed the prime minister, abolished Zhongshu Province, and his son Zhu Di set up another palace scholar for the emperor as an adviser, Zhu Yuanzhang ended the prime minister system and strengthened the autocratic imperial power."

However, Hu Weiyong's case involving so many people has not yet ended, and the other "Blue Jade Case" that killed heroes can be said to be more involved, which is the hero of the killing. ”

"As many as 15,000 heroes have been implicated in the "Blue Jade Case", and it is even more difficult to count the indirect victims, and even the generals Fu Youde and Feng Sheng, whom Zhu Yuanzhang originally trusted, were also implicated.

"There are too many cases of killing heroes in the Ming Dynasty, not only the generals, but even the Wenchen was almost wiped out by Zhu Yuanzhang, I will continue to talk about this "Blue Jade Case"! ”

Li Shimin: Did I hear it wrong, I read an extra single digit, why are there so many numbers?

Meng Yi: Is this a clearing of all the ministers?

Liu Bang: I can't say this anymore, I really can't compare.

"Zhu Yuanzhang found a lot of reasons for killing Lan Yu, saying that Lan Yu had a rebellion, and this reason is a bit of a trumped-up charge."

"Lan Yu has accepted a lot of righteous sons, and these righteous sons have played various important duties in the Blue Jade Army, but the key is that they only listen to Lan Yu alone, not the emperor."