"Since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the bureaucracy at all levels has been extremely corrupt and corrupt, and after Zhu Yuanzhang established his Ming Dynasty, this situation has not changed.

"On the one hand, he advocated honesty and took the lead in frugality, and demanded that officials at all levels abide by discipline and law, be honest and love the people, and on the other hand, impose heavy penalties on officials who violate the law to deter officials from corruption."

"It's a good thing to rectify corrupt officialdom, but it's too much of a thing."

Although the "empty seal case" and the "Guo Huan case" have scared off many potential corrupt acts, they have also wronged many people, especially the Guo Huan case. ”

"Guo Huan's case is a case reported by Guo Huan and others with their real names, but in the process of trial, many people were involved, not only involving high-ranking officials who docked with the emperor, but also many people."

"However, this case, like a snowball, is getting bigger and bigger, and the more people are involved in the trial, so that it can't be contained later."

"The Guo Huan case not only executed many officials, but also killed countless people."

"But many of them are unjust cases, and the people are angry, so for the sake of the people's anger, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang took the trial and dealt with some of the people who tried the case before."

"How can you say that the four cases can't be considered right, Zhu Yuanzhang killed too many people, some of them deserved to die, and some were killed and beheaded if they were really implicated, which can not be described as cruel."

"Throughout history, there are really not many cases of the founding monarch slaughtering heroes, many people say that Liu Bang slaughtered heroes, it is true that there are but it is not so excessive."

"Liu Bang killed Han Xin, that's because Han Xin is too good, and no one can suppress it."

"In this case, I have to kill, in addition, Liu Bang killed all the princes and kings with different surnames, and he was in order to implement the system that no one with the surname Liu could be crowned king."

"Xiao He and Zhang Liang have survived in a good way, they are the founding ministers, and among the generals, such as Fan Hao and Zhou Bo, who were not crowned kings, they basically survived, so it can't be said that Liu Bang slaughtered heroes."

"Zhu Yuanzhang is different, he is the kind of person who wants to go to the knife when he sees anyone."

"Among the ministers, Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, and Liu Bowen's deaths are all related to Zhu Yuanzhang."

"Not to mention the generals, Lan Yu, Fu Youde, and Feng Sheng were all slaughtered by Zhu Yuanzhang because of their great merit."

"So the person who really flies the bird and hides the bow is the only one in history."

"He doesn't read much, his methods are ruthless, and the methods he uses are naturally simple and crude."

"For example, I peeled the skin of Lan Yu and gave it to Lan Yu's daughter to treasure, is this a human thing?"

"Of course, all this is the information issued by Zhang Tingyu in the history books, if someone wants to discredit Lao Zhu, we can't help it, who let his family lose the world!"

Zhu Yuanzhang: When did Lao Tzu peel off people's skins, this guy named Zhang Tingyu is a fool!

Yang Guang: The history of the previous dynasty written by the people who seized the dynasty, can people still write about your merits? Praise you? Is it Li Shimin?

Li Shimin: I didn't write you scribble, what I recorded here is everything!

Yang Yong: Who knows?

"Zhu Yuanzhang's mistake is not only about killing heroes."

"In addition to the party prison, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang also engaged in literary prison."

"Ming Taizu is from a bitter background, he has also been a monk, and he has also participated in the Red Turban Army."

"And these past experiences are all black history for Ming Taizu, so Ming Taizu is always worried that others will pick up his black history, or secretly sarcastically mock him."

"So, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang began to find fault in the text, he can kill a person because of a homophonic word."

"For example, there is a word in someone's article, and the pronunciation of this word is somewhat similar to the word thief."

"In the eyes of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, this article is satirical about him, implying that he has participated in the Red Turban Army and been a thief, so Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang killed this person."

"There are a lot of things like that, the literal prison, the persecution of a lot of literati."

"This is also killing people indiscriminately, Zhu Yuanzhang is too sensitive to this aspect."

"The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang is very sensitive to words is actually because of his fear of literati."

As a hero who has gone through troubled times, he has grown from the lowest outcasts to the highest emperor, has seen all kinds of situations in the world, and knows what is the reason why he can stand out from the crowd. And how these intellectuals of the literati group helped him strategize and win a decisive victory thousands of miles away, he also knew very well. ”

"Therefore, when the literati did their best to help the Zhu family make suggestions and lay down the country, Zhu Yuanzhang changed from trust and reuse to suspicion and rejection of these literati, because if the literati can help him build the country, then they can also help others build the country."

"Zhu Yuanzhang himself, as a hero who struggled from the bottom to the emperor, must know that he has the ability to suppress the ministers, but when he is a hundred years later, can the children of the Zhu family still lead these founding ministers? This question has become a pimple in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart. ”

"So, when Zhu Yuanzhang gradually stabilized the country, the shocking four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty followed."

As the saying goes, "treat others in their own way", Zhu Yuanzhang hated the pen and ink of literati, so he used words to carry out his "counterattack". ”

"In the end, the officials in the early years of the Ming Dynasty were almost killed, and the huge machine of the Ming Empire sailed into the abyss under his willful thinking."

"While killing ministers, Zhu Yuanzhang did not forget to build his own ideal society."

He hoped that the world of the Zhu family was a simple and stable "Datong society" that could be passed down for thousands of generations, so while getting rid of the heroes and canceling the prime minister to pave the way for future generations, as the Taizu, he also began to plan the rules of life for the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"First of all, Zhu Yuanzhang's abolition of the prime minister allowed the Zhu family to monopolize power, and although Zhu Yuanzhang, who lost the assistance of the prime minister, was in power, he had to face the script from the whole country on his own."

However, he still felt at ease because of this, and even made an ancestral precept: "If anyone in the court dares to mention the establishment of a prime minister again, he will be killed." ””

However, the energetic Zhu Yuanzhang did not take into account the quality and energy of future generations.

"Taking Zhu Di as an example, after he seized power, he felt that there were many things, but he did not dare to disobey the ancestral teachings, so he had to set up a cabinet as his own support group."

"The cabinet has no real power, the power is still in the hands of the emperor alone, and all regulations need to be approved by the emperor, which means that the quality of the emperor will determine the current situation and future of the country."