Because of the magnitude and splendor of Zhu Yuanzhang's achievements, and because of his infamous massacre of the founding ministers, Zhu Yuanzhang has been one of the most controversial historical figures in ancient China.
I. Has history wronged Zhu Yuanzhang?
1, Zhu Yuanzhang aggrieved?
It should be said that Zhu Yuanzhang is certainly a great talent, a dragon, but he is a man of great ability, can never be alone to create such a great cause; it should also be said that the cause of the Ming dynasty and many other causes, is by no means a single person single-handedly can be created, but Zhu Yuanzhang and his ministers and military generals, the left hand and right hand arm of the united efforts, *** with the creation of the.
So, if Zhu Yuanzhang really massacred his ministers after his success as written in the book -- since the completion of the "History of the Ming Dynasty" to date, people mostly believe in the statement that among Zhu Yuanzhang's founding ministers, only a very few of them, such as Tang He, Mu Ying, and Geng Bingwen, didn't die in the massacre -- then the hundreds of years of Zhu Yuanzhang's life would have been a long time before the massacre. --Then the criticisms, rebukes and even critiques that Zhu Yuanzhang has suffered from his descendants over the centuries are not at all condescending.
Did Zhu Yuanzhang really kill his ministers like grass? I don't think so - I always feel that the real Zhu Yuanzhang may not be such a ruthless and ruthless person. If we carefully analyze, it is not difficult to find that Zhu Yuanzhang is actually a very grateful person, although his so-called massacre, but also does not rule out the existence of a number of wrongdoing situation may be.
2, Zhu Yuanzhang is a person who knows gratitude
In my opinion, Zhu Yuanzhang is obviously a person who knows gratitude. Why do you say so? Let me give you a few examples here.
The Empress Ma is a key figure in Zhu Yuanzhang's success. So how did Zhu Yuanzhang treat her after he won the world? Is the use of the end of the hand throw away? Or as always, love and respect? The fact is very clear, when the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, although the same as all emperors, the harem of beautiful women to have as much as you can have, but he did not wantonly ******, but concentrate on state affairs, more restrained. Among the flowers, Zhu Yuanzhang has always been virtuous Ma Xiuying as the empress, not only do not leave, and a lifetime of respect, and even a lot of times is to listen to the words. This shows that Zhu Yuanzhang is really a "faith" "in times of trouble see true love".
Zhu Yuanzhang's teenage playmate Tang and, in addition to the main founding ministers with the same outstanding military achievements, but also has others can not be compared to a merit. The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang joined Guo Zixing's Red Turbans was the result of a letter from him.
So, Tang and can be said to be Zhu Yuanzhang joined the "revolutionary organization" of the introducer. Then, in the so-called bloody storm after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's entire life can be said to have played a key role in the soup and, what is the fate? Tang and military life, the south and north war for more than thirty years, military success between the stacked bases, but also has been named Marquis of Zhongshan and the Duke of Xin, can be said to be a high degree of respect. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang killed countless founding ministers, but Tang and such a key "revolutionary pathfinder" after all, unharmed (Tang and he did very well, with the status and power of the rise, he chose to return to the field in a timely manner, and more and more respectful), which is also a little bit to see one of the spots of the Zhu Yuanzhang nature of mind.
Guo Zixing, needless to say, is undoubtedly Zhu Yuanzhang's first nobleman. Zhu Yuanzhang to participate in Guo Zixing's peasant army, it is because of his appreciation to be able to step up, Guo also married his daughter to Zhu Yuanzhang to Zhu as his right-hand man. Although Guo Zixing was suspicious of Zhu Yuanzhang because of his misbelief in slander, Zhu Yuanzhang did not return the favor, but in the infighting, he tried to find a way to save Guo Zixing from danger. After Guo Zixing's death, Zhu Yuanzhang did not try to seize power with Guo's son, but fought together. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was more talented than Guo Zixing, had the backbone of the army, which was basically based on the 700 or so people recruited by Zhu Yuanzhang when Guo Zixing was in dire straits, and which was gradually developed through recruitment and expansion. And after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't forget to posthumously appoint Guo Zixing as the King of Chuyang, among other things.
Through the above examples, it can be seen that the fundamentals of Zhu Yuanzhang's inner character can stand up to scrutiny, and he is by no means the kind of villain who is despicable at heart. On this level alone, there are also enough reasons to prompt us to study whether Zhu Yuanzhang is a tyrant who kills meritorious officials like grass.
3, is Zhu Yuanzhang wrong or his ministers wrong?
From the bottom of the social Zhu Yuanzhang, young to avoid famine had nearly begging like wandering for three years (that is, by the suffering completely sharpened and beat the whole three rounds of winter and summer), and soon thereafter, Zhu Yuanzhang in the body of a monk to participate in the Red Turbans, after 17 years of brutal war career of the baptism of the rage, but is the miraculous achievement of the founding of the emperor of the creation of a brand-new era! --Zhu Yuanzhang is one of the most legendary emperors in Chinese history.
The 24-year-old bare hands to participate in the peasant army, 40 years old when boarded the big treasure sitting in the world, the whole process of the miracle of a *** only took Zhu Yuanzhang 17 years. 1398, Zhu Yuanzhang to 71 years old died in office, counting with his fingers, he total *** when the emperor for 31 years. In the successive generations of the unification of the founding emperors of the nine states, Zhu Yuanzhang is one of the longest time in the throne. Zhu Yuanzhang's long life (71 years old in ancient times is certainly considered to be a long life) should be attributed to his good health (perhaps honed by wandering). Zhu Yuanzhang's longevity, in turn, enabled the brilliant ancient military man to devote the second half of his long life to the great cause of governing the country, thus becoming an emperor with an outstanding political record as well.
The last years of the Mongol Yuan, the group of demons and heroes, all generations of chaos, the situation is really rare so chaotic and so intricate, and Zhu Yuanzhang can be in this great confusion later on, defeated all the demons and heroes, harvest all the crops and fruits, no matter how to look at it, he is also really counted as a rare talent. And he made to clean up the war, the light of traditional culture, restore the status of the Han Dynasty and many other aspects of the contribution, so that the emperor of the history of all outstanding achievements in civil and military radiates the light of "greatness".
But unfortunately, there is a voice that says: Zhu Yuanzhang is too brutal! He slaughtered so many of his ministers and generals! How can such a man deserve the word "great"? And, this voice is getting stronger and stronger after the death of Ming and the rise of Qing, and Zhu Yuanzhang's reputation is getting worse and worse.
So, we might as well know, and Zhu Yuanzhang side by side to fight together to fight the world who are good? Xu Da, Chang Yu Chun, Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang, Li Wenzhong, Deng Gui, Zhu Wenzheng, Tang He, Zhu Liangzu, Hu Hai, Zhou Dexing, Liao Yongzhong, Fu Youde, Feng Guoyong, Feng Sheng, Mu Ying, Blue Jade ...... can be said to be a wealth of talent, a group of heroes!
The names of many civil servants and military generals can not be listed here, but in the Ming Dynasty, the greatest credit, by and large, is these people. These founding ministers of the Ming Dynasty, although only to assist Zhu Yuanzhang this big red flower of green leaves, but does not prevent them from shining in the history of the name!
Unfortunately, most of these founding ministers had a bad ending, and many of them were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang in search of excuses. Even the folklore, including Xu Da and Liu Bowen, who were such great heroes, is that they died at the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang. Although Zhu Yuanzhang's killing spree was very questionable, people who were secretly brainwashed were inclined to think so, and they were too lazy to use their brains to question it, so they were happy to accept the Qing court's conclusions wholeheartedly.
Is this true? I don't think so. Because the Qing dynasty revision of the "Ming Dynasty" is a lot of cat and mouse, including the "Ming Dynasty" such as historical novels have also been greatly altered, and the so-called "fire Qinggong building" story, probably is also a fabrication of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Who doesn't hate a tyrant? The government has also been working on a number of new initiatives, such as the "New York Times" and the "New York Times", which will be launched in the next few months. The Manchu Qing dynasty knows this too well, in order to make all the Han people in the world forget the Ming dynasty and even hate the Ming dynasty, the emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty is determined to Zhu Yuanzhang, a rare bull into a rare tyrant of the past. Obviously, to realize this purpose is not difficult, the rulers of the Qing court only need to Zhu Yuanzhang massacre of the number of people to change the number of larger on the line, only need to the death of some corrupt officials to the death of no fault in the meritorious ministers on the line, as long as the instructions of people to make up some of the so-called folklore on the line.
So, most of the people in the Qing court who have been deceived by the propaganda that Zhu Yuanzhang is very brutal and so on have abandoned the Ming Dynasty to serve the Qing Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts. It seems that the Manchu rulers had almost achieved their goal. Of course, not all people can be deceived, otherwise, how could the struggle against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty last through the Qing Dynasty and never stop?
And in the aspect of Zhu Yuanzhang, can be called the most focus on people's livelihood in the history of China, the most hate corrupt officials, such a stern and great emperor, is likely to become the cruel sacrifice and sacrifice of this conspiracy, and even rewritten into the history of China's most brutal emperor. I think this possibility exists completely.
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Two, the death of the founding members of the Ming dynasty
Zhu Yuanzhang in the end brutal or not? In the early Ming Dynasty, the main founding ministers of the death in the end injustice? In order to answer such a question, we seem to be necessary in the factual level to make some inquiry, and even make some corresponding reasoning and judgment.
4, Xu Da in the end is the death of disease or eat steamed goose death?
First of all, Xu ** death. Folk legend has it that Xu Da late in life suffered from back gangrene, and Zhu Yuanzhang gave a steamed goose to him to eat, Xu Da ate, not a few days after the death. Such Xu ** death, I thought it is not credible. First of all, this is a wild legend, which is not credible in the first place. Secondly, will a person with back gangrene definitely die if he eats steamed goose? I do not know anything about Chinese medicine, but why can we not ask an expert in Chinese medicine to answer this question? I believe that our Chinese medicine practitioners will use science to disprove this claim. Once again, another story about Xu**'s death - Xu Da died in Nanjing in 1384 at the age of 54 due to long years of campaigning and running around so much that he became ill from exhaustion. Historical records say: Xu Da died, Zhu Yuanzhang heartbroken, drop out of the dynasty to pay tribute to the deep condolences, and listed Xu Da for the founding of the military generals in the first minister, known as the "Great Wall of China". Somehow, perhaps because of Xu Da's moderate and modest, perhaps because of Zhu Yuanzhang's basic character is trustworthy, I always thought that this latter statement should be more credible, and move Xu Da such as moving the foundation of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang is not so confused.
5, Liu Bowen is not Hu Weiyong killed?
On the death of Liu Bowen, history records say: Liu Bowen was seriously ill, because he accepted the treatment of the doctor sent by Hu Weiyong, and then died. And people usually suspect that Liu Bowen actually died at the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang. But I think he actually died of Hu Weiyong's backstabbing - Hu Weiyong, who was the prime minister at that time, hated Liu Bowen, so he instructed people to slander Zhu Yuanzhang to frame Liu Bowen, and Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally very angry, and took away Liu Boshi's title. Under the suppression of Hu Weiyong's forces, the depressed Liu Bowen finally fell ill. Then it happened that Hu Weiyong sent a doctor to see him and then Liu Bowen died, the year was 1375.
In my opinion, even if Zhu Yuanzhang really wanted to kill the ministers to solidify the power of the emperor, at that time he was absolutely no idea to kill Liu Bowen. First of all, then just seven years of statehood, the health of Zhu Yuanzhang even if you want to kill meritorious officials do not have to do it so early; Secondly, the age of 17 years older than Zhu Yuanzhang senior military adviser Liu Bowen in the dynasty is also far from the power of the Huaixi group, Zhu Yuanzhang far from a threat; Thirdly, I thought Zhu Yuanzhang was only wanting to Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong as the head of the Huaixi group and Liu Bowen as the head of the Zhedong group of the power to engage in the balance of power only. I think that Zhu Yuanzhang was just trying to strike a balance of power between the Huaxi group headed by Li Shanchang and the Zhedong group headed by Liu Bowen.
Zhu Yuanzhang had invited Liu Bo Wen to become the prime minister after Li Shanchang's retirement, but Liu Bo Wen repeatedly declined - perhaps he did not want to get involved in the vortex of the court **, perhaps he was afraid of the success of the Lord, has long held the idea of retiring after completion of the work. Zhu Yuanzhang also knows Liu Bowen's mind, it is not good to force, he turned to Liu Bowen to consult the prime minister, including Hu Weiyong candidates. Liu Bowen's answer was that none of these people would make it.
But Zhu Yuanzhang eventually appointed Hu Weiyong as his prime minister - he seemed to have other plans. But what Zhu Yuanzhang never expected was that Hu Weiyong had the audacity to kill Liu Bowen (there is also a possibility that Liu Bowen did die of illness). In short, I thought that a founding minister like Liu Bowen, who was in a relatively weak position in the court, was never killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
6, Liao Yongzhong died unjustly?
In addition to the above two similar cases, there are other types of cases worth exploring. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang killed Liao Yongzhong to override the reason, it is believed that his real cause of death is in the first time he carried out the task of murdering the King of Ming.
In my opinion, this matter depends on how one puts it. In the imperial power to the most powerful feudal society, the subject of private wear embroidered with the dragon and phoenix pattern of clothing, on the crime, I'm afraid that at least or largely are to be sentenced to death by decapitation, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty to the natural is no exception. Otherwise, then we have to consider the "Daming Law" and so on is still enforced.
And Zhu Yuanzhang law enforcement strict and is today and at the time of the people are very well known, this is an ancient and modern China and foreign countries are rare six relatives do not recognize the strict law enforcers - Zhu Yuanzhang even to the relatives of the law are never forgiven, for example: the founding minister, pro-nephew Zhu Wenzheng lawlessness, is imprisoned according to the law; extra horse harnessed by the side of a team of soldiers smuggling money, was found, also was punished according to the law, and the law of the people of the Ming Dynasty. The first time I saw this, it was a very good thing that I was able to get it right.
In this case, then Liao Yongzhong's death is actually not wrong - Zhu Yuanzhang's disposition of Liao did not exceed the provisions of the law.
But if the death of Liao Yongzhong is linked to the death of the King of Xiaoming (if the King of Xiaoming did die in Zhu Yuanzhang's conspiracy), then Zhu Yuanzhang said that Zhu Yuanzhang used the excuse to kill the ministers is also not bad.
Besides also have to say in passing, no matter what is the cause of death of the small Ming Wang, Zhu Yuanzhang's Jiangshan but always rely on their own down - although from the Guo Zixing army from Zhu Yuanzhang is the small Ming Wang, Liu Futong nominal subordinates, but in essence the two sides are only a kind of alliance between the peasants insurrectionary army. In the chaos of the world, the group of heroes, which party is not all aimed at fighting for themselves? When the small Ming King's power is lost, Zhu Yuanzhang out of morality to save the small Ming King and worship a few years, when the world will be fixed, anyone in Zhu Yuanzhang's position, who will really be their own down the river and mountain to give up to the less relevant others?
7, the other founding ministers of the end
Ming Dynasty founding, civil and military generals can be described as if the stars. However, many of these people died in the years of war, there are many in the war years or after the founding of the country in the peaceful years of death due to illness or normal old age, and some, there are due to the law and died, there are suspected of conspiracy to conspire against the matter of death or so the death of the guilt by association, and so on. Examining the causes of death of these people may help us understand Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards the issue of how to deal with meritorious officials.
Below is a list of some of the key ministers of the Ming dynasty died for reference.
Chang Yu Chun - died on the way to the Northern Expedition due to illness.
Li Wenzhong - died of illness after the founding of the country.
Zhu Wenzheng - Imprisoned for breaking the law, died of illness in prison.
Deng Gui - died of illness before the founding of the nation.
Hu Haihai - Died before the founding of the nation from the backstabbing of a descending general.
Zhu Liangzu - died after the founding of the nation after breaking the law.
Zhou Dexing - died after being implicated for his son's offense against the law.
Fu Youde - given death by Zhu Yuanzhang for asking for a reward for his fields.
Feng Guoyong - died in the army.
Feng Sheng - given to death by sitting on the Blue Jade case.
Mu Ying - defended Yunnan for generations.
Kang Mao Cai - died of illness in the army.
Guo Ying - died of old age and illness.
Ye Chen - captured by the rebels, died without giving in.
Zhang Yi - died of illness.
Examining the endings of the above meritorious officials, it is generally believed that Fu Youde and Feng Sheng were executed by Zhu Yuanzhang under the pretext of keeping his grandson's throne free from any possible threat. If the Qing revision of the "Ming History" did not tamper with the issue of these two people, then these two meritorious officials are indeed wrongly accused. If this is the case, then we can say that Zhu Yuanzhang's excuses for killing meritorious ministers were not entirely fabricated, but were indeed true.
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Three, Hu Lan case is not wrongful imprisonment?
8, Hu blue case of complexity
The real Zhu Yuanzhang to kill meritorious ministers of the infamous mainly occurred in 1380 "Hu Weiyong conspiracy against the case" and took place in 1393 "blue jade party case", the history book records that Zhu Yuanzhang Historical records say that Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of these two cases to slaughter 30,000 and 15,000 people respectively by the method of "guilt by association" - these two large numbers have a reason to be skeptical, as there were many kinds of distortions in the history of the Ming Dynasty when the Qing Dynasty revised the Ming History. If these figures are not the result of manipulation, but the truth of history, then it is indeed worthwhile for future generations to explore them.
How to say, in feudal society, throughout the dynasties, plotting against the emperor, the party is usually a great hatred of the crime, the punishment is usually all kinds of extreme, including torture, sit-in. Therefore, the key to these two cases lies in whether Hu Weiyong and Lan Yu were really wrongly accused, not in how many people were killed. If these two were not wrongly accused, then it cannot be said that Zhu Yuanzhang was using the excuse to kill meritorious officials. If Hu and Lan were wrongly accused, then Zhu Yuanzhang should rightly carry this bad reputation of massacring meritorious officials.
The complexity of the problem is that, first, even in today's view, Hu, blue, these two are indeed rebellious or arrogance and lawlessness; second, in the view of posterity, Zhu Yuanzhang did cut the prime minister of this institution to centralize power in the emperor's intention; third, the Qing Dynasty, the revision of the "History of the Ming Dynasty," the Ming Dynasty history books and historical facts have also been tampered with and destroyed the behavior of the act. The above three points are mixed together, indeed constitute a great obstacle and difficulty for people today who want to know the true details of these two cases.
But let's analyze these two cases.
9, "Hu Weiyong rebellion": Hu Weiyong should be killed?
Hu Weiyong, followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the early years of the army, quite favored, has served as marshal of the House of Zuozai, county, pass judge and so on a variety of low and mid-level official positions in the founding of the country is almost no number. That is to say, Zhu Yuanzhang in the process of fighting the world, Hu Weiyong's achievements are very small, and even because of the followers of Zhu Yuanzhang, he only in the chaos of the world to mix a mouth to eat is not necessarily. Anyway, I'm afraid to list Hu Weiyong as a founding minister is a bit of a stretch, right?
It should be said that Hu Weiyong's success was mainly after the founding of the country. In the third year of Hongwu (1370), Hu was appointed as the Counselor of the Ministry of the People's Republic of China. In the sixth year of Hongwu (`1373), he was again appointed as the right prime minister. In the tenth year of Hongwu (`1377), Hu Weiyong even became the left prime minister, who was at the head of the hundred officials! Hu Weiyong did not make any great achievements in the process of fighting the world, but because he was a close friend of Li Shanchang, and also trusted by Zhu Yuanzhang, he was promoted very quickly, and could be regarded as a beneficiary in the struggle for the balance of power.
Initially, only Zhu Yuanzhang account paperwork Hu Weiyong, the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang promoted up to the important task, in fact, only Zhu Yuanzhang want to use to check and balance the court in the most powerful leader of the Huaixi faction Li Shanchang a chess piece, but Hu Weiyong in the first few years as prime minister, on the one hand, both Zhu Yuanzhang's favor, on the other hand, but also rely on Li Shanchang, which makes Zhu Yuanzhang is very uncomfortable, and the problem is so much. Hu Weiyong's own problems and so many - Hu Weiyong see their own power day by day, it is increasingly arrogant and domineering, such as authoritarian and arbitrary decision-making, bribery, such as the formation of a party to consolidate themselves, trying to rebel, as well as the collusion of Japan, Mongolia, and so on - so Zhu Yuanzhang simply This ambitious and growing force of his was completely abolished. After that, Zhu Yuanzhang, who did not do anything, did not rest, for the sake of his children and grandchildren, and for the sake of the gods of the earth and grain, simply uprooted Li Shanchang, the tree with the most complicated roots. At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang finally decided to put the idea of the abolition of the post of prime minister in the heart of the bud for a long time into practice.
Is it true that Hu Weiyong was convicted of these crimes? He was sentenced to the crime of conspiracy to commit treason in the end unjustly? On this point, I thought that even if we exclude the intention of Zhu Yuanzhang to abolish the institution of the prime minister, it should not be wrongly accused. In the case of Hu Weiyong rebellion, if the number of historical records is not wrong, then Zhu Yuanzhang's guilt-by-association of the killings are also involved in the suspicion of too wide.
The criminal law, such as sit-in, to the eyes of the present is of course very irrational, but in ancient China, whether it is a slave society or feudal society, dynasties, including the Tang and Song dynasties, there is no not the implementation of this law (including a variety of tortures are also the same). Therefore, we should not take today's standards to measure and abuse Zhu Yuanzhang on the so-called plotting against the so-called sit-in. Fortunately, mankind has already entered a modern society with a high degree of civilization, and in today's world, torture and guilt by association have long been abolished by various countries.
10, "Blue Jade Party case": Blue Jade should not be killed?
Blue Yu, Kai Ping Wang Chang Yu Chun inner brother, early in Chang Yu Chun under the account of the order, courageous and resourceful, repeated military successes, in the early Ming Dynasty, many of the founding ministers belong to the late show. In the 14th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Fu Youde to lead an army of 300,000 to conquer Yunnan, and Lan Yu was ordered to be the second-in-command, and Mu Ying was the third-in-command, resulting in a great victory, and Lan Yu was able to be awarded the title of Marquis. Hongwu twenty-one years (1388), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered blue jade for the general commanding 150,000 troops to crusade against Mongolia, blue jade rate of the army straight to the fishing sea (now Lake Baikal), defeated the Mongolian army, the Mongols from then on into internal strife. The Mongols were then plunged into civil strife, and Blue Jade was named Duke of Liang.
Blue Yu military success is indeed very large, but he is proud of his achievements, arrogant and domineering, many problems, such as invasion and occupation of the people's land, the Zhuang Nu fake son of up to thousands of people, the northern expedition to invade a lot of booty such as treasures and so on. In addition, Lan Yu expressed his worries about Zhu Di to the crown prince Zhu Biao, which resulted in offending Zhu Di. Zhu Di later badmouthed Lan Yu in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, causing Zhu Yuanzhang to be very upset with Lan Yu. Later, Jin Yiwei reported that Lan Yu attempted to plot against ......
Should Lan Yu be killed or not? Even if you do not count the so-called conspiracy against this crime, according to the law strictly pursued up blue jade's various illegal behavior, I think he is not far from the death penalty. But after all, blue jade is the military achievements of the general, kill the Ming dynasty is really a greater loss. It depends on Zhu Yuanzhang to do what kind of choice. The result, Zhu Yuanzhang's decision is to kill.
Lan Yu's death obviously deprived the Ming Dynasty of a brave and intelligent general. If the Ming dynasty intends to Mongolia occupied territory for the territory, then Zhu Yuanzhang late in life of blue jade, Fu Youde, Feng Sheng a few naturally is the best to expand the territory of the generals, but unfortunately Zhu Yuanzhang is only suitable for grazing is not suitable for cultivation of the barren desert north is not interested in, so the value of the blue jade is no longer a great use. So, in the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was already in his old age, Lan Yu, who had many men in his heart, became a big threat to the imperial power. After the death of Prince Zhu Biao, in view of the royal grandson of the weak, Zhu Yuanzhang more feel the threat of this big. In addition, Lan Yu's words and deeds have been many misdemeanors, and Jin Yiwei secretly reported that Lan Yu wanted to plot against the government, Zhu Yuanzhang simply put him in a pot.
Is this case wrong? Is it true that killing too many people? Historically, there are also many different opinions. My personal opinion is that I tend to think that overall it is not a wrongful conviction.
11, where the ills of feudal society
Zhu Yuanzhang want to save their own country forever, want to build a law and order of the good society, he can not allow himself to start the country chaotic filth, he wanted to circumvent their own deaths after the world is back in chaos of any little risk, so he repeatedly out of the bowl of iron heavy fist - he has! Wrong? According to his philosophy and thinking, he was not wrong.
And what about the major ministers? Are the blood and fire out of the good man, suffered, sweated, shed blood, sitting on the river and mountain want to live a little more comfortable, enjoy a little, so can not help but indulge some, wanton some - this is understandable, but the premise is to comply with the law, and strict requirements for their own.
Because of the emperor's eternal solid jiangshan precautionary consciousness, there will inevitably be a number of has or has not been a meritorious ministers died may be more wrong ...... then, the descendants and how to comment on all this?
In fact, this kind of problem in the final analysis, the crux of the problem is bound to come down to the system. Feudal society, I am afraid that the systemic shortcomings of feudal society is any emperor can not be solved, mankind can only continue to move into a more civilized, more democratic, more enlightened form of society, in order to overcome these shortcomings from the root.
All in all, to summarize, I think Zhu Yuanzhang no principle, arbitrary slaughter of meritorious ministers in general is very worthy of in-depth exploration and questioning, and even is also possible to completely overthrow or partially overthrow the.