Who are the six heroes under Zhu Yuanzhang? What are the advantages of each?

Let's start with Li Shanchang, the first prime minister. He was the first capable counselor Zhu Yuanzhang knew. Some people say that he was Xiao He of the Han Dynasty. At the age of 26, Zhu Yuanzhang was only a "town magistrate" under Guo Zixing, the leader of the peasant uprising army. Although Zhu is Guo's adopted son-in-law, he is unknown in the army and never thought he would make a difference. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang "met Li Shanchang, a Dingyuan man, and was pleased with his words, so he attacked Chuzhou with all the soldiers" (see "The First in Ming History"). Since then, Li has become Zhu's official adviser, presiding over salaries and coordinating personnel, with remarkable achievements. It was only after this that Zhu's power gradually grew and became the leader of the rebel army. That's him, Li Shanchang, who is fourteen years older than Zhu Yuanzhang, pretended not to be king when Zhu wanted to be king, "leading his ministers to persuade him not to promise him. Please, it's Wu's memorial. " It's him again. When Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to be an emperor, but he was afraid to mention it, "Shuai advised Jin, and the three appearances were empty, and Jia Zi told God." ..... It can be said that there would be no Zhu Dynasty without Li Shanchang, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is Xiao He of the Han Dynasty. However, how did Zhu Yuanzhang treat such a hero well?

139 1 year, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor for 23 years, and Li Shanchang was 77 years old. He retired at home ten years ago, but he was re-employed because of lack of resources. His son also married Princess Lin 'an and was in-laws with Zhu Yuanzhang. Unfortunately, "Li Shanchang accused the emperor of killing Beijingers and was so angry that he was put to death (according to the Romance of Twenty-four Histories by Lu Anshi). With a simple excuse, Zhu Yuanzhang could kill Li Shanchang, his wife, daughter, brother and nephew * * * more than 70 people, all except Ma Jia. Pity this dead old hero, which is related to the family and the country, can be exempted from uncle Dan's iron ticket. After all, he will die of natural causes. What a great injustice!

The death of the second Prime Minister Hu became a national unjust prison. Ming Shi said that he was a traitor and had deliberately rebelled. However, judging from the Record of Exposing Traitors promulgated by Zhu Yuanzhang, the evidence of Hu's rebellion is not sufficient, and some evidence can't stand scrutiny. It was all reported by domestic slaves and villains. Even if Hu Zhen has rebellious thoughts and actions, it seems that Zhu Yuanzhang has been arrogant for a long time and insisted on it for a while.

According to Hu Chuan of Ming History, "Since the constitution was put forward, the emperor took mediocrity as his talent, spoiled it, and mediocrity also encouraged it." Later, "only Yongzi galloped in the city and fell under the car and died, but Yong killed the car (driver). The emperor was furious and ordered to be executed." However, I asked Jin Bo to give it to his family, but I was afraid. I was looking for trouble. "In feudal society, it is normal for the prime minister to kill slaves. Besides, the domestic slaves were dereliction of duty, but Zhu Yuanzhang made a mountain out of a molehill and insisted on going to Liangshan. So Zhu also took this as an example of rebellion. "There are more than 30,000 people, who are connected by words and sit down and punish them." "Even the vines are not quiet for several years. "How many princes and ministers were beheaded because of the Hu case?

If it is a powerful court etiquette, there may be the possibility of rebellion, but Zhu Yuanzhang has never let go of the scholar-officials like Liu Ji and Song Lian who have no military power and heavy power. At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang sent envoys to obtain Qingtian Liuji, Pujiang Song Lian, Longquan Zhangyi and Lishui Yechen, and said with joy: "I am Mr. Qu Si for the world." In the future, "consult current events and see the ceremony." It can be seen that when Zhu Yuanzhang didn't win the world at that time, how much he cherished talents! But once they won the world, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that they were a thorn in the side.

Liu Ji is a scholar who combines the merits of Sean and the heart of Fan Li, and he knows the "wind vane". Perhaps he has seen the nature of Zhu Yuanzhang and retired home soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The clever Liu Ji thought there would be a good result, but he was completely wrong. Because of the bad blood between Liu Ji and Hu in their daily work, Hu made up the story of kingcraft in Qingtian, Liu Ji's hometown, in retaliation. Hu is not an astrologer. Why did Zhu Yuanzhang believe the story of his king? Zhu found a suitable excuse instead of listening to rumors. So in a rage, Zhu Yuanzhang took Liu Ji's salary without doing any investigation. Who has the "king"? This is a major event in feudal society, and it needs to be beheaded! Liu Ji knows this well, so he dare not stay in his hometown. In order to show his intention, he simply moved to Beijing, but unfortunately Liu Bowen, who has made great efforts, miscalculated again-he came to Beijing to die. Sure enough, once he fell ill and ate the wine sent by Zhu Yuanzhang or Hu, and soon he was sad.

Song Lian is also an etiquette. Almost all of Zhu Yuanzhang's speeches, imperial edicts and denunciations were made by him, and he was also the teacher of the Prince. Song Lian was a world-class figure at that time, and was called "Tai Shigong" by ambassadors and scholars from all over the world. He never imagined that he had no desire to be an official. After retiring, he just wanted to teach and write with peace of mind. However, his grandson was implicated because of his association with Hu and was copied by the whole family. When Zhu Yuanzhang was ready to kill him, it was because Ma Huanghou remonstrated in front of Zhu Yuanzhang that Song Lian was not "beheaded". Ma Huanghou said: "When people hire teachers for their children, they still start with courtesy. Where is the son of heaven? If you live at home, you won't know. " Ma Huanghou is the wife of Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang listened to her words and demoted Song Lian to Maozhou, Sichuan. Poor old man in his seventies. How can he endure such torture? He died before he was halfway there.

While Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting in the capital, he fought abroad for a long time, and General Aquamarine, who had made great contributions to the development of Zhujiajian territory, was afraid. He said, "Which civilian has always been in this dynasty?" Seeing that ministers were killed one by one, aquamarine finally made up his mind to rebel, knowing that it was going to hurt himself, which just gave Zhu Yuanzhang an excuse. Before the rebellion was carried out, Aquamarine was captured by the Royal Guards, and she was beheaded.

Zhu Yuanzhang not only killed the so-called treacherous court official and treacherous court official, but also spared him as long as he was a hero, even without any excuse, such as General Fu Youde, General Sheng Feng and viceroy Zhu Wenzheng, all of whom were executed for no reason. In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang killed one door after another, more than fifteen thousand people. At this point, ministers involved in farmland basically disappeared.

People say that the first emperor was tyrannical, but he didn't kill a hero. Fu Su and Meng Tian were killed by II, while Li Si was killed by Zhao Gao. People say that Liu Bang can only share weal and woe, not share weal and woe. However, he stopped killing Chen and Han Xin was killed by Lu. People say that Li Shimin is cruel and willing to kill his brother for the throne, but he can be kind to heroes, even if he follows his brother's rebels, he will spare them one by one. Only Zhu Yuanzhang killed the hero mercilessly. He is Shang Zhouwang, not Shang Zhouwang, Qin Shihuang and Qin Shihuang. Among more than 300 emperors in ancient and modern times, Zhu Yuanzhang is the most violent one!

Alas, how sad it is that heroes were born in the Ming Dynasty!

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