Zhu Yuanzhang's son Zhu Tan was "tortured", what is the punishment?
Among all the sons of Zhu Yuanzhang, except for Zhu Biao, who originally became the crown prince, and Zhu Di, who later launched the War of Resistance against Japan, the other heirs are not famous.
This is partly due to the fact that none of the other sons have merits worthy of mention, and partly because the actions of some of them are not worthy of mention.
For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's son Zhu Tan was eventually personally handed over by Zhu Yuanzhang"Punishment"and was humiliated by his immorality and bad deeds.
But in feudal times,"Punishment"What kind of punishment is it?What kind of absurdity is the ending of King Lu Zhu Tan?
PunishmentBefore going into more detail about this punishment, let's first review another story from the Three Kingdoms period - the head of the hair cut.
When Cao Cao led his troops to fight, he strictly ordered the soldiers not to trample on the peasants' crops. Therefore, when Cao Cao galloped through the fields, his war horses would rush into the wheat fields with impunity.
In order to rectify the situation, Cao Cao finally decided to get a haircut as a commemoration. Posterity can't help but ask, how could cutting hair make the crime of beheading so easy?
Mainly because Cao Cao and his generals valued hair far more than they could have imagined.
The so-called punishment is actually to shave all the hair, so that people have no excuse to be a monk.
Although this punishment does not cause physical pain, the mental humiliation is enough to break one. When a hairless man walks out of the house, people understand that he has been tortured.
In this case, pointing fingers and whispering to those around you can make people have a nervous breakdown, and life is worse than death.
It is particularly shameful that a royal nobleman like Lu Zhuanggong is obviously sitting on status and power, but he is treated like this by his father.
You must know that the ancient Chinese feudal dynasty attached great importance to four words: filial piety, loyalty, and faithfulness. Zhu Yuanzhang used this move to send a message to the world: his son Zhu Tan's bad behavior has nothing to do with his father's feelings.
It is not fair that he was born to his parents and that he should be scalped. Such an unfaithful and unfilial person is a disgrace to the Ming Dynasty.
People don't care about the causes and consequences of Zhu Yuanzhang, anyway, Zhu Yuanzhang covers the sky with one hand, and the final explanation is up to Zhu Yuanzhang, people only understand that Zhu Tan is a unique and good person.
What did Zhu Dan do?
So, what did Zhu Tan do to be humiliated by Zhu Yuanzhang?He went from being an object of royal envy to being an object of disgust and despise by all, what happened in this?
During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Guo Ning, who was in charge of the affairs of the Six Palaces, gave birth to Zhu Tan for Zhu Yuanzhang. Because Zhu Tan's uncles Guo Xing and Guo Ying made great achievements for Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Tan unknowingly became the king of Lu and was named the assassin of Yanzhou.
Those familiar with Zhu Yuanzhang's political organization know that the feudal kings guarded the frontier in order to ensure that power was in the hands of the Zhu family and to protect the frontier from enemy attacks and harassment.
But Zhu Tan never thought about these things when he was growing up. In his opinion, the emperor is far away, how can Zhu Yuanzhang, who is in Jinling City, take care of King Lu who is guarding the border pass?
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard the news, he personally wrote a warning letter. Unexpectedly, Zhu Tan not only didn't listen, but even felt that Zhu Yuanzhang was helpless. Unexpectedly, Zhu Tan became more and more depraved because of this distorted mentality.
Gradually, when hedonism could not satisfy Zhu Tan's ugly desires, he began to think about alchemy and cultivating immortals. As long as there are immortal cultivators, between heaven and earth, where can't you go?Won't the enemy troops on the border disappear in the blink of an eye?
No one knows why Zhu Dan had such an idea, but according to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", because Zhu Dan had been taking metal pills containing too many toxins for a long time, his mind was not very clear, and he even had severe headaches from time to time.
So, Zhu Dan invited the Quartet Taoist priests to come and seek a solution. However, the alchemists of the time knew how to use deception to cure diseases and save people.
I don't know which of these ghosts and lakes Taoist priests proposed to bring the life of a child and cure His Majesty's headache. The point is that King Lu really listened to the words of the Taoist priests in the rivers and lakes against innocent people.
This matter reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, he couldn't believe that his child would have such an idea and do such a thing, and in a fit of anger, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Zhu Tan, the king of Lu, to be executed. Isn't he going to learn the Tao and cultivate immortals?Now shave your hair and see how Taoism adapts to you.
Zhu Dan, the Taoist priests around Zhu Dan and Zhu Dan's concubines, all escaped and were executed because of their identities.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought, if it weren't for their tolerance, how could Zhu Dan end up like this. However, no matter how hard Zhu Yuanzhang tried, he couldn't pull Zhu Tan back from the wrong path.
Although the Taoist priest was executed, but"The method of alchemy"is still in Zhu Tan's hands. Soon after, Zhu Dan died due to alchemy.