Mr. Lu Xun once affectionately expressed this view: once a slave turns over and becomes a master, they are often more ruthless than the original host. Why? It can be summarized mainly into several aspects: first, they have suffered humiliation and oppression in the past, and their inner repression has been accumulating; Second, when they turn over and become masters, these long-pent-up emotions may be like a volcanic eruption, instantly occupy their brains, become completely unrestrained by others, and act more cruelly.
In the long river of history, there is a well-known figure - Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, after the peasant emperor ascended to the throne from scratch, he showed a strong hatred for those ordinary people, scholars and corrupt people who were similar to his previous background. One of the most vivid examples in my memory is that during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, no one was allowed to use the word "rule" in an article. Why? It turned out that this word became a homonym for "thief" in the Jianghuai dialect. Because Zhu Yuanzhang had personally experienced the painful life of being helpless and living on the streets since he was a child, he had a deep hostility towards these groups who were born in poverty but were full of arrogance and ridicule in their hearts. He felt unjust about his past self, and hated those who had a similar fate to him.
As for the readers, Lin Yuanliang's case is impressive. In an article called "Xie Zengfeng Table", he quoted a sentence "Descending children and grandchildren are the rule", but it was this word "rule" that caused Zhu Yuanzhang's strong dissatisfaction. The emperor did not hesitate to order his arrest to Jingshi, and then cut off his head mercilessly.
What is even more unfortunate is that Zhao Boning, the instructor of Pingfu Studies, also made the same mistake in his article "Wanshou Table" - using the words "leading by descendants", which also attracted a catastrophe.
Jiang Zhen, the instructor of Guilin Mansion, was famous for singing praises to the imperial court, but he unfortunately misused the "rules of construction" when writing the "Zhengdan Greeting Table", and finally failed to escape the fate of being beheaded.
Zhu Yuanzhang had lived as a temple monk, so he was very mindful of anyone's ** shampoo used for hair growth, which made him have a deep aversion to words like "light" and "hair". Jiang Zhen, the instructor of Changzhou Mansion, lost his life because of the words "wise and knowledgeable" in the "Zhengdan Greeting Table".
Xu Yuan, the prefectural edict of Weishi County, was rigorously worded in the "Longevity Greeting Table" and did not involve inappropriate remarks. But Zhu Yuanzhang still grasped the subtleties. He asked angrily, "You put."'Fakun'Isn't the interpretation of 'dharma' as 'hair' implying that I was once a down-and-out monk with no head?
Faced with the sudden questioning, Lao Xu was terrified and tried to justify. However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not give him any chance to defend himself, and decisively ordered his execution.
For the wealthy, Zhu Yuanzhang showed no mercy. For him, life is too short to be able to maintain basic living conditions; If he pursues wealth too much, it will undoubtedly become a sin in his eyes.
Under his rule, order in the south was chaotic, and the wealthy who had rich families either fled for refuge or were brought into action. He was even more unrelenting about the corrupt officials, executing a large number of criminals every year, and most of them were executed. He even invented a horrific punishment - "peeling daylilies" (that is, stripping people's ** and then filling them with forage) sounds terrifying!
In general, Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was filled with jealousy, and he also punished the long-lost ancients in an extremely auspicious and unbearable way. For example, Mencius, because he once expressed the view that "the king is light on the people", Zhu Yuanzhang was deeply disturbed. So he did not hesitate to delete and alter Mencius's works and completely relegated him to dust.
Zhu Yuanzhang's hatred for a certain surname is jaw-dropping, and the men in that surname have been deprived of their liberty for generations and have been slaves for life; Women, on the other hand, have been left in the dust, abused for generations. So, which surname is the creepy one?
Regarding the cruel treatment of meritorious heroes, Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior simply surpassed that of any ancient emperor, whether it was Lan Yu, who held a heavy army, or Li Shanchang, a seventy-year-old minister who had retired after his success, they were all accused of heinous crimes, and the end was actually the nine clans of Zhulian!
Zhu Yuanzhang's killers against his generals and ** are far more than that, and he is also jealous and hateful to some famous big families, constantly exerting pressure and **. Here's a vivid example of this – the Pu family.
Regarding this family, Zhu Yuanzhang simply couldn't stand their existence, so he successively issued holy decrees, demoting people with the surname Pu to the bottom of society, prohibiting them from participating in the imperial examinations, and not holding public office. Men can only live forever as slaves of large families, while women have an even more miserable fate and can only work in the prostitution industry.
As the saying goes: "There is no hatred in the world for no reason", so why did Zhu Yuanzhang act like this? In fact, there is a deep historical background hidden in this.
It is said that in the last years of the Song Dynasty, a big businessman named Pu Shougeng appeared in the south. He is said to be of Arab descent from a mysterious background, and his father made his fortune in the spice business, eventually settling in Guangdong, the coastal areas of Fujian, and Vietnam.
However, this mysterious figure was not born wealthy, but at the age of about thirty, he was unstoppable in the face of the southern invasion of the Yuan army, and in this chaotic situation, piracy along the coast of Fujian was so frequent that merchant ships were plundered in broad daylight. The Song Dynasty was weak and powerless, and could do nothing about it. At this time, in order to protect himself, Pu Shougeng cooperated with his brother Pu Shouchen to form a powerful fleet by using the interpersonal resources and wealth left by his ancestors.
After hard work, he finally succeeded in repelling the pirates in the territory and re-established a safe business environment. However, Pu Shougeng's actions attracted the attention and opposition of the imperial court. Although in fact the imperial court was already too busy to take care of itself, it could only acquiesce to Pu Shougeng's actions and give him the position of Fujian pacification coastal control envoy, legitimizing his armed movement.
However, in 1276, the Yuan army easily captured the Southern Song capital of Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou), and the five-year-old Gongzong was unfortunately a prisoner of war. Subsequently, Chen Yizhong, Zhang Shijie, Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang and others hurriedly set up another emperor (Duanzong) and launched the anti-Yuan movement.
They escorted the new emperor to flee Quanzhou in the chaos, but unfortunately before they reached their destination, they came with the sad news that made them desperate - Quanzhou had already changed its flag and announced its surrender to the Yuan army.
Originally of Arab descent, Pu Shou Geng did not have much emotional investment in the Song Dynasty, and because of his personality traits, he was also comfortable in choosing between loyalty and rebellion. When the Yuan army occupied Lin'an, the Mongol lord Boyan sent an envoy to seek to appease Pu Shougeng, but he sternly refused. Although it is not so much that Pu Shougeng was patriotic, it was more due to the uncertain threats from all sides at that time, which led him to adopt a cautious strategy.
As the Southern Song army retreated, Pu Shougeng gradually saw that the struggle had no chance of victory, so he decided to surrender to the Yuan army. For Pu Shougeng, this is actually just out of conforming to the principle of the creator to avoid misfortune and seek blessings.
As we all know, once you decide to join the camp of the Yuan army, you must resolutely cut ties with the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty and make your attitude clear. However, when Emperor Duanzong arrived, Boss Pu decisively ordered the city gate to be closed and resolutely refused the request of the Song soldiers to enter the city, resulting in Duanzong and others being stranded in the Donghai Fashi Temple in embarrassment, and they could not even stretch their bodies when sleeping. Despite this, Boss Pu, as a business tycoon who once served the Southern Song Dynasty, did not dare to launch any attack on Emperor Duanzong, retaining his basic dignity as a ** in the Southern Song Dynasty in the past.
Subsequently, Zhang Shijie tried to negotiate with Boss Pu, hoping to go into the city to borrow their boat. However, in the face of the strong pressure of the Yuan army, Boss Pu hesitated and failed to respond. Seeing this, Zhang Shijie had no choice but to take action, snatch Boss Pu's ship, and even temporarily confiscate his property to realize his military plan. This move obviously angered Boss Pu and escalated the contradictions between the two sides.
In order to solve the problem, Zhang Shijie finally decided to attack and occupy Quanzhou. Regrettably, however, this offensive did not succeed and only made the situation more serious. Since then, Boss Pu has launched a pursuit and ** campaign against Song Duanzong and his entourage, completely ignoring their identity as the royal family of the Southern Song Dynasty. It is worth noting that Boss Pu did this not on his whim, but with the support of a complex political background. He knew that the Quanzhou region, especially the powerful families who had lived here for generations such as Xia Jing and Tian Zhenzi, as well as the Daluhua Akabayashi Junzi, who had military power, were very pessimistic about the future of the Southern Song emperors, and generally tended to support the Yuan Dynasty.
Although Boss Pu's actions are cruel and ruthless, for those members of the Pu family who are not directly related to him, they may not need to bear the disaster he brings. What's more, modern DNA testing technology did not exist at that time, and it was difficult to confirm whether every person surnamed Pu really had a blood inheritance relationship with Boss Pu. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if a person is indeed a direct descendant of Boss Pu, his ancestors should be held accountable for their faults in accordance with the law, and he or his descendants should not be held accountable for this unjust responsibility.
Looking back at history, there have been some unforgivable sinners in every surname. For example, Qin Hui during the Song Dynasty, his wife's surname was Wang, and Zhang Bangchang once held a traitor-like position. Can we launch a large-scale policy of refinancing and forcing all people with the surname Wang and Zhang to repay their grievances? Similarly, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, hated Pu Shougeng so much that he exhumed his body, and he did his best to hunt down everyone with the surname Pu. However, in reality, this practice does not hide the truth, and is more like a kind of nonsense revenge, lacking the most basic legal respect.
In addition, China's history is vast and profound, and the list goes on and on. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, a figure named Zhu Wen appeared, who was originally a general of the Tang Dynasty, but came from the countryside, and later switched to the Huangchao peasant uprising and became a brave and warlike general. Later, he defected to the imperial court and gradually took control of the ** regime of the Tang Dynasty. Then, he mercilessly executed Tang Zhaozong and supported the puppet emperor, and finally ascended the throne as emperor and founded the Later Liang regime. According to some, Zhu Wen is simply a model of grassroots hero; However, from the perspective of traditional morality, he is obviously a disloyal and unfilial rebel thief, and he has committed many crimes. So, if according to Zhu Yuanzhang's standards, wouldn't all the descendants of the surname Zhu have to suffer?
Throughout the whole incident, Pu Shougeng is certainly extremely guilty, but his descendants are not all the continuation of his crimes. Qin Hui of the Southern Song Dynasty was regarded as the culprit of Yue Fei's murder, and some people even accused him of secretly cooperating with the Golden Vulture Technique, which can be called the best person. A significant percentage of these people may just be casually scolding. By the way, the offspring of the bad guy does not always inherit his ugly genes. There are many excellent examples in history of whose ancestors made serious mistakes and even betrayed the country. However, their descendants have tried to make up for the mistakes left by history and continue to contribute to society.
After all, we can't obliterate someone's own worth and meaning just because their ancestors made mistakes.
However, we must admit that even if his descendants have many patriots, such as the famous female general - Comrade Qin Liangyu at the end of the Qing Dynasty, she is an outstanding representative of our resistance to foreign enemies! In addition, the first year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty also gave birth to Mr. Qin Rigang, the hero of the peasant uprising, the military commander of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
At the same time, there is still a descendant of the Qin family who is deeply angry at Qin Hui's loss of national integrity, so he inscribed the story of "people are ashamed of their name from the Song Dynasty, and I am ashamed of my surname Qin when I go to the grave". This undoubtedly shows that the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang and the Pu family are unreasonable, and this practice is not only cruel, but also excessively ignorant. On the contrary, if Zhu Yuanzhang's meritorious generals are regarded as necessary measures to defend the country, then the behavior of Pu's descendants is really unjustifiable.
We have to admit that the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang chose Pu as the target is not accidental, and there is a profound historical and political background in it. Despite the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, Mongol forces remained in the northern regions, which posed a great challenge to the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang tried to warn others not to get too close to the Mongolian people by attacking the Pu family, otherwise they would suffer serious consequences, and in fact this also reflected his determination and decisive means of authoritative rule.