The cunning rabbit is dead and the lackey cooks, and the birds are good and the bow is hidden. This sentence vividly summarizes the relationship between the founding emperor and the heroes of the ancient times, who can share hardships and hardships, but it is difficult to share blessings. A very typical example is Zhu Yuanzhang and his brothers in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor, is familiar to everyone. He grew up in a poor family, herded cattle, worked as a monk, traveled all over the world, and even worked as a beggar. Later, under the recommendation of his fellow villagers, he entered the military camp and started his career in the army.
It is really not easy to go from a poor boy to the position of emperor step by step. Among them, there is hard work, luck, and a group of brothers who followed their birth and death, they tried their best to resist the Yuan, loyally assisted, and finally founded the Ming Dynasty. Among them, there is a founding hero who is comparable to Xiao He and ranks at the top of the merit book, but in the end he ended up being wiped out, he is Li Shanchang.
If he hadn't met Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Shanchang would still be a teacher. The turning point in his fortunes came in 1351. That year, Li Shanchang was 39 years old and became Zhu Yuanzhang's adviser, which started their inseparable war years for more than ten years. Every step of the siege and land grabbing forward, there are Li Shanchang's suggestions. Zhu Yuanzhang praised him as "Xiao He in the world", full of friendship and respect.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Li Shanchang has followed me for many years, although he did not fight on the battlefield, but he made suggestions and governed the rear, and he should be promoted to a great country." Li Shanchang served as the prime minister of Zuo, and was later named the "Duke of Korea".Become the only civil official at the head of the six dukes, a supreme minister! Zhu Yuanzhang also married his daughter Princess Lin'an to Li Shanchang's son Li Qi.
As the saying goes, it's easy to fight the country and it's hard to defend it. Zhu Yuanzhang was already 40 years old when he became the emperor, he was suspicious and ruthless, and for the sake of the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty and future generations, he went on a killing spree, implicating and killing more than 100,000 Confucian scholars, eunuchs and ordinary people.
The prince had already been identified as Zhu Biao, who would have thought that he would die young. So in accordance with the principle of "establishing a successor but not a long, and establishing a long and not a virtuous", the new prince became Zhu Biao's son Zhu Yunwen. Zhu Yunwen is very young and has a kind and generous personality, and whether the throne is stable has become Zhu Yuanzhang's top priority. He was more suspicious than ever.
Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, Li Shanchang, who has followed Zhu Yuanzhang for many years, has relaxed his vigilance. He is resourceful and thoughtful, but he also has weaknesses. "History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Li Shanchang" records that he is "generous on the outside and carveful on the inside", which means that Li Shanchang looks tolerant and friendly on the outside, but in fact he likes to be jealous and mean to others in his heart. Especially after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he was even more proud of his achievements, pampered and arrogant.
As a Huaixi person, in order to protect the interests of himself and his fellow villagers, he gradually formed a "Huaixi faction" in the imperial court. He single-handedly promoted Hu Weiyong, and the "Huaixi faction" formed gangs to eliminate dissidents, and their influence became bigger and bigger.
Zhu Yuanzhang also sensed that something was wrong, on the one hand, Li Shanchang's power was getting bigger and bigger, he thought:"If this continues, won't the prestige of the prime minister not exceed that of me, the emperor? ”On the other hand, his colleagues and rivals kept giving Li Shanchang "small shoes", so Zhu Yuanzhang's friendship with Li Shanchang slowly faded, and later Li Shanchang went home due to illness, and Zhu Yuanzhang took this opportunity to fire his squid, and Li Shanchang returned to his hometown from then on.
It stands to reason that Li Shanchang has returned to the field after dismantling his armor, and he is far away from the rivers and lakes, so he should have disappeared, but there are still legends of him on the rivers and lakes. After all, he used to be the eldest brother of the Huaixi faction, and Hu Weiyong, a fellow countryman who was single-handedly promoted by him, was also the prime minister of the left, so he was at home, and his heart was still in the court. This kind of influence made Zhu Yuanzhang always feel that it was a threat to the imperial power of the Zhu family, and it was a big heart disease. This laid the groundwork for Li Shanchang's tragedy in the future.
Many years later, Hu Weiyong's party and selfishness intensified, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say a word, and cut him down for the crime of treason, and was implicated in the killing of more than 30,000 people, becoming one of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty. After cutting him off, there was no one to restrain Zhu Yuanzhang anymore, and Zhu Yuanzhang simply cut off the profession of prime ministerChina's prime minister system was completely ended, Hu Weiyong became the last prime minister of China, and the imperial power was greatly strengthened.
At that time, Hu Weiyong had a close relationship with Li Shanchang, and they were still in-laws, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not delve into it. Five years after Hu Weiyong's case, Li Shanchang's family was implicated again, and someone accused Li Shanchang's younger brother and father and son of being Hu Weiyong's henchmen, which was an unforgivable thing for Zhu Yuanzhang, who was suspicious by nature. But Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the face of his old friend and issued an edict to avoid death. However, Li Shanchang had no intention of being grateful for this at all, which made Zhu Yuanzhang's dissatisfaction accumulate more and more.
Later, one after another, the straws that broke the camel's back finally caused death. "A straw" is that Li Shanchang wants to build a house, in order to put up a shelf, he actually borrowed 300 soldiers from his former subordinates, Zhu Yuanzhang was very unhappy after knowing this, a person who has been dismissed and retired for many years still wants to "transfer troops"? ! This made Zhu Yuanzhang murderous.
Then "another straw" appeared. Coincidentally, at that time, one of Li Shanchang's relatives was bullying people and was arrested in prison because of a life lawsuit. After Zhu Yuanzhang knew about this matter, he could no longer tolerate it. At the same time, the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and hundreds of Chinese military officials wrote one after another, and for a time Li Shanchang crossed the street like a mouse, and everyone shouted and beat him.
One day in May of the twenty-third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1390 AD), Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly ordered that Li Shanchang's entire family be beheaded! Li Shanchang, who was in his prime, didn't expect to end his life in such a way.
More than 70 members of the Lu family were about to be executed, one of whom was called Lu Zhongheng, who was indignant and loudly scolded Zhu Yuanzhang for being ungrateful and cruel. Li Shanchang immediately asked Lu Zhongheng to stop and shouted to him: "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, this is fate, you are not qualified to scold Your Majesty, Your Majesty let us die and we can't complain." ”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard these two sentences, he had mixed feelings, remembered the previous eventful years, and couldn't help but have tears in his eyes. The good brothers who were born and died together, and a pair of good monarchs and ministers who once appreciated each other, couldn't imagine ending like this.
The cunning rabbit is dead and the lackey cooks, and the birds are good and the bow is hidden. For the consolidation and unification of imperial power, even if Li Shanchang has made great achievements, even if he is in his last years, he cannot escape the cold wind of imperial power. Even so, if Li Shanchang is not so arrogant, not so high-profile, and let go of the distractions between the DPRK and China, he can spend his old age in peace and enjoy the joy of family. But on the contrary, if you lose yourself in the heights, you will be proud and complacent.
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