Zhu Yuanzhang officially became king in the year of Hongwu and founded the Ming Dynasty. It stands to reason that the new emperor's accession to the throne should be a reward for meritorious people, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not do this, he waited for the peaceful and prosperous times, and it was not until the third year of Hongwu that he knighted all the **.
Among them, Li Shanchang, Li Wenzhong, Xu Da, Chang Mao, Feng Shen, and Deng Yu are one of them. Among these six, Li Wenzhong is undoubtedly the most special, he is not only the founding father, but also the nephew of the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
But it was such a courtier who made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty and had a blood relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang, but he still couldn't escape Zhu Yuanzhang's "claws", and Zhu Yuanzhang even let people cut him down, but fortunately, Queen Ma came and only had a tattered dress left, so Li Wenzhong was picked up.
If it hadn't been for Queen Ma to speak, Li Wenzhong would have died a long time ago, why did Zhu Yuanzhang change his attention as soon as he saw Queen Ma's ragged clothes? How could he ignore blood ties and kill his own nephew?
In Chinese history, the emperor is the supreme being, controlling the destiny of a country. Such a huge force has made many people have ideas. Throughout the history of China, usurping the throne was not uncommon, and in every dynasty, there would be an important minister who was above the imperial power.
This is also why the emperors of the past dynasties were cautious and suspicious, decisive in killing, in order to ensure that their country does not fall, many emperors will be ruthless to the ministers of the court, especially from the bottom of the society step by step.
They are well aware of the difficulties they have come through, the hard-won power, and the importance of defending the throne and honor. Anyone who might pose a danger to them, they will not let it go easily, even if it is by mistake, they will kill them all.
Zhu Yuanzhang is a good role model, he has changed from an ordinary person to an ordinary person, and when he reaches the top, he will not hesitate to kill his courtiers, all so that the Zhu family has a firm grip on the regime.
However, why did Li Wenzhong, Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, fall under Zhu Yuanzhang's "butcher's knife"?
This is a past incident between Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Wenzhong.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a child of a poor family, and died of hunger and disease when he was very young, so he had to leave his brothers and sisters, go into the mountains alone to become a monk, and then hold a broken bowl to ask for food everywhere, until he joined the rebel army and became a soldier, which gave him the "stable life" he had longed for.
However, just as Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting for his career, his brothers and sisters all died in the war, and there were no other relatives except his nephew Li Wenzhong. Li Wenzhong had no choice but to leave his hometown and join his uncle Zhu Yuanzhang.
Li Wenzhong went through a lot of hardships and finally found his uncle, who was only 12 years old and couldn't help but cry and clung to the corner of his uncle's clothes. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his nephew so closely, thinking of his dead sister, this iron-blooded man also burst into tears.
In order to comfort his sister, Zhu Yuanzhang regarded Li Wenzhong as his own son and cultivated him carefully. When he was 19 years old, Zhu Yuanzhang accepted Li Wenzhong as a "sheren" and cultivated him as his personal assistant.
Li Wenzhong did not disappoint Zhu Yuanzhang, and at a young age, he showed extraordinary courage and wisdom, assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in quelling the rebellion in southern Anhui and Zhejiang, and defeated many marshals. Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang's trust in Li Wenzhong has also become more and more deeply Zhu Yuanzhang's trust and trust. Li Wenzhong really did not disappoint Zhu Yuanzhang, he followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight in the south and the north, defeated and fought repeatedly, and established the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, which can be described as immeasurable merit.
After Zhu Yuanzhang unified the country, he treated his nephew "without stinginess", gave him the title of "Cao Guogong", and became one of the "six princes". However, even with such an honorable identity, Li Wenzhong still can't escape the emperor's suspicion and suspicion after all.
In the 13th year of Hongwu, a major event broke out in the Ming Dynasty that shook the whole country, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the country, sentenced Prime Minister Hu Weiyong to death in the name of rebellion, and ordered the abolition of the prime minister. And after Zhu Yuanzhang killed Hu Weiyong, he didn't give up, but started to do something to others.
However, for Zhu Yuanzhang's heartbroken **, none of the ministers stood up to stop it, they all knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was now a "murderous maniac" and must not be provoked, in this case, saving his life is the most important thing! Baichen had to remain silent, but there was one person, he was Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Li Wenzhong, and he was the only brave person.
Li Wenzhong was not as silent as the others, he stepped forward and wrote two notes to Zhu Yuanzhang, condemning Zhu Yuanzhang for not being like this, and asking the emperor to give an order to let the emperor stop killing people.
However, after Zhu Yuanzhang watched Li Wenzhong's recital, he put it aside and did not immediately express his position. Zhu Yuanzhang was silent, was it because he resisted his nephew's suggestion, or did he realize his own fault?
As the king of a country, Zhu Yuanzhang certainly can't make any mistakes, but he doesn't want to pay attention to a "kid who doesn't know the height of the sky", and he also hopes that his sister's last single seedling can continue. However, Li Wenzhong didn't know Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions, he just felt that serving the country was a good choice. Li Wenzhong wrote a recital for Zhu Yuanzhang again, but he never expected that this carefully prepared recital would become an "accelerator" and let him die.
Li Wenzhong played another note, saying that Zhu Yuanzhang killed innocents indiscriminately, which was a kind of harm to the empire! As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang heard that Li Wenzhong was using Jiangshan Sheji to blackmail him, he was immediately furious, and scolded Li Wenzhong on the spot: "You bastard, what should Lao Tzu do, and use you to point fingers!" ”
However, Li Wenzhong had long been prepared to "dedicate himself to the country", ignored Zhu Yuanzhang's anger at all, and once again scolded Zhu Yuanzhang, which made Zhu Yuanzhang furious, and he was eager to correct Li Wenzhong on the spot.
Li Wenzhong is Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, and he is also a figure in the palace. So, Li Wenzhong angered the emperor and wanted to execute him soon spread, and when Queen Ma heard it, she also knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was carried away by anger, so she hurriedly ran to the front of the palace and spoke for Li Wenzhong, so as not to regret it afterwards.
But Queen Ma was not in a hurry to enter the palace, she first found that when she was poor, the tattered clothes, with a patched dress, came to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very surprised when he saw it and asked, "Why are you dressed like this?" Queen Ma cried and persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang: "This dress was worn by us before we got rich, every time I see this dress, I will think of the days when we fought side by side, Your Majesty, all your relatives are dead, and now there is only such a nephew as Wenzhong, if you kill him, how can I explain to my eldest sister?" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was relieved by Empress Dowager Ma's words. Although Zhu Yuanzhang never forgot this nephew, the dignity of the royal family could not be violated, so he issued another holy decree to remove Li Wenzhong from the death penalty and punish him to go back and think about it.
Although Li Wenzhong doesn't care about the emperor's reputation, he is also sincere. It's just that as an emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang has too many things to consider, and it is inevitable that there will be some deviations. Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang has the virtuous wife of Queen Ma and the help of Li Wenzhong, a loyal courtier, so that he has today's glory.
Four years later, Li Wenzhong died at home, and Zhu Yuanzhang was very sad when he heard the news. After his death, he was canonized as the "King of Qiyang" and was eligible to enter the ancestral temple, and his ** was also enshrined in the Hall of Merit.
It stands to reason that the royal family's care for Li Wenzhong should be enough. It's a pity that his descendants didn't realize this, but because of his stupidity, all Li Wenzhong's "hard work" came to naught.
Li Wenzhong's son, Li Jinglong, is also Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite person and his father. Zhu Yuanzhang cultivated him as Zhu Biao's cronies. After his death, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed his grandson Zhu Yunwen as Li Jinglong.
Zhu Yuanzhang originally asked for a "life talisman" for Zhu Yunwen, but he didn't expect to look away and almost kill Zhu Yunwen.
When Zhu Di launched the war, Zhu Yunwen sent his most trusted general, Li Jinglong, not only transferred his army to 500,000 people, but also gave him full authority to command the army, but Li Jinglong's actions really disappointed him.
Li Jinglong is just a reckless man who is "strong from the outside and capable in the middle", and he doesn't know anything about how to command troops and use troops, so he was attacked from front to back, and watched Zhu Di approach Nanjing step by step.
After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he began to reward Li Jinglong to appease his dissatisfaction. It was not until the imperial court settled down that Zhu Di beheaded Li Jinglong on the grounds of rebellion, and the Li family was in a state of collapse from then on.
It's strange to say, if it weren't for Queen Ma using a set of shabby clothes to pull Li Wenzhong back from the line of death, I'm afraid the Li family would be a traitor by now. It's a pity that the development of fate cannot be changed, although the Li family has been prosperous for twenty-four years, it was defeated in the end, perhaps, all this is fate.