Literary master Zhao Yi said: "Gai Mingzu is a man who has the qualities of a sage, a hero, and a thief." It is true that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was a legendary generation of heroes. He was born in poverty, but he has conquered thousands of miles

Literary master Zhao Yi said: "Gai Mingzu is a man who has the qualities of a sage, a hero, and a thief." It is true that the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty Ming Chengzu Zhu Yuanzhang was a legendary generation of heroes. He was born in poverty, but he has conquered thousands of miles of wealth. After many setbacks, he has enjoyed all the glory and wealth. To a certain extent, Zhu Yuanzhang's achievements can be called an eternal emperor!

However, his cruelty and cold-bloodedness also make people shudder. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang once sentenced his beloved son Zhu Tan to crucifixion, and his daughter-in-law was also sentenced to lingchi. To this day, many people feel deeply puzzled by this. What mistake did these two people make? This would make Zhu Yuanzhang so angry.

A grassroots background was full of hardships, and he was suspicious and started killing.

According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was born in a poor peasant family. When he was young, Zhu Yuanzhang even gave cattle to the local landlords in order to survive. However, even though Zhu Yuanzhang was so active Face life upward and optimistically, but you still haven't been kindly treated by fate. When Zhu Yuanzhang was 17 years old, a locust plague and plague broke out in his hometown. Suddenly, only Zhu Yuanzhang was left in the warm family. Zhu Yuanzhang was heartbroken. After burying his parents' bodies, he started a life of wandering and begging alone.

In just three years, Zhuge Liang traveled all over China, met many heroes, and learned about the different local customs. To a certain extent, this special experience gave Zhu Yuanzhang rich life experience and developed his perseverance. By chance, Zhu Yuanzhang joined the ranks of the Peasant Rebel Army, and under Zhu Yuanzhang's thunderous methods, he indeed created a series of great achievements. After passing five passes and killing six generals, Zhu Yuanzhang finally stood at the pinnacle of power and established the Ming Dynasty, the last feudal dynasty managed by Han people in Chinese history.

On the surface, although Zhu Yuanzhang has everything, his inner loneliness is something no one can understand. It is true that most rulers in history were suspicious by nature, but Zhu Yuanzhang was much more exaggerated than others. The superior throne made him become more cruel. Gradually, Zhu Yuanzhang began to doubt the motives of everyone around him. It didn't take long for Zhu Yuanzhang to kill all his ministers, completely turning himself into a A loner.

In addition, although Zhu Yuanzhang was a commoner and had never read any sages' books, he knew that it is easier to conquer a country than to defend it. In order to prevent the country he had worked so hard to destroy, Zhu Yuanzhang taught his children It seems particularly harsh. However, even though Zhu Yuanzhang taught his son so, there were still people who knew the law and broke the law, which touched Zhu Yuanzhang's bottom line, and this person was his son Zhu Tan.

His work was particularly controversial, and there were many complaints.

Zhu Tan was the son of Zhu Yuanzhang and Guo Ningfei. At that time, Concubine Guo Ning was a famous concubine around Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Tan also relied on this reason to be deeply loved. Zhu Yuanzhang's favor. In addition, Zhu Tan was so intelligent that he was named King of Lu by Zhu Yuanzhang two months after his birth. Zhu Tan was quite smart and sensible when he was young. Under the guidance of his father and teachers, he gradually grew into an outstanding person. When he was 14 years old, Zhu Yuanzhang arranged for Zhu Tan to marry Tang. This Tang family also has a great background. Her father was one of the founding heroes of the country. She grew up in a traditional education environment since she was a child. The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang chose her was because he hoped that she could take good care of his son.

In the royal family, as long as the princes get married, they can escape the control of their parents. During the Ming Dynasty, princes and princes would even have their own vassal territory.However, at that time, Zhu Tan was just a 16-year-old boy. His mind was not yet mature, but he was free from the shackles of the world. He was surrounded by the pursuit of treacherous villains and the confusing pursuit of wealth all day long. In addition, during the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that princes who owned fiefdoms did not need to deal with political affairs and could just indulge in sex. As a result, Zhu Tan's life became much more relaxed.

However, what was unexpected was that Zhu Tan soon became obsessed with the art of immortality, and even sent his men to find Taoist priests from all over the world in order to obtain the elixir. However, since Zhu Tan started taking the elixir, a series of adverse symptoms appeared. The main substance of the elixir mentioned by the ancients is cinnabar, and cinnabar is mercury , which is a heavy metal.

As we all know, if there are a large amount of heavy metals in the human body, it will cause dizziness, weakness, diarrhea, and in severe cases, symptoms such as blood in the urine and throat tingling. And the Taoist priests Zhu Tan found were just deceivers. In order to protect themselves, these people even came up with an evil method, which was to use the private parts of 99 boys as medicine to refine elixirs to treat Zhutan's disease.

However, what was unexpected was that Zhu Tan actually believed it and found dozens of boys in just a few months. The people at that time were worried and frightened all day long because they had lost their children, so they reported it to the officials one after another. The local officials suppressed the matter secretly in order not to alarm the emperor. However, water can capsize a boat as well as carry it. As the number of missing boys increased, this matter also reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears. Zhu Yuanzhang sent his confidants to find out the matter, but he did not know that the truth was related to his son. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and furious. He expressed in court that Zhu Tan and his wife Tang would be severely punished.

Kill one person to set a warning, and you will have to pay the price.

It didn’t take long for Zhu Tan and his wife Tang to be captured and taken back to Nanjing. Zhu Yuanzhang even used a very popular criminal law at the time to punish Zhu Tan, that is, the punishment of Kun . Kun torture refers to pulling out all the hair of the victim in order to achieve the purpose of humiliating him. This kind of punishment seems insignificant nowadays, but in ancient China it was a great shame. If all the hair on the body and skin was plucked out by the parents, it would be worse than death.

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang was also extremely disappointed with his daughter-in-law. At the beginning, he said that he hoped that his daughter-in-law could properly discipline his son on his behalf. But the daughter-in-law knows the law and breaks the law and condones her son's ridiculous behavior, which is simply shameless. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that the Tang family and those Taoist priests who cheated and deceived all be punished in Lingchi, in order to warn those with evil intentions so that they would not dare to deceive and deceive for petty gains. Although Zhu Yuanzhang hated his son's ridiculous behavior, he also felt very sorry for Zhu Tan. After returning to the capital, Zhu Yuanzhang hired famous doctors from all over the world to treat his son. However, Zhu Tan's body had accumulated a large amount of heavy metals at that time, and even the arrival of the Great Luo God could not save him.

Conclusion :

According to historical records, after Zhu Tan's death, Zhu Yuanzhang built an extremely splendid tomb for him, and the funerary objects in it were extremely rich. To this day, many historians believe that although Zhu Yuanzhang's method of dealing with things was fair and just on the surface, in fact it also contained a certain degree of selfishness. The emperor broke the law and the common people were equally guilty. However, his actions did not implement the word fairness to the end, which also disappointed the world.