Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kill his nephew. Queen Ma knew it and hurriedly put on tattered clothes and came. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw it, he had tears in his eyes and decided not to kill him.
What is going on?
It is said that "the most ruthless imperial family". Zhu Yuanzhang fought for half his life to build a foundation and became the founding emperor, but he had a big problem, that was suspicion.
He was not only suspicious of the ministers who had followed him in the Northern and Southern Wars, but he was also suspicious of his own nephew.
This nephew is called Li Wenzhong , and he is the son of his second sister. Because Zhu Yuanzhang has an unusual relationship with his second sister, he is also very affectionate to this nephew.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was young, his family was poor and he could not afford to eat every day. Only his married second sister's family had better conditions, so she often helped him.
Because of this, after Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he was the most affectionate towards his second sister and his family.
However, Li Wenzhong still had a very difficult childhood. When he was 12 years old, a severe drought occurred in his hometown. It was precisely because of this that Li Wenzhong's life was completely overturned.
His village originally had a population of more than 200 people. Due to drought, famine began to break out in the village. What is even more terrifying is that people usually die from famine, and once people die, they are often followed by plague.
Li Wenzhong caught up with these successive disasters. Eighty-nine people in the village died, and even his mother died. His father had no choice but to take him out of the village to avoid disaster.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang happened to defect to Guo Zixing in Chuzhou . Li Wenzhong's father heard that Zhu Yuanzhang had become a general, and finally saw hope, so he took him to Chuzhou to defect to Zhu Yuanzhang.
The father and son lived in the open and wind all the way, coupled with the chaos of the war, they almost died on the street several times. After a narrow escape, they finally found Zhu Yuanzhang.
When Li Wenzhong saw his uncle, he thought of his mother who died of illness, and lamented the difficulty of surviving. He immediately threw himself into Zhu Yuanzhang's arms and cried loudly.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt extremely sad when he saw his nephew in such a mess. He felt very sorry for his nephew, so he adopted him as his adopted son and took his surname Zhu after Zhu Yuanzhang.
It was from this time that Li Wenzhong embarked on the journey to conquer the world with Zhu Yuanzhang. He was only 19 years old when he officially led the troops on the battlefield for the first time, but he made great contributions in the first battle.
Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting in Chizhou , and Li Wenzhong brought his own troops to support Chi. As the capital commander, he successively captured four major counties, and then surrendered more than 30,000 enemy troops.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very pleased with his nephew's performance. After Zhang Shicheng was captured, he promoted Li Wenzhong to Privy Council .
With the peace of the world, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne as emperor. As a founding hero, Li Wenzhong was named Duke Cao , while his mother was posthumously named the eldest princess of Cao.
Li Wenzhong was a founding hero and the emperor's nephew. It was reasonable to say that he would be guaranteed prosperity and wealth for the rest of his life. However, after the world was peaceful, Zhu Yuanzhang almost killed him. What exactly happened to
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After Zhu Yuanzhang secured the throne, he began to slaughter heroes, even his own nephews.
After the Ming Dynasty's regime began to stabilize, Li Wenzhong was named the Imperial Academy official and began to take charge of the Metropolitan Governor's Office. However, not long after, a major event occurred in the court, which almost cost Li Wenzhong his life.
This year, the "Hu Weiyong Case " broke out in the DPRK. Zhu Yuanzhang became furious and punished many veterans of the DPRK on charges of treason.
However, this still failed to calm his anger. Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately expanded the case, and after an investigation, tens of thousands of people were implicated. For a while, everyone in the court was in danger, and there was darkness inside and outside the court.
Seeing that the court was beginning to become chaotic, Li Wenzhong did not agree with Zhu Yuanzhang's approach. He was very frightened, so he issued two memorials to persuade him.
However, after the memorial was presented, Zhu Yuanzhang was unmoved and directly shelved his memorial without any intention of stopping.
Li Wenzhong refused to give up, so he presented the memorial for the third time in an attempt to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang not to carry out killings in the DPRK, because if this continued, he was afraid that the regime would be unstable and the DPRK would undergo changes.
Li Wenzhong stayed up all night. After asking his wife to take good care of his wife and comforting his children, he went to court with the memorial he had already written. He knew very well that if he angered Long Yan this time, he would probably never come back.
However, for the sake of the imperial court, he was still determined to risk his life to dissuade him.
After going to court, the court was quiet, and no one dared to say a word, for fear that saying the wrong thing would bring disaster, but Li Wenzhong still firmly submitted the memorial.
However, when Zhu Yuanzhang opened the memorial, the first sentence he saw instantly made him furious, because it read: "Killing innocent people indiscriminately makes people uneasy and hurts the vitality of the country..."
I saw Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly throw it away. He ignored the memorial, then stood up suddenly from the throne, pointed at Li Wenzhong and cursed: "You are so bold and talk nonsense, I will kill you." "Nichen, what does it have to do with you?"
Everyone was trembling with fear and did not dare to express their anger, but Li Wenzhong said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "Your Majesty killed all the heroes and generals in the court. If there is a future, Rebellion, no one will serve the country anymore. "
This sentence can be said to be rebellious, but to put it more harshly, it means that the emperor is a foolish king who does not distinguish between right and wrong. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and wanted to sentence him to death immediately.
But who knew that Li Wenzhong was not afraid at all. He still replied loudly: "Wen Zhong's death is not a pity. I hope that your majesty will think of the country and the people."
Zhu Yuanzhang was completely angry. At first, he just wanted to reprimand his nephew, but who Not only did he have no regrets, but he was also openly disobedient in the court.
So Zhu Yuanzhang directly ordered people to take Li Wenzhong into prison and prepare to execute him.
Although Li Wenzhong knew that he was destined to die this time, he did not regret it at all. He was first a good minister in the court, and then the emperor's nephew.
If his death can make the emperor recognize the reality, then he has done his best.
But what he didn't expect was that he escaped in the end. Zhu Yuanzhang did not really kill him because there was Empress Ma who understood justice behind him.
Empress Ma saved Li Wenzhong's life with just one move.
Empress Ma is a rare and virtuous queen in China. She saved a good minister in the court with only a piece of tattered clothes. Because of her advice, the emperor did not do all kinds of evil things.
It was precisely because of Empress Ma that Zhu Yuanzhang was able to recognize himself at all times and did not cause further disasters.
When Queen Ma heard that the emperor was going to kill Li Wenzhong, she couldn't help but feel sad. She knew that the emperor was completely angry this time. If he wanted to persuade him, he couldn't do it coldly, but had to find another way.
After Zhu Yuanzhang came back from the court, he saw Queen Ma wearing coarse clothes, sitting on the edge of the bed and crying, looking very sad.
He was very curious, so he asked Queen Ma what happened.
Empress Ma said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "I heard that the emperor wanted to kill Wen Zhong, and I am very sad for him! Dozens of relatives in your majesty's family have all died long ago. Now only Wen Zhong is left. He is the founding hero of the country and yours." Nephew, can't you spare his life?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Queen Ma's words and saw the coarse clothes she was wearing with many patches on them, he suddenly remembered the time when he was fighting abroad.
At that time, he didn't have enough food or clothing to keep warm, and the clothes of his family were all heavily patched. When he almost starved to death on the street, it was because his sister often helped him.
My sister passed away, and my nephew survived after nearly dying. Later, he followed him to conquer the world. Now this nephew is in a high position, but I want to kill him because of his few words of advice.
If this is the case, his last relative will be gone from now on. I don’t know if his sister will blame him.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang had already burst into tears. He was still angry and relieved immediately, so he ordered to pardon Li Wenzhong's death penalty, but just let him go home and think about his mistakes behind closed doors.
Although Li Wenzhong escaped death this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior in the court still made him depressed. In addition, he was removed from his official position, so he felt very depressed.
Within a few years, Li Wenzhong became seriously ill and became bedridden.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very worried when he found out. Not only did he go to visit him in person, he also asked the then Marquis of Huai'an to be responsible for treating him. However, at this time, Li Wenzhong was already seriously ill and eventually passed away unfortunately.
He was only 46 years old this year, in his prime. Li Wenzhong's death made Zhu Yuanzhang very sad. It happened that the "Hu Weiyong Case" had also ended at this time.
After some investigation, he found that the Marquis of Huai'an was also involved. Zhu Yuanzhang strongly suspected that the Marquis of Huai'an had drugged Li Wenzhong, and in a rage, he reduced his position and executed the imperial doctors, their wives and daughters.
Zhu Yuanzhang personally wrote an inscription for Li Wenzhong, and posthumously named him King of Qiyang, entitled to enjoy the Imperial Ancestral Temple .
