From Li Si to Zhu Yuanzhang , why do people who harm others always shoot themselves in the foot?
Li Si
In November 211 BC, when Ying Zheng was parading to Pingyuanjin, accompanied by the left prime minister Li Si, the CRRC Mansion Order Zhao Gao, and his favorite youngest son Ying Huhai, he suddenly fell ill and was bedridden.
Ying Zheng hates hearing the word "death" the most in daily life, so no official dares to mention or imply that he should arrange the things behind him.
But Ying Zheng's illness became increasingly serious and finally found that he had to die. Then he ordered the CRRC government to serve Zhao Gao and ordered Zhao Fusu, the eldest son of Shangjun: "Immediately go to Xianyang , meet with the mourning car, and then be buried." The imperial edict has been sealed and existed in Zhao Gao's place, but no envoy has been sent yet.
In July of the following year, when the parade team arrived at the platform of the Dune Palace, Ying Zheng died. The left prime minister Li Si considered that the emperor suddenly died outside the capital, and was afraid that the princes would launch a coup in the capital or elsewhere, so he decided not to make a mourning secretly and hide the news that Ying Zheng had died suddenly. only Ying Hu Hai , Zhao Gao and the five or six most beloved eunuchs, know the inside story.
Zhao Gao once committed a crime and was sentenced to death by Meng Yi . However, because Ying Zheng favored Zhao Gao, Zhao Gao was not only pardoned, but also was able to restore his post as an official. Zhao Gao hated Meng Yi and Meng Tian brothers to the core. Previously, Ying Zheng ordered his favorite youngest son Ying Huhai to learn law from Zhao Gao. The extremely smart Zhao Gao quickly served his little master Ying Huhai very much favored him.
As soon as Ying Zheng died, Zhao Gao cut the revenge knife at the brothers Meng Yi and Meng Tian. He first instigated Ying Hu Hai to ask for leave to pass the imperial edict, and in the name of Ying Zheng, he ordered the killing of Ying Zheng's eldest son Ying Fusu, and announced that Ying Hu Hai would be the crown prince. Ying Hu Hai jumped up in joy. If Ying Zheng did not die suddenly, the position of the emperor was Ying Fusu. Now he suddenly heard that the position of the emperor could become his own pocket. How could he not be excited?
Zhao Gao instigated Ying Hu Hai to put pressure on Li Si together, because it would be impossible to succeed without Li Si's participation. Zhao Gao was not only smart, but also vicious. He showed Li Si a powerful relationship in a few words: If Ying Fusu ascended the throne and the position of prime minister was definitely Meng Tian, then you, Li Si, are not doing anything, I am afraid you will be able to escape unstoppable. In this case, why don’t you quickly support Ying Hu Hai to ascend the throne?
Li Si was not a good person, otherwise he would not have instigated Ying Zheng to kill Han Feizi , let alone his greed for power, how could he be willing to take his position as prime minister? Zhao Gao saw Li Si's dirty heart. In this way, he and Li Si conspired to kill Ying Fusu, Meng Yi and Meng Tian, and sent the puppet Ying Hu Hai to the throne of the emperor.
When all these goals were achieved, Li Si had no use value in Zhao Gao's eyes, but instead became a thorn in Zhao Gao's eyes and a thorn in his flesh. Next, Zhao Gao, who was even more vicious, vicious and shameless, slashed the butcher knife raised high at the former accomplice Li Si.
In 208 BC, Li Si was dissatisfied with Zhao Gao's manipulation of Ying Hu Hai in the deep palace and taking control of the government, and the conflict between Li Si and Zhao Gao broke out. As a result, Li Si was quickly trapped by the extremely treacherous Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao first used Ying Hu Hai's hand to force the right prime minister Feng Quji and general Feng Jie to commit suicide. Then he used Ying Hu Hai's hand to throw Li Si and his relatives and friends into prison and tortured him severely. Li Si was tortured more than 1,000 times, which was unbearable, so he had to plead guilty and falsely rebelled.
After Li Si's several self-deceased cases, Ying Huhai sent his confidant to review and received a report of Li Si's false rebellion. Therefore, Li Si was found guilty of being extremely evil and sentenced to 5 sentences (tattoothed on the face, cutting off the toes of both feet, whip to death, beheaded and chopped into meat sauce), and was beheaded in half at the street market in Xianyang, along with his second son. After his death, the three clans were also massacred.
This is Li Si, a dirty villain who is greedy for power and loves power, colluded with Zhao Gao to tamper with Ying Zheng's edict to welcome Ying Hu Hai, and ended up with such a tragic shameful ending.Li Si harmed others, but in the end he "smacked his own foot"!
Zhu Yuanzhang
Look at Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty who won the world after Li Si died 1576 years ago. Zhu Yuanzhang was miserable since childhood, and he couldn't eat enough, and almost died by the plague. How could he have the opportunity to study? Although I was in Huangjue Temple, I recognized a few words from the Buddhist scriptures.
Zhu Yuanzhang later mingled with scholars during the war, and relied on remembering and studying hard, and learned more words. When he became emperor, he simply invited many famous literati and scholars to teach him, and he understood some great principles he had not understood before.
But in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang's foundation is not too much. He doesn't know much about his knowledge, and he has no knowledge of many words. However, his inferiority complex is a bit contributing to his guilty and inferiority complex. With his majesty as the emperor dominates the power of the people in the world, he abuses his power and kills as long as he wants to kill, creating countless unjust cases, killing countless people, including literati and meritorious officials.
Zhu Yuanzhang's inferiority complex originated from his background. Although he is already the supreme in the world, his background is not good. He is neither a prince nor a grandson like Zhou Wenwang nor a general from generation to generation like Emperor Wen of Sui. His grandfather and father are the lowest-level tenant farmers, and his grandfather is a wizard, and his background cannot be good. Therefore, he always emphasized that he has no foundation and did not start his own family based on his ancestors.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang always likes to say "I am the right commoner" or " Jiangzuo commoner" in his words, words, and even in formal edicts. The stronger the inferiority , the more extreme self-esteem is, the more extreme self-esteem is. The other side of this extreme self-esteem is extreme sensitivity. He himself always calls himself "common", but if anyone says the same thing, he will think he is sarcastic about his origin. Then, a violent bloody storm will immediately blow, and a bloody incident will follow.
At first, Zhu Yuanzhang was not a petty person, and he didn't know how to pick on the problem of writing. However, after crossing the river, he received help from literati, especially after the founding of the country, all kinds of rules and regulations were mostly out of the hands of literati, which made him pay more and more attention to literati and believed that to govern the country, one must value literati.
In this way, the war generals who followed him through life and death and had great military achievements were not happy. They thought they had conquered the world in one's life, but now the emperor has let these hateful scholars take power, which is really angering! So, they protested against Zhu Yuanzhang many times, but Zhu Yuanzhang ignored it.
Seeing this scene, they discussed it many times and made up their minds. Once, they complained to Zhu Yuanzhang again, and Zhu Yuanzhang replied to them the old saying: You can win the world immediately, but you cannot rule the world. If you rule the world, you have to rely on these literati. At this time, some people say that they should not believe too much about literati, they will be fooled if they believe too much!
also showed evidence with conciseness that literati like to sarcasm and slander people the most and use words to assass people. , for example, Zhang Jiusi ( Zhang Shicheng ) How good is it to literati for life? He praised the literati to heaven, but after he became the prince, the literati gave him the name "Shicheng". How bad is this name!
Zhu Yuanzhang said, this name is good, how could it be bad? The man said, "I'm wrong, I'm fooled!" Mencius said: A scholar is a villain. Their meaning is: Shicheng is a villain! These literati called him a villain, and it was pitiful that Zhang Jiusi had been scolding him for half his life, but he still didn't understand until he died. It was so pitiful!
These words are amazing, and they hit Zhu Yuanzhang's uneducated pain point. From then on, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was scolding him when he read anything written by a literati. He pondered some words for a long time, and felt that he was also derogatory. was like this. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and arrested and killed all the people who wrote these words! These generals finally won and defeated the literati.
Once, Zhu Yuanzhang went privately on a private visit. An old woman was talking to someone and talking to someone, there was an old man on the left and an old man on the right. Zhu Yuanzhang had anger on the spot. After coming back, he was so angry that he said, Zhang Shicheng occupied the southeast, and the people of Wu still called him King Zhang. I became the emperor. The people here actually called me an old man, which was so angering! So, he immediately ordered someone to confiscate all the families in which the old woman lived.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Hu Weiyong
Zhu Yuanzhang has firmly settled in the world and began to create a large number of unjust prisons. His purpose of creating unjust prisons is mostly to take the opportunity to kill people, and at the same time, he also makes money. It is truly a killing of two birds with one stone, and it is legitimate! Zhu Yuanzhang's crime of unjust cases has been proven and approved by everyone is "treason". Everyone knows that this "treason" is false. He said that someone rebelled, and someone was treason.
Although the unjust cases committed by Zhu Yuanzhang were all "false" charges, thousands of people who were found to have been killed. After these people were killed, they would be included in the "Records of the Treacherous Party" and "HTM2 Records of the Rebellious Ministers ", and recorded their confessions, so that they would never turn over.
For example, the most widely implicated Hu Weiyong case and Lan Yu case , the prime minister Hu Weiyong and the famous general Lan Yu are all treason, and the basis for treason is someone to prove it. This is Zhu Yuanzhang's most powerful killer move. It does not require any facts as a basis. As long as someone proves you, you will die immediately and there is no chance of escaping. Zhu Yuanzhang's rules of the game are: as long as someone testifies, no other evidence is needed, and the crime of treason is established immediately.
As for whether this witness fell from the sky, or was forced out of torture, or even someone deliberately arranged it, it doesn't matter. For example, in the Hu Weiyong case, in order to make this case an "iron case", in addition to the crime of treason, he was also given a crime of "collusion with enemies". The so-called collaboration with the Mongols is to collude with and , and the basis is that "someone is proof".
This witness who testified that Hu Weiyong was a Jiangsu native who had never been to the north. Later, he found that this was a bit outrageous, so he changed Feng Ji to a Henan native and said that he was a lingering minister of Yuan Dynasty .
So, anyone with a discerning eye can see that: Anyone was first considered dead by Zhu Yuanzhang, so this person was immediately guilty of death. The investigator simply completed Zhu Yuanzhang's order through torture, that's all. What is even more creepy is that the witness who overthrew Hu Weiyong, five years later, defeated another important official, Li Shanchang .
The Lan Yu case was killed for being implicated, and more than 15,000 people were killed for being implicated, and more than 30,000 people were killed for being implicated. These people were all civil and military officials of considerable importance. If the families of the people involved in the case are included, the number of people involved in these two major cases is as many as hundreds of thousands of people. After the two cases of were handled, the government and the people were all vacant!
Why can so many people be implicated? The reason is very simple, because the way to convict them is to torture confessions and ask someone to confess their accomplices. As long as someone is asked to confess, he will be imprisoned immediately, and then torture him and continue to recruit more people to confess. There is no need for any evidence here. As long as someone confesses you, you are waiting to die!
What is particularly ridiculous is that under these tortures, almost all the confessions asked were like this: they were all good civil and military officials, but when they were eating and drinking, they were openly discussing how to overthrow the current emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. If you continue to recruit such confessions, it will not be difficult to capture everyone in the world.
If it weren't for the excessive implication, the court would have almost no one to do anything, and Zhu Yuanzhang would have torture and confessed endlessly. The emperor like him, who was born in a rogue class, turned from the bottom of the world to the supreme world, and his suspicion expanded infinitely, thus becoming almost crazy. From the beginning of the murder of the master who was so powerful that he shocked the master, more and more people were killed later, so that the court was almost empty!
Zhu Yuanzhang created such an unjust case, and not only legitimately eliminated the people he wanted to eradicate, but also made countless fortunes, because when Zhu Yuanzhang was implicated, he often intentionally led disasters to those rich people. Sometimes he even had money and life, and sometimes he was allowed to exchange money for his life. So, after Zhu Yuanzhang was happy to create many unjust cases, his private pockets became very rich.
But Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that he had gained his personal pockets, but almost strangled the country's talents. The strength of the court was almost destroyed. He was killed by those who could do things. The backbone of society was destroyed. The consequences soon fell on his grandson, Emperor Jianwen, - the reduction of the vassal state caused the Jingnan battle. The court destroyed the iron hooves under the iron hoof of Zhu Di and quickly collapsed.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he was like this, so he must have left a country of iron for his children and grandchildren. Unexpectedly, after only a few years of closing his eyes, everything turned upside down. His grandson Emperor Jianwen's country was usurped by his fourth son Zhu Di, far from his original intention. This is really Zhu Yuanzhang harmed others and eventually shot himself in the foot!
