History is long, and countless people have left their names in the dust of the past.
Not to mention those short-lived little people, just those big people who ascend to the throne of the emperor, they also have to say that last three days and three nights, hey, three days and three nights.
Among the many emperors, there are various characters everywhere, and their character is different. Some are wise and powerful, some are incompetent, some are diligent in making decisions for the people, and some are wasting time and enjoying.
Since we talk about the emperor who ruled for the people, then Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang had to mention , because compared with his attitude towards officials, he was indeed good enough to the people. At least he formulated many systems that benefit the people's livelihood, especially when officials and the people conflicted, the laws formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang were usually more inclined to the people.
Zhu Yuanzhang's ability to get the world is naturally inseparable from the help of capable and ambitious people, especially those generals who hold heavy power, which is indispensable. However, their final outcome is basically very miserable, and there are even fewer people who can get a good ending.
The fundamental reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicious personality. Although he is not well educated, he is naturally dark-bellied. The famous saying of Cao Cao's , "I would rather let the world down than let the world down" is also applicable to Zhu Yuanzhang.
In addition to suspicion, Zhu Yuanzhang also has a strong desire for power. In order to take over the power alone, he even dared to attack the prime minister who had been restricting the imperial power for thousands of years. With the help of the Hu Weiyong case, he directly removed the position of prime minister. It is truly unprecedented.
However, after abolished the prime minister, Zhu Yuanzhang became even busier. He had to do everything in military and political affairs, and everything in the country and small, so that he usually had to work overtime until late at night to review memorials.
Staying up late to work overtime is a very hard thing. People in the workplace must be able to understand that if you can drink a bowl of hot porridge while working overtime, it will feel very good.
Once when Zhu Yuanzhang was working overtime, the palace maid brought a bowl of hot porridge, but Zhu Yuanzhang took it out and beheaded for public display. What's going on?
Zhu Yuanzhang reviewed memorials late at night
In 1368 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Nanjing and established the Ming Dynasty.
According to previous practice, at the beginning of the establishment of a new dynasty, it was necessary to confer great honors on the hearts of the subjects in the world. Zhu Yuanzhang naturally could not break this convention . After all, if Zhu Yuanzhang was unmoved when it was time to show, then these generals would definitely be dissatisfied with him, and they might even rise up and the opposite.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a natural emperor. He deeply understood the energy of these heroes and was even a little afraid, so he conferred 34 heroes in a row, including six dukes and twenty-eight marquis.
Just in terms of the number of heroes, Zhu Yuanzhang is not short of capable people around . He picked out one of these 34 people casually, and almost all of them made great achievements.
In order to satisfy these heroes, Zhu Yuanzhang even gave them iron vouchers for exemption and comforted them, saying that if one day in the future, even if you are not loyal to me, Lao Zhu, you can be exempted from your merits by taking out the iron vouchers.
These heroes were naturally happy and even began to be proud and forgetful. But they did not expect that an explanation was attached to the iron voucher:
The final right to interpret belongs to Zhu Yuanzhang.
This means that the iron voucher was issued by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he had the final say whether it could be used or not. As for exempting from crime, the smile on the corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth explained everything.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang really didn't take the iron coupon seriously, because it was too easy for him to kill these people. Since they had the iron coupon, they might as well kill them twice for . In the end, almost no one of the 34 heroes ended up well.
The Hu Weiyong case alone involved most of these people, which shows how cruel Zhu Yuanzhang was.
After Hu Weiyong was killed, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the prime minister had too much power and would definitely be a disaster in the future, so he directly removed , Secretariat , and the prime minister was abolished. The affairs of the court were directly subject to the six parts, and they were responsible to the emperor.
This way, Zhu Yuanzhang felt very happy. Even though he was very busy, he always had to review memorials late at night.
The palace maid brought a bowl of hot porridge
Zhu Yuanzhang enjoyed the tranquility of the late night. The imperial study room where he handled government memorials became the place where he stayed the most besides the harem. Although Zhu Yuanzhang had a deep affection for Empress Ma, he did not affect his visit to other concubines and palace maids, otherwise he would not have had nearly thirty sons.
Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of women who want to transform into phoenixes. The palace maids around Zhu Yuanzhang are no exception. As long as they are attracted by Lao Zhu and give birth to a son and half of their daughter for him, they can fly directly to the branches.
What's more, Queen Ma is a very generous person. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't want to give these people a title, Queen Ma will not sit idly by.
has a shortcut to success, who will think about mediocrity?
Once when Zhu Yuanzhang was reviewing memorials late at night, a palace maid saw hope. She felt that as long as she performed well, she was likely to get Zhu Yuanzhang's blessing.
So When everyone rested, the palace maid faked oral orders and asked imperial kitchen to prepare a bowl of steaming meat porridge , and then told the guard that the queen sent her to deliver meals to Zhu Yuanzhang.
When the guard heard that it was sent by the queen, he didn't think too much, so he asked the palace maid to send Zhu Yuanzhang over to him.
But these guards did not expect that this beautiful palace maid would become their death urging person.
The palace maid was beheaded and displayed in public
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was reviewing the memorial, suddenly smelled the fragrance of food in his nose, and immediately became energetic. Then he saw the palace maid coming in and the meat porridge he was holding.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think much about it, so he asked the palace maid to approach and put the hot porridge on the table. However, as he was drinking, his eyes gradually became sharp, and his heart gradually became murderous.
Then he sent an order to the guards outside the door, asking them to pull the palace maid out and behead him for public display.
After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's order, the palace maid was frightened and stunned. She didn't expect that she had lost her life just to show off in front of Zhu Yuanzhang?
Zhu Yuanzhang ignored the doubts in the eyes of the palace maid and directly took her life. The guards who let the palace maid in also accompanied her to report to King of Hell .
Many people think Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior is very inexplicable. The palace maid only sent a bowl of porridge, but why did he give his life? Did Zhu Yuanzhang be so angry that even the palace maids feel dangerous?
Of course, Because this palace maid is just taking the title of queen, the guards at the door are useless. If these people come not the palace maid who delivers porridge, but carry food containing poison, then will your life not be explained directly?
So Zhu Yuanzhang killed this palace maid not because he thought that this palace maid would take his life, but because he was afraid that people in the future would learn from this palace maid and really take his life.
Zhu Yuanzhang's move was to shock those who had ideas, so that they knew that they were always alert and had no relaxation at all, so that they could also give up the idea of murdering themselves as soon as possible, so as not to end up like the palace maid.
References: "History of Ming Dynasty" et al.
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