Zhu Yuanzhang was a grassroots emperor, and it may be that the inferiority complex in his bones made him often jealous of the people around him, and even killed heroes, so historians of all generations did not praise him. One of the most puzzling things is that Li Shanchang, as the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, had no power and no power after retiring in his seventies, so why did Zhu Yuanzhang want to kill him?
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Li Shanchang, ZiBai room, Anhui people. It was Zhu Yuanzhang who returned to Chuzhou during the pacification of Chuzhou, and won the favor of Zhu Yuanzhang with his wisdom, and has been advising him since then, setting up many strange works.
When following Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Shanchang mainly worked in the rear, and his strength was beyond doubt after all, Zhu Yuanzhang thought he was better than Xiao He of the Han Dynasty. It has to be said that when stationed in the base areas, Li Shanchang did the logistical work of grain, grass, personnel, and the people in an orderly manner.
Zhu Yuanzhang said that the empress dowager had not forgotten Li Shanchang's merits, and he granted Li Shanchang a number of important positions such as Guanglu Doctor, Zuo Zhuguo, and Zhongshu Zuo Cheng, making Li Shanchang the head of the "Six Founding Fathers". In addition, Li Shanchang also obtained the Danshu iron coupon, which shows that Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to him.
Xu was fond of Xu and Zhu Yuanzhang married his eldest daughter Princess Lin'an to the Li family and became the wife of Li Qi, Li Shanchang's son. In this way, Li Shanchang's position as a very popular subject was also known as the emperor's relatives and relatives of the state, and the scenery was unique for a while.
The extremely human subject seems to be beautiful and beautiful, but the accompanying hidden dangers cannot be ignored. Li Shanchang, who was able to go to this step, naturally understood the reasoning, and in order to avoid the big trick of the tree, in the fourth year of Hongwu, he took the initiative to leave the dynasty on the grounds of poor health.
However, in the end, it backfired, and he still did not enjoy his old age in peace.
However, since Li Shanchang had already chosen to withdraw from the imperial court, why was he still brutally attacked by a cruel hand when he was powerless and powerless, and even when he was already in his seventies, why was Zhu Yuanzhang so cruel to him?
According to the "Biography of Ming Shi Li Shanchang", it is recorded that the good chief is wide on the outside and more engraved on the inside. Senators Li Yinbing and Yang Xisheng slightly encroached on the power of the good and long-term, that is, they were deposed according to their crimes. Noble and rich, slightly arrogant, the emperor is slightly disgusted, four years, to the disease to the shi. The hindsight is only the death of the philistine party.
This passage records Li Shanchang's accusation, saying that although he was generous and peaceful on the outside, he was tough and self-conscious on the inside, and treated others harshly. Li Yinbing and Yang Xisheng slightly offended their authority, so he held them accountable and demoted them.
This is the historical description of Li Shanchang, saying that although he had a generous appearance, he was actually self-absorbed and mean to others, and some people would degrade his position if he touched his authority. This also just shows that Li Shan lost his heart because of his power, so he attracted the disgust of the emperor.
It was also for this reason that after he retired from his post and returned home, he still could not escape the fate of being executed. Later, he was executed because he was believed to be an accomplice of Hu Weiyong.
But what exactly is the case, and what is the reason for Li Shanchang's execution?
In the twenty-three years of Hongwu, ten years have passed since Hu Huweiyong's case of rebellion, so why do you still hold on to Li Shanchang, because someone has reported that Li Shanchang was also involved in the rebellion!
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he knew it, and at this time, the scenery of the past became a hypnosis, but as a heavy minister, he knew that he did not report it, and his sin was unforgivable. It just so happened that there was another star change at that time, and it was necessary to kill the minister to deal with the disaster, so Li Shanchang's fate was also fixed.
Li Shanchang knew that he would die, so he hanged himself in his home. Not only that, except for Li Qi, the horse li qi, who was spared from death, the rest of the more than 70 people in the Li family were not spared.
The luckiest ones were Li Qi's two sons, Zhu Yuanzhang's grandson, who became the lucky ones who were not implicated in this tragedy.
In this way, this minister who had been praised by Zhu Yuanzhang as superior to Xiao He had ended up with a few exterminations.
The following year, Yubu Langzhong kingdom produced a copy of the "On the Complaint of Public Grievances in Korea", wanting to seek justice for Lee Sun-chang, and even at the cost of death, saying that he should not be convicted of celestial absurdity without knowing the facts of the case, which would chill the courtiers' hearts.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang ignored this as nothing, did not have the sudden realization of the truth, and did not have the anger of the authority being challenged, which not only aroused people's deep thoughts. Was Li Shanchang's death really due to his involvement in the treason case?
On the surface, Li Shanchang was indeed implicated because of Hu Weiyong, but the real reason was because of his identity as a number of prime ministers, and it was not so much that Li Shanchang was killed as the illusion of the position of prime minister was cut off.
These things have to start from the ming court system, because the ming system continued the previous dynasty, in the early days of the ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang also talked to the minister about the reform of the system.
Its core is nothing more than a matter of checks and balances between the imperial court, and the power of the DPRK and China is in the hands of the left and right ministers. Li Shanchang was Ren Zuo Cheng Xiang, and the right Cheng Xiang at that time was Xu Da. Originally, the left and right ministers should have contained each other, but due to the unstable situation in the early days of the founding of the people's republic, Xu Da led troops on the front line for a long time, and Li Shanchang alone was the only one in the DPRK.
How could the emperor put the power in the hands of one person, which led to the idea of abolishing Zhongshu Province. In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang took great pains to use Hu Weiyong's case to restrain Li Shanchang, abolish Zhongshu Province, and overthrow the position of Chancellor.
Things have two sides, Li Shanchang was appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang because of his intelligence, but when he returned to his hometown, he was suspected of being Taoguang's strategy to cultivate obscurity because of his intelligence. It may also be because Zhu Yuanzhang pitied him for all kinds of merits, and was the founder of the Kai Dynasty who accompanied him through difficulties and stepped onto the throne of the emperor, so he only killed him when he was in his seventies. But Li Shanchang's influence in the court doomed him to a bad ending.
Dissecting the root cause, the reason why Li Shanchang was killed was that the emperor wanted to further take power into his own hands. Plotting rebellion and being killed was just an excuse, in fact, he influenced the imperial autocracy of the emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang was born in the late days, and his desire for imperial power was even heavier. Therefore, his approach is also to show people the seriousness of the consequences of challenging the imperial power.
What is your opinion?