Why did Zhu Yuanzhang kill the Prime Minister?

(Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang statue-collecting photos)

After reading History of the Ming Dynasty, I found a funny scene, that is, several prime ministers in the early Ming Dynasty, Li Shanchang and Hu, were actually not dead, but they were all killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Emperor.

Why did Zhu Yuanzhang kill his own prime minister? Why did these prime ministers die badly? What are the unknown reasons behind this?

Let's start with Li Shanchang. Li Shanchang was the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, ranking first among sinners, left the Prime Minister and the Duke of Korea. 1368, it was Li Shanchang, Liu Ji, Zhu Sheng and other treacherous officials who "persuaded" Zhu Yuanzhang, and finally made Zhu Yuanzhang officially ascend to the throne of the emperor in Jinling, creating the Ming Dynasty. In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang sealed the sinner, and awarded Li Shanchang the title of founding the country, assisting transportation, preventing civil servants sincerely, and making special progress. Dr. Guanglu, left, a surname, prime minister of Zhongshu Zuo, and Han Gong, aged 4,000 stone, are hereditary. Give iron coupons, avoid two deaths and avoid death. In the newly established Ming Dynasty, Li Shanchang was the first prime minister to "accept imperial edicts and promissory notes". However, it is such a prime minister who is below one person and above ten thousand people. Only after 20 years, that is, the 23rd year of Hongwu (1390), Zhu Yuanzhang was suddenly accused of being "unwarranted", and he was brought in the "Hu rebellion case", and his wife, daughter, brother and nephew were punished. Li Shanchang, the biggest sinner in the world, died of injustice.

(Korea Gong Li Shan Chang Statue-collect photos)

Besides, Wang Guangyang. Wang Guangyang was a native of Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province, and his family went to Chengping, Anhui Province at the end of Yuan Dynasty. Wang Guangyang runs through history, and he is despicable. When he was young, he joined Zhu Yuanzhang's rebel army. First, he was promoted to Marshal's Mansion by Zhu Yuanzhang, and then he was promoted from time to time because of his exploits, until the local Zhongshu Province participated in politics. In the third year of Hongwu, due to Li Shanchang's illness, Wang Guangyang was promoted to Zuocheng in Zhongshu Province by Zhu Yuanzhang, and was soon impeached and dismissed by Zuocheng Yang in Zhongshu. Later, Yang Xian was killed for offending Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, and Wang Guangyang was returned to the capital. Hongwu was promoted to the right prime minister in ten years. At this time, the left prime minister is Hu. Vulnerable to Hu's monopolization of power and doing nothing. Zhu Yuanzhang was greatly dissatisfied with this and advised him many times. In the twelfth year of Hongwu, Zhong Cheng Tujie in Zhongshu Province exposed Hu's poisoning and killed Minister Liu Ji, saying that he was present, and Zhu Yuanzhang called for verification and admitted it. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and accused Wang Guangyang of cheating and cronyism. He was banished to Guangzhou. On the way, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the killing of Wang Guangyang.

(Portrait of Wang Guangyang, Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty-Collect photos)

Go on, Hu. Hu was a native of Dingyuan, Anhui Province, and one of the sinners of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty. In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang hired Hu as a provincial official in Zhongshu. At present, he has replaced Wang Guangyang as the left-wing prime minister. In the first month of the sixth year of Hongwu, Wang Guangyang, the right prime minister, was demoted, and the post of right prime minister was vacant for a long time. Hu was in charge of state affairs as the left prime minister, and it was not until the second half of this year that Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately introduced him as the right prime minister. When Hu was in office, he was so overbearing that he didn't invite Zhu Yuanzhang to teach Buddhism or please some officials, so I decided. In the suggestion, I once said something nice about Hu. Later, Liu Ji became ill, and Hu poisoned Liu Ji while visiting the sick. Xu Da, the general, was very sorry for what Hu had done, so Hu induced Fushou, the janitor of Xu Da, to try to figure out Xu Da. Hu's plot failed because Fushou exposed it. In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, his treason was exposed. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and ordered Hu and other officials to be executed. After Hu's murder, the cases of rebellion that brought him trouble continued to occur in into thin air from time to time until the 23rd year of Hongwu. All the people who participated in the Hu rebellion and their families were completely cut off, and the number before and after reached more than 30 thousand.

(Prime Minister Hu Daming-collecting photos)

At first glance, it seems that all the prime ministers at the beginning of Daming's founding should be killed: Hu Mou reacted to kill, and Li Shanchang reacted to kill in Hu Mou; While Wang Guangyang was present to assassinate Minister Liu Ji, the crime was unforgivable. But come to think of it, in addition to the conclusive evidence of Hu's rebellion, Li Shanchang was present at the time of the rebellion, and Liu Ji, the minister of assassination, was also present. These reasons seem far-fetched, especially Li Shanchang, who is outstanding, elegant, young and unemployed at home. Although he and Hu are children's in-laws, they used to be very close, but there is no reason for him to appear at the scene of the rebellion, not to mention that he has another "iron ticket to avoid death", but why is he still a ghost? Wang Guangyang is very fragile. How could he have the courage to assassinate the minister? He just did evil to Hu's autocracy, and he didn't dare to resist and expose it, but with this, he didn't die.

Why did Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, kill these prime ministers? To put it bluntly, it is two words: "imperial power"!

At present, Zhu Yuanzhang is close to the throne and gradually feels that the conflict between imperial power and relative power is difficult to reconcile. Although he tried to mediate several times, he was not satisfied. In real life, the conflict between the monarch and the prime minister became more and more serious, which led to more and more disharmony between Zhu Yuanzhang and the prime minister. Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to abandon the prime minister system. He was even more dissatisfied when he found that Hu, then prime minister, had close ties with Li Shanchang. Zhu Yuanzhang deeply felt that his son was weak and his grandson was weak. He is worried that at present, those sinners who rise side by side with him will be out of control, so he slaughters sinners. If we want to consolidate the imperial power permanently, we must abandon the prime minister system, and if we abandon the prime minister system, we must operate on Hu, and Hu's domineering and rebellious behavior just gave Zhu Yuanzhang an excuse to operate on Hu. So, in the 13th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang killed Hu for the crime of perverting the law with autocratic power. In the name of resisting traitors, he implicated some princes and dignitaries, including Li Shanchang, and took the opportunity to dispel the province of Chinese books, and also formulated family laws. At present, he is not allowed to set up the post of prime minister. Later, the prime minister system from Qin Shihuang was abandoned, and the son of heaven became the biggest dictator in charge of political affairs.

This is the true face of the extinction of several prime ministers at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

(Daming Palace-collecting photos)

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