In the Literary Prison of the Ming Dynasty, a minor official was killed for exposing Zhu Yuanzhang’s typos. What happened?

As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang’s life was full of legends. He started out as a beggar and then became a monk. Then he participated in the uprising in the late Yuan Dynasty and became the emperor from then on. The road is becoming increasingly uncontrollable. During his reign as emperor, a petty official was brutally murdered because he exposed a typo in his writing. This story has been spread among the people.

As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a poor family and did not receive a good education. Even when he corrected memorials after he became emperor, he also liked to use vernacular to reply. Therefore, because of his lack of cultural literacy, it is understandable that he made a few typos when reviewing the memorial. But there were some stubborn scholars, or people who didn't understand Zhu Yuanzhang's character well enough, who criticized this trivial mistake in person. The emperor was blamed by these insignificant people and lost face. Naturally, this person could not escape the bad luck. And this person was a small official named Lu Xiong during Zhu Yuanzhang's administration. When Zhu Yuanzhang first brought peace to the world, although he had no culture, he attached great importance to the development of culture. So he issued an imperial decree asking officials at all levels to actively search for talented people across the country and jointly build his own Ming Dynasty. This man named Lu Xiong was an educated scholar recommended by the Ministry of Officials. Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with him after reading his introduction, so he asked him to be the magistrate of Yanzhou. But who would have thought that this man was too rigorous in his work. When he arrived at Yanzhou, he knew that he was going to be the magistrate of Yanzhou, but he saw that the document issued by the emperor said "Gunzhou". , unable to bear this mistake, he had the courage to write a memorial to the then emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, asking the emperor to correct the typos he had written.

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally felt very embarrassed after seeing this memorial. Although he is uneducated, his life experience is very rich. He has traveled all over the country from the army knowledge, and naturally he also knows "Yanzhou" in China. It is indeed a joke because he wrote a word wrongly. But it was this joke that even the Hanlin bachelor who drafted the document for the emperor did not dare to point it out in public, so he had to send the document by mistake. Unexpectedly, this little official Lu Xiong announced the matter openly and had a strong influence. The self-respecting Zhu Yuanzhang naturally could not tolerate this person, so he found an excuse to say that Lu Xiong was showing off his knowledge, so he beheaded him.

Lu Xiong may indeed be very rigorous in his work, but he does not know how to assess the situation and think twice before acting, which leads to a big mistake that costs his life.