Tell me about the China case.

A: The murder of "Left" Li Shanchang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, surprised many people at that time.

You know, the "Xiao He" who founded the Ming Dynasty, the "big housekeeper" who Zhu Yuanzhang worked hard in the years of farmland, and the maker of the six official etiquette systems of the Ming Dynasty have been deeply trusted by Zhu Yuanzhang for many years. Even in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the famous "Hu case" shocked the world, and various "Hu Dangyu" joined hands to go to court. Li Shanchang, which has a special relationship with Hu, is still protected. In the following years, Li Shanchang and his son were rewarded by Zhu Yuanzhang many times, and Li Shanchang's son was once entrusted with an important task. At first glance, the relationship between Zhu Yuanzhang and this "old partner" is still very happy.

But only ten years later, in the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly turned against each other: Li Shanchang, who was spending his old age in Chongming, was found out, and the old account of the Hu case ten years ago was dug up, forcing the 77-year-old "old man" to submit to humiliation and commit suicide, and more than 70 people in his family, old and young, were also implicated. His life, which was recognized as the "head of a hundred officials" in the Ming Dynasty, ended sadly.

But why? Will Zhu Yuanzhang, who once regarded Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang as an idol, treat his "Xiao He" Li Shanchang with this method of "turning his face faster than turning pages"?

First of all, you have to talk about the "faction" to which Li Shanchang belongs, that is, the "Huaixi Chen Xun" group that has been in the throat since Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne.

Zhu Yuanzhang can win the world, and his core strength is to follow his "Huaixi" hero from the beginning. As early as when Zhu Yuanzhang occupied the southeast as a "king of Wu", there was a saying that "people in the city are half-Huai". After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) in Ming Dynasty, the influence of "Huaixi people" snowballed. The "Six Founding Countries" of the Ming Dynasty, including Li Shanchang, were all Huaixi people, with Li Shanchang and Xu Da as the prime ministers, and most of the 57 Marquis were Huaixi people. Every time Zhu Yuanzhang went to court for deliberation, as long as he looked around, he was almost a "fellow villager."

For these "fellow villagers", Zhu Yuanzhang did mean "harmony" at first. The world-famous Zhu Yuanzhang also talked about the past of "idol" Liu Bang "killing heroes", and repeatedly said that he would use "Huaixi Chen Xun" to "save the soldiers in the world". He was always frugal when the People's Republic of China was founded, and even spared no expense to build Fengyang Zhongdu, hoping to "return home" with "Huaixi Chen Xun" one day. But the "skinny" reality is that these old brothers who risked their lives for him were all released after the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially the gangs, who are very familiar with them. After a few years, the farce of rejecting dissidents broke out one after another.

For example, Liu Ji, yang xian and other "non-Huaixi" dignitaries were besieged by "Huaixi Chen Xun" in the early Ming Dynasty. Even if you are as wise as Liu Ji, you can't get it if you want to quit your job and avoid disaster. Finally, he fell into the trap of "Huaixi Chen Xun", became seriously ill and died of ignorance. Hu Weiyong, the "upstart" in "Chen Xun in the West of Huai River", sat on the throne of the left prime minister, but fell in love from then on. A few years later, he cultivated his own "team", "hooked up" with the enemy of Beiyuan, and finally "created" a "Hu case", which attracted Zhu Yuanzhang's big killing.

What's more, these "Huai Chen Xun" who shed enough blood for the founding of the Ming Dynasty became the cancer of the new Ming Dynasty only a few years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Because these people hold fertile land and enjoy powerful privileges, they are becoming more and more unscrupulous, undermining national laws and even corruption, which has almost become a common occurrence. Especially "corruption" has become a popular trend. This group of people are incompetent in governing the country, accepting bribes and even "abolishing the law for fun", and almost nothing is taught. If these people are allowed to make a fuss, the newly established Ming Dynasty will be 100% on the short-lived old road of many "peasant uprising regimes".

Therefore, for Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Emperor, this group of "Huaixi Chen Xun", who had expected to grow old together, has long been a group of evil people. Hong Wu's thirteen-year Hu case is only the beginning. Being in it, Li Shanchang is naturally one of Zhu Yuanzhang's "goals". But for Li Shanchang, it's still different.

Li Shanchang is a key figure in "Huaixi Chen Xun". Although he is not as armed as Xu Datang. However, in the founding war of the Ming Dynasty, he was actually the "housekeeper" of the "Zhu Yuanzhang team", working hard and deeply rooted. Compared with Xiao He in Han Dynasty, he also had the reputation of "Xiao He", but he was more power-hungry. In the description of Ming history, it is said that "the exterior is harmonious and the interior is carved." Although Hu personally created Liu Ji's tragedy in his later years, which is a typical role of forgiving the outside and avoiding the inside, Li Shanchang also contributed to Liu Ji's fall from grace and conviction.

In the "Huaixi", although Li Shanchang abdicated as early as four years in Hongwu, Hu, who later became a powerful figure, was originally a small magistrate in Ningguo County, hand-picked by Li Shanchang. Li Shanchang's grandnephew Li You became Hu's niece's son-in-law, and the two were "close relatives". Such a close relationship also made Li Shanchang shout ShaSheng after the fall of Hu, but Zhu Yuanzhang was suppressed at that time.

Why didn't Zhu Yuanzhang "move" Li Shanchang at this time? First, according to Lu, Zhu Yuanzhang missed the old feelings and could not bear to "move". Li Shanchang is different from Hu who became a monk halfway, and even more different from Aquamarine who was later killed. This is because he followed Zhu Yuanzhang's old courtiers in the early days of "starting a business" and helped him solve many problems. "Old love" is of course deep. More importantly, "can't move." As mentioned earlier, Li Shanchang is a person who is good at "making a fuss behind his back". Before he retires, he can "praise" Hu and "stab in the back" Liu Ji. Such a deep-rooted person can't move easily.

In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, both the north and southwest of Ming Dynasty were threatened by the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, which made the economy and people's livelihood more depressed and difficult to be chaotic. "Chase" Li Shanchang? Thirteen years in Hongwu is unrealistic. Therefore, even if there is no "old love", Zhu Yuanzhang must first bear this tone.

And this thing, for Li Shanchang, is actually his best chance to "get away with it". If Li Shanchang could understand his situation and Zhu Yuanzhang's intention and take the initiative to "retire", the 77-year-old tragedy might not have happened. Tanghe, a "Chen Xun in the west of Huai River" who has more "old feelings" than he and Zhu Yuanzhang, also has a "threat". Didn't he get away successfully?

But this is also the second important reason of Li Shanchang's tragedy. Looking at his performance before the age of 77, he almost "died" step by step. In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang pardoned Li Shanchang's "sin" of "colluding with Hu" and placed him in Chongming for the aged. But Li Shanchang feel at ease, which has laid the foundation.

In the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang, then 77, did two things in succession: one was to find Tanghe, a "fellow villager", and borrow 300 soldiers just to repair the house. Although there are only 300 people, "borrowing soldiers" has violated Zhu Yuanzhang's taboo. The second is to intercede with his confidant and ask Zhu Yuanzhang to forgive some "old friends" who were expelled from the army. Two things together, also let Zhu Yuanzhang understand: this seemingly harmless public welfare Li Shanchang, can "borrow soldiers" and read "henchmen". The next bloody scene can already be imagined.

It is not so much that Li Shanchang, who has been a great official for a long time, is stupid at the critical moment of his life. It is his character that determines his fate. Li Shanchang, who is "forbearing from the outside and anxious from the inside", is bound to "fight for it" under such circumstances. Since you can't recall, you will naturally fall into the abyss.

In the second year after Li Shanchang committed suicide, Langzhong wrote in anger, expressing Li Shanchang's grievances with a word and a drop of tears. I was almost executed by Zhu Yuanzhang after writing the letter. But Zhu Yuanzhang "can't use it, not guilty." Indeed, he didn't know that Li Shanchang was wronged, but how many times things came back, he would do this to Li Shanchang.

The struggle for feudal imperial power was ruthless. After reading the "old love" between Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shanchang, there are many sighs.