Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Zhu Di sat back in the room with his brothers, looking confused. His elder and younger brothers looked at him with different expressions. Even Zhu Zhen looked worried.

The second brother Zhu Chong winked and patted his shoulder.

Although the third brother Zhu Yu said some comforting words, his raised mouth corners were more noticeable.

The fifth brother Zhu Su was as reliable as ever. He briefly explained the incident in the light curtain. Since his father said so, there was no need to hide it from his fourth brother.

After explaining the simple reason, Zhu Di's face was full of shame. He felt it was difficult to open his mouth to Zhu Biao.

Instead, Zhu Biao took the initiative to pat his fourth brother on the shoulder like Zhu Chong:

"I heard that a wise man is like a needle in a bag, and his end will be seen immediately. My brother is no exception."

"And the matter just described is still nearly twenty years away. That... thing has not happened yet. As you said, how can you kill him without teaching? And as Dad said, just stay in the capital for a while."

Hearing his elder brother repeating what he just said, Zhu Di wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

No wonder his brother looked like that, no wonder Dad never mentioned Lan Yu's name from beginning to end.

If he had suggested to kill him first to eliminate future troubles when he thought it was Lan Yu's matter, Dad would...I dare not think about it.

Wipe the sweat from his forehead, Zhu Di sat upright and stared. From now on, he is his brother's good brother and his father's good prince!

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In Yecheng, the people who had gathered here to celebrate the New Year and the victory were a little bored for a while.

Liu Bei finally sighed:

"This Emperor Hongwu is really a good trick."

This short sentence also said everything everyone was thinking.

Although the situation at the end of the Yuan Dynasty might be chaotic, there must have been the problem of Hu Feng infecting Han officials.

But in any case, tens of thousands of people were killed and both new and old nobles were destroyed. A rough calculation of the number of people who might be implicated made Liu Bei and others feel a little horrified.

From the perspective of a minister, Zhang Fei even felt angry for a moment:

"Even those who are corrupt or not, those who work or not, those who fight or govern the people, all cannot escape. Emperor Hongwu is afraid that his descendants will die of exhaustion."

"It's as if everyone wants this broken throne."

As soon as Zhang Fei said this, he saw Liu Xie turned his head and looked at him, so he waved his hand to make amends:

"Your Majesty, just pretend you didn't hear it. This is not what I mean..."

Speechless glance, Liu Xie turned his head away. He knew that General Zhang Fei was outspoken.

Besides, from his own experience, he quite agreed with this statement. Sitting on the throne might not be a good feeling.

But of course it was not appropriate to say this, so he changed the subject and said:

"The Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty may have his difficulties... The mixed residence of the Han and the Hu people has always been difficult to deal with."

"I hope that the emperor's uncle and Mr. Zhuge... can have a good strategy to govern the northern desert, so that the Han people in Hebei can break this barrier."

After many years of twists and turns in the chaotic world, Liu Xie also had his own thoughts, and the strategy of restraint was one of them. After all, if you count seriously, the thieves who overthrew the Han Dynasty are the beneficiaries of the strategy of restraining the Hu.

This is not to blame any one party, but he has been living under someone else's roof for a long time, so he sees the contradictions between the forced migration of the Hu people and the people more and more clearly.

Liu Bei and Kong Ming looked at each other, and then bowed together to agree, after all, this was one of their wishes and plans.

[As we said before, the Hu-Lan case ran through the entire Hongwu Dynasty.

Although the names are Hu Weiyong case, Lan Yu case, Tongwo case, Li Shanchang case, etc., in fact, these can be classified as one and called the noble case.

Starting from the changes in the Secretariat in the third year of Hongwu and ending with Zhu's death, the context of Zhu's change in attitude towards the founding heroes is very clear.

From the earliest favor and reuse, to suspicion and suspicion, to restrictions and constraints, and finally to the final elimination, this is basically the fate of the nobles during the Hongwu period.

If we start from the perspective of the nobles case, the analysis of this major case that lasted for more than 20 years is unexpectedly simple.

To put it bluntly, the imperial power has been strengthened generation after generation. In fact, the supreme characteristics of the monarchy have been very obvious. The monarch is noble and the ministers are humble. The ministers can only follow the emperor's orders, not to mention confrontation. Life and death, honor and disgrace are all in the hands of the emperor. This is a fact that has been determined since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

In this matter, except for a very small number of people, most of the nobles in the early Ming Dynasty lack sufficient sensitivity to this change.

There is no need for modern analysis on this point. Tan Qian in the late Ming Dynasty had already said it very clearly when he wrote "Guoqie": The old meritorious people who crossed the river were all fish-clothing companions. The ministers and the masters were not determined, and they looked at each other like barbarians. Seeing that he holds the military power alone, he can do whatever he wants.

The old heroes who crossed the Yangtze River are, to put it bluntly, the Huaixi Party. For them, what they recognize more is not Zhu Yuanzhang's identity as an emperor, but the identity of the leader of the Huaixi Group determined in the early days of the business.

But with the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang also changed from the leader of a local group to the supreme ruler of a national regime. This position constrained him to consider long-term stability and establish a stable ruling order.

The best embodiment of this responsibility is still the words "The emperor treats everyone equally, how can there be any difference between each other" in the dialogue between Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Sanwu, which clearly realizes that the emperor cannot be mixed with regional attributes.

After all, the history books are very clear on this point. How many years have the local and central governments been fighting? It is normal for the two sides to fail to reach an agreement on their interests.

Faced with this problem, Zhu Yuanzhang's initial red seal and iron certificate was obviously a wishful approach. He hoped to wash away the local attributes of the nobles through such generous treatment, and work hard for the Ming Dynasty with his Zhu family for generations.

But this operation, to put it bluntly, is like a cold shoulder. After all, if you want the landlord class not to annex, it is no different from asking for their lives. So in the end, the two sides fought each other and ended with the collective destruction of the nobles.

Compared with this two-in-one noble case, the other two of the four major cases are somewhat unworthy of the name.

A typical example is the empty seal case. There is no record of it in the "Records of Ming Taizu". Some people speculate that the reason is that Fang Xiaoru, the father who compiled the records, died because of the empty seal case.

Fortunately, this case is not complicated. To put it simply, a group of officials brought empty account books with stamps to Beijing to file taxes and discussed with the Ministry of Revenue how to fill in this year's bills. In modern times, anyone who has received nine years of compulsory education would think this is pure nonsense.

Later, the officials involved in the case also argued that it was because the tax grain was lost during transportation, and once the numbers did not match, they had to be sent back for re-verification, which was difficult to do due to the long distance.

But what about the specific officials involved in the case? Zheng Shiyuan, the assistant censor of Huguang; Fang Xiaoru's father Fang Keqin, the prefect of Jining; these two places are definitely not far from the capital.

If we say that the biggest role of the empty seal case is probably to put a hat on Zhu Yuanzhang, Fang Xiaoru said that hundreds of people were imprisoned, and the Ming History said that the seal master was killed and the accomplices were exiled.

But in modern times, the result has become that tens of thousands of people were killed in the case of the empty seal, and the origin of this statement should be the statement in the "Biography of Zhu Yuanzhang" that "70,000 to 80,000 people were killed in the case of the empty seal and the case of Guo Huan."

This Spring and Autumn method is more like shooting an arrow first and then drawing a target, which is a footnote to the judgment in the biography that Zhu Yuanzhang was "cruel and bloodthirsty, and severely punished corruption." 】