Who escaped Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher's knife?

Among the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty, two others have to be said, that is, Liu Bowen and Chang Yuchun. One is unpredictable, and the other is brave and invincible.

Liu Bowen's death is complicated. Liu Bowen, who was called "my ovary" by Zhu Yuanzhang, did not have a smooth life in his later years. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang did not appoint him as prime minister. After Liu Bowen resigned from his post and returned to his hometown, he was falsely accused by Hu and returned to Beijing to plead guilty. Later, when his illness became more and more serious, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Hu to ask the doctor to treat him too much, but after taking the medicine, his illness became more and more serious and he finally died.

So was Liu Bowen's death a natural death, poisoned by Hu or inspired by Zhu Yuanzhang? Anything is possible. But is Liu Bowen, who is over 60 years old, still a big threat to Zhu Yuanzhang? Zhu Yuanzhang should be very clear in his heart, so Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion is extremely small.

Another famous soldier, Chang Yuchun, died in the army on the way to the Northern Expedition, a natural death. Zhu Yuanzhang named his son Chang Mao as Zheng Guogong, one of the six founding fathers, ranking third.

Due to the early famine, most of Zhu Yuanzhang's parents and brothers starved to death, and his paternal line was almost left with his nephew Zhu Wenzheng. Zhu Yuanzhang raised Zhu Wenzheng as his own son, and Zhu Wenzheng did not disappoint Zhu Yuanzhang.

As relatives of early Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Wenzheng and Zhu Yuanzhang fought together in the North and South, especially in the Battle of Hongdu. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang confronted Chen Youliang, and Chen Youliang led 600,000 troops to besiege Hongdu (Nanchang) guarded by Zhu Wenzheng. Zhu Wenzheng destroyed Chen Youliang's offensive advantage several times and persisted for 85 days until the arrival of Zhu Yuanzhang's Yuan Army. In the end, in the "Battle of Poyang Lake", Zhu Yuanzhang's army completely defeated Chen Youliang's army and established its position as the overlord in the world.

After the Battle of Hongdu, Zhu Yuanzhang promoted many other generals, but Zhu Wenzheng did not. Zhu Wenzheng was disgruntled, changed his usual sitting posture, indulged his people in robbery, and complained and exposed. Zhu Yuanzhang went to Hongdu, but Zhu Wenzheng was driven out and taken to Yingtian. Due to Ma Huanghou's mediation, Zhu Wen was placed under house arrest and died a few days later.

To sum up, among the founding heroes, Li Shanchang, Hu, Aquamarine and others were really put to death by Zhu Yuanzhang, such as Qi Huangong and Twenty-one Hou (some of whom have been knighted) implicated in the "Hu case". Most of these people do have real evidence, and their deaths are not unjust, false and wrong.

The great historian Wu Han, as the pioneer of the study of Ming history, wrote Zhu Yuanzhang's Biography, which is a must-read for the study of Ming history. In this book, haing s ngor has two labels for Zhu Yuanzhang.