Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

"Hu Weiyong's universe...this Emperor Hongwu is such a big hand."

In the Guangzheng Hall, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Pu had already settled their old feud, so they were not very concerned about what Emperor Xuan of Jin was doing.

But as the emperor of the Song Dynasty, what Zhao Kuangyin saw was an arbitrary king who could turn his hands into clouds and rain.

The word "universe" is not a new one. Although later generations dubbed it "big", by using Chinese characters as a link, one can still vaguely understand its meaning.

A major case handled vigorously and resolutely by an iron-fisted emperor, a process of rapid rise of a new empire, in which the arrogant nobles and the imminent foreign invaders were intertwined, and were eventually cut off one by one by this emperor without mercy.

In this process, Hu Weiyong became the best weapon.

It was at this moment that Zhao Kuangyin clearly felt the awe-inspiring majesty of the Ming Dynasty, which made people feel chilled all over.

Zhao Pu also thought of this, so he shook his head and said:

"I just hope that Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty did not invite his old brothers to visit the audience."

Think about it if you invite brothers to watch together, and then watch the light curtain slowly tell the story of Emperor Hongwu blaming the guilty and punishing the nobles in turn. If this is the case...

Zhao Pu unconsciously looked at Master Kongjiong and Guan Jia for a while, and finally lowered his head, feeling a little unspeakable regret in his heart.

However, for both Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Pu, the view of the world displayed on the light screen is commonplace.

But for Zhao Dezhao, even if he had seen these before, he still couldn't help but feel fascinated when he heard later generations talk about the countries surrounding China quite casually.

As my father said, there are so many things that the Song Dynasty can do.

[It is said that Sima Yi was entirely responsible for Li Shanchang's death. The underlying logic of this peer's understanding is actually a genetic problem.

From this point of view, you can see it more clearly by looking through Lao Zhu's family tree.

Emperor Hongwu's father, Zhu Shizhen, died at the age of sixty-three, while Li Shanchang died in the twenty-third year of Hongwu and Zhu Yuanzhang was sixty-two years old.

And if you scroll down a little further, you can find that among Zhu Yuanzhang's twenty-six sons, only three lived over seventy, including King Dai 72, King Min 71, and King Ning 70. From this point of view, the old Zhu family is indeed Maybe there are no longevity genes.

In terms of age, Li Shanchang was fourteen years older than Zhu Yuanzhang. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang in the early days probably did not have such worries, and he probably even wanted to leave a good story for his veteran minister like Li Erfeng and Fang Xuanling.

But as time went by, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was approaching the age of his father's death step by step, but Li Shanchang, who should have been lying in the coffin to create a good story for his emperor and his ministers, was instead alive and kicking as if he could still bear it.

As a result, Li Shanchang became less and less like "Li Xiaohe" and "Li Xuanling" in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, but more and more like "Sima Shanchang".

In addition, before Li Shanchang "changed his surname" to Sima, Zhu Yuanzhang actually treated this veteran minister with utmost benevolence. In the Hu Weiyong case, the largest case in Hongwu, Li Shanchang's younger brother Li Cunyi was very close to Hu Weiyong. This is a fact that can be corroborated by many parties.

As for Li Cunyi, it is also quite difficult to separate the relationship between Li Shanchang, but Zhu Yuanzhang brutally killed other people in the Hu Weiyong case. For example, censors like Tu Jie who had a good confession attitude ended up with their bodies and heads separated.

As Hu Weiyong's close comrades-in-arms, the Li brothers didn't even say one or two harsh words, let alone guilt.

But in contrast, although Li Shanchang is out of phase, he is still old-hearted. He neither wants to imitate Xiao He in cutting off his own wings, nor does he work hard like Fang Xuanling, nor does he imitate Li Jing who closed the door to thank guests and engage in creation with peace of mind. , on the contrary, the leadership position of Huaixi Group has become more and more stable.

The direct reason why Li Shanchang eventually overturned was that at the age of seventy-seven, Li Shanchang, who was not showing signs of death, went to Tang He to borrow 300 guards, intending to use them to repair the courtyard. After Tang He agreed, he secretly reported Zhu Yuanzhang.

Among the enlightened nobles, Tang He is not the most outstanding in martial arts, but he is definitely the most special one. As a child, brother, entrepreneurial mentor, and successor to the state, this can be said to be Lao Zhu's best confidant. Lao Li's behavior somewhat meant that he did not regard himself as a foreigner from the Ming Dynasty.

And if we look back at "he secret to hear", these four words are quite meaningful. If Tang He hadn't reported it, would Lao Zhu know about this matter? The possibility hidden in it is quite intriguing.

Then another month later, the capital of the Ming Dynasty began to send the guilty to guard the border. Li Shanchang interceded for his relative Ding Bin, hoping to be exempted from guilt. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and had him convicted. As a result, Ding Bin confessed that Li Cunyi was Hu Weiyong's close comrade-in-arms. , and eventually Li Shanchang was implicated and died.

As Hu Weiyong's guide and leader of the Huaixi Group, Li Shanchang definitely had some so-called "conspiracies", but most of them had nothing to do with rebellion. However, the content of "the party works together to defeat dissidents, eliminate dissidents, and manipulate the government situation" is indispensable. For Lao Zhu, these are actually equivalent to rebellion, and there is not much difference.

The most important thing is of course age. For Zhu Yuanzhang, even if he had the confidence to live longer than his father, he would only be a few years older. The Hongwu Dynasty had finally entered its twilight years and he already needed to think about his funeral.

However, Li Shanchang was still alive and kicking at the age of 77. Zhu Yuanzhang did not dare to bet that Li Shanchang would not live to be 87 or 97. His mentality changed and he finally killed him.

It needs to be clarified here that the claim that all 77 members of Li Shanchang's family were killed is not verified in the Ming Dynasty Records, and the number 77 seems to be fabricated. This news is more like a joke by a late Ming Dynasty jokester to satirize Zhu Yuanzhang, and was eventually copied by the Qing Dynasty Ming History.

The source of the jokes should be that Li Shanchang's younger brother Li Cunyi was executed for crimes, and this punishment did not actually involve brothers and collateral branches.

Li Shanchang died in his mansion with his clothes and hats. It is not clear whether he hanged himself or drank poison, but it is certain that his descendants are alive and well. There are records of court officials proposing to restore the inheritance of the Li family in the three dynasties of Yongle, Jiajing and Chongzhen, but they all ended up in vain.

As for Li Shanchang's death, from this point of view, it is not wrong to be implicated by Sima Yi. After all, if it were not for historical records, who could imagine that a 70-year-old man who was old and weak and dying and had been a loyal and good man in the Wei Dynasty all his life could fight hard and become Emperor Xuan of Jin?

But it is not entirely true that Sima Yi is to blame. It can only be said that starting from the Sima family, more and more negative examples have emerged in the long river of thousands of years.

Sima Zhao killed the puppet emperor, Liu Yu further slaughtered his close relatives, Xiao Daocheng slaughtered Liu Yu's entire family, and most of his children and grandchildren were slaughtered by his nephew Xiao Luan. In the end, Xiao Yan killed Xiao Luan without leaving any chickens or dogs, and Yang Jian went a step further and killed all the descendants of the Yuwen brothers.

These examples all show that power cannot exist in a vacuum, which resulted in the subsequent emperors being trapped in the prisoner's dilemma and unable to extricate themselves. As their power grew, they became more and more lonely in the true sense. 】