Recently, I wrote about Chang Yuchun's death. Many book friends read it and asked me if Chang Yuchun's death was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Xiao Jing has never paid attention to these questions. After all, there is no need for me to say more about where the history books are placed.

But some friends were still curious about Chang Yuchun's death. There were all kinds of ways to die. After Xiao Jing sorted it out one by one, there were three ways to die about the second powerful general of the Ming Dynasty.

The first one was poisoned to death. The book friend who proposed this statement said that it was based on the legend of Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang was jealous of Xu Da. Chang Yuchun and his two were too much of their contribution and wanted to eliminate it. Therefore, when Chang Yuchun returned to Yingtian, he asked his subordinates to take action.

The reason for this is that in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da had a poisonous sore on his back. When he encountered an opportunity to send troops, Xu Da asked for his order. Zhu Yuanzhang was worried, so he gave Xu Da a food box on the eve of his expedition, which contained a roast goose. He avoided eating roast goose because of poisonous sores. Xu Da saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was jealous. After that, Xu Da ate it and died of illness. After that, Zhu Yuanzhang killed Fu Youde and Lan Yu. Among the many famous founding generals, only Tang He saw Zhu Yuanzhang's intention and pretended to be crazy and foolish, and escaped being killed. Chang Yuchun's contribution was only lower than Xu Da. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang had no reason to let Chang Yuchun go and took advantage of his capture of Kaiping and let someone kill him!

The second type is to be scared to death. The basis for saying this is from the "Longxing Ci Ji" of Wang Wenlu of the Ming Dynasty, that Zhu Yuanzhang sympathized with Chang Yuchun without a son, so he gave him two palace maids to spread the incense for Chang Yuchun. These two palace maids had long heard that Chang Yuchun's wife was not easy to mess with, so they dared not approach Chang Yuchun. One morning, Chang Yuchun got up early. The two palace maids finally took the opportunity to serve Chang Yuchun, so they brought a basin of washing water and brought it into the room for him to wash. Chang Yuchun saw that his hands holding the basin were white and tender, and he couldn't help but praise: "What a white hand!"

When he got home from the court, the wife asked someone to take out a red box. He was puzzled. What day is today? The wife personally gave her something to herself? She took it in a panic. When she opened it, she almost fainted: the hands she praised in the morning were lying in the box with blood!

From then on, Chang Yuchun was frightened. When he went to court, he was not focused. When others knelt down to the emperor, he stood like a wood. When others stood up, he wanted to bow down. Such a dazed expression made Zhu Yuanzhang, who was very alert, suspicious: "Look at you, you are not like you used to be. You shouldn't want to murder me!" Chang Yuchun hurriedly revealed the truth and reported to Zhu Yuanzhang all the time when his wife was engaged in "terror activities". Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "I have so many palace maids, I will reward you two more. You can go to the harem to drink and relieve your worries!"

While drinking, the waiter brought a bowl of soup. Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Drink it, this is the jealous woman soup, it tastes very good!" Zhu Yuanzhang said too quickly, and Chang Yuchun might have heard it as "Du Fu soup". Anyway, he didn't hear it clearly, and of course he didn't understand the meaning of the soup. When he drank it in his mouth, it tasted very delicious.

After drinking some wine from the emperor, Chang Yuchun's depression in his heart was indeed relieved a lot. On the way home, he saw some ministers holding a small package in their hands, so he asked the ministers what they were holding. The ministers said, "The emperor has divided the meat today, have you not divided it?" What meat is divided? There are notes on the package, "The meat of a shrew". "I don't understand, I don't understand!" Chang Yuchun, who had drunk too much, thought the name of the meat was very strange, but he just couldn't figure out what kind of meat it was.

When he returned home, as usual, his first lesson was to pay his respects and report to his wife: "Madam, I'm back. Today the emperor has invited me to drink!" After saying this several times, no one agreed. He searched all over the room, but no wife was found. The servant came to report miserably at this time: "Madam is gone!"

It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of Chang Yuchun to drink and asked the warrior to remove Mrs. Chang from eight pieces, and a small part of it made soup, and most of it was rewarded to the heroes. Chang Yuchun woke up at this time. It turned out that what he had drunk from the emperor was his wife's meat soup! He couldn't help but vomited all his food, and he became epilepsy from then on. Later, he died of epilepsy at the age of 39.

The third type is to be bombarded by Zhu Yuanzhang and died. The basis for saying this is from the "Biographies of Heroes" written by Xu Wei of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, who relied on meritorious officials to seize the world, was cruel and ruthless. Emperor Zhu gathered all his power behind him and set up a plan to set up a cannon to fight the meritorious officials with the Queen Ma family, pretending to hold a banquet to celebrate the meritorious officials who helped him win the world.

Military advisor Liu Bowen learned the news in advance and resolutely resigned from Beijing to avoid disaster. Liu Bowen and Xu Da had a wide range of personal relationships. Xu Da sent him dozens of miles but refused to leave. Finally, Liu Bowen couldn't help but hint at Xu Da. He told Xu Da that no matter when in the future, he would leave. The emperor wanted you to stay away from him, and you replied: "I have the responsibility to protect you, but you can't stay away."

On the day when the cannon attacked the Meritorious Officials Tower, the heroes and heroes arrived one after another. Zhu Yuan used the excuse of leaving the seat to escape, and then he bombarded the Qinggong Tower with iron cannons according to the conspiracy set up. The cannon alone was not enough, but he also set fire to the entire Lingyan Pavilion where the Qinggong Tower was located, killing most of the heroes.

After the end of the matter, Zhu Yuan divided the power of the six ministries and established a garrison (later the Jinyiwei) and allowed the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Army to take charge separately.

Zhu Yuanzhang "fired the heroic officials building and burned the Lingyan Pavilion". That day, Xu Da escaped after receiving Liu Bowen's hint that he always followed Zhu Yuanzhang! And Chang Yuchun was bombed to death!

Seeing the above three results, I have to talk about the imagination of book friends, and at the same time feel sad for all the scholars who write official history. A official history is not as good as the unofficial history on the streets and alleys, which makes people more familiar with.

Some people say that official history is controlled by the emperor, so of course it must be written well. I do not deny that there are some things about this, "Your must write" and there are choices and conditions. If you have achievements and do good things, of course you must write a lot. Even if you have no achievements and do good things, you must also make some fiction and record them in history; or "the beauty of a fake person is used as a private benefit"; or turn black and white into black and white and say bad things into good things. In short, "proclaim yourself as good, and say the other is the same", "slightly outside and distinguish the inside, and cover up evil and promote good."

Anything that is beneficial to oneself is undoubtedly "must be written"; anything that is unfavorable to oneself must not be recorded in history. Emperors will do more or less bad things. Those traitors and rebellious sons, lust the king and the ruthless ruler, and do more bad things. However, if they do things, they must be recorded in history and passed on to future generations, it is absolutely not allowed. "The filth is revealed in one dynasty and the bad reputation is over a thousand years." Which emperor is willing to record historians in history? The so-called "the filth is necessary to record" is just a lie. Since the establishment of historians in the Shang Dynasty in China, after the evolution of all dynasties, historians have divided the daily historians and historical officials who are responsible for recording the daily historians and the history museums. The former serves the emperor and records the emperor's words and deeds and government gains and losses. The emperor cannot read these records. The latter specially compiles the official history of the previous dynasties.

These historians are quite serious about the attitude of "the king must write" and most of them have the good tradition of "writing straight" and especially a special historian like Sima Qian, who has become the character and morality that later historians compete to inherit. They all know that "historical affairs are the duty, and exhortations are exhorted, and the reputation of the tree is the sound of the wind." "The so-called straight writer does not hide evil, does not be false, and does not write a beautiful book. If you do not write, you will not harm the advice" (Liu Zhiji: "Shi Tong"). Therefore, you must record the words and deeds of the emperors at any time. No matter whether you "report" is right or wrong, you must "write the matter directly". Even if you put a butcher knife on your neck, you must tell the truth and not tell lies." It is better to destroy orchid jade than to make Xiaofu Ai Rong" and absolutely not to "mix orchid and a worm, and not to distinguish between red and purple". Therefore, ordinary official history is still credible.

"History of Ming Dynasty" is the last of the twenty-four histories, with a total of 332 volumes, including twenty-four volumes of the original, seventy-five volumes of the biography, two hundred and twenty volumes of the biography, and thirteen volumes of the table. It is a biography-based history, which records the history from the first year of Hongwu of Zhu Yuanzhang to the 17th year of Chongzhen of Zhu Youjian. Its volume count is second only to "History of Song" among the twenty-four histories, but its long time to compile and diligence greatly surpassed previous histories. After its completion, it was praised by historians of later generations.

After three revisions, it took decades. "History of Ming" does have many advantages. First of all, its format is rigorous, its narrative is clear, its writing is concise, and its arrangement is appropriate. In "Notes on Twenty-Two Histories", the historical critic Zhao Yi compared the history of the Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan with "History of Ming" and believed that "it is not as perfect as "History of Ming". Secondly, the historical materials of "History of Ming" were relatively rich. There were many first-hand historical materials available at that time. In addition to a complete set of "records" of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, there were also mansion reports, local chronicles, collections of essays and a large number of private history. When Zhu Yizun was studying history, he said in the Second Book of the President that only local chronicles in various places were stored in the national library, which reached more than 3,000 volumes. It can be seen that the credibility of "History of Ming" is relatively high.

Furthermore, "History of Ming Dynasty" was compiled by Zhang Tingyu of the Qing Dynasty's successors. Who was Zhang Tingyu the second son of Zhang Ying, the senior secretary of the Kangxi Dynasty, and the senior elder of the three dynasties of Kangxi Dynasty. During the Kangxi period, he was appointed as the chief examiner of the Shuntian provincial examination and entered the southern study room. The general account of "History of Ming Dynasty" was the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Revenue. Later, he was promoted to the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion, Wenhua Palace and Baohe Palace, and was ordered to be appointed as the Minister of Personnel.

He has been in office for more than 50 years. Such a loyal Qing Dynasty official would naturally not help the previous emperor deliberately conceal a minister like Chang Yuchun who killed Chang Yuchun. Moreover, the Qing Dynasty emperor entered the pass at that time, which required people's hearts to compile some of the bad habits of the previous emperors to prove that his rule was legal. Chang Yuchun was the second founding of the Ming Dynasty. If he was really killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, how could he not write a special book? It can be seen that Chang Yuchun died of illness, not Zhu Yuanzhang.

Ji Hai, the deputy general of the army of the army, Pingzhang, the deputy general of the army, returned from the capital, and was killed by Liuhechuan. He came to the death. He ordered Pingzhang Li Wenzhong to lead his people.——Ming Jingji: Jingji of the Ming Taizu Volume 43 (Part 2)

"The army returned, and then Liuhechuan died suddenly, and was only forty years old." - "History of Ming Dynasty" (Volume 125).

On July 1st, Ji Hai, Chang Yuchun returned to Liuhechuan. He was killed in a hurry. The emperor ordered the general Li Wenzhong to lead his troops on his behalf. - Volume 8 of "The Chronicles of the Ming History" ○ Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

As for the second book friend who said he was scared to death, this can be seen from the above historical books, and there are too many things that do not conform to the facts. After a detailed summary, there are three things.

First, the "History of Ming Dynasty" (Volume 125) records that Yuchun's two sons, Mao and Sheng. However, the unofficial history says that there is no son, which is obviously inconsistent.

According to historical records, Chang Yuchun once married Lan from Dingyuan, and had three boys and three girls: the eldest son Chang Mao, the second son Chang Sheng, and the third son Chang Sen; the eldest daughter Chang was canonized to the crown prince Zhu Biao as a concubine, and was known in history as Yuan Concubine. Chang Yuchun's eldest son Chang Mao listed the thirteenth biographies of "History of Ming Dynasty" and was awarded a meritorious official in 11th month of the 3rd year of Hongwu. The third was named Duke of Zheng, with a salary of 3,000 stones, and was inherited in the lifetime. Ding You was guilty in September of the 20th year and was placed in Longzhou. He died in the 24th year. It can be seen that the unofficial history tells that the story of Zhu Yuanzhang giving two palace maids because Chang Yuchun had no son was a random plot, not a fact.

Secondly, the cause of Chang Yuchun's death recorded in official history is also very different from the cause of death mentioned in unofficial history.

Looking at all official history, almost all the records of Chang Yuchun's death were "dying suddenly because of the 'armor-removing wind'" or "diseased from a sudden illness in Liuhezhou in 139". None of them mentioned was "death due to epilepsy". You should know that "death due to epilepsy" refers to the ancient generals who returned to the tent after fighting, because their bodies were too hot and they sweated a lot. They immediately took off their armor and greedy for coolness and breeze, causing the so-called "stroke". This is not the same as dying from epilepsy.

What's more, a victorious general on the battlefield was later so fragile that he "died without fighting", which was really unreliable. It is not difficult to see that the ending of Lan's theory of being cooked is undoubtedly fiction.

As for being bombarded by Zhu Yuanzhang, it is even more nonsense. According to official historical records, when Chang Yuchun died, he died of illness in Liuhezhou in 139. At that time, Wang Baobao was in Ningxia, Emperor Hui of Yuan was not dead, and Liaodong still had a lot of troops, but they unified the south, as well as Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi. The overall situation of the entire Ming Dynasty was not stable. Killing generals was a self-disciplined behavior, so it was impossible for any bombardment.

When Zhu Yuanzhang killed the heroic officials, the country was stable and he was already old. Historical records recorded that he had a conversation with the prince Zhu Biao, which was about killing the heroic officials. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to take a jingtie full of thorns and let Zhu Biao pick it up. Zhu Biao looked embarrassed, so Zhu Yuanzhang said that the jingtie was the country, and the thorns on it were the founding ministers. If I remove the thorns, you can easily pick up the jingtie. It can be seen that Chang Yuchun was bombarded and died of death.

How did Chang Yuchun die? In addition to the sudden illness mentioned in the official history, Xiao Jing believed more about what the ancients said, "killing and surrendering unknown", and died of retribution.

Regarding this point, what the Ming Dynasty said in the Biography of Xu Da, praises: The Ming Taizu came from Chuyang to suppress all directions. Although it was said that the heavenly commanded the power of the two kings was much more powerful. Zhongshan was polite and had great achievements, and he did not attack. Since ancient times, he was famous and had no supporters in the world. Kaiping Ping defeated the front and trapped the formation, and he would definitely defeat him. His wisdom and courage were not at the foot of Zhongshan; he was loyal and humble, and good at maintaining his fame and reputation, and he was the crown of the heroes. He followed the sun and the moon, and the talismans were scattered. He was extremely prosperous. He was very proud of his descendants, and the world was favored by the world. However, Kaiping Tian did not wait for the year, and his descendants were also in decline. He was honored and rewarded, but the food was repaid. Why? Taizu once said to all the generals: "If you don't kill people, it is not only the benefit of the country, but your descendants actually receive their blessings." It is true that you can be a general and a general. Haha, this is just the words of Xiaojing.

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