Chapter 99 Section 10 The Death of Li Shanchang, the First Hero

In May of the 23rd year of Hongwu (AD 1390), that is, one month after King Yan won the victory, the event of sealing achievements occurred. Feng Jiben was an old minister of the Yuan Dynasty and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.According to the interrogation results released by Zhu Yuanzhang later, it is said that in the twelfth year of Hongwu, Hu Weiyong was preparing to rebel, and secretly sent Feng Ji to the Mongolian grassland with a letter to the Mongols, "sending troops to disturb the border", asking them to cooperate internally and externally to overthrow Zhu Yuanzhang's rule.It is said that because of the Hu Weiyong case, Feng Ji heard the news and stayed in Mongolia and dared not come back.

In the 21st year of Hongwu (1388 A.D.), Lanyu went to the north and captured Fengji in the Yuerhai Mongolian army and escorted him back to the country.However, it is said that Li Shanchang shielded this person and "hidden it to hear about it", and did not tell Zhu Yuanzhang. In the delicate year of Hongwu's 23rd year, this incident was exposed at the right time. Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to interrogate Feng Ji, and the result of the interrogation was to upgrade the case of Hu Weiyong ten years ago from an ordinary "unruly heart" to colluding with Mongolia, colluding with Li Shanchang and other heroes to rebel. suddenly fell.

All the heroes who Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about were all involved in the case by Luo Zhi and executed on the charge of colluding with Hu Weiyong.Before this year, there were 24 princes who died of illness or offence, but in this case, there were 22 princes who were murdered and prosecuted after death. The oldest is Li Shanchang, Duke of South Korea, followed by Lu Zhongheng, Marquis of Ji'an, Fei Ju, Marquis of Pingliang, Tang Shengzong, Marquis of Yan'an, Zhao Yong, Marquis of Nanxiong, Zheng Yuchun, Marquis of Xingyang, Huang Bin, Marquis of Yichun, Luju, Marquis of Henan, Deng Zhen (son of the famous founding general Deng Yu), Lin Jianghou Chen Yong (son of Qi Guogong Chen De).There are also Jin Chaoxing, Marquis of Xuande, Gushi, Marquis of Ningji, Yang Jing, Marquis of Yingyang, Wuzhen, Marquis of Jinghai, Xuexian, Marquis of Yongcheng, Guoxing, Marquis of Gongchang, Wangzhi, Marquis of Lu’an, Yu Tongyuan, Marquis of Nan’an, Mei Sizu, Marquis of Runan, Zhu Liangzu, Marquis of Yongjia , Huai'an Marquis Hua Yunlong, who died before the incident, also pursued the Hu party and removed his title.Mao Xiang (son of Counselor Mao Qi), Li Boyi, Ding Yu, Hu Mei, Yu Xian, Chen Fangliang, Geng Zhong, and Yu Hu also died in the case.

After the case, Zhu Yuanzhang's charges were contradictory and full of loopholes.Later generations of scholars such as Wang Shizhen, Qian Qianyi, Pan Tuozhang, and Wu Han, after careful research, proved that they are all fictions of Xiangbi and are not credible.The death of Li Shanchang is very typical. Li Shanchang is one of the most powerful heroes under Zhu Yuanzhang. In the third year of Hongwu (1370 A.D.), he was named the Duke of Korea. By the 23rd year of Hongwu, he was already 77 years old. He had sold his life for 39 years for Zhu Yuanzhang. A minister, honest and responsible, and Zhu Yuanzhang became a family of sons and daughters. He thought he would be honored and rich to the end, but unexpectedly, he suddenly encountered the disaster of exterminating his family.

According to the charges announced by Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Shanchang was arrested because someone reported him for covering up Fengji.In the ensuing interrogation, another "crime of privately borrowing soldiers" was found out.It is said that in the 23rd year of Hongwu (1390 A.D.), Li Shan was already seventy-seven years old. Throwing his arms into a rage, he said, "If you didn't follow orders, the grand master dared to send troops without permission? Thank you for being kind, and it will be a failure." However, Qian Qianyi compiled an original confession in "Taizu Shilu Bianzheng".In this confession, Li Shanchang's wife, Zhu Shi, confessed that the incident happened in the 12th year of Hongwu.Zhu said that in October of the twelfth year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang borrowed 300 soldiers from Tang He to help him build a house for his private affairs. Wine.' Scatter."

Not to mention that Zhu Yuanzhang pushed back what happened in the 12th year of Hongwu for 11 years as evidence, which has already invalidated this evidence; if it really happened in the 23rd year of Hongwu, he wanted to rely on 300 borrowed Soldiers rebelled against the Ming Empire. How could Li Shanchang, who is known for his prudence and awe, be so stupid? This is obviously an attempt to impose a crime without excuse. Regardless of whether the evidence of the crime is sufficient or not, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that Li Shanchang, his wife, daughters, brothers, nephews and more than 70 people be beheaded on the pretext that "there will be a change in words" and more than 70 people in his family should be killed, and all their property should be confiscated. ".

More than 30,000 people were killed in this case.Anyone who has anything to do with these princes will be in great trouble.Even the veteran Song Lian, who had retired in Hongwu ten years, was implicated and demoted to Maozhou.The seventy-two-year-old Song Lian dragged his old body to Kuizhou, became sick with anxiety and anger, and hanged himself to death.