Chapter 101 Section 12 "Death List": Lan Yu, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde...

The target of this massacre is Sapphire. Lan Yu is from Dingyuan (now Dingyuan, Anhui). He is brave and talented.After the death of Chang Yuchun and Xu Da, he became one of the best generals in the court, "the number of the general army, the more meritorious service". In the 21st year of Hongwu, Lan Yu made the greatest achievement in his life. He led an army of 150,000 to chase the Mongolian army, and he chased it all the way to Yuerhai, winning a complete victory.In this battle, the Ming army captured 123 people, including Tugusi Timur's second son, Di Baonu, concubines and princesses, and captured Wu Wang Duo'erzhi, Dai Wang Dalima, and three officials under Pingzhang. Thousands of people, more than 77,000 men and women, and treasure seals, talismans, gold medals, gold and silver seals, more than 150,000 horses, camels, cattle and sheep, and countless accumulations of armored battles.

The battle of Yuerhai was the biggest defeat suffered by the Beiyuan regime after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the most decisive battle that the Ming Dynasty won against Beiyuan.In this battle, all the elites of the Northern Yuan Dynasty were exhausted, and they were unable to recover from a setback. They had no strength to compete head-on with the Ming Dynasty in the north, and they were no longer a direct threat to the Ming Dynasty. When the news reached the capital, Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed, and immediately dispatched his envoys to labor, and ordered Bi Lanyu to be Wei Qing and Li Jing. After returning to the court, he immediately granted Lan Yu the Duke of Liang.

The so-called good fortune and misfortune depend on it. This great victory made Lan Yu the number one hero in the late Hongwu period, and also made Lan Yu the biggest thorn in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes.It was this crucial battle that wiped out future troubles for the Ming Dynasty, which made Zhu Yuanzhang feel that the existence of sapphire was no longer so necessary.At the same time, Sapphire's problems made him uneasy day after day. Although Lan Yu has great abilities and great achievements, she has a rough personality and is not cautious.Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many people, but he still didn't give him enough vigilance. He still made meritorious deeds and caused troubles all the way.He went out to fight and seized the trophies at will.Randomly occupying people's fields, the relevant officials accepted the matter, but they were beaten severely by him.

Returning from the Northern Expedition this time, he arrived at Xifeng Pass at night, but the officials did not open the gate to welcome them in time, so he sent troops to destroy the pass and enter.On the way back to court, he raped the surrendered concubine of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, causing the concubine to hang herself to death in shame and anger.After returning to the court, Lan Yu "was still not arrogant, her banquet speech was arrogant, she dismissed generals and schools in the army, and practiced self-discipline".All this made Zhu Yuanzhang, who was extremely depressed after losing his eldest son, put him first on the massacre list.

According to the charges Zhu Yuanzhang later announced, Lan Yu was arrested for "rebellion".It is said that in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (AD 1393), Lan Yu secretly sent his cronies to secretly contact Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen, Heqing Hou Zhang Yi, Chaga Hou Zhu Shou, Dongguan Bo He Rong, the governor of the rear army, Zhu Zhe, and Zhong Jun. The governor's mansion, Wang Xin, and others conspired to plan a rebellion, and decided to start the incident on February 15, the 26th year of Hongwu, when Zhu Yuanzhang went out to hold the Jitian ceremony.It is said that these conspiracies were detected by Jin Yiwei's special agents, and Zhu Yuanzhang preemptively arrested Lan Yu on the eighth day of February in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu.On the third day after being arrested, Sapphire was about to be executed.

Killing Lan Yu was only the first step in Zhu Yuanzhang's plan.He then expanded the case, implicating and killing a large number of Huaixi veterans and their children on the charge of the Blue Party.The entire Lan case killed about 20,000 people in total, including Er Gong, Twelve Marquis, and Er Bo.The second prince is Lan Yu, Duke of Liang State, and Chang Sheng, Duke of Founding; the twelve Marquis are Cao Zhen, Marquis of Jingchuan, Zhang Yi, Marquis of Heqing, Zhang Wen, Marquis of Huining, Chen Huan, Marquis of Puding, Hu Hai, Marquis of Dongchuan, Zhu Shou, Marquis of Caria, and Cao Tai, Marquis of Xuanning ( Son of General Cao Liangchen), Marquis of Huaiyuan Cao Xing, Marquis of Xiliang Puyu (son of General Puying), Marquis of Dongping Han Xun (son of Han Jing), Marquis of Quanning Sun Ke (son of Marshal Sun Xingzu), Marquis of Shenyang Chahan (son of Hai The son of Xihou Nahachu); the second uncle is Hui Xianbo Sang Jing (son of Qinhuai and Hebei Marshal Sang Shijie), Dongguan Bo He Rong.A year later, Ying Guogong Fu Youde and Dingyuan Hou Wang Bi also chased after the blue party and gave them to death.Another year later, Song Guogong Feng Sheng was also killed on the charge of blue party.

Other important figures who were killed included Zhan Hui, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Fu Youwen, Minister of the Ministry of Households, Governor Huang Ren, Tang Quan, Ma Jun, Wang Cheng, Nie Wei, Wang Ming, Xu Liang, Xie Xiong, Wang Xin, Xiao Yong, Yang Chun, Zhang Zheng, Zhu Zhe, Tao Wen, Mao Ding and more than ten people. After this massacre, only Geng Bingwen and Guo Ying remained in the entire team of honored ministers. "In the last years of Hongwu, all the princes and marquises were exhausted, and the only survivors were (Geng) Bingwen and Wuding Hou Guoying." The Huaixi noble forces active in the political arena were completely eradicated.Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was completely relieved until now.

The handling of the Sapphire case was very cruel.Sapphire was skinned to death, and the skin was passed on to all the provinces of the world. The skin of sapphire was still stored in Sichuan at the end of the Ming Dynasty: "At the beginning of the offering, the thief entered the Shu Palace, and saw a statue on the upper floor of the Duanli Gate, the prince's clothing, Jin Pei, human leather, head and hands and feet with flesh. News inside Jianyun: "In the early Ming Dynasty, Lan Yu, the Duke of Liang, and the father of the concubine Shu, was suspicious of the Taizu. He sat down to plot rebellion, peeled his skin, and passed it on to the provinces. After returning to Shu from Yunnan, Wang Zuo kept it." "The case of this case Most of the other officials also died under the punishment of Ling Chi.

This reflects the lack of fun in Zhu Yuanzhang's life as he got older.Only when he killed someone would he feel more comfortable.Every time he kills a person, his heart relaxes a little: After all, people cannot be resurrected after death, and if one person is missing, there is one less threat.He is obsessed with the satisfaction of making others suffer, which is an important characteristic of the antisocial personality.