Yuan introduced the story of king enfeoffment before Zhu Yuanzhang, which aroused readers' strong interest. In fact, after his sons were sealed out, Zhu Yuanzhang often admonished them to obey the law, and he also "put righteousness above family" to his two daughters-in-law. Why?
As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, designed a set of suzerain-vassal system in line with the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty after absorbing the lessons of suzerain-vassal system in previous dynasties. According to historical records, "in the Ming Dynasty, there were princes, who were enfeoffed in Wuxi, who had no titles for the people, who ate cakes and died. They could not participate in the affairs of the four people and could inherit them." Under this effective system of captaincy, captaincy has great authority and transcendental status in their fiefs, but if they do anything that violates discipline, Zhu Yuanzhang will pay a hell of a price for anyone. During Hongwu period, there were two influential royal scandals. In order to protect the face of the royal family, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the execution of two princesses.
The first princess was the daughter of Tang He, the tenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the King of Lu Zhu Tan and Princess Tang. In the early Ming Dynasty, among many concubines, the Tang family actually ranked first. His father Tang He grew up with Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Chongba's childhood. Later, he assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in proclaiming himself emperor and founding the country. He was one of Zhu Yuanzhang's most trusted courtiers and one of the few founding heroes in the early Ming Dynasty. After his death, he was posthumously named King Dong 'ou, known as "Wu Xiang". As the daughter-in-law of Zhu Yuanzhang, Tang Shi has such a prominent position. Why was Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to be executed?
This is mainly caused by her own sins. We can find the reason from an imperial edict of Hongwu for twenty years. "Lu is rude, and his wife will be executed on New Year's Day." The imperial edict even said angrily that "such spilled things should be recalled to the palace within one day." So, what did Wang Lu and his wife do? It turns out that in order to supplement the eunuchs in the palace, the couple directly searched the seven-or eight-year-old boys in the fief and then brought them into the palace for treatment. What's more, Mr. and Mrs. Lu Wang even spared their offspring, so that the local people hid their children under the bed when they saw the people in the palace.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard that Lu Wang and his wife acted in this way, he wrote several letters to express his strong anger: "These two couples should never be sentenced to death. They should be the daughters of the country on New Year's Eve." The final outcome of the couple was that Zhu Tan, the king of Lu, was beheaded and his body was exposed to his parents, which was the most serious humiliation at that time, and Zhu Yuanzhang executed Tang.
The Second Princess is Deng Yu's daughter, Zhu Yuanzhang's second son, Princess Deng and Zhu Shang. Although Deng was not the first room, he was favored by Zhu merchants and often blew pillows, which led to the exclusion and abuse of Princess Wang. Through the eyeliner planted in Qin State, Zhu Yuanzhang learned that his son was "dressed by Pianfei Deng" and "obeyed Pianfei Deng's instructions and sent messengers to the coastal government to buy pearl jade articles". In addition to these violations of state etiquette, the king of Qin and Zhu Shang even enjoyed flogging the eunuchs in the palace with Deng. Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that even the king of Qin wanted to be abolished. Finally, Prince Zhu Biao persuaded him to give up. However, in his anger, he was killed by Deng. History contains "partial princess Deng, jealous and hanged."
It is not difficult to see Zhu Yuanzhang's selflessness from the fact that two princesses were executed on monks for violating the law and discipline.