Zhu Yuanzhang, a diligent and promising monarch who loves the people, can be said to be the only real grass-roots emperor in the history of China! His life is very legendary. He worked as a cowherd, a beggar and a monk, and later joined the anti-Yuan Rebel Army. After thousands of difficulties and dangers, the Ming Dynasty was finally established! Because he had tasted the sufferings of the people since he was a child, Zhu Yuanzhang, who became an emperor, paid special attention to people's livelihood. He can be said to be an emperor who really makes decisions for the people!
First of all, during his administration, he formulated a series of measures to benefit the poor: for example, let farmers cultivate again and reward reclamation; Vigorously engage in resettlement and military camp construction; Organize local farmers to build water conservancy projects; Vigorously promote the cultivation of mulberry, hemp, cotton and other cash crops and fruit and wood crops, he will only enrich the people and restrain the mighty; Ordered the liberation of handmaiden; Tax relief. This series of measures led to the great governance at that time, and social production gradually recovered and developed, which was called the rule of Hongwu in history!
Second: severely punish corrupt officials. Speaking of emperors who killed corrupt officials in history, if Zhu Yuanzhang was the second, I'm afraid no emperor dared to recognize the first one! After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he launched an "anti-corrupt official" campaign nationwide, targeting corrupt officials at all levels from the central government to the local government. Kill officials who embezzled more than 62 taels of silver (Zhu Yuanzhang once wrote an imperial edict: "In order to cherish the lives of the people, all officials who embezzled more than 62 taels of silver shall be executed and no loans shall be allowed." )。 Zhu Yuanzhang was in power for 3 1 year and launched six large-scale anti-corruption campaigns, killing 1.5 million corrupt officials. This is definitely the first emperor in history.
Third: Diligence. Zhu Yuanzhang is definitely one of the most diligent emperors in the history of China, and the only one who can compete with him is Yong Zhengdi in the Qing Dynasty. How diligent is he? According to historical records:
In the 18th year of Hongwu (1385), from September 14th to 21st, within eight days, Zhu Yuanzhang approved the internal and external performance of * * * 1660, and handled 339 1 piece of state affairs, with an average of more than 200 pieces played in Zagreb every day and more than 400 pieces of state affairs.
What best reflects his diligence is a sentence in his testamentary edict, "There is a year in thirty, and one day you are worried, and you are diligent every day."
Therefore, he is indeed a diligent and promising king who loves the people, but as the saying goes, no one is perfect, and gold is not enough! Zhu Yuanzhang also has a selfish side.
A cruel man full of selfish desires, which is mainly reflected in his pursuit of supreme power, his own glory and the family from generation to generation.
First: killing heroes, when it comes to the monarch who slaughtered heroes in history, Zhu Yuanzhang is definitely the most famous! I won't go into details about this. One of the purposes of killing heroes is to consolidate their rights!
Second: restart the cruel system of buried alive. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, 46 concubines and maids were buried! So that in the next 70 years, this barbaric system became popular again. Why use the living to be martyred? And this is not the pursuit of their own glory, what is it? Have pity on these innocent women.
Third: the enfeoffment of philosophers as vassals. Zhu Yuanzhang once made all the scholars king, giving them great rights in fiefs, which caused the self-respect of the vassal king and the lack of court authority. This also laid a curse for his once! But what is the purpose of doing so? Of course, from generation to generation or Zhujiajian! This is actually a manifestation of selfishness.
So I think Zhu Yuanzhang is also a selfish and cruel person! The same sentence-"The most ruthless emperor."