Let's see how he kills people. First, add the charges to others with a glyph. At that time, there was a monk, Dhamma came back, and Zhu Yuanzhang invited him to dinner. He came back and said, "The whole Soviet Union came to a special place and jade came out from it. This is a gift from God, and I am ashamed of my virtue. " When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this poem, he was furious and said, "Your poem used' extraordinary' and called me a bad Zhu Ye! Also known as "Ode to the Virtue of Tang Taosong", I missed Tang Taosong, but failed to do so. Why rape a monk? How dare you! Then cut it. " (History of the Ming Dynasty, Volume I) The monk kowtowed devoutly. Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang blamed him with the glyph decomposition method, and as a result, his head was also decomposed.
Another China calligrapher, Zhan Xiyuan, writes well. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to write the house number of "Jixian Gate" in imperial academy. Because the word "door" was slightly hooked on the right, Zhu Yuanzhang picked his eyes and said, "We wanted to recruit talents, but we closed the door and stood in my way!" Then kill it (Max's Talking about Errors, Volume 4). There is a straight tick on the right side of the word "door", which is a standard regular script. It has been like this for a long time. Why can't you pick a hook when you get to Zhu Yuanzhang? Ironically, the word "door" written by Zhu Yuanzhang himself is also "slightly ticked right" (see Zhu Yuanzhang's calligraphy attached to the front of Mr. Wu Han's Biography of Zhu Yuanzhang). In this case, Zhu Yuanzhang should be guilty.
Second, using homophones and dialects to misinterpret the meaning of the text and add crimes to others. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Xiong, a famous Confucian, sealed the book "Zheng Shangshu, whose muscle disadvantages cast yo muscle disadvantages". Please correct me. Zhu Yuanzhang was greatly annoyed when he saw it and said, "The scholar is unreasonable, so I took a detour." . Lv Hou still sat tired and died.
Others, such as Zhejiang instructor Lin, wrote a "salary increase table" for the sea guard and was punished by "following the constitution"; Zhao Boning, the dean of Beiping, wrote the Birthday Table for Du Si, criticizing him for "taking the virtue of children". Z, the instructor of Fuzhou Fu Xue School, wrote Hedong Festival Table for the provincial judges, in which he criticized "Easy is the world"; Jiang Zhi, the instructor of Fu Xue in Guilin, was criticized for using zuozhi in the "Congratulations Table" written by Bu Yi's second division. Changzhou Fu Xue instructed Jiangzhen to write "He Zheng Dan Table" for this government, and criticized it with "Ruisheng Xingzhi"; Li Zhou wrote He Zhengdan Table for his state, in which "Shengde is in autumn" was criticized. In the above article, Zhu Yuanzhang pronounced "Ze" and "thief" in his Huainan dialect, and "Zuo Ze" means "being a thief". Isn't this an insult to the "red scarf thief"? "Fate knowledge" is pronounced as "monk knowledge" and "sage virtue" is pronounced as "monk gain". Isn't this the revelation of his early becoming a monk?
Third, doubtful words violate imperial power and offend people. Wei Guan, a Suzhou magistrate, violated the imperial taboo and built a magistrate's yamen on the original site of Zhang Shicheng Palace. Gao Qi wrote "On Liang Wen" for Wei Guan, including the word "Long Pan Hu Ju", which was regarded as disrespectful. Wei Guan and Gao Qi were beheaded (see the biography of Gui Yanliang in Ming Dynasty), otherwise it would be another bloody case.
Zhu Yuanzhang's accusation against the author of the table is groundless and is a complete injustice. The author of the epitaph originally praised the prosperity of the Zhu Ming Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang's sagacity. The words used in the epitaph are all common expressions, and there is no anti-Ming thought or irony, which is quite different from the literary inquisition in the Qing Dynasty. The literary inquisition in the Qing Dynasty, no matter how extensive it was and how tragic it was, far exceeded the literary inquisition in the early Ming Dynasty. However, as far as the facts are concerned, although there were some unjust prisons in the literary inquisition in Qing Dynasty, in many cases, there were factual reasons for increasing the charges. The author of the article either refuses to respect the fresh moon, or denounces Manchu as a barbarian, or contains sarcasm. Many people who write or disseminate books have a strong national consciousness of anti-Qing and regaining sight, so they form various characters and show their resistance to foreign rule. Things are different in the early Ming dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Han literati did not have such a strong nostalgia for the old country. In their view, "replacing foreigners with summer" is in line with the weather, so there is no national sentiment like that in the early Qing Dynasty. One of the reasons why the literati in the early Ming Dynasty were unwilling to cooperate with the Zhu Ming Dynasty was that the thought of shaming officials and surnames was at work. Second, a group of scholar-officials are still waiting to see. If they are eager to be officials, if the Zhu Ming dynasty is short-lived, they will be accused of being "thieves" for life. Third, in the early Ming Dynasty, the usage was harsh, and many officials were indecisive, and they might lose their heads one day, which also made many scribes hesitate. However, no matter from which aspect, there is no fundamental conflict of interest between the literati class and the Zhu Ming dynasty, which is not enough to resist and ridicule the Zhu Ming dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang came from a humble background, and his parents and grandparents were tenants. He was a mercenary with his parents since he was a child, and later became a monk and joined the rebels known as "thieves". Although he later ascended the throne of the emperor, he was always ashamed of his "poor" background and experience, so he always suspected that others would expose his shortcomings. Driven by this neurotic suspicion, when I saw the imperial edict, monks and thieves were ridiculed everywhere, and Zhu Jiachao was cursed everywhere. The abnormal expression of this sense of inferiority is that Zhu Yuanzhang himself often talks about "I'm wearing clothes on the right side of Huaihe River" and "I'm wearing clothes on the right side of the river", and when he died, he said, "This started from humble origins, and no one ever knew." (See Ming History, but others stabbed me with ulterior motives.