Chapter 193: Lan Yu must not be implicated in the Hu Weiyong case, and the status of Prince Yiwen must not be changed
One day, the guilty minister invited Prime Minister Hu to his home for a drink and brought him to meet him.

Afterwards, he accompanied Commander Lan to visit Prime Minister Hu at his residence. During the drinking, the Prime Minister said to Commander Lan: "When what you and I have planned is accomplished, this scholar will also have a great reputation."

It is surprising that such a false confession was also included in the "Records of Traitors".

The extremely intelligent Hu Weiyong seemed to have gone crazy, and easily vented this act of destroying a family and a clan to an unrelated teacher.

In fact, when the Hanlin scholars compiled the "Record of Traitors", they had no choice but to choose the confessions that linked Lan and Hu together.

Because according to the logic of this case: Lan Yu's motive for rebellion was because the inside story of his joining the "Hu Party" was exposed.

Little did they know that Lan Yu's joining the Hu party, which was confirmed by a sitting gentleman, revealed a flaw.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gang suddenly understood why the note said "Lan Yu is in trouble".

Since ancient times, treason has been a heinous crime that is unforgivable. Once you are involved in it, there will be no way to survive.

But the problem is that it is not the 26th year of Hongwu, and Chang Yuchun, Chang Qingyun, Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Biao, four important figures who died young in history, are all alive.

What's more, Lan Yu was a very staunch princeling, so Zhu had no reason to take action against him!
However, Zhu Gang recalled that at the banquet, Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned the follow-up handling of the "Hu Weiyong case", and he always felt that his father had something else in his words.

The heads of Hu Weiyong and other main criminals have already been chopped off. Is there any way to wrap up this case?

Now it seems that Zhu Yuanzhang has probably decided to take advantage of the "Hu Weiyong case" to completely eliminate the threat posed by generals to the imperial power.

Zhu Gang originally thought that his idea of ​​establishing the Five Military Commanderies could dispel Zhu Yuanzhang's idea of ​​slaughtering military generals and nobles.

Now it seems that historical inertia is extremely powerful. No wonder my eldest brother has to go to Shanxi for inspection to avoid suspicion.

After sending Wang Danian away, Zhu Gang, leaning against the bathtub, began to think about how to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang.

After all, Lan Yu does not have any title now, and his status in the military is far from as high as it was in history.

The most important thing is that once Lan Yu was involved in the "Hu Weiyong case", Chang Yuchun, as his brother-in-law, would certainly be equally to blame.

Once Chang Yuchun's protection is lost, Chang Mao may go back to his old ways.
Historically, after Lan Yu defeated Nahachu, Nahachu came forward to meet Lan Yu to discuss surrender.

For the Ming Dynasty, the northern expedition army easily defeated Nahachu's 200,000 troops, which was tantamount to cutting off the arm of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

However, when they were drunk, Lan Yu took off his clothes and forced Nahachu to put them on.

Nahachu could not accept Lan Yu's "friendship" and insisted on pushing it away. The two of them ended up making the banquet extremely awkward.

At that time, Nahachu kept communicating with his subordinates in "Mongolian", and his expression became gradually solemn.

There was a general under Chang Mao who attended the banquet and knew a little Mongolian. He mistakenly believed that Nahachu wanted to escape.

In desperation, Chang Mao drew his sword and was about to kill Nahachu.

Chang Mao's actions completely destroyed the "peace talks" that had been achieved, so Feng Sheng hated him to the core.

In the military intelligence report to Zhu Yuanzhang, Feng Sheng criticized Chang Mao for all his shortcomings.

Chang Mao was not willing to be outdone. He had followed Feng Sheng for many years and knew a lot about the other party's illegal and disorderly activities.

So Chang Mao took the opportunity to expose the matter to Zhu Yuanzhang, and suddenly the father-in-law and son-in-law became a laughing stock in the entire Ming Dynasty.

In 1387, Zhu Yuanzhang took away Feng Sheng's military power and stripped Chang Mao of his title.

The two of them were summoned to Yingtian Prefecture for a public trial. However, Feng Sheng was reinstated shortly afterwards, while Chang Mao was exiled to Longzhou, Guangxi by Zhu Yuanzhang.

After arriving in Longzhou, Chang Mao was still not honest.

Not only did he use his own reputation to seduce the wife of local native official Zhao Tiejian, Huang, but he also competed for power with Zhao Tiejian's nephew Zhao Zongshou.

What is even more incredible is that Chang Mao actually took Huang's daughter as a concubine, openly challenging Zhao Zongshou. Not long after, Zhao Zongshou was forced to rebel and fight against the court.

When the news of Zhao Zongshou's rebellion reached the capital, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious.

He could never have imagined that Chang Yuchun's eldest son was such a useless piece of mud.

After the "Li Shanchang" case broke out, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Chang Mao to be recalled to the capital.

In his opinion, as long as Chang Mao was alive, he could not sleep or eat well.

As Li Shanchang's apprentice, Chang Mao knew that he would never return.

So on the way back to the capital, the 35-year-old Chang Mao committed suicide by taking poison.

Chang Mao's death made Zhu Yuanzhang extremely sad. Although he resented Chang Mao, he had not yet reached the point of fighting with him.

For the sake of Chang Yuchun, Zhu Yuanzhang personally ordered the Ministry of Rites to go to Guangxi to bury Chang Mao's remains.

However, what shocked Zhu Yuanzhang was that after the officials from the Ministry of Rites arrived in Longzhou, they learned that "Chang Mao had faked his death."

As everyone knows, the crime of "deceiving the emperor" is punishable by the execution of the entire family.

Chang Mao's behavior is not like that of a naughty child. He has become a "troublemaker" who is disrupting the rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately sent Yang Wen and Han Guan to Longzhou to investigate the news of Chang Mao's fake death.

However, no matter how Yang Wen and Han Guan investigated, they found no signs that Chang Mao had faked his death.

Therefore, the saying that "Chang Mao faked his death" was regarded as nonsense by Zhu Yuanzhang.

In fact, Yang Wen and Han Guan did not find Chang Mao's body. They just reported what they saw and thought to Zhu Yuanzhang.

As for whether Chang Mao was dead or not, even they themselves didn't know, and this incident became a mystery in later history.

Today, Chang Mao has long become the backbone of Taiyuan Shenjiying, but he is still a young man who is easily impulsive after all.

Once Lan Yu was involved in the "Hu Weiyong case" and Chang Yuchun was implicated, I'm afraid Chang Mao would lose his mind.

The series of strategic ideas that Zhu Gang had previously constructed, such as those regarding the Indochina Peninsula, all needed to be implemented by young military generals.

Most importantly, the Chang family is the noble family that Zhu Biao and Chang Qingyun rely on the most.

If the eldest brother's core power cannot be preserved, it will inevitably affect the stability of the crown prince's position.

Gu Xiuqi and Zhong Boxuan, these two guys, have been planning to put the "yellow robe" on Zhu Gang.

If the two of them had found the opportunity, the Prince of Jin's version of "Battle of Jingnan" would probably have been staged ahead of time.

Zhu Gang was only interested in establishing new territories overseas and never had any intention of coveting the throne.

"Too much blood has been shed in the ninth year of Hongwu. I hope the old man can stop at the right time."

Soon it was time for the next day's court meeting. Although Zhu Biao had changed the time of court meetings, it was obvious that all the civil and military officials were in low spirits today.

"If you have the foundation, you will play early, but if you don't have the foundation, you will retreat!"

Following the words of Wang Jinghong, the eunuch chief who was close to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Gang, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly stood up.

"Your servant Zhu Gang has a report to make."

(End of this chapter)