Zhu Yuanzhang finally came up with a solution.

Support your fellow villagers and conduct overall management.

This is equivalent to a fellow villager's association at the same time.

This fellow villagers' association includes many people including Xu Da, Li Shanchang, Fa Xiaotang and others.

And the president is Zhu Yuanzhang.

Unfortunately, Hu Weiyong is a member of the fellow villagers' association.

At that time, Boss Zhu had never been to school. If he had been to school, I believe that those students in his class would be fooled by him and organized into a class reunion, and then let these students work hard for themselves.

When Li Shanchang was squeezed away, the Prime Minister's position was there and could not be left empty all the time.

Something will definitely happen if you are empty for a long time.

As the president, Zhu Yuanzhang understood this truth.

But he was worried that the Prime Minister would hand over such an important position to someone.

Who should I choose?

This is a difficult problem.

From Zhu Yuanzhang's perspective, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had a great desire for power, did not want to choose someone and put him in the throne. First of all, the prime minister has too much power, and it is very likely that something will happen if he finds someone who doesn't know the root system. This person must be 100% controllable.

Secondly, it is not appropriate to hand over the Prime Minister to the hands of any hero. After all, the Prime Minister is the leader of the civil officials. Letting the martial officials who fight and kill all day long make copywriting is not much different from forcing Zhang Fei to embroider Li Kui to take shoes. It is not a business that cannot be done, but this person cannot be too weak. This person needs to be able to suppress the situation and suppress the civil officials.

The most important point is that this man has the lowest threat to his imperial authority, and his political foundation is also the shallowest.

After comprehensive consideration, Zhu Yuanzhang finally concluded that Hu Weiyong, who was also from an official, also had a certain cultural foundation and was very domineering.

Perhaps in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, Hu Weiyong is indeed the best candidate, and this is also the best solution!

Because he is relatively easy to control, he can eat radish for several days, so that a person will not pose too much threat to him.

But later the situation developed beyond his expectations.

In the sixth year of Hongwu (1370), under the appointment of Zhu Yuanzhang, Hu Weiyong was officially promoted to prime minister.

Hu Weiyong, who was just starting to become a major player, did not do anything out of the ordinary. He was doing his job very calmly.

This period can be said to be the assessment period of Zhu Yuanzhang for him.

What Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know was that while he was evaluating Hu Weiyong, Hu Weiyong was also guarding against Zhu Yuanzhang.

Hu Weiyong knew that Emperor Zhu did not trust anyone, including himself.

So during this period, he was also keeping a low profile, and at the same time he used this period to gradually understand the rules of the prime minister's game.

After the rules are understood, the assessment period will basically end.

After the assessment was completed, Hu Weiyong's position was determined.

The prime minister fell on himself.

At this time, Hu Weiyong began to become proud.

However, as the protagonist Hu Weiyong did not carefully consider the reasons for winning this knockout match.

Why did Boss Zhu choose him as prime minister in the end?

Why is it not someone else, but him?

As the protagonist, Hu Weiyong did not think about this issue carefully.

After the assessment period, Zhu Yuanzhang began to relax his vigilance against him. In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, Hu Weiyong would follow this working attitude in the future.

However, he did not work as Zhu Yuanzhang expected, but instead began to form cliques, embezzle and accept bribes, purge all forces of the other party, and began to form his own party.

At this time, Hu Weiyong, who already felt that he was in power, did a big thing. Without Zhu Yuanzhang's consent, he privately intercepted memorials that were unfavorable to him and crazily cleaned up these memorials.

In Hu Weiyong's opinion, all the things he did were secret and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know at all.

But for Zhu Yuanzhang, relaxing does not mean giving up.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had extremely strict surveillance on the entire country, always monitored the every move of all officials.

This includes Hu Weiyong.

But what is puzzling is that Zhu Yuanzhang did not seem to have taken any action because of this.

He was like a bystander watching the jumping clown performing on stage.

While cleaning up hostile forces and establishing his own party, he also focused on those heroes who made great achievements in military achievements. Because if they participated, his party would be strong enough.

He chose two ways for the heroes.

One is to win over.

The other one is to eradicate.

We must first win over. If we cannot win over, we must eradicate it.

After the route was determined, he began to execute it.

It is absolutely impossible to get rid of these people with your own strength, and it must be based on Zhu Yuanzhang.

Similarly, if you want to convince Zhu Yuanzhang, you must provide him with a reason enough to obey him.

The first thing he focused on was Liu Ji, who had been demoted home. He knew that from the beginning, Liu Ji had disliked him and stumbling on him all the time. This person would never be convinced by him.

For this guy, there is only one move.

Kill him.

So he began to look for weaknesses from Liu Ji.

Finally, he found a weakness that seemed dispensable but was absolutely feasible for Zhu Yuanzhang.

Kingly spirit.

He told Zhu Yuanzhang that Liu Ji had picked a royal place for Liu Ji and would build a cemetery for himself in the future.

This place is called Tamyang.

What is royal aura?

Invisible and intangible!

This shouldn't be the reason for impeaching Liu Ji.

This matter seems very difficult to understand now.

But I personally think this is a nearly perfect reason, because Hu Weiyong cleverly took advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's weaknesses.

superstitious!

Zhu Yuanzhang was a deeply superstitious person.

Especially after becoming emperor, his superstition rose instead of decline.

From a farmer who worked step by step to finally ascend to the throne of the emperor, he firmly believed that all this was God's will and God's arrangement. Now, if you want to destroy Liu Ji, the seemingly absurd reason of Wang Qi can be completely feasible.

As the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang would never allow himself to possess royal aura while being possessed by others.

Liu Ji, a genius who knows the help of God in the sky, is even more incompetent.

This guy was originally a threat, he knew too much, and keeping it was always a hidden danger. Now that he has the royal aura, it is even more a threat.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, eliminating Liu Ji was just an excuse.

The excuse of Wang Qi is enough.

Here I want to declare my point of view.

Many scholars say that Hu Weiyong used Zhu Yuanzhang's hand to get rid of Liu Ji.

But judging from the development of the subsequent events, I think it was Zhu Yuanzhang who used Hu Weiyong's hand to get rid of Liu Ji.

Because according to the characterization Zhu Yuanzhang gave Hu Weiyong later, this reason cannot be explained.

After Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed Hu Weiyong and destroyed the Hu Party, he once said more than once that Hu Weiyong conspired to murder Liu Ji.

This reason could barely work when Hu Weiyong rebelled at that time, but now it seems a bit extravagant, which is completely unnecessary.

Of course, these are all later stories.

After the false proposition of Wang Qi was put forward, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Liu Ji to be punished.

He was ordered to make rectification instructions.

Liu Ji has even been stripped of the official hat now, so what else can be punished?

have.

And many.

As the boss, Zhu Yuanzhang stopped paying Liu Ji's salary.

In our current words, it is called pension.

I can't even eat, I see how you can give me some excuses.
To be continued...