Why did Zhu Yuanzhang kill Liu Bowen?
1. The reason why Liu Bowen could not be tolerated by Zhu Yuanzhang was the contradiction within the imperial court, that is, the problem of party struggle that existed in all previous dynasties. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the court ministers actually formed two factions, divided by region, and then began a series of infighting. These two factions are Huaixi Group and Dong Zhe Group.
2. Huaixi School is a group of ministers who are mainly Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown association. These people are all Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, so for Zhu Yuanzhang, they naturally prefer Huaixi Group. Since Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, Li Shanchang has become the head of Huaixi Group, and then Huaixi Group will soon go to diamond cut diamond, and the eastern Zhejiang region headed by Liu Ji will compete with it.
Since Liu Ji killed Li Shanchang's confidant Lin Bing, the infighting between the two sides has escalated. Li Shanchang has been looking for opportunities to hurt Liu Ji, so officials headed by Li Shanchang incited other ministers to attack Liu Ji. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang saw the tricks of these party struggles, and after the Hu case, Zhu Yuanzhang had already distrusted Liu Ji. He knew that the relationship between Liu Ji and Hu had broken down, but he ordered Hu to visit Liu Ji.
Zhu Yuanzhang's plan is also a knife to kill people. He used party struggle to get rid of his troubles. On the one hand, it dealt a blow to the party struggle, on the other hand, it cleared the way for his descendants.
: Liu Ji (1311-1375), a native of Wuyang Village, Nantian Mountain, Jiudu, Qingtian, Zhejiang Province (now Wuyang Village, Yuemei Township, Nantian Town, wencheng county, Zhejiang Province). At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Qingtian County belonged to Chuzhou Road (now Lishui, Zhejiang) in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Wenzhou Road (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang) in the east, with mountainous territory. South Tianshan Mountain is in the south of qingtian county 150. The situation in the southern Tianshan Mountains is "the top of thousands of mountains, with dozens of miles of land alone, which is called the blessed land in the south". "Paradise in China" records that "it was called seventy-two blessed places in ancient times, and Nantian was one of them".