First, eliminate future troubles.
Ming Taizu learned from the misfortune of the previous generation of women, established Chen Ji's discipline, and was the first to be strict in internal education. ?
As can be seen from this sentence, Zhu Yuanzhang attributed a large part of the troubles of past dynasties to the interference of the harem, so for the sovereignty of future generations, he simply brought all influential and threatening people into the cemetery to avoid future troubles! The most ruthless royal family!
Second, superstition and hegemonic thought.
When Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, under the influence of his thrifty wives Ma Dajiao and Ma Huanghou, his life was not luxurious, and he worked hard and loved the people all his life.
Because of superstition, Zhu Yuanzhang believed that there was another world after death. People die only because of different lifestyles, so he uses the power of the emperor to find all the people who serve him first, and he can't lose his good days!
This is the hegemonic thought, which was brilliant before death and rich after death. Of course, rich families have wives and concubines in groups.
Zhu Yuanzhang is very superstitious about ghosts and gods. Ji Fang Yi Zhuan records that Zhong Zhang, a warlock, was invited to sacrifice Fengshen to fight Chen Youliang. It is recorded in the "Seven Manuscripts" written by Lang Ying in Ming Dynasty that drawing lots to give up cutting down temple trees without breaking the mast; Sacrifice is also necessary before starting work.
Judging from Zhu Yuanzhang's superstitious behaviors, it is obvious that he believes in the theory of ghosts and gods, and martyrdom before death is justified! Thirty-eight concubines died for Zhu Yuanzhang, including some ladies-in-waiting, and dozens. Before martyrdom, special eunuchs will arrange for them to concentrate on eating. After eating, eunuchs will take them to a small room. There are many plush chairs in the room. Seven-foot white silk is hung on the plush chairs for these concubines and maids to hang themselves. In this process, if any concubine doesn't want to die, the eunuch on the side will immediately execute the order of martyrdom and strangle them alive. ?
Zhu Yuanzhang was born in poverty and had a deep understanding of the lessons of political corruption and the abolition of law and discipline at the end of Yuan Dynasty, which led to the collapse of the regime.
Therefore, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang liked to sum up the experience and lessons of the rise and fall of dynasties and take them as an important basis for his own governance of the country. In the process of summing up, Zhu Yuanzhang saw the threat of the consorts of the Han Dynasty to the imperial power, and even saw that Wu Zetian, who was originally a concubine of Li Shimin, actually married Tang Gaozong, the son of Li Shimin, and finally became emperor on her own.