Living in the Hongwu Era: the Fate of Little People under Zhu Yuanzhang
by Chen Xubin
About This Novel
This book peels off the thirteen cases written by Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang in the "Da Gao", and elaborates on the ins and outs behind these cases that have no legal basis, common sense and logic. Starting from the military, land, political, legal and other policy systems of the early Ming Dynasty, we sort out the behavioral motivations of the people involved in the case, and interpret the basis and purpose of Emperor Hongwu's trial and judgment, thereby outlining the absurd fate and horrific living conditions of various characters in the Hongwu era, and reproducing the true face of Emperor Hongwu's "rule of law". In these cases, we can see the slaves of the guards who had no personal freedom, the farmers who were tied to the land and were not allowed to leave their hometowns, the old women who said wrong things and injured their neighbors and had their property confiscated, the scholars who did not want to be officials and had to cut off their fingers, the officials who followed reasonable case filing procedures but failed to guess the "holy will"... Through the careless fate of these little people, we see how a founding emperor with a brilliant mind deceived the controlling officials and spied on the people. These cases allow us to see another side of the "Hongwu rule".
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