Zhu Yuanzhang was the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, an outstanding landlord class politician and military strategist, and was known as the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty in history. He is the only emperor in Chinese history who came from a humble background, and he is also the most legendary figure. He is a hero who emerged from the cracks of history. His unique civilian temperament and sense of inferiority have always been with him throughout his career as a king. This is the most attractive secret that has long-lasting charm in the minds of the Chinese people and has been spread by everyone.
Among other founding emperors of the past dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang's psychological quality was the worst, so bad that he suffered from serious psychological disorders and split personality. Three hypotheses: (1) Zhu Yuanzhang suffered from severe neurosis; (2) Zhu Yuanzhang's neurosis caused him to have a split personality; (3) Zhu Yuanzhang's mental defense mechanism for killing heroes indiscriminately was to do justice for heaven.
Zhu Yuanzhang was good at tapping talents, and soon gathered a group of senior advisers, such as Li Shanchang, Song Lian, Liu Ji (Bo Wen), Zhu Sheng and others. They gave advice to Zhu Yuanzhang, who enabled him to overthrow the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and also eliminate other peasant rebels one by one, and established the Ming Dynasty in 1368. Sadly, when Zhu Yuanzhang founded the world, he was still able to recruit scholars and wise men from all over the world, and he was able to safely appoint his subordinates. Once the world was settled, he began to worry that the civil servants would despise him for his poor background, and the military generals would usurp his throne.
Over time, Zhu Yuanzhang developed typical symptoms of anxiety neurosis, such as severe lack of self-confidence, suspicion, extreme sensitivity, and prone to delusions. In order to relieve his anxiety, Zhu Yuanzhang took pleasure in purging the imperial officials and massacring officials and people. For example, he invented the punishment method of the imperial staff. From the prime minister to the common people, no one could maintain human dignity, and many people were "immediately killed by the staff." , those who were killed without a staff were disabled and were sent to Fengyang or other remote counties in border states to serve as soldiers. By the ninth year of Hongwu (AD 1376) alone, more than 10,000 officials were relegated to Fengyang. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang also created (restored) many cruel and inhumane criminal laws, such as torture, scrubbing, intestinal extraction, skinning, tattooing, castration, knee-picking, tin snake swimming, etc. The degree of barbarity and cruelty exceeded that of previous kings.
The root cause of Zhu Yuanzhang’s neurosis is achievement anxiety and throne anxiety. The definition of anxiety in psychology is worry, uneasiness and extreme tension caused by social factors. Zhu Yuanzhang's achievement anxiety manifested in his desire to surpass Yao and Shun and establish an absolutely equal society without any wealthy families and corrupt officials; Zhu Yuanzhang's throne anxiety manifested in his fear that important officials in the imperial court would gradually evade his power or even deceive him. The interaction between these two kinds of anxiety caused Zhu Yuanzhang to live in a sub-healthy state of high anxiety and tension for a long time, and his character became increasingly paranoid, eventually reaching split personality.