Basically, only emperors from civilian backgrounds will kill heroes, because they have no natural power of their own, and even the smallest political enemies must be eliminated before they can be safely passed on to the designated heirs. Tribes, gentry, ministers and foreigners will not kill ministers for no reason after they ascend to the throne.

If you only say that there is no reason to kill a hero, there are:

Han Han Xin Peng Yue

Da, Li Shanchang, Deng Yu, etc. Four were abolished by six founding fathers (the other two died young), and only Geng Bingwen did not die young and was not overthrown by Zhu Yuanzhang in the twenty-eighth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In fact, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can also be considered similar. Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai, Yang et al.

During the Republic of China, there were Li Zongren, Wang Jingwei and Hu.