The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were indeed many "strange people", liked to do carpenters; liked to cultivate immortals and practice the Tao; and there were strikers who did not go to the dynasty for decades, but these were nothing, there was such an emperor, addicted to fighting crickets and being called "cricket heavenly son", and even burned his own uncle alive with a copper cylinder, but it did not affect him in the slightest to become a generation of Ming Jun. Today we will talk about this topic and see how legendary the life of Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji really is.
Emperor Xuanzong of Ming Dynasty
In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Zhanji was born in the Yan King's Mansion in Beiping, and Zhu Zhanji was clever and clever from an early age, reading a good book and riding a horse and shooting a good arrow. Zhu Zhanji's grandfather Zhu Di was very fond of him, and even rebelled for him, it is said that when Zhu Zhanji was born, his grandfather Zhu Di had a dream, dreaming that his father Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a big gui, and said eight words: "Pass on the descendants of the descendants, forever qichang." Just as Zhu Di woke up and pondered the interpretation of the dream, the eldest grandson Zhu Zhanji was born.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di
Zhu Zhanji's birth made Zhu Di feel that this was an auspicious omen, and also made Zhu Di make up his mind to start a military campaign. So a few years later, in the first year of Jianwen (1399), Zhu Di launched the "Battle of Jingnan", which affected the progress of the Ming Dynasty, and pulled his nephew Zhu Yunjiao down from the horse, and he ascended the throne as he wished to become the new master of the Ming Dynasty.
The Battle of Jing
Soon after Zhu Di became emperor, he was very entangled in the issue of establishing a prince, the eldest son Zhu Gaozi was Zhu Yuanzhang's son of the Prince of Yan, and naturally became the crown prince, but because he was disabled, obese and bloated, so Zhu Di did not like him, and the second son Zhu Gaoxu had a heroic image and a style of doing things very similar to himself, plus he was brave and martial and had distinguished himself in the Battle of Jingnan, so he was deeply loved by Zhu Di, so this problem has been deadlocked in Zhu Di's mind for a long time.
Zhu Gaoxu
Zhu Zhanji
Later, a university scholar Xie Jin's sentence "good saint sun" solved this problem that had plagued Zhu Di for a long time, and Zhu Di did not forget the dream he had once had, so he made Zhu Zhanji's father Zhu Gaozi the crown prince, and Zhu Zhanji was made the imperial grandson, which showed his love for Zhu Zhanji, and Zhu Zhanji did not live up to Zhu Di's cultivation and expectations.
After Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne as emperor, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be guotai min'an, and the prosperous world created by Zhu Zhanji and his father Zhu Gaozi is also called "the rule of Renxuan".
Then, after Zhu Zhanji became emperor, why did he burn his own uncle Zhu Gaoxu?
Zhu Gaoxu was very dissatisfied with the fact that Zhu Di had made Zhu Gaoxu the crown prince. Zhu Gaoxu was a person who had been coveting the throne all his life, and although Zhu Gaoxu had been made crown prince, Zhu Gaoxu still had no intention of giving up his dream of seizing the throne and had been looking for an opportunity to overthrow Zhu Gaoxu.
Zhu Zhanji's father, Zhu Gaoxu, although weak and sickly, was polite and benevolent, and chose to forgive his younger brother Zhu Gaoxu for framing him again and again, but Zhu Gaoxu's tolerance again and again was weak and incompetent in Zhu Gaoxu's view, which made Zhu Gaoxu's ambition to seize power more and more inflated.
In the first year of Hong Xi (1425), Emperor Mingrenzong Zhu Gaozi, who had reigned for only ten months, suddenly died of illness, and Zhu Zhanji knew that someone would covet the throne, so he immediately took action to return to Beijing to succeed to the throne smoothly.
Akihito Zhu Gaozi
Zhu Zhanji has also always adhered to his father's legacy, treated him with great courtesy, and was generous and tolerant in the face of his rudeness, but Zhu Zhanji's succession made Zhu Gaoxu's wish to fail again, and finally Zhu Gaoxu, who could not hold back his ambitions, began to rebel in the first year of Xuande, and Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji personally defeated him. Zhu Gaoxu, who had always been self-righteous, had no strength to fight back in the face of the huge counterinsurgency army, and could only surrender his weapons.
After Zhu Zhanji put down the rebellion, he remembered the flesh and blood affection, and did not put his uncle on the spot to correct the law, but only deposed Zhu Gaoxu's father and son as shuren and imprisoned them in the imperial city of Xi'an. Conspiracy is a heinous capital offense, Zhu Gaoxu can save his life, Zhu Zhanji is already benevolent and righteous, but Zhu Gaoxu is simply a typical example of not doing nothing and not dying.
When Xuanzong once went to visit his uncle Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaoxu actually took advantage of his lack of preparation, stretched out a foot to hook Xuanzong to the ground, and Xuanzong, who had endured to the limit, ordered the guards to find a 300-kilogram copper cylinder to cover Zhu Gaoxu's head, and wanted to rectify him fiercely. After cutting the grass and removing the roots, there were endless troubles, and then he ordered that all of Zhu Gaoxu's sons be executed.
Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji burned his own uncle alive, so why can he still be called a generation of Ming Emperors?
Emperor Xuanzong of Ming was the fifth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and because he loved cricket fighting, he was nicknamed the "Cricket Emperor" by the world, but he also had a good way of governing the country while playing with crickets. After Emperor Mingxuanzong Zhu Zhanji succeeded to the throne, he quickly put down the rebellion of Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, established personal prestige and political stabilization, and continued Akihito's concept of governing the country, attaching importance to agriculture during his reign, taking the people's security and loving the people as the basis, implementing a policy of resting with the people, allowing the people to rest and recuperate, and the productive forces developed, opening up an era of stability and strength.
Politically, the use of sages was reused, and during his reign, there were many talents, such as the most famous three Yang (Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu), improving the cabinet system and educating eunuchs, Xuande set up a "Neishu Hall" in the first year to teach eunuchs to read, and later set up a ceremonial supervisor Bingbi eunuch Si Li supervisor to control the eunuchs, increasing the efficiency of work.
Militarily, Zhu Zhanji, like his grandfather Zhu Di, repeatedly marched on the Outer Mongolia and internal rebellions, making the foundation of the Ming Dynasty stand firm.
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the economy also achieved unprecedented development, and another prosperous situation emerged after the reign of Wenjing Zhenguan and the reign of Kaiyuan, which was called "the rule of Renxuan."