Why did the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao ascend the throne less than a year after he was stripped of the throne by Zhu Di, the King of Yan, and finally ended up with a self-immolation and death?
Is it the bad luck of the times, or the fate of the people, should the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao have such a calamity, miserable, confused death?
The picture shows Emperor Jianwen, who succeeded to the throne very young
As for the real cause of death of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, whether it was as stated in the history books, it was because the Yan King Zhu Di raised an army to attack, causing the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao to burn himself and die, or whether there was another cause.
Entering the history of the Ming Dynasty, let us explore the real cause of death of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao.
Regarding the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, he was the imperial grandson of the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, because the crown prince Zhu Biao, who was created by Zhu Yuanzhang before his death, died before him in the 25th year of Hongwu, that is, in 1392 AD, so after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, as the emperor's grandson, naturally ascended to the throne of the Ming Emperor, and was known as the Jianwen Emperor in history.
However, in the first year of the jianwen emperor Zhu Yunjiao's succession, that is, in the first year, zhu di, the king of Yan, raised an army in the fiefdom, united with other Ming royal lords, led a large army with the evil of the Qing emperor's side, attacked the Jianwen emperor Zhu Yunjiao, and after the army captured the ming capital, took the imperial throne of the Jianwen emperor Zhu Yunjiao.
The Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao actually knew that Zhu Di, the King of Yan, had the intention of rebellion and wanted to rely on other clan kings to resist his army, in fact, Zhu Di had a huge army, and in the name of the Qing Jun's side, many other Ming Dynasty fiefdoms were also foolish and listened to Zhu Di's dispatches.
In this way, when the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao faced Zhu Di with such a large rebel army composed of many feudal kings to the capital, although he sent the imperial army to suppress it, he was not an opponent at all.
After the capital was captured by Zhu Di, the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao did not run away as a king of the fallen country, but felt that he was ashamed of the previous king, and the ancestor, he did not have this ability, to keep the inheritance of the ancestors, and the last words of the former king before his death.
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Zhu Di's fiefs raised troops
After the capital was captured by Zhu Di and other feudal kings, some nobles of the Ming royal family walked away and fled, and the entire palace was shrouded in war, and eunuchs and palace women fled everywhere.
Wolf smoke was everywhere, but the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao was unusually calm at this time, and he walked into the palace hall with the weeping Empress Ma and the young prince shakily, and then set himself on fire in the palace.
Since then, the cause of death of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao has finally been settled, and the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao was forced to self-immolate and die because of the defeat of the army.
However, according to the relevant records of the Ming Dynasty, it is said that the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao faked his death, using the strategy of concealing the sky and crossing the sea, deceived the world, and he did not self-immolate and died in the palace.
After Zhu Di raised an army and captured the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the whereabouts of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao were unknown, so he sent people to find his whereabouts, and some people saw the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao burning himself in the palace with a fire.
Zhu Di did not believe it, so he sent someone to search in the ruins of the imperial palace after the fire was extinguished, and he always believed that the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao was not dead, and even if he died, he would have to see his body.
In fact, the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao did not self-immolate in the palace, when people searched inside the ruins of the palace, only the bones of Empress Ma and the crown prince were found, while the body of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao was missing.
As a result, there has been no reasonable explanation for the cause of death of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao.
There are rumors in the folklore that when the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao was attacking Zhu Di and uniting with the kings of various local domains to recruit him, because of the huge momentum of the thief army, he knew that he could not resist, so he was forced to give up the throne to Zhu Di, and he felt that he had stepped down and had no words to face his ancestors, so he had to become a monk, return to the Buddhist Gate, walk in all directions, and travel the world.
However, this statement is too false, and later scholars have always disagreed with the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao as a monk.
You must know that the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao is a supreme emperor, above one person, under ten thousand people, even if his own emperor throne is robbed and becomes a disgraced emperor, he will definitely not return to the Buddha Gate as a monk, that is simply an insult to him.
There is also a saying that regarding the whereabouts of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, after Zhu Di raised an army and seized the imperial throne of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, Zhu Yunjue abdicated the throne, and in order to eliminate the troubles, Zhu Di secretly sent someone to kill Zhu Yunjiao.
At this point, the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao died at the hands of Zhu Di.
However, some folk historical records of the Ming Dynasty record that after the defeat of Zhu Yunjiao's army, he fled to Japan in an attempt to borrow the strength of Japan and other coastal island countries to deal with Zhu Di, with the intention of making a comeback and regaining his former imperial throne.
In order to prevent Zhu Yunjiao from escaping and resurging, Zhu Di threatened his position, so he arranged many assassins to assassinate Zhu Yunjiao, but in the end there was no result.
Until Zhu Di's death, the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao had not appeared since he fled to Japan, and his so-called comeback finally failed to instigate these coastal island armies to help him and attack the Ming ruler Zhu Di.
Until hundreds of years later, the real cause of death of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, including his final whereabouts, was also an unsolved mystery.