At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty's ancestor Zhu Di's army, in order to win over his allies, he put his hopes on his half-brother Zhu Quan, the king of Ning. Zhu Quan was the seventeenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, known for his bravery and good fighting skills and great strategy, not only that, his fiefdom had 80,000 armored soldiers and 6,000 chariots, especially the cavalry regiment under his command- Duoyan Sanwei, which was an extremely elite army in the world. For Zhu Di, if he could bring Zhu Quan over, the role was self-evident.
At the beginning of Zhu Di's army, the odds of victory were very small
For the imperial court, since it is necessary to concentrate on solving Zhu Di, the most appropriate strategy should be to enlist Zhu Quan and let him contain and harass Zhu Di behind his back, so as to play a two-sided attack. However, Emperor Jianwen's advisers were so foolish that they suggested that the emperor summon Zhu Quan to the capital, and in the case of the latter's delay in arriving, he cut off three of his guards, invisibly pushing the latter into the hostile camp.
(Zhu Quan) with 80,000 armor, 6,000 leather cars, and the Three Guards cavalry of Duoyan are all brave and good at war. The kings of the Power Society will come out of the jam and be called a good scheming... In the first year of Jianwen, the dynasty feared that the power would be united with Yan, so that the right to enter the summons, the power was not reached, and the three guards were cut. See Ming Shi Vol. 117.
After the news of Zhu Quan's punishment reached Beiping, Zhu Di was ecstatic and decided to "pull him into the water". In September of the first year of Jianwen (1399), wu gao, the marquis of Jiangyin, attacked Yongping, and Zhu Di went to rescue and defeat the imperial army, but after the battle, he led a small force posing as the defeated remnants of the army, went all the way to Daning, and "begged" Zhu Quan to take him in. Zhu Quan did not know what the plan was, so he invited his brother Shan to ride into the city and treated him sincerely.
Zhu Quan was good at war and resourceful, and he had elite soldiers in his hands, which was the object of Zhu Di's struggle
During Zhu Di's stay in the city for several days, the elite of the Yan army had quietly ambushed outside Daning City, and Zhu Di's henchmen also disguised themselves and mixed into the city, secretly bribing the commanders of the Three Guards of Duoyan and the generals who guarded the city ("After staying for a few days, it is not prepared to be suspicious. Beiping Rui was outside the city, the officials entered the city slightly, and the Minister of the Three Guards and the Guards of the Yin Dynasty were all over. Ibid.). And all this, Zhu Quan was not aware of it at all.
A few days later, Zhu Di bid farewell to Zhu Quan on the grounds that the imperial court had retreated, and the latter went out of the city to send him off, but not long after reaching the outskirts, the Yan army ambushed all its troops and surrounded Zhu Quan and others. Seeing that the situation was critical, Zhu Quan hurriedly summoned Duoyan Sanwei to come to his aid, only to find that his "ace army" had surrendered to Zhu Di. After a slight resistance, Zhu Quan was captured by the Yan army and taken hostage to Beiping, along with the concubines of the royal palace, Shizi and others.
Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunjiao
After arriving in Beiping, Zhu Di, in view of Zhu Quan's fame, tried his best to envelop him, constantly pouring him "Ecstasy Soup", promising that once he seized the throne, he would share the world with him equally. In this way, under the grace and power of Zhu Di, Zhu Quan boarded the "thief ship", not only often drafted texts for Zhu Di, but also followed Zhu Di to participate in many battles, making great contributions to the final victory of the "Battle of Jingnan".
The King of Yan resigned, and the outskirts of QuanZu rebelled and embraced the power. The Three Guards rode and the pawns, and the one called Biji. The defending general Zhu Jian could not be defended and was killed in battle. The concubines and concubines of the royal palace all followed into Songting Pass, returned to Beiping, and Daning City was empty. Quan entered the Yan army and was always the Yan King Cao. The King of Yan is the power, the matter is accomplished, and the world is divided. Ibid.
The combat effectiveness of the Yan Army was already extremely strong, and now that the Duoyan Sanwei had been added, the elite division was added, and the attack power was even more unspeakable. In June of the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), the Yan army crossed the river and approached the city of Nanjing, and the Gu King Zhu Qi and the Duke of Cao Guo Li Jinglong opened the Jinchuan Gate to meet the surrender, and the whereabouts of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao after setting fire to the imperial palace have been unknown ever since. At this point, the 4-year "Battle of Jingnan" ended, and Zhu Di usurped the throne as emperor.
After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he broke his original promise to Zhu Quan
According to the original agreement, Zhu Di should divide the world equally with Zhu Quan, but as soon as this jun entered the city of Nanjing, he never mentioned this matter. Zhu Quan knew that his brother was accustomed to being a scoundrel, so he did not mention this matter, but only requested that the fief be changed to Suzhou. Unexpectedly, Zhu Di flatly refused on the grounds that Suzhou belonged to Kiuchi. Zhu Quan then made another request to move the fief to Qiantang, but he was also refused, and in the end he was given a fief of Nanchang City.
Compared with Suzhou and Qiantang, whether it is the economic level or the degree of cultural prosperity, Nanchang at that time was far behind, and for Zhu Quan, who liked prosperity, it was tantamount to exile. Not only that, in order to limit Zhu Quan, Zhu Di also ordered him to use the official office of the local envoy as a palace, not to expand and add covers, and sent people to monitor his every move, which was like a seclusion.
Zhu Quan knew that his brother was very suspicious of himself, so in order to avoid disasters, he spent all day taoguang and obscurity, and built a study hall in which he played the piano and read books to show that he did not have different intentions. Zhu Di saw that his brother was very knowledgeable about current affairs, so he eased his guard against him ("Since he was obscure, he had constructed a fine lu district, and during the drum and piano reading, he would eventually become a troublemaker in his ancestors.) Ibid.).
Zhu Quan spent all day in taoguang and obscurity, playing the piano and reading at home
In the thirteenth year of Ming Yingzong's orthodoxy (1448), Zhu Quan died depressed, at the age of 71, and his title was dedicated. King Ning's lineage reached Zhu Quan's grandson Zhu Chenhao, just in time for the reign of Emperor Wuzong of Ming, whose misdeeds created an opportunity for him to wash away the deception and humiliation of his ancestors. In June of the fourteenth year of Zhengde (1520), Zhu Chenhao raised an army to rebel, and as a result, only 43 days later, he was defeated by Wang Shou, the inspector of Nangan. Eventually, Zhu Chenhao was sentenced by the Ming Dynasty and Ning Fan was abolished.