Although "Daming Fenghua" is a group portrait drama, you can see the growth trajectory of Zhu Zhanji, the first stage of Zhu Zhanji is just a simple teenager who can observe the color and please his grandfather, often wavering between love and power, and even willing to give up his life and the position of the emperor's grandson for Sun Ruowei.
In the second stage, Zhu Zhanji went out with his grandfather after the big marriage, and in this year, his thinking gradually matured, no longer the unruly teenager he was before, and his desire for power became more and more obvious, until after his grandfather's death, he wrote this desire alive on his face.
I have seen a lot of TV drama plots before, and the depiction of the royal family is basically the royal ruthlessness and the supremacy of power, just like Sun Ruowei said at the beginning of the first episode, saying that the Zhu family is a beast, and they have entered the wolf's den. It vaguely reflects the royal family's pursuit of power and ruthlessness.
Although Zhu Di in "Daming Fenghua" is a flesh-and-blood emperor who hurts his grandson and is occasionally kind, his cold-blooded and suspicious personality is often exposed. If he had not been cruel, he would not have wanted to seize the throne, let alone the Battle of Jing.
Of course, it is not easy to be an emperor, every day he is plotting against each other and plotting things in his position, if he did not rebel, sooner or later he would have to die, Zhu Di did not want to rebel, when the prince was well,he once told Zhu Gaoxu that if Zhu Yunxiu did not cut the domain, now the two of them were hunting, Zhu Yunjiao cut the clan and cut his other brothers to lose their lives, forcing them to pretend to be crazy, pulling hundreds of people to start rebellion. In the end, the killing ring was successfully rebelled.
In fact, it is understandable that Zhu Di was helpless at that time, although some people still evaluate him as a rebellious emperor who killed his nephew, crazy for power, and disregarded the lives of the people for power, in fact, who does not want to live well? During the Yongle years, everything he did was to prove his ability to the world, and for an emperor, success was too important.
The rebellion was successful, and it is reasonable to say that Zhu Di should have embarked on the peak of his life, right? But he did not live comfortably, spending every day in remorse, waking up in a nightmare, suspicious, and launching a madness to kill his own sons and grandsons.
Partial grandson Zhu Zhanji inherited the grandfather's personality, paranoid, suspicious, for the power can be unscrupulous, 34 episodes have a picture, in order to force the prince to ascend the throne, he is carrying a sword to the door, the father agreed to agree that day, disagree also have to agree, otherwise with his character, it is not impossible to make the act of killing the father.
In the play, Zhu Zhanji is simply a copy of Zhu Di, there is a kind and righteous side, there is also a crazy and cold-blooded side, I believe that going backwards for twenty years, that Zhu Di who pretended to be crazy and pretended to be crazy into a pigsty, obviously had no chance of winning and desperately rebelled, is very similar to the current grandson.
The reason why Taisun was so eager for the throne was not entirely because of ambition, but because he wanted to save the lives of his entire family. He had said to RuoWei before that when he was a child, he was surrounded by Jianwen Jinyi guards, and if he was not careful, he would perish, he did not want to rely on the sympathy of the second uncle, his second uncle would not sympathize, only by dying would he not be threatened by the throne, if the second uncle succeeded to the throne this time, then his whole family would be killed.
Is Zhu Di a bad guy? It's true to love your son, and it's true to love your grandson, but it's also true that you don't want to be kicked off the throne by your son. Is Zhu Zhanji a bad person? It's true to love your wife, and it's true to want to save your life. It can only be said that the Zhu family under the imperial power has not had a good life as we think.