In the hit drama "Daming Fenghua", the screenwriter's brain hole shows us a historic meeting - Ming Chengzu Zhu Di and The Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao met in the Lingshan Temple Pagoda after Zhu Di achieved the usurpation of power in the Battle of Jingnan. During the meeting, Emperor Jianwen had already escaped into the empty door, and in order to show his sincerity, he gave the jade seal of the country, which symbolized Zhengshuo, to his fourth uncle. Zhu Di first wanted to honor Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunjiao as Emperor Taishang, and finally in the dialogue between Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunjiao and his heroine Sun Ruowei and his, he finally let down his guard, chose to let Go of Zhu Yunxiu, and had the idea of releasing the orphans of The Slave Gandu Si Jianwen in his heart.
So in history, will Zhu Di open up to Emperor Jianwen? Is Zhu Di really as "benevolent" as in the TV series? And let's see how Zhu Di treats the wife and children of the eldest brother Zhu Biao.
Prince Zhu Biao's wife and son
Zhu Yuanzhang had 26 sons, and Zhu Biao was the eldest son of Empress Ma, so he was established as the crown prince early. As the heir, Zhu Yuanzhang even chose chang shi, the daughter of the founding general Chang Yuchun, as the right wife and princess for the crown prince. The Chang clan gave birth to Zhu Biao's concubines Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Yunxi, but Chang and her father Chang Yuchun generally did not have enough longevity, and Hongwu died at a young age in eleven years.
Prince Zhu Biao also married Lü Shi, the daughter of Lü Ben, the official Shangshu and Taichang Siqing, and Lü Shi gave birth to three sons for Prince Zhu Biao, namely The Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, as well as Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Yunxi.
The reason why the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao was selected as emperor by Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to be a great opportunity. On the one hand, it was his father Zhu Biao, who died young in the twenty-fifth year (1392); on the other hand, it benefited from the death of Crown Princess Chang and the early death of his father Zhu Biao's eldest son and his eldest brother Zhu Xiongying; and Zhu Yuanzhang's second son Zhu Zhu and his third son Zhu Tang the Prince of Jin were in the domain, and there were many trespasses and many violations. One made a dragon robe, and the second concubine, Tang Shi (daughter of Deng Yu), was given death; one was reported to be guilty of treason, which also led to the loss of their right to the throne. Here we want to explain that although Zhu Di claimed to be the son of Empress Ma, according to historians, he was the same mother as Zhu Xu, the king of Zhou, and his mother should be a concubine, that is to say, he was a concubine and had no legal right to inherit the throne.
In this way, under the circumstance that Prince Zhu Biao only had the eldest son Zhu Yunxi, the concubine Zhu Yunxi, the fourth son Zhu Yunxi, and the fifth son Zhu Yunxi, Zhu Yuanzhang first made Lü Shizheng the heir concubine, and Zhu Yunzhang naturally became the first heir, and after the death of his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang, he succeeded to the throne as Emperor Jianwen.
The end of Zhu Biao's wife and children
However, the evolution of history is not based on the rationality of this ritual, and the root cause is still to rely on strength. After four years of the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di, the King of Yan, was victorious, and Emperor Jianwen disappeared under Emperor Cang. For Lü Shi, Zhu Yunxi, the King of Wu, Zhu Yunxi, the King of Heng, and Zhu Yunxi, the Prince of Xu, who had already been honored as Empress Xiaokang, were all left in Yingtian (Nanjing). In the end, Zhu Di ascended the throne in the midst of long live the mountain, and at the beginning of his reign, he revoked empress dowager Lü's title of empress dowager and changed it to Princess Yiwen.
The other three sons and nephews were naturally not spared, Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Yunxi were renamed the King of Guangze and the King of Huai'en, and then they were imprisoned in Fengyang, and even in the second year of Yongle, they were suspicious of themselves. The eldest brother is affectionate, and he does not tolerate condemnation, but avoids being a common man, so as to preserve him. "In the name of stripping the title, he was demoted to a commoner. As for staying in Beijing at this time, Zhu Yunxi, the 14-year-old Xu King, after changing his title to Ao Hui, Zhu Di placed him and his mother, Princess Lü, in the Ming Tomb of Prince Zhu Biao.
It seems that Zhu Di was not cruel to his nephew and sister-in-law, and did not cut the grass and remove the roots, but the real cruelty occurred in the fourth year of Yongle. The Ming Tombs, such a heavily guarded royal mausoleum, actually lit a fire, Zhu Yunxi was burned to death, and Princess Lü did not know where to go, and the reason for this can be imagined.
This is what Zhu Di did to the wife and children of his eldest brother Zhu Biao after seizing the throne, and even the second son Jianshu people left by Emperor Jianwen in the palace were imprisoned for more than 50 years, and the cattle and horses were not divided. This is the cruelty of the power struggle, Zhu Di has never been a good person. He had destroyed the Ten Clans of Fang Xiaoru, and even more had the act of slaughtering the whole village by "Gua Man Raid" of Jingqing, and in dealing with Emperor Jianwen, he never gave up searching for it throughout his life.
From the university scholar Hu Xi (yíng) from the fifth year of Yongle, he was ordered to search for Emperor Jianwen, which lasted for 16 years; and then to the well-known Zheng He went to the West, and the records in the "Biography of Zheng He" are also accompanied by reasons for finding Emperor Jianwen.
"Cheng Zu suspected that Emperor Hui had died overseas and wanted to trace him."
We can imagine what the end would be like if Zhu Di could meet Zhu Yunjiao.