Why did Gao Xiaosong explain that the Dynasty was "ignorant of the Emperor"? Look at what Zhu Di's sons and grandsons have done...
I believe that many friends who like history like the Ming Dynasty, a sentence "The son of heaven guards the door of the country, the king dies in the society", so that countless people circle fans! However, Mr. Gao Xiaosong had a very low evaluation of the Ming Dynasty, believing that the Ming Dynasty was the "Three Dynasties without Dynasties"—the Ming Dynasty, the Unknown Scholar, and the Unknown General. Although there is bias, but there is indeed a certain truth, especially the "ignorant jun", today we will talk about ~ ~~
Ever since Zhu Di took away the power of his nephew Zhu Yunjiao by extraordinary means, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty began to be a bit chaotic...
When Zhu Di's eldest son, Zhu Gaozi, was dying on the dragon bed, the second eldest, instead of being sad, was lurking in secret plotting to seize power. Crown Prince Zhu Zhanji heard of his father's illness and rushed from Nanjing to Beijing day and night, all the way to the horse, the closer to Kyoto, the more he felt murderous intent, his subordinates suggested that he turn around and go home, but Zhu Zhanji seemed to be fully prepared. As they passed through the Shandong region, they were ambushed by the enemy, but Zhu Zhanji tamed the horses so quickly that they escaped the ambush, and the person who tried to murder the crown prince was Zhu Di's second son Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Zhanji's uncle.
Zhu Gaoxu was the most similar prince to Zhu Di, ambitious and pretentious since childhood.
When he was young, he followed Zhu Di to participate in the Battle of Jingnan, and by virtue of his superb riding and shooting skills, he helped his father turn the crisis several times into safety. Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaoxu as if he saw himself at that time, when the heir to the throne had not yet been locked, Zhu Di was inclined to Zhu Gaoxu, but Zhu Gaoxu was cruel and had no one in sight. Once drunk and hazy, he compared himself to Li Shimin, so the orthodox-educated ministers of the DPRK were extremely reluctant to see this arrogant prince, especially the Xie Jin who helped draft documents around Zhu Di. Xie Jin praised the emperor's eldest son Zhu Gaozi Renxiao more than once in front of Zhu Di, but Zhu Di did not like this decent son very much, until Xie Jin threw bricks and introduced Jade to mention "'Emperor Eldest Sun'", Zhu Di smiled and finalized the heir of Daming Jiangshan.
Therefore, Zhu Gaozi definitely ascended to the throne with the light of his son, because Zhu Zhanji was 'the birth of Xiangrui' in the eyes of his grandfather Zhu Di.
It is rumored that Zhu Di had just sat on the throne, he had a dream, he dreamed that his father Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a dream, telling him that there was about to be a descendant who changed the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty, and by coincidence, Zhu Zhanji was born that night, so Zhu Di regarded him as a treasure, personally took him with him to raise, and returned to the inheritance right, if Zhu Di finalized Zhu Gaoxu as the crown prince, then Zhu Zhanji would have a lot of resistance to inheriting the throne, although Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Zhanji were Zhu Di's favorites, but he believed more in the dream that rainy night made. As a result, Zhu Gaoxu was chosen, and Zhu Gaoxu lay down and ascended to the throne.
Why is it that since Zhu Di seized power, the emperors behind him have begun to mess up?
First of all, Zhu Gaoxu, who is most like Zhu Di, did indeed follow his father's old path. In order to expand the strength of his troops, he did not hesitate to release the evil prisoners imprisoned in prisons, teach them to lead soldiers to fight, practice martial arts, and the rogues and hooligans in society were all recruited by him, providing them with good food and drink, and incorporating them into the army. In order to have the strength to confront his nephew, Zhu Gaoxu used every means to the extreme. In order to avoid the recurrence of history, Zhu Zhanji was also the imperial driver who crushed his uncle with absolute strength, and although the result was that although the grandchildren won, the Imperial Ming Dynasty lost face, and Zhu Di, who did not know how to sleep underground, saw this scene, how did he feel?
Zhu Zhanji was a well-received emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but he implemented a system that left a hundred years behind!
In order to reduce the workload of his work, he concentrated on the art, and set up a joint assistant in the cabinet, which expanded the rights of eunuchs. It was also because of this system that the power of eunuchs during the Jiajing and Wanli periods became more and more rampant, and finally caused the disaster of eunuchs. These eunuchs not only defied the palace, interfered with the government and government, and the brutal Dongchang system, but also persecuted the common people for a long time. In order to pursue the efficiency of handling cases, they beat innocent people into confession, resulting in many unjust, false and wrong cases, if Zhu Zhanji did not be lazy during this period and did not build a eunuch system to share it with himself, perhaps the Ming Dynasty would not have been tormented by the disaster of eunuchs and died prematurely, and this system was also scolded for a hundred years.
Prosperity and decline are fates that cannot be avoided by all dynasties and dynasties, the end of one era is also the rise of another era, and the Buddhist terms of cause and effect reincarnation have also been applied to historical interpretation. Zhu Di was unkind and took the throne of his nephew, and his descendants were indirectly repulsed. His own son emulated his rebellion and seized power; sun tzu implemented a system that made people spit on for a hundred years; the emperors behind him were even more absurd than one, and occasionally one or two good emperors still died young ~ ~ This vicious circle of cause and effect, the disintegration of the Ming Dynasty is also sooner or later!
Therefore, from this point of view, the "ignorant king" of the Ming Dynasty really has a certain reason!
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, General History of China