Guard against Zhu Di, do you know the first object of Zhu Yunjiao's slashing domain?

Guard against Zhu Di, do you know the first object of Zhu Yunjiao's slashing domain?

After the death of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunjiao succeeded to the throne. The first big thing Zhu Yunjiao did after he ascended the throne was to cut the domain. Zhu Yunjiao knew that the king of the domain was powerful, and it was often illegal to support the army and respect himself in the fiefdom, which was not conducive to the central rule, so he decided to cut the domain.

We all know that the consequence of Emperor Jianwen's slashing of the domain was that his throne was overthrown by his uncle Zhu Di, and his life and death are unknown. But before Zhu Di, Emperor Jianwen had actually succeeded in deposing the five feudal lords. Of the five clan kings, the first to be deposed was Zhu Di's half-mother's younger brother Zhu Xu (朱橚), the King of Zhou.

For Emperor Jianwen, the first to abolish Zhu Xu, the King of Zhou, had many advantages, and the most important thing was to prevent him from secretly supporting Zhu Di, who was close to Zhu Di's bloodline, which was not good for the central government.

From Emperor Jianwen's point of view, everything he needed to consolidate the power of the central government was not wrong. However, in a way, Zhu Xu was a good prince, and what he did when he was alive not only benefited the country and the people, but also made him live in the future generations, but also admired by scholars around the world.

In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Xu was crowned king of Wu by Zhu Yuanzhang. When Hongwu was thirteen years old, Zhu Yuanzhang believed that Wudi was a land of wealth under the heavens and was not suitable for the domain, so he changed the title to the King of Zhou, and Hongwu opened the domain in the fourteenth year.

In the twenty-second year of Hongwu, Zhu Xu was moved to Yunnan by Zhu Yuanzhang because he left the fief without authorization. Yunnan is a remote place, the people live in poverty, and many people are sick but have no money to see a doctor and buy medicine. Zhu Xu was grateful for the sufferings of the people, so he used his own strength to organize specialized people to collect and sort out various medicinal recipes, and at the same time studied the specific use of various medicinal plants.

Zhu Xu not only invited doctors who knew medicinal herbs, but also painters, so that the books he participated in compiling were clear and illustrated, and after printing, they made important contributions to the development of local medicine.

Among the four major medical works that Zhu Xu co-edited, the most influential was "Saving the Wilderness Materia Medica". The so-called "relief of famine" is, to put it bluntly, the relief of disasters and famines.

China is a vast country with abundant products, but it also faces various disasters. During the Yuan Dynasty, the rule was dark, the disasters were severely taxed year after year, and the people at the bottom lived in poverty, eating chaff and even eating grass root bark to save their lives. The poverty of the people did not ease until the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

There is not enough food to eat, and eating wild grass bark has become inevitable. But not all weed bark can be eaten, and it is not worth the loss to eat poisonous. Faced with this situation, based on the life experience of the low-level people in the past, Zhu Xu ordered the compilation of this book on the rescue of the wilderness.

In order to study the value of drugs and the edibleness of wild grasses, Zhu Xu also specially opened a large botanical garden to observe various plants.

In addition to summarizing edible plant medicines, Zhu Also investigates how to simply remove the toxicity of some plants and make them edible. The use of bean leaves and poisonous plant Shanglu, which he studied, to cook and detoxify, belongs to this list.

Zhu Xu devoted great energy to medicine, and did not give up until he was demoted to a commoner by Emperor Jianwen. And his achievements, both then and hereafter, were very useful knowledge.

Zhu Xi's "Saving the Wilderness Materia Medica" later spread to the Japanese region and was favored by Japanese scholars. Scholars in Britain and the United States have praised zhu xu and other Chinese for their humanitarian contributions.

There was nothing wrong with Zhu Xu honestly staying in the fiefdom to study medicinal herbs, but unfortunately he met Emperor Jianwen and was Zhu Di's brother, and eventually became the first king of the clan to be cut by Emperor Jianwen.