Emperor Xuanzong's grandfather Zhu Di had four sons under his knees, except for the younger son who died prematurely, the remaining three were all born to Empress Xu, and the eldest son was Zhu Zhanji's father, Emperor Akihito Zhu Gaozi, and the two uncles were Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaoxuan.
Zhu Gaoxuan is nothing, but Zhu Gaoxu is not a fuel-saving lamp, and his life is dying all the time.
As the second son, Zhu Gaoxu always thought that he could replace his brother Zhu Gaoxu, but unfortunately he did not succeed, and after his nephew Zhu Zhanji took the throne, he provoked many times, and even openly rebelled, and finally Zhu Zhanji, who could not bear it, made his uncle into jerky.
Zhu Zhanji's father, Zhu Gaozi, was the eldest son born to Zhu Dizheng's wife, so he became the son of the King of Yan when he was a child, and Zhu Yuanzhang was very fond of this grandson of Dun Houruya, but Zhu Di did not like this son.
Zhu Di advocated martial arts and did not want to see the quiet and calm eldest son, but more favored the arrogant and domineering second son Zhu Gaoxu.
Of course, this Zhu Gaoxu has not been a good thing since he was a child, and when he accompanied his brother to study in Ying Tianfu, he acted strangely all day long, and Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely disgusted with Zhu Gaoxu and publicly reprimanded him, and the government and the public also said that Zhu Di's son was not a thing.
Although Zhu Gaoxu's reputation was very poor, Zhu Di still liked him, especially Zhu Gaoxu followed Zhu Di on his southern expeditions to the north for many years, and made a lot of merits, and Zhu Di moved his mind to change his heir several times.
But in the end, Zhu Di did not do this, not only manchu Wenwu, but even Empress Xu said that Zhu Gaoxu could not be a Ming Emperor.
According to the etiquette law, the crown prince except the crown prince would go to the fiefdom when he became an adult, but when the day came, Zhu Gaoxu refused to leave the capital, saying that his fief was too far away, and in desperation, Zhu Di changed his fief from Yunnan to Shandong.
However, Zhu Di changed Zhu Gaoxu's fiefdom, zhu Gaoxu still refused to leave the capital, and because of this, he provoked a lot of right and wrong, Zhu Di was furious, cut off his guards, and forcibly let him go to the fiefdom to take the domain.
In the fourteenth year of Yongle, after Zhu Gaoxu was learned of by Chengzu for violating the etiquette law, Chengzu was ready to cut him down to a commoner, but was stopped by Zhu Gaoxu, and eventually Chengzu moved him to Le'an Prefecture, but Zhu Gaoxu still did not repent and intensified.
After Zhu Di's death, Zhu Gaozhi ascended the throne, that is, Emperor Akihito, and Zhu Gaoxu sent Shuzuo to the capital to wait for the opportunity to rebel, but Emperor Renzong controlled the overall situation, leaving him with no opportunity to take advantage of, and also rewarded him with various rewards.
Emperor Renzong died shortly after his reign, when the crown prince Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne as emperor, and when Zhu Zhanji was traveling from Nanjing to Beijing, he was almost assassinated by Zhu Gaoxu's men, but without success.
Zhu Zhanji followed his father's practice and still treated his uncle kindly, but it made Zhu Gaoxu more and more arrogant.
In August of the first year of Xuande's reign, Zhu Gaoxu directly rebelled in the fiefdom, and Zhu Zhanji sent someone to ask him not to be weird, but he did not expect that Zhu Gaoxu would ignore it at all, and finally Xuanzong personally marched and crusaded.
When the war was imminent, Zhu Gaoxu was betrayed by his own generals, and the rebels in the city directly tied up Zhu Gaoxu and offered it to Zhu Zhanji, and after the chaos was calmed, the courtiers were indignant and demanded severe punishment, but Xuanzong refused.
Xuanzong only imprisoned his uncle inside the Xi'an Gate and deposed him as a shuren, and there was not much to go to, but once when Xuanzong went to visit his uncle, he was deliberately tripped by Zhu Gaoxu, and Xuanzong was completely angry.
In the end, Emperor Xuanzong had Zhu Gaoxu cover zhu Gaoxu in a large copper cylinder, and then set up a fire around it, roasting Zhu Gaoxu alive into jerky, and his sons were also killed, which was also Zhu Gaoxu's own fate.