Introduction: How did Zhu Yuanzhang cultivate Zhu Biao and Zhu Yunjiao? The minister asked, what if the king of the clan rebelled? Zhu Yuanzhang is too vicious!
In recent years, there have been many historical dramas set in the Ming Dynasty, such as "The Legendary Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang", "The Great Ming Tianzi", "Empress Bigfoot", etc., these film and television dramas have shown Zhu Yuanzhang's sentient and righteous side, and also showed a cold and vicious side, the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many founding heroes was to pave the way for the crown prince to succeed to the throne; but Zhu Yuanzhang, in the case of the death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, established the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunjiao as the crown prince, many people cannot understand. Zhu Yuanzhang has so many sons, it is impossible not to choose the best, after all, they are all sons of their own hands, and since ancient times, most of the succession to the throne in China has been in accordance with the system of "having a concubine, not a concubine standing long", why does Zhu Yuanzhang insist on cultivating the emperor's grandson Zhu Yuwen, then let's see, how did Zhu Yuanzhang do?
Zhu Yuanzhang's cultivation of Zhu Biao: As early as the chaotic era at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang was still fighting with Chen Youyu, Zhang Shicheng and other legions, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Biao, who was only five years old, to ask Confucian teachers to receive orthodox Confucian education.
The Records of the Ming Dynasty records that "confucianism was put in place, with Song Lian as the lift, and the widow was subjected to scripture." ”
The Confucian Tiju Division was an administrative body specializing in education in the Yuan Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang adopted a inherited attitude toward this system, and specially set up this department to train heirs Zhu Biao.
When Zhu Yuanzhang established Daming, he immediately made the fourteen-year-old Zhu Biao the crown prince, it can be seen that at that time Zhu Yuanzhang did not consider other people as candidates for the crown prince, so resolutely established as a prince, which is rare in history, after Qin Shi Huang established the Qin Dynasty, he focused on cultivating Fu Su, but did not give up the investigation of Hu Hai, Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, there was a hesitation between Liu Ying and Liu Ruyi, and Li Yuan established Li Jiancheng as the prince when he established the Tang Dynasty.
It can also be considered that Zhu Yuanzhang only regarded the family of Empress Ma as his true home, and the son born to Empress Ma could truly inherit his throne, which was the same as the love between Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu eventually deposed the crown prince Liu Jiang and established Liu Zhuang, the son of Yin Lihua, as the crown prince.
In order to train Zhu Biao to be a qualified imperial monarch, Zhu Yuanzhang assisted Zhu Biao with the best military generals of the Ming Dynasty, old men with outstanding merits and high morals, such as Zhongshu Left Chancellor Li Shanchang and Prince Shaoshi, Zhongshu Right Chancellor Xu Da and Prince Shaofu, Chang Yuchun and Prince Shaobao, who was in charge of the important affairs of the military state, Feng Zongyi and Zhan Shi, in addition to Liao Yongzhong, Li Bosheng, Zhao Yong, Yang Xian, Zhang Xingzu, Geng Bingwen, Deng Yu, Tang He, Liu Ji, and so on, all of whom were called to assist the prince to supervise the country, and when Zhu Yuanzhang went out, there were princes supervising the country.
The Records of the Ming Dynasty records that "if the military service is not stopped, if there is something outside, leave the prince to establish the country, the government officials, the secretaries, etc., and the matter should be enlightened to the prince; ”
Zhu Yuanzhang received the effect of father and son integration and the unity of the monarch and the subject by making the ministers serve as the important tasks of the military state while assisting the prince. It can be seen from this that Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions are good. For these part-time officials, Shang Shu Tao Kai thought it was inappropriate and suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang specially select people to serve as officials of the Eastern Palace, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not agree, the purpose was to prevent misunderstandings between father and son in the future.
The Records of the Ming Taizu records that "the ancients did not prepare their officials, but the sages were used, and they were worried that Yanchen and the officials of the Eastern Palace were incompetent, so they became suspicious, or they plotted adultery, and they were separated from each other, and their misfortunes were not detailed, and the affairs of Jiang Chong could be mingjian." The position of governor of the province and the eastern palace of the Eastern Palace is one, father and son are one, the monarch and the subject are one, and there is no problem of mutual conformity. ”
In view of the chaotic guidance of the witches that occurred during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, under the instigation of the villain Jiang Chong and others, led to the emperor and the crown prince Liu Zhao's enmity, resulting in a tragic lesson, and resolutely did not establish a full-time official subordinate of the Eastern Palace.
In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang's counseling to the crown prince Zhu Biao is more of a teaching by example. When Zhu Yuanzhang was still the King of Wu, he took Zhu Biao with him at every opportunity, let Zhu Biao personally experience the hardships of being a courtier through activities such as "step return", and learned to sympathize with the minister, so that he would not be arrogant and lazy because of his wealth.
Zhu Yuanzhang led the crown prince to the Imperial Pavilion and taught the prince to love and care for the members of the family and jointly defend the Zhu family's world. When Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty as emperor, he often taught the prince to cultivate self-respect and take the world as his own responsibility; in the process of supervising the country, he taught the prince to cultivate virtue in order to attract sages, and also taught Zhu Biao the way of reward and punishment by hand, in short, if Zhu Biao did not die early, Zhu Yuanzhang was likely to give him the Zen throne.
Zhu Yuanzhang cultivated emperor Grandson Zhu Yunjiao:
Heaven did not fulfill people's wishes, just as the young Zhu Biao unfortunately died of illness, Zhu Yuanzhang experienced the pain of losing his son, and also spared no effort in cultivating the fifteen-year-old emperor's grandson Zhu Yunjiao. Zhu Yuanzhang improved the officials and subordinates of the Eastern Palace according to the situation at that time, changed the Zhan Shi Yuan into the Zhan Shi Mansion to make it a special prince counseling institution, and established a model and ancestral system for the future monarchs to cultivate the crown prince.
In his later years, Zhu Yuanzhang was old, and the affairs of the imperial court were often handed over to Zhu Yunjiao for adjudication, and Zhu Yunjiao, like his father Zhu Biao, was "quite generous and benevolent" and was deeply respected and loved by the ministers. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Yunjiao's weak personality, and was already deeply worried about these uncles of the clan kings when they supported the army, so he asked Huang Zicheng, who assisted the crown prince, what if the kings of the clan supported the army and respected themselves, and how much they did not abide by the law? Huang Zicheng replied as follows:
On page 4015 of the History of Ming, it is recorded that "the kings' guards are only self-sufficient, and if there is any change, they will be in the sixth division, who can support them?" The Seven Kingdoms of Han were not weak, the bottom of the death, the size of the strength was different, and the reason for the trend was different. ”
Huang Zicheng's general idea is that the guards of the kings of the various domains can only use self-defense, if they want to rebel, the imperial court will send six divisions to attack, and the king of the clan will rebel against the imperial court, who can support? The strength of the Seven Kingdoms of the Han Dynasty is not strong, and the best is not also destroyed? It is not the size of the strength, but who occupies the heavenly truth. Huang Zicheng took the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Han to encourage Zhu Yuanzhang.
Huang Zicheng was zhu Yuanzhang's entrusted minister to Zhu Yunjiao, Huang Zicheng dared to say so, he had already figured out Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts, and Zhu Yuanzhang also took this opportunity to hint to Huang Zicheng that if there was a king of the clan, he must send troops to attack; the king of the clan was Zhu Yuanzhang's own son, and some words Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to say, and some situations Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to predict, and he just expressed his will through Huang Zicheng's mouth. It can be seen from this that Zhu Yuanzhang is too vicious, the tiger poison does not eat children, and it is not good for him to make it here.
References: "History of Ming", "Records of Ming Taizu", etc