In 1391, Zhu Yuanzhang's high-hope crown prince Zhu Biao died, and Zhu Biao's death was somewhat related to a person.
This person's name was Zhu Zhu, and he was not only Zhu Yuanzhang's own son, but also Zhu Biao's brother.
According to books such as the History of Ming, Zhu Zhu was a "Fang Zhongyong" type figure, who was clever and clever in his childhood, but as he grew older, he behaved very unsatisfactorily.
This is probably because his brother Zhu Biao was made crown prince, or because he died too soon after the birth mare empress... In short, there was a little problem in his heart.
It is worth mentioning here that the original match of Zhu Zhu's main house is not like Zhu Biao and other brothers, who are the daughters of the heroes and generals, but a "foreigner".
Friends who are familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty may all know that when Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, among the generals of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a powerful figure named Wang Baobao, and after Zhu Yuanzhang fought with him, he thought that he was a "strange man in the world" and wanted to "recruit him".
But although Wang Baobao has a Zhongyuan name, he is an authentic Mongolian, his original name is Kuoko Timur, and Wang Baobao is just his Zhongyuan name.
Because he has always regarded himself as a loyal vassal of the Yuan Dynasty, his solicitation of Zhu Yuanzhang has always been left ear in and right ear out. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang somehow took Wang Baobao's sister Guanyin Nu to his side (there are rumors that Xu Da captured him). If they were replaced by ordinary people, they might directly use the safety of Guanyin Nu to coerce Wang Baobao to surrender.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang was not an ordinary person, he did not use such a subversive means to coerce Wang Baobao, but gave Guanyinnu extraordinary respect, he married Guanyinnu to his second son Zhu Zhu, although this matter still did not impress Wang Baobao, but it also made the gap between Wang Baobao and Yuan Ting even greater.
This matter was a good deal for Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Zhu was not necessarily happy:
My brothers, one by one, are married to famous generals, how hard the roots of the old Tarzan are, you look at me, not only did not deserve a similar, but also gave me a whole enemy of the woman, I am not welcome.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang did not do "things to the extreme", except that after he forced the Guanyin slaves to Zhu Zhu, he also found a side concubine for his son, and this side concubine was not an ordinary person, but the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, Deng Yu. It is reasonable to say that with Deng Yu's ability, he should also be able to teach Zhu Zhu (Zhu Yuanzhang and the martial generals are married, that is, they want the martial generals to teach their sons), but Deng Yu died a few years earlier than Empress Ma.
Therefore, after Zhu Zhu became the king of the domain, he could also be called "lack of discipline". Some people may ask, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's body and bones were not OK, and he could not teach his son? As a father, it is not a big problem to teach his son, but Zhu Yuanzhang's family is still the emperor, and the family still has the eldest son to succeed, and the family still has to take care of every opportunity, so...
Because of the lack of guidance and the fact that he himself was not a righteous person, his performance after the clan was very bad.
In some records, he was very disrespectful to his original Guanyin nu, not only keeping the family widowed (the two had been separated for a long time, and the two had no children), but also deliberately creating trouble in diet, providing poor food packaging, and sending some fruits was also unclean goods.
However, he was very able to "play" with his side concubine Deng Shi, not only could the two of them figure out how to torture the palace people together, but also illegally used the decoration of the five-clawed dragon at home, Zhu Zhu also got some queen clothes for Tang Shi to wear....... Zhu Yuanzhang never rubbed sand in his eyes, so he scolded Zhu Zhu while saying, "I don't know anything about people, I am stupid like a beast." On the one hand, he put Tang Shi to death.
If Zhu Zhu only "let go too much" in his private life, then there can be salvation, after all, the ancient emperors can pass in their private lives, and they can count with two hands. But what Zhu Zhu "did" was far more than that.
According to the "History of Ming" and other books, Because Zhu Zhu ranked after Zhu Biao, he was the eldest brother among all the kings of the domain, so Zhu Yuanzhang once let him be a zongren order, but he was recruited by Zhu Yuanzhang to the capital to reprimand him because of his excessive negligence. Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to investigate what he had done, sent Zhu Biao to his fiefdom to investigate (Zhu Biao was still tasked with inspecting the new capital at that time).
After Zhu Biao returned, he covered up a lot for his brother, otherwise Zhu Biao might not have the opportunity to return to his fiefdom, but although he was saved, Zhu Biao fell ill because of this trip, and finally died young, and Zhu Biao's death triggered a series of chain reactions, which is another story, we will not elaborate today.
Let's talk about what Zhu Zhu, a person who "doesn't know about personnel affairs," has "done."
According to records, in order to restore Daming's national strength as soon as possible (the Yuan Dynasty tossed too hard), Zhu Yuanzhang once decided to "be strict with himself and be lenient with others", so he was very strict about major domestic affairs and small feelings, never soft on lawless officials, but very tolerant of the personnel of the surrounding countries, and even put forward some "countries that do not requisition", which can be described as well-intentioned.
However, Zhu Zhu was violently leviing against the people of his fiefdom. Once, the people of his fiefdom could not stand it, so they gathered more than three hundred people to ask him for forgiveness. Zhu Zhu not only did not bother to do even the basic perfunctory work for the people who came to ask for forgiveness, but even arrested hundreds of people and beat an old man to death.
Zhu Zhu was not only fierce in his internal means, but also more than that in the outside world, Zhu Yuanzhang spent a lot of effort in order to appease the Tufan Eighteen Tribes, but when Zhu Zhu dealt with related issues, he made a big move, he had captured a lot of pregnant women from the other side into the house, as for how he handled these people, the book did not write in detail, but what he provided would not be "confinement service", he also captured hundreds of young girls on the other side, hundreds of boys, these boys he forced to castrate...
Zhu Zhu's behavior can be said to be "difficult to read", because of his disregard for human life, he also failed to die, in 1395 AD, Zhu Zhu was actually strangled by three elderly old women, as to why he died so strange, we may wish to expand a wealth of associations.
There are many reasons why Zhu Zhu cannot be selected as the heir, but just by virtue of these things he "did", if you were his father, would you pass on the family property to him?