After the Battle of Jingnan, how did Zhu Di treat the wife and sons of his eldest brother Zhu Biao?
Zhu Biao was the eldest son of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma, and Zhu Yuanzhang had high hopes for him. At the recommendation of Li Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed the scholar Song Lian at that time as Zhu Biao's teacher. After Zhu Yuanzhang established himself as The King of Wu, Zhu Biao was made a son of the world, when he was only nine years old. Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed empress dowager, and Zhu Biao was made crown prince.
In May of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu (1392), Zhu Biaoying died prematurely at the age of thirty-seven. Zhu Biao's second son, Zhu Yunjiao, was made the emperor's grandson by Zhu Yuanzhang, who was not yet fifteen years old at the time. In the thirty-first year of Hongwu (1398), Zhu Yuanzhang died, and the twenty-one-year-old Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne.
At the beginning of Zhu Yunjiao's reign, in order to consolidate the imperial power, he began to cut the domain of the king. Zhu Yunjiao's uncle Zhu Di the Prince of Yan took the opportunity to mutiny and launched the "Battle of Jingnan". The rivalry over the throne between the two uncles and nephews continued from the first year of Jianwen to the fourth year of Jianwen, and the result of the war was that Zhu Di attacked Nanjing, and Zhu Yunjiao's whereabouts were unknown. And Zhu Di's blows against Zhu Yunjiao's widows were also very cold and cruel. Fang Xiaoru, a doctor of literature, was killed alive after being accused of the Nine Tribes; Shangshu Tiexuan of the Bingbu And Shangshu Of the Punishment Department were tortured and killed by Zhu Di. So in this catastrophe, how will Zhu Biao's wife and sons be dealt with by Zhu Di?
Zhu Biao had two crown princesses. Princess Chang was the eldest daughter of Chang Yuchun, the King of Kaiping. Chang was crowned crown princess by Zhu Yuanzhang in the fourth year of Hongwu (1371), when Chang was only sixteen years old. The Chang clan gave birth to two sons for Zhu Biao, namely Zhu Xiongying the Prince of Yuhuai and Zhu Yunxi the Prince of Wu. Zhu Yunxi was born in 1378, that is, after giving birth to this son, Chang Died of Difficult Childbirth at the age of twenty-four.
Zhu Biao's concubine was Lü Shi, the daughter of Lü Ben, the secretary of the Taichang Temple, who bore Zhu Biao four sons, namely The Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunxi, the Hengmin King Zhu Yunxi, the Xujian King Zhu Yunxi, and Zhu Biao's sixth son (early death, unnamed).
After the Battle of Jingnan, Lü was expelled from the palace by Zhu Di and lived with his youngest son Zhu Yunxi in Zhu Biao's mausoleum, guarding the mausoleum for Zhu Biao. In 1406, Lü's mansion inexplicably caught fire. In this fire, Lü Shi was killed.
Zhu Biao's two crown princesses bore him six sons. Among them, the eldest son born to the Chang clan, Zhu Xiongying, died at the age of eight, and the sixth son born to the Lü clan also died early when he was unnamed. The second son of Zhu Biao, born to lü, was The Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao. As we all know, Emperor Jianwen disappeared after the Battle of Jingnan. So, what happened to Zhu Biao's other three sons after the Battle of Jingnan?
Zhu Yunxi, the King of Wu, was born to Chang and was the half-brother of Emperor Jianwen. When Zhu Yunxi was seventeen years old, his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang selected the daughter of Zhao Sili, the commander of the terracotta army, as a concubine. After Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne as emperor, Jin's younger brother became the King of Wu and led the domain of Hangzhou. However, before Zhu Yunxi could take over the domain, the Battle of Jingnan broke out.
After the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Yunxi was demoted by Zhu Di to the position of King of Guangze and sent to Zhangzhou. After a few more years, Zhu Yunxi was deposed as a Shuren and imprisoned in Fengyang. Later, in 1417, the thirty-nine-year-old Zhu Yunxi suddenly died violently.
Zhu Yunxi, the King of Hengmin, was the half-brother of Emperor Jianwen, and he was promoted to the title of King of Heng in the first year of Jianwen, but because of the Battle of Jingnan, he did not take the throne. Zhu Di was proclaimed empress dowager, and Zhu Yunxi was demoted to the title of King of Huai'en and exiled to Jianchang. Later, at the same time as his third brother Zhu Yunxi, he was deposed as a Shuren and imprisoned in Fengyang, where he died in 1414 at the age of twenty-nine.
Zhu Yunxi, the King of Xujian, was demoted to the title of King of Ouning after the Battle of Jingnan, and together with his mother Lü Shi (劉氏), he served as the guardian of his father Zhu Biao. In 1406, Zhu Yunxi and his mother Lü Shi died in a bizarre fire at the age of fifteen.
Zhu Biao's two crown princesses and six sons, except for The Yuan Concubine Chang, the eldest son Zhu Xiongying and the sixth son, died before the Battle of Jingnan, the remaining one concubine and four sons did not die well. Among them, the whereabouts of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao are unknown, and the remaining three sons are either violent or depressed or buried in the sea of fire. With Zhu Di's cold and cruel character, Zhu Biao's family members will definitely cut the grass and remove the roots.