In 1392, Zhu Di's youngest son, Zhu Gaoyao, was born, but he died prematurely after only a month. This is also the youngest of Zhu Di's 4 sons and 5 daughters, presumably Zhu Di at that time would not have thought that this son would be the last heir in his life.
In the long years that followed, including the 22 years of emperorship in which he succeeded in the Battle of Jingnan, was honored as a great treasure, and became rich in the world, he did not have a son and a half daughter.
As the fourth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, he was born in 1360, a year when his father Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyu attacked each other. Since childhood, he lacked the love of his father, and even in 1367, after his father Zhu Yuanzhang eliminated Zhang Shicheng, he officially had his own name. In the third year of Hongwu (1370), he was also enfeoffed as the King of Yan at the age of ten, and his domain belonged to Beiping. In the thirteenth year of Hongwu (1380), at the age of twenty, he took the domain and quickly showed his military talent, as an important part of the nine kings Saibian system that Zhu Yuanzhang built for the defense of the Mongolian Yuan, he once cooperated with Xu Da in battle, and recruited the Mongol Nai'er Buhua and captured Sorin Timur, which can be described as a battle achievement. With the death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, the second brother Zhu Zhu the Prince of Qin, and the third brother Zhu Tang the Prince of Jin, he gradually became the leader of the Nine Kings.
Just after Zhu Yuanzhang's death and his nephew Zhu Yunjiao took the throne, the strategy of cutting the domain also directly contradicted Zhu Di as the king of the domain, and finally under the assistance of Yao Guangxiao, Zhu Neng, Zhang Yu and others, four years of the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di also successfully ascended to dabao. Admittedly, this is not in the right place; but under the survival law of paying attention to the supremacy of strength, Zhu Di is a successful person in the end.
In the following 22 years of rule, Zhu Di led Zheng He to the West, recovered Annam, established the Nuer Gandusi, and made five northern expeditions to Mongolia, which was no less meritorious than that of Ming Taizu. In 1424, at the age of sixty-five, Zhu Di died on the way back from the Fifth Northern Expedition, ending his life of both great achievements and usurpers and thieves.
Behind these 22 years of imperial career, as the son of heaven, Zhu Di is not inedible to human fireworks, he has yongle eight years to send Huang Yu to Korea to select women, and finally selected the Kwon clan (which is also the prototype of the park concubine in the popular "Daming Fenghua"), Ren, Lee, Lü, choi five Korean beauties as concubines, Zhaoyi, Jieyu, and beauty; as well as the domestic selection of beautiful women to enrich the palace, but even so, he is in the 22 years of imperial career, nothing more.
In ancient China, which emphasized the reincarnation of the Heavenly Path, people often attributed this kind of thing to doing too much evil and karma. Zhu Di, as Emperor Xiaozong and the second son, committed the following crimes and usurped the throne for the sake of unkindness, injustice, disloyalty and filial piety, just as in "The Great Ming Style", Zhu Di said to Zhu Zhanji after capturing Nanjing, "Grandpa has been a thief who has never been easy in eternity." But in fact, as a descendant, this superstitious statement obviously has no credibility, so what is the reason why Zhu Di will not come out after becoming emperor?
The first thing we think of is the death of Zhu Di's favorite wife, Empress Xu. In the ninth year of Hongwu (1376), Xu Da's daughter Xu Shi married Zhu Di and was made a princess of Yan by Zhu Yuanzhang, and xu shi also gave birth to zhu Di with three sons and four daughters, including Emperor MingrenZong Zhu Gaoxu, Han Wang Zhu Gaoxu, Zhao Wang Zhu Gaoxuan, Princess Yong'an, Princess Yongping, Princess Ancheng, and Princess Xianning. However, in the fifth year of Yongle (1407), Empress Xu died at the age of 46. The death of his beloved wife also made Zhu Di mourn himself, not only for Empress Xu to be honored with the title of Renxiao, but also to never establish a queen.
The second is the focus of Zhu Di's work after he ascended the throne. In the face of the fierce emotions at that time, at the beginning of his reign, he killed the entire village under the Fang Xiaoru Ten Tribes, the Jingqing Nine Tribes, and the entire village under the Gua Man Raid, but even under such high pressure, the remarks about his improper position were still incessant, so there was his move to move the capital to Beijing, and the most worrying thing for him was that Emperor Jianwen's whereabouts were unknown, in order to stabilize the political situation, he had to send Hu Qian to conduct a protracted search, and even when he heard that Emperor Jianwen might flee to Nanyang, Zheng He also had an important task in the Western Ocean to inquire about The News of Emperor Jianwen; in order to attack the remnants of the Mongol Yuan, Zhu Di even went on five Northern Expeditions, which shows that the focus of his work after he ascended the throne was on state affairs.
These factors are undoubtedly influencing factors, but it is really necessary to investigate the root causes, and personal factors should be the main contradictions and main causes. So what is wrong with Zhu Di's own body?
These records are from the records of the Inner Palace, such as the Records of the Ancestors of Ming Dynasty, but they are not mentioned in these texts. As a vassal state at that time, Lee's Joseon once had a record of tribute to beautiful women, and did not have to avoid it, calling for the "Records of the Lee Dynasty".
In the "Records of the Lee Dynasty", it is recorded that Concubine Quan, who could blow the flute was very popular with Zhu Di, and took her with her on the expedition, but unfortunately, this beautiful woman who paid tribute to Korea was poisoned within a year. In the end, under some investigation, Lü Shi was convicted of the crime, and as a result, more than 2,800 palace women were killed, and among them, the palace women said, "My own family is in decline, so I am a young temple person, so why blame it?" It is also pointed out that it was Zhu Di's inability to cause the harem chaos. Considering the influence of comprehensive factors, under the loss of wife and busy government affairs, whether Zhu Di is really not good, it will be the wisdom of the benevolent and the wise.