1. Zhu Biao's death
Zhu Biao
On May 17, 1392, Zhu Biao, the Prince of Ming, suddenly fell ill and died in the Eastern Palace.
Zhu Biao was the son of Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma, and the eldest son of Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Biao's sudden illness and death made Zhu Yuanzhang heartbroken and crying bitterly.
Zhu Yuanzhang
The sudden death of crown prince Zhu Biao disrupted Zhu Yuanzhang's original layout, causing Zhu Yuanzhang to have to slaughter the heroes again in order to build a new balance and consolidate the political power.
The killing of a large number of generals directly led to the withering of talents in the Ming Dynasty, the emptiness of the center, and finally directly led to the occurrence of the Battle of Jingnan.
The Battle of Jing
Zhu Biao's sudden illness and death disrupted the ming dynasty and the whole world in the early Ming Dynasty.
2. Aspirations
In 1355, Zhu Biao was born.
At the age of 13, Zhu Biao was crowned crown prince.
Zhu Yuanzhang had high hopes for Zhu Biao and cultivated him as a successor.
Prince Zhu Biao
As soon as Zhu Biao was made crown prince, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Li Shanchang (李善長) as the prince's young master, Xu Da (徐達) as the prince's young master, Chang Yuchun as the prince's shaobao (太子少保), and Liu Bowen, Feng Sheng, Deng Yu, and Tang He as subordinate officials of the prince's mansion.
Zhu Yuanzhang sent all the famous advisers around him to the side of the crown prince Zhu Biao to assist Zhu Biao.
Zhu Yuanzhang's trust in Zhu Biao reached a point where no one had ever been seen before.
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Liu Bowen
However, Zhu Yuanzhang still felt that it was not enough.
Soon, he broke with the convention and ordered Zhu Biao to set up another mansion in addition to the Prince's Mansion, so that when he was not in the capital, he could smoothly take over the entire country.
When Zhu Biao was 22 years old, Zhu Yuanzhang even issued an edict that all politics should be handed over to the prince in advance, and then played to himself.
Third, the lucky prince
Since ancient times, as a prince, he has faced a very embarrassing situation.
If the ability is too strong, it will infringe on the imperial power and be suspected and suspected by the emperor.
If the ability is too weak, it will be considered incompetent by the emperor and unable to entrust the state.
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Zhu Yuanzhang, on the other hand, was a very unique presence among the emperors of the Chinese dynasties, who went from a beggar begging along the street to the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and his political and military strategies were extremely outstanding.
He was extremely confident in his own ability, so he was never afraid of the crown prince Zhu Biao, he was not afraid that Zhu Biao's ability was too strong and threatened him, he was only worried that Zhu Biao's ability was insufficient and he could not govern the country well.
Therefore, he gave Zhu Biao enough trust, and also gave Zhu Biao enough power and enough stage for Zhu Biao to perform.
From this point of view, Prince Zhu Biao is undoubtedly lucky, he has a big enough stage for him to fully display his talents and show his talents.
Zhu Yuanzhang, a beggar begging along the street
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty
Fourth, live up to expectations
As the crown prince, Zhu Biao lived up to Zhu Yuanzhang's expectations and the expectations of hundreds of officials.
Song Lian was praised by Zhu Yuanzhang as "the head of the founding ministers", and was a great Confucian in the early Ming Dynasty and a teacher of Zhu Biao.
In 1380, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to execute Song Lian.
After Zhu Biao found out, he pleaded bitterly and finally saved Song Lian from Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher knife.
Song Lian
Zhu Yuanzhang was fond of killing, and often killed the minister because of a small mistake.
Many ministers were able to survive because of Zhu Biao's intercession.
Therefore, Zhu Biao was extremely prestigious among the courtiers, and many ministers were grateful to Zhu Biao's kindness.
Zhu Biao was kind and generous, and he was also very friendly to his brothers, and Zhu Di the King of Yan, Zhu Zhu the King of Qin, Zhu Zhuo the King of Jin, Zhu Shu the King of Zhou, and others had committed mistakes, and it was Zhu Biao who interceded for them so that they could not be punished, so their prestige among the kings was extremely high.
Zhu Di, King of Yan
The kings were grateful, the officials were supported, and the emperor was satisfied, and Zhu Biao perfectly did everything that a prince could do.
Fifth, the perfect layout
Zhu Yuanzhang was a very confident man, and he believed that as long as he was in power, the civil and military officials and heroes and generals would not be able to set off a single storm.
However, people always have inevitable times of life, old age, illness and death.
Once he was gone, crown prince Zhu Biao succeeded to the throne, and whether the civil and military officials and meritorious generals would still treat Zhu Biao and treat him as loyally, he had no confidence.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang made such a layout.
Crown Prince Zhu Biao sat in the capital Nanjing and separated the other sons.
Zhu Di, the King of Yan, sat in Beiping, the King of Qin, Zhu Zhu, the King of Qin, sat in Xi'an, Zhu Tang, the King of Jin, sat in Taiyuan, and Zhu Quan, the King of Ning, sat in Daning.
Once Zhu Biao could not control the situation, he could recruit the kings to lead the army to quell the rebellion.
In order to prevent the kings from being too powerful and forming a feudal division, Zhu Yuanzhang equipped Zhu Biao with strong enough military generals to ensure that Zhu Biao's strength exceeded the strength of the kings.
This is a perfect layout, the imperial court inside and outside the balance between each other, I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang's way of balancing, the operation is very skilled.
6. Slaughter heroes
In addition to the perfect layout, Zhu Yuanzhang took another measure - to eliminate the military generals who he could control, but Zhu Biao could not control.
Xu Da is the first hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty and the world-famous invincible god of war.
In 1385, Xu Da suddenly had a carbuncle attack and died at home.
According to historical records, Xu Da was poisoned by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Li Shanchang, the "Xiao He" around Zhu Yuanzhang, gave advice to Zhu Yuanzhang very early.
In 1390, Zhu Yuanzhang murdered Li Shanchang for plotting treason.
7. Advice by Zhu Biao
Slaughter heroes
In early 1392, Zhu Biao advised Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty has killed too much, and he is afraid of hurting Tianhe. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang did not speak, but ordered the eunuch to find a wooden stick covered with barbs and throw it in front of Zhu Biao, asking Zhu Biao to take it.
Because the stab hurt his hand, Zhu Biao was reluctant to take it.
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "These unruly founding ministers of our Daming are like barbs on this wooden stick. I will remove these barbs for you, so that you can better control the authority and control the world. ”
As zhu Biao's heroes and generals, who could not control, were all killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied and gradually stopped slaughtering the heroes.
However, the accident happened.
Zhu Yunjiao
Crown Prince Zhu Biao died of illness suddenly, while Zhu Yuanzhang's re-selected crown prince Zhu Yunjiao was only 15 years old.
In order to be able to safely hand over the country to Zhu Yunjiao, in order to maintain the stability of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had to raise the butcher's knife again and slaughter the military generals that Zhu Biao could control, but Zhu Yunjiao could not control.
VIII. The Sapphire Case
Lan Yu, the Duke of Liangguo, was an invincible god of war in the early Ming Dynasty, who once led an army deep into the desert and directly attacked the hinterland of the Mongols, achieving unprecedented victories.
Sapphire
Zhu Biao's crown princess Chang Shi was the daughter of Chang Yuchun.
And Lan Yu is Chang Yuchun's brother-in-law and Chang's uncle.
Therefore, as Zhu Biao and Chang's uncle, Lan Yu was the staunchest supporter of Prince Zhu Biao.
Sapphire has a flappy personality and is strong and domineering.
Once, on the way back to the dynasty with his army, he shelled his own city gate because the guanguan guard would open the city gate late.
Impeachment of hundreds of officials.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled lightly and pardoned him.
When Zhu Biao was alive, no matter how much Blue Jade did too much, Zhu Yuanzhang was almost spoiled for Sapphire, and his glory and wealth, fame and fortune were even more rewarding.
Blue Jade was a military general left by Zhu Yuanzhang to the crown prince Zhu Biao to conquer the four sides and completely eliminate the Northern Yuan.
Therefore, no matter how big a mistake Sapphire made, as long as Sapphire was loyal to Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang would tolerate it.
However, the situation is stronger than the people.
With zhu Biao's sudden illness and death, the young Zhu Yunjiao was made crown prince by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang was able to control Zhu Biao, and Zhu Yunjiao could not control the blue jade.
In 1393, Lan Yu was reported for rebellion, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not choose to tolerate, but directly ordered the killing.
At the same time, more than 15,000 people, including Blue Jade's clansmen, subordinates, and colleagues, were implicated and killed.
In 1394, Zhu Yuanzhang killed Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, and a generation of famous generals was destroyed from then on.
In 1395, Feng Sheng, a famous general of the Hundred Battles and the Duke of Song, was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Since then, the entire Ming Dynasty Hall has been empty of military forces.
Since ancient times, "accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger", when the emperor can use you, however, he will tolerate you, however, once you have a threat to the imperial power, even if you can't go out all day, he will try his best to find a mistake and punish you.
9. The Battle of Jingnan
On June 24, 1398, Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, died of illness in Nanjing at the age of 71.
On June 30, the 21-year-old crown prince Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne as emperor as "Emperor Minghui".
Zhu Yunxiong had Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, and Fang Xiaoru as his confidants, and at this time there were no military generals around him who could conquer the four sides and suppress the king of the domain.
In July 1399, Zhu Di, the King of Yan, rebelled against Zhu Yunjiao's rule.
After four years of fierce fighting, Zhu Di, the King of Yan, led an army into Nanjing, and Zhu Yunjiao's whereabouts are unknown, known in history as the "Battle of Jingnan".
On July 17, 1402, Zhu Di, the King of Yan, ascended the throne as emperor and changed his era name to "Yongle" (永樂), which was known in history as "Ming Chengzu".
A new era, reopened.
Zhu Di
Some historians said: "If Zhu Biao did not die suddenly of illness, but successfully inherited the throne, then Zhu Di, the King of Yan, would never rebel, even if Zhu Di rebelled, because there were hundreds of famous generals Fu Youde, Feng Sheng, and the invincible god of war Lan Yu, Zhu Di would definitely not succeed." Therefore, when Zhu Biao became emperor, Zhu Di could only honestly be a king of the domain. ”
However, history does not assume.
Zhu Biao's death disrupted Zhu Yuanzhang's layout, causing Zhu Yuanzhang to pick up the butcher's knife again and massacre the meritorious warriors, who were slaughtered, which became the beginning of the Battle of Jingnan and created conditions for Zhu Di, the King of Yan, to gain the world.
Zhu Biao's death changed the political pattern in the early years of the Ming Dynasty and also disrupted the entire world in the early Ming Dynasty.
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