Modern history writer Cai Dongfan once commented: "The King of Yan is good at war, and the King of Ning is good at plotting." ”
At the end of the twenty-seventh year (1367), the 39-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang was full of vigor, many years of hard days had ended, he was preparing for the throne, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang also had seven sons, Zhu Di was the fourth son, already seven years old, when Zhu Di was born, Zhu Yuanzhang because of military emergencies, too late to see Zhu Di left, to this day, Zhu Di has his own name.
On the fourth day of the first lunar month in 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang took the throne as emperor at Yingtianfu, set the name of the country "Daming", and made Zhu Biao the crown prince. In the sixth year of Hongwu (1373), Zhu Yuanzhang successively gave Zhu Di a copy of the "Zhaojian Record" and a copy of the "Ancestral Training Record", it was easy to fight the Jiangshan and it was difficult to defend the Jiangshan, sitting in the position of the emperor, and there were a few doubts, Zhu Yuanzhang could believe that his sons.
Zhu Di and other brothers received patriarchal education, learned about the merits and demerits of the ancient feudal kings, and received strict military training. In the ninth year of Hongwu (1376), before the 16-year-old Zhu Di went to the domain, Zhu Yuanzhang asked his sons to go to fengyang's hometown to experience folk life.
Four years later, Zhu Di took the throne of Beiping, and at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang also thought deeply about the kings, because he believed in his descendants, he decided to let all his descendants contribute to maintain the Zhu family's imperial dynasty, so each prince had a small number of troops, and the number of "guards" of the prince was not uniform, there were many or less.
When Daming had military operations, all the kings had to lead the escorts to accompany the army, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was good at war and had a heroic posture on the battlefield, so Zhu Yuanzhang was also very satisfied with this son, and repeatedly ordered Zhu Di to go out on the expedition, and Zhu Di's prestige was greatly enhanced. However, the sons grew up and had their own thoughts, and although Zhu Yuanzhang found some situations, Zhu Yuanzhang certainly would not treat the kings like the courtiers.
Moreover, the crown prince Zhu Biao also gradually established his own power, and there was no need to worry about other brothers seeking power and usurping the throne, but accidents always came too quickly, and in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu (1392), Zhu Biao died, and Zhu Yuanzhang made Zhu Yunjiao the crown prince to prevent the kings from coveting the throne.
In 1398, Zhu Yuanzhang died, Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne as emperor, as Emperor Jianwen, at this time the king of Qin and the king of Jin, who threatened the throne, also died, Zhu Di was the eldest of the kings, but Zhu Di did not have many troops, if Zhu Di wanted to rebel, Zhu Yunjiao could completely mobilize the strength of the whole country to suppress.
Looking at the situation, Zhu Yunjiao's time to cut down the clan was a little early, and Zhu Yunjiao still used the crime of having or not to deal with the smaller and weaker clan kings, and took drastic action, perhaps Zhu Yunjiao wanted to "warn" other capable clan kings through this, but it was counterproductive.
Zhu Di knew that this was a good opportunity, whether he was forced to be helpless or not, he was bound to meet with Emperor Jianwen, Zhu Di had experience in the battlefield, he knew that if he wanted to oppose, he would have to oppose thoroughly, there must be a chance of victory, there was a force that could compete with Emperor Jianwen, so Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, became a good partner.
Zhu Quan, the King of Ning, was the seventeenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, and his domain was located near The Border Fortress in Daning, so there were 80,000 elite soldiers and 3,000 chariots, and Zhu Quan was often involved in wars and was good at strategizing. Zhu Di chose to cooperate with Zhu Quan, first, because the two were similar in land, and second, because Zhu Quan had soldiers.
After Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne, the movement of cutting the domain should be said to be big and big, the kings are all in danger, saying that small is also small, first of all, starting from the weak, Zhu Di told Zhu Quan that he had no choice but to start an army, if he did not raise troops, the brothers would have a bad end, he did not want to do so. After Zhu Quan let down his guard against Zhu Di, he was pulled down by Zhu Di, and Zhu Quan would join the Yan army, which was also a little trick played by Zhu Di.
In order to win over Zhu Quan, Zhu Di also said that after the matter was completed, the world could be divided equally, and Zhu Quan could no longer be alone now, so he also helped Zhu Di to come up with ideas, and later Zhu Di attacked all the way to Nanjing, and also fought for four years, after the end of the Jing Dynasty, Zhu Di ascended the throne as emperor and became Ming Chengzu.
So what kind of reward did Zhu Quan get? Although Zhu Quan was young, he also knew that no emperor in the world was willing to divide the world equally, so Zhu Quan only asked Zhu Di for a piece of fiefdom for the elderly, and asked for a change of the southern seal, and Zhu Di told him that he could go from Jianning, Chongqing, Jingzhou, and Dongchang.
These four places were still relatively deserted at that time, zhu quan did not accuse Zhu Di, and then in February of the first year of Yongle (1403), he went to the fiefdom of Nanchang, and Zhu Di personally wrote poems to send off. During Zhu Di's reign, Zhu Quan was also intoxicated with playing the piano and reading in his fiefdom, and did not ask about the government and politics, nor did he inquire about what happened in the capital, so he was not persecuted by Zhu Di.
During the two emperors of Renxuan, Zhu Quan had some ideas, saying that Nanchang was not his fiefdom, but Akihito said that his uncle (Zhu Quan) had been enfeoffed by the former emperor for more than 20 years. Zhu Quan therefore did not say anything more, and later asked Ming Xuanzong to give him the land near Nanchang City, arguing that the clan should not determine the grade, etc., which made Ming Xuanzong a little angry, so he had a lot of accusations against Ming Xuanzong.
So Zhu Quan finally gave up, and he was already old, and later spent all day with the scholars, pinning his heart on Wen, and in the thirteenth year of orthodoxy (1448), Zhu Quan died in the fiefdom.