"Yongle Shengshi" is one of the five famous prosperous times in Chinese history, under the rule of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty moved to the peak period, and left a good impression on Zhu Di as an emperor, the only fly in the ointment is that his ascension to the throne is somewhat unjust and unsmooth. Zhu Di's father Zhu Yuanzhang originally passed the throne to the emperor's grandson Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, but later he launched the "Battle of Jingnan" and seized the throne, when the Ming Dynasty appeared "Yongle Prosperous World", he felt fortunate for the people of the Ming Dynasty, fortunately Zhu Di was a good emperor.
Many people like to speculate, if it is still Zhu Yunjiao as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, will there be a "Jianwen" prosperity? The promise was obviously negative, because Zhu Yunjiao played a bad card with a hand of Wang Bomb, and what he thought about was how to sit on the throne, rather than considering the people's livelihood, and there would certainly be no prosperous move under his rule. In fact, when Zhu Yuanzhang passed the throne, Zhu Yunjiao was not the only candidate, and if Zhu Yuanzhang passed the throne to Zhu Yunxi, there would be nothing for Zhu Di.
In the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di usurped the throne
After Zhu Yuanzhang seized the world, zhu Biao, the eldest son of Zhu Biao, was made crown prince, and the throne should have been passed down step by step, with Zhu Biao's benevolent and generous character, there would be no struggle for the throne between brothers, but Zhu Biao's life was short, he died of illness at the age of 27, Zhu Yuanzhang's white-haired people sent black-haired people, it was also a good time to be sad, and Daming's successor became a problem. Zhu Yuanzhang had the intention of choosing the fourth son Zhu Di as the crown prince, but he was afraid that the second son and the third son would rebel, and finally weighed it left and right, and simply let Zhu Biao's son Zhu Yunjiao be the emperor's grandson.
Zhu Yuanzhang died, the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne as emperor, in the face of the emperor's grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang left behind by the "Nine Great Sai Kings" emperors who held heavy troops, there was a deep sense of crisis, but there was no external trouble, but the internal worries for him have never stopped, especially the fourth emperor's uncle Zhu Di has become the biggest hidden danger in his heart, in order to ensure that his throne can sit firmly, he put forward a plan to cut the domain, in less than a year, the king of Zhou, the king of Min, the king of Xiang, the king of Qi, and the king of Dai were deposed successively.
Faced with the direction of pressing him step by step, Zhu Di, even a fool, could see that something was wrong, and immediately launched the "Battle of Jing" on the grounds that "there is no righteous subject in the dynasty, there is treachery within, and he will raise an army to rebuke him, and launch the "Battle of Jingnan" on the grounds of the evil of the Qing Emperor's side. However, if Zhu Yuanzhang abandoned Zhu Yunxi and passed the throne to Zhu Yunxi, there would be nothing for Zhu Di to do.
Two imperial grandsons, concubines are inseparable
Zhu Biao's life is short, the women around him are also very few, his original wife is also the crown princess Changshi, see this surname to know that there is a great political marriage relationship, this Chang clan is the daughter of the founding general Chang Yuchun, Chang Yuchun's status in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, look at his "dragon robe portrait" after his death, it is known, it shows that Zhu Yuanzhang relies heavily on and trusts Chang Yuchun, and the marriage between children is to better stabilize the Jiangshan.
It was just that the Chang clan had bad luck, and Mr. Zhu Xiongying, the eldest son of a concubine, ended up dying early at the age of eight, and only later gave birth to the second son of Zhu Yunxi. The Chang clan was also a short-lived person, and after giving birth to the second son of the concubine Zhu Yunxi, "died in the same month", Zhu Biao raised the concubine Lü Shi as the stepmother, and Zhu Yunjiao, who was born to the Lü clan, was originally a concubine and became a concubine.
The Lü clan had no roots, but was only the daughter of the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty, who had served as the secretary of the Taichang Temple, and could not compete with those founding generals, but the daughter of the family was lucky enough to be promoted to the step-house, and Zhu Yunjiao also became a concubine. At this time, the two brothers Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Yunxi could not reflect the difference between concubines, and Zhu Yunxi, who was obviously dominant, became the second son again because he was one year younger than Zhu Yunxi.
Favor one over the other and clear the roadblocks
Zhu Yuanzhang once specifically mentioned in the "Ancestral Training of the Emperor and Ming": "Where there is no prince in the imperial court, it must be a brother and a brother, and a person born of a concubine's mother must be established." Born of a mother-in-law, although he could not stand for a long time. From this regulation, we can see that Zhu Yunjiao originally had no access to the throne, but he became the heir to the throne, and the main reason was that he was "benevolent and filial" enough. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw that his son Zhu Biao was ill and his grandson Zhu Yunjiao was waiting day and night, he regarded Zhu Yunjiao as the best successor.
It can be said that Zhu Yunjiao was able to sit on the throne obviously had a great element of luck in it, one was the early death of his mother Changshi, and the other was the early death of his father Zhu Biao, which gave him the identity of "concubine and long", plus he was deeply loved by Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zhu Yuanzhang persuaded to clear the roadblocks for this imperial grandson and leave a stable jiangshan for him as much as possible.
Zhu Yuanzhang used nine sons to guard the border for the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunjiao, afraid that those founding ministers would not be able to surrender, so he tried to kill them. Everyone knows that Zhu Yuanzhang is a suspicious and decisive emperor, but few people know that he is paving the way for the emperor's grandson, and he did not think that Zhu Yunjiao did not guard his throne at all, leaving Zhu Yuanzhang busy in vain.
Power competition, change history
In fact, if Zhu Yuanzhang had not made so much effort to help Zhu Yunxi to the throne, with Zhu Yunxi's strength, there would have been no "Battle of Jing" at all, and the history of the Ming Dynasty would not have anything to do with Zhu Di, at best, he was just a Yan king who could fight a good war and guard the fortress of Northern Xinjiang, and the reason why he said this was that Zhu Yunxi had a strong family power behind him.
It should be known that Zhu Yunxi's mother Chang Shi is Chang Yuchun's daughter, and with Chang Yuchun being able to enjoy the extraordinary status of "dragon robe portrait" in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, Zhu Yunxi's family power is not to be underestimated, which is incomparable to Zhu Di. Zhu Di's wife is the daughter of Xu Da, although Xu Da is also one of the famous generals of Kaigong, his status is far inferior to Chang Yuchun in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, and Xu Da has been repeatedly suspected by Zhu Yuanzhang before his death, and Zhu Di is slightly inferior to Zhu Yunxi in terms of maternal power.
There is also a more important key point, that is, Zhu Yunxi's mother Chang's uncle is Blue Jade, and "translated" Blue Jade is Chang Yuchun's "brother-in-law", that is, Zhu Yunxi's uncle. Blue jade is one of the protagonists in the famous "Hu Lan Prison" launched by Zhu Yuanzhang, when the power of blue jade has caused Zhu Yuanzhang to be greatly jealous, so he tried to get rid of blue jade, which can make Zhu Yuanzhang so jealous, Zhu Di naturally will not be the opponent of blue jade.
It can be seen from this that on the competition of family forces, if Zhu Yuanzhang abandons the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao and passes the throne to Zhu Yunxi, there will be nothing for Zhu Di to do, because strength does not allow it. Zhu Di's campaign against Jingnan lasted for four years, and in zhu Yunxi's words, Zhu Di did not have the strength to usurp the throne at all.
brief summary
Zhu Yunxi can be said to be an insignificant figure in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and there are very few historical records of him, the main reason for which is because of his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately set up Zhu Yunjiao, a person with no family power, to take the throne, in order to avoid the monopoly of foreign relatives, killed Lan Yu and others, and cut off the aftermath.
However, Zhu Yunxi became an unlucky egg, first lost the right to inherit the throne, and then was snubbed because the power of his mother's family was suppressed, and finally deposed by his brother Zhu Yunxi, and finally imprisoned in Fengyang, Anhui, a 39-year-old violent pawn, the cause of death is unknown, good things are not touched, and bad things have not run away.
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, Ancestral Training of the Emperor and Ming Dynasty
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