What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The popularity of the Ming Dynasty, the strange emperors of the old Zhu family have contributed a force.
These emperors were either so fat that they needed two people to walk, or they had a magical carpenter's craft, or they avoided the upper court... In short, they themselves have very personalities, and the government during their reign is also somewhat remarkable.
In comparison, Zhu Yunjiao, the Ming Huizong emperor who had been emperor for only five years, looked a little inferior to the other emperors of the old Zhu family.
Not counting Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor, until the fall of the Southern Ming regime, the Ming Dynasty experienced a total of 22 emperors. Therefore, Zhu Yunjiao can be compared, there are a total of 20 people from Ming Chengzu to Ming Zhaozong. Except for Zhu Di, who was Zhu Yunjiao's father and Zhu Gaozi, who was a contemporary, the others were down-to-earth juniors.
Compared with Zhu Di, the elder, Zhu Yunjiao really lost. In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu (1392), because of zhu Yuanzhang's support, Zhu Yunjiao became the emperor's grandson.
In the thirty-first year of Hongwu (1398), Zhu Yuanzhang died, and Zhu Yunjiao was put on the throne.
It was only because Zhu Yunjiao was able to have this day, not because he was the most talented among the zhu family's sons, but Zhu Yuanzhang finally decided to leave the throne to the eldest son Zhu Biao. Therefore, on the day that Zhu Yuanzhang established Zhu Yunjiao as the emperor's grandson, Zhu Yunjiao's "destined" nemesis Zhu Di was also nailed.
Unfortunately, the Battle of Jingnan proved that Zhu Yunjiao could not fight Zhu Di. After Zhu Di led a large army to attack the city of Nanjing, Zhu Yunjiao only ushered in an ending whereabouts are unknown, and he has never been able to turn over any storms since then. Therefore, compared with Zhu Di, "becoming a king and defeating Kou", Zhu Yunjiao is indeed inferior.
Compared with Zhu Gaozi's contemporaries, their "achievements" in the matter of bad luck can really be regarded as equal. Zhu Yunjiao was emperor for five years before he was pulled down by Zhu Di, and his life and death were uncertain. Although Gao Zhao, who was frail and sickly and bloated, was eventually sent to the throne by Zhu Di, he died of a serious illness within a year of his reign.
Although Zhu Yunzhi and Zhu Gaozi did not reign for a long time, their desire to pursue a peaceful and prosperous world was very strong. To this end, they can also be regarded as down-to-earth and enterprising for the government, and they have done things in a down-to-earth manner. However, due to the short reign time and the lack of a solid foundation, their directives had limited effect and their influence on the Ming society was even more limited. Therefore, compared with these two people, they are really "the same" of the same generation.
Compared with a number of juniors, Zhu Yunjiao is actually "losing" and "winning". The peak of Daming was achieved in the hands of Zhu Di, Zhu Gaozi and Zhu Zhanji. Compared with Zhu Zhanji, a junior, Zhu Yunjiao is indeed deficient.
Politically, Zhu Zhanji had more means than Zhu Yunjiao, and practiced the rectification of the bureaucracy more thoroughly. And because he followed Zhu Di on expeditions in his early years, Zhu Zhanji knew better than Zhu Yunjiao the influence of the military on a country, successfully quelled Zhu Gaoxu's rebellion, and stopped sending troops to Jiaotong. Inside the outside, Zhu Zhanji did a better job than Zhu Yunjiao. Therefore, in the end, it was Zhu Zhanji who witnessed a prosperous life, not Zhu Yunjiao.
Moreover, the more accomplished emperors after Zhu Zhanji, such as Emperor Xiaozong of Ming, Zhu Zaijuan of Emperor Mingmuzong, and Zhu Yijun of Emperor Mingshenzong, all had better political achievements than Zhu Yunxiu. With the typical political system or events of the Ming Dynasty, such as the cabinet system, the "One Whip Law", the "Great Ming Society", etc., none of them have anything to do with Zhu Yunjiao. Therefore, compared with these descendants, Zhu Yunjiao can also be said to have been suppressed.
However, compared with Emperor Ming sizong Zhu Youjian, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, and even the emperors of the Southern Ming regime, Zhu Yunjiao was undoubtedly excellent. Although Zhu Yunjiao was unable to keep his throne under the pressure of Zhu Di's steps, he did not let the world change his surname. But Zhu Youjian even lost the Jiangshan left by the old ancestor, although he was also helpless, but this was indeed worse than Zhu Yunjiao.
Zhu Qizhen is much more absurd than Zhu Yunjiao. The biggest problem in Zhu Yunjiao's life was that he did not keep his throne, and Zhu Qizhen was too confident in himself. Zhu Qizhen spoiled the evil and indulged in eunuchs, and as a result of the imperial conquest, he sent himself to the enemy's prison. It was not easy to be safely brought back by the Ming Dynasty sectists, and as a result, he launched a change to seize the door and pulled down Zhu Qiyu, the Ming lord who was dressed in clothes and food.
Just by treating the throne as a child's play for Zhu Qizhen and putting selfish interests above the interests of the state, we can say that Zhu Yunjiao is much better than Zhu Qizhen.
As for the three or five Zhu Jia Erlang of the Southern Ming Regime, let alone let Zhu Yunjiao compete with them, I am afraid that Zhu Yunjiao will want to scold them as soon as he "sees" them. The old part of the imperial court plus the rebel army, as many as a million soldiers and horses. As a result, these million people went their own way, chasing fame and profit, and they were stunned that even more than 200,000 Qing troops did not stop them.
If Zhu Yunjiao did not guard the dragon chair left by Zhu Yuanzhang to his descendants, and Zhu Youjian did not guard the "Ming" left by Zhu Yuanzhang to his descendants, then Zhu Yujian and Zhu Youluo, the descendants of the Zhu family who established themselves as emperors, even lost Zhu Yuanzhang's tablet.
In such a comparison, Zhu Yunjiao was good in those years.
Therefore, if we rank the Ming Emperors according to their achievements, Zhu Yunjiao should be in the middle of the ladder, "not successful." He lost the throne in the battle with Zhu Di, which was certainly a nest. But in just five years, he has indeed done a lot of good things for the government and the public.
"Less than the top, more than the bottom", this is much more suitable for Zhu Yunjiao than for Zhu Youluo and others.