In ancient times, the emperor monopolized power and made a decision, and he would not be soft on those who betrayed him, and he was always full of doors and slashes, and the nine tribes were connected. However, in ancient times, there was such a person who betrayed the lord, who only put him under house arrest and made his son king. What's going on?
It turned out that this emperor was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the person who was put under house arrest by Zhu Yuanzhang was Zhu Wenzheng, The nephew of Zhu Yuanzhang.
As we all know, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was born extremely tragically, his parents died, they could not be buried, and most of his other relatives died tragically. Zhu Yuanzhang himself once became a monk, and went everywhere to survive. Zhu Yuanzhang's sister-in-law Wang Shi and nephew Zhu Wen were lucky to survive the war in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty. For Zhu Yuanzhang, who grew up with a tragic experience, surviving relatives are very important. Zhu Yuanzhang also liked his nephew Zhu Wenzheng very much, taught him, and entrusted him with reuse.
In the process of Zhu Yuanzhang's struggle for the world with the late Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Wenzheng was sent by his uncle Zhu Yuanzhang to guard Hongdu. Hongdu was a strategic place in the area occupied by Zhu Yuanzhang at that time, and the appointment of Zhu Wenzheng to guard this town shows that Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to Zhu Wenzheng. Zhu Wenzheng also did not live up to the expectations of his uncle Zhu Yuanzhang, and made great contributions in the neutrality of the First World War, laying an important foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang to pacify the world.
This battle was the famous battle between Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyu at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Battle of Hongdu. When Chen Youyi took advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's main force to rescue Han Lin'er, the Xiaoming King, he launched a large-scale attack. With 600,000 people besieging the Hongdu City defended by Zhu Wenzheng, Zhu Wenzheng, with tens of thousands of troops, fought a bloody battle, held the Hongdu for 85 days, saved the Hongdu City, and severely defeated Chen Youyu, laying an important foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang's later victory over Chen Youyu at Poyang Lake.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with his nephew Zhu Wenzheng's achievements and ordered a reward. However, at this time, Zhu Wenzheng seemed to be very sensible, and said to his uncle that he should first be a meritorious soldier, and when his uncle won the world, would his nephew still be worried about being rich and noble? These words made Zhu Yuanzhang very happy. In the Battle of Poyang Lake, Zhu Wenzheng also cut off Chen You's forgiveness of grain and also made great contributions.
In the later battles, Zhu Wenzheng continued to make meritorious contributions, perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang felt that this child was sensible, so he did not seal the reward, but instead rewarded others. Zhu Wenzheng was very dissatisfied with this, and unusually, he connived with the general to rob his subordinates of his wives and daughters, and after being exposed, he was reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang, so he was very afraid. Later, it was revealed that Zhu Wen was trying to defect to Zhang Shicheng, and Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and imprisoned his nephew. Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted to kill Zhu Wenzheng, but because of the persuasion of his wife Ma Xiuying, he gave up. Zhu Wen was under house arrest and died of depression.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who claimed the title of empress, not only made his sons kings, but also zhu Wenzheng's sons, and his nephew Zhu Shouqian the King of Jingjiang, who was the king of Guilin.