In this year, some people claim to be descendants of the regent Oflgun of the Qing Dynasty, some people claim to be descendants of the Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo, and even some people claim to be descendants of Sun Wukong, so it is not surprising that they claim to be descendants of Zhu Yunjiao, the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
As we all know, after the death of the ming emperor Zhu Biao, in order to let the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunjiao sit on the throne, zhu Yunjiao, he went on a killing spree, and as a result, he did not think that Zhu Yunzhang ascended the throne at a young age, did not understand politics, and was surrounded by Confucians.
In the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), Zhu Di's army entered Nanjing, and a fire broke out in the palace compound in Nanjing, and the whereabouts of the 24-year-old Zhu Yunjiao were unknown since then, but his cronies and harem women were all killed, and it was called a "good thing" to die a painful and happy death.
Zhu Yunjiao's empress Xiao Shu let Empress Ma Die in the palace fire, his eldest son Zhu Wenkui said that he was in the fire, and there is also a saying that Zhu Wenkui disappeared with Zhu Yunjiao, as for Zhu Yunjiao's younger son Zhu Wengui, when Zhu Di ascended the throne as emperor, he was still only two years old, and spent more than fifty years under house arrest for more than fifty years.
Zhu Wengui was not released until after the restoration of Emperor Mingyingzong's rebellion, but died shortly after his release.
After Zhu Yunjiao's whereabouts were unknown, there were many folk sayings, some saying that he had returned to seclusion as a monk, some people said that Zhu Yunjiao fled to Sanqingshan in Jiangxi to seek the Tao, and even some people said that after Zhu Yunxiu escaped, he was in Guang'an, Sichuan province, to prepare for the restoration.
As for Zheng He's voyage to the West, there is a saying that it is to find Zhu Yunjiao, but as for the true whereabouts of Zhu Yunjiao, I am afraid that only Zhu Di knows best. However, in modern times, He Gejin, a teacher in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, has produced evidence, self-evidence that he is the eighteenth generation descendant of Zhu Yunjiao, and scholars also say that the evidence is perfect.
He Gejin took out the "Genealogy of the Seven Cultivations of Xiangtan Jinshi" and claimed that his ancestors fled to Xiangtan because of the Battle of Jingnan, lived in seclusion in Xiangtan Jinshi, hid his name, and changed it to the core in the second year of Yongle; secondly, "He Fu, the second ancestor of the He clan", held the position of a general in the three dynasties of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yunjiao, and Zhu Di, and He Fu was also recorded in the "History of Ming".
Third, in the "Yintang Sijia He Clan Genealogy", it is recorded that He Fu's daughter married a family surnamed Zhu in the second year of Yongle. Finally, in the Xiangtan County Chronicle, not only Ah Fu is recorded, but also two other Ming generals settled in Xiangtan, but these two generals are not recorded in the History of Ming.
He Gejin's words still attracted the attention of many people, some scholars through scientific instruments to identify the ancient books, found that the "Xiangtan Jinshi Seven Cultivation Genealogy" is indeed a family tree passed down from generation to generation, in addition, the prefectural records, county records in ancient times can not be tampered with and falsified.
He Gejin's evidence makes logical sense, but with Zhu Di's means, he may not have spared Zhu Yunjiao, nor could he have let Zhu Yunjin's heirs wander into exile and survive safely, as to whether He Gejin was Zhu Yunjin's descendant or not, there was no direct evidence to prove it.
Even if the "Xiangtan Jinshi Seven Cultivation Genealogy" is true, it only means that the ancestor's original surname was Zhu, and yongle ii (1404) lived in Xiangtan to escape the disasters of the Ming Dynasty, it may also be other People with the surname of Zhu, not Zhu Yunjiao, after all, Zhu Di has just ascended the throne, is controversial, and in order to eliminate dissidents, it is also a massacre.
From Zhu Di's treatment of Zhu Yunjiao's younger son Zhu Wengui, it can be seen that Zhu Di was a decisive person, and the strategists around him asked him not to kill the reader Fang Xiaoru when he sent an army, and as a result, Fang Xiaoru was still exterminated by the Ten Tribes because he did not draft an edict for Zhu Di to take the throne, and It was really not easy for Zhu Yunjiao's descendants to survive peacefully in the folk.