The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as one of the emperors who have been put on the big screen the most in recent years, largely because the Ming Dynasty is a wonderful era, and the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang has an extraordinary life, and the future emperors also have a wonderful story, and the hot sales of "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty" are very telling.
When it comes to the Ming Dynasty, there is one place that must be mentioned, that is, the Forbidden City, built in 1406, was completed in 1420 after 14 years, and until now it is one of the largest and most complete preserved ancient buildings in combination, and it was also listed as a world cultural heritage in 1987.
The Ming and Qing dynasties, both with the Forbidden City as the capital, also underwent many times of construction, but at the time of a renovation, the workers discovered a secret from 600 years ago, which is a secret from Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, zhu Di has always been a cruel emperor in the eyes of people, so what secrets were found in Zhu Di?
It is said that Zhu Di's fate is somewhat similar to the fate of the Sui Emperor Yang Guang, he was not the eldest son of Zhu Yuanzhang, so why did he become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty after that? Naturally, there are all kinds of small means.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's first heir to the throne was the eldest son Zhu Biao, but Zhu Biao died of illness in 1392, Zhu Yuanzhang was devastated, and then zhu Biao's son Zhu Yunjiao was regarded as the heir to the throne, at that time Zhu Yunjiao was still very young, still a 15-year-old young man.
At this moment, Zhu Di was even more reluctant to agree in his heart, he had coveted the throne as an uncle for so long, how could he casually give up the throne to his nephew? So he launched the Battle of Jingnan, and it was hard to imagine that this was a battle in which the Zhu family's own people fought their own people.
In the end, Zhu Yunjiao disappeared in the Battle of Jingnan, no one knew his whereabouts, and after returning to the palace, he also executed all of Zhu Yunjiao's cronies, in order to avoid future troubles, and even Fang Xiaoru's descendants were killed by him over and over again, so that they would not come to him to seek revenge.
Zhu Di's conspiracy finally succeeded, and he became emperor in 1402 until his death in 1424, but Zhu Di, in order to save his life, could be said to have done something that only he and the builder knew, that is, to build an underground tunnel.
In order to ensure the safety of this underground tunnel, he ordered 15 floors to be dug into the ground, just to ensure that when he absconded, the people on the ground could not hear his movements, and even the bricks had to be specially made to ensure solidity.
What is even more cruel is that in order to keep this secret, Zhu Di also beat the craftsmen into dumb, and even directly executed, so that he would not let himself build an underground passage to spread out, it can be said that Zhu Di for his own safety, basically to a paranoid point, but the final effect Zhu Di is still satisfied, this underground passage after the construction did not come in handy, which is enough to show that Zhu Di's throne, sitting is still relatively smooth, there is not much trouble.