The war between Zhu Di and Zhu Yunjiao was a struggle for power within the ruling class, and infighting like this was very common in history, the only rare one was the result of the "Battle of Jingnan". The emperor Zhu Yunjiao, who possessed the power of a country, was actually driven off the dragon chair by Zhu Di, the king of the frontier, which was a wonder for thousands of years.
Although the emperor's ouster was not uncommon, for the Great Unification Dynasty it only occurred in two situations: a nationwide peasant uprising and a palace coup. There was no precedent for a man like Zhu Di to rise up and seize the throne thousands of miles away from the center of power as the king of the domain, and ultimately succeeded!
In many ways, Zhu Yuanzhang was a ming emperor throughout the ages, but in his later years he killed a large number of heroes, which became a shortcoming that posterity has been arguing about. The founding heroes who fought with Zhu Yuanzhang in the world were almost all killed by Zhu Yuanzhang in the end, and only a few people survived due to special reasons and various relationships, and Geng Bingwen was one of them.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of heroes and the retention of heroes in his later years revolved around one purpose, that is, to protect the country for his descendants. Crown Prince Zhu Beiben was a very satisfactory object of zhu Yuanzhang's succession, and from the early stage, he had the demeanor of a Ming Jun, but unfortunately he died young. Zhu Yuanzhang was heartbroken because of the death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, because he liked this eldest son too much, Zhu Yuanzhang did not pass the throne to other sons, but to his grandson Zhu Yunjiao, that is, Zhu Biao's son.
Unfortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang loved Zhu Biao's son, had to pass the throne to him, and in order to clear the way for his grandson, he killed a lot of founding heroes, and when Zhu Yunjiao took the throne, everyone was safe and sound, but Zhu Yunjiao did not, he was not in a hurry to cut the domain, this time, the Yan king Zhu Di was not happy, he originally wanted to be emperor, there was no excuse to rebel, this little emperor so he simply rebelled directly.
Rebellion is a major event that kills the head, thousands of years in the past and now, the success of the rebellion is also countless, in order to block the attack of the people of the world, Zhu Di played the slogan of "Fengtian Jing difficulty", claiming to "get rid of the traitors, the side of the Qing King", in order to appease his subordinates, Zhu Di even did not hesitate to shed tears everywhere, the subordinates were originally panicked, but in Zhu Di's tearful cries, they were all twisted into a rope, to "help the emperor sweep away the villains around him."
And Zhu Yunjiao also followed Zhu Yuanzhang's dying wish and immediately sent Geng Bingwen to fight to meet the enemy, although Geng Bingwen was already 65 years old at this time, but gradually gained the upper hand by relying on rich combat experience. However, Zhu Di was not bad, in order to be able to successfully seize power, Zhu Di also knew himself and knew the other, carefully studied Geng Bingwen's strategic tactics, and finally won a war through divisive strategy. Geng Bingwen suddenly realized that Zhu Di wanted to fight a quick battle and make a quick decision, and he absolutely could not fight a protracted war. Therefore, Geng Bingwen could not defend the city, allowing Zhu Di to provoke. Zhu Di saw that this situation was also helpless, and returned with his troops within a few days.
Subsequently, Zhu Di began to spread rumors of Geng Bingwen's defeat, and asked Huang Zicheng, the secretary of the Imperial Household, to change the generals, and Zhu Yunjiao was sure to win the plan, sending Li Jinglong to replace Geng Bingwen, and then Geng Bingwen returned to Kyoto. Zhu Di laughed when he learned that Zhu Yunjiao was about to change generals, and immediately led a large army to attack, while Li Jinglong not only suffered a crushing defeat, but even opened the city gate to meet Zhu Di.
In the end, Zhu Di rebelled successfully and ascended the throne as emperor. I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang is still very discerning, but Zhu Yunjiao's experience is really small, and those who do not understand the use of people simply cannot deal with Zhu Di, who is old and calculating. After Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, the following year Geng Bingwen was impeached by Shangshu Zheng Ci and Du Yushi Chen Ying, thus committing suicide in fear of sin, which made people lament. Although Geng Bingwen committed suicide, who said that it was not Zhu Yunjiao's repetition and suspiciousness that killed him?
Therefore, some people think that if Zhu Yunzhang could trust the veteran geng bingwen and not change the commander without authorization, Zhu Di would not directly take the city of Nanjing, and the Ming Dynasty would not be Emperor Yi.