The Ming Dynasty is also a very story-telling dynasty in China's history, starting with Zhu Yuanzhang, the real cloth emperor, but he created the 276-year-old Daming foundation!
After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Zhu Biao was made crown prince, and Zhu Biao, as the eldest son of Zhu Yuanzhang, also had a relatively high prestige among his many brothers, and if it were not for his untimely death, the pattern of Daming would have been broken. However, since Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yuanzhang has broken the traditional imperial family culture, and Zhu Biao's son Zhu Yunjiao has become the emperor's grandson and become the heir to the imperial throne, which is also the only one in history to break the traditional imperial succession. We have seen the most from father to son, and we have seen brothers pass on, but we have hardly seen the generation of grandchildren. This may be a matter of Zhu Yuanzhang's judgment of the situation, and he hopes that his son will support Zhu Yunjiao in the future!
After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he also did something that the founding emperor had not done in the past hundred years, that is, to divide his sons and be sent to various places to fight or soldiers. What he never expected, his move buried a deep bane, and the predictions of some ministers finally became a reality. After Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne, under the advice of many courtiers, he began to cut down the domain, and some of his uncles were ruthlessly degraded or killed, so that Zhu Di, who was stationed in Beijing at the time, could not bear it, and finally led 800 dings to seize the city of Beijing, launched the "Battle of Jingnan" for the throne, and finally won the victory, and Zhu Di also became emperor smoothly, that is, the "Ming Chengzu" who was praised by posterity.
Of course, some people have said on the Internet, why did Zhu Di say that the empress dowager did not change the name of the Ming Dynasty? Because according to the historical founding emperors will change the name of the country, Li Yuan said that the emperor was the Duke of Tang, and after Wu Zetian usurped the throne, he changed the name of the Tang state to Zhou, and so on. According to the custom, Zhu Di called the emperor the King of Yan, so why not change the name of the country to Yan?
This question does not need to be so deeply investigated to figure it out. Why did Zhu Di cause trouble? Because he was afraid of cutting the domain, he was treated inhumanly; and when Zhu Yuanzhang made Zhu Yunjiao the emperor's grandson, in fact, their brothers were full of dislike, thinking that no matter how the throne could not fall on a small child. Emperor Jianwen and his close ministers Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng took a series of measures to cut the domain. At the same time, it also deployed troops around Beiping and inside the city, and in the name of border defense, the elite guards of Zhu Di, the fourth son of Ming Taizu, were transferred out of Saiwai to prepare to cut off the King of Yan. Under the banner of Jingnan, Zhu Di fought all the way to Nanjing. What is the "Battle of Jing"? The Difficulty of Jing was to calm down the chaos, Zhu Di attacked at the right time, flexibly used strategy, destroyed the main force of the Southern Army after several major battles, and finally took advantage of the victory to march, with Zhu Di's complete victory and entered the annals of history!
When Zhu Di ascended the throne, there were also many obstacles, that is, the opposition of the civil and military officials of the previous dynasty, as well as the disobedience of some of the princes of the domain, which also made Zhu Di encounter many difficulties in his early administration of the throne, because in the eyes of the ministers and the people, his throne came from the wrong way and was usurped, based on this, he could not even think of changing the name of the country. In addition, Zhu Di's Jiangshan was actually taken from his Lao Tzu's hand, and Zhu Yunjiao was only a monarch for a few years, so after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he revoked the era name of Emperor Jianwen, and the era name of Emperor Jianwen was replaced by Hongwu Nian and extended to Hongwu 35 years. Therefore, even if Zhu Di wanted to change the name of the country, he could not change it, because then it would be more solidified to the fact of "usurpation"!
Therefore, Zhu Di took advantage of the political and cultural ecology of Daming founded by Zhu Yuanzhang and opened the "Yongle Prosperous Era"!