The usurpation of the throne should have occurred during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the first king who usurped the throne by killing his father appeared. In the Wang Mang period, after Wang Mang, who was originally the talent of the Zhou Gong and a moral model of the world, usurped the throne, the road of rebellion was like a road to the throne, especially after Zhao Kuangyin's "yellow robe plus body", and there were countless people who wanted to emulate him in later generations, such as Jiang Zhiqing.
The temptation of the throne is irresistible to everyone, especially for those princes and princes who have military merit, military power, and ambitions but have no connection with the throne, the throne is like the sword of Damocles, giving them the danger of hanging beams, and giving them the summons of poisonous snakes spitting letters.
Zhu Di rebelled, Zhu Yunjiao disappeared in the fire, is a very famous historical event in the Ming Dynasty, so far there are many rumors about where Zhu Yunjiao became a monk after escaping, built a temple, and left a stone stele, but in any case, this is also a major mystery of history. Many thoughtful readers ask, Zhu Di's throne is also too easy to obtain, right? Why didn't anyone stop him in the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu and the King of the Domain? In ancient times, when the way of Confucius and Mencius was widespread, could this kind of disloyalty and filial piety be ignored by the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu?
Zhu Di's rebellion to the success of the usurpation took only four years, why was Zhu Di's road to usurpation so easy?
First of all, let's talk about his nephew Zhu Yunjiao, Zhu Yunjiao's position as emperor was designated by our Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, but at that time, was there no one else besides Zhu Yunzhang who could choose? The answer is of course no, at that time, even if our crown prince Zhu Biao had died of illness, Zhu Yuanzhang's other sons were still in their prime, compared to Zhu Yunjiao, they were a stinking little hairy child.
None of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons were wine bags and rice bags, and they were all people who had once beaten the world for our Zhu Yuanzhang. However, the result was unexpected, Zhu Yuanzhang did not choose from these sons, the crown prince Zhu Biao died early, Zhu Yuanzhang invested all his feelings on Zhu Yunjiao, and he was very fond of Zhu Yunjiao.
Has this Zhu Yunjiao ever had any outstanding achievements? No! He was just lucky enough to be born in the Imperial Family. So why did Zhu Yuanzhang choose him to be the emperor? In our current words, Zhu Biao, this person was the only one who won the favor of the emperor, and after Zhu Biao's death, this grace naturally fell on Zhu Yunjiao.
Zhu Di was one of Zhu Yuanzhang's most outstanding sons, Zhu Yuanzhang once said that the King of Yan was most like me, Zhu Di participated in many military activities in the north after the thirteenth year of Hongwu (1380), after the Northern Ping of Yanjing, and twice led the northern expedition, leading the division to the northern expedition, what does it mean to lead the northern expedition? On behalf of him, he had the ability to command, the most important of which was that he had recruited the Mongol Nai'er Buhua and had captured the Northern Yuan general Sorin Timur.
In terms of merit, our Zhu Di is beyond Zhu Yunjiao and does not know how many streets. Therefore, both in the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu and in the hearts of the kings of the clan felt that Zhu Yuanzhang's move was very inappropriate. But since Zhu Yuanzhang's death order was to let Zhu Yunjiao become emperor, did others have a way to disobey?
Some readers will ask, why did Zhu Di choose to swallow his anger and swallow his voice and did not directly rebel? Because Zhu Yuanzhang is still alive.
And when Zhu Yuanzhang just died, Zhu Di was an old traitor, and he certainly could not rebel immediately, confucian filial piety was the first, if Zhu Di usurped the throne when Zhu Yuanzhang's bones were not cold, he would also oppose the crowd, and no matter how he washed it, he could not wash it white.
The blueprint for usurpation of the throne had been perfectly outlined in Zhu Di's mind, but he was very shrewd, and he wanted to create a head for his rebellion. Let Zhu Yunjiao make it for him.
The best way to destroy the enemy is to make the enemy jump up and kill himself. No one expected that Zhu Yunjiao would start cutting the domain so quickly, Zhu Di's excuse was very simple, the emperor's brain was broken, or too young, there must be traitors usurping and destroying the traitors, in order to make the Ming Kingdom continue. Zhu Di began to rebel under the banner of "Qing Jun's side".
The funny thing is that after Zhu Di rebelled, Zhu Yunjiao did not announce that Zhu Di had rebelled, but instructed the general not to hurt the emperor, and his soft heart was a great help to Zhu Di.
And Zhu Yunjiao made another mistake in cutting the domain, he started from the weakest king of the domain, all of them were reduced to shuren, giving the strong a lot of time to prepare, if they directly attacked Zhu Di at the beginning, or joined forces with other princes to destroy Zhu Di first, it is estimated that he would not be so miserable.
What are the other kings in charge of? For example, King Ning, Zhu Di said that he wanted to divide the world with him equally, he as an ally definitely wanted Zhu Di to win, and the other princes also wanted Zhu Di to win, they thought that if Zhu Yunjiao won, their status and money and even their lives would not be guaranteed.
Zhu Di's second advantage was that he had been stationed in Beijing for a long time, defending against Mongol invasions, not only holding military power but also winning many battles, and his soldiers were very effective, and who was Zhu Yunjiao? He activated Li Jinglong, and this man did not seem to have won a battle.
Zhu Di had a complete strategy from the beginning--he went around, he went around, and no one else could guess what he was going to do, and he stunned the imperial army. Then he took Nanjing, and came to catch turtles in an urn, and the ministers who supported Emperor Jianwen in the imperial court were in a mess, and Emperor Jianwen was said to have fled in the chaos, and his whereabouts were unknown.
Zhu Di did not leak anything, before attacking Nanjing, he also went to Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum to cry and bow down, so that the common people thought that he was the most filial piety, just to eliminate the traitors, he had to send troops, he won the hearts of the people; and then promised the ministers who swayed left and right, he would give them officials to do, let them not worry, and pull these officials riding the wall to their camp. Zhu Di is indeed the most like Zhu Yuanzhang, fierce in heart, resolute and decisive, can act, and knows human nature well.