The Ming Dynasty's "Battle of Jingnan" is an advanced example of the successful rebellion of the king of the clan from the local area in history, at least among all the great unified dynasties, this is the only successful rebellion of the foreign clan.
Judging from the confrontation between Emperor Jianwen and Zhu Di in the "Battle of Jingnan", the results, and the actions of Zhu Di after succeeding to the throne, it is clear that Zhu Di is more suitable to be emperor than Emperor Jianwen.
Many Ming Dynasty history lovers have questions, if this is the case, why didn't Zhu Yuanzhang directly pass the throne to Zhu Di in the first place? In this way, a war can be avoided, and perhaps the descendants of zhu Biao, the beloved son, can be saved.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's carefully cultivated successor, Zhu Biao, was mentally broken for the determination of the new heir, so why did he abandon all his sons to establish grandchildren? The most fundamental reason is to establish an immutable system for future generations, and it is really to prevent wars and chaos caused by the struggle for the throne.
The struggle for the throne is very bloody, serious and even directly leads to the collapse of the dynasty, for which a fundamental system must be established for the succession to the throne.
Since ancient times, the primogeniture system of succession has been the imperial succession system that each dynasty has given priority to, and it is also the most uncontroversial, and Zhu Yuanzhang will certainly not abandon this system.
Zhu Yuanzhang has too many sons, after Zhu Biao's death, those who are older are looking at the tiger, even if Zhu Yuanzhang wants to choose the heir to the throne from his son, he will only choose again, that is, let the second son Zhu Zhu, the King of Qin, be the new crown prince.
However, the virtue of the King of Qin was not very good, and it was clearly recorded in the history books: "Twenty-four years later, with the fault of Zhu Duo, he summoned the Beijing Master", even after his death, Zhu Yuanzhang did not cover up his faults, and once said in a postscript to Zhu Zhu: "Fu He is not good at virtue, and he is killed."
Obviously, the King of Qin was not a good heir, but Zhu Yuanzhang could not skip the King of Qin to establish other sons, even if Zhu Di, the King of Yan, was his favorite son, not to mention that Zhu Di was only the fourth son, even if the King of Qin could not stand, there was also an old Third Jin King Zhu Tang in front of him.
Moreover, skipping the Qin and Jin kings to abolish the long and young will also give all the ambitious sons the illusion that even if they are not the eldest son or the eldest son, they can have the opportunity to become emperors? As long as you can get the emperor's love.
With this illusion, they may try to please the emperor and do something inappropriate for them, and there will even be many conspiracies to trap the new heir.
Therefore, only by adhering to the system of primogeniture, the kings of the clan will be honest, and after comprehensive consideration, Zhu Yuanzhang feels that it is better to continue the inheritance of Zhu Biao, so that the officials and the kings of the clan have nothing to say.
Even after establishing the heir to the throne of Zhu Biao's eldest son, Zhu Yunzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang did not hesitate to launch a major case, and purged all the arrogant generals who might pose a threat to Zhu Yunjiao's rule, paving the way for him.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not think about the threat of the king of the clan, but he did not feel that the rebellion of the king of the clan could be successful, because there were dozens of kings of the clan, and because they had selfish intentions, they could not unite.
And any single clan king rebellion, Zhu Yuanzhang believes that the strength of the imperial court can be suppressed, which is also a test left to Zhu Yunjiao, if the strength of the whole country can not even deter a certain clan king, then Zhu Yunjiao's throne will be lost, and he should be lost.
The only thing That Zhu Yuanzhang did not consider was that Zhu Yunjiao really failed in the "Battle of Jingnan" in which one country fought one city, this is not Zhu Yuanzhang's fault, the road is paved, you will not go, who can blame?