He is the fifth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji, do you have many questions about him, why is he addicted to fighting clams, but he can still become a british lord?
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Zhu Zhanji, known as Emperor Xuanzong of Ming, was the main promoter of the "Rule of Ren Xuan" and was the grandson of Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Cheng. Zhu Zhanji was able to become emperor, and that seemed to be a fateful thing.
Zhu Zhanji was born on the ninth day of February in the 31st year of Hongwu and was the eldest son of Zhu Gaozi and his wife Zhang Shi. On the night of Zhu Zhanji's birth, Zhu Di, who was still the King of Yan at the time, had a dream in which he saw his father Zhu Yuanzhang give him a "Big Gui".
Zhu Yuanzhang gave Him Dagui and said to him: "The grandson of the generations, eternal Qichang." After Zhu Di woke up, he was thinking about interpreting the dream, what did this dream mean?
It probably means that I Zhu Yuanzhang passed the throne to you, but sooner or later this throne is your eldest grandson, and your eldest grandson is amazing, and he will certainly be able to make Daming prosperous for ten thousand years in the future.
Suddenly, someone reported that his grandson Zhu Zhanji was born, and Zhu Di reacted that this was a sign of good fortune and immediately ran to see his grandson.
Zhu Di found that Zhu Zhanji had a heroic face and looked very similar to himself, while the grandson kept smiling at himself when he saw himself, and Zhu Di liked this grandson more and more. It is said that it was this dream and zhu Zhanji's birth that made Zhu Di make up his mind to launch the "Battle of Jingnan".
With such a background, Zhu Di has high expectations for this eldest grandson, so he loves him very much. Zhu Zhanji himself was also very contentious, and after Zhu Di successfully ascended the throne, he immediately arranged for everyone in the literary circles to teach Zhu Zhanji the Confucian academic way, and no matter how busy he was, he would take time to personally teach Zhu Zhanji. Zhu Di believed that in order to become the king of a country, it was not enough to have culture, but also to be able to fight good wars.
Therefore, during the expedition to the north of the desert, he also took the teenage Zhu Zhanji with him and trained his grandson's ability to march and fight from an early age. Because he had been following his grandfather on expeditions to Saiwai for many years, Zhu Zhanji also learned a lot of principles for dispatching troops and dispatching generals. At the same time, Zhu Di knew very well that "water can carry boats, and it can also overturn boats", so every time he returned from an expedition to fight, he would take Zhu Zhanji to visit the homes of peasant households, so that he could learn to sympathize with the people's feelings and observe the people's livelihood, hoping that he would be a good emperor who loved the people in the future. This laid the foundation for Emperor Xuanzong's military ability and the love of the people in broad and benevolent government.
Zhu Zhanji can become a generation of Ming jun, in addition to his own talent and hard work, but also inseparable from his grandfather's teachings. Under the cultivation of Zhu Di, Zhu Zhanji, who was born and intelligent, was both literate and martial, and Zhu Di's love for Zhu Zhanji was well known. In front of Zhu Di, the civil and military officials who saw the direction of the wind often praised Zhu Zhanji as a genius from heaven and brilliant.
Although Zhu Zhanji's father, Zhu Gaozi, was the eldest son of Zhu Gaozi, Zhu Gaozi was disgusted with movement and obesity, which made Zhu Gaozi's physique thin and his health poor. For Zhu Di, the ming dynasty ancestor who had pursued force all his life, he did not like this son. On the contrary, Zhu Zhanji's second uncle Zhu Gaoxu was tall and had many military achievements, and the contrast made Zhu Di want to make Zhu Gaoxu the crown prince.
Considering that Zhu Zhanji was Zhu Gaozi's son and a perfect talent in all aspects, for the sake of Daming's future, Zhu Di made up his mind to make Zhu Gaozi crown prince despite the obstruction of his ministers. In this way, Zhu Gaozi became the first person to become emperor by relying on his son.
In the first year of Hong Xi, Emperor Akihito zhu Gaozi died of a sudden illness less than a year after reigning due to poor health. At that time, Zhu Zhanji was still living in Nanjing, where earthquakes were frequent, and could not succeed to the throne on the spot, so he could only rush back to Beijing with a quick horse, and his second uncle Zhu Gaoxu ambushed him in the middle of the road to intercept and kill him, Zhu Zhanji had already thought of this, so before Zhu Gaoxu had deployed troops, Zhu Zhanji had already returned to Beijing and successfully succeeded to the throne as Xuande of the Ming Xuanzong era.
Zhu Zhanji began his ruling career with great efforts
After ascending the throne, Zhu Zhanji initiated unprecedented reforms, the first of which was to strengthen the imperial power to solve the problem of foreign domains. This problem was not fundamentally solved in the jianwen, Yongle, and Hongxi dynasties.
Zhu Zhanji immediately began to rectify military affairs and prepare to meet the challenges from the strong domain. Sure enough, shortly after he ascended the throne, his second uncle Zhu Gaoxu launched a rebellion to seize his throne, and after repeated warnings that appeasement was ineffective, he decided to start the conquest.
Zhu Zhanji, at the suggestion of the chancellor Yang Rong, overpowered the rebels in a single momentum, and several of the soldiers and horses who had previously agreed to join forces with Zhu Gaoxu also did not move, and the Ming army quickly surrounded the city of Le'an.
Seeing that the general situation was gone, Zhu Gaoxu had to abandon the city and surrender, and this battle ended with a great victory for the Ming army and the capture of Zhu Gaoxu. The courtiers all persuaded Zhu Zhanji to bring Zhu Gaoxu to justice, and Zhu Zhanji, remembering that he was the king of the domain, did not kill him, but reduced him to house arrest. Who knew that Zhu Gaoxu felt that he had lived too long, angered Zhu Zhanji, and was finally burned alive by Zhu Zhanji in a copper cylinder.
Returning to Beijing after his successful rehabilitation, Zhu Zhanji summoned another uncle, Zhu Gaoxuan, to suggest that he surrender his military powers. Zhu Gaozhuo knew that he was out of the play, so he obediently handed over the Three Guards without resistance. In this way, the problem of the king of the domain in the early Half Century of the Early Ming Dynasty was finally resolved in the Xuande Dynasty, which was also a major event to strengthen the centralization of power.
After taking the throne, a major event was resolved, Zhu Zhanji officially began to handle government affairs, and Emperor Xuanzong adopted the political policy of Chengzu and Emperor Renzong, retained the government structure of emperor Akihito's period, attached importance to rectifying the administration and finances, promoted the status of the cabinet, and further inherited and carried forward the broad and open way of speech.
The three Yangs of the Cabinet: Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu, as well as Xia Yuanji and JianYi, Zhu Zhanji had great trust in these important ministers, and the suggestions they put forward were humbly adopted, and the relationship between the monarchs and the courtiers was very harmonious.
On the military side, Zhu Zhanji tried to eliminate military corruption in order to vigorously establish civilian rule. In successive conquests, corrupt officers mobilized only the poor and sold exemption coupons to the rich, extorted excessively from the Lebanese people when requisitioning supplies, illegally used soldiers as their personal servants, embezzled their salaries and rations, and withheld their winter clothes.
Such illegal demands and harsh treatment have ruined the morale of the soldiers, made the military distracted, and then destroyed the entire military organization and seriously reduced the combat effectiveness of the troops.
In order to eliminate these ills and restore discipline in the military organization, Ming Xuan sent supervisors to inspect and improve the military situation in the provinces. The purpose of the survey was to check the roster of soldiers, to determine the actual number of soldiers in the military units and the salaries and rations required, thus eliminating the main root causes of corruption, and in the third year of Xuande promulgated new regulations on conscription and the detention of deserters.
In the fourth year of Xuande, he added a clause to eliminate self-serving fraud. That same year, as a sign of concern for the military and the morale of the army, he held one of the most memorable public military parades of the dynasty on the outskirts of Beijing. This was the first and last time in the Ming Dynasty.
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Economically, Zhu Zhanji practiced a policy of recuperation and recuperation, often went out to inspect the farmland to see the growth of crops, and occasionally personally ploughed the fields himself, admonishing officials to cherish the fruits of the people's labor, and also reducing taxes in many disaster-stricken areas, so that the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.
Diplomatically, the Ming Xuan Sect sent Zheng He to the West for the seventh time, and the number of people who went to the West for the last time was as high as more than 20,000, and more than 20 countries visited, which opened up exchanges between the Ming Dynasty and many countries in the world, so that dozens of countries around the Ming Dynasty such as Hami Hui, Champa City, and Java came to pay tribute almost every year. The impact of this on the development of China's history after that is very huge, which can be described as unprecedented.
However, such a good emperor who worked hard to rule has also left some stains on history. Because of his love of fighting crickets, he even reached a crazy level in the later period of his reign, so that he gradually abandoned the government, and even required the governor of Jiangsu at that time to pay tribute to the imperial court with 1,000 crickets every year, resulting in a sharp increase in the price of folk crickets. For a while, it was comparable to gold, and the market was chaotic.
Moreover, in order to be able to find the strongest cricket net, Zhu Zhanji set off a storm in the whole country, and many officials spent a lot of money to purchase crickets throughout the country, in order to be able to curry favor with this "cricket heavenly son" so that he could be promoted to a higher rank and get rich.
During Zhu Zhanji's reign, he attached importance to rectifying the bureaucracy and reforming the finances, attached importance to the implementation of diplomatic measures for the sake of leniency, and strictly controlled eunuchs, and a series of other measures, which achieved the prosperity of the "rule of benevolence."
The country's politics were enlightened, the society was stable and peaceful, and the Ming Dynasty reached its peak and prosperity. As an emperor of a generation, while governing the country well, couldn't Zhu Zhanji satisfy his own interests and hobbies? Therefore, it is obviously wrong to maliciously smear Zhu Zhanji and make him bear the reputation of being a faint-hearted person.
It should be known that the Xuande period was the period when the Ming Dynasty had the strongest financial resources, the most stable peasants' lives, and the period when the officials were the most clear-cut, so it is not an exaggeration to say that he was the british lord of the Ming Dynasty.
In the ten years of Xuande, during the period of national development and prosperity, Zhu Zhanji suddenly fell ill with a strange disease, and in a short period of time, his illness worsened, and he made Zhu Qizhen the crown prince and Empress Sun auxiliary.
Zhu Zhanji died in October at the age of 36, and he had only been on the throne for ten years. As for why he died young, some people say that his father Zhu Gaozi died less than a year after succeeding to the throne, so he may have inherited a short-lived gene. Some people also say that one of the main components in the Xuande furnace is white water lead, which can lead to poisoning when often exposed to this substance, but Zhu Zhanji often plays with it, so it may be poisoned to death. Some people also said that Zhu Zhanji was a promising emperor, and it was natural to be exhausted to handle the major affairs of the country. The cause of his death is not recorded in the history books, so we have no way of knowing.