Zhu Yuanzhang was a particularly remarkable emperor in Chinese history, who had no family background on his own, and gradually built his own Ming Dynasty by going to the battlefield, but after the establishment of the dynasty, he eliminated all the founding heroes who had helped him one by one.
In order to consolidate his royal power, he missed Chen Heng at that time, because Chen Heng was not conspicuous among the outstanding founding fathers at that time. After Zhu Yuanzhang's grandson Zhu Yunjiao ascended to the throne, he directly angered Zhu Di, who usurped the throne with the help of Chen Heng and became the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
1. Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang
China has a long history, in the long river of history, there are various dynasties, each dynasty has its own characteristics of the times, there are a number of its own outstanding kings, there will also be some turmoil or war. The Ming Dynasty is also a very special era in the entire history of China, because the Ming Dynasty was a dynasty founded by the Han Chinese.
After the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was ruled by foreigners, and there were many famous historical events in the Ming Dynasty, such as Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, which reflected the strength of the Ming Navy at that time. The Ming Dynasty was a dynasty founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, and since Chinese feudal society had always been a hereditary system, within a clan the father passed the throne to his son and son to the next generation.
Most politically stable situations will adopt a hereditary system, but if there is social unrest, political instability, or the people have been resentful for a long time to start a rebellion, in this case the change of imperial power becomes the winner of the king and the loser of the loser. When Zhu Yuanzhang was a child, the living conditions at home were very hard, and he often could not eat, in order to save a mouthful of food for his family, he worked for the landlord everywhere when he was a child.
But the saddest thing about him was that his parents had planted all their lives, but after they died, they didn't even have a place to bury them. It may be that this incident stimulated Zhu Yuanzhang, so he was determined to participate in the peasant uprising, although Zhu Yuanzhang had not read books, but he was talented and was very good at leading soldiers to fight.
Step by step, he stepped on the battlefield and stepped on the corpse mountain and the sea of blood to make his Ming Dynasty deserved to become Ming Taizu, which also showed his proud military talent. But his talent is not limited to leading soldiers to fight.
In the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, perhaps because he was a poor peasant when he was a child, he adopted a series of policies to reduce peasant taxes so that the people could live and work in peace and contentment. Because he himself led the army to fight, he used iron means to consolidate the border defenses in the frontier areas, and the imperial court would also use some ministers who had no family background but were very capable.
In this way, the Ming Dynasty was strong in the ming dynasty during the period of Taizu, and the common people also lived and worked in peace and contentment. Zhu Yuanzhang, like the emperors of other dynasties, had many sons, but among them he was zhu biao, and he and Zhu Yuanzhang acted in complete opposite ways, without Zhu Yuanzhang's iron-blooded means, but the whole person was benevolent and affectionate.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he would be a good emperor, so he left the position of crown prince to Zhu Biao, but he did not expect that Zhu Biao died young and died before he could sit on the throne, but Zhu Biao had a son, Zhu Yunjiao, who was as weak as his father, but at that time Zhu Yuanzhang was still on the throne, so under his protection, Zhu Yunzhang became the crown prince and inherited the throne after Zhu Yuanzhang's death.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was still on the throne, he could still rely on his own prestige to protect Zhu Yunjiao, but now that Zhu Yuanzhang has died, Zhu Yunjiao still feels that he has some dependence on him and is clamoring to cut the domain. Even when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, he did not push forward with all his might, because if he was not careful, it would lead to the intensification of contradictions between the central and local governments and social unrest.
Zhu Yunjiao issued a decree to cut the domain, but he failed to bear the consequences of cutting the domain, which directly led to the rebellion of his uncle Zhu Di, the King of Yan, which is also known as the Famous Battle of Jingnan in history. Later, the Ming Dynasty changed its master, and Zhu Yunjiao did not know what to do in the war.
2. Zhu Di plotted rebellion
When Zhu Yuanzhang first established the Ming Dynasty, in order to ensure the stability of remote areas, he sealed some people of the same clan to these areas to become the kings of the domain. However, I did not expect that in the later period, the power of these clan kings gradually became stronger, so zhu Yunjiao appeared in the back who wanted to cut the clan. Before Zhu Di, Zhu Yunjiao had already eliminated the three clan kings and directly reduced them to shuren.
These clan kings have always been the emperors of their jurisdictions, eating and wearing the best, and have always boasted that they are different from those lowly people. But now, zhu Yunjiao's edict has reduced them to lowly people.
Among them, several clan kings chose to commit suicide because they could not bear the gap. Zhu Yunjiao was not completely out of order, he first tried his hand with a few relatively weak feudal kings, and finally pointed the spearhead at Zhu Di, but he did not expect that Zhu Di would take away the rule of the Ming Dynasty
Third, Chen Heng helped
In fact, it is reasonable to say that Zhu Di, as the king of the domain, should not have such a big power to compete with the imperial court, which was helped by a great general. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang built the Ming Dynasty by his own conquests, and there were many helpers in the process. Some are his own cronies, and some choose to submit to him after watching his power gradually grow.
In general, zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of the Ming Dynasty stood behind him and he also had a number of founding heroes. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was a person who was born suitable for being an emperor, he was cold-blooded enough, and he was afraid that these former ministers would talk about his previous assistance, so in the early days of his power, Zhu Yuanzhang found an excuse to use means to clean up these founding heroes in turn.
In this way, the power of the Ming Dynasty was completely in its own hands. However, at that time, he missed a person who was Chen Heng, because Chen Heng was not outstanding in a group of founding elders at that time and belonged to a marginal role, so Zhu Yuanzhang failed to get rid of him in time.
Then when Zhu Yuanzhang remembered, Chen Heng was already holding a heavy army. It may be that Zhu Yunjiao's determination to cut the domain allowed Chen Heng to see Zhu Yuanzhang, who crossed the river and demolished the bridge, so Chen Heng chose to side with Zhu Di. However, before the sword had no eyes waited for Zhu Di to ascend to the throne, Chen Heng was killed on the battlefield.
summary
People are not immutable, such as Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, who was originally a ruthless and rational person who killed decisively, so he could kill some of the founding heroes who accompanied him to the battlefield after he had just become emperor.
But as he got older, he grew softer, especially with his sons and grandchildren. Therefore, his grandson Zhu Yunjiao, even if he had a weak personality, was also designated as the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty. However, he did not expect that after leaving his protection, Zhu Yunjiao would soon lose his whereabouts in the rebellious war launched by Zhu Di, the King of Yan.