Among the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da is a relatively special existence, he has repeatedly built up his miraculous feats and ranked among the top founding heroes, but he has not been liquidated by Zhu Yuanzhang, which is enough to show that Xu Da's cleverness as a person is in stark contrast to the rest of the founding heroes who were eradicated by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Xu Da had four sons and three daughters in his lifetime, which can be regarded as many descendants, and these children played an important role in the history of the Ming Dynasty, so Xu Da's descendants, from the perspective of real history, should still be many, and now they are all over the country, which is also relatively normal.
Why xu da was not liquidated by Zhu Yuanzhang
Xu Da initially followed Guo Zi to raise a rebel army, and later became Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinate under the opportunity of yin and yang, and from then on the two officially joined forces to fight the world, in the process of Zhu Yuanzhang fighting the Jiangshan, Xu Da made great contributions, so after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da became one of the six dukes and was named the Duke of Wei.
Xu Da this person and Tang He are more similar, has always followed Zhu Yuanzhang, not only know Zhu Yuanzhang's personality well, but also absolute loyalty to Zhu Yuanzhang, so among the founding heroes, Xu Da and Tang He are all received a good death, but Li Shanchang and other people, the ending is more bleak.
Of course, even if Xu Da himself was loyal enough to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang was still not at ease, and tried Xu Da twice, the first temptation was that Zhu Yuanzhang planned to give Xu Da the house before he became emperor to live, but Xu Da resolutely disagreed and rejected Zhu Yuanzhang's kindness.
Some people may think that Zhu Yuanzhang gave Xu Da a house, in fact, there is nothing, but we need to combine Zhu Yuanzhang's personality characteristics, he himself is very suspicious, if Xu Da accepts the house he gave, it means that Xu Da did not put himself in the right position, and spied on Zhu Yuanzhang's throne, so that it will inevitably be eradicated by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang's second temptation to Xu Da was more direct, Zhu Yuanzhang invited Xu Da to drink, and as a result, after getting Xu Da drunk, he put the yellow robe he was wearing on Xu Da, and such a temptation was undoubtedly to see if Xu Da had a snooping heart for his throne.
As a result, after Xu Da woke up, he was scared half to death, and quickly confessed his guilt, saying that his actions were capital crimes, Zhu Yuanzhang saw xu Da so afraid, he understood that Xu Da was still loyal enough to himself, so later he did not embarrass Xu Da too much, but unfortunately Xu Da finally died at the age of 54 due to illness.
The end of Xu Da's children
After Xu Da's death, his title as Duke of Wei was inherited by his eldest son Xu Huizu, a minister loyal to the Ming emperor, who arranged for his three sons to go to Nanjing to meet Zhu Yunxiu before Zhu Di had officially launched the Battle of Jingnan.
At this time, many ministers in the DPRK suggested that Zhu Yunzhuo directly detain Zhu Di's three sons to avoid any trouble, and Xu Huizu, as Zhu Di's eldest brother-in-law, also strongly advised Zhu Yunzhuo to detain Zhu Di's three sons, but Zhu Yunzhao hesitated at that time, plus Xu Da's younger son Xu Zengshou secretly protected Zhu Di's three sons and provided them with various information, so Zhu Gaozi and others finally escaped to heaven.
After Zhu Gaozi and the three of them returned to Beijing, Zhu Di officially launched the Battle of Jingnan, Xu Huizu also confronted Zhu Di in the Battle of Jingnan, but unfortunately in the end the army was defeated, after Zhu Di won the victory, Xu Huizu was very temperamental, resolutely unwilling to come out to meet Zhu Di, so he angered Zhu Di, if it were not for the death-free gold medal given to Xu Da by Empress Xu and Zhu Yuanzhang, it is estimated that Zhu Di would have killed Xu Huizu at that time.
Under these pressures, Zhu Di did not kill Xu Huizu on the spot, but imprisoned him, and eventually Xu Huizu died inexplicably after five years of imprisonment. After Xu Huizu's death, the title of Duke of Wei was temporarily vacant, and after careful consideration, Zhu Di felt that the Duke of Wei should not disappear, so he let Xu Huizu's son Xu Qin inherit the dukedom of Wei until the eleventh generation of The Duke of Wei surrendered to the Qing army.
Very different from the eldest son Xu Huizu was the fourth son Xu Zengshou, who supported Zhu Di before the Battle of Jingnan, so when Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingnan, Xu Zengshou was executed by Zhu Yunjue, and it was not until Zhu Di ascended the throne that he began to make up for Xu Zengshou, posthumously named him the Duke of Dingguo, and let his son Xu Jingchang inherit the title, which was passed on until the ninth generation.
Xu Da's third son died prematurely, not too much is recorded, the second son was still active in the imperial court after the Battle of Jingnan, became an official in the Zhu Di period, and did not die until the fourteenth year of Yongle, as for his more stories, there is nothing recorded in the historical records.
After talking about Xu Da's four sons, let's talk about Xu Da's three daughters, Xu Da's eldest daughter is also Empress Xu who married Zhu Di and became empress, Zhu Di's three sons Zhu Gaozi, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaoxuan, are all born to Empress Xu, from this point of view, Empress Xu's lineage has been passed down, and the number is increasing.
Xu Da's second daughter married Zhu Gui, The son of Zhu Yuanzhang, and the third daughter married Zhu Gui, the son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Son of An Wang, and the final outcome of the three daughters was also OK, of course, the number of descendants left behind was also very large.
Where are Xu Da's descendants now?
To say where Xu Da's descendants are today, in fact, it is still a little difficult to verify, but one thing we can be sure of is that Xu Da's descendants are numerous and should be distributed throughout the country, but most of them have no evidence to prove that they are Xu Da's descendants.
Of course, there are also a small number of people who have evidence, such as a retired teacher in his 80s in Rudong, Jiangsu Province, who once took out his own family tree that year, indicating that he was Xu Da's descendant, but which branch of Xu Da's descendants was not clearly recorded.
Later, some people also said that Xu Xiake was a descendant of Xu Da, only because he was tired of official struggle, so he went to Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, and many people living in Xu Xiake Town now are actually xu Da's descendants.
Among the statements about Xu Da's descendants, one of the most interesting is that it is said that Okamura Ningji told a secret before his death, saying that he was Xu Da's descendant, that Xu Da's descendants fled to Japan and joined the Gangcun family.
epilogue
All in all, Xu Da because he knew how to protect himself, so not only was he not eradicated by Zhu Yuanzhang, but his descendants were also able to continue, so Xu Da's descendants can be said to be very numerous after the development and continuation of the entire Ming Dynasty period, and there may be Xu Da descendants all over the country, but because the history is too long, few people can come up with strong evidence such as genealogy!
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