The Ming Dynasty has existed in history for nearly three hundred years, and this dynasty has reached its peak in history. As early as the Ming Dynasty, firearms appeared in ancient times, and many of the firearms of the Ming Dynasty belonged to the world's leading at that time. In the history of our country, Zhu Yuanzhang is the most legendary founding emperor.
It should be known that Zhu Yuanzhang's origins were low, he had worked as a beggar and a monk, but this did not affect Zhu Yuanzhang's becoming the founding emperor. The founding emperors of all dynasties are not simple figures, and among these people, Zhu Yuanzhang's origin is the lowest. Zhu Yuanzhang was very different from other founding emperors.
Most of the emperors in ancient times were relatives of the emperor or hereditary, in short, they were either rich or expensive. Zhu Yuanzhang was very different from them, and the world was in chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang could not imagine that he would become the founding emperor in the future. Zhu Yuanzhang was very poor when he was young, and he used to herd cattle for landlords to make a living, and later joined the Red Turban Army led by Guo Zixing to revolt. However, Zhu Yuanzhang's life was also very difficult.
In the first half of his life, Zhu Yuanzhang ran around for his livelihood, and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's life was not blessed, in order to allow his descendants to smoothly ascend the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang began to kill the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty. During this time, an incident occurred, and Zhu Yuanzhang became suspicious of his son.
As we all know, almost all the emperors in history are suspicious by nature, and such a representative figure is Cao Cao. Compared with Cao Cao, Zhu Yuanzhang was also such a person, and his perennial career in horse riding made Zhu Yuanzhang suspicious, and even doubted his own son. Zhu Yuanzhang tested his son through a small matter.
Zhu Yuanzhang personally peeled oranges for his son, and such an honor was rare. So who is this son? This person was the later Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, who was the fourth son of Ming Taizu and the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Speaking of this emperor, he is certainly no stranger, he is one of the few princes in history who can successfully rebel.
Zhu Yuanzhang initially followed the rules of succession to the throne by his eldest son, intending to pass the throne to his eldest son Zhu Biao. However, Zhu Biao later died young, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very sad. At first, Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with Zhu Biao's progress, and thought that Daming had an heir. What no one could have imagined was that Zhu Biao died at a young age.
After Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yuanzhang had a strange dream, he dreamed that a man wearing armor asked him for the Golden Ruan Hall. In the dream, this person wearing armor was Zhu Di, and it was precisely because of this dream that Zhu Yuanzhang had an antipathy towards Zhu Di. His suspicious personality led him to suspect that Zhu Di was going to rebel.
In order to confirm whether Zhu Di wanted to rebel, Zhu Yuanzhang let Zhu Di into the palace, so there was a matter of Zhu Yuanzhang personally peeling oranges for Zhu Di. Zhu Di thought that he could be reused, but from his mother Zhu Di learned that his father wanted to kill him, so Zhu Di escaped overnight, and eventually he became the king of the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Di began to usurp the throne.