Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed a good father, and he hoped that his descendants would unite and assist his chosen heir, Zhu Yunjiao. But as far as the so-called "generation gap" is today, the descendants have their own plans, especially the descendants of the royal family, they cannot appreciate zhu Yuanzhang's deep fatherly love, in their view, this white-haired old man should have taken the pension and left a long time ago. All they focused on was the chair the old man was sitting on.
Zhu Yuanzhang struggled all his life and accumulated a large amount of wealth for his descendants, but when he came to the end of his life, his children's eyes only stared at the wealth he held in his hand, and only the cold gaze was thrown at this old man.
This is undoubtedly the greatest sorrow in Zhu Yuanzhang's life. - "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty"
After the violent death of Crown Prince Zhu Biao, the kings of the Nine-Sided Town.
For Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunjiao in the capital, the covetousness of the throne of the old and the young, the grandfather and grandson, was vividly displayed in the pen of Mingyue that year.
Just as the so-called "fist is afraid of less strong, stick is afraid of old wolf." The elderly Zhu Yuanzhang is skilled but lacking in strength; the immature Zhu Yunjiao is young and vigorous but inexperienced.
And the collapse of Zhu Biao, the mainstay of the pillar, was for Zhu Di, the King of Yan, Zhu Zhu, the King of Qin, and Zhu Tang, the King of Jin.
In addition to the slight emotional intolerance, it is more the joy of the coming of the throne.
Therefore, in his later years, Zhu Yuanzhang's biggest hidden danger was this group of full-fledged sons. Of course, the sons wouldn't do anything to him. First, the tiger old Yu Wei is there, and the risk of fighting with him is too great; the second is that the seventy-year-old man still has a few years? The old one is gone, the small one can still run, there is no need to risk it in advance.
But Zhu Yuanzhang was also lucky: in the last 3 years of his life, Zhu Zhu, the King of Qin, suddenly died violently. This made Zhu Yuanzhang, who was late, look at his young grandson Zhu Yunjiao and breathe a heartfelt sigh of relief.
God's favor for Zhu Yunjiao is far more than that. 50 days before the death of his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Tang, the King of Jin, also died.
Therefore, before Zhu Yuanzhang died, he was at ease with his young grandson Zhu Yunjiao. He also gave Zhu Di an edict:
The sons of The Emperor are only Ru and intelligent, Qin and Jin have been xue, the ru is the long, the outside is inside, who is not RuQi? - "The End of the Ming Chronicle"
What does that mean? The King of Qin and the King of Jin were dead, and Zhu Yuanzhang was also relieved about Zhu Di. In his view, a Yan king could not threaten Zhu Yunjiao's position. Therefore, he put on the face of a loving father again, and advised Zhu Di to be an example for the kings and a sword on the side of the court.
All the transformation of blood and kinship lies in the situation at that time, which is the sadness of the royal children.
Zhu Yunjiao's Missed "Tui En Ling"
After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Di and Zhu Yunjiao soon had their first confrontation - Ben Funeral. Just as the so-called "lord is less suspicious of the country", Zhu Yunjiao was explicitly forbidden to let any king of the clan leave the feudal state to come to Nanjing for mourning.
However, Zhu Di ignored the imperial court's ban and set out directly from Beiping to Nanjing. After Zhu Yunxiong personally sent an edict to Zhu Di, Zhu Di returned with the palace guards.
Zhu Di's temptation of Zhu Yunjiao made the young monarch very dissatisfied.
At this time, a man named Gao Wei stood up. He was a talent cultivated in zhu Yuanzhang's era, not only attaching importance to farming and enriching the people, but also stressing the importance of fishing and salt taxation and alchemy and strengthening the army, and was a talent who could be pragmatic, not pedantic, and had good character.
He suggested that Zhu Yunjiao adopt the "Tui En Order" of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so that the feudal kingdom of the feudal kingdom became smaller and smaller, and eventually the threat was eliminated. This was originally an excellent suggestion, but it was destroyed by two people, who were Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng, who advocated "cutting the domain".
Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng's "cutting the domain" was unanimously approved by Emperor Jianwen and down to the hundred officials.
The reason is very simple, "cutting the domain" has more opportunities: qi tai and other civilian officials have a better chance of promotion; li jinglong and other military generals have a better chance of being marquis; emperor Jianwen is more likely to establish his power.
They had long regarded Zhu Di and other clan kings as "Tang monk meat", believing that the strength of these clan kings had long been unable to compete with the imperial court. At this time, let them use the "push grace order"? Joke, you kill a chicken, but also wait until the chicken is hungry and weak?
This is the reason why Emperor Jianwen listened to Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng's suggestion of "cutting the domain" and vetoed Gao Wei's "Tui En Order". But is Zhu Di a chicken and duck to be slaughtered? The punch in the face soon began.
Zhu Di of the rise of the goose pen
As early as the time of Zhu Biao's sudden death, Zhu Di's anxious heart was ready to move. Letting him, the King of Yan who galloped across the northern frontier, submit to the stinking Zhu Yunjiao was simply a fool's dream!
Although Zhu Biao is weak in literature, in the end he is his own brother, the eldest brother is the father, on seniority, psychologically it is still reasonable, after all, people have participated in the work early, but that fifteen-year-old little hairy child actually dared to make a blessing on his own head, no matter how he couldn't think straight, no matter how he couldn't do it! - "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty"
Yao Guangxiao, who was also restless, found the ambitious Zhu Di. This improper monk gave Zhu Di a "white hat", which made Zhu Di firmer in his heart.
Adding a "white" to "king" is a "emperor" word, and it is a good idea to fight in life!
However, Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng entrusted themselves to a large extent, and it is also a fact that the disparity in strength between the two sides is also a fact. Although Zhu Di had 100,000 Yan troops, this was a soldier of the imperial court, and he only had command and no ownership.
What he owned was 10,000 Yan Wang's guards, and in the matter of losing their heads and plotting rebellion, these people may not all listen to him.
The only thing That Zhu Di could fully trust was the 800 guards of the Yan King's Mansion. The strength of Zhu Yunjiao and Zhu Di is at least 10 times different.
Therefore, soon after Zhu Yunjiao cut the domain, he killed the King of Zhou, the King of Min, the King of Xiang, the King of Qi, and the King of Dai. He also ordered Zhang Fu, Xie Gui, Zhang Xin, and others to imprison Zhu Di in the Yan King's Mansion. At this time, Zhu Di only had 800 soldiers who could be mobilized, and he had to rely on pretending to be crazy to delay time.
Yan Di, the ancient Yuan Palace also, deep. Dao Yan trained in the rear garden. The cave is made into a heavy house, with thick walls, dense bottles, day and night casting weapons, livestock, geese and ducks chaotic. - "History of the Ming Dynasty"
While Zhu Di pretended to be crazy and procrastinated time, Yao Guangxiao acted behind the scenes. Yao Guangxiao not only trained troops in the backyard, but also ordered people to dig a crypt and raise chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry in the crypt.
Use the sound of poultry chirping to mask the sound of weapons under the crypt.
After everything was ready, Zhu Di first pretended to be ill and killed Zhang Fu and Xie Gui. Then, with Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, and the 800 well-trained soldiers, they seized control of the Nine Gates of Beiping overnight.
After Zhu Di recaptured Beiping City, he immediately moved tens of thousands of weapons from the crypt of the Yan King's Mansion and armed the nine gate defenders of Beiping City.
At the same time, in the name of qi tai and Huang Zicheng, who were "traitorous ministers", the prelude to the "Battle of Jingnan" was opened.
The only successful vassal king
After Zhu Di's "Jing Difficulty", 100,000 Yan troops responded. In just one month, Zhu Di had gathered tens of thousands of elite Yan troops.
Zhu Yunjiao, who thought of "killing chickens", was dumbfounded. As soon as this boy saw that things had made a big fuss, he hurriedly sent the old guy left by Zhu Yuanzhang, Geng Bingwen, to lead 130,000 troops, claiming to be 300,000, and recruit Zhu Di, the king of Yan.
However, Geng Bingwen was a famous general who was good at defending and not attacking, so that he and Zhu Di had problems in the field battle.
To make matters worse, Zhu Yunjiao also put a tight curse on Geng Bingwen - don't let me bear the notoriety of killing my uncle.
"Born in the deep palace, grown up in the hands of women", Zhu Yunjiao can be said to be silly and cute. The battle on the battlefield is your life and death, and the battle for the throne is even more kingless. Before going out on the expedition, let his own general pay attention to the measure, so how else can he fight? Is it true that the battlefield is not a school field?
The result was obvious, Zhu Di beat Geng Bingwen to a dizzy turn, and Yan Jun won two consecutive big victories. There are three reasons: 1. Geng Bingwen's field battles are not as good as Zhu Di; 2. Geng Bingwen is sixty years old, And Zhu Di is rich and powerful; 3. Zhu Yunxiu's admonition makes him tie his hands and feet.
After the defeat of Geng Bingwen's army, Zhu Yunjiao gathered 500,000 troops and ordered Li Jinglong to attack Zhu Di.
This Li Jinglong was Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Li Wenzhong, the son of daming's third general. Born from a good background, good education, and iron relations, Zhu Yuanzhang was a thug specially trained for Zhu Yunjiao.
But this Li Jinglong is really the representative of the tiger father and the dog. First of all, 500,000 troops were mobilized to attack Beiping, which Wasu Gaozi was guarded by 10,000 people, giving Zhu Di time to seize king Ning's "Duoyan Sanwei". Then Zhu Di, who returned to reinforcements, attacked inside and outside the Zhengcun Dam, hitting 500,000 Southern troops and abandoning their armor.
But Zhu Yunjiao just believes in Li Jinglong, and such failures can be forgiven. Then Li Jinglong was at the Baigou River and lost to Zhu Di, who had less than half of his troops.
Since then, Zhu Di has turned from defense to attack, breaking through the 500,000 encirclement of the Southern Army and starting the conquest of Shandong.
But Shandong is not easy to mess with, Sheng Yong, Taiping, Tie Xuan, gave Zhu Di a lesson. Zhang Yu, Zhu Di's second-largest general, let Sheng Yong kill him. Even if Zhu Di did his best to fight with Sheng Yong and these people, the victory or defeat was only five or five.
However, this five-five-five kai was unacceptable to Zhu Di, because one Yan land could not consume the thirteen provinces of Daming. So Zhu Di ventured around Shandong and went straight to Nanjing on the Yangtze River.
At the critical moment, one person stood up, that is, Xu Huizu, the son of the first general Xu Da. Although this Xu Huizu is Zhu Di's eldest brother-in-law, he is not soft on Playing Zhu Di.
Xu Huizu defeated Zhu Di twice, but after both victories, the imperial court quickly recalled.
The reason is also very simple, Zhu Yunjiao feels that he and Zhu Di have a close relationship and are not trustworthy. Killed tens of thousands of Yan troops, still can't be trusted? Who Zhu Yunjiao trusted was Li Jinglong, who had defeated Peiping with 50 troops.
Just as flies favor rotten eggs, Li Jinglong's 500,000-strong army was defeated twice, and Zhu Yunjiao was assured to let him defend Nanjing.
Xu Huizu destroyed his relatives and defeated Zhu Di twice, but he could only be summoned back by fire.
Then the most ironic scene appeared, Li Jinglong, whom Zhu Yunjiao trusted, opened the city gate to welcome Zhu Di into Nanjing, becoming the "first hero of the Jing Dynasty".
Xu Huizu, as Zhu Di's brother-in-law, upheld the great righteousness, and led the Fu army to fight the final street battle when the victory of the Yan army was already decided.
Zhu Di finally triumphed, he accepted the worship of the courtiers, which he deserved, he put in the effort, and now it was time to get rewarded. The figure of the father seemed to appear in front of his eyes again.
Although you did not give me the throne, I did, with my own efforts. I will use my actions to prove that I am the most suitable successor to this empire. I will not let you down, this vast empire will become even stronger in my hands! I will spread your glory and let all people look up to us and look up to our great country!
Damien!
In the end, zhu Yuanzhang left a good hand of cards, playing a sparse Zhu Yunjiao. Ignited the Nanjing Imperial Palace, ending the era of Emperor Jianwen. A goose pen was built into weapons, and Zhu Di, the hero of one city and one country, stepped onto the stage of history.
He also became the "Yongle Emperor" of the Five Expeditions to The North of the Desert, the Pacification of Annan, Zheng He's voyage to the West, and the compilation of the Yongle Canon.