In the Ming Dynasty, there was a king of the clan who raised hundreds of thousands of troops to rebel, but was easily defeated, the emperor spared his life, but he did something to the emperor. This bold king of the clan is Zhu Gaoxu, the second uncle in the recent hit "Daming Fenghua", which is based on him.
The historical Zhu Gaoxu is not much different from the image in the play, he is the second son of Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Cheng, and also the half-brother of Zhu Gaoxu of Emperor Akihito, born to Empress Xu. "Second Uncle" Zhu Gaoxu showed a fierce and obedient personality when he was a child. During the Hongwu period, Zhu Gaoxu was recalled to Beijing by the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang to study, but he refused to learn from him, and he also behaved frivolously, which made his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang very disgusted, so when he was fifteen years old, he was made a Prince of Gaoyang County, rather than a prince who was closer to the emperor.
Later, Emperor Minghui succeeded zhu Yunwen, and Zhu Gaoxu accompanied his father Zhu Di to fight in the jing dynasty, during which time he made many military achievements. At that time, Zhu Di's army defeated Dongchang (東昌, in modern Liaocheng, Shandong), and his general Zhang Yu was killed in battle, but it was Zhu Gaoxu who led his army to arrive and strategize to repel the Southern army before rescuing Zhu Di. Therefore, after Ming Chengzu ascended the throne, Zhu Gaoxu was again crowned king of Han. However, although the kingdom was in Yunnan, he had been staying in Nanjing, and said: "What is the sin of exileing me thousands of miles away?" "Refused to go to the domain." In fact, as far as the domain is a tradition of the feudal dynasty, Zhu Gaoxu dragged on the domain, and his heart was obvious, and everyone knew that he was salivating over the throne. Then Zhu Gaoxu did everything possible to seek the position of prince, not only that, he also indulged in his own private army plundering, he himself transgressed the class, and it was even more common to use utensils that he should not use.
In the fifteenth year of Yongle, Zhu Gaoxu was forced to take the throne of Anzhou, but how could the ambitious Zhu Gaoxu repent and easily give up the idea of becoming emperor? It was just a matter of changing places to continue to spy on the emperor's throne. Sure enough, in the first year of Xuande, after Emperor Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, Zhu Gaoxu immediately rebelled. However, unlike the plot in the TV series, Zhu Gaoxu had already surrendered before he could fight Xuanzong. After Zhu Gaoxu surrendered, Zhu Zhanji, remembering his affection, did not execute him, but only reduced him to a commoner and imprisoned him in Xi'an Gate.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Gaoxu not only did not feel grateful, but also deliberately tripped ming xuanzong when he visited him, trying to beat him. Emperor Xuanzong was furious and ordered zhu Gaoxu to be held captive with a three-hundred-pound copper cylinder. Zhu Gaoxu was brave and powerful, and even lifted the large cylinder up. Emperor Xuanzong ordered people to light charcoal around the copper cylinder, burning Zhu Gaoxu alive inside the copper cylinder, and finally his children were killed one after another.
In fact, before that, when Ming Chengzu Zhu Dijing was in trouble, many times he relied on Zhu Gaoxu's struggle to turn danger into safety and defeat into victory, so Zhu Di always felt that Zhu Gaoxu was the most similar to himself among all the children, and he liked him the most. However, Zhu Gaoxu was arrogant and arrogant, and began to do some things that violated the etiquette of the time, when Ming Chengzu Zhu Di did not buy Jingnei, after returning to Beijing, he found that Zhu Gaoxu had done something, and he was angry and attacked his heart, and even wanted to reduce Zhu Gaoxu to a commoner. However, Zhu Gaoxu's brother, the aforementioned Emperor Akihito, the crown prince at the time, interceded for him with his brotherhood, and Ming Chengzu forgave Zhu Gaoxu and instead killed his bodyguards. However, these were just small episodes for Zhu Gaoxu, who was full of only the great cause of becoming an emperor and obtaining supreme power.
The rebellion of the king of the clan has always been bloody and drifting, and the world is in chaos, but Zhu Gaoxu is an exception, a lifetime of fighting horses and holding heavy troops, but he easily lost, and a good hand of cards was played poorly. If Zhu Gaoxu was not so ambitious, content and content, kept the bottom line, and strictly disciplined himself, perhaps he would overwhelm his brother and become emperor.