When it comes to Internet entrepreneurship, Lei Jun has a famous "flying pig theory", that is, standing on the cusp of the wind, a pig can fly, in fact, "the times create heroes". But there are many pigs standing on the cusp, why can some pigs fly, and some can't? Therefore, "the times create heroes" and "heroes create the times" complement each other.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the national strength was booming, zhu Yunjiao was a "pig" standing on the wind outlet, but he not only failed to create a brilliant "Jianwen shengshi", but was taken away by his uncle Zhu Di, who followed the general trend of the world to create a brilliant "Yongle shengshi". So, why did Zhu Yunjiao become a "pig" on the outlet, and why did he quickly lose the country? If another emperor succeeds to the throne, can he suppress or destroy Zhu Di's ambitions?
When the Yuan Dynasty came to power in the Central Plains, it brought many bad habits of The Mongol Yuan to China, and after Zhu Yuanzhang expelled the Mongolian Yuan, he adopted a series of de-Mongolization policies in an effort to restore the han ceremonial culture, including the system of primogeniture, to build the legitimacy of the new regime. Therefore, after the death of crown prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to pass the throne to the eldest son of the concubine.
Zhu Biao had five sons, namely the eldest son Zhu Xiongying, the second son Zhu Yunxi, the third son Zhu Yunxi, the fourth son Zhu Yunxi, and the fifth son Zhu Yunxi. Among them, zhu Xiongying and Zhu Yunxi's mother is the daughter of Chang Yuchun, and the other three are the daughters of Lü Ben, the secretary of the Taichang Temple. After Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yuanzhang could only choose one of these five sons, but why did Zhu Yuanzhang abandon the son of the Chang clan and choose Zhu Yunjiao, the son of the Lü clan?
In 1371, Chang Yuchun's daughter married Zhu Biao and became the first crown princess of Daming, after which she gave birth to her eldest son Zhu Xiongying and her second son Zhu Yunxi. Unfortunately, in 1378, Chang died the next day after giving birth to Zhu Yunxi. Zhu Yuanzhang had great respect for Crown Princess Chang, and he resigned from the court for three days, and posthumously honored Crown Princess Jingyi. Four years later, the eldest son, Zhu Xiongying, died, and Zhu Yunxi became the only concubine.
However, after the death of the Chang clan, Zhu Biao chose to succeed Lü Shi as the crown princess and make her the lord of the Eastern Palace, so Zhu Yunjiao was promoted to the second son of The Concubine, Zhu Yunxi was demoted to the third son of the Concubine, and Zhu Yunjiao had the right of succession. Therefore, after Zhu Biao's death in 1392, Zhu Yunjiao was immediately made the emperor's grandson by Zhu Yuanzhang.
In addition to the reasons for the succession system of concubines, Zhu Yuanzhang's choice to pass the throne to Zhu Yunjiao is also closely related to his background.
Zhu Yunjiao's grandfather Lü Ben, after the famous general Lü Wenhuan at the end of the Song Dynasty, was a prominent noble family of the Yuan Dynasty, and in 1367 he surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang and has been serving as a civil official, and has no relationship with the Huaixi Xungui.
For Zhu Yuanzhang, Lü Ben's background was very important, because the Huaixi Xungui were married to each other, the relationship was intertwined, and they held real power in the military, which had seriously threatened the imperial power. Therefore, during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he kept attacking The Nobles of Huaixi and killed many heroes for this. If the throne is passed to Zhu Yunxi, who is closely related to the Huaixi Xungui, the Huaixi Xungui may resurrect itself; and if the throne is passed to Zhu Yunxiu, it is difficult to have such a potential risk.
What is particularly important is that In order to ensure the smooth reign of Zhu Yunjiao, Zhu Yuanzhang purged a large number of Huaixi Xungui who threatened the imperial power, and launched the Blue Jade Case in 1393, not only killing the Blue Jade Gate, but also involving Fu Youde, Feng Sheng, Wang Bi and other princes. Among them, Blue Jade is Zhu Biao's uncle and Zhu Yunxi's uncle.
It can be imagined that at that time, what was the attitude of the Huaixi Xungui toward Zhu Yuanzhang, and what was the attitude toward the heir chosen by Zhu Yuanzhang. Therefore, after Zhu Yunjiao succeeded to the throne, he lacked the real support of Huaixi Xungui, and he did not believe in Huaixi Xungui himself, mainly relying on the new upstarts of civilian officials, so he reused Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and others.
Objectively speaking, at the beginning of Zhu Di's difficulties, The Huaixi Xungui did carry out military operations against Zhu Di, the King of Yan, but because the Huaixi Xungui and Zhu Di were inextricably linked, this group was increasingly out of favor, and was suppressed and suspected by zhu Yunjiao and the civilian system, and Xu Da's descendants were the most typical representatives. During the Battle of Jingnan, Xu Da's fourth son, Xu Zengshou, secretly communicated with Zhu Di and was killed by Zhu Yunjiao. Xu Da's eldest son, Xu Zuhui, was once the commander of the Southern Army, and once forced Zhu Di into a desperate situation, but Zhu Yunjiao took away his military power and transferred him to Nanjing, and later he blocked Zhu Di in Nanjing, but unfortunately he did not have any troops in his hands to stop Zhu Di at all. For Zhu Yunjiao, Xu Zengshou secretly helped Zhu Di, so can Xu Zuhui still be trusted?
Because of Zhu Yunjiao's identity background, it was difficult for him to be accepted by the Nobles of Huaixi, and it was difficult for him to trust them, so Zhu Yunjiao's military rout was not surprising to some extent. But Zhu Yunxi was very different, he had a natural nepotism with the Huaixi Xungui, and could get the support of these nobles.
Zhu Di has the wuchen forces, Zhu Yunxi also has the wuxun forces, if the two collide, the winner is often the stronger side. And Zhu Di only has a corner of Yandi, Zhu Yunxi owns the whole country, so Zhu Yunxi's chances of winning are greater. In fact, whether it was Zhu Yunxi or Zhu Yunxi succeeding to the throne, as long as he could really get the full support of the noble warriors, it was estimated that Zhu Di would not dare to rebel.
Because Zhu Yunxi had a special life and could not inherit the unification, it made him a tragic figure of the times, and the so-called Pifu was innocent of his sins!
In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, he was the hope of the Huaixi Xungui, with a bloodline that could not be trusted. After the Blue Jade case, Zhu Yunxi was even more embarrassed.
In Lü's eyes, he is a thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh, and a roadblock for Zhu Yunjiao's future. Because in theory, Zhu Yuanzhang could also choose Zhu Yunxi as his successor.
In Zhu Yunjiao's eyes, his younger brother was always a threat, although Zhu Yunxi made Zhu Yunxi the King of Wu and fiefed Hangzhou, but Zhu Yunjiao, who was cutting the domain and doubting Xun Gui, how could he let his brother take the domain, so Zhu Yunxi stayed in Nanjing.
In Zhu Di's eyes, Zhu Yunxi was a real concubine, the representative of the Huaixi Xungui, who had a huge potential threat to the throne, and even after capturing Jiangshan, he was jealous of him, so soon Zhu Di demoted him to the king of Guangze, moved to Zhangzhou, and soon summoned him back to Beijing, deposed as a Shuren, imprisoned in Fengyang, and then suddenly died violently, at the age of 39.