The foundation of the Ming Dynasty can be said to have been fought by force by the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and then through his son, the later Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, who constantly sent troops to conquer Jiangshan, this father and son can be described as the Ming Dynasty's God of War Emperor.
In addition to these two people, there is also a Ming Emperor who also has the title of God of War, this person is the fifth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji, the famous "civil change" in history is because of him, this emperor is really too belligerent in his life, almost beat the family foundation accumulated by his father, fortunately in his later years, there was a reflection and change, and in the process of Zhu Zhanji's administration, a lot of strange things happened to him, including a mystery that has not been answered for six hundred years.
Father's struggle for the throne
A large part of the reason why Zhu Zhanji was belligerent and martial after becoming emperor was influenced by his grandfather Zhu Di, because since he was born, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di loved him a lot, often took him with him, found him the best teacher, taught him to learn knowledge, and even personally taught him how to march and fight, and how to govern the country, and to explain why Cheng Zu liked his grandson so much, the main reason was that he had two sons who were not instruments.
One of his two sons was the later Emperor Akihito Zhu Gaoxu, and the other was Zhu Gaoxu, the King of Han, one Xiwen and the other Xiwu, who were a few points stronger than his father Zhu Di in governing the country, but he was born obese, sickly since childhood, and his physical fitness was extremely poor, and he could not enter the army and go on expeditions with his father.
Zhu Gaoxu is exactly the opposite of his brother Zhu Gaoxu, he is a simple-minded and well-developed rough man with extremely strong military combat capabilities, but it is still far from inheriting the throne and ruling the ming dynasty.
And the birth of Zhu Zhanji just makes up for this wish of Ming Chengzu, he was not only born talented and intelligent, but also has the same personality as Ming Chengzu, for such a grandson who is both literate and martial, Ming Chengzu is naturally happy to keep his mouth shut, almost everywhere he goes, he has to take him, it is explained that Chengzu has not been waiting to see his eldest son Zhu Gaozi, but still let him be the crown prince to inherit the throne, in order to let his imperial grandson take over the power in the future, enough to see how much Zhu Di loves his grandson.
However, this choice naturally made the second son Zhu Gaoxu dissatisfied, although he was inferior to his eldest brother in handling political affairs, but to say that he was many times stronger than Zhu Gaoxu in the march and the battle achievements he had made, which led to the relationship between the two brothers has not been very good, Zhu Gaoxu was born with a more honest and cowardly personality, so he chose to tolerate many things repeatedly.
There is also such a widely circulated story, when Ming Chengzu took his two sons to pay tribute to his father Zhu Yuanzhang, and on the way there, because Zhu Gao was obese and had poor physical fitness, he was sweating profusely halfway to the road, and his legs were tired and a little sore, and he accidentally fell on the road and fell on a while walking.
This made Zhu Gaoxu, who was walking behind, look at him and laugh, and mock him in public, but Zhu Zhanji, who was on the side, hurriedly supported his father, turned around and angrily rebuked his uncle, the two were tit-for-tat, if it were not for Zhu Di in front, it was estimated that they would have to fight. After this incident, the uncle and nephew can also be regarded as a beam.
The golden cicada shed its shell and fiercely competed for the throne
Because of the brothers' walls, if Zhu Gaoxu inherits the throne in the future, Zhu Gaoxu will definitely lead troops to rebel, for this situation, Zhu Gaoxu's father and son have long expected, so when Zhu Di died later, the crown prince ordered all the hundred officials in the court to block the news, the purpose is not to let the Han king Zhu Gaoxu who was far away know.
And this blockade lasted for two months, after handling everything, Zhu Gaozi, as the crown prince, naturally inherited the throne in a justifiable manner, and only after this did he release the news.
At this time, Zhu Gaoxu was half dead after learning the news, because he was still standing still here, waiting foolishly, preparing for when the news of his father's death would come, and he was leading the army to seize the throne, but he did not expect to be taken a step ahead, and now that his eldest brother had ascended to the throne, if he rebelled again, it was naturally not in accordance with the law, even if he succeeded, the emperor's name was not justified, and it was difficult to win the hearts of the people.
But at this point, Zhu Gaoxu still did not have a dead heart, because he knew that his eldest brother was in a very poor physical condition, and it was estimated that he would not be able to serve as emperor for several years, and when Zhu Gaoxu died and passed the throne to Zhu Zhanji, he was competing for the throne according to the original plan.
This time, in order to get the news as soon as possible, he also specially installed a large number of intelligence personnel in the capital, on the other hand, because Zhu Zhanji was sent to the Nanjing area to manage local affairs, he arranged many assassins on the way back to the capital to assassinate Zhu Zhanji.
I thought that I had done a good job of everything, but I did not expect that Zhu Gaoxu had once again miscalculated, and after his eldest brother announced his death, he immediately set off with his nephew to compete for the throne, and before he arrived in the capital, the news had already come, Zhu Zhanji parachuted into the capital, and it took only nine days to successfully ascend the throne and become emperor.
This allowed Zhu Gaoxu to be blinded for a while, knowing that where Zhu Gaodi was located, there were nearly a thousand miles to the capital, and he was only six hundred miles, he was fast and fast, and he did not arrive in the capital day and night, so why did Zhu Zhanji, who was even farther away than him, arrive earlier, and ascend the throne as emperor a little earlier?
Centuries-old mysteries
For this matter, not only Zhu Gaoxu was confused, the people of later generations also did not know the truth, according to the normal traffic speed in ancient times, even Zhu Zhanji rushed to the capital without stopping, and the distance of nearly a thousand miles had to be nearly a month to arrive, and it was impossible to arrive in less than ten days, so the people of later generations made a lot of conjectures.
First of all, the first is that Zhu Zhanji did not leave the palace at all, or returned early, perhaps he had foreseen that his father was coming, so he kept letting out false news in order to avoid changes, but this statement was denied, because the whole capital was full of Zhu Gaoxu's eyeliner, and if Zhu Zhanji was in the palace, he could not not have known.
The second theory is that Zhu Zhanji took a detour, but this theory also does not make sense, Zhu Gaoxu has already arranged assassination personnel on the necessary road, almost all feasible roads have arranged manpower, no matter how Zhu Zhanji takes a detour, he will encounter an ambush.
However, when the ambushed people found Zhu Zhanji's accompanying troops, they rushed up and killed all the retinues, but when they broke into the palanquin, they found that they were empty, and zhu Zhanji's figure was not seen on other roads, which was really unbelievable.
This last theory is that Zhu Zhanji had a premeditated plan, and this premeditation was to kill his father, so that he could control the time of his father's death and rush back to the capital before then.
With this explanation, all the mysteries of Zhu Zhanji's parachuting into the imperial city make sense, but after all, there are other loopholes in this speculation, the father and son do not have any deep hatred, and the future throne must also be Zhu Zhanji's, he does not need to murder his father at all, but he also needs his father's help to fight against his uncle, so about this matter, until today, six hundred years later, we still can't find the answer.
epilogue
There must be many secrets in which Zhu Zhanji parachuted into the capital and ascended the throne in a very short period of time, but there has been no accurate record to explain all this, which has left a huge puzzle for people in later generations, and to this day, many historians and scholars have not been able to solve this doubt, hoping that in the future, the mystery that has plagued people for more than six hundred years can have an answer.
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