Ma Boyong is a famous contemporary writer, and his two most widely known works are "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau", which has been made into a movie, and "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", which has been made into a TV series, but in fact, before these two famous works, he already had such a divine work as "The Wind Rises longxi".
A few years ago, according to a sentence in the history of Ming, he published another divine work, this book is called "Five Days of Two Capitals", in which he mainly tells the story of how the grandson of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di got rid of the interception and killing of his uncle Zhu Gaoxu.
So why did Zhu Gaoxu intercept and kill his own nephew?
It turned out that Zhu Gaoxu was Zhu Di's second son, and originally with his family status, he should not have too many ideas. However, his father Zhu Di first stole the throne of his nephew Emperor Jianwen, and in the campaign when his father usurped the throne, he made a lot of military achievements, and his brother, Zhu Gaozi, who was Zhu Yuanzhang's son Zhu Di, was also a fat and sickly person, so Zhu Di had hinted that he might inherit the throne of shizi.
Zhu Gaoxu saw that his father's example was in front, he had an advantage, and his father also gave a hint that if he did not work hard, it was really a bit unreasonable, so he thought of good things.
However, although Zhu Di had ideas in this regard, he thought about the overall situation (he did not play his cards according to the routine, if he let the second son replace the eldest son, then the imperial power was easy to mess up), and in the end he did not change Zhu Gaoxu to the crown prince. Therefore, after Zhu Di's hasty death, Zhu Gaozi, the crown prince, successfully inherited the throne.
If you change to an ordinary person, once you see that you have lost the opportunity, then you should clip your tail to become a rich and idle person. But Zhu Gaoxu did not know whether his personality was more stubborn, or his father Zhu Di's experience had a deep impact on him, he actually did not change his heart, after Zhu Gaoxu sat on the dragon chair, he still wanted to try it.
We are not sure of the true character of Zhu Gaozi, but judging from his performance in the history books, he was either a master of disguise or he was a person with a pure heart. If you change people, when you see that your brother still dares to covet his throne, he may directly serve him with "blood droplets", but Zhu Gaozi does not fight two or scold, but "softens" his brother by constantly giving benefits.
I don't know whether Zhu Gaozi's "sugar-coated cannonballs" were really useful, or whether Zhu Gaozi's reign was too short (less than a year), in short, when Zhu Gaozi was still alive, Although Zhu Gaoxu was not idle, he did not toss too much movement. But as soon as Zhu Gaozi died, he began to be unable to sit still.
However, the reason that really prompted him to murder his nephew at that time, in addition to his own ambitions, was actually the reason for his father Zhu Di and his brother Zhu Gaozi.
As we all know, after Robbing his nephew Emperor Jianwen of the "Golden Rice Bowl", Zhu Di moved the original capital of Daming from Nanjing to Beijing. And the reason why Zhu Di moved the capital is not just as simple as "the son of heaven guards the gate of the country". After Zhu Yuanzhang fixed the capital nanjing, he also felt that Nanjing was not conducive to the overall planning of the whole country, so he also wanted to move the capital, and the crown prince Zhu Biao, who he set up at the time, died of illness because he went out to investigate the location of the capital.
That is to say, since Zhu Yuanzhang, Daming has had the idea of moving the capital, but he has not been able to make the trip. However, the reason why Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing was not only because it was "just needed", there was more or more of it, and there was also a certain "comforting effect", because his throne was not right, and in order to deter the courtiers, he also went on a killing spree, in this case, he should not sleep soundly in Nanjing.
But when his son Zhu Gaozi became emperor, he found that Beijing was not suitable as a capital city. This is mainly for three reasons
First, Beijing is too far north, and the nomadic tribes in the north can make the emperor passively "guard the gate of the country" if they are not careful. If the emperor is a fierce character like Zhu Di, then this one doesn't matter, because you don't come to provoke him, he still wants to fight you. But a master like Zhu Gaozi on the stall naturally wanted to find a comfortable place to become emperor.
Second, Beijing is not close to the main grain-producing areas, and it is too far from the rich land of Jiangnan, so the transportation of grain and other materials is a troublesome task. As we all know, the ancient transportation conditions are very inconvenient, if there is no water network blessing, then the transportation cost of materials may occupy most of the cost of materials.
Third, the founding place of Daming was in Nanjing, and at that time, many ministers had already settled their homes in Jiangnan, and you let people let their families go to the water towns in Jiangnan and not go, but instead ran to the north to eat sand.
Therefore, Zhu Gaozi had been emperor for less than a year and wanted to move back to nanjing, where he grew up. (Some people also say that the reason why Zhu Gaozi wanted to return to Nanjing was because he originally grew up in Nanjing, and his health at that time was not very good, and he could not adapt to the northern climate, so he wanted to go to a warmer place))
The matter of moving the capital is a major matter for the country, so Zhu Gaoji specially arranged for the crown prince Zhu Zhanji to go personally, but Zhu Zhanji had not finished his work, and Zhu Gaoji could not do it there, so after Zhu Zhanji received the letter, he hurried from Nanjing to Beijing. After Zhu Gaoxu learned of this incident, he immediately sent someone to intercept and kill his nephew, but he did not know how Zhu Zhanji operated, and he actually escaped his uncle's interception.
And Ma Boyong "inferred" the actual process at that time based on the causes and consequences of this matter, and those who are interested in this unsolved case may wish to go to his "Fifteen Days of Two Capitals".
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