Preface: "Shang Shi" is a costume court food drama released this year, as for whether this drama is an ancient puppet drama, the author will not comment. However, in the play, a pseudonym You Yifan is fictionalized, but it is actually the character of the second son of Zhu Gaoxu, the King of Han: Zhu Zhanli. This is kind of funny.
Zhu Yuanzhang formulated a 20-character lineage for the descendants of his fourth son, Zhu Di: "Gao Zhanqi sees you, Hou Zai Yi Changyou, Ci and Yi Bozhong, Jian Jingdi Xianyou". King Zhu Gaoxu of Han was Zhu Di's second son and a senior of high characters. His son, as the grandson of Zhu Di, is naturally a Zhanzi generation. However, in addition to the characters, the last character in the name of the Ming Dynasty must follow the law of the five elements such as "fire, earth, gold, water and wood". In other words, all the descendants of the Zhu family of the Zhanzi generation must bring soil to the last character in their names. Does this Zhu Zhanli's ceremonial character have anything to do with the soil attribute?
But you have to say that the screenwriter has not read history, he seems to have read it again. Because the story that happened to Zhu Zhanli does have a corresponding prototype in history to refer to, he is Zhu Zhanxi, the second son of Zhu Gaoxu.
Stills of Zhu Zhanli
Zhu Zhanxi: The tragic fate of an abandoned son
- Is it a concubine or a concubine?
According to an encyclopedic information, Zhu Zhanqi was born in 1404 AD, the second year of Yongle, and was the second son of Zhu Gaoxuan, the king of Han. This message is problematic no matter how you look at it.
Whether it is the "History of the Ming Dynasty" or the "Records of Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty", or other historical materials of the Ming Dynasty, such as "Bishan Tang Collection", "Records of the Sacrifice of the National Dynasty", "Famous Mountains and Collections", etc., there is no mention of Zhu Zhanxi's birth date, and I don't know where to check the information from a certain encyclopedia.
In the TV series, You Yifan, or Zhu Zhanli, is the illegitimate son of Zhu Gaoxu, the King of Han, in other words, he is a concubine. So is Zhu Zhanxi in the main history a concubine or a concubine?
King Han's father, Zhu Di, was made King of Yan in the third year of Hongwu (1370 AD) and granted the kingdom of Beiping. Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty with amazing fertility and 24 adult sons, Zhu Di is simply weak in this regard, and there are only 3 adult sons in total. The eldest son, Zhu Gaoji, was the son of Yan in the 28th year of Hongwu (1395 AD). The second son, Zhu Gaoxu, was made king of Gaoyang County during the Hongwu period. The third son, Zhu Gaoxiu, was given an unknown title during the Hongwu period.
Family photo of Zhu Di's family
At the same time as canonizing Yan Shizi, Zhang Shi, the daughter of Zhang Lin, the commander of the soldiers and horses, was also named Yan Shizi's concubine, and Zhu Gaoji was 18 years old this year. According to this age, Zhu Gaoxu had also reached the age of 18 in the 30th year of Hongwu (1397 AD), and it was reasonable that the imperial court would canonize a princess of Gaoyang, but it was not recorded in the history books. The Records of Ming Taizu was finally written in the sixteenth year of Yongle (1418 AD), when King Han had just been deposed to live in Le'an Prefecture, Shandong, and it is reasonable not to delete his records during the Hongwu period.
In March of the second year of Yongle (1404 AD), Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Gaoyang, and his eldest brother Zhu Gaoji, the son of Yan Shizi, accompanied by Wang Ning, the Marquis of Yongchun, and Zhang Xin, the Marquis of Longping, came from Beijing to Nanjing. On the fourth day of the fourth month of April, his son Zhu Gaoji was made crown prince, Zhu Gaoxu the king of Gaoyang was made the king of Han, and the princess of Gaoyang, Wei Shi, was made the crown princess of Han.
Zhu Gaoxuan's eldest son was named Zhu Zhanyan, and he should be the eldest son born to Princess Han. The reason is very straightforward, because Zhu Zhanyan was named the son of Han Shizi. The "Imperial Mingzu Motto" is clearly written that only the eldest son of the prince can be named the prince's son. In other words, if Zhu Zhanqi is the second son, then his biological mother must also be Princess Wei of Han.
Stills from Princess Han
In the history books, Zhu Zhanxi's biological mother died at the hands of his biological father Zhu Gaoxuan. If he was a concubine, then the death of Princess Han should not be omitted from the history books in any way. What's more, in the future, the King of Han was poured with countless dirty water for rebellion, but none of them accused him of killing the princess without permission. Based on this, we can make a reasonable inference that Zhu Zhanqi is not the son of Weishi, but Shu Chu. This point in "Shang Shi" describes him as the illegitimate son of the King of Han, which cannot be said to be unreasonable.
First, Zhan Xi resented his father for killing his mother, and repeatedly caused his father to be evil. Cheng Zuyi: "Father and son He Renye!" —Ming History Volume 18 Column 6
- Reluctantly, Fan Le'an Prefecture
In November of the ninth year of Yongle (1411 AD), Zhu Zhanqi and his eldest brother Zhu Zhanxi held a crowning ceremony at the Han Palace in Nanjing. The crown ceremony is a rite of passage for ancient men, which not only means that you can already get married, but also means that you must take on more adult responsibilities. In addition, today's Nanjing Presidential Mansion is formerly known as the Han King Mansion.
However, the age of the Ming dynasty clan is sometimes a mystery, because Zhu Zhanxi was married in August of the seventeenth year of Yongle (1419 AD), and was directed to the queen of the Chinese soldier and horse commander Wang Zizhi. That is to say, he is most likely not an adult in the ninth year of Yongle, and it may be that Zhu Zhanyan brought him along when he performed the crown ceremony.
Stills of Zhu Di and Empress Xu
In the first month of the eleventh year of Yongle (1413 AD), King Han escorted Empress Renxiao's Zi Palace from Nanjing to Beijing for burial. Empress Renxiao was the eldest daughter of Xu Da, the first military minister of the founding country and the king of Wuning of Zhongshan, and followed Zhu Di to become empress step by step by Princess Yan. Empress Xu died in the fifth year of Yongle (1407 AD), and Zhu Di never looked for a burial place for her in Nanjing, thinking of moving the capital to Beijing. This time, the King of Han went to Beijing, accompanied by Zhu Zhanqi in addition to his son Zhu Zhanyan.
Shortly after Zhu Gaoxu's departure, Zhu Di toured Beijing in February of that year, where father and son spent most of the year. However, for the King of Han, Nanjing was the fundamental powerhouse, and staying in Beijing all the time would inevitably delay his plans to seize the throne. Therefore, despite his father's hard work, he resolutely returned to Nanjing with his two sons in the first month of the twelfth year of Yongle (1414 AD), which also left a rift between father and son.
Zhu Di was in Beijing, when his son Zhan Yan and his second son Zhan Xi were present. Gao Xu repeatedly resigned and returned to Nanjing, but he did not obey. The upper desire to stay in the trench does not follow, and the upper feels that it has different aspirations. —"Records of Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, Volume 186"
On March 26, the fifteenth year of Yongle (1417 AD), Zhu Di left Nanjing for a hunting tour in Beijing. Unlike in the past, after going to Beijing this time, Zhu Laosi did not plan to return to Nanjing. So before that, you have to solve a big problem of confidants. On 20 March, King Zhu Gaoxu of Han was sent to Le'an Prefecture, Shandong.
Han King stills
King Han's ambition to seize the throne has long been written on his mind, and Zhu Di has tolerated him to go to the clan until today, and he is already very sorry for the crown prince Zhu Gaoji and the crown prince's grandson Zhu Zhanji. Fortunately, this time, Zhu Lao Sige went to the Han King's left and right guards, and arranged him in Le'an Prefecture, which was low in the city and could not be defended, laying the groundwork for Zhu Zhanji to quell the Han King Rebellion in the future.
He also said, "Where is it now?" If he refuses to go to Qingzhou, he must not stay in Jingshi again. Even the land in Kinai is not tolerated. I am now strong and cunning, and I will not go to his lord, but in the land of Near Gi. Once there is a change, it can be caught in the morning. "So there is the life of happiness. —"Records of Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, Volume 186"
- The means of the new son of heaven, Zhu Gaoji
When the King of Han arrived in Le'an Prefecture, he was not at ease, and history said that he "harbored deep grievances and conspired for good and urgency". In August of the nineteenth year of Yongle (1421 AD), Zhu Zhanyan, the son of the Han dynasty, died. His grandfather Zhu Di gave him a good evaluation for him for three days of defiance and gave him a good evaluation. After the death of Yizhuang Shizi, Zhu Zhanxi became the eldest of the sons of the Han king, and he was also entrusted by his father to reuse him, allowing him to go to Beijing from time to time to inquire about news.
Zhu Zhanqi stills
On the second day of August in the twenty-second year of Yongle (1424 AD), two mysterious figures hurriedly entered Ouchi to ask for a meeting with Zhu Gaoji, the crown prince of the Jianguo. These two men, Yang Rong, a scholar of Wenyuange University and bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and Haishou, the young supervisor of the imperial horse overseer, set out from Shuangbi Peak on 19 July and rushed back to Beijing after 13 days of starry night, bringing Zhu Gaoji news like a thunderbolt on a sunny day: Emperor Yongle had died in Yumuchuan on 18 July.
As a prince who had been in prison for many years and had rich political experience, Zhu Gaoji immediately realized that the situation in front of him was extremely difficult after a short period of grief. Emperor Yongle drove on the way to the northern expedition, which meant that his crown prince could not reasonably and legally ascend the throne for the time being. What if the King of Han accused himself of "pretentiating the succession" and even linked the cause of Emperor Daxing's death to himself?
In order to win the initiative, Zhu Gaoji made several arrangements one after another. First, the crown prince's grandson Zhu Zhanji took the East Palace books given by Zhu Di Qin and rushed to Kaiping to take over the military affairs of the camp. The second was to let Ningyang Marquis Chen Mao and Yangwu Marquis Xue Lu lead the elite cavalry to rush back to Beijing at the same time, so that they could not panic in their hearts with soldiers in their hands. Third, Mu Xin, the most loyal brother-in-law, was put in charge of the affairs of the military capital of Nanjing, and at the same time ordered the eunuch Wang Gui to lead Western officers and soldiers to rush to Nanjing to assist in the guards.
These measures can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye that the target is Zhu Gaoxu, the King of Han. At this time, Zhu Zhanxi, who was in the city of Beijing, was not idle, and any measures taken by the imperial court were clearly inquired into by him, and then he secretly sent people to Shandong to report to Zhu Gaoxu, and even sent out as many as six or seven messages in one day and night.
Zhu Gaoji stills
What Zhu Zhanqi did, his eldest uncle Zhu Gaoji saw in his eyes, but he had been holding back, because he had more important things: taking the throne. On the tenth day of the first month of August, Emperor Long Yi arrived in Dannei, and more importantly, Emperor Taisun brought back the main force of the Northern Expedition, which gave Zhu Gaoji a reassurance.
On 15 August, after Crown Prince Zhu Gaoji dressed in filial piety and finished praying in front of Zhu Di's feast, he immediately changed into a gon crown and went to the Forbidden City to take the throne at the Fengtian Gate of the Forbidden City. It was not until the enthronement ceremony was successfully held that the new Tianzi summoned King Han to Beijing on August 23. For King Han, this was a dilemma. If he goes to Beijing, he will naturally be in the state of the dragon trapped in the shallows, which is tantamount to letting people flesh. However, if he did not go, according to the information transmitted by Zhu Zhanxi: "The court will send troops to take Le'an", and the imperial army will immediately send troops to attack Le'an Prefecture.
In the end, Zhu Gaoxu had to come to Beijing on September 12 to see Xintianzi, but no one expected that in order to save himself, he would take the initiative to sell his son Zhu Zhanxi. Zhu Gaoji was very satisfied with the imperial court information handed over by his brother, and called his nephew Zhu Zhanxi over to scold him, and then deposed him as a commoner and sent him to Fengyang to guard the imperial tomb.
As a result, I learned that the imperial court had sent dozens of reports before Shangzhan Qi, and there were false rumors that the imperial court was discussing sending troops to capture Le'an City. Emperor Renzong summoned the revelation: "Ru Shang separates my brother by vanity, and others care? Gao Xu said, "My father also denounced me before the great trip." What about Your Majesty? His sin is damned. Renzong said: "A childish person is not enough." "Ordered to go to Fengyang to guard the imperial tomb on the same day. —Records of Ming Xuanzong, Volume 20
Fengyang Ming Emperor's Mausoleum
According to the records of Mingrenzong, Zhu Zhanqi's trip to Fengyang occurred in February of the first year of Hongxi (1425 AD). At this point in time, the author thought that there was a doubt. In October of the 22nd year of Yongle, the remaining sons of the King of Han were named Han Shizi and County King respectively, and the reason why Zhu Zhanxi was not given the title was naturally that he had been demoted to Fengyang. Of course, it is not ruled out that Renzong asked the Zhongdu Remaining Division to divide troops to protect Zhu Zhanxi did occur in February of the first year of Hong Xi, but through the contact of Shi Guan's pen, it will not give people the politically incorrect association that Renzong was aggressive towards his younger brother as soon as he took the throne.
Conclusion: In August of the first year of Xuande (1426 AD), the King of Han still raised troops in Le'an Prefecture to rebel. At this time, Emperor Renzong had died, and Zhu Zhanji, who succeeded Emperor Xuanzong, took the throne and captured his second uncle back to Beijing very easily. According to historical records, the Han family was placed inside the Xi'an Gate of the Forbidden City. As for the ending of their family, the "Ming Shilu" avoids talking about it, and the information given by the "History of the Ming" is that "Gao Xu and all the sons died one after another". The "Records of the Sacrifice of the Kingdom Dynasty" believes that the King of Han was roasted alive by Emperor Xuanzong with a copper cylinder.
So the question is, what about Zhu Zhanxi, who has been detained in Fengyang for two years at this time? Was he kept at the imperial mausoleum, or was he also escorted to Beijing? If he went to Beijing, he would naturally die with his father. If he is still in the imperial tomb, he may be able to escape. It's just the pain of being betrayed by his biological father, I don't know if Zhu Zhanqi can finally let go?