Preface:
The Ming Dynasty is really full of talents. The beggar emperor Zhu Yuanzhang opened the Ming Dynasty. It's just that his descendants have some strange things, such as: Zhu Houzhao, who doesn't love the royal palace and loves the leopard room, loves to live in the leopard room every day if nothing happens.
Another example is Zhu Youxiao, who does not love the imperial throne and loves carpentry, and ignores national affairs, and likes to tinker with those carpentry jobs. These two were famous absurd emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, there are also famous emperors in history, such as Zhu Gaozhi.
Zhu Gaojie has only been on the throne for one year, but he only used this year to make himself famous, so what did he do? Keep reading.
What exactly did you do?
It can be said that Zhu Gaojie's father Zhu Di was able to ascend the throne, which was completely stained with the light of this son, why say so?
As early as when Zhu Di was still the King of Yan, Zhu Gaojie was already a famous son of Yan. Why it is famous, you can see Zhu Yuanzhang's love for him.
According to records, once Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Zhu Gaojie to go to the parade with three other sons, but only Zhu Gaojie returned the latest.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very dissatisfied, knowing that Zhu Yuanzhang had high expectations for Zhu Gaozhi, so he asked him when Zhu Gaojie returned, and Zhu Gaozhang's answer made Zhu Yuanzhang very satisfied.
In the face of his grandfather's torture, he only said that he hoped that the parade would be later so that the soldiers would have time to eat.
The more Zhu Yuanzhang looked at this grandson, the more satisfied he became. So, after this, Zhu Yuanzhang began to deliberately observe and cultivate this grandson, and began to let Zhu Gaochi participate in the review of the recital.
Grandpa hinted so obviously, he almost told him directly to do a good job, and the throne will be yours in the future. Not to mention that the Zhu family has always valued family affection, this Zhu Gaojie did not have ambition because of these actions of his grandfather, but worked diligently for his grandfather.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, in order to avoid his descendants from fighting for the throne, he specially set a rule, and the Zhu family's rivers and mountains could only be inherited by the eldest son.
If according to his identity, the gap between this Zhu Gaozhen and the imperial throne is not a little bit, but quite far, even if Zhu Yuanzhang likes this imperial grandson again, he can't break the rules.
So this Zhu Gaozhi was also very clever and did not expose his thoughts. Zhu Gaojie has no ideas, does not mean that his father has no ideas.
No, after the death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, according to the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, this is also the son of the prince to succeed to the throne.
This Zhu Gaojie's father, Zhu Di, looked at it, this can't work, how can this great Jiangshan give such a Zhu Yunjiang who has no political views.
Originally dissatisfied with the accidental accession of his nephew to the throne, Zhu Yunjiang wanted to die at this time.
His idea was simple, this is not too many clan kings, he also felt that these clan kings would affect the stability of his position, so he naively wanted to use some charges to deal with all these clan kings.
It stands to reason that the strongest of these clan kings is this Yan King, that is, Zhu Gaojie's family, but this emperor doesn't know what to think, probably thinking that this stone is too hard, and he cleaned up the soft one first.
Who would have thought that just after cleaning up the soft, this Zhu Gaojie family directly raised troops and caught the emperor off guard. The final result, obviously, Zhu Gaozhi's family took the throne.
Why is it said that Zhu Di's ascension to the throne is stained with the light of this son?
After Zhu Di raised his troops, it can be said that without Zhu Gaochi to stabilize the situation in the rear, Zhu Di, who was fighting in the front, would not be so smooth.
In the Battle of Jingjian, Zhu Di's troops fought in two ways, and Zhu Gaojie, as the son of the world, was ordered to stay in the base camp, and at this time Zhu Yunjiang's subordinate Li Jinglong directly pounded the yellow dragon, at this time only Zhu Gaojiang in Beiping, there were no soldiers and horses in his hands, and the soldiers and horses in the family were taken away by Zhu Di.
At this time, it was already under the city, and Zhu Gaojie didn't know how long he could hold out, and he was also very panicked in his heart, but as a general of the First Army, he knew very well that he had to stay calm at this time.
He first pacified the people in the city and summoned the military generals to discuss the method of defending the city, and in the process, he adhered to the attitude of humbly asking Corporal Lixian, which made his subordinates begin to settle down.
Zhu Gaoji set an example by patrolling and deploying defenses day and night.
Li Jinglong and Zhu Gaojie fought several times, both won and lost, Li Jinglong found that although Beiping had very few troops, but very much disagreed with the attack, Li Jinglong was also very helpless, what could he do, he could only continue to defend, otherwise how would he go to the emperor to explain.
In this way, Li Jilong surrounded outside Beiping City. Suddenly, one night, Zhu Gaoji sent people to open the door to attack, at this time Li Jilong was still sleeping, who told this Zhu Gaoji to always attack them at night, so that they always had no rest, only to retreat the army ten miles.
At this time, Zhu Di had received news and returned to Beiping to rescue, and Zhu Gaoji and his father fought inside and outside, crushing Li Jilong's army.
This victory can be said to be a large part of Zhu Gaozhi's credit. He faced the siege of an army of 500,000 with an army of tens of thousands of people, which was quite remarkable.
This victory played a key role in the Lord's ascension to the throne. This is why Zhu Di's ascension to the throne is stained with the light of this son.
So what did Zhu Gaojie do after he ascended the throne to make himself famous in history?
First, after Zhu Gaozhi took the throne, he first revealed the wrongful conviction of his father when he was alive. So what were the unjust cases when Zhu Di was alive?
It's nothing more than partisanship. This starts with Zhu Di.
Zhu Gaoxu is Zhu Di's eldest son, and there are two half-brothers below Zhu Gaoxu, of which Zhu Gaoxu has always been loved by Zhu Di, and even gave Zhu Di the idea of abolishing the crown prince, which is very dangerous and makes Zhu Gaoxu have other thoughts.
After Zhu Di came to power, he was always busy with the Northern Expedition, and the administrator of this country was actually Zhu Gaozhi all along.
That is to say, although Zhu Di sat on the imperial throne, he was doing the work of the general of the Northern Expedition, while this Zhu Gaojie was sitting in the position of the prince and was doing the work of the emperor.
This dislocation is very interesting, Zhu Gaoxu's position as the crown prince, looking at Zhu Gaoxu's eyes is very tempting, so the two parties have a conflict, under this conflict because of the emperor's favoritism, it is Zhu Gaoxu's subordinates who are injured.
Therefore, after Zhu Gaozhi took the throne, he pardoned the innocently implicated ministers and their exiled families.
Do you think this is just because these people are loyal to Zhu Gaozhi's subordinates, so after Zhu Gaojie took the throne, he first pardoned them for them?
In fact, the more important reason is because when Zhu Di was in power at that time, because of his favoritism, the political situation at that time was not stable, and it can be said that there were fierce contradictions inside.
Zhu Gaozhi, who has been assisting the government for many years, naturally knows the problems in this, and if he cannot correctly solve these existing internal problems, then he can directly affect the court, and the court is unstable and what to say about governing the country.
In fact, this problem looks back at the emperors of the past dynasties, such as Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, when he ascended the throne was young, and the ministers of auxiliary state at that time gradually became a threat, if this matter could not be handled gently and without hurting the country, then there would be no Kangxi prosperous life.
Similarly, the forces behind the backers in these wrongful cases are complicated, and from the perspective of interests, it means denying Zhu Di's verdict, which is related to Zhu Di's reputation, plus a new system has been formed in the DPRK and China at that time, how to show the snow and how to settle it, are all crucial matters.
At this point, Zhu Gaozhi did a good job and passed this special period smoothly.
Second, rest and recuperate and stop the civil war.
During his reign, Zhu Di was always committed to the Northern Expedition. Frequent wars bring the people a restless life, and what the people want most at this time is to be able to recuperate.
Zhu Gaozhi of the people of Xincun obviously did this.
What Zhu Gaochi was most concerned about was the large amount of money consumed during his father's reign to support the conquest, and the consumption over the years had made the people miserable.
Therefore, he first bought the timber requisitioned by the emperor in a fair trade, canceling the previous practice of only requisitioning without paying.
He then relieved the people who had suffered the famine from their fields and provided them with free food and seeds.
Because a large number of displaced people were being carried out, and the resettlement of these displaced people was a major matter, Zhu Gaozhi resettled these displaced people back to their original places of origin because he encouraged them to return to their original places of origin and promised to reduce their taxes and labor after returning to their original places.
Under this series of policies, the people finally had the opportunity to rest and recuperate, and Zhu Gaozhi only had a short reign for a short year, but he planned a lot for the people, and this merit deserves our praise.
Third, reform the system of taking people.
At that time, the way to enter the university was still the imperial examination. It was only because of the difference between the north and the south that the results of the imperial examination caused people to protest.
What's going on here?
Because of the first imperial examination after Zhu Gaozhi took the throne, this imperial examination shocked the government and the public, for no other reason, but because all the students selected were students from the south, and the students in the north fell off the list.
At that time, the emperor ordered people to thoroughly investigate, but after checking and checking, he found that there was no cheating in it, and he could only report it to the emperor truthfully, and at this time the emperor found that the difference between the students of the north and the south was so big.
Therefore, in order to allow students from the north to have the opportunity to be selected, it is stipulated that the number of students selected in the future will be determined according to the method of sixty in the south and forty in the north.
Does this rule sound familiar?
What is the difference between this and our current different papers for the North and South College Entrance Examinations, and the difference in scores between the North and South College Entrance Examinations?
It can only be said that we are now picking up the teeth of our predecessors.
Fourth, Zhu Gaojie reigned for only one year, and he did things worthy of the emperor's lifetime merits.
Because the border ethnic groups are always harassed, so the original border region horse market is closed, Zhu Gaochi is very discerning, he can see through this horse market behind the border defense function.
To put it bluntly, the border ethnic groups attack and harass, or because of survival reasons, the opening of the horse market allows the people of other ethnic groups in the border region to have economic resources, so that the conflict between the two sides can be alleviated.
At the same time, Zhu Gaojie used a policy of appeasement to restore relations with foreign countries.
Epilogue:
It is hard to imagine that such an accomplished emperor would be addicted to wine after ascending the throne.
Zhu Gaojie knew the stars, and legend has it that one night he saw a change in the stars, so he summoned the ministers and said that his life would not be long, and sure enough, Zhu Gaojie suddenly died of illness soon after.
He had many children in this life, 10 sons and 7 daughters.
In order not to let his eldest son be like himself, he kept letting the five concubines be buried for himself when he was dying, which means that all five people from the queen down followed his footsteps.
A generation of emperors fell lonely, but people are puzzled, why did he suddenly start to indulge in wine after taking the throne?