#History Talk#The Battle of Jing was a major turning point in the history of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Di, the king of Yan, held high the banner on the side of the Qing monarch and approached Nanjing with great momentum, frightening his nephew Zhu Yunjiang into a vast fire.
Since then, the political wind power of the Ming Dynasty has changed from a soft government to a strong and oppressive iron-blooded regime!
Zhu Yunjiang
After Zhu Di the King of Yan came to power, he forcefully suppressed many ministers who opposed him. The ferocity and gore are no longer enough to describe the scene at that time. And what he did to his eldest brother Zhu Biao's wife and son was even more chilling.
The Battle of Yasuk
Zhu Yuanzhang firmly believed that the power of blood was indestructible, so he killed the foreign surname hero of the high pillar and sent more than a dozen of his sons to the frontier, thus completing the perfect transfer of power from foreign surname to royalty.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di
But what he didn't expect was that the consequences of this led to a situation in which the Ming Dynasty had a strong branch. Eventually, the uncles and nephews turned against each other and killed each other.
After Zhu Yunjiang ascended the throne, he faced a situation of "strong branches" and "external worries and internal troubles", and in order to stabilize his rule, Zhu Yunjiang adopted the advice of the minister to reduce the domain.
Yan King Zhu Di is a person with a heavy desire for power, and not letting him be the emperor has already made him very annoyed, and now he still wants to snatch food from his mouth, so how can he allow it? Zhu Di, the strongest and most capable, led a group of clan kings to march to Nanjing, opening the prelude to the Battle of Jingjian.
Yongle the Great
Although Zhu Yunjiang was carefully cultivated by Zhu Yuanzhang, he was not the same grade as Zhu Di. Zhu Yunjiang was benevolent, sensitive, considerate, indecisive by nature, and an out-and-out literati emperor. Zhu Di followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the southern and northern wars when he was a teenager, and his character was brave and good at fighting, and he was a typical emperor on horseback.
As the saying goes, Xiucai meets unreasonable, unreasonable, Zhu Yunjiang, this Xiucai meets the bandit uncle Zhu Dina, and the defeat is retreated, and soon the capital Nanjing was occupied.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di
Zhu Di, as an imperial uncle, rebelled and robbed his nephew of the throne, which was originally a very dishonorable thing. Therefore, Zhu Di very much hoped that he could be "justified", and before he ascended the throne, he specially found Fang Xiaozi, who was very prestigious and moral at that time, to ask him to draft the edict for him.
Unexpectedly, Fang Xiaoxiao was aggressive, and asked Zhu Di a few questions that made him unable to get off the table, and almost pointed at Zhu Di's nose and scolded him for not being faceless. The angry Zhu Di took his life to blackmail Fang Xiaozi, but Fang Xiaozi preferred to die unyielding, and was finally martyred by Zhu Di and linked to the Ten Tribes. Fang Xiaozi used his life to show the backbone of China's literati.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di
Even a Confucian like Fang Xiaozi dared to stand up and rebuke Zhu Di, but it is conceivable that at that time, the country still had a deep opinion about Zhu Di, the emperor. Especially people who are close to Zhu Yunjiang, such as Zhu Yunjiang's mother and brothers, they can't wait to crush Zhu Di to ashes.
Fang Xiaozi
What should Zhu Di do with these people who oppose him?
Bloody repression
Zhu Di has a very distinct personality label, that is, "violence".
Fang Xiaozi was revered at the time as the "seed of reading under heaven", and his killing eventually led to the absence of outstanding thinkers in the events of nearly two hundred years of the late Ming Dynasty. But Zhu Di didn't care about the consequences at all, what he wanted was violent suppression, forming a deterrent force for those who follow us to prosper and those who oppose us to die.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di
After he became emperor, everything related to Emperor Jianwen had to be eliminated, including Emperor Jianwen's mother and brother, so Zhu Di aimed his iron-fisted policy at these former relatives.
During the reign of Emperor Jianwen, he honored his mother as the empress dowager. After Zhu Di took the throne, the title of this empress dowager was very embarrassing. Zhu Di is the emperor after Emperor Jianwen, do you want to call your sister-in-law Empress Dowager? Zhu Di originally wanted to be self-respecting, if his sister-in-law was the Empress Dowager, wouldn't Zhu Di have been demoted from generation? Therefore, it is impossible for Emperor Jianwen's mother, the Empress Dowager, to sit for a second!
Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di father and son
Soon after Zhu Di came to power, he immediately ordered that the empress dowager be stripped of his honorific title. Even his dead brother Zhu Biao was not spared, and he was also deprived of his honorific title. Immediately afterwards, Zhu Di sent the stripped-named Empress Dowager to the Ming Dongling.
What is Ming Dongling? The Ming Tomb is actually the mausoleum of the Ming royal family, that is, the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family. Zhu Di's sister-in-law was only in her 30s at the time, which was the age of beauty like a flower, so she was sent by Zhu Di to the ancestral grave as a grave keeper. From the high-ranking Empress Dowager to a prisoner imprisoned in the cemetery, the suffering of Zhu Di's sister-in-law is difficult to explain to the world.
Ming-made clothing
Zhu Di not only sent his sister-in-law to Ming Dongling, but also sent his eldest brother's youngest son, Zhu Yunxi the King of Xu, to Ming Dongling. Nominally, he let him accompany his mother to fulfill his filial piety, but in fact, he imprisoned this young man in the dark Ming Dongling.
In addition to Zhu Yunxi, Zhu Biao has two sons. During the reign of Emperor Jianwen, they were naturally famous as the emperor's own brothers. These two people are like thorns in Zhu Di's eyes, and they may pose a threat to their status at any time. How could Zhu Di allow people in this world who could threaten him?
Zhu Biao
He first helped the two princes transfer from the original rich fiefdom and changed it to a remote area, and later quieted the two in Fengyang. Then, in the second year after Zhu Di took the throne, he casually found an excuse to depose the two princes as commoners.
A good royal family and state have become commoners, and this end is already very miserable. But Zhu Di felt that it was not enough! A few years later, Zhu Di took advantage of the rebellion of another prince to click both princes! But Zhu Di did not directly attack the two, but only secretly poked and poked some operations, so that the two died violently at the same time.
Comic Zhu Biao
The crown prince Zhu Biao gave birth to a total of four sons, except for the missing Emperor Jianwen and the two dead princes, only Zhu Yunxi, the king of Xu, who guarded the Ming Tombs. Will Zhu Di leave this unique seedling for his brother?
Of course not! Cut the grass and remove the roots! During the vigil, Zhu Yunxi suddenly encountered a bizarre fire and died in the sea of fire. Who set this fire? I believe that if you don't say it, everyone can understand it.
summary
Zhu Di is actually not a cruel person, he just can't restrain his heart's desire for power. The reason why he would be so cruel to his nephew and brother was entirely to satisfy his heart's desire for supreme imperial power.
Although this is cruel, why is it not a requirement for a good politician?