Ming Chengzu Zhu Di had three sons, namely the eldest son Zhu Gaoxu, the second son Zhu Gaoxu, and the third son Zhu Gaoxuan. All three were born to Empress Xu (Xu Da's eldest daughter), but the three had very different personalities. The eldest son, Zhu Gaozi, was gentle in temperament and fond of learning, but he was weak in humanities and a little disabled, and did not play an important role in Zhu Di's later rebellion. The second son, Zhu Gaoxu, and the third son, Zhu Gaoxu, were fierce in temperament and lawless. Among them, Zhu Gaoxu was able to fight a good war, and made great contributions in Zhu Di's later rebellion. At that time, in order to encourage Zhu Gaoxu to actively fight the world, Zhu Di issued a blank check to Zhu Gaoxu: Your brother is weak, and in the future, the world may be yours.
Zhu Di
As early as the Hongwu period, the second son Zhu Gaoxu was summoned by Zhu Yuanzhang to Nanjing to study. However, in the process of learning, Zhu Gaoxu's words and deeds were frivolous and he could not calm down to learn knowledge, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very disgusted with him, so Zhu Yuanzhang personally designated Zhu Gaoxu as the son of the King of Yan, and only gave Zhu Gaoxu a county king. If life had been peaceful, Zhu Gaoxu would probably have lived a rich life of a Ming dynasty prince in a fiefdom, ending the rest of his life. However, the trajectory of his life was completely disrupted during zhu di's battle, and his father Zhu Di made a big joke for him.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had just died, and Zhu Di took Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaoxu into the dynasty and arrived in Nanjing. In Nanjing, Zhu Gaoxu was idle and often did some misconduct, and his uncle Xu Huizu saw it and reprimanded him once, but Zhu Gaoxu was resentful, stole Xu Huizu's BMW and returned to Beiping, and killed officials and people on the way because of various small things. Emperor Zhu Yunjiao was preparing to cut down the domain at that time, so the hundred officials used this to impeach Zhu Di, the King of Yan, for his lawlessness and connived at his son's murder.
In 1399, Zhu Di was forced to rebel, and because the eldest son Zhu Gaoxu was obese, Zhu Di ordered his eldest son Zhu Gaozi to stay in the Beiping base camp, and he himself led Zhu Gaoxu on a southern expedition. The Battle of Jingnan was very difficult for Zhu Di, and he almost lost his life several times, thanks to the bravery of his second son Zhu Gaoxu. Especially at Puzikou, Zhu Di was defeated by the Southern Army, fortunately Zhu Gaoxu led the army to help, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable, so Zhu Di prepared a picture cake for Zhu Gaoxu, when Zhu Di said to Zhu Gaoxu: "Work hard!" Shizi often gets sick." This sentence made Zhu Gaoxu see the hope of taking the concubine, and he thought that as long as he established enough merit, he could become a son of the world, even a prince and an emperor.
However, the reality was a heavy punch in the face, and after the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di seemed to have amnesia, and did not mention this matter at all, and also decisively created the crown prince of the eldest son, Zhu Gaozi. Seeing that Li Chu was hopeless, Zhu Gaoxu was full of resentment, although he was crowned king of Han and his domain was in Yunnan, he just did not leave the capital, constantly looking for opportunities to frame Zhu Gaoxu and wait for the opportunity to take the wife. Once, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaoxu jointly paid homage to Zhu Yuanzhang's tomb of filial piety. Because Zhu Gaozi was obese and his legs and feet were not flexible, he fell on a heel. Zhu Gaoxu said sneeringly in the back: "The predecessors fell, and the posterity knew the police." Zhu Gaoji's son Zhu Zhanji was very upset after hearing this, and resolutely took over the stubble and said: "Even later generations know the police." ”
Zhu Gaoxu stayed in the capital for a long time and befriended the ministers, and Zhu Di also understood that Zhu Gaoxu had the intention of taking the concubine, so he changed Zhu Gaoxu's fiefdom to Le'an, Shandong, and forcibly ordered Zhu Gaoxu to take the domain. But even if Zhu Gaoxu left the capital, he still dreamed of becoming an emperor in the Spring and Autumn Period, and arranged a lot of eyeliner in the capital, always paying attention to the every move of the imperial court.
Zhu Gaozi
In the twenty-second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1424 IN the Western Calendar), the Yongle Emperor died. Zhu Gaozi succeeded to the throne, that is, Akihito. When Akihito ascended the throne, he also knew that Zhu Gaoxu did not obey him. However, Emperor Akihito considered that he was inferior to Zhu Gaoxu in every way after all, not to mention that the Yongle Emperor was suspected of reneging on his word on the throne, so Emperor Akihito gave Zhu Gaoxu a lot of rewards, hoping that Zhu Gaoxu would be able to share some peace and not cause trouble. Whether Zhu Gaoxu still thought about rebellion during Akihito's reign is unknown, because Akihito died after about a year of reign. At this time, Zhu Gaoxu's crown prince and successor Zhu Zhanji were in Nanjing, and Zhu Gaoxu thought that the time had come, and sent assassins to intercept Zhu Zhanji who had returned to Beijing on the road, and prepared to rebel. However, due to insufficient preparation, the interception and killing of Zhu Zhanji was not successful.
This was followed by the ascension of Emperor Mingxuanzong's son Zhu Zhanji. After the interception failed, Zhu Gaoxu's start of the army was delayed for several months. When he raised an army, Zhu Zhanji had already made full preparations and personally marched. The imperial court gathered a large number of troops to besiege its fiefdom, and in desperation, Zhu Gaoxu chose to surrender.
Zhu Zhanji
After Zhu Gaoxu surrendered, the imperial court ministers wrote to him, requesting that he be executed, but Zhu Zhanji remembered that he was Uncle Wang, so he imprisoned him in the imperial city.
However, Zhu Gaoxu, who was in the forbidden land of the high wall, was quite uncomfortable. He felt that he was Zhu Di's son, a hero of Jingnan, the younger brother of Emperor Akihito, and the uncle of the current emperor, who was now imprisoned and insulted, so Zhu Gaoxu was very angry at what had happened to him. When Zhu Gaoxu was angry, his nephew Zhu Zhanji came to see this uncle, and it was reasonable to say that Zhu Zhanji really meant nothing else, and his father, Emperor Akihito, zhu Gaozi, did not have many living brothers, so Zhu Zhanji did not plan to do anything to Zhu Gaoxu. On the contrary, Zhu Gaoxu, the elder brother, did not know whether he was imprisoned here and was not convinced, or whether he wanted to tease his nephew, so he took advantage of Zhu Zhanji's lack of attention to stretch his leg and stumble on him. Zhu Zhanji is the emperor of the great Ming Dynasty today, and he was thrown into a mouthful of mud in front of everyone, and he did not laugh out of his teeth when he passed it out.
The extent of Zhu Zhanji's anger can be imagined, he ordered someone to find a large copper cylinder, and in turn locked Zhu Gaoxu at the bottom of the cylinder, at this time Zhu Zhanji was still limited to teaching Zhu Gaoxu a lesson, and did not intend to kiss his uncle's life. At this time, if Zhu Gaoxu took a soft suit, he would not be affected in the end, but Zhu Gaoxu, the elder brother, was not soft, he not only did not obey the soft but also had the ability to do it, and with his infinite strength, he actually lifted up a copper cylinder weighing several hundred pounds, and also walked around his nephew Zhu Zhanji. Zhu Zhanji was completely angry, you rebelled against me and put up with you, not only did you not kill you, but also imprisoned you and raised you, but you did not repent and violently violated me, so I don't need to endure anymore.
In addition, there are many old departments of his own uncle, and there are also some people in the DPRK who support him, and it is not certain that one day he will provoke a coup in the palace, and then his own line of thrones can still be guaranteed. Will your children and grandchildren survive?
Therefore, Zhu Zhanji believed that Zhu Gaoxu's life was always a time bomb, and staying there might bring great hidden dangers to Daming. Zhu Zhanji ordered the people to suppress the copper cylinder to death, put firewood around the copper cylinder, ignite the firewood, and directly burn Zhu Gaoxu to death in the copper cylinder. Zhu Zhanji was an honest man and a good emperor, but honest people were forced to be anxious and prone to violently eating knives, and the consequences were quite serious. And Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, really blamed himself, and became the fish on other people's boards, and he didn't know how to restrain, and finally walked into the abyss of death with his own son.