As we all know, the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty was Zhu Yunjiao, the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang. Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang left this position to his crown prince Zhu Biao, but unfortunately Zhu Biao died young, and Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated again and again, passing the throne to the emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Yunjiao. Zhu Yunjiao had a weak personality, and in order to allow him to sit on the throne in the future, Zhu Yuanzhang executed all his old subordinates who had followed him for decades. This is also one of the reasons why Zhu Yuanzhang went on a killing spree in the later period.
Zhu Yunjiao
Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that his sons were not good stubble, and in order to prevent turmoil in the capital, he issued an edict before his death: the kings were not allowed to enter the capital without an edict, and even if they entered the capital, they could not face the saint together. One person must go before the other can step into the capital. Under zhu Yuanzhang's control, Zhu Yunjiao successfully inherited the throne. For several of his uncles, the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao was worried. These people are veterans of the battlefield, and now they are self-respecting. If they don't cut the domain, what if they rebel one day?
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So at the suggestion of Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others, the young Zhu Yunjiao began his own road of cutting the domain. Although Zhu Yunjiao was young, he was not stupid, and he also knew how to pick soft persimmons to pinch, so when cutting the domain, he first started with Zhu Qi[sù], the weak king of Zhou, and Zhu Gui, the daiwang. After defeating five clan kings in a year, Emperor Jianwen's butcher's knife was finally aimed at Zhu Di, the King of Yan.
Zhu Di was one of the most powerful of the Nine Kings of Shubian in the early Ming Dynasty, and he had followed the general Xu Da since childhood, and was much more sophisticated than Emperor Jianwen in terms of political experience and leading troops to fight. After the death of his eldest brother Zhu Biao, he already had some opinions about his father passing the throne to his nephew Zhu Yunjiao, and now that Zhu Yunjiao had put the knife on his neck, how could he tie his hands and grab it? Therefore, Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingnan in the name of "Qing Jun's Side".
Zhu Di stills
In the process of blocking Zhu Diyan's army from going south, Zhu Yunjiao was also frequently faint, and his confidant minister Huang Zicheng and others were a group of acid Confucian students who talked about soldiers on paper. In addition, there were people in Nanjing who ventilated messages for Zhu Di, so Zhu Di hit all the way to Nanjing City. Emperor Jianwen saw that the general situation had gone, so he set a fire in the imperial city. When Zhu Di invaded the imperial city, only a few charred remains were found in the ashes.
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The eunuch next to him said that it was the corpse of Emperor Jianwen and empress, as well as his eldest son Zhu Wenkui, but Zhu Di did not believe it. There are also rumors that Emperor Jianwen escaped and became a monk and lived in seclusion in a temple. Others say that Emperor Jianwen fled to a small island in Southeast Asia and secretly gathered strength to retake the throne. As the saying goes: "If you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid of thieves", and this throne was originally emperor Of Jianwen," so Zhu Di sent people around to investigate the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen.
Zhu Di
In the fifth year of Yongle, Hu Kedu accepted Zhu Di's secret dispatch to Hu Qi and began to investigate the traces of Emperor Jianwen outside. And this investigation was fourteen years, during which he experienced the funeral of his mother, and he asked to go back to the funeral, but he did not get permission. In addition to Hu Qian, Zhu Di also sent another inspection team, that is, Zheng He who went to the West. Although the land and water routes marched at the same time, there was still no trace of Emperor Jianwen.
Hu Qian
And in the twenty-first year of Yongle, Hu Hao suddenly returned to the dynasty. After Hu Xi returned to the court, he immediately went to Xuanfu to meet Zhu Di. Zhu Di was already resting at that time, but when he heard that Hu Hao had returned, he immediately got up and met him. Hu Xi told Zhu Di everything he had learned about Emperor Jianwen, and did not come out until he missed the four drums. From that day on, Zhu Di really dispelled the doubts in his heart and stopped letting people look for Emperor Jianwen.
Thinking about it, Hu Qian should have found out the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen, or Emperor Jianwen had died of illness, so Zhu Di was able to let down his guard. And Hu Qian himself also went through the Six Dynasties, more than sixty years ago. Because he was frugal and generous, and his mood was not colorful, he was compared to the famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was not until the seventh year of Emperor Ming's reign that Hu Died at the age of 89.