My name is Zhu Biao, just call me Biao Brother. We are all born bitterly, not so exquisite. I was born in September 1355, the fifteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, when my father Zhu Yuanzhang was leading his poor brothers to attack Nanjing, and there was no time to take care of me.
But when he knew that he had me, he was still very happy, after all, he was the eldest son, and the anti-yuan cause was finally followed by someone. When I first became a father, when people talk about having sons, am I a mascot? Can you still assist by brushing the baby's face?
Zhu Biao uniform statue
As a result, Nanjing was really taken. From 1364 to the twenty-fourth year of the reign, I became the son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the King of Wu, and four years later, I finally became the crown prince of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. From sending people under the fence to king's landing, my identity has always been the "son" of others.
Well, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty is our father, the second emperor is our son, the third emperor is our brother, and the fourth emperor is our eldest nephew. I go, this Ming Dynasty three hundred years, with the Biao brother I still have a dime relationship?
To say that my father's trust in us is really from the heart, once let us sit firmly in the Fengtian Temple, for him to approve most of the music, you can first self-determination, and then report. It was really one person under ten thousand people, although hard but full of peak feeling.
The Emperor and the Crown Prince
So I worked hard to become a prince for twenty-four years. Those teachers from eastern Zhejiang who taught me culture, and the elders from Huaixi who watched me grow up, did not like my father's donkey temper very much, but they were very fond of me and expected it. Who let Biao Ge I not rely on appearance, rely on good temper, soft power and hard birth!
Although I had such a bold top configuration at the beginning, I still couldn't stop the fate of this thing, and I had to delete all my scenes twenty-five years later in Hongwu. Only my father and my son were left, staring wide-eyed and small-eyed in the empty Imperial Pole Hall.
I'm sorry, but I never felt that my importance was so indispensable, because my father was the most powerful Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty. You've all seen his portrait, haven't you? Just ask you are afraid or not? I was also afraid, but at the critical moment, only I could stop his violent temper.
Xu Da et al
My most respected teacher, Old Master Song Lian, was almost clicked by the grumpy old father. If it weren't for my mother and me doing whatever it took to dissuade me, it is estimated that the Hongwu Dynasty would have produced a Fang Xiaoru. We must not allow such a bad thing to happen in front of us.
To say that my father's misunderstanding of the readers is basically derived from Mencius's saying that "the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the king is light." You must know that my father was born to eat, born into death and struggled for fifteen years, and it was difficult to counterattack and become an emperor, which is too contrasting. He just had a little feeling, cold and "light", and as his son, I could fully appreciate his discomfort.
But as princes and readers, we can't let my father's nature come. Although what Mencius said is "not what the courtiers said", it is the golden and jade good fortune of governing the country, or it is mainly a warning reminder.
Old Zhu, Little Zhu, Ma Niangniang
From this, we suddenly discovered our own irreplaceability, that is, to appease the wayward and violent temper of emperor Lao Tzu as the son of man, to protect the readers of the world as the crown prince, and to let the light of rational civilization continue to shine under the bright tomorrow.
I would like to ask, in addition to my brother Biao, who else in the Ming Dynasty can criticize Zhu Yuanzhang's reverse scales? Oh, and my mother, Ma Niangniang. There should be applause here.
Of course, I also had to discipline my inattentive brothers of the clan kings. At home, they are all well-behaved babies, and when they arrive at the fiefdom, they are all free and scattered, arrogant bulls and forks do not want, and scatter wild disasters everywhere. As princes and eldest brothers, we must not only restrain education, but also have reasonable protection.
Prince, King of Qin, King of Jin, King of Yan
However, except for Zhu Di, the old Fourth Yan King here, he has hard wings and big ideas, in addition to Chinese name and English name, every day with the plug outside the pile of mixed, mention it is upset, we can't manage him.
When the Hongwu Dynasty first established, my father especially hoped that his children could come out and do things. He often said that the reason why the Song Dynasty was picked up by the Mongols and jumped into the sea was that no one in the old Zhao family came out to turn the tide at a critical moment.
Therefore, dividing the feudal domains is something that his old man has always wanted to do, of course, he also understands that the drawbacks of the division of the feudal domains are also obvious. So he took a few special moves to balance the two sides of the policy.
Zhu Di, King of Yan
The first step is to strengthen my authority. The team of my Eastern Palace almost includes all the important officials of the Hongwu Dynasty. My father-in-law is Chang Yuchun, and Blue Jade is my brother-in-law, is there a little bit of the taste of Song Taizu Teacher Zhao who was born in Luoyang Jiamaying?
To discuss the prestige of the military and political circles of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the founder Zhu Yuanzhang's father, it is estimated that the second generation is us: the chief crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, both literature and martial arts, the government and the public are unanimously praised, there is no second candidate. No one should disagree with that, right?
The second step is Zong Zhengquan. Specifically, I took the lead in managing the affairs of the Daming royal family, and all my father's princes were under my supervision. Especially those brothers who were crowned kings early and left the capital to take the throne.
Ming Dynasty Palace Castle
As the saying goes, the children of the poor are in charge of the family. However, the sudden wealth is easy to abolish a child, not to mention that in addition to me, only the second, third, and fourth elders have experienced the hardships of their fathers' entrepreneurship and seen the hardships of the people's livelihood.
Those little rabbit cubs in the future are no different from the second generation of the rich, don't say that they can't say that cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan and other cruel roles, that is, it is difficult to produce a Han Emperor.
Many people in the government and the public say that the old fourth is not a thing in the pool, so to speak, as long as the standard brother I reign for one day, the old fourth he is no longer irritable, and no matter how much like Zhu Yuanzhang, he will not become "Yongle". The reason is that our father once said that it is impossible to fight the world immediately, and it is impossible to rule the world immediately. The mistakes of the Mongols that year, Daming can not make another mistake.
Zhu Di, the King of Yan in military uniform
To say that the prince is like us, I am afraid it is unprecedented. There is no doubt on the top, there is a period on the bottom. When his father was still alive, he actively supported the prince's practice of governing the country.
Everything is the best arrangement, everything is a unique innovation in history. However, man is not as good as heaven. In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu in 1392, Biao Ge I failed to withstand the low immunity brought about by the long business trip, and died at the post of crown prince.
The luckiest crown prince in history is also the most unfortunate crown prince; the most luxurious start is the most regrettable ending. No way, we still don't have a destiny. The body is the capital of entrepreneurship, and this statement does not deceive me.
The early death of the prince who returned to the heart of the world was the most pathetic thing. I guess my dad didn't think about this situation either. The tragedy of Prince Zhenjin, the successor of Kublai Khan in the Yuan Dynasty, was also encountered by the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who lost the crown prince
Prince pit is vacant! My brothers, who had no idea, or who had no idea, inevitably wanted to move. Before leaving Beijing to take the domain, the old fourth Ah Di once told us with deep brotherly feelings that in the future, we would be emperors, he would be a virtuous king, and he would defend the border for Daming forever.
It all seems to be right in front of you. To be honest, the fourth elder has done a good job over the years. Liaodong and Monan are all slightly sound and colorful. In particular, he persuaded Naha to surrender and settle liaoyang at the bottom, which was deeply appreciated by the government and the public.
First with his father-in-law Xu Da, and then fighting independently, the fourth elder has been conscientiously concentrating on vertical management in the Shubian cause, and has become the second generation of the Ming Dynasty's military field.
Yiwen Prince Zhu Biao
It is no wonder that when Blue Jade returned from the Northern Expedition, he told me about the worries and worries of the fourth elder. After all, today is different from the past, and the King of Qin and The King of Jin are not as good as the King of Yan. Biao Brother I was in one day, and the fourth was the best auxiliary talent.
Now the Civilian Warlords of the Hongwu Generation have all been consumed by my father, and the balance has been broken. If we are the rulers of the world after fighting the world, then the fourth is the second entrepreneur in the special period.
From the one who asked for food to the emperor, how could Zhu Yuanzhang, no matter how powerful, be able to lay out three generations? It's just a pity that Zhu Yunwen is a weak scholar, not the lord of the great talent, and there is no destiny.
Zhu Biao cartoon painting
Regarding the fourth elder, I just want to say that it doesn't matter whether he hates or not, after all, he didn't kill Zhu Yunjiao. However, the Mandate of Heaven is very mysterious, or the old saying, "It is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to rule the world." Come out and grab, sooner or later you have to pay back, you are powerful, can your descendants still be so arrogant?
Can you dodge the first year, can you still dodge the fifteenth? (Note: The change of Tumu Fort occurred on August 15, 1449, the fourteenth year of the ming dynasty.) ）