Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen
In the first year of Jianwen (1399), Daming Cao Guogong Li Jinglong went to Kaifeng in the name of Beibian, led his army to surround the Zhou palace, and arrested Zhou Wang Zhu Li.
Zhou Wang Zhu Ji is the fifth son of Zhu Yuanzhang , the half-brother of King Yan Zhu Di , and the fifth uncle of Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen.
In this year, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen began to officially reduce the vassal vassal, and his fourth uncle Zhu Di was the key target of rectification. Therefore, he took action from his fifth uncle Zhou Wang Zhu Xi. This is the so-called "knocking on the mountain to shake the tiger". (The king of Zhou is the mother and brother of Yan. To cut off Zhou is to cut off the limbs of Yan.)
Of course, there is no reason to attack the fifth uncle Zhu Ju.. At the critical moment, someone sent Dongfeng to report to the court that King Zhou Zhu Ji intended to rebel.
Who is the whistleblower? Zhu You's second son, King of Runan, is Zhu Youhui. (In the Jianwen, Youyi tried to accuse his father of treason against King Ding, but his father was deprived and imprisoned.)
Why did Zhu Youyi accuse his father of treason? He wanted to get his father's princely title.
Although he is also a king, he is only a county king under the prince. The future title of King of Zhou will definitely be inherited by his brother Zhu Youdun. But he wanted to be a prince so much that he became obsessed with it, and the shortcut was to kill his relatives and drag his father and brother into trouble.
As a result, a letter of denunciation from King Runan entered the capital, and the entire family of King Zhou, old and young, were exiled to Menghua, Yunnan. More than two years later, they were imprisoned in Nanjing. (Sent Cao Guogong Li Jinglong to lead troops to Henan to besiege the royal city. He took over the prince's residence and forced the king and his son, and all the officials to the capital. He reduced the prince to a commoner and moved to Yunnan. His wife was in a different place, and a hole in the wall was used for food and drink. Be extremely embarrassed.)
However, Zhu Youyi's dream of becoming a prince did not come true. Emperor Jianwen's original intention was to cut down the vassal, and it was impossible to cut off a Zhou king and establish a new Zhou king. However, because of his meritorious service, he was the only one in the Zhou family who was not implicated and continued to be his King of Runan.
Zhu Dingwang Zhu Ji
1402, Zhu Di invaded Yingtian, overthrew his nephew Emperor Jianwen and established himself as emperor, known as Ming Chengzu in history.
The day after Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, he restored Zhu Ji's title of prince, gave him a salary of five thousand stones, and ordered him to return to his original fiefdom.
Zhu Ji became the king of Zhou again from a prisoner. After that, he wanted to settle accounts with his second son Zhu Youyi.
However, his son Zhu Youyi was also a prince after all, and he could not dispose of it at will, so Zhu Di appealed to Zhu Di and asked for Zhu Youyi's execution.
However, this memorial Zhu Di did not pass. He may have thought that by killing Zhu Youxuan, 's younger brother Zhu Rui would become notorious for killing his own children. After
, the emperor made peace. Not only did he save Zhu Youhuo's life, but he also retained his title of county king, but moved him to Dali, Yunnan. Firstly, Zhu Di wanted to use this to establish his authority, and secondly, to avoid the awkward encounter between the enemy father and son. (When Emperor Taizong came to the throne, his father Shishi was released and restored to the title. He then petitioned for punishment, but Taizong misinterpreted it.)
In order to eliminate the negative influence of killing and overthrowing his nephew Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di devoted himself to the cause of royal family unity.
As a result, he has been working hard to ease the relationship between father and son Zhu You and Zhu You.
After moving Zhu Youyi to Yunnan, he was worried that he would not be able to think about it. In November of that year, Zhu Di specially sent a letter to Zhu Youyi, saying: "You are far away, and I will never forget it. Now I will give you coins, silk and other things." Self-cultivation and prudent conduct, devoting yourself to poetry and calligraphy, in order to support me."
In November of the second year of Yongle (1404), Zhu Youhuang came to Nanjing from Yunnan to have an audience with . Soon, Zhu Youdun, the prince of Zhou Dynasty, also came to pay homage to him. When meeting , Zhu Di specially arranged for the two brothers to meet to connect with each other.
However, Zhu Rui has always disagreed with this unfilial son returning to Henan, and the relationship between father and son has always been frozen here.
has been dead for 20 years.
In the leap twelfth month of the twentieth year of Yongle's reign (1422), Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, Zhu Youhui's biological mother, Feng, passed away.Zhu Di wrote to Zhu You: "The Queen Mother of Runan is dead, and her daughter-in-law should be mourned. If she and the palace officials are in Dali, she will be taken back."
In this way, Zhu Youyi finally returned to Henan in the name of his mother's guardianship. Kaifeng. A large family lives in the Sangui Yamen of Kaifeng.
Two years later, in 1424, Zhu Di died at the age of 64. Prince Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne, and was known as Ming Renzong in history.
1425, Zhu Gaochi died. He only reigned for one year. His eldest son, Zhu Zhanji, succeeded him and was known as Ming Xuanzong in history.
Three months later, Zhu Ji also died at the age of 54. His posthumous title was "Ding", that is, King Zhou Ding. The crown prince, Zhu Youdun, succeeded him and became the new king of Zhou.
His father passed away, Zhu Youxuan's dream of becoming a prince came to life again. "I want to be a prince, I want to be a prince!" Zhu Youyi was too persistent.
Zhu Youyi still dreams of becoming a prince at this time, for three reasons:
First, his elder brother Zhu Youdun is kind and sincere. Secondly, Zhu Youyi and Zhu Youdou are direct children, and their mothers are both Feng, the daughter of Song Guogong Feng Mao. Third, Zhu Youdun was sterile and had no offspring.
In other words, if the eldest son Zhu Youdou is no longer alive, then the next brother will be the next king of Zhou, and the next king of Zhou must be the second son Zhu Youxuan.
However, ginger is still old and spicy. In order to prevent his second son from succeeding to the throne, his father Zhu You adopted a son for his eldest son Zhu Youdou.
The child adopted by Zhu Youdou happened to choose Zhu Youhui's eldest son Zhu Ziyi.
This made Zhu Youyi very depressed. He had been looking forward to it for a long time, but the throne passed from him and fell into the hands of his son. Moreover, this son has now become a nephew and is not close to him, because at the time of adoption, Zhu Youyi I'm not yet one year old. ( There was a son of the same heir apparent, and a legitimate son was born. Youzu had no children, and the eldest son of the concubine Youzu was born a few months later. King Ding ordered you to be the queen of you, and you loved him very much. He was very old, so King Ding passed away, and he was the heir to the crown prince. Closed. ) What to do with
? After thinking hard, Zhu Youyi decided to seize the throne in two steps. After his father passed away, Zhu Youxuan began to put his ideas into practice.
Zhou Xian Wang Zhu Youdou
The first step was to snatch back his son and cut off the incense of his brother Zhu Youdou.
As a result, he began to find various reasons to ask his brother Zhu Youdun for a son. When he failed to get his wish, he repeatedly cursed and made trouble. Zhu Youdou was a kind man and loved his son. Finally, Zhu Youhuan took Zhu Ziyi out of the palace. ("There is a wish that the heir king is unfortunate and has no children, so he is the heir. So he tried every means to seize his son and return him, but when he failed, he became angry. The heir king did not get his son, so he sent his son to return to his home. ")
The second step is to go to the imperial court and frame his brother Zhu Youdun.
This time, Zhu Youyi used roundabout tactics and framed the fourth brother Xiangfu County Prince Zhu Youjuan who had the best relationship with his eldest brother Zhu Youdun.
In the third year of Xuande (1428), Du commanded Wang You to report to the court, saying that he had found a letter written by Zhu Youjuan, the content of which was to invite Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui (the third uncle of Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji) to join in the rebellion.
Third uncle is plotting rebellion? Zhu Zhanji, Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, did not believe it because in 1427, Zhu Gaosui took the initiative to hand over his palace guards to show his loyalty and became a bare prince.
However, rebellion is a big deal. It is better to believe that it exists than to believe that it does not exist. Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Zhanji ordered that Wang You and Zhu Youjuan be summoned to the capital for questioning and interrogation.
Zhu Youjuan was confused after seeing the letter. He categorically denied that this letter was written by him, and suspected that the matter was framed by his fifth brother, Prince of Xin'an Zhu Youxi, because his fifth brother had always been at odds with him.
At this time, Zhou Wang Zhu Youdun also had evidence that Zhu Youxi sent people to and from Zhangde (Zhu Gaosui's fiefdom), and reported the evidence to the court. Then, the people who helped Zhu Youxi write fake books and engrave and fake were also arrested.
As a result, Zhu Youxi was summoned to Beijing. When faced with the evidence, he confessed everything. This was all at the instigation of his second brother Zhu Youxuan. () He sent a letter to the King of Zhou, saying that King Xiangfu suspected what King Xin'an had done and that he should order Xin'an to come to the capital to question him, so that the matter would be clear. He also summoned King Youxi of Xin'an. Before Youxi arrived, the King of Zhou sent someone Chizou told him that the king of Xin'an had sent people to Zhangde for a secret visit. When he returned suddenly, he checked the sun and moon and combined them with the book. He said: "That's it." The official ordered to use brocade clothes to guard the official school and went to Henan. Qianzhi Those who were sent. They also found people who forged books and seals sent by King Xin'an. They all took them to the capital, hunted them, and ambush them.)
After the truth came to light, Zhu Youyi and Zhu Youxi were both demoted to common people. Zhu Youhui's dream of becoming a prince also came to an end, and his eldest son Zhu Ziyi was also deposed as a commoner. Xuanzong also denounced Zhu Youyi in the edict: "He harbors evil intentions and deceives the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth. What he did was unfilial, unfaithful, unkind, and unbrotherly. How can anyone with the slightest bit of heart be willing to do this? It's human ethics to kill each other in the same spirit. Change can be shameful or painful."
In the fourth year of Zhengtong (1439), Zhu Youdun died at the age of 60. His posthumous title was "Xian" and he was known as King Zhou Xian in history. It is necessary to mention that Zhu Youdou this prince is also a talented man. He is an important dramatist in the history of Chinese opera. The 31 dramas he created have been handed down to this day. He is one of the dramatists of the Yuan and Ming dynasties. The one with the most surviving works.
Because the original heir Zhu Ziyi was snatched back by his second brother Zhu Youxuan, and Zhu Youxuan had no heirs, the title of King of Zhou was passed on to his fourth brother Zhu Youjuan (the third brother Zhu Youxuan's line was extinct) based on the principle of succession between elder brothers.
Poor Zhu Youyi was too clever in his calculations. In order to realize his dream of becoming a prince, he cheated his father, his brother, his son, and also himself. In the end, he became a commoner from a wealthy prince. Even the year of his death was not recorded, and he was truly submerged in the long river of history.
Zhu Youyi (stills)
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