, let’s analyze Zhu Di . I personally suspect that there is a mystery behind Zhu Di's death. The following opinions are purely personal speculations. If you don't like it, don't criticize it.
Zhu Di officially designated Beijing as the capital in the 19th year of Yongle . After he took all the official seals from Nanjing with the word "Jingshi" to Beijing, he then made another set in Nanjing, starting with Nanjing and no longer calling it "Jingshi".
However, the process of establishing the capital in Beijing was very unsatisfactory. First, in March of the 18th year of Yongle, when Beijing city was about to be completed, an uprising of unknown origin broke out in Shandong, which was Tang Saier's Uprising. The origin of this was written in history. It is White Lotus , but this reason sounds nonsense, because Shandong is the only way for transportation from Nanjing to Beijing, and this uprising is aimed at moving the capital.
Then it was April of the 20th year of Yongle. Just four months after the completion of Beijing City, the palace's landmark buildings Fengtian Hall , Huagai Hall , and Jinshen Hall were set on fire.
Under normal circumstances, if the palace is burned like this, the minister should write a letter to comfort him. But the ministers in the Ming Dynasty were different. They told Zhu Di that you deserved to move the capital. Retribution has come, Zhu Di was imprisoned a lot, and it took Xiao Yi, the head of the household department, to calm him down.
In June, just two months after the burning of the three main halls, Zhu Di received information from Jinyiwei that the Oara tribe invaded Hami . Arutai will also come to Koubian. Just like he had made an appointment with the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government to make trouble together, Zhu Di couldn't sit still.
In July, Zhu Di ordered Liaodong, Shandong, Shanxi and other places to select elites and gather in Beijing to prepare for the attack on Alutai.
The strange thing is that at the beginning of the month, Zhu Di issued an order to mobilize troops. At the end of the month, Zhu Di received intelligence that Arutai had escaped. From the time Zhu Di ordered to mobilize troops to Arutai to get the news, run away, and then send it back to Beijing, the whole process only took more than 20 days. Arutai got the news a little too fast, as fast as someone tipping off the news. I don’t know how Zhu Di feels. Anyway, in August Zhu Di decided that he must beat him next year.
In November, Zhu Di summoned Fang Bin, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, Xia Yuanji, Shangshu of the Ministry of Hubu, and Wuzhong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, to study the Northern Expedition the following year. In the end, the three people just agreed, and the answer was that there was no money, that is, you have to stay at home, no problem, and if you go out to fight, there is not enough money. Zhu Di has been in office for more than 20 years. He has done all the most expensive things in Chinese history, including conquering Mongolia in the north, conquering Jiaozhi in the south, building the Grand Canal , and building the city of Beijing. Zhu Di has a way to make money, and he has a lot of it. money. But when these three people opened their mouths, Zhu Di knew that they were conspiring to deceive him because they didn't want him to lead the troops in the war.
Xia Yuanji and Wuzhong were imprisoned at that time. Fang Bin, Minister of the Ministry of War, committed suicide because he was afraid, but it was useless. Zhu Di ordered his body to be whipped. From the uprising in Shandong in the 18th year of Yongle, to the fire in the three main halls, and the simultaneous troubles caused by , Wala, and Alutai, plus Zhu Di wanted to go to the Northern Expedition and the minister said he had no money, all of this was aimed at Zhu Di's policies. . Zhu Di felt that he could not speak well, so starting from the 20th year of Yongle, he went on the Northern Expedition for three consecutive years at the age of more than sixty years old. Didn’t your minister say you have no money? Then Yongle Emperor will tell you what it means to be rich. He goes once a year.
Zhu Di's Northern Expedition was not for fighting, because Lan Yu went on the Northern Expedition in the autumn, and took advantage of the winter to annihilate others. Zhu Di set out in spring, taking advantage of the abundant water and grass. He went for a spring outing. Safety came first. It didn't matter whether he hit anyone or not. In fact, it was to lead troops and control the army, and indirectly control the court. However, during the three years of Zhu Di's Northern Expedition, something went wrong every year.
In September of the 20th year of Yongle, when Zhu Di returned from the Northern Expedition, he sent the great scholar Zuo Chunfang, Yang Shiqi, , the Minister of Rites, Lu Zhen, and the Minister of Official Affairs, Jian Yi, to Jinyiwei Prison. History writes that it was because Yang Shiqi said something wrong that made Zhu Di unhappy.This reality is not necessarily the case. Yang Shiqi was imprisoned by Zhu Di in the twelfth year of Yongle. These people are standard princelings. They may not be up to some conspiracy and conspiracy that was discovered by Zhu Di.
Then in May of the 21st year of Yongle, King Zhao Zhu Gaosui was in Beijing. As a result, someone reported that Meng Xian, the commander of the Changshan Central Guard, and Peng Xu, the commander of the Yulin Guard avant-garde, colluded with the eunuch in the palace and prepared to drug him. Kill Zhu Di and then elect Zhu Gaosui to succeed him. For this matter, Zhu Di personally asked Zhu Gaosui, but Zhu Gaosui looked confused and said he didn't know at all.
Prince Zhu Gaochi has been supervising the country for many years. As the vassal king, Zhu Gaoji has no chance at all. This is a typical example of evildoers complaining first, because it came true in the second year. On his way back from the north, Zhu Di was accompanied only by Yang Rong, Jin Youzi, , and an eunuch named Hai Shou. If foreign ministers and eunuchs get together, nothing good will happen.
In July, Zhu Di died suddenly in Yumuchuan without any warning. After that, these three people also followed the example of Zhao Gao and Li Si of Qin Dynasty , and made a secret. The fact that the secret was not mourned was abnormal. After Yang Rong and Jin Youzi killed Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne smoothly, so Zhu Gaochi's ass was dirty. A large number of civil servants who had been imprisoned by Zhu Di were appointed, and they were still in high positions. Civil servants rose again just as they had supported Zhu Yunwen.
