HongwuTen years, the prince Zhu BiaoHappy to have the second son, and his biological mother is the second concubine, Lü, Zhu Yuanzhang Name this child as Zhu Yunwen .
As an emperor who likes children more, Zhu Yuanzhang loved Zhu Yunwen very much, but he did not expect that in the future, the child would take over the authority of Ming Dynasty from him and become the second emperor of Ming Dynasty .
According to family status, Zhu Yunwen was not Zhu Biao's eldest son, nor Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest grandson . Zhu Yuanzhang, who focused on blood, naturally could not consider the matter of his grandson. After all, Zhu Biao was still the only heir to the throne at that time.
But fate is a mess. Zhu Biao's eldest son Zhu Xiongying died prematurely at the age of 8. Zhu Xiongying is Zhu Biao's eldest son, and his biological mother is the Crown Princess Chang.
After Chang's death, Lü became Zhu Biao's concubine, and Zhu Yunwen became Zhu Biao's eldest son.
Zhu Yunwen was very smart and studious since childhood, and was very filial. Every time Zhu Biao got sick, Zhu Yunwen would be careful to serve him, never leaving him, day and night.
Later, Zhu Biao died early, and Zhu Yunwen was filial and was filial. Due to excessive sadness, he quickly lost weight. Zhu Yuanzhang felt very distressed. He seemed to see Zhu Biao's shadow in Zhu Yunwen, thinking that The Ming Dynasty had endured too much killing. The successor, who was kind at the time, made Zhu Yunwen the crown prince .
All of this seems to be natural and there are not many ups and downs, but in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang also thought a lot about this decision. After all, he still has many excellent sons. King Yan Zhu Di is one of the sons he cherishes the most.
But King of Yan is not the legitimate or the eldest in terms of identity, and is too similar to Zhu Yuanzhang in terms of personality, so no matter which point it considers, Zhu Yuanzhang has no reason to choose Zhu Di.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that Zhu Yunwen would be changed by power, and he did not expect that Zhu Di would draw his sword and go south to attack Nanjing City.
Zhu Di's troops were at the city, and Zhu Yunwen lit a fire in the palace, but he disappeared from there since then. So how did Zhu Di deal with the wife and children of Emperor Jianwen ? The truth behind
is very sad, let’s take a look together.
Emperor Jianwen forgot his original intention
Zhu Yuanzhang was an emperor who had a lot of ideas and loved to study the gains and losses of the courts of all dynasties. He was unwilling to follow the old path of the previous dynasty and was determined to create eternal achievements for the Ming Dynasty.
At the beginning of the throne, there were always worries on the northern border of the Ming Dynasty. Northern Yuan regime was eyeing the opportunity to counterattack, which made Zhu Yuanzhang unable to sleep at all.
Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang was still a prolific emperor. While he was diligent in politics, he did not forget to work in the harem and gave birth to 26 sons.
Zhu Yuanzhang believed that even if he was loyal to his subjects, he could not compare to his sons, so he handed over the important task of defending the Ming Dynasty to his sons.
Since you want to give your sons an important task, you have to give your name first. So you divided your son into vassal kings, among which the nine older princes were named:
King of Qin, King of Jin , King of Yan, King of Dai, King of Valley , King of Liao, King of Ning , King of Qing, and King of Su, collectively known as the nine King of Sai .
It is worth mentioning that the vassal kings enfeoffed by Zhu Yuanzhang had great real power. When they were stationed in the frontier, they could have their own armored guards, with the number of them reaching tens of thousands.
When the court officials saw these vassal kings, they were automatically short of the three points. Even some major events and military mobilizations in were not implemented without the permission of the vassal kings.
This means that the vassal kings have a high degree of autonomy in the local area, which is a great threat to the central government. After Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, he was very afraid of the power of these uncles, so he was eager to reduce the vassals and completely forgot the original intention he had expressed to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Faced with the respect of the vassal kings, Zhu Yunwen expressed his opinion to Zhu Yuanzhang, namely:
Brave it with virtue and rituals, if not, the land will be cut off, if not, the person will be changed, and if not, the person will be placed, and if not, the person will be attacked.
Zhu Yuanzhang expressed his acquiescent to Zhu Yunwen's strategy, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that Zhu Yunwen skipped the previous two soft policies and wanted to cut off the land when he came up.
Zhu Di raised an army to calm down the enemy
You should know that people have a rebellious mentality. If Zhu Yunwen really followed the method he said to Zhu Yuanzhang to cut off the vassal states for five steps, then he would not be so easy to lose the world, because the first two policies of gentleness, although the effect was not good, it was an excuse to win people's hearts, defeat each one and make a famous army.
Zhu Yunwen skipped these two steps, which meant he lost the opportunity.
In the case of reducing the vassals, Zhu Yunwen's two confidants Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng had a disagreement. Qi Tai believed that reducing the vassals would require the most powerful King of Yan first, but Huang Zicheng believed that picking the soft ones would be the first to pick the soft ones. Zhu Yunwen took the latter's suggestion, which gave the King of Yan a chance to prepare.
Zhu Yunwen's reduction of the vassal states was very disturbing. He not only wanted the land of the vassal kings, but also their lives. The Zhou king was deposed as a commoner, and the Xiang king died of self-immolation. The Qi king, Dai king, and Min king were deposed and exiled one after another. It would be strange if Zhu Di didn't rebel, because it was his turn next. In the first year of Jianwen , Zhu Di swore an oath to announce the world in Beiping , and officially launched a war to rectify the crisis under the banner of clearing the king's side. A three-year battle of Jingnan began.
In the early days of the war, Zhu Di did not have an advantage. After all, he was just a local vassal king, and Zhu Yunwen was the emperor who owned the entire court. He was much better than the King of Yan in terms of military quantity, food and grass reserves, or the support of the people.
However, Zhu Di was a general who fought in the south and the north. His leadership ability to lead troops far overwhelmed the generals under Zhu Yunwen. As the war lengthened, Zhu Yunwen began to be impatient and committed many taboos in military strategists. It was even more common to change generals at the last minute.
In the end, Zhu Yunwen played a good hand and ruined his hand. Zhu Di's troops were at the city of Nanjing. King Gu and Duke Cao opened the city gate to welcome the surrender, proclaiming that Zhu Di's success in Jingnan .
The fate of Emperor Jianwen’s wife and children
Zhu Di entered Nanjing City and looked at the thick smoke in the palace. He knew that he had won, but what he could not have imagined was that Zhu Yunwen disappeared out of thin air.
No matter how Zhu Di sent someone to flip the palace several times, he couldn't find Zhu Yunwen. He couldn't see anyone alive or dead, which made Zhu Di very uncomfortable, and his discomfort would accompany him for the rest of his life.
Zhu Yunwen disappeared out of thin air, but he was unable to take away all his wife and children. His queen Ma died in the fire, and Zhu Di ordered people to bury him.
Empress Ma gave birth to two sons for Zhu Yunwen , the eldest son was Zhu Wenkui . After Emperor Jianwen became emperor, he was appointed as the crown prince. He disappeared with Zhu Yunwen in the Jingnan Battle. Some people also said that he also died in the fire.
second son is Zhu Wengui . His fate is not as good as his brother. Zhu Yunwen did not take this son away. When Zhu Di found him, he was only two years old. Perhaps Zhu Yunwen thought that a two-year-old doll was easily exposed, so he left him in the palace.
Zhu Di looked at Zhu Wengui. He knew that he could not kill him because he also wanted to save the hearts of the people. Therefore, he imprisoned the two-year-old baby in Fengyang and ordered people to support him. It is known in history as Jianshu .
In this way, Zhu Wengui was imprisoned for more than fifty years. After Ming Yingzong launched the gate change and restored his revenge, he hated the days of imprisonment and developed compassion for Zhu Wengui. So he not only built a house for him, but also married his wife for him, and then let him regain his freedom.
But at this time, Zhu Wengui had become a low-minded person with low intelligence, and even he couldn't tell the difference between . He was regained his freedom and did not enjoy the happiness brought by freedom, and died soon after.
From this we can see that the fate of Zhu Yunwen’s wife and children is very sad, especially Zhu Wengui has been imprisoned for more than 50 years. This kind of life is scary.
References: "History of Ming Dynasty"/"General History of China", etc.
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