This year is the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City. I also visited the Forbidden City a few days ago. The yellow tiles and red walls are magnificent and magnificent. With the blue sky and white clouds, the visual effect is particularly shocking.
In this issue, I will talk about the first master of the Forbidden City, the dark history of Ming Cheng Zu Zhu Di.
The Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City
Who is the Ming Cheng Zu Zhu Di? It was the famous Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty. Speaking of Emperor Yongle, in our impression, he is also considered to be a genius and general. He is particularly good in Wenzhi and martial arts, enough to be a good emperor who can shine through history.
Why do we have this impression? Because he has several great achievements, let me give you a few examples.
For example, the famous "Yongle Dadian" was edited and edited by the Emperor Yongle. Editing "Yongle Dadian" is considered Wenzhi, but what about martial arts?
Emperor Yongle is even more remarkable. He moved the capital of the Ming Dynasty from Nanjing to Beijing. Other dynasties were generals guarding the country. Unlike other emperors, Emperor Yongle was not afraid of death. He built the Forbidden City and sat in the north by himself. At the gate of the country, he was also personally conquered and attacked the Mongolian desert five times to wipe out the remaining forces in Mongolia. In addition to attacking Mongolia, he also sailed to the West, sending the famous Three Treasure Eunuch Zheng He six voyages to the West, leading an invincible fleet of more than 20,000 people, sweeping the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, preaching the prestige of the heavenly kingdom. It was decades before Columbus, who discovered the New World, and its fleet was hundreds of thousands more powerful than Columbus.
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Seeing this, do you think he is a great emperor?
However, in fact, he is the most hypocritical and cruel emperor in Chinese history, and he has had a very bad influence on Chinese civilization. These literary and martial arts on the surface of him have been deliberately performed by him for history. His sins cover shame.
Then what sin did he commit?
Students who are a little familiar with history must all know. After the death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang passed the throne to the crown prince Zhu Yunsong. The old emperor was afraid that the young little emperor’s town would not be able to hold the arrogant soldiers underneath, so he personally drove out the founding generals one by one. He also said in the "Huangming Zu Xun": "If there are traitors in the court, then the prince can After training the troops and waiting for the emperor to pass the secret edict, the princes can lead troops to fight against the traitorous officials.” Before his death, Zhu Yuanzhang specially wrote a letter to the Yan Wang Zhu Di, which probably means, “Your eldest brother, second brother, and third brother. Brother died early. You are the fourth in name, but you are actually the eldest. You have to lead your brothers to assess the situation, guard against border dangers on the border, and let the people live and work in peace at home, and don’t let me down on your expectations."
The old emperor is very hard-hearted, thinking about letting Zhu Di escort Zhu Yunxi, Zhu Di here is yang Feng, thinking about how to plot rebellion. As a result, just one year after the old emperor closed his eyes, Zhu Di launched the battle of Jingnan and rebelled under the banner of Qingjun.
What is the Qingjun side? There are treacherous officials around the emperor. I will clean up the treacherous officials according to the "Emperor Ming Zu Instructions". After speaking, he took the monk Yao Guangxiao, led the soldiers, and killed all the way from Beijing to Nanjing, usurping his nephew, Zhu Yunqi, who is also Emperor Jianwen.
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Can this reason stand? Of course not. You see, the ancestor's motto said that the prince can only send his troops until the emperor's secret edict, but what about you? It was the initiative to send troops, and the emperor sent troops to beat you, isn't it that you are obviously rebelling.
But no matter whether Zhu Di’s reasons are correct or not, in the end, they succeeded and became the emperor of Yongle with supreme power. Is he done?
did not. The real obstacle to his proclaiming the emperor was not his nephew Zhu Yunzhen, but the legitimacy crisis of the throne. This kind of legitimacy crisis makes him restless, makes him suspicious, makes him psychologically perverted, and makes him pay for the usurpation all his life. In order to cover up the fact of usurping, he has to do a series of cover-ups, cruelty, and perverted things.
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What sin did he do when he became the emperor? Below I will give you a list of the top 10 sins of Zhu Di after he became the throne.
1. If you don't recognize your biological mother, you will be unfilial
. You may have questions. After the death of his first three sons, why didn't Zhu Yuanzhang pass directly to the more mature fourth Zhu Di? Instead, it was passed on to the young and experienced emperor grandson Zhu Yunsong. Isn't this strange?
We must know that the ancient emperor came to the throne in accordance with the principle of "the eldest son".After the death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang had two choices. One was to pass the throne to Zhu Biao's eldest son, that is, the crown prince Zhu Yunxuan; the other was to pass the throne to the other sons born to Empress Ma.
At that time, the second-ranked king Qin and the third king of Jin, although they were born by Queen Ma, had problems with their character and committed many crimes, so they were not suitable for successors.
Zhu Di was also born by Queen Ma, the fourth oldest, and has been tempered on the battlefield, why not pass it on to Zhu Di? Of course not, why? Because Zhu Di was not born to the Queen of Horse at all, Zhu Di's biological mother was a Mongolian concubine of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was only fostered by the Queen of Horse since childhood.
So you see, Zhu Di is not qualified to be the emperor's successor, but in order to be the emperor, Zhu Di was born to deny his biological mother, and even deliberately concealed the existence of his biological mother, insisting that he was the fourth son of Empress Ma.
The Ming Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety, and Zhu Di did not recognize his biological mother for the throne. This is not filial piety. Zhu Di was under tremendous pressure for this, so how did he release this pressure?
That is, at the expense of the people and money, the Nanjing Dabaoen Temple was built. The specifications of this temple far exceed other temples. Whose kind of grace is this repaying? It wasn't the poor biological mother who gave birth to him and was concealed by him.
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2. Not the heart of Shilin, Zhu Fang Xiaoru ten tribes
When Zhu Di rode a tall horse to Nanjing, I didn’t expect something embarrassing to happen. What happened?
He found that the officials who greeted him were no one hundred and ten, while there were 463 escaped officials. This does not include the ministers who committed suicide and were arrested in prison. This shows what the problem is, that is, the hearts of the people are very clear at a glance, you Zhu Di can't be the heart of Nanjing officials, the approval rate is less than 20%, if it is placed in the current US presidential election, then it will definitely lose. What about
?
Zhu Di’s important counselor, Tao Yan monk Yao Guangxiao, is very wise, knowing that “to shoot the horse first, to capture the thieves first to capture the king”, to win the hearts of these officials in Nanjing, they must first get their spiritual leader. He said to Zhu Di: When you enter Nanjing, the top priority is to get Fang Xiaoru, and then with Fang Xiaoru's reputation among scholars, it will be much easier to get these scholars.
Zhu Di is not stupid, knowing this is the right way. Then he assumed the posture of a courteous corporal, cordially and enthusiastically invited Fang Xiaoru to write the edict for himself.
However, Zhu Di thought that Fang Xiaoru would not give in easily, but he did not expect Fang Xiaoru to be stinky and unaware of admiration. Not only did he not write an edict, but he also cursed Zhu Di and cried while crying.
Zhu Di became angry and put Fang Xiaoru to death with the "zhe punishment". What is torture? The capital punishment of cutting off the flesh and bones, cutting off the limbs, and then cutting the throat is equivalent to splitting the body with a knife.
killed Fang Xiaoru, and Zhu Di was still unwilling to let go, but also slaughtered the ten families of Fang Xiaoru. Qin Shihuang burned books to pit Confucian scholars and only killed more than 460 Confucian scholars, leaving a historical notoriety. Zhu Diguang killed Fang Xiaoru ten clan and killed 873 people. In addition to those who were directly killed, more than 1,000 people were killed. Exile and enlistment were simply horrible.
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3. Started the bloody massacre, tortured Jianwen's loyal minister and family members
Fang Xiaoru's unyielding, so that Zhu Di completely lost his expectations of scholar-officials, and then he tore off his hypocritical mask and began the bloodthirsty massacre, and this This kind of indiscriminate killing has gone far beyond actual needs, and his fundamental purpose is to use terrorist killing to deter these disobedient scholars.
For example, in addition to Fang Xiaoru's extermination, many ministers of the Jianwen Dynasty, such as Qing Huang Zicheng of Taichang Temple and Shangshu Qitai of the Ministry of War, were exterminated. In each case, hundreds of people were killed.
Zhu Di not only kills many people, but also extremely cruel methods of killing. For example, the Criminal Department Shangshu Violent was caught, resisting scolding, Zhu Di was furious, first pulled out his teeth, then cut off his siblings, Violent still cursed, and then chopped off his neck before he died. There is also a Yu capital Yushi named Sizhong. Zhu Di let someone sweep the body with an iron broom, bloody and bloody, until the flesh and blood separated and died.
Zhu Di did not let these family members of Jianwen loyal ministers pass. On the 11th day of the 11th year of Yongle, someone reported that Zhu Di said: “Qitai’s sister, two nephews and daughter-in-law, and Huang Zicheng’s sister, these four women, every day Was gang-raped by 20 men day and night. The youngest were all pregnant and gave birth to a son and a 3-year-old daughter.. "Zhu Di's answer is: "Let her grow up, and when she grows up, she will continue to sell her to a brothel as a cash cow. "You see if this is particularly psychologically distorted.
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4. Destroy important documents and tamper with history
Qin Shihuang and Yang Guang are tyrants, they are at least upright, true tyrants. And Zhu Di? Not only do bad things, but also want to be Isn’t this a hypocrite to leave a good reputation in history?
How can I leave a good reputation in history? Just like many companies now encounter a public relations crisis, they hire people to delete posts. Zhu Di asked people to write all the articles. The articles, memorials, and materials of the DPRK were all burned, and the unfavorable remarks about him were cleaned up. After the destruction of history, he began to tamper with the history and rebuilt the "Tianzu Shilu" many times in order to establish it for himself. A positive image. Z1z
, like Zhu Yuanzhang of the National Museum of China,
5. Daxing writing prison, prohibiting all unfavorable private speech
, in addition to tampering with history, Zhu Di also set up writing prison, not allowing people to freely discuss and write the history of the founding dynasty. He also instituted a crime of libel, As long as someone says bad things about him, or criticizes him, gives him a bad review, regardless of the facts, he is guilty of defamation, and he is decapitated when caught. The
policy is also used by many villains to frame innocent people. Climbing up on the blood of innocent people. For example, there is a person named Ding Yu, who was originally an ordinary farmer in Shanyang County. He saw the imperial court’s "strict slander ban", and he thought about it a bit and determined that the opportunity to prosper had arrived. Then, in the fifth year and June of Yongle five years, dozens of people from the same township were accused of defamation. As soon as the complaint was made, all dozens of neighbors were killed, but Ding Yu was considered to be useful. In the middle of the matter.” The Ding Yu of
tasted the sweetness and became unacceptable. During his tenure, he specialized in making small reports, exposing, and informing. Everyone was afraid to see him. He was impeached and sent to the army.
You see, Zhu Di did this, in fact, he raped the moral integrity of Chinese scholars, exterminated the upright and courageous gentlemen, allowed the little people to rise to heaven, and gradually turned the scholars into exquisite egoists.
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6. Greatly engaged in cultural image project, destroying Chinese culture
Zhu Di killed many scholars, but later was less scolded, one of the main reasons is that he compiled "Yongle Dadian", this book is the largest in ancient China Kind book. How big is this book? I checked the information, this "Yongle Dadian" has collected seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books, the catalog alone has 60 volumes, the text has 22,877 volumes, with a total of 370 million words.
If you think this is a great cultural project, you would be wrong. Z1z
books can only be read and spread before they can produce cultural value. Then you can see that "Yongle Dadian" has collected thousands of copies of culture from the people. The classics, will they be returned to the folks when they are used up? Of course not. Can the "Yongle Dadian" be borrowed, of course not, this After finishing the work, the big book was locked up and began to eat ashes.
is locked so that people don’t see it. Can this be a cultural heritage? Of course not, this is a thorough cultural image project, the purpose is to prove "I am a good one."
said, eggs can’t be put in a basket. Little dolls understand the truth. "Yongle Dadian" puts all the treasures of Chinese culture in one basket. After the war, only 4% of the original content is left, isn’t it? A big loss for Chinese culture.
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7. Reuse of eunuchs, misunderstanding the country and the people
Zhu Yuanzhang learned the lessons from Han and Tang dynasties when the country was founded, and eunuchs were strictly prohibited from participating in politics, and eunuchs were not allowed to read, and a special iron sign was made that said, "The ministers shall not interfere in political affairs. The offender is cut off.” Emperor Jianwen was also very strict with the eunuchs, and the eunuchs could not do evil. When
arrived at Zhu Di, he began to use a large number of eunuchs to do some secret things, such as sending Zheng He to the west. One of the important purposes was to find Emperor Jianwen, and to let the eunuchs monitor the army and spy on officials and people.
Why does Zhu Di use eunuchs?
Because the eunuchs are not the same as the ministers of foreign dynasties, they are the emperor’s slaves, and all his wealth and lives are given by the emperor. The emperor can completely control the eunuchs. Zhu Di will not be like a scholar outside, and he is worried that these scholars will not obey him. EunuchConsider these scholar-officials. Zhu Di's reuse of eunuchs planted hidden dangers for the subsequent chaos of eunuchs, causing harm to the country and the people.
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8. Expansion of Jinyiwei, to engage in national terrorism
Jinyiwei was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, and was specially used to spy on officials and people’s intelligence. It only accepts the emperor’s leadership and is not subject to the "Da Ming Law". Whoever wants to be caught will be caught lackey.
There were only more than 2,000 Jinyiwei in Zhu Yuanzhang's period, and Zhu Yuanzhang had cancelled its criminal investigation power in his later period. By the time of Zhu Di, he was full of fear due to the improper origin of the throne, so he began to expand the Jinyiwei with great fanfare to spy on all intelligence. How many brocade guards were there in Zhu Di's period?
According to historical statistics, there are more than 60,000 official staff members, which is not counted as the many non-governmental informants and various temporary workers who rely on intelligence. Wang Shizhen, a great talent in the Ming Dynasty, estimated that the total number of Jin Yiwei totaled 15 to 60 million, while the population was only 50 to 60 million at that time. This is terrifying.
There is a Beizhen Fusi under Jinyiwei who specializes in torture. An official said that entering Jinyiwei’s "prison", going to the prison of the Ministry of Justice is like going to heaven, which shows how terrifying the prison is.
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9. The capital was lost and the capital was moved to Beijing.
The Forbidden City was built by Zhu Di in Beijing. Why was this palace built? It is because the emperor wants to guard the gate of the country, so why should the emperor guard the gate of the country? It was because Zhu Di disrupted Zhu Yuanzhang's frontier deployment.
Zhu Yuanzhang placed nine princes on the northern border and asked them to supervise the generals and guard the country. Zhu Di was one of them. After Zhu Di succeeded in usurping the throne, he was afraid that other brothers would follow suit. then what should we do? All the princes deployed by Zhu Yuanzhang were moved to the mainland. For example, King Ning, the best man, was moved to Nanchang, Jiangxi. The princes of
are moved away, isn't the north empty? What to do, the other generals are not at ease, so they will come by themselves and the emperor will guard the country. Afterwards, history proved that the threat of northern minorities to the Ming Dynasty has always existed. They have hit the city of Beijing several times, and the emperor seems to be unable to guard the country.
Forbidden City Square
10. I am so happy, five times that the imperial pilots will go to Mongolia.
Is it effective to conquer Mongolia? Of course, it can deter Mongolia. But compared with the price paid, it is too uneconomical. For example, the first expedition was like traveling in the mountains and playing in the water. For three months on the road, without encountering a Mongolian soldier, what was the final result? It is recorded in the history books that “one prisoner, pursued more than ten miles, and captured several people alive.” The results of this battle are too horrible. You must know that Zhu Di led a 500,000 army for 5 months, and the money was overwhelming.
Why does Zhu Di have to do such uneconomical things many times?
Hey, as a usurper, he must make a lot of great deeds for himself, so that he can justify his name, establish prestige, and at the same time prove that it is correct for him to move his capital to Beijing. He doesn't care.
You see, Zhu Di first did a bad thing to usurp the throne. Later, because the throne was not right, he had to do a series of bad things to make up for it. Sadly, as an emperor, Zhu Di was evil enough to change the course of Chinese history. Perhaps when Emperor Jianwen was the emperor, China would be a different kind of scene, which is unknown. This is the end of the story of
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Zhu Di, what is the enlightenment for us? I think
is a sentence in "Cai Gen Tan", "A difference in thought is enough to lose the good of one's life, and it is difficult to cover a thing for life." What does
mean? That is, if you have done a wrong thing, it will be difficult for you to have a relationship with kindness, and you will continue to do bad things throughout your life, and in the end it will be difficult to cover up the first wrong thing.
is restless and continues to do evil. This may be the true meaning of retribution for evil.
