In the Battle of Jingyan, Zhu Gaoxu, who fought with his father and made many military exploits, was finally made into a "crockpot stewed chicken" by Ming Xuanzong, it seems that his life is a joke, but in fact he is a political careerist, and played a big role in the Battle of Jingyan. As we all know, Zhu Di ascended to the throne after the successful rebellion, this battle is the Battle of Jingyan, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaochu are both Zhu Di's sons, although Zhu Gaochi is the eldest son, but he is obese, and some lame legs, inconvenient to go out, naturally can not personally go into battle to kill the enemy, can only guard the base camp of Beiping, also with a small number of troops to hold Beiping, and successfully resisted the siege of a large number of southern troops, for Zhu Di to win valuable rescue time. 
However, this town guard in front of Zhu Gaochu is a little out of hand, Zhu Gaochu is tall and big, strong by nature, can fight well, in the way to follow Zhu Di's southern expedition to the north, many times to save Zhu Di in danger, reverse the tide of the war into victory, and made great achievements, Zhu Di feels that this son is very much like himself, quite favored him, in the battle of Jingjing, Zhu Di and the southern army failed in the battle, Zhu Gaochu led the troops to help, Zhu Di once said to Zhu Gaochu: "Work hard, son!."Your brother is often sick. This is undoubtedly Zhu Di's great expectation for Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu even took it as his father's promise, and personally led the army to repel the southern army with great courage, making a lot of contributions. Bad personality repeatedly taught and did not change, framing his brother to seize the throne Seeing Zhu Gaoxu's wonderful performance in the Battle of Jingjing, you may think that Zhu Gaochu is a sensible and well-behaved child since he was a child, but on the contrary, Zhu Gaochu has been fierce since he was a child, in the early years, he was called to the capital by Ming Taizu to study with Qin, Jin, Yan, and Thursday Wang Shizi, but he refused to study, and his words and deeds were frivolous, Zhu Yuanzhang was very disgusted with him. Idleness, misconduct, killing officials and civilians is a common thing, even if it is the kind admonition of the elder Xu Huizu, he completely ignores it, and steals his beloved BMW afterwards, and the sense of revenge is also very strong, and the ministers of the court also blamed King Yan for this. 
In the Battle of Jingyan, he made outstanding military exploits, and his father also said something like that to him, he thought that the position of the crown prince must be his own, but he did not expect Zhu Di to give the position of the prince to his brother Zhu Gaochi according to the primogeniture inheritance system. Zhu Gaochu thought very highly of himself, and relied on his high merits, and began to covet the position of the crown prince, he not only found various reasons to shirk going to other places to be a vassal king, and relied on Zhu Di's side all day long, but also privately recruited troops and horses, framed the ministers who supported Zhu Gaochi, and framed the prince Zhu Gaochi. Fortunately, after a detailed understanding, Zhu Di realized that the prince was not too much at fault, but it was the ambitious Zhu Gaoxu who aroused his vigilance, coupled with all the previous evil deeds, so he reprimanded him fiercely and demoted him to Le'an. After the death of Ming Renzong, he was a thief again, and wanted to set up an ambush to intercept the crown prince Zhu Zhanji when he entered Beijing to be crowned, and forcibly seized the throne, but Zhu Zhanji had already received the news that his father was seriously ill and entered Beijing first, and Zhu Gaoxu did not stop people at all. 
Zhu Gaoxu always thought that his nephew Zhu Zhanji was a soft persimmon, and he could follow his father's example to have another "Battle of Jingyan", and rebelled in the first year of Xuande. Xuanzong could not bear to use troops, but Zhu Gaochu sent a hundred households to Chen Gang, and wrote a letter to the princes and ministers, with many criticisms, which undoubtedly added fuel to the fire, so he personally led a large army to crusade against Zhu Gaochu and won a complete victory. Zhu Gaoxu desperately wanted the throne, but he did not recognize his own strength, did not have a thorough plan and complete preparation, and acted rashly, his defeat was inevitable. 
Ming Xuanzong thought of the old feelings, and wanted to open up the net, but Zhu Gaochu was really too good, when Xuanzong went to visit him, he actually took advantage of Xuanzong walking past him, stretched out his foot and tripped Xuanzong, so falling, Ming Xuanzong's face couldn't hang up, and ordered someone to use a 300-pound copper bell to press Zhu Gaoxu's body, Zhu Gaochu was finally roasted alive in the copper bell, and ended up with a "crockpot stewed chicken". Zhu Gaoxu thought that he was very close to the throne all his life, and he was within reach, but in fact, he never really approached that position, everything was his self-righteousness, and in the eyes of later generations, his rebellion and usurpation of power was a joke!