In the TV series "Daming Fenghua", Mingrenzong Zhu Gaochi only has one son, Zhu Zhanji, and the family of three is happy.
But in real history, Zhu Gaochi had a full 10 sons, and before he died, only one died young.
Even in the royal family, the survival rate of this child was extremely high in ancient times.
These sons of his have also had a rich and colorful life experience.
In addition to the eldest son Zhu Zhanji ascending the throne, some people were involved in the battle for the throne three times in their lives, some people were humiliated by their subordinates and almost committed suicide, and some people stayed in the capital all their lives and did not go to the feudal domain according to the ancestral system.
In this article, let's take a look at Zhu Gaochi's sons, what is their life experience, and how many of them can die well.
Zhu Zhanji, the eldest son born to Empress Zhang, succeeded to the throne smoothly after being the crown prince for 13 years and the crown prince for 1 year, that is, Ming Xuanzong. He single-handedly created the famous "rule of Renxuan" in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Zhanji's life, naturally, there is no need to say much.
In addition to Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Gaochi's most legendary son is the youngest son of Empress Zhang, Xiangwang Zhu Zhandong.
He is also the only one of Zhu Zhanji's nine younger brothers who has been involved in the battle for the throne.
He was embroiled in the battle for the throne, not only because he was the queen's son-in-law, but also because he had been in prison twice.
The first time Zhu Zhandong, the king of Xiang, was in charge of the country was after Zhu Gaochi's death.
At that time, Zhu Gaochi suddenly collapsed, and the court was not prepared, and the crown prince Zhu Zhanji was far away in Nanjing, 1,000 kilometers away.
And the Han king Zhu Gaoxu was eyeing the tiger and ready to rebel at any time.
Empress Zhang immediately made a decision, ordered to conceal the news of Zhu Gaochi's death, and ordered King Xiang to secretly supervise the country and wait for Zhu Zhanji to return to Beijing safely.
King Xiang was also the first vassal king of the Ming Dynasty to supervise the country, and the candidates for the founding of the Ming Dynasty before were all princes.
He completed his mission very well, and stabilized the situation in the capital before Zhu Zhanji returned to Beijing.
King Xiang was in charge of the country for the second time when the Han king Zhu Gaoxu rebelled.
Zhu Zhanji drove his own expedition to defeat Zhu Gaoxu, leaving King Xiang and his second brother King Zheng to supervise the country in the capital.
The outstanding performance of the two prison countries allowed King Xiang to accumulate a lot of prestige. However, he did not mean to challenge his brother Zhu Zhanji, and in the fourth year of Xuande, he went to the fief with his brothers to take up the domain.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Zhanji died young after less than 10 years of reign at the age of 38. And the crown prince Zhu Qizhen is still young, less than 9 years old.
For a while, the hearts of the people in the court fluctuated, and there were even rumors that Empress Dowager Zhang felt that the crown prince was too young and wanted to recall her son King Xiang back to the capital to succeed to the throne.
After thinking about it for 7 days, Empress Dowager Zhang took the hand of the crown prince Zhu Qizhen and came to the hundred officials and told them: This is your new son of heaven.
The dust has settled on the battle for the throne.
We can see that this time the throne dispute was not actively involved in King Xiang himself, he was far away in the fiefdom and did not even know the situation in the imperial court. This time he was involved in the battle for the throne, and to some extent, he was used as a gun.
And the second time King Xiang was involved in the battle for the throne, it was not so easy. It was the time of life and death of the Ming Dynasty.
After the Tumubao Incident, Zhu Qizhen became a prisoner of the Warat people. The people in the capital were panicked, and the ministers felt that they should set up a new emperor as soon as possible, lead them to repel Wara, and keep the ancestral inheritance of the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Qizhen's son Zhu Jianshen was only 2 years old and was obviously unable to take on this important task. The whole court unanimously felt that an elderly vassal king should be established.
King Xiang, who had twice the experience of supervising the country, once again entered the field of vision of the ministers.
However, King Xiang himself did not dare to have this ambition. He hurriedly wrote a letter and asked Empress Dowager Sun to make Zhu Qizhen's son Zhu Jianshen the crown prince, and let Zhu Qizhen's younger brother Zhu Qiyu supervise the country, so that he could wait for Zhu Qizhen to come back with peace of mind.
In the end, the ministers supported Zhu Qizhen's younger brother Zhu Qiyu as the new emperor, and King Xiang continued to be an ordinary prince in the fief.
This letter of his has also become his life talisman in the future.
Because he will be involved in the battle for the throne for the third time.
After Zhu Qiyu became emperor for 8 years, he was terminally ill and had no son. The ministers all advised him to choose an heir from Zhu Qizhen's sons as soon as possible.
Zhu Qiyu was unwilling to return the throne to Zhu Qizhen, and his eyes were on the clan.
He began to think about taking his uncle King Xiang, or the son of King Xiang, into the palace and inheriting the throne.
This is the third time that King Xiang has been involved in the battle for the throne, and it is also the most dangerous. At this time, he was far away in the feudal country and knew nothing about the situation in the capital.
Before Zhu Qiyu could make up his mind, Zhu Qizhen launched a change to seize the door and snatch back the throne.
Zhu Qizhen soon discovered that King Xiang had been involved in the battle for the throne many times.
However, he immediately discovered King Xiang's letter and realized that King Xiang had no ambitions.
He summoned King Xiang into the capital.
After King Xiang realized the complicated situation in the capital, he broke out in a cold sweat.
In order to further dispel Zhu Qizhen's doubts, he suggested that Zhu Qizhen destroy the mausoleum of Empress Zhu Qiyu and drive Zhu Qiyu's ex-wife Wang out of the palace.
Seeing King Xiang's appearance of thinking about himself, Zhu Qizhen finally let down his guard and let King Xiang return to his fiefdom to enjoy his old age in peace.
In the end, King Xiang lived until the Chenghua period at the age of 73, and he was also the longest-lived son of Zhu Gaochi.
Compared with King Xiang's bumpy life and many times involved in the battle for the throne, his half-brother Zhu Zhanyong, the king of Yue, has a much more plain life.
Whether it was Empress Dowager Zhang or Zhu Zhanji, when they ordered King Xiang to supervise the country, they did not take King Yue into account.
This is probably because Zhu Zhanji had no son at that time, if Zhu Zhanji had an accident, King Yue, as the second son of the emperor, would be the first heir to the throne.
Empress Dowager Zhang and Zhu Zhanji, mother and son, wanted to prevent King Yue from being ambitious and a fire in the backyard.
Therefore, throughout the life of King Yue, there were no major events to record.
However, he stayed in the capital from beginning to end, and did not follow the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty to the fiefdom.
may be considering that although Zhu Zhanji later had sons, the two sons were still too young. So he wanted to keep King Yue by his side to prevent accidents.
If something big happened in the palace and Zhu Zhanji died, and the two little princes could not come forward, King Yue, the prince who stayed in the capital, would come in handy.
Of course, the "insurance" of King Yue is useless after all. When Zhu Zhanji died, the world was peaceful, and the young prince Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne smoothly.
King Yue also died early 4 years later, allowing Empress Dowager Zhang to send a white-haired person to a black-haired person again.
Guo Guifei is Zhu Gaochi's favorite concubine, and Zhu Gaochi's youngest three sons were all born to her.
She also attracted the jealousy of Empress Zhang. After Zhu Gaochi died, even though she was born noble and had 3 sons, she was still forced to be martyred.
That year, the eldest of her sons, Tengwang Zhu Zhankai, was not yet 17 years old.
Less than 3 months after the death of Zhu Gaochi and Guo Guifei, King Teng also died young, leaving behind two young half-brothers.
This is also the only one of Zhu Zhanji's nine younger brothers, except for the fourth brother who died early, who died before him.
Perhaps sympathizing with the two young younger brothers who lost their parents first and then their eldest brother with the same mother, Zhu Zhanji was particularly fond of the two young sons left by Guo Guifei.
In the fourth year of Xuande, Zhu Zhanji's younger brothers went to the feudal country to become a vassal in accordance with the ancestral system. Zhu Zhanji gave them very generous treatment, and the annual rice and money were more than ordinary vassal kings.
Guo Guifei's second son, that is, Zhu Gaochi's ninth son, Zhu Zhanyan, the king of Liang, earned twice as much as his brothers.
After King Liang came to the fief, he found that King Ying, who had used this place as a fief, had left a lot of property. Zhu Zhanji generously gave all these properties to King Liang.
We can also see from the Ming records that King Liang once asked Zhu Zhanji to allow him to go to Songjiang and other distant places to buy various materials and luxury goods.
Zhu Zhanji was also very generous to this younger brother, and his usual rewards were endless.
Therefore, when the tomb of King Liang was excavated, more than 5,300 burial goods were unearthed from it, which shocked the world.
The belt in the tomb of King Liang is even more than in the Dingling Tomb of Wanli.
However, King Liang, who lives an extremely luxurious life, has a very weak personality.
According to the records of the Ming Dynasty, in the sixth year of Xuande, a major event occurred in the palace of King Liang.
A man named Kong Qin, seeing that the king of Hades was young and had a good personality, often spoke disrespectfully to the king of Liang, and even insulted the king of Liang to his face.
Once, King Liang was sitting on the Hu bed well, and Kong Qin kicked the Hu bed down.
King Liang couldn't stand this kind of grievance, and after returning to the bedroom, he wanted to draw a knife and commit suicide.
After the people around him desperately stopped him, a piece of paper was sued in front of Zhu Zhanji.
Zhu Zhanji was about to punish Kong Qin, but he received another plea from King Liang.
From this incident, we can also see that although King Liang is the emperor's younger brother and owns a family property, he is still quite aggrieved in his usual life.
According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, after the vassal king went to the fief to become a vassal, he could not leave the fief without an edict.
Therefore, since King Liang became a vassal at the age of 19, he can no longer see his brothers.
The only exception occurred in the first year of orthodoxy after Zhu Zhanji's death. At that time, the fief of his fifth brother King Xiang was changed from Changsha to Xiangyang, and when he moved, he passed by Anlu, where King Liang was located.
This is the only time that King Liang has seen his brother for many years. They held hands and looked at each other with tears in their eyes, and they couldn't bear to separate.
Five years later, King Liang died young at the age of 30.
And before that, his only half-brother, Weiwang Zhu Zhanyun, had passed away. He was actually the longest-lived of the three half-brothers.
Wei Wang is 6 years younger than Liang Wang, and he has been frail and sickly since he was a child. Zhu Zhanji loved the younger brother who could be his son at this age, and did not let him go out to become a vassal, but stayed in the capital to take care of him.
In the Ming record, it is often seen that King Wei worships the imperial tomb for Zhu Zhanji.
But he didn't live long, and he died of illness at the age of 23.
Guo Guifei's three sons all died young. And only King Liang left two daughters.
The ending of these four mothers and sons is regrettable.
Of Zhu Gaochi's remaining 4 sons, 3 were born to Concubine Li.
However, there is no record of this Concubine Li Xian in the history books, and her son is basically a little transparent.
Concubine Li Xian's first son, Zhu Zhanjun, the king of Zheng, was in charge of the country with the king of Liang when Zhu Zhanji was personally conquering Zhu Gaoxu.
From here, we can see Zhu Zhanji's scheming. He had no son at that time, and the first heir in line was the second brother of the same mother, King Yue, but he skipped King Yue and let the first.
3. The fourth in line to the throne shall jointly supervise the country.
When Zhu Zhanji was alive, he was quite indulgent to his younger brothers. King Zheng has a brutal personality, and Zhu Zhanji didn't care much about it many times.
Later, Zhu Zhanji died, and Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne, making the imperial historian Zhou Ying the long history of King Zheng and restraining King Zheng's behavior, and King Zheng was slightly restrained.
He was considered the longest-lived among his brothers, and lived until the reign of his nephew and grandson, at the age of 63.
Concubine Li Xian's second son, Zhu Zhanyin, died before Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne at the age of 17. This is the only one of Zhu Gaochi's 10 sons who died before him.
After Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, he posthumously named him King Qi.
Concubine Li Xian's third son, Huai Wang Zhu Zhanqi, was fiefdom in Shaoguan, Guangdong.
Later, he thought that the climate in Shaoguan was not good and "many miasma", and after Zhu Zhanji's death, he asked the new emperor to change his fief to Raozhou Mansion in Jiangxi.
He lived to 1446 at the age of 38. At the time of his death, the Tumubao Revolution had not yet happened.
Among Zhu Gaochi's sons, the only one who does not have a half-brother is the sixth son, Jing Wang Zhu Zhanqi. His mother was Concubine Shun Zhang.
King Jing is a person who is very good at fighting for his own interests. After he Xuande went to Jianchang, Jiangxi Province in the fourth year to take up the domain, he disliked that the palace was too small, so he directly wrote to ask for the Nancheng County Prison Department to be moved away, so that he could expand the palace.
Zhu Zhanji agreed.
He also asked Zhu Zhanji to give him the vacant fields near the county seat as pasture.
Zhu Zhanji agreed again.
However, he still felt unhappy living in Jianchang and wanted to change his fiefdom.
In the seventh year of orthodoxy, King Jing's mother-in-law, the Empress Dowager, was seriously ill, and on the grounds of missing her son, she asked Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong to summon the princes to visit in Beijing. King Jing finally waited for his chance.
In front of Zhu Qizhen, he asked to change the fief.
After all, King Jing was Zhu Qizhen's own uncle, and the two of them were face to face, so Zhu Qizhen couldn't refuse directly, so he had to promise him to change his fief to Fuzhou near Jianchang.
King Jing felt that this fiefdom was not good enough.
Zhu Qizhen said that he should change to Changsha.
King Jing still dislikes Changsha's low terrain.
In the end, Zhu Qizhen changed his fiefdom to Qizhou in Hubei, with Qizhou Wei as the royal palace, and the fish tax that should have been handed over to the government by the Chidong Lake Hebo was also handed over to the Jingwang Mansion after that.
King Jing was finally satisfied and moved contentedly.
Since then, the Jingwang lineage has taken root in Qizhou and has lasted for more than 200 years.
Zhu Gaochi's 10 sons were born to him by 4 women, and 3 of them gave birth to 3 sons each.
From here, we can also see that there are only a few of Zhu Gaochi's favorite concubines.
His harem doesn't seem to be too complicated, the relationship between the 10 brothers is very good, and Zhu Zhanji takes special care of his younger brothers.
Of course, after all, it is royal, and even if the relationship is good, it is inevitable that there will be vigilance and suspicion. Zhu Zhanji's selection of the superintendent of the state is a good illustration of this point.
However, among the royal brothers, the 10 of their brothers have been able to be brothers and sisters from beginning to end, without the struggle for the throne, and without *** pieces, which is already very rare.
Don't you think?