In May 1423, Zhu Di suddenly became seriously ill, and the imperial doctors felt helpless.
Zhu Gaosui was very anxious when he learned that his father was seriously ill, because according to the order of succession to the throne, there were three other people in front of him, namely Zhu Gaochi, the eldest brother as the crown prince, Zhu Zhanji, the nephew of the emperor's grandson, and Zhu Gaoxu, the second brother as the second son.
Zhu Gaosui thinks that once his father dies, his eldest brother Zhu Gaochi will inherit the throne, so he will be completely out of the throne, what should he do?
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Gaosui made a bold decision, he planned to unite the guards and eunuchs around Zhu Gaochi, poison Zhu Gaochi first, and then forge an edict to abolish the crown prince (naturally the grandson) and establish himself as the emperor.
Plotting to poison the emperor, I Yan drove it, edicted from the middle and bottom, abolished the prince, and established the king of Zhao.This plan is too crazy, if Zhu Gaosui really kills his father and usurps the throne, it will be a great rebellion, which will make him suffer from eternal revival.
However, Zhu Gaosui's plan was not implemented, because one of his subordinates ran to expose Zhu Di, and Zhu Di took the lead and sent people to arrest all the people involved in the rebellion.
At that time, Zhu Di called Zhu Gaosui to the sickbed and said to him solemnly, did you really do this?
Zhu Gaosui was half frightened to death and didn't dare to answer at all.
At this time, Zhu Gaochi, who was standing on the side, came out to relieve the siege, saying that this kind of thing must have been done by subordinates, and it had nothing to do with the third brother.
Zhu Di didn't want to believe that Zhu Gaosui would harm him, but after listening to Zhu Gaochi's words, his anger disappeared completely, and he also let Zhu Gaosui be released.
What a great crime it is to kill his father and usurp the throne, Zhu Gaosui has 10,000 heads, which is not enough for Zhu Di to cut off, but there is nothing.
After Zhu Di's death, Zhu Gaosui participated in Zhu Gaoxu's rebellion many times, but he was still able to miraculously survive, how did he do it?
After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he established the succession system of the successor, which was not only effective for the throne, but also for the throne of the vassal king.
As Zhu Di's eldest son, Zhu Gaochi is undoubtedly lucky, although Zhu Di dislikes him very much, he still made him the crown prince, and his son Zhu Zhanji also became the imperial grandson.
Zhu Gaochi's luck is the misfortune of Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui, especially Zhu Gaosui, because he is the last in line (in fact, Zhu Di has a young son, but he died very early), so he basically has no chance to be on the throne.
However, this does not mean that Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui have no chance at all, because in Zhu Di's mind, his favorite are these two sons.
As the so-called dragon gives birth to nine sons, the same is true of Zhu Di's three sons, the eldest son Zhu Gaochi likes literature and does not like martial arts, and when he grows up, he is obese and his personality is also weak, which is very different from him.
On the other hand, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui are both good at martial arts, and they have made great achievements in the Battle of Jingyan, Zhu Di feels that these two sons are very similar to him, so he likes them very much.
For example, Zhu Gaoxu has saved Zhu Di's life many times, Zhu Di once touched his back and said, your eldest brother is not in good health, you have to work hard!
It is precisely because Zhu Di prefers his two younger sons that they gradually have the desire to seize the heir, which began at the beginning of the Battle of Jingyan.
At that time, Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaochi to stay in Beiping, and he took his two younger sons to fight outside, and once Emperor Jianwen sent someone to write to Zhu Gaochi, trying to canonize him as the king of Yan as a condition to rebel against him.
At that time, Zhu Gaochu had many spies in Beiping, and soon learned about it, so he and Zhu Gaosui framed Zhu Gaosui for conspiring with Emperor Jianwen.
Zhu Di was furious and ordered Zhu Gaochi to be arrested, and at this time, the messenger sent by Zhu Gaochi also came, and also brought a letter from Emperor Jianwen, Zhu Di saw that the envelope had not been opened, so he dispelled his suspicion of Zhu Gaochi.
It turned out that after Zhu Gaochi received the letter from Emperor Jianwen, he kept an eye on it, did not open it without authorization, but sent someone to give it to Zhu Di, this unintentional move finally saved his life.
After Zhu Di ascended the throne and became emperor, Zhu Gaochi was named the crown prince, Zhu Gaochu was named the king of Han, and Zhu Gaosui was named the king of Zhao.
At that time, many heroes of the Jingjing martyrdom supported Zhu Gaochu and persuaded Zhu Di to change Zhu Gaochu as the crown prince, and Zhu Di was also very tempted, but he never made up his mind.
Later, under the persuasion of ministers such as Xie Jin, Huang Huai and Yin Changlong, Zhu Di did not change the crown prince, and canonized Zhu Zhanji as the emperor's grandson a few years later.
However, don't think that this is the end of the battle for succession, because Zhu Gaochi has never been loved by Zhu Di, and Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui are still Zhu Di's favorite children.
Of course, although they are all Zhu Di's favorite children, there is still some gap between Zhu Gaosui and Zhu Gaoxu, because Zhu Gaochu is older, more brave and good at fighting, and his performance and merits in the Battle of Jingjing are much better than him.
Because of this, when Zhu Di considered the candidate for the crown prince, he only considered Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaoxu, and did not consider Zhu Gaosui.
As compensation, Zhu Di was very indulgent to Zhu Gaosui, and the treatment and rewards he gave him were also very generous.
However, Zhu Gaosui is a person who does not believe in fate, although his competitiveness is not large, but his ambition is great, and he is still a very thoughtful person.
Specifically, in order to seize the throne, Zhu Gaochu adopted a roundabout tactic, he buried his ambitions in his heart, but strongly supported Zhu Gaochu's participation in the seizure of the throne, his deep idea was to first help Zhu Gaochu become the crown prince, and then take away the crown prince from Zhu Gaoxu's hands.
This is actually very understandable, because Zhu Gaosui's strength alone cannot bring down Zhu Gaochi, but if he unites with Zhu Gaochu, the situation will be different.
In order to achieve this goal, Zhu Gaosui was loyal to Zhu Gaochu, and throughout the Yongle period, he participated in all Zhu Gaoxu's ** actions against Zhu Gaochi, and was Zhu Gaoxu's most powerful assistant.
For example, Zhu Gaosui cooperated with Zhu Gaochu many times to frame Zhu Gaochi, including bending the law for personal gain, forming a party for personal gain, and even plotting rebellion;
For another example, as early as when Zhu Di was still alive, Zhu Gaochu began to prepare for rebellion, he framed loyal ministers, recruited troops in his fiefdom, and behind these things, there was Zhu Gaosui's back.
It can be said that it is precisely because of the existence of Zhu Gaosui that Zhu Gaochu feels full of wings and acts without scruples.
However, Zhu Gaosui is a smart person, he is in cahoots with Zhu Gaoxu, but he rarely puts himself on the table for people to see, and the reason why this is so is related to one thing.
In the seventh year of Yongle, Zhu Gaosui was recognized by Zhu Di because he framed Zhu Gaochi, and Zhu Di was angry and ready to execute him, but fortunately, Zhu Gaochi stepped forward, which saved his life.
After this incident, Zhu Gaosui realized that he could no longer be a leading bird, so he began to be a low-key person, and most of the time he only secretly helped Zhu Gaoxu.
After a long time, even Zhu Di thought that Zhu Gaosui had reformed himself, and once said with emotion that Gao Sui changed his career slightly! is also more and more fond of Zhu Gaosui.
It can be seen that Zhu Gaosui is actually a cunning person, and Zhu Gaoxu can't compare with him in this regard.
Zhu Gaoxu is very arrogant, no strategy at all, in the matter of seizing the heir, his approach is too simple and rude, the result is that Zhu Di knew his wolf ambitions, so he sent him to live in a fiefdom, and he was not allowed to enter Beijing without an edict.
Zhu Gaoxu's suppression made Zhu Gaosui's plan fall through, but he was not discouraged, but silently waited for the opportunity until Zhu Di fell ill in the twenty-first year of Yongle.
According to historical records, there were four people who participated in Zhu Gaosui's poisoning of Zhu Di at that time, namely the commander Meng Xian, the Qin Tianjian Wang Zhu, the eunuch Yang Qing and his godson.
Obviously, these four people were bought by Zhu Gaosui, and the most important one of them was Meng Xian, because he held military power.
However, Zhu Gaosui's plan finally failed, it turned out that Meng Xian had a subordinate named Gao Yizheng, Gao Yizheng told the rebellion in order to win over Wang Yu, the general banner, but Wang Yu was too timid to participate, and he was worried that he would be implicated, so he went to Zhu Di to report.
At that time, Zhu Di's condition was still very serious, but when he heard that his youngest son Zhu Gaosui was preparing to poison himself, he suddenly recovered most of his illness, and began to send people to arrest the rebels, and also found a forged edict in Meng Xian's house.
With the edict as evidence, Zhu Gaosui couldn't wash it even if he jumped into the Yellow River, but Zhu Gaochi was really benevolent and righteous, and he actually stood up to say good things for his younger brother, and Zhu Gaosui escaped.
In July of the following year, Zhu Di died of illness on the way to the Northern Expedition, and the ministers knew that Zhu Gaochi was ambitious, so in order to let Zhu Gaochi inherit the throne smoothly, he did not publicly mourn, but sent people back to Beijing to rule Zhu Gaochi, and when Zhu Di's coffin returned to Beijing, Zhu Gaochi announced the news and announced his succession.
After Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne, he showed his benevolence more fully, and instead of embarrassing his two younger brothers, he also gave the two younger brothers a large number of rewards.
Zhu Gaochi thinks that he treats his two younger brothers so well, and the two younger brothers should be grateful to Dade and will not compete with him for the throne anymore, but in fact this is not the case.
Let's talk about Zhu Gaochu first, after he received Zhu Gaochi's reward, he thought that Zhu Gaochi's initiative to retreat was a sign of cowardice, so he even more unscrupulously violated the law and discipline and prepared for rebellion.
Besides, Zhu Gaosui, of course, he is not convinced, and secretly still strongly supports Zhu Gaoxu's rebellion, but he is obviously smarter, because he took the initiative to ask for the removal of the second guard, giving people the illusion that he has no quarrel with the world.
After eight months of his reign, Zhu Gaoxu became seriously ill and would die shortly after, when Zhu Zhanji was in Nanjing, and Zhu Gaoxu sent someone to ask him to return to Beijing.
After Zhu Gaoxu learned of this, he discussed with Zhu Gaosui and sent people to intercept and kill Zhu Zhanji on his way back to Beijing, but Zhu Zhanji was still on guard and finally made a detour back to Beijing.
After Zhu Gaochi died, Zhu Zhanji succeeded to the throne as emperor, although he was also a benevolent and righteous person, he was very different from his father Zhu Gaochi.
Zhu Zhanji knew that his uncle Zhu Gaoxu had coveted the throne for not a day or two, and he had always looked down on him, so he would definitely rebel.
Sure enough, in August of the second year of Zhu Zhanji's succession, Zhu Gaochu rebelled, known as the "Zhu Gaochu Rebellion", which was the second civil strife between uncles and nephews in the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, he sent someone to contact his younger brother Zhu Gaosui, hoping that Zhu Gaosui would help him, but Zhu Gaosui was very cunning, he did not send troops to help Zhu Gaosui, but he did not expose it to the imperial court.
Zhu Gaosui's intention was that when Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Gaochu fought to the death, he would have another fisherman to profit.
However, Zhu Gaosui looked down on Zhu Gaoxu and underestimated Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Zhanji did not flinch, and chose to drive the expedition in person, he did not rely solely on force, but implemented some strategies, and finally disintegrated the rebels from the inside without much effort, and Zhu Gaoxu surrendered to Zhu Zhanji in a desperate situation.
In this way, Zhu Gaosui's plan fell through again, but what made him even more unexpected was that Zhu Zhanji did not kill Zhu Gaoxu, but only abolished Zhu Gaochu as a concubine and sent him back to the capital to take care of him.
On the way back to the capital, Chen Shan, the head of the household, said to Zhu Zhanji that Zhu Gaosui must have been helped by Zhu Gaosui when he rebelled, and Zhu Gaosui had always been connected with Zhu Gaoxu, so it was better to take advantage of Zhu Gaoxu's defeat and take the opportunity to send troops to Zhangde (Zhu Gaosui's fiefdom) to destroy Zhu Gaosui as well, so that it would be done once and for all.
Zhu Zhanji thought it was reasonable, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was inappropriate, after all, Zhu Gaosui did not actually participate in the rebellion, and if he rashly sent troops to destroy Zhu Gaosui, then his reputation would be ruined.
Just when Zhu Zhanji was silent, Yang Shiqi also stood up and spoke, to the effect that Zhu Di only has three sons, and Zhu Zhanji only has two uncles, and now Zhu Gaochu has rebelled, if Zhu Gaosui is arrested again, then Zhu Di will be sad underground.
In fact, Yang Shiqi did not say this to exonerate Zhu Gaosui, but to consider Zhu Zhanji's reputation, and Zhu Zhanji also knew his intentions, so he completely dispelled the idea of crusading against Zhu Gaosui and directly led the army back to Beijing.
After Zhu Zhanji returned to Beijing, many ministers wrote to Zhu Gaosui, but Zhu Zhanji did not listen to them.
In order to investigate the matter clearly, Zhu Zhanji sent someone to interrogate Zhu Gaosui, and Zhu Gaochu was very angry with Zhu Gaosui for helping him, so he said that he had sent someone to conspire with Zhu Gaosui.
At this time, even if Zhu Gaosui did not rebel, he was guilty of concealing and not reporting it, and Li Yi, the head of the household department, wrote to Zhu Zhanji and said that Zhu Zhanji should be punished by Zhu Gaosui, but Zhu Zhanji still refused to allow it.
Many people may be curious, is Zhu Zhanji really at ease with Zhu Gaosui? In fact, he was not at ease at all, but he loved his reputation very much, so he didn't take measures against Zhu Gaosui.
In order to beat Zhu Gaosui, Zhu Zhanji wrote him a letter, praised his loyalty, and rewarded him, but at the same time, he also gave him those pieces of his performance, which is the so-called grace and power.
Of course, Zhu Gaosui knew Zhu Zhanji's intentions, and he also knew that his situation was very dangerous, so how could he save himself?
After thinking about it, Zhu Gaosui thought that only by becoming a useless person with idle clouds and wild cranes could he reassure Zhu Zhanji, so he wrote to Zhu Zhanji, requesting that his last guards be cut off, as well as the herd and the honor guard, and not a single soldier would be left by his side.
Zhu Zhanji read Zhu Gaosui's letter, of course he was very happy, so he said to the ministers in a fake manner, King Zhao took the initiative to cut off all the guards, do I agree or not?
Of course, the ministers agreed that they should agree, and Zhu Zhanji issued an edict saying that he agreed to King Zhao's request to cut off the guards, but allowed him to retain the Department of Honor and Guard.
After Zhu Gaosui saw the edict, he was so happy that he burst into tears, and he said to the people around him at that time, I am alive! It means that he can live.
According to Zhu Zhanji's edict, Zhu Gaosui handed over all the guards, and only retained the honor guard division representing the dignity of the vassal king, and he has since become a bare-bones commander, and there is no longer the slightest threat to the imperial court.
A vassal king who is not a threat, of course, the chances of survival have greatly increased, and since then, Zhu Zhanji has never embarrassed Zhu Gaosui, Zhu Gaosui is also very honest, just crazy in his own fiefdom, and no longer cares about any political affairs.
On the other hand, Zhu Gaoxu, the ending was much more miserable, he could have survived, but he was dishonest and buried his life with his own hands.
Here's the thing, once Zhu Zhanji went to visit Zhu Gaoxu, he pretended to be asleep and lay there motionless, Zhu Zhanji stepped forward to check, he suddenly stretched out a foot and tripped Zhu Zhanji.
Zhu Zhanji was very angry, thinking that Zhu Gaochu was still hostile to him, so he asked people to set up a copper cylinder, ignited the copper cylinder to burn it red, and then put Zhu Gaoxu under the copper cylinder and roasted him alive.
Zhu Zhanji was still puzzled, and ordered all of Zhu Gaoxu's sons to be killed, so Zhu Gaochu was killed, and the prince could not continue.
Of course, Zhu Gaoxu's death also gave Zhu Gaosui a great shock, and he felt even more afraid of Zhu Zhanji, so he became more low-key.
In the sixth year of Xuande, that is, six years after Zhu Zhanji succeeded to the throne, Zhu Gaosui died of illness at the age of fifty, and his son inherited the throne.
In the history of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaosui's title of King Zhao was also one of the best continuing princes, until the Southern Ming Dynasty after the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
It can be said that Zhu Gaosui's choice is still very correct, and bowing his head at the right time not only allowed himself to survive, but also brought two hundred years of wealth to his descendants.
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