During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a child named Peng Yinshan in the capital, who was brilliant since he was a child, and had a great reputation, and was known as a prodigy.
Feudal dynasty, fame wants to be reflected, poetry and poetry occupy half of the country, based on the needs of governance, the content created must also meet the needs of "maintaining rule", in this regard, Zhu Di is also more concerned.
Every festival, there are many activities in Beijing, and Zhu Di also hopes to show the prosperity he has created through various activities.
During the Lantern Festival in the Yongle year, the capital was full of lanterns, and people happily took to the streets to celebrate the festival.
Zhu Di also wants to feel it, he was born in troubled times, and he also requires them to be sympathetic to the people's feelings, and when they can do it, they will do the same.
He went out of the palace in small clothes, watching the lights, and found that there were no lanterns at the door of a family, and there was a boy reading in the house, which was indeed extremely rare.
He felt very strange: a child's nature is playful, why could this child still study in the middle of the city?
Zhu Di pushed open the door and went in, and found that the child was only seven or eight years old, reading with a lamp.
After the child saw Zhu Di, he also felt that the other party was personable, and when a guest came to the house, the child got up and saluted.
Zhu Di asked the child's name, and the child replied that his name was Peng Yinshan.
Peng Yinshan is the most famous prodigy in the capital, Zhu Di is micro-served, and he has also heard of it, and an entourage asked: "Is it the little prodigy?" ”
Peng Yinshan said: "Win the prize! ”
As soon as Zhu Di heard this, he became interested, taking advantage of the fact that today was the Lantern Festival, and he also wanted everyone to have fun together, so he thought of making a pair and everyone answered together.
Therefore, Zhu Di chanted the upper link: bright lights and bright moons, and the Ming Dynasty is unified.
The three "Ming" characters in Shanglian also confirm the Ming Dynasty, and the embedded "one" word also represents that Zhu Di wants to praise the unprecedented prosperity and unity of the Ming Dynasty.
The entourage around me knew that this was an opportunity to perform, but after hearing this, they became a little worried.
This is not difficult to understand, Zhu Di seems to have proved that his ability is enough to be an orthodox emperor all his life, so he will regard the prosperity under his rule as so important, if the sentence is right or wrong, the emperor will be unhappy, according to Zhu Di's character, it is very likely to lose his head.
In the silence, Peng Yinshan said the following couplet: Junle folk music, Yongle ten thousand years.
Peng Yinshan's lower couplet can be said to have directly hit Zhu Di's heart, and even with three "music" words embedded in the "Yongle" year name, it can be said that the battle is neat and cleverly conceived, and at the same time, he also fully praised the merits of the Yongle Emperor, showing the prosperity of the emperor under the rule of the emperor.
After Zhu Di heard this, he was even more happy, and immediately praised Peng Yinshan, and a few days later, his holy decree came down: pass Peng Yinshan into the palace to read with him.
However, there are not many records about this prodigy.
There is a folk saying: This prodigy who was pinned on hope still did not escape the fate of "Hui Ji must be injured", and passed away in a hurry, Zhu Di was very sad after hearing about it, and asked the university scholar to write a tombstone for this prodigy.
Although Zhu Di is said to be a "military general", it can be seen from many places that he attaches great importance to literature in his life, and he himself is also very fond of calligraphy and painting.
During his reign, he also gradually perfected the civil service system, and the prototype of the later cabinet system was also formed at this stage, and he vigorously promoted Confucianism and changed the style of Taoism in the early Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, Zhu Di also organized a series of book-editing activities, such as "Yongle Beizang", "Shengxue Xinfa", etc., many of which expounded his concept of governing the country.
In the original Ma Yuan couplet, you can also see the personality gap between Zhu Di and Zhu Yunwen.
When Zhu Yuanzhang improvised "The wind blows a thousand lines of horsetail", Zhu Yunwen's answer was "The rain sprinkled wool and a piece of felt", while Zhu Di's answer was "The sun shines on the dragon scales and ten thousand points of gold".
Zhu Di is not the same as other emperors of the Ming Dynasty, it stands to reason that the founding emperor conquered the world, and the rest of the emperors only need to operate.
But since Zhu Di was born, his life seems to be different.
In 1360, Zhu Yuanzhang's big opponent Chen Youliang marched all the way and had already laid the peace, and then when he was about to attack Yingtian, Zhu Di fell to the ground, the front line was tight, Zhu Yuanzhang was full of war, and he didn't have time to pay attention to this child.
This also means that when Zhu Di was born, he was not a prince.
In 1367, Zhu Yuanzhang named the children well, and Zhu Di, as the fourth child, was assigned the word "Di".
Zhu Yuanzhang has come all the way from "opening a bowl", and naturally understands the importance of the military, so he is also a militarized education for children.
Zhu Di and his brothers often wore bast shoes and hiked outside the city like other soldiers, and when they got older, they also needed to prepare for martial arts training on the martial arts field.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's world gradually stabilized, he also attached great importance to the cultural education of his children, and Zhu Di and other brothers enrolled in school together and received systematic Confucian education, which also laid the groundwork for Zhu Di to later show his literati side.
In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang crowned many princes as kings, among which Zhu Di was the king of Yan.
Ten years later, Zhu Di came to Beiping, he only had a small number of troops, there were still Mongols in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and the time for Zhu Di, the king of Yan, to show his skills, when he persuaded Nell Buhua to surrender, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that this son had become a big climate, and said happily: "Those who clear the desert, the king of Yan also." ”
Since then, Zhu Di's prestige has greatly increased, and he has been sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to participate in military operations in the north many times.
However, the inheritance of the emperor of that meeting could not be obtained by virtue of his military exploits, and the key was to rely on reincarnation.
is also the son of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao was made the prince, the key reason is because he is the first son, Zhu Di watched his father all the way to the country, for such an arrangement, he was naturally dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything.
However, the crown prince Zhu Biao died early, and Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to set up the imperial grandsonZhu Yunwenfor the legal heirs.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne.
As a result, Zhu Yunwen did not save face for those uncles at all, and immediately began to adopt a policy of cutting the feudal domain after coming up, forcing the king of Zhou, the acting king, and the king of Xiang to commit suicide.
Therefore, in the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Di disobeyed and launched the "Jingnan" on the grounds of "Qingjun's side", and the two sides began a military confrontation that lasted for three years.
After all, King Yan was not orthodox, so when he raised his army, he only had about 100,000 troops, and there was no other territory except for Beijing.
Far away in Nanjing, Zhu Yunwen had a standing army three times that of the Yan king, and he himself controlled the country's economy, and those vassal states of the Ming Dynasty supported Zhu Yunwen to quell the "rebellion".
But Zhu Yunwen grew up in a honey pot since he was a child, and he didn't understand how to use the army at all, he just felt that there were many people in his army.
The troops under Zhu Di's command have followed him for many years, and all of them have been on the battlefield for a long time, fighting back and forth with the Mongols, and naturally accumulated rich experience.
As a result, with the passage of time, Zhu Di's military literacy over the years has been fully reflected, and the shortcomings of Zhu Yunwen's improper command and internal laxity also affected the entire battle situation, and soon, many generals who were originally loyal to Zhu Yunwen announced their surrender to King Yan.
In the fourth year of Jianwen, when Zhu Di had come to the city of Nanjing, Zhu Yunwen already knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly found Princess Qingyang to negotiate with Zhu Di, but the result was unsuccessful, and after that, Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts were unknown, Zhu Di ascended the throne and changed the year name to Yongle.
This kind of thing still had a great impact on the time, although the Ming Dynasty was still the Ming Dynasty, but many people felt that the current Ming Dynasty was not orthodox enough.
Zhu Di's treatment of these people is also very simple, he has completely inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's theory and character of murderous nature, as long as he resists him, or those who gossip in the court, they will not escape death.
And his nephew Zhu Yunwen has almost disappeared even as if he had never existed.
Because he changed the year 1402 to the 35th year of Hongwu, and then changed the second year to the first year of Yongle, which seems reasonable.
Although it is said that it is not the right way, from the perspective of the ruler, Zhu Di is indeed a good emperor, under his rule, there was a "Yongle prosperous era", and the famous "Zheng He's voyage to the West" also occurred during this period.
Because Zhu Di's education level is also very high, he attaches great importance to those discussions, in order to stop others' mouths, he also rewrote the history books, and hopes that the literati in the world can recognize his identity.
The Yongle Ceremony is a testimony of that era.
What Zhu Di wanted was a "unified Ming" with both land and ideology, and he also specifically considered the Mongol invasion, so he moved the capital of the Ming Dynasty from Nanjing to Beijing.
Under his consideration, this can not only further control the Northeast region, but also go down to the Central Plains at any time, the scale of the Forbidden City, which was laid down from this time, and from there the initial layout, you can feel Zhu Di's thoughts.
In his heart, there has always been one thing: he wants to shock the contemporary generation and leave a name in history.
Zhu Di himself knew in his heart that no matter how big the reason was, he should not directly overthrow his nephew's rule, but if he didn't do that, he would be unlucky.
In a sense, Zhu Di knew that his approach was likely to be imitated, and if it weren't for his military literacy being strong enough, it would be difficult for him to sit on the throne.
In addition to fighting wars and shocking the world, Zhu Di's "Yongle Canon" is a proud work, he believes that by compiling such a book, he can express that the era he ruled is a prosperous era, so as to show the world that he is an extremely good emperor.
It seems that he is constantly emphasizing: Shouldn't I be an emperor if I am such an excellent person?