When Zhu Di invaded the palace, why didn t he rush to the throne, but instead deal with the beauties

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-05

Zhu Yuanzhang always wanted to pass the throne to his eldest son Zhu Biao during his lifetime, but no one expected him to die young and not live his father. Zhu Biao's death was a big blow to Zhu Yuanzhang, and he was old and in poor health, so he passed the throne to Zhu Biao's son Zhu Yunwen.

When Zhu Yuanzhang passed the throne to Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di, the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was not happy at this time. Obviously, Zhu Biao is most likely to inherit the throne after his death, why did he let a yellow-haired boy get cheap, he decided to rebel! But after the rebellious emperor invaded the palace, he was not in a hurry to ascend the throne, but killed all the beauties in the palace, why is this?

If you want to know what's going on, you have to start with why Zhu Di rebelled, but in fact, there is nothing to say, he just wants to be the emperor. Zhu Di was actually really miserable, because he didn't want to rebel, but he wanted to be the emperor. This seems to be a contradictory proposition, but it was not a contradiction for Zhu Di at that time. The emperor symbolizes power, and rebellion is an obligation that the emperor must fulfill.

Just when Zhu Di was still swaying between rebellion and non-rebellion, a person suddenly appeared and completely changed his fate. A monk said, "If the king can use me, the poor monk is willing to give a white hat to the king." ”King Baijia is the emperor, although Zhu Di is still hesitating, the emperor's throne is too big for him.

Zhu Yuanzhang actually left a lot of virtuous ministers for Zhu Yunwen, and after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, two of the ministers saw Zhu Di's thoughts. They presented the emperor and hoped that His Majesty would take action against Zhu Di as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

But at this time, Zhu Yunwen had not yet spared the effort to clean up this uncle, and after he ascended the throne, he successively moved on several of his uncles, King Zhou, King Dai, King Min, King Xiang, and King Qi, killing them and demoting them to common people.

Zhu Di saw all this in his eyes, he actually wanted to escape, but the whole world is not the king's land, where can he escape? Dao Yan, the monk at the beginning, continued to instill the theory of rebellion in Zhu Di, and at the same time, Zhu Yunwen was also preparing for the reduction of the feudal domain step by step, and his eyes were always fixed on his uncle who had achieved great military achievements.

In the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Di sent his henchman Gecheng to the imperial city to see the emperor to inquire about the news, but what he never expected was that Gecheng was actually rebelled, and the person who rebelled was actually the emperor himself. The brother took the initiative to explain his identity as a spy and Zhu Di's plan, and told the emperor that he would work hard after he went back, and strive to eliminate King Yan as soon as possible.

Because after Gecheng returned to Zhu Di's side, he continued to tell the emperor, and finally broke Zhu Yunwen to arrest Zhu Di three times in a row. Seeing that the development of the situation was no longer out of his control, Zhu Di finally made up his mind to rebel.

After the battle of Lingbi completely defeated Zhu Yunwen's main force, Zhu Yunwen, who was in the imperial city, was completely panicked. He never imagined that the cutting of the feudal domain would become what it is now, and the throne was about to be unkept. At this time, a virtuous minister named Fang Xiaoru gave Zhu Yunwen a bad idea - to negotiate land cutting and paralyze Zhu Di.

Zhu Di has already hit the door of the house, this broken idea is a fool's dream to think about with his head, but Zhu Yunwen still did what he wanted, and sent the object of peace talks, Zhu Di's cousin Qingcheng County Lord.

When Zhu Di saw his cousin, he said very calmly: "I raised troops this time to avenge my father's emperor, exterminate the traitorous ministers, and follow the example of Zhou Gongpu back then, hoping that the emperor will agree to my request." If you don't agree to me, on the day I storm the castle, I hope that your brothers and sisters will move immediately. ”If you say it's good, it's moving, and if you don't hear it, you're driving them away, which is a naked threat.

After Zhu Di rejected Zhu Yunwen's request for peace, he launched a final attack, and with the help of the two internal responses, he finally attacked the imperial city. Since then, the Ming dynasty has changed hands again. At this time, Zhu Yunwen, who had become a lonely man, was sitting in the empty palace, and the former advisers around him were nowhere to be seen, so he was furious and made an astonishing decision - to burn the palace.

Zhu Yunwen set fire to the palace where he had lived for so many years, and then disappeared, becoming another mystery in history. After a short period of excitement, Zhu Di immediately realized that he still had something very important to do. He did not ascend the throne as emperor, but instead took all those who opposed it, and another rare atrocity in history began.

In addition to killing the courtiers left behind during the Zhu Yunwen period, he also killed another group of people, these people were the women of the palace. Zhu Di did not see Zhu Yunwen when he attacked the palace, he thought that as long as Zhu Yunwen was his own, his emperor would not be able to sit still, in order to find out Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts, he began to massacre people in the palace.

The first victims were the powerless women in the palace。Although Zhu Yunwen's era has come to naught, in order to prevent his resurgence, Zhu Di still decided to kill them all. According to historical records, in order to find Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di had "cleared the palace for three days", and this "three days of clearing the palace" was not as simple as literally driving people away.

The beauties in the palace are like clouds, and according to the character of the rebel emperor in the past, they will not kill all of them if they are not taken for their own use. In order to get Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts, Zhu Di asked Zhu Yunwen's concubines one by one, but how could these women in the harem know his whereabouts? Zhu Di was furious, and in order to prevent future changes, he executed all the women in the palace.

After Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, he changed the name of the country to Yongle. When attacking the palace, in order to find Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts, although he had a large number of people, he could not deny his achievements in politics. During his reign, he not only consolidated the border defense between the north and the south, but also maintained the integrity of China's territory.

The well-known "Zheng He's Seven Voyages to the West" in textbooks is supported by this emperor behind the scenes. Zheng He's voyage to the West not only strengthened friendly exchanges between China and foreign countries, but also promoted the economic development of the Ming Dynasty at that time. His world is his own fight, so he understands very well the harm of war to the country, he recuperated and developed the economy, when the Ming Dynasty was prosperous, known as "Yongle Shengshi".

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