Zhu Yuanzhang's twenty-sixth son When Jing is in trouble, where will the other princes go?
After Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, his twenty-six sons successively divided the princes to defend the Ming Empire. The first thing Ming Taizu Zhu Yunwen did after ascending the throne was to divide the princes, which led to the Battle of Jingjing. So, what were the other 25 princes doing when Zhu Di fought against the imperial court?
Zhu Yuanzhang had twenty-six sons, but seven of them died young.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang had twenty-six sons, which was considered a prolific period among ancient emperors, by the time Zhu Yuanzhang died in May of the thirty-first year of Hongwu (1398), seven of his sons had already died.
1.Eldest son: Prince Zhu Biao. Zhu Biao is Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son. In the twenty-fourth year of Zhu Yuanzhang (1364), Zhu Biao proclaimed himself King of Wu, and Zhu Yuanzhang recognized him as his son; Four years later, Zhu Yuanzhang claimed that the emperor founded the country, and Zhu Biao became the crown prince. As the crown prince, Zhu Yuanzhang worked hard to raise him, but after twenty-four years as the crown prince, Zhu Biao unfortunately died of illness in April of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu (1392) at the age of 37.
2. Second son: Zhu Biao, King of Qin. In the third year of Hongwu (1370), Zhu Biao was named the king of Qin, he was smart and martial in his early years, but he did many injustices when he became an adult, and in the eleventh year of Hongwu (1378) and Zhu Yuanzhang called him a minister after building a large number of buildings, and Zhu Yuanzhang called him a minister, and thought that the minister was still unrepentant because of his advice, so that he was recalled to Nanjing in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu (1391), and he was also persuaded by the prince Zhu Biao to return to the sect. That's right"and if you do much injustice, you will be killed", because of Zhu Shi's ** court staff, so much so that in March of the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu (1395), at the age of 39, he was poisoned by three old women, and then sent back to Nanjing to accept the scepter of the imperial court.
Third son: Zhu Youzhen, King of Jin. Zhu Youzhen became the king of Jin in the third year of Hongwu (1370) and the king of Taiyuan in 1378. Like his brother Zhu Jianshen, Zhu Youzhen is also a person with a very high IQ and a ruthless heart, he had to run to tell each other, leading the people to tear Zhu Youzhen to pieces, which almost led to Zhu Yuanzhang being stripped of his title in anger, but fortunately, the maintenance of the prince Zhu Biao saved his life. Just two months before Zhu Yuanzhang's death, in March 1398, Zhu Youxiao died of illness at the age of 40.
4.Eighth son: Zhu Di, King of Tan. In the third year of Hongwu (1370), Zhu Di, who was less than one year old, was named the king of Tan; In the eighteenth year of Hongwu (1385), he was named the king of Changsha Domain. In April of the twenty-third year of Hongwu (1390), Zhu Di, the king of Tan, was in"Hu Weiyong's case"was killed. Hu Weiyong's case"** is Yu Xian, the younger brother of Princess Tan Yu and the father of Princess Tan Yu. Although Yu Xian died, as Hu Weiyong's henchman, he was still subjected to **, which made Zhu Di, the king of Tan, worried. Soon, Zhu Yuanzhang sent an envoy to Changsha to comfort Zhu Di and summoned him to the palace for an audience. As a result, Zhu Di, the king of Tan, panicked, thinking that he had done it, and died with the princess at the age of 21.
5.The ninth son: Zhu Qi, King of Zhao. He was born in September of the second year of Hongwu (1369) and was crowned King of Zhao in the third year of Hongwu (1370), but died young in December of that year, only eight months after his coronation, at the age of less than a year.
Sixth son: Zhu Tan, King Lu. Born in February of the third year of Hongwu (1370), he was named King of Lu in April of the same year. In October of the eighteenth year of Hongwu (1385), he served as the assassin of Yanzhou. In December 1390, the always absurd Zhu Tan died at the age of 20 due to an overdose of Jinshi medicine.
7.Twenty-sixth son: Zhu Nan. He was born in December of the 26th year of Hongwu (January 1394) and died about a month after birth.
As mentioned above, 7 of Zhu Yuanzhang's 26 sons died for various reasons, that is, only 19 of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons were still alive at the time of Zhu Di's martyrdom.
Around the time of Jingwu, 7 countries were exterminated and imprisoned, and the remaining 6 countries did not become vassals before Jingwu.
When Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, the relationship between the imperial court and the vassal states was already very tense, so after Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he first met with Qi Tai, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Huang Zicheng and other ministers, and decided to start with the vassal states of ** to win the hearts of the people.
In July of the 31st year of Hongwu (1398), Zhu Youzhen, the second son of Zhu Shaoxiao, king of Zhou, condemned his father for rebellion. In this regard, Zhu Yunwen sent Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, to lead his troops through Kaifeng, prepare to enter the customs, and escort the family of Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, back to Nanjing, exempting them from civilian status and moving to Menghua, Yunnan. The Battle of Jingjing"After the outbreak, Zhu Sheng was recalled to Nanjing to be imprisoned.
After the palace was besieged, Xiang Wang Zhu Bo was humiliated, bid farewell to his family, burned the concubines in the palace, put on the prince's clothes, put on the prince's crown, held a bow and arrow, rode a white horse, jumped into the fire and committed suicide, starting from Zhu Bo, the entire royal family was burned to death.
In July of the same year, after the fall of Beiping, Zhu Di gathered troops"Pacify"In the surrounding area, on July 24, Zhu Di crossed Huailai, and Zhu Li, the king of the valley, fled to Jinling because of the proximity of the Xuanfu clan. At the same time, the court of Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao, was worried about the rights and interests of Zhu Di, the king of Ning, so he issued an edict to let the two return to Beijing, and the king of Liao returned to Beijing from the sea, and the king of Ning did not cut the feudal domain. In August of the same year, Zhu Di (2), the king of Fujian, was killed by Mu Sheng, Marquis of Xiping, demoted to a concubine, and moved to Zhangzhou.
As mentioned earlier, in Zhu Di"Jing is difficult"Before, four vassal kings were deposed, Zhu Di"Jing is difficult"Later, two more vassal kings were recalled to Nanjing, and one was deposed. At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang's six sons Zhu Song, Zhu Mu, Zhu Ying, and Zhu Hu were in Zhu Di"Jing is difficult"Previously there was no place in the feudal **.
Most of the remaining princes remained neutral, but Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, is said to have secretly helped Zhu Di.
As mentioned earlier, Zhu Yuanzhang had twenty-six sons, but seven died young, five were removed after Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, and two were"Pacify"After being recalled to Nanjing, there were still six who did not accept the vassal relationship. In other words, of Zhu Yuanzhang's twenty-six sons, only six remained in the clan after Zhu Di introduced Jingnan. Then, in addition to Zhu Di, the king of Yan, the other five vassal kings are here"Pacify"What did you do during that time?
1.The sixth son of Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu: The two do not help each other. Zhu Zhen, the sixth son of the King of Chu, was made King of Chu in 1370 and King of Wuchang in 1381. He participated in many battles to pacify the barbarians in Dayong, Tongguwei, Sizhou, Jingzhou, Shangdang and other places. After the outbreak of the Battle of Jingyan, Zhu Zhenyi"The Son of Heaven has no clear fate, and the princes and kings are not suitable"In the name, it was decided to press the army, that is, King Yan did not support Zhu Di's battle of Jingnan, nor did he order the king to send troops to King Qin, and his fief was in the south, far away from the palace and the battlefield of King Yan, and neither side paid attention to him. After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he didn't trouble him, and named him Zongren Zongzheng.
2.Zhu Chun, King of Shu, the eleventh son: An Zaifan. He competed for the throne of Shu in the eleventh year of Hongwu (1378) and the twenty-third year of Chengdu (1390). He governed Shu well, educated the locality, treated the people well, made the place peaceful, and the four people were happy. Because of the exploits of Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, Emperor Jianwen was still very close to this uncle, so he never thought of touching him when he cut the domain. When Zhu Di ascended the throne, he also wrote a letter to test Zhu Chun, and Zhu Chun replied"Loyalty and filial piety are the foundation of ministers", so even Yanwang Zhu Di has no opinion on him.
3, the fourteenth son of Su Wang Zhu Di: fierce movement. In the eleventh year of Hongwu (1378), he was sealed by the king of Han, and in March of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu (1392), he was replaced by the king of water, and in June of the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu (1395), the five guards of Gansu and Ganzhou military affairs moved to the first line of Shaanxi. Zhu Li was considered to be the most powerful of the feudal emperors at the time, but due to the remoteness and desolation of the fief, he wrote a letter requesting a transfer in the first year of Jianwen (1399), and the imperial court finally agreed to transfer to Lanzhou. "In"Zhenguan for four years"During this period, Zhu Li has been migrating, and when the migration ends, the Zhenguan era is basically over.
4, the sixteenth son of Qingwang Zhu Sisi: dressed in disguise. In April of the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu (1391), he was named King of Qing, and his original fief was in Ningxia, but due to the local neighborhood relations outside the Guanxi and the burden of the newly established guard could not guarantee the safety of the vassal king and the burden of the vassal king's living supply, he temporarily moved to Weizhou, and later became responsible for the management of the Qingyang, Ningxia, Yan'an, and Suide guard armies, and was one of the nine major vassal kings in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. "Later, with the gradual completion of Ningxiawei, if the Qing palace was built in Weizhou, the imperial court was ordered to move to Ningxia in the third year of Jianwen (1401), which was tantamount to secretly cutting the feudal domain.
5, the seventeenth son of Zhu Quan, King of Ning: secretly helped Zhu Di. In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu (1391), he was named King of Ning, and in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393), he was named King of Daning. Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, was one of the kings with extremely strong military strength, and was called"80,000 soldiers and 6,000 chariots", the three guards under his command"Duoyan"Known for his bravery and good fighting, he has repeatedly fought in alliance with the kings. In"The Battle of Jingjing", Zhu Di went straight to Daning to seek Zhu Quan's help, thus rapidly growing his power. King Ning seized the opportunity to cooperate with Zhu Quan's generals and forced Zhu Quan to raise troops to follow him. Of course, with Zhu Quan's strength, I don't believe it to say that he was completely forced to be helpless, it sounds more like half-pushing.
As mentioned earlier, except for Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, most of the other four vassal kings did not choose to help, because they were too far away from the area where Zhu Di and the imperial court were at war, and neither Zhu Di nor the imperial court dared to force them to take a stand, otherwise they would likely be pushed to the other side.
Of course, there is an exception, that is, Zhu Hu, the king of the valley, who fled to Beijing in the early years of Jingnan. In the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), the army of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, destroyed the city of Nanjing, and the city's defensive strength and logistical reserves could hold out for a while. However, Zhu Yunwen sent the prince Fenghou into Beijing to guard the city gate, when Zhu Jizhi, the king of the valley, and Li Jinglong, the prince of Cao Guo, were stationed at the Jinchuan Gate, which led to the killing of these two people, and seeing Zhu Di's command cover, he decided to open the city gate directly and surrender, and the city of Nanjing was breached.