In June 1402, the 42-year-old Zhu Di returned to the city of Nanjing, which he was familiar with. Many years ago, when he left Nanjing, he was a vassal king. And this time, when he came back, he still came back as a vassal king, but this was only a temporary identity.
Zhu Di knew that he would soon become the most powerful and noble person in the entire Ming Empire - the Ming Emperor.
Several years of hard work have paid off, and Zhu Di is quite satisfied.
Once, he only dared to look up from the position above the main hall, but now, he could sit on it at any time. All of this is thanks to his nephew, Zhu Yunwen, Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty.
A few days later, many ministers who were hiding at home and were uneasy suddenly got a piece of news. Zhu Di cried in front of everyone today. This is Zhu Di, the most powerful star in the Ming Dynasty. What would make him cry?
News came out from the palace, and it turned out that the person who was ordered to sort out the information in the palace found a copy of Zhu Yuanzhang's edict. In this edict, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered all the important ministers of the imperial courtAfter his death, if the government is abnormal, everyone should take King Yan as the mainstay, purge the government of the court, and eradicate the traitors.
Legend has it that after King Yan saw this edict, his expression was abnormal on the spot, and he cried bitterly, and then said: Father, you really think so, let me undertake such a mission, this really hurts me!
When the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty heard the news, the pressure in their hearts disappeared at once. All of a sudden, the wind blew in Nanjing, accusing those "traitorous ministers" around Emperor Jianwen, why did they hide such an important edict?
Is this edict true? If it was fake, why did Zhu Di make up such an edict? What is his purpose?
If it weren't for Zhu Biao's early death, no matter how bold Zhu Di was, he would not dare to launch the "Battle of Jingjing" at will.
Unlike Zhu Yunwen's rapid ascendancy, Zhu Biao, who was born in 1355, was appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang as the heir of the Ming Dynasty a long time ago. Looking at the people around Zhu Biao, you can know that Zhu Yuanzhang has long been building momentum for Zhu Biao's ascension.
Zhu Biao's teacher was Song Lian, the head of the literati at that time, and Zhu Biao's wife was the daughter of the fierce general Chang Yuchun. When Zhu Biao was young, Zhu Yuanzhang designated this family business for Zhu Biao. In the first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang directly gave the position of the crown prince to Zhu Biao, cutting off the thoughts of everyone else.
After Zhu Biao grew up, Zhu Yuanzhang's actions showed that he was determined to let Zhu Biao inherit the throne, and there could be no room for change.
We all know Zhu Yuanzhang's ruling style, which is basically to centralize power, and then vigorously rectify the rule of officials, through these means, the ** atmosphere in the early Ming Dynasty was extremely serious. Even ministers who can participate in the central advice often fear that their lives will be lost.
However, Zhu Biao's governing philosophy is significantly different from Zhu Yuanzhang's.
Zhu Biao believes that Zhu Yuanzhang's various administrative methods are too strict, so when he deals with things, he often focuses on leniency and benevolence.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew his son's thoughts, but he didn't react.
You must know that Zhu Yuanzhang can kill all Hu Weiyong in order to centralize power, and there are so many prisons that he has made are terrifying. If it were an ordinary person, I wouldn't know what it would be like to die for a long time.
We don't know what Zhu Yuanzhang really thinks. But what he thinks is likely to be a villain, and then his son Shi Renzheng, the father and son have a white face and a black face, and they will definitely be able to eat the court to death. However, Zhu Biao's early death disrupted Zhu Yuanzhang's plan.
In 1392, the 37-year-old Zhu Biao went to Shaanxi to inspect the site of Beijing, and on the way back to Beijing, Zhu Biao suddenly suffered from a cold and died of illness on the bed.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have time to grieve。For him, the heir to the empire died, and the problem was much more serious than the death of his son. For the sake of national stability, Zhu Yuanzhang made his sons princes.
If Zhu Biao died, would these people have any special ideas? Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to let Zhu Biao's son Zhu Yunwen be the heir to the throne.
In order for Zhu Yunwen to inherit the power smoothly, Zhu Yuanzhang plannedThe Sapphire Case, killing the meritorious group to the head.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang still missed one step after all. Although there were problems inside the court, the most serious problems were on the outside, that is, the princes and kings whom he had divided.
After Zhu Yunwen ascended to the throne, he soon found that his uncles were a huge threat to him, and with the assistance of Fang Xiaoru and others, he planned to cut the domain.
But the young people are still too young, and the people in Zhu Yunwen's hands are still too much compared to the army of King Yan who has fought for many years. When Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingjing, the people in Zhu Yunwen's hands had no combat effectiveness at all.
In this way, Zhu Di attacked the city all the way, and in less than 3 years, Zhu Di successfully broke through the north and south and achieved his own career.
For Zhu Di, the most difficult thing now is to find a suitable reason to declare the legitimacy of his regime. Therefore, Zhu Di hit his father with the idea and used the so-called "edict" to show that he came with the emperor's order.
This incident, to put it bluntly, is a pure political performance, and the ministers know that as long as they respect Zhu Di as the master, nothing will happen to them. And Zhu Di gained face and could control the government "justifiably".
After that, Zhu Di used the reason that Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen disappeared, and under the "persuasion" of the ministers, he ascended to the throne and realized his dream since childhood: to be the emperor.
In this so-called "posthumous edict" incident, the only people who were hurt were Zhu Yuanzhang, who was buried in the ground, and the former ministers of Emperor Jianwen, who were about to become corpses. The former did not issue such a so-called edict at all. And the latter, not only will they lose their lives, but their reputation will be stinked by the new court to the end.
This is the essence of feudal rule. No matter how glamorous it is on the surface, in fact, there are countless calculations on the inside.
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