The unlucky guy Zhu Zhi, the Taizu son who stood on the wrong team, is the most capable of giving birth
Ming Renzong Zhu Gaochi gave the late Liao King Zhu Zhi the nickname "Jane" in praise of his virtue and integrity. Although Zhu Zhi was born in the Weiwang Mansion in the eleventh year of Hongwu (1378), he died of illness in Jingzhou, Huguang.
He had trained troops in Linqing, Shandong with Zhu Ao, King of Han, Zhu Lu, King of Gu, Zhu Chang, King of Qing, Zhu Quan, King of Ning, and Zhu Yang, King of Min, and had an escort army called Guangning Zhongwei.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the title of the vassal king was often closely related to the name of the guard, for example, the fief of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was Beiping, and the name of the guard was called the three guards of Yanshan. However, Zhu Zhi was named the king of Wei, and his fief should be Weihui Mansion in Henan, but the name of the guard army was Guangning, which did not match his title of king of Wei at all.
So, in March of the following year, Zhu Zhi's title changed from King Wei to King Liao, and his fief also changed from Weihui Mansion in Henan to Guangningwei (now Beizhen City, Liaoning) in Liaodong, and became the king of Sai who shouldered the mission of imperial border.
Geng Yin, renamed Yu Wang Gui as the acting king, Han Wang Ao as the Su king, Wei Wang Zhi as the Liao king. In the first month of the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393), Zhu Zhi, the 17-year-old king of Liao, went to Liaodong.
Guangning is located in the transition area between the Liaohe Plain and the Mongolian Plateau, and has Yiwu Lu Mountain as a barrier, with the east of Liaoning in the south and the grassland in the north, and the west of the Liaoning West Corridor, the strategic location is very prominent.
However, it is inaccessible, underpopulated, and is almost a military city with the main population of the guards and their families. Zhu Zhi took office in a hurry, so that the Liao Palace, Guangning, had not yet been prepared, so he had to "create a palace room with trees and grass" in the north of the Dawei River.
In September of that year, Ming Taizu officially ordered the construction of the Liao Palace. However, in the 28th year of Hongwu (1395), in order to prevent the Mongol Jurchens and Goryeo from invading Liao, the construction of the Liao Wangfu was suspended, and it was not resumed until the 30th year of Hongwu.
The harsh environment sharpened Zhu Zhi's ability, and the "History of the Ming Dynasty" said that "planted on the side, Xi military brigade, and repeatedly made military achievements". As the first vassal king to establish Liaodong, Zhu Zhi shouldered the responsibility of garrisoning Liaodong and opening up the northeast.
Therefore, Lao Zhu rebelled against the political attitude of marrying with Xungui after the Lanyu case, and in October of the 27th year of Hongwu, he canonized the daughter of Guo Ying, the founding father of Wuding, as the princess of Liao.
Immediately, he sent Guo Ying to Liaodong to help his son-in-law.
Under the twin towers of Chongxing Temple in Beizhen, Liaoning, Zhu Zhi's three guards of Guangning fought bravely and skillfully, and did not disappoint Zhu Yuanzhang. In March of the 28th year of Hongwu, under the leadership of Song Sheng, the guards of Guangning followed Zhou Xing to conquer the Jurchens of Haixi.
After learning that the enemy was in the black pine forest, the Ming army divided into three routes. Song Sheng led his troops to attack Xiyangha's lair. Xiyangha escaped the Songhua River, and the Guangning Central Guard triumphed. In the following month, the left and right guards of the Liao king were established, and Zhu Zhi's three guards were formed.
In March of the 31st year of Hongwu, Zhu Li, the king of Jin, died of illness, and the balance between Jin and Yan that Zhu Yuanzhang had worked so hard to build was broken, and the dominance of King Yan became a potential threat. Zhu Yuanzhang had to send troops again to cut the feudal domain for the emperor's grandson.
On the grounds that Mongolia might move south, he mobilized the guards of the five kings and ordered King Yan to be the commander-in-chief to go north to Kaiping. Zhu Zhi, Guo Ying and others commanded the elite, and Yang Wen, the governor of the left army, was Zhu Di's deputy.
Zhu Di's overhead and the encirclement of the three guards of Yanshan were completed, and Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Zhu Di into Beijing. It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang died, and Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen couldn't understand his grandfather's good intentions, and did not allow Zhu Di to enter Beijing to mourn, but drove him back.
Zhu Di, who failed to stand in line, at the suggestion of Qi Tai and others, Emperor Jianwen began to cut the feudal domain in August of the 31st year of Hongwu. Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, Zhu Gui, and others were deposed as prisoners of the Shuren, and Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, died.
In order to ensure his own safety, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, rebelled in July of the first year of Jianwen (1399) in the north of the domain, and proclaimed himself the name of "Fengtian Jingnan". In a short period of time, the Jingnan Army successively conquered the strategic points around Tongzhou, Zunhua, Juyongguan, Yongping, and Beiping, causing a shock in the government and the opposition.
There are also three major Sai kings around Beiping, namely Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao, Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, and Zhu Lu, the king of the valley of Xuanfu. Fearing that he would fall victim to the battle between the two sides, Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, quickly arranged the defense of Xuanfu and fled back to Nanjing.
Emperor Jianwen rewarded the king of Gu and recalled the kings of Liao and Ning. Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao, and Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, made different choices: Zhu Quan resisted the decree and became Zhu Di's partner; And Zhu Zhi returned to Beijing honestly, and even took the sea route to ensure safety.
At the beginning, the king of the valley escaped and returned to Beijing. Qi Tai and others were concerned about Liao Wangzhi and Ning Wangquan as the help of the above, and suggested that they should be called back to Beijing, but Zhizhi was reached. Then he sent the right to cut the guard. However, three years later, Zhu Di successfully turned the tables with a weak victory, and on June 13, 1402, Zhu Di swaggered into Beijing from the Jinchuan Gate, and a fire broke out in the direction of the palace.
On June 17, Zhu Di ascended the throne as emperor in Fengtian Temple. Zhu Lu, the king of the valley who also returned to the south, contributed to the city at a critical moment. And Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao, did not say anything about Zhu Di's achievements, and his three guards also fought with the Jingnan army many times (the Ming army in Liaodong tried to attack Zhu Di's base camp Beiping many times, and the three guards of Guangning who stayed in Liaodong naturally participated in it).
The king of Liao, who failed to stand in line, in order to protect himself, Emperor Shangshu said that Liaodong was bitter cold, and he couldn't bear the hardship, or he would let himself seal the lake and Guangjingzhou. The powerful three guards of Guangning were not needed in the mainland, so they were left there to guard the frontier for the imperial court.
Zhu Di listened to Zhu Zhi's invitation, although it was ostensibly out of brotherly love, but in fact out of suspicion of Zhu Zhi. Jingzhou was originally the fief of the King of Xiang, but when the King of Xiang cut the domain, the palace of the King of Xiang was destroyed.
Therefore, the Liaowang Mansion in Jingzhou was rebuilt on the basis of Jingzhou's avant-garde administration. Although there is nothing wrong with this process itself, according to the record of "Ming Xuanzong Record", the Liao Wangfu does not even have a main entrance, which is obviously abnormal.
In March of the fourth year of Xuande, Zhu Guiyan, the king of Liao, raised this issue with the emperor, requesting that a new main gate be built in the south and that the walls of the houses outside the palace be repaired. The emperor agreed to his request.
The experience of Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao, was full of unfair treatment. Compared to the Valley King, he did not receive any rewards, and even the original guard army was reorganized, and his loyalty was doubtful.
Moreover, his age was only 500 stones, compared to the fact that the king of Gu had already received an increase of 3,000 stone in July, and had also received the commercial tax of Changsha when he became a vassal. This kind of differential treatment made Zhu Zhi feel obvious, but he did not raise **.
Instead, he chose to follow the rituals and expand the size of the clan wholeheartedly. His efforts paid off, and he gave birth to twenty sons and at least thirteen daughters, the most fertile of all Taizu's sons.
However, even so, Ming Chengzu still found fault with him, made a big change of eunuchs on him, and deprived him of his guards. As for what crime he committed, it is not clear to the outside world, but apparently, Cheng Zu is just looking for an excuse to target him.
In May of the sixteenth year of Yongle (1418), Zhu Zhi said that his third son, Zhu Guiji, the king of Yuan'an, had fled with others and his whereabouts were unknown. Ming Chengzu heard the news and ordered someone to investigate.
This incident hinted at the internal contradictions of the Liao family, and Ming Chengzu tried to use this contradiction to replicate the story of the Jin Dynasty. Zhu Zhi failed to stand in line and changed from a Liaodong Tiger to a sick cat in Jingzhou, but Ming Chengzu still found fault.
Fortunately, Zhu Guiyi and his fifth brother, Zhu Guixuan, the king of Badong, left one after another, otherwise Zhu Zhi might have been deposed as a concubine or recalled to Jingshi. Fortunately, his nephew Mingrenzong Zhu Gaochi was very kind to Zhu Zhi, gave him the nickname of "Jane", and rehabilitated him, which undoubtedly slapped Zhu Di in the face.