History Live: Starting from Qin Shi Huang

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[Of course, just as the story ends, there is always a twist, and Zhu Di is no exception.

After his death, he was given the temple name Taizong and the posthumous name Wen. However, in later generations, there was no Emperor Taizong in the Ming Dynasty.

Why? That has to do with Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao.

As an emperor who entered the great clan from the minor clan, he naturally wanted to put his father in the Imperial Ancestral Temple as well. However, there were only nine tablets in the main hall of the Imperial Ancestral Temple during the Ming Dynasty, and it was full at this time. So what should he do? He could only move one out. Of course, this was not Zhu Di, but Zhu Gaochi.

In order to make it more legitimate for his entry into the main clan, strengthen his power, and make it seem like there was nothing wrong with his transfer of tablets, Zhu Di's temple name was changed to Chengzu.

Therefore, Zhu Di's final temple name was Ming Chengzu. 】

The sixteenth year of Yongle.

Zhu Di was so angry that his hair stood on end and his beard stood on end: "Unfilial descendants! Unfilial descendants!"

Why did he want Taizong? Wasn't it just to make himself appear legitimate and the heir chosen by his father? To this end, he even tried to cover up his mistakes and extended the Hongwu reign to thirty-five years.

He worked so hard, but was destroyed by this unfilial descendant! Chengzu! The word "Chengzu" means "Zu"! Doesn't the word "Zu" clearly emphasize that he was the one who initiated the Jingnan Rebellion? ! !

Zhu Di was not the only one who was angry, including the kindhearted Zhu Gaochi. You moved my cards out and let the father of a minor clan enter the main hall. Do you still have any shame? Do you still have any shame?

Han Dynasty, the first year of Yuanshuo.

Liu Che could not help but laugh out loud, gloating: "Hahahahahahahahahaha——" As he laughed, he slapped the table in front of him with such force that he almost broke it, "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..."

His heart was filled with joy of having found great fun. With what Jiajing did, all Zhu Di's lifelong efforts had gone to waste. Hahahaha, too funny. Hahahaha. Such an unfilial son, a great grudge who betrayed his ancestors, which is rare in the world, actually existed in the Ming Dynasty. It's really hahahaha!
The ministers in the hall all looked at the emperor in silence, seeming to want to speak but hesitant.

"Your Majesty," Wei Qing said, "Your Majesty, please restrain yourself."

When Liu Che looked up, he saw the disapproving gazes of a group of ministers.

He waved his hand to signal to the ministers that it was all right. The more he thought about it, the happier he became and he started laughing again.

[Another point is that Zhu Di never went to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to the gods in his entire life. ]

[In April of the 14th year of Yongle, the Minister of Rites suggested to Zhu Di that he go to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to the gods, but Zhu Di refused, saying that the world was not peaceful and people's livelihood was unstable, so there was no need to offer sacrifices to the gods.]

[Of course, we don’t know whether this is the real reason. ]

[However, it is speculated that Zhu Di refused to perform Fengshan because the Fengshan ceremony on Mount Tai had lost its original meaning and value. Although Fengshan ceremony on Mount Tai had been the highest honor for emperors since Qin Shihuang, Mount Tai seemed to have lost its value after Emperor Zhenzong of Song also performed Fengshan ceremony on Mount Tai.]

Ming Dynasty, the 16th year of Yongle.

Zhu Di was somewhat speechless, and felt very sarcastic - to Song Zhenzong: "I really can't call it a peaceful world now. I also feel that I haven't accomplished anything extraordinary yet, so I won't go to Fengshan. As for Song Zhenzong..."

He pulled the corner of his mouth and squeezed out a mocking sound from his throat: "Haha."

Although they were still reflecting on their own problems, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji could not help but nod their heads when they heard this. How could Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty have the face to perform the Fengshan ceremony? If he performed the Fengshan ceremony, it would feel like Mount Tai was in ruins.

Song.

"What's wrong with the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai? What happened to Emperor Zhenzong of Song?" Zhao Guangyi saw that his brother didn't speak, so he spoke up. Although he also felt that something might be wrong, he didn't want to think about it. Instead, he thought of a question: Should he still be the emperor when the Song Dynasty looked so bleak in the future?

Zhao Kuangyin had a cold expression on his face and did not respond to Zhao Guangyi's question. He had already discovered that his Song Dynasty was probably finished long ago, and the miracle was definitely not talking about his Song Dynasty!

Qin Dynasty.

It was now 219 BC, the year when the First Emperor was preparing to go to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth.

When they suddenly heard the miracle saying "Mount Tai has lost its value" and "The Fengshan Ceremony at Mount Tai has lost its original meaning", the First Emperor and his close ministers were a little stunned.

Meng Yi stepped forward and saluted, saying, "Your Majesty, do you still want to go to Mount Tai for the Fengshan ceremony?"
Ying Zheng concentrated his mind and said firmly: "Everything will follow the previous plan without any changes."

In other times and spaces, many emperors also had doubts about the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai, and were very curious about who Song Zhenzong was and what he had done.

[Edition of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di's life——

In 1360 AD, Zhu Di was born in Nanjing. His father Zhu Yuanzhang was in the career development period when Zhu Di was born and Zhu Yuanzhang had no time to take care of his newborn son.

In 1367, Zhu Yuanzhang named his seven-year-old fourth son "Di" after he destroyed Chen Youliang and conquered Jiangnan.

In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang led his army to capture Nanjing and ascended the throne in Yingtian Prefecture, naming the country Ming and making his eldest son Zhu Biao the crown prince.

In 1370 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed his sons as vassal kings, and the 10-year-old Zhu Di was named King of Yan.

In 1376, the 16-year-old Zhu Di married Xu, the eldest daughter of Xu Da, Duke of Wei, at the arrangement of his father Zhu Yuanzhang.

In 1378, Xu gave birth to Zhu Di's eldest son, Zhu Gaochi.

In 1380, Zhu Di, the Prince of Yan, and his family went to Beijing to be enfeoffed. Zhu Yuanzhang was a devout Buddhist, so he would select a monk to assist each of the kings. A monk named Daoyan was chosen by Zhu Di for his strategy and knowledge, so he followed Zhu Di to the north to be enfeoffed.

In 1381 AD, Zhu Di followed his father-in-law Xu Da on an expedition to the Northern Yuan Dynasty and began his battlefield training with real swords and guns.

In 1390 AD, the Northern Yuan Dynasty invaded the northern border of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Di, as a local vassal king, was ordered to lead his army to conquer the northern desert. Zhu Di took advantage of the heavy snow to quickly approach the Yuan army camp. Although the Ming army was heavily armed, Zhu Di did not choose to attack but sent envoys to persuade the Yuan army to surrender. In the end, the Northern Yuan Taiwei Nairbuhua surrendered to the Ming army with his tribe and cattle and sheep.

When the victory report reached the capital, Zhu Yuanzhang said happily: "The one who cleared the desert is the King of Yan." Since then, Zhu Di's reputation has been greatly enhanced and he has been trusted by Zhu Yuanzhang. He has been ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to participate in the northern military and control soldiers and horses many times.

In 1392, Crown Prince Zhu Biao died. In order to prevent the princes from fighting for the throne and thus causing fratricide, Zhu Yuanzhang accepted the suggestion of scholar Liu Sanwu and made his grandson Zhu Yunwen the crown prince.

In 1395 AD, King Qin Zhu Chong died.

In 1396, Zhu Di led his army to the north alone. During this expedition, Zhu Di pursued the enemy to the Wulianghatu City of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and won a great victory and captured dozens of enemy generals alive. In 1398, Prince of Jin Zhu Ying died.

As Qin Wang Zhu Shuang and Jin Wang Zhu Gang died one after another, Yan Wang Zhu Di became the oldest and most powerful prince among all the princes. Not only did he have a guard army that was used to fighting, but his authority had long exceeded the rule that "nobles cannot rule over the people". Zhu Yuanzhang also regarded Zhu Di as an important pillar for maintaining the Zhu Dynasty and placed great hopes on him.

In 1398, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, passed away in the Yingtian Palace at the age of 71. Before his death, Zhu Yuanzhang considered that the power of the Prince of Yan and other princes would pose a threat to the successor emperor, so he issued an edict: the princes were not allowed to come to the capital, and the civil and military officials in the kingdoms were subject to the control of the court.

In the same year, the Crown Prince Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne and named the reign Jianwen.

After Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, in order to consolidate the centralized power, he implemented a policy of reducing the power of the princes. In less than a year, he successively killed or deposed the King of Zhou, the King of Dai, the King of Qi, the King of Min, the King of Xiang and others for their crimes.

Zhu Di's three sons were also summoned to the capital as hostages. Zhu Di knew that it was difficult for him to compete with the imperial court with his current strength, so in order to protect himself, he had to hide his edge and pretend to be crazy and stupid. He ran around the streets all day long and talked nonsense, while secretly training the army day and night to rush to make weapons.

Zhu Yunwen appointed Zhang Bing as the governor of Beiping, and inspected the guards of the Yan Palace in the name of defending the border, in order to strengthen the preventive measures against the Prince of Yan.

In 1399, the Prince of Yan, Zhu Di, raised an army in the name of "Feng Tian Jing Nan". At the beginning of the war, many of the northern generals were Zhu Di's former subordinates, and many surrendered to Zhu Di to join the war. Zhu Di successively captured Juyongguan and Huailai, and captured the southern army general Song Zhong. He took advantage of the situation to capture Zunhua, and Yongping surrendered.

In August of the same year, Zhu Yunwen appointed Geng Bingwen, an old general of Emperor Taizu, as the general and led an army of 30 to attack Zhu Di. The army arrived in Zhending, and the vanguard reached Xiong County, where it was attacked by Zhu Di and all 9 soldiers were killed. The army fought again in Zhending and was defeated again.

Zhu Yunwen then replaced Geng Bingwen with his relative Li Jinglong. In September, Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin, led Liaodong troops to besiege Yongping. Li Jinglong gathered 500,000 troops and marched to Hejian to set up camp. In October, Zhu Di personally led elite cavalry to attack Daning, captured Ning Wang Zhu Quan and his concubines and sons, and obtained his cavalry of the Three Guards of Doyan, which greatly increased his military strength.

Li Jinglong took advantage of the situation and attacked Beiping, but failed. After the Yan army returned from Daning, it defeated Li Jinglong's army at Zhengcunba. Li Jinglong retreated to Dezhou. Zhu Di took the opportunity to attack Weizhou and Datong, leading Li Jinglong to send troops to rescue, but the troops were exhausted and ineffective. Zhu Yunwen was forced to dismiss Qi Tai, the Minister of War, and Huang Zicheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, to slow down the Yan army.

In 1400, the two sides fought again at Baigou River, and Li Jinglong was defeated again. The Yan army took advantage of the victory to besiege Jinan. Tie Xuan, the Shandong councilor, held Jinan firmly, waiting for the Yan army to tire out. The Yan army failed to capture Jinan after a long siege and returned in defeat.

In September of the same year, the court promoted Tie Xuan to be the governor of Shandong and appointed Sheng Yong to replace Li Jinglong.

In December of the same year, Sheng Yong led his troops to fight against the Yan army in Dongchang. The Yan army was defeated and the commander Zhang Yu was killed in the battle.

In 1401 AD, the Yan army marched south again.

In March of the same year, he defeated Sheng Yong at Hutuo River, and then defeated Wu Jie and others at Gaocheng. Zhu Yunwen exiled Qi and Huang in the name of sending them out to recruit troops to defend the king. At that time, although Zhu Di won many battles, he suffered heavy losses, and the imperial court had a wide range of troops. The cities captured by the Yan army in Hebei and Shandong were occupied by the imperial court troops after the troops returned.

In the same year, an eunuch reported the matter from the capital, and Zhu Di learned that Nanjing was vulnerable and could be taken, so he decided to change his strategy.

In 1402, Zhu Di led his army southward. In April, he defeated the armies of He Fu and Ping An. In May, he conquered Sizhou and Xuyi, and marched towards Yangzhou. Emperor Jianwen sent Princess Qingcheng to the Yan army to ask for peace by ceding territory, but the King of Yan refused.

In the same year, Jiangfang Commander Chen Xuan surrendered to Yan with his fleet, and Yan's army crossed the river, went down to Zhenjiang, and marched straight to Nanjing. Gu Wang Zhu Tan and Li Jinglong opened the Jinchuan Gate to surrender, Nanjing fell, a fire broke out in the palace, and Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts were unknown.

In June 1402, Zhu Di paid homage to the Xiaoling Mausoleum and then ascended the throne in the Fengtian Hall in Nanjing. He offered sacrifices to heaven and earth and announced the abolition of the Jianwen era name, changing the current year to the th year of Hongwu.

In the same year, Zhu Di ascended the throne in Nanjing and named his reign Yongle.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he compiled a "list of treacherous ministers" and executed Jianwen ministers such as Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, and Qi Tai.

In order to prevent other princes from becoming too powerful and threatening the imperial court, he continued to implement the policy of reducing the power of the princes, strengthened centralization, reformed the official system, and established the Cabinet and the East Factory.

In 1405, Zhu Di sent Zheng He to the Western Ocean for the first time. He then made seven consecutive voyages to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, visiting more than 7 countries and regions, which played a positive role in economic and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.

In 1406 AD, Annan was captured.

In 1408 AD, the Yongle Encyclopedia, China's largest and earliest encyclopedia, which took five years to write, was officially completed.

In 1409, he sent envoys to Tatar, requesting "peace between us, I rule China, the Khan rules the northern desert, and we will live in peace forever." Unexpectedly, the envoys were killed. Zhu Di was furious and declared that "those who disobey my order will be annihilated."

In July of the same year, Zhu Di sent Qi Guogong Qiu Fu as the general to lead an army of 100,000 to fight against the Tatars. However, Qiu Fu led more than a thousand troops to the Luqu River first, underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, and made improper command. He died in battle along with Wucheng Marquis Wang Cong, Tongan Marquis Huo Zhen, Jingan Marquis Wang Zhong, and Anping Marquis Li Yuan, and the troops he led were also wiped out in the Luqu River. Zhu Di was furious and decided to lead the expedition himself.

In 1410 AD, an expedition to the northern desert was launched.

In 1412 AD, Zhu Di restored the Jinyiwei that was abolished during the Hongwu period and established a new secret agency, namely the Dongchang, collectively known as the Changwei agency.

In 1414 AD, the second expedition to Mobei was launched.

In 1420 AD, the capital was moved to Beijing.

In 1422 AD, he made three expeditions to the northern desert.

In 1423 AD, he launched the fourth expedition to the northern desert.

In 1424 AD, the fifth expedition to Mobei was launched.

In the same year, Zhu Di died in Yumuchuan on his way back from the Northern Expedition. At that time, the six divisions were away and the capital was without a master. The Emperor Chengzu and his entourage agreed not to leak the news of the emperor's death. The eunuch Ma Yun discussed with the Grand Secretaries Yang Rong and Jin Youzi and collected the tinware from the army to melt it into a coffin to bury Zhu Di. The coffin was placed on the sedan chair and meals were served every morning and evening as usual. The army continued to march towards the capital and sent people to report to the crown prince.

Soon after, Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne. Emperor Chengzu was buried in the Changling Mausoleum on Tianshou Mountain in Beijing, together with Empress Xu. He was posthumously named "Emperor Qi Tian Hong Dao Gao Ming Guang Yun Sheng Wu Sheng Gong Chun Ren Xiao Wen", and his temple name was Taizong.

During the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court believed that his "reconstruction was equal to the creation" and changed his name to Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty. His posthumous title was Emperor Wen of Qitian, Hongdao, Gaoming, Zhaoyun, Shengwu, Shengong, Chunren, Zhixiao, or Emperor Wen for short.

〈I did leave some respect for you, Taizong made Chengzu [sly smile][sly smile][sly smile]〉

〈In the 35th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang passed the throne to his fourth son Zhu Di [Shiba Inu]〉

"How great Zhu Di was, how obvious his stains were"

〈Seizing the throne? Isn't it Fengtian Jingnan? [Question] This is the ancestral precept of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Di clearly wanted to leave, but the emperor died first. Zhu Di could only inherit the throne reluctantly and return it to his nephew when he returned. Nothing wrong with that.〉

Ming Dynasty, Hongwu

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Di in the court and said: "You are really a good son of our family. You helped us live four more years, Lao Si!"

Zhu Di was so scared that he hid behind Zhu Biao and quickly went to invite Queen Ma!
(End of this chapter)