The opening inventory of the top ten young emperors

[After Liu Jin's death, Xie Qian and Liu Jian were fine. Liu Jian even returned to the cabinet and became a cabinet elder, but Hu Hai had already executed General Meng's family.]

[After Liu Jin's death, Zhengde took control of the power, and the emperor and his subjects seemed to be in harmony. At the very least, when faced with some absurd things the emperor did, the subjects would try to persuade him. If they couldn't persuade him, they would just let him do what was harmless.]
[In addition, Zhengde also had seven other eunuchs besides Liu Jin. These eunuchs were loyal to him, and Zhengde still had to rely on them in many things.]

【However, Hu Hai allowed Zhao Gao to call a deer a horse, and in the end, the emperor and his subjects became alienated, and even when he was forced to death by Zhao Gao, no one could save him.】

[One after another, with conspiracy and intrigue, he managed to escape danger again and again. Do you think that Emperor Zhengde could have succeeded by luck alone? 】
[There are no coincidences in this world. Even if there are, it is because someone has made the coincidence happen with his own strength.]

[Emperor Zhengde was the kind of person who used his strength to make certain things achieve the right results at the right time and in the right place.]
[Without a certain amount of intelligence and means, even the best luck will be wasted. ]

【Second, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen. Comparing with the Jingnan Campaign. 】

What, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen?
"How could this Emperor Jianwen be Yunwen? Where is Xiongying? Where is my eldest grandson Xiongying?"
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up from his seat.

Not only him, but the entire Zhu family thought they had heard wrongly. All along, they thought that this Emperor Jianwen was Zhu Biao's eldest son Zhu Xiongying, how could it become Zhu Yunwen.
Zhu Biao's brows knitted together, and he looked solemn, looking at his eldest son Zhu Xiongying. Afterwards, the two old fathers looked at each other, and their hearts were connected as never before.

When Zhu Yunwen heard his name, he was also startled. His palms were full of sweat and he clenched them involuntarily.
This time, when he looked at his fourth uncle Zhu Di again, his face was filled with unprecedented complexity.

[During the reign of Emperor Zhengde, there were two rebellions. One was the rebellion of Prince Anhua mentioned earlier, and the other was the rebellion of Prince Ning.]
[Zhang Yong suppressed the rebellion of Prince Anhua in just over ten days, while the rebellion of Prince Ning took a little longer, more than forty days.]
[When Prince Ning was plotting a rebellion, Emperor Zhengde was planning to lead the army himself. Unfortunately, before he could reach the battlefield, the rebellion had already been suppressed by General Wang Shouren, which made him very unhappy.]

【Throughout history, it is very difficult for a vassal king to succeed in his rebellion. Throughout the five thousand years of Chinese history, every dynasty has experienced vassal kings' rebellion, but most of them failed. But why did Zhu Di succeed during the reign of Emperor Jianwen?】
[It has to be said that the actions taken by Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen after he came to power were too magical. ]

Magic operation?
Although Zhu Yunwen was still a child at that time, everyone's eyes were still on him, which made him a little timid. Seeing this, Zhu Xiongying immediately stepped forward and stood in front of Zhu Yunwen, covering his younger brother.

"My dear uncles, Yun Wen must have his own reasons. I believe in him, just like... just like I believe in my fourth uncle."
Seeing Zhu Xiongying so kind and generous, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were both relieved and sad, and they wanted to know more about what happened later.

[How should I put it? After Zhu Yunwen came to power, he was impatient to carry out drastic reforms within just a few months.]
【Let’s take a look at what our Emperor Jianwen did. 】
【Emperor Jianwen reigned for a total of four years. As soon as he ascended the throne, he appointed Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru and others to implement new policies. Among these new policies, the first was to respect culture and education; the second was to reduce punishment and prisons; the third was to change the official system and merge prefectures and counties; the fourth was to reduce taxes and implement the well-field system.】
【Another important content, which was also vigorously promoted from the beginning, was to reduce the power of the vassal kings. 】【We all know that Emperor Wu of Han also opened the Mingtang, hoping to make the vassal kings in Chang'an leave Chang'an as soon as possible to consolidate his position. 】
[As a result, because it affected the interests of many parties, he had to temporarily restrain his edge, and lost two ministers for this. It was not until he truly took control of the government that he resolved these two issues.]

[As a result, Emperor Jianwen was even more powerful. He did not just let his uncles go to vassal states, nor did he use divisive tactics like Emperor Wu of Han to issue the "Enfeoffment Order" to weaken the power of the vassal kings. Instead, he directly reduced the power of the vassal kings. ]

"Reduce the power of the princes? The first thing is to reduce the power of the princes?" Looking at Zhu Yunwen, who was only five years old, Zhu Yuanzhang really didn't know how to comment.
Zhu Biao also sighed deeply... This is really too hasty!

【Reducing the power of the feudal lords can consolidate the imperial power. 】
[From this, it can be seen that Emperor Jianwen was really worried about his uncles. ]

[It's also because Zhu was so fertile. With 26 princes, they could afford to play mahjong for six tables. Not to mention the grandchildren. Zhu Yunwen had too many potential threats.]
[Zhu Yunwen, who ascended the throne as the crown prince, probably couldn't even sleep when he saw all those uncles around him who had made great military achievements.]

【From this point of view, our little Emperor Zhengde was much happier. First, because he was the only son, no one competed with him for the throne. Secondly, after ten generations of emperors of the Ming Dynasty, those princes had already been weakened too much. They were no longer a threat. 】
[Just look at the two princes who rebelled this time. Prince Anhua is equivalent to his great-grandfather, and Prince Ning is also equivalent to his grandfather. ]
[Once upon a time, Zhu Yuanzhang gave his sons a family tree of twenty characters. However, only half of these twenty characters were used, and the Ming Dynasty fell.]

"What? My Ming Dynasty perished after the tenth character?" Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned pale.
Zhu Biao, who was standing by, saw his father's grim expression and quickly consoled him, "Father, after reading the words of the Heavenly Scroll today, my Great Ming may not be like this."

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the boss was trying to comfort him, but he nodded and said, "I know that dynasties rise and fall, and this is the inevitable truth of all things."
However, he knew this truth, so he only gave his descendants a generational hierarchy of twenty words, but even so, it could not be completed.

He looked at the Heavenly Scroll... People in later generations have so many novel gadgets. Could it be that they have found a way to make their dynasties last for thousands of years?
[I can only say that Zhu's desire to have descendants continue his legacy is a good idea.]
【But there is a saying that goes, "There is no father and son in heaven." So, how much gratitude can there be between this uncle and nephew? 】

[When the Jianwen Emperor first started to reduce the power of the feudal lords, he knew that he would only pick on the weak. Right from the start, he fabricated charges against the feudal lords and removed the five least powerful ones.]
[The first person he cut off was his uncle, King Zhou Zhu Su.]
Zhu Yuanzhang probably never expected that he would die in May, and his fifth son Zhu Su, born to Empress Ma, would be arrested in July, and he would be demoted to a commoner and exiled to Yunnan in August.

(End of this chapter)