There are many vassal kings in history, why is it that only Zhu Di succeeded in winning the throne?

Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty and was known as the Yongle Emperor by later generations. Zhu Di's position as emperor was not an orthodox succession, but when he was a vassal king, he launched the "Battle of Jingyan", overthrew the rule of his nephew Emperor Jianwen under the banner of "Qing Jun's side", and rebelled and ascended the throne. In Chinese history, there are countless records of rebellions by vassal kings, from the "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms" in the early Han Dynasty to the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" in the Western Jin Dynasty.

But the only person who was able to successfully ascend the throne in the end was Zhu Di, the king of Yan, so what is the deep-seated reason for this?

After Zhu Yuanzhang unified China and established the Ming Dynasty, he divided the territory to more than 20 of his sons and formed a vassal king. Among these vassal kings, the kings of Qin, Jin, Yan, and Ning were the most powerful. When Zhu Yuanzhang was nearly seventy years old, the crown prince Zhu Biao fell ill and died, Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely sad, poured all his expectations on his eldest grandson Zhu Yunwen, and forcibly passed the throne to Zhu Yunwen from generation to generation.

After the death of Zhu Yuanzhang, the tail of the feudal kings in various places was not lost, and they did not listen to the deployment of the imperial court, and there were changes one after another.

At this time, the king of Qin and the king of Jin had passed away one after another, and the strongest among the vassal kings was Zhu Di, the king of Yan. Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen was determined to cut the feudal domain, and successively cut the kings of Zhou, Dai, Xiang, and Qi, and their military and political power was taken back to the **, and they were demoted to commoners. In the end, Zhu Yunwen attacked Zhu Di, first deployed Zhu Di's personal troops to the border, and then ordered Zhang Xin, Xie Gui and others to secretly arrest Zhu Di under the command of Beiping.

And Zhang Xin is the old department of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, Zhu Di knew the news in advance, pretended to be crazy and stupid to avoid pursuit, and then killed Xie Gui and others. After that, he attacked Beiping overnight and occupied the city of Beiping.

Zhu Di knew that there was no way out, so he announced that he would "Qing Jun's side" and wanted to kill Huang Zicheng and others for the monarch, and launched the "Battle of Jingjing". Most of the generals in the north were old generals of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and surrendered to the king of Yan at the beginning of the war. Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen then sent a large army to suppress it, and was defeated repeatedly, and the famous founding generals of the Ming Dynasty were almost killed by Zhu Yuanzhang in his later years, and Zhu Yunwen could only reuse Li Jinglong and other mediocre generals, and as a result, the main force was gradually exhausted by Zhu Di.

In the end, the war lasted four years, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, invaded the capital Yingtian, and Zhu Yunwen was nowhere to be found.

Why was Zhu Di, the king of Yan, able to successfully usurp the throne and become the Emperor of Yongle? First of all, Zhu Di has been on the border all the year round, known as a strategy, and has conquered Mongolia several times, and the northern generals mostly agree with Zhu Di, and surrendered to Zhu Di at the beginning of the Battle of Jingjing. And the civil war between Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and Zhu Yunwen, the emperor of Jianwen, is a civil war between clansmen, not a change of dynasty, and Zhu Di will face less resistance.

Some of the Chinese military officials in the DPRK also complained about Zhu Yuanzhang's political practice of passing on the throne from generation to generation, and most of them were in a wait-and-see state, which was also the key point for Zhu Di, the king of Yan, to win in the end.

Because his opponent is Zhu Yunwen, who is the benevolence of women, every time he wants to destroy him, he lets him go back to the mountain because he can't give up his heart, so in the end he can succeed.

01, Tui En cut Bo, in fact, this method is not Zhu Di.

I came up with it myself, because as early as the Han Dynasty, this method had already been implemented. After becoming the emperor, Zhu Di himself also went directly to divide the descendants of these vassal kings, so after Zhu Di became the emperor, the number of vassal kings became more and more, but in fact, the territory of the vassal kings was getting smaller and smaller, so their strength was naturally getting weaker and weaker. <>

02. The second measure taken by relocation is actually to directly move the original vassal kings to a new place. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang.

It is true that there are many vassal kings, and most of them are in remote areas, so it is difficult for the court to control these people. So later, Zhu Di directly arranged these people to the mainland, firstly, to directly keep these people away from the places where he had worked hard for many years, and secondly, it was more convenient to monitor these people. <>

I have to say that Zhu Di is actually very smart, when he built Emperor Wen.

In fact, he wanted to cut Tibet, and he also pointed the finger directly at Zhu Di. At this time, Zhu Di knew that his situation was quite difficult, but Zhu Di did not sit still, but chose to give it a go. The Battle of Jingjing.

After that, Zhu Di also directly ascended to the throne, in the formation of those years, in fact, God was still on Zhu Di's side, and in the end, Zhu Di won the war. In 1402 AD, Zhu Di was also directly proclaimed emperor, and the date was Yongle.

After becoming the emperor, Zhu Di didn't have time to enjoy all kinds of joys, because Zhu Di knew that there was still a big problem in his heart that had not been solved at this time. Zhu Di understood that he had ascended to the throne from a rebellion of a vassal king, so he knew that the power of these vassal kings was very strong, and the current situation was not very stable, so Zhu Di was not in a hurry to cut it. On the contrary, Zhu Di at this time restored a lot of feudal positions, in short, he gave these people a lot of benefits, in order to stabilize his position.

After his position was stabilized, Zhu Di began to weaken the power of these people.

After Zhu Di won the world, he began to cut down the vassal kings, because Zhu Di felt that the existence of these vassal kings had seriously jeopardized his status and political power, so he began to eliminate these vassal kings.

It was the method of boiling frogs in warm water to weaken the distrust of these vassal kings towards the emperor little by little, and then take the opportunity to seize power.

These people are also given rich rewards, and in the process, they are all restored, and the whole person also shows deep brotherhood, so this also shows that he can be tolerant of others in this regard.

Some were killed, some were abolished, their fate was very tragic, and after Zhu Di became the emperor, their lives changed dramatically and became destitute.

Because he is a strategic person, he attacked Yu Qianye Zhu Cheng Guess Yunwen when he was in Xiongxian, and his troops increased greatly, and later got the military power in his hands, and attacked Beiping at the same time, led the Northern Expedition twice, abolished all the reforms during the Jianwen period, and then improved the civil service system, set up a cabinet, and implemented the imperial examination system after the erection.

Because Zhu Di's poor strength is very strong, and he is very good at making plans, he is also very brave and strategic, he is also very good at martial arts, and many people are very envious and admire him, so only Zhu Di succeeded.

It's up to the opponent.

During the rebellion of the Seven Kings of Han, who was opposite? A generation of virtuous Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, Zhou Yafu, a famous general of the Xiliu Battalion. On the contrary, the Seven Kingdoms have not heard of any generals. When Jingjing was in trouble, Zhu Yunwen, a primary school student, and Li Jinglong, a big straw bag, were the strongest generals after the founding of the country, Zhu Di.

In fact, there is a little hope that the rebellion of the Qing Dynasty will succeed, but Wu Sangui is too old to do it, but Zhu Di is in the prime of life and at the age when he takes the lead in the charge, Zhu Yunwen estimates that he will not survive him.

Don't mention the rebellion of King Ning, a stupid prince who has no regular army, opposite is Wang Shouren, the first sage of the Ming Dynasty, the hexagonal god of war, and hit a hammer.

In fact, judging from the results, the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty cannot be said to be a failure. The first villain, Jia Nanfeng, died, and the second Emperor Hui of Jin became a puppet. Sima Yue began to control the Western Jin Dynasty after successively defeating the forces of Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, and Sima Hao, the king of Hejian, and after the death of Emperor Hui of Jin, he appointed his younger brother Sima Chi as the emperor and appointed himself as the Taifu to assist the government.

He just didn't usurp the throne, but objectively speaking, he had already controlled the political situation of the state emperor, which could barely be regarded as a success.

First, it is related to the generals, Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that someone would rebel after his death, and all the generals who were good at attacking the branches and cherry blossoms would be killed, for example, Lantian, such as Xu Da, such as Chang Yuchun, and then left a group of generals who were good at defense, and then these generals who were good at defense were ordered to attack Zhu Di, not what they were good at, and they were a little dazed. On the contrary, when he was attacked by Zhu Di later, he defended in a disciplined manner.

Second, it has something to do with the boss, Emperor Jianwen is a scholarly emperor, and he doesn't let me bear the notoriety of killing my uncle, and orders his generals to only be captured alive, and capturing alive is a bounty of 10,000 taels. Looking at Zhu Di in turn, he knew that he was a big bug, so he simply charged ahead, and no one dared to really kill him anyway.