Ming Dynasty: Traveling through the harem, Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded

Chapter 19 The Regretful Prince in History
Even so, when Zhu Biao heard that his mother passed away in the 25th year of Hongwu, he still felt unable to accept it.

The same was true of Zhu Di.

At this moment he still felt his ears buzzing. Empress Ma was the most respected queen by all the princes of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of whether they were born to her or not.

In the eyes of Empress Ma, as long as they were Zhu Biao's brothers and others, they were all her children. It can be said that she truly treated them equally.

The brothers Zhu Biao and Zhu Di had only one idea in their minds, which was to ask Yang Chen about Empress Ma when they found an opportunity.

"Yang Chen, please continue to tell me what the relationship is between Biao'er's death and Chongba."

After pondering for a moment and sorting out his thoughts, Yang Chen spoke.

"Well, according to historical records, the prince's death was partly due to a cold, and partly due to the long-term oppression from Your Majesty, which caused a lot of unresolved knots to accumulate in his heart, causing his body to gradually weaken.

The source of all this needs to start with the Queen.

Ever since the Empress passed away, your Emperor has gone on a killing spree.

I just said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the most powerful crown prince in recorded history. His position is very stable and no one can threaten him. But the crown prince is only a crown prince after all. Although he has the ability to regent, he is not yet a true emperor.

In the late Hongwu period, Your Majesty abolished the prime minister system that had been passed down for thousands of years in China.

As a result, all the matters reported from all over the country every month were piled up on the prince.

Because the prime minister system was abolished, many problems began to arise, which led to a large number of officials being tortured or even beheaded.

Your Majesty, you should know that the Crown Prince has a kind nature and has received Confucian education since childhood. Although he has tried very hard to keep up with his father, he has also tried to be ruthless enough to kill those officials.

His methods were considered quite decisive in the eyes of the princes of all dynasties.

But compared with His Majesty, it is nothing to mention, because the scale of his killings was so huge!
Every major case required at least tens of thousands of deaths! Countless people were dragged to the frontiers to perform corvée labor.

Think about it, the prince's philosophy of governing the country was based on gentleness, not on using killing to warn the world like Your Majesty did.

In this process, the prince had already gone against his own heart, and the seeds of his mental illness were planted here.

After that, every time His Majesty decided to start a massacre, the Crown Prince would stand up and try his best to stop him, because he knew that if the killing continued, there would be no officials left in the Ming Dynasty.

By that time, the emperor would be a commander without any troops.

But His Majesty, who was so crazy about killing that he had gone crazy, refused to listen at all. He even felt that his son was not on his side.

So His Majesty hit him with a stool in front of all the ministers.

Fortunately, the prince dodged it, but His Majesty was still unwilling to give up. He chased the prince with a sword in hand, saying something like "You have the world to fight for."

The prince was not to be outdone in temper, and while running away he turned around to resist his father.

Unfortunately, after doing this for a long time, the prince was finally exhausted and finally fell ill and died. "

Yang Chen simply told everyone what he had heard.

As the prince with the most stable status and greatest power in history, Zhu Biao gradually developed his own ideas about governing the country from the middle of the Hongwu period.

This is what both Empress Ma and Zhu Yuanzhang hoped for. After all, they didn't want an emperor who asked about everything and had no opinions of his own.

However, changes always catch people off guard.

When Empress Ma was still alive, even if there were any conflicts between father and son, they could be reconciled through her.

Therefore, no matter what decision Zhu Biao made that made Zhu Yuanzhang unhappy, as long as the girl said a few words, he would not take it to heart.

However, since Empress Ma passed away, there seemed to be an invisible gap between Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao.

The relationship between father and son becomes more divided.

Zhu Yuanzhang gave the other party the power to discuss state governance, but did not give them the power to display their talents.

Later, after Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, he believed that he was able to control an empire alone.

He had a strong desire for control and would not allow anyone to be out of his control. So the first person to be hurt by this control was Zhu Biao.

Having lived for a long time in a work environment where he was suppressed and then had everything thrown at him afterwards, Zhu Biao was frustrated and resentful but had no one to talk to.

"Prince, I actually feel sorry for you. To be frank, it is not an exaggeration to say that you are the undisputed number one among the princes in history!

Many people later commented on you, saying that you were born in troubled times, assisted in government affairs at a young age, were kind and loved the people, and were loyal to both civil and military officials.

There are many people like you in history.

Fusu, the son of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, was the eldest son of the Qin Dynasty. However, due to his education, he held military power but did not even have the courage to rebel.

You know, he has 300,000 soldiers guarding the border! In addition, brave and combative generals such as Meng Tian stand behind him.

As long as he wanted, he could easily become the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty!

But in the end, he was tricked into committing suicide by a forged edict.

Liu Ju of the Western Han Dynasty was the eldest son of Emperor Wu of Han. He became emperor at the age of seven. Unlike Emperor Wu of Han who had a warlike temperament, Liu Ju was respectful, kind and forgiving. His mother was Wei Zifu.

Later generations once discussed that Wei Zifu's marriage to Emperor Wu of Han enabled him to obtain three outstanding generals, enabled him to achieve the Han Wu era of prosperity, and made the Han people famous.

The famous saying "If the enemy can go, I can go too" was written in history!

Unfortunately, the Wei family members did not live long. When Liu Ju came of age, he was eventually killed by witchcraft.

He, like you, the prince, is the most regrettable prince in history.

Li Chengqian of the Tang Dynasty was disliked by his father because of his foot disease. Li Shimin asked the King of Wei to live in the Wude Hall, which made Li Chengqian worried.

In order to save his own life and avoid the same fate as his uncle, he immediately started a rebellion to save himself.

Self-rescue will inevitably offend the root cause!
Unfortunately, his rebellion failed. His only mistake was that he did not go to see Li Shimin with the heads of his other brothers.

But this is not his problem. Under the education of Empress Changsun, Li Chengqian was ultimately unable to be as cruel as his father.

Prince, you are different. You have the kindness of the Queen and the ruthlessness of His Majesty.

Whether it is political skills or the art of managing people, you are not bad. Prince, you are a young and cultured king.

Unfortunately, the reason why you ended up like this in the end is because you thought you were still facing the same father who once loved you.

However, you don’t know that when the Queen passed away, your father was no longer with us, and you are now facing Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty!
The Zhu Chongba who once loved your father has long since passed away along with Empress Ma."

Zhu Biao, who was originally in a state of grief, was stunned as if he had lost his mind when he heard that the cause of his death was so closely related to his father.

When he looked at Yang Chen, his eyes were full of suspicion.

"Yang Chen, are you sure you're not kidding? Didn't you just say that I died of illness? Why do you feel like it's all my father's fault?"

As he said this, Queen Ma closed her eyes and sighed deeply with helplessness.

The only person in this world who is still alive and knows Zhu Yuanzhang best is Empress Ma.

As a husband, I still have some flaws in my heart because of my past experiences.

The flaw is that the more he enjoys power, the more he wants to control it.

And do not allow anyone to share it.

Once, because Empress Ma interfered in court affairs without seeking his permission, Zhu Yuanzhang pointed at her with a jade ruyi.

Later, Queen Ma threw the jade ruyi on the spot.

Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang's bad temper has been restrained a little. Unexpectedly, after she left, the other party completely forgot all her instructions!

It also harmed Zhu Biao!
How could Queen Ma not be angry!

(End of this chapter)