Emperor Jianwen's military department Shangshu Tie Xuan was arrested in the capital, Zhu Di sat on the throne, Tie Xuan turned his back to the palace, and refused to turn to face Zhu Di until he died. Zhu Di sent someone to cut off Tie Xuan's ears and nose, cook them in a hot pan, and then stuff them into the mouth of this loyal minister, and asked, "Is this meat sweet?"

Tie Xuan replied sharply: "The meat of loyal ministers and filial sons, why is it not sweet!"

So Zhu Di ordered to crush Tie Xuan inch by inch, and this loyal minister scolded endlessly. Under resentment, Zhu Di exiled Tie Xuan's eighty-year-old father and mother to Hainan to do hard labor, brutally killed his two teenage sons, and forced Tie Xuan's wife Yang and two daughters to join the Jiaofang Division as military prostitutes, allowing the soldiers to ravage.

For Emperor Jianwen's criminal department, because he saw Zhu Di scolding, Zhu Di first pulled out all his teeth, then broke his hands and feet, and slowly cut his neck with a knife and died.

For Chen Di, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, because he did not give in when questioned, Zhu Di ordered the guards to kidnap him and his six sons to the execution ground Ling Chi. Zhu Di first sent someone to cut off the nose and tongue of Chen Di's son Chen Fengshan, and stuffed it into the mouth of this loyal minister to force him to swallow.

For Emperor Jianwen's right deputy imperial Shi Lian Zining, also because of the angry scolding in the palace, Zhu Di ordered someone to cut off his tongue first, and then died of broken bones, and there were 151 people in his clan who were killed. For Emperor Jianwen's military department, Qi Qin, also because he did not give in, was sent to the execution ground Ling Chi. For Taichangqing Huang Zicheng, he also exterminated his three clans, and Ling Chi was executed.

Emperor Jianwen supervised the imperial history Gao Xiang, because he wore mourning clothes to see, Zhu Di ordered the guards to kill him in the palace, but there was no Zhu clan, but he dug the cemetery of the Gao clan, burned the bones and threw the corpses, mixed with dog bones and horse bones scattered and discarded.

For Emperor Jianwen to supervise the imperial history of Wang Du, the Zongren Mansion experienced Song Zheng, supervised the imperial history Ding Zhi, supervised the imperial history Jujing, and Zhu Di were all punished by the Zhu clan.

Emperor Jianwen Dali Temple Cheng Liu Duan abandoned the official and fled, and was arrested into the palace. Zhu Di asked: "What kind of people are Lian Zining and Fang Xiaoru?"

Liu Duan replied with a smile: "It's a loyal minister!"

Zhu Di asked: "You fled, are you a loyal minister?"

Liu Duan replied: "I am preserving my life in order to avenge the first emperor!"

Zhu Di was wolf-like, ordered someone to cut off Liu Duan's ear and nose with a knife, and asked Liu Duan, who was covered with blood, with a cruel smile: "With a face like you, are you still human?"

Liu Duan scolded: "I have the face of a loyal minister and a filial son, and I also have the face to see Emperor Jianwen under Jiuquan!"

Zhu Di was furious and beat Liu Duan to death with a stick. In addition to the suicide of many loyal ministers of Emperor Jianwen or their whole families, Zhu Di tortured and killed more than 10,000 loyal ministers of Emperor Jianwen and their families.

Having said that, killing Jianwen's loyal ministers will be killed, killing him can fulfill his name for thousands of years, the change of dynasty and royal family, and it is not too much of a crime to kill the former ministers. And Zhu Di inherited the brutal and ferocious factor in the blood of Zhu Yuanzhang's old bastard, and sent many loyal and filial sons to the Jiaofang Division to be military prostitutes, and endured the humiliation of more than 20 strong men every day, gave birth to a boy as a house slave, and then became a military prostitute when he gave birth to a girl, and after his death, he made an order: "Carry it out of the city gate and feed it to the dogs." ”

It was not until 22 years later that Zhu Di's son Mingrenzong Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne and issued an edict: "The family members of Emperor Jianwen who are slaves in the Jiaofang Division, Jinyi Wei, Huanyi Bureau, and the families of Xijiang and meritorious heroes will all be restored to civilians." ”

The only person who died well among Emperor Jianwen's loyal ministers was only Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei. Zhu Di summoned, Xu Huizu did not say a word, because he was the son of the hero Xu Da, the family had an oath to avoid death, and his younger brother Xu Zengshou was killed by Emperor Jianwen because he wanted to surrender Zhu Di, so Zhu Di spared him from death, dismissed his Yulu, and kept him under house arrest at home.

is so brutal, Zhu Di, who is sitting firmly on the dragon chair, wants to change his face and leave it for future generations with a benevolent image. What is particularly ridiculous is that in the Jiachen imperial examination in Yongle 22 years, the first champion was originally Sun Rigong, and the examination officials finally presented the admission list to Zhu Di for a look. I have always been based on benevolence, and I have been the most vicious and cruel in my life, and the people who hide their names will not be able to be the champion of my Ming Dynasty. ”

The old bastard came and went, and ordered a person named Xing Kuan from among the top three to be the champion. Xing Kuan is a homonym for Xingkuan, in order to show the peaceful scene of light punishment and benevolence under the rule of Emperor Yongle.

This fierce man who often punishes his ministers and subordinates, kills people without blinking thousands of eyes, and deliberately sends the wives and daughters of loyal ministers to the kiln every day for others to play with, and suddenly becomes a person who seems to be unwilling to step on an ant to death, and who is not even a violent word that is an eyesore.

Zhu Di's evaluation is mostly more positive than negative, externally, especially his five expeditions to Mobei, successively defeated the Tile Thorn and Tatar tribes, after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty split into Tatar, Tile Thorn and Uliangha three divisions, Uliangha has long been submitted to the Ming Dynasty, Daning's Duoyan Sanwei is the Uliangha Department. At the same time, he set up the Guanxi Seven Guards in the northwest, added the Guizhou Political Division, and set up the Jiaozhi Political Division in Annan. Internally, he developed the economy and recuperated, which greatly increased the country's annual grain income, and at the same time deprived the vassal king of real power and further strengthened the centralization of power. In terms of culture, he instructed his subordinates to compile the "Yongle Canon", of course, the main purpose was to sing the praises of virtue and tamper with historical facts for himself, and systematically organize the cultural classics.

Although the death of the Ming Dynasty can be traced back to the death of Wanli, all the deep disasters and worries are caused by this Emperor Zhu Di, the emperor of Qitian, Hongdao, Gaoming, Zhaoyun, Shengwu, Shengong, pure benevolence and filial piety.

The Ming Dynasty began to use eunuchs from Zhu Di, because it was the eunuchs of Emperor Jianwen who reported to Zhu Di the reality of the emptiness of Jinling, and Zhu Di reversed the normal state of going around in circles in Hebei and Shanxi, and went straight to Beijing and ascended the throne. After the successful usurpation, Zhu Di used eunuchs, during which Zheng He went to the West, Li Xing served as the envoy to Siam, Ma Jing guarded Gansu, and Ma Qi guarded Jiaozhi.

Especially in the eighteenth year of Yongle, Ming Chengzu opened the East Factory which was in charge of the eunuchs, and Zhu Di restored Zhu Yuanzhang's abolished Jinyi Guard, and the disaster of the factory guard was far-reaching. The eunuchs had many powers, such as envoys, special conscriptions, supervising the army, sitting in the town, and spying.

Ming Taizu originally had an ancestral system: "Ministers are not allowed to read and write." ”

Zhu Di reversed the system, listened to the eunuchs to learn culture, and when Xuanzong arrived in the Ming Dynasty, he set up an inner study hall in the inner court and sent scholars to teach the young chamberlains to write. These eunuchs have plenty of time and no adolescent troubles, they are familiar with ancient and modern, well-versed in literature and ink, like dogs, and can use scheming and deceit at critical moments to deceive the king and commit treachery. Therefore, the catastrophe of the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, such as Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian, etc., accumulated and was difficult to return until the death of the Ming Dynasty.

Externally, Zhu Di mainly guarded against Mongolia and undermined Zhu Yuanzhang's frontier policy. Originally, the king of Gu was in Xuanfu, the king of Ning was in Daning, the king of Han was in Kaiyuan, the king of Liao was in Guangning, and the king of Shen was in Shenyang. After Zhu Di usurped the throne himself, he was deeply afraid that his brothers would repeat their own path and move the five kings to the interior, so that there were no strong troops in the northeast, the frontier was seriously shrinking, and Shanxi and other places gradually lost their support.

Although Zhu Di set up the Liaodong Capital Division on the basis of Zhu Yuanzhang's Liaodong Capital Division, he used the Jurchen eunuch Yizha to take charge of the power. The eunuchs were greedy for money and goods, and they harassed the Jurchen tribes every time, sowing many contradictions, and instigating the Jurchen tribes to unite and reorganize with each other. By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Nuer Gandusi was only an empty institution, Manchuria was becoming more and more powerful, and there was no important town near Jianzhou, so that it suffered successive defeats until the death of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was not defeated by Mongolia in the end, but died in the unknown Manchuria in the early Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di has always paid great attention to propaganda work, and he appointed two subordinates, Li Jinglong and Ru Yu, as the chief and deputy supervisors, and Xie Jin, a great talent, as the president. At the same time, Zhu Di clearly rewarded and punished officials who revised history, and deliberately protected Zhu Di for those who were obedient and tampered with historical facts, such as Hu Guang, Huang Huai and others, and promoted officials;

The main purpose of this revision of history is to create a theoretical basis for the rationality of Zhu Di's usurpation, not only clearly stating that Zhu Di is the biological son of Empress Ma, but in fact he was born to Concubine Shuo, but also fabricating the story of Empress Ma dreaming of Zhu Di rescuing herself;

It's just a fantasy, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always believed in the world of his father and son's family, if he talks about King Yan before he dies, he must have warned the imperial grandson and ministers to beware of the four princes, and he will definitely not want to pass on the throne to him before he collapses, let alone say anything: "The country has a long monarch, and I want to establish King Yan." "Besides, Emperor Jianwen was already an adult when he ascended the throne, and he was not an ignorant baby monarch at all.

Therefore, the power of words should not be underestimated, and history books can reverse black and white and confuse the public. When everyone sometimes evaluates an emperor, they often listen to Shi Chen's history books, thinking that the literati will write straightforwardly, and the so-called country will die but history will not die.

In fact, the real situation is often very different, such as the Zhengde Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, as soon as later generations talk about this person, they think he is absurd and mediocre, absurd to the extreme, the reason is precisely because he died childless, and the throne was inherited by his cousin Zhu Houxuan, who was the king of Hubei Province.

The inferiority of the side branch heirs, the ministers insisted that Zhu Houxuan should take Zhengde's father Ming Xiaozong as the emperor's father, and not his biological father Xingxian Wang as the emperor's father, so that this Emperor Shizong had a hidden grudge when he was repairing history, and the shortcomings of the cousin of the Emperor Zhengde were full of the ugly deeds of the previous emperor, and there was no intention of making a denial of His Holiness at all.

made Ming Wuzong, a not particularly bad emperor, the highest example of a bad emperor in the Ming Dynasty, which shows how important it is to whitewash history and sing praises of virtue.