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Zhu Gaochi was a very story-telling emperor in the Ming Dynasty.

He is obese and often ridiculed.

But with a mere ten thousand people, he withstood the siege of Li Jinglong's 50 troops.

He is extremely intelligent and proficient in Confucianism, but it is considered that he relied on his son to ascend to power.

He is not afraid of rumors, determined to reform, and changed the Ming Dynasty's governance model!

In one fell swoop, the disadvantages of the government affairs of the first three dynasties were reversed.

He worked hard to govern, reformed and strengthened, and within ten months of his reign, he laid the foundation for a prosperous age.

As the saying goes: "The nine sons of a dragon are all different", this sentence has been perfectly verified by Zhu Gaochi.

His grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang, father Zhu Di, and younger brother Zhu Gaoxu were all people who resolutely advocated military force.

But Zhu Gaochi advocated Confucianism benevolence and righteousness first since he was a child.

Zhu Yuanzhang told him that at the dawn of Buddha, he helped his grandfather inspect the troops. When he came back from a stroll, he told Zhu Yuanzhang that the soldiers had worked too hard and had to let them review after breakfast. Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked.

Zhu Yuanzhang also selected some of his grandsons to read the minister's memorials, and the rest talked freely and made many mistakes in order to show their abilities.

Zhu Gaochi was the only one who remained silent. When asked why, he replied that they were all innocuous little questions. Zhu Yuanzhang appreciated that he cared about the country's major affairs.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhu Gaochi is definitely one of the frontrunners among all Zhu Yuanzhang's grandchildren if his physical disabilities are excluded.

But it is a pity that history does not accept that if Zhu Gaochi is disabled due to obesity.

So he became the object of ridicule by all the brothers, and became a professional left-behind under Zhu Di.

Even so, he still proved himself under limited conditions.

In the "Battle of Jingnan", Zhu Gaochi led 1 old, weak, sick and disabled to fight against Li Jinglong's 50 levy army and successfully defended Beiping.

Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunqi wanted to use a divorce plan, but he didn't even read the letter and forwarded it to Zhu Di, leaving Zhu Yunqi helpless.

Every time I think of this, I can't help but sigh, judging the level of a person's ability, really can't just look at the appearance.

For Zhu Gaochi, the real life-and-death challenge began when Zhu Di became emperor, for two reasons.

First, Zhu Gaoxu is brave and warlike, which is more in line with Zhu Di's aesthetic standards.

Second, Zhu Gaoxu once got a promise from Zhu Di that was not a promise.

"The son is sick, and you are diligent."

Zhu Gaochi has the support of the ancestral system, while Zhu Gaoxu has military merits.

Behind the two, they respectively occupy the civil and military official groups. Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang's bones were not cold, and the repressive effect of the ancestral system was obvious.

However, Zhu Di's attitude was biased towards Zhu Gaoxu, and the two were fighting for a while.

Fortunately, Zhu Gaochi advocated Confucianism, and Xie Jin, Yang Shiqi and others were his hardcore supporters.

Even Hu Mingan, the minister of rites sent by Zhu Di to monitor him, spoke well of him many times.

In particular, Xie Jin's phrase "good grandson" has become the key to breaking the balance of the reserve position.

There used to be a popular saying called "the benevolent is invincible", which is very critical and appropriate to describe Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaochi's position as the prince was not stable, and Zhu Gaoxu relied on Zhu Di's favor and continued to launch attacks.

But at every critical moment, someone always jumped out to defend Zhu Gaoxu.

Even at the expense of his own future and life!

The so-called benevolent is invincible, not how powerful you are, but that your enemies eventually become friends.

Therefore, under the planning of everyone, Zhu Gaoxu was forced to become a vassal, and Zhu Gaochi was firmly seated as the prince.

Now that the positions of the princes have been determined, Zhu Di can naturally do what he wants to do with peace of mind.

For example, in wars, people born in wars are destined to be inseparable from wars.

During his reign, he sent troops to crusade against Mongolia five times, and each time he chose to conquer Mongolia himself.

For example, moving the capital, almost from the day he ascended the throne, he planned to move the capital, and for this he did not hesitate to turn against his officials.

Since Zhu Di was very busy, Zhu Gaochi had to work more, so during his tenure as the prince, he supervised the country six times for a long time.

These six prisons lasted as short as 4 months and as long as nearly 4 years, totaling 9 years and 8 months.

So much so that except for major personnel adjustments later, Zhu Di made Zhu Gaochi take full responsibility.

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The so-called reward for every penny, although Zhu Gaochi is more tired than ordinary princes, the experience he has accumulated is far from what ordinary princes can compare.

During his nearly 10 years of supervising the country, he formed a relatively fixed concept of governance and cultivated his own auxiliary team.

Therefore, in the 22nd year of Yongle, after Zhu Di died on the way to the fifth personal expedition, Zhu Gaochi immediately implemented his political ideas.

For example, immediately stop Zheng He's voyages to the West, and immediately stop purchasing pearls and gems from Yunnan, Annan and other places.

For Xie Jin, Fang Xiaoru and others to rehabilitate Zhaoxue, pardon the former officials of Jianwen and their families, stop the Northern Expedition, release Xia Yuanji, enable Wuzhong and so on.

I believe everyone can also see that almost all these things were strongly promoted by Zhu Di. Yes, Zhu Gaochi's administration began by correcting Zhu Di's mistakes.

After further analysis, what Zhu Gaochi corrected or opposed was not only the things Zhu Di promoted.

It is his ruling philosophy, a ruling philosophy of supremacy of force and bloody suppression.

Although Zhu Di's ideas are quick to take effect, in Zhu Gaochi's view, this way of governing the country is tantamount to killing the chicken and picking the eggs, and it is difficult to last long. If a country is to have long-term stability, benevolent governance is essential.

Therefore, he opposed militarism and self-proclaimed political achievement projects, and instead devoted his energy to helping the victims of disasters and recruiting refugees.

For this reason, he reprimanded officials who delayed the distribution of relief food on the grounds of going through the process, encouraged refugees to return to their places of origin and exempted owed taxes, and reduced taxes in disaster-stricken areas.

For the first time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people had a real sense of recuperation.

Facts have also proved that people's creativity is very strong as long as they don't mess around.

During the Yongle period, due to the large-scale construction and frequent wars, the treasury was empty and refugees were everywhere.

However, in just a few months when Zhu Gaochi was in power, he gained fundamental control. According to this momentum, if Zhu Gaochi is given another ten or twenty years, maybe he will bring the Ming Dynasty an unprecedented prosperity.

However, history is always full of regrets. God gave Zhu Gaochi a benevolent heart and a mind to govern the country, but only gave him 10 months to govern.