Are Emperor Chengzu of Ming Zhu Di and Zhu Biao on Good Terms?

"Gao Shenwu is truly handsome, and the Prince of Lanling even more so! Ordinary people can hardly compare!"

"Who on earth is Gao Huan?"

"After singing the Song of the Chile in the Yin Mountains, a hero sheds many tears in his old age. Holding Cao Cao's court tablet in life, in death he wields the Marquis of Tiao's blade to kill bandits. Hua and Yi of the Six Garrisons pass round the battle dispatches, the wind and rain of the nine dragons gather over the Zhang River. To this day there is still the moonlight of the clear stream, which once shone upon Prince Gao's myriad passing horses."

"Looking handsome really does have its perks!"

"A noble lady marrying a poor fellow used to only be heard of in theatrical plays."

"Is being handsome all that great? What did Gao Huan's sons and grandsons do, why doesn't the heavenly screen talk about that!"

"How did Zhang Juzheng catch the Empress Dowager's eye? Tell us in detail."

A certain anonymous failed candidate for the imperial examinations hates three types of people the most: first, people from aristocratic clans; second, people who judge others by their appearance; and third, people with good looks.

In the plane of Emperor Taizong of Tang.

"Being ugly means you can't even enter official service as the top scorer in the imperial examinations. How could later monarchs be like this!" Li Shimin did not expect that the later Tang would turn out this way.

Being handsome and striking is indeed a pleasing sight.

Li Shimin cannot deny it.

When he was young, he admired the Prince of Lanling, Gao Changgong, who was good-looking and also formidable in battle.

Later he adapted the Prince of Lanling's Battle Array Song into the Prince of Qin's Battle Array Music.

On the other side, Gao Shilian saw the names of Gao Huan and Gao Changgong and felt somewhat dazed; he did not expect the heavenly screen to mention them.

Gao Shilian's grandfather was Gao Yue, who was Gao Huan's paternal cousin.

Gao Yue was forced to commit suicide by Gao Huan's second son, Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi, Gao Yang.

This entanglement of grace and resentment could not be easily untangled.

Because of Gao Shilian and Empress Zhangsun, Li Shimin and Gao Changgong were related by marriage.

Gao Shilian was Empress Zhangsun's biological maternal uncle, and Li Shimin's brother-in-law. Gao Changgong was Gao Shilian's agnatic cousin, making him a maternal cousin of Empress Zhangsun's lineage.

In a certain plane.

Gao Huan does not care about later generations' evaluations of his appearance; what he cares about is what later generations call him: Emperor Shenwu of Northern Qi.

At the same time, Yuwen Tai in the west looked at the heavenly screen and sighed, "Heliuhun truly grew a fine physical shell. In the words of later people: handsome!"

[The Prince of Lanling, Gao Changgong, was of beautiful appearance, which is why he wore a mask in battle to have a deterrent presence. Guess how high the facial attractiveness of their Gao household is?]

[The Gao family all have crazy-batch personas.]

[Using human bones to make a pipa is going a bit too far.]

[The Prince of Lanling is Gao Huan's grandson.]

[It seems only Gao Changgong is a normal person in the Gao family.]

[Gao Changgong just hadn't reached the age of craziness; their lineage carries a built-in madman gene. When Gao Changgong was alive, he already constantly felt headaches.]

[Zhong Kui was looked down upon by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang precisely because he was ugly.]

[Zhang Juzheng was not handsome; he was upright in features. According to the aesthetic standards of the Ming Dynasty at that time, his face shape should have been a Chinese-character-style square face. This made him look dignified and grand, and he definitely had to sport that kind of small mustache to be considered handsome.]

"What is meant by carrying a built-in madman gene?"

"Using human bones to make a pipa, he is undoubtedly a madman!"

"Among Gao Huan's line of descendants, there are very few normal people!"

Gao Huan: Why say only Gao Changgong is a normal person? Are Gu's descendants all madmen?

The dynasties after the Northern and Southern Dynasties knew in their hearts what kind of lineage the Northern Qi Gao family was.

For the Gao family, truly only their appearance was worth mentioning.

[Were Emperor Chengzu of Ming Zhu Di and his older brother Zhu Biao really on good terms? #History #MingDynasty]

Emperor Chengzu of Ming Zhu Di: Chengzu? Zhen is Taizong!

["Were Emperor Chengzu of Ming Zhu Di and his older brother Zhu Biao really on good terms?"]

Zhu Biao felt that he was quite good to his fourth younger brother.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought so too.

But what they said did not count; Zhu the Fourth, who seized the throne through rebellion, was the one whose word counted.

["Good terms are certainly out of the question. If the two of them were anything like the brothers being friendly and younger brothers respectful toward elders in television dramas, then after Zhu Di came up, even if he didn't curse him, at the very least when compiling the history books to praise this unlucky older brother who died early would not have been a difficult task. After all, Zhu Biao had already been dead for several years by the time of the Jingnan Campaign; saying some nice things could also reflect your Zhu Di's magnanimous bearing and breadth of mind."]

"Biao'er died early?!" Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened.

["But in reality, if you open up the literary and historical records of the Yongle period, you will find that Zhu Di can be said to have held back no verbal decency whatsoever toward this older brother."]

Regarding the "brothers being friendly and younger brothers respectful" of the Old Zhu household, the imperial households of successive dynasties were happy to watch.

Even Zhu Biao's and Zhu Di's other brothers wanted to see how their fourth older brother (fourth younger brother) showed no verbal decency toward the eldest brother.

["Regarding the descriptions of Zhu Biao during the Zhu Di period, the literature we can refer to starts with the Ming Dynasty's official orthodox history, the Veritable Records of the Ming. The Veritable Records of Emperor Taizong of Ming states that when Zhu Biao was crown prince he was completely a good-for-nothing, indecisive when encountering matters, making Zhu Yuanzhang scratch his ears and tear at his cheeks in anxiety as he discussed with his wife Empress Ma, saying: How about we depose this useless thing!"]

"Go shit your mother's foul dog farts!" Zhu Yuanzhang could not help roaring, "When did Gu ever say such a thing? Rebellious son! Rebellious son! Having usurped his own nephew's empire, he actually still dares to falsify history books and slander his own biological older brother."

If Zhu Di were not away, Zhu Yuanzhang would have wished to beat him half to death on the spot.

["Empress Ma expressed: I'm done for, do as you please."]

Empress Ma: I never said anything like that!

["Zhu Yuanzhang directly and publicly expressed: The one in the future who will be able to make Great Ming stable and secure still has to be this fourth one of our household?"]

Zhu Di's various brothers: Fourth Older Brother (Fourth Younger Brother), you truly are utterly shameless, turning unofficial history into official history.

["Empress Ma hurriedly covered Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth and said: Are things like this able to be spoken of in broad daylight? If the children find out, what will happen if they fight?"]

["As a result, very unfortunately, Zhu Biao actually did find out, and hurriedly dispatched Lan Yu to Beiping to drop eye drops on the kind-hearted Zhu Di. Alas, Zhu Di was too particular about brotherly affection, so this batch of eye drops didn't get dropped."]

Seeing this, the civil and military officials of the Hongwu court, the harem concubines, and Zhu Yuanzhang's children could simply not watch any longer.

Lan Yu's gaze was low, and it was unknown what he was thinking.

["It can be said that in this official literature, Zhu Di had already ruthlessly trampled his older brother a good meal, stopping just short of pointing at his nose and cursing that Zhu Biao was not a good thing."]

In the plane where Emperor Hui of Ming Zhu Yunwen resided, Zhu Yunwen cursed furiously, "Yan thief! Rebel thief! Usurper thief! Wicked thief!"

The former officials of the Eastern Palace, sharing the same front as Zhu Yunwen, felt extreme hatred toward the Prince of Yan, Zhu Di.

["And the folk street-literature work Record of the Jingnan Campaign in Heaven's Name, which likewise originated from the Yongle era of the Ming Dynasty, curses far more viciously than the Veritable Records of the Ming."]

["It directly states inside that this person Zhu Biao was extremely out of line. When Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, this unlucky kid angered his dad every single day, driving Zhu Yuanzhang to simply want to depose him. Little did he expect that Zhu Biao actually harbored the rebellious intent of patricide, recruiting 3,000 suicide squads in order to pull off a Ming Dynasty version of the Shadow of the Ax in the Candlelight 2.0."]

"Your Imperial Father, this minister has never had such a thought, nor has he ever thought of doing such a rebellious deed. Please, Imperial Father, investigate with clear scrutiny," Zhu Biao said as he knelt on the ground.

"Zhu knows Biao'er you would not do this!" Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly helped his good eldest son up and said with gnashing teeth, "What a fine folk street-literature work, what a fine Record of the Jingnan Campaign in Heaven's Name!"