Ning Wang Zhu Quan was the seventeenth son of Emperor Taizu. In the 24th year of Hongwu, he was granted the title of Prince Ning. He was one of the nine frontier kings. There are about fifty thousand people and horses, which can be said to be a strong army and strong horses. In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, after the death of Taizu, the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen came to the throne as Emperor Jianwen. In view of the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms in the Han Dynasty, Emperor Jianwen began to reduce the vassal status of his uncles soon after he came to the throne. It seems right to cut down the feudal vassals today. In the future, the world will not be able to have numerous feudal lords and fall apart. But Emperor Jianwen was a little anxious. Before the throne was stable, he began to forcibly cut down the vassals, which would only become more and more chaotic.
In the first year of Jianwen, King Zhu Di of Yan launched a four-year campaign of peace. Zhu Di once discussed with the generals: "When I inspected the fortress in the past, I saw that the armies of Daning were very powerful. If I can capture Daning, cut off Liaodong, and use side cavalry to assist in the battle, great things can be accomplished." For Zhu Di, King of Yan Actually, he really wanted to get help from Ning Wang Zhu Quan. In the end, in order to make King Ning Zhu Quan willing to support him, Zhu Di promised that when the matter was accomplished, he and King Ning would share the world equally. So, here comes the question. After Zhu Di raised his army, he agreed to divide the world equally with King Ning. So what will be the final outcome of King Ning?
After King Yan Zhu Di raised his army, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen was also worried that King Ning would respond to Zhu Di. Therefore, Emperor Jianwen sent someone to summon Zhu Quan back to the capital. However, before Zhu Quan set out, Emperor Jianwen ordered the cancellation of King Ning's three guards. This is obviously a lack of strategy, and he also wants to suppress Ning Wang Zhu Quan, which will undoubtedly cause him to fall more towards Yan Wang Zhu Di.
On July 22 of the first year of Jianwen, the commanders Liu Zhen and Chen Heng commanded Bu Wan to lead Daning troops out of Songting Pass and stationed in Shahe to attack Zunhua.
In September of the same year, Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin, attacked Yongping, and King Zhu Di of Yan went to rescue him. Wu Gao retreated, so Zhu Di took a small road from Liujiakou to Daning, pretending that he came to ask for help because he was poor.
Facing Zhu Di, the fourth brother, Ning Wang Zhu Quan naturally had no defense. After all, he was also quite resistant to his nephew Zhu Yunwen's behavior of cutting down the vassal.
Zhu Quan invited Zhu Di to ride into the city alone. Zhu Di held Zhu Quan's hand and cried, telling him that he had no choice but to raise the army, and begged him to draft a memorial to apologize on his behalf. Zhu Di stayed with Zhu Di for several days, and Zhu Quan treated him sincerely and showed no defensiveness at all. However, at this time, Zhu Di had quietly sent his men to Daning. Moreover, Zhu Di secretly colluded with and bribed King Ning's subordinates. When everything was ready and only the east wind was needed, Zhu Di said goodbye and left. Zhu Quan went to the outskirts to bid farewell to him. The ambush took the opportunity to rise up and support Zhu Quan forward. The three guards, Gong Guangqi and the defenders gathered together with a shout. The guard Zhu Jian could not resist and died fighting. The prince's concubines, concubines, and prince all followed him into Songting Pass and returned to Peiping. Daning became an empty city. After Zhu Quan was held hostage by Zhu Di, he had no choice but to go on with Zhu Di. Zhu Quan often drafted messages for Zhu Di. In order to appease this brother, Zhu Di promised Zhu Quan that after the event was completed, the world would be divided equally. At the end of the third year of Jianwen, Zhu Di learned that Nanjing was empty, and decided to change his strategy of advancing step by step, and instead went straight to Huanglong. In the first month of the fourth year of Jianwen, Zhu Di led his troops south. In April of the same year, he defeated the armies of He Fu and Ping An. In May, Sizhou and Xuyi were conquered, and the army pointed at Yangzhou. After learning that Zhu Di was about to attack Nanjing, Emperor Jianwen sent Princess Qingcheng to Yan Division in the hope of ceding territory to sue for peace. However, King Zhu Di of Yan obviously would not agree.
In June of the fourth year of Jianwen, Chen Xuan, the governor of Jiang defense, sent a boat division to surrender to Yan. The Yan division crossed the river and went down to Zhenjiang, approaching Nanjing. The kings of the Valley, Zhu Su and Li Jinglong, opened the gates of Jinchuan and surrendered. Nanjing city fell, a fire broke out in the palace, and Zhu Yunwen's fate was unknown. In June of the fourth year of Jianwen, Zhu Di ascended the throne as Emperor Taizong in the Fengtian Hall of Nanjing. After Emperor Taizong came to the throne, he would naturally not fulfill his original promise to Prince Ning. Correspondingly, Ning Wang Zhu Quan did not dare to ask Emperor Taizong to fulfill his promise. After all, he already knew the character of his fourth brother very well.
After Emperor Taizong ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, Ning Wang Zhu Quan took the initiative to request that the title be changed to the south. In this way, the border fortress would be handed over to your fourth brother, and I would stay under your nose. Okay. Emperor Taizong somewhat understood his brother's thoughts, so he smiled and asked where he was going? King Ning chose Suzhou, which is south of the Yangtze River and a prosperous land. Emperor Taizong replied: "Suzhou belongs to Jinei." The implication is, you can't go, it belongs to me. King Ning asked for Qiantang, which is also Hangzhou, and Emperor Taizong said: "My late father gave it to his fifth brother, but nothing came of it. Emperor Jianwen was immoral and made his younger brother king in Qiantang, but he failed to enjoy it. So, Let’s give it to the fifth brother!” Prince Ning gave up on his own choice, fourth brother, let me go wherever you want me to go! Finally, after some troubles, Emperor Taizong decided to transfer Ning Wang Zhu Quan to Nanchang.
If Ning Wang Zhu Quan continues to guard the border, Emperor Taizong will naturally not be reassured. Therefore, by moving it to the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, we could legitimately take away the power of King Ning and avoid another vassal rebellion in the Ming Dynasty.
On February 12, the first year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong changed the Ning Palace to Nanchang after the war between Daning and people. Emperor Taizong personally wrote a poem to see him off, and ordered Zhu Quan to use the Chief Secretary as his residence. The scale of the building remained unchanged.
It is worth noting that Emperor Taizong rebelled because Emperor Jianwen cut down the vassal vassal. However, after he ascended the throne, he not only did not oppose the reduction of vassals, but insisted on this strategy.
In addition to changing the fiefdom of King Ning, during the reign of Emperor Taizong, King Zhu Su of Gu moved from the important town of Xuanfu to Changsha, King Zhu Zhi of Liao moved from the important town of Guangning to Jingzhou in the interior, and King Zhu Song of Han moved his fiefdom from Kaiyuan to Pingliang.
At the same time, the guards of King Dai, King Min, King Liao and Zhu Di's mother-brother King Zhou were all cut off, making the military power in their hands insufficient to compete with the imperial court.
After Ning Wang Zhu Quan came to Nanchang, someone reported Ning Wang Zhu Quan and said that he slandered others. In this regard, Emperor Taizong sent Jin Yiwei to investigate, but the result was nonsense. But it also sounded a warning to King Ning. Emperor Taizong can arrest you anytime and anywhere.
From then on, Zhu Quan kept a low profile all day long and built a study in which he played the piano and read. Therefore, Zhu Quan did not suffer any disaster during the reign of Emperor Taizong.
Not only did Zhu Quan fail to share the world equally with Emperor Taizong, but he was suppressed and could be described as walking on thin ice. When Renzong Zhu Gaochi was in power, Zhu Quannai wrote a letter saying that Nanchang was not his fiefdom and hoped to change it to another place. Renzong wrote back and said: "Nanchang, my uncle has been granted a fiefdom by the late emperor for more than 20 years. If it is not a fiefdom, then what is it?" In the third year of Xuande, Zhu Quan asked Xuanzong to increase his fiefdom. In response, Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji was very angry and accused Zhu Quan. So Zhu Quan wrote a letter to apologize and did not dare to make any more requests to the court. So, he began to concentrate on cultivating Taoism and did not care about worldly affairs.
In addition, Zhu Quan was ordered to edit two volumes of "Tongjian Bolun", six chapters of "Family Instructions", seventy-four chapters of "Ningguo Yifan", two volumes of "Secret History of the Han and Tang Dynasties", one volume of "History", and "Wen" There are eight volumes of "Book of Songs" and one volume of "Book of Poetry", which have recorded and compiled dozens of kinds. In the thirteenth year of Zhengtong, when Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was in power, Zhu Quan passed away. For Ning Wang Zhu Quan, he lived for more than seventy years, which was undoubtedly a relatively long life among the many children of Emperor Taizu.
For Ning Wang Zhu Quan, although there were no complaints in the rest of his life, Ning Wang Zhu Quan was still dissatisfied with Zhu Di and his descendants. After all, Zhu Di was able to defeat Zhu Yunzhen, and Ning Wang's soldiers also played a role. However, after the incident was completed, Prince Ning and Zhu Quan not only did not gain any benefits, but were strictly guarded against him, which was difficult for most people to accept. It is conceivable that this kind of resentment was gradually passed down in the line of King Ning, and this may also explain why his descendant, King Ning Zhu Chenhao, rebelled. In the fourteenth year of Zhengde, King Ning Zhu Chenhao raised 100,000 troops to rebel, but it ended in failure. The feudal state left by Ning King Zhu Quan was also abolished.
This is something to say later. When I first came into contact with the people of Prince Ning’s Mansion in the winter of the 18th year of Hongzhi, I only regarded them as ordinary vassal princes.
