Zhu Yunwen's father was Zhu Biao, the first prince of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite son and the most powerful prince of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Biao was born on September 5th, 15th year of Yuan Dynasty. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was attacking Qing Ji (Nanjing). He was very happy to hear that his wife gave birth to her eldest son, because Zhu Yuanzhang's career grew bigger and bigger, but he never had children.
At that time, people paid attention to inheritance and order. No matter how much legacy a person has created, there must always be a son to inherit. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy to learn that his eldest son was born. He carved a stone on a local mountain and said, "People who go to this mountain will not suffer without heirs." Express the happy mood at the moment. Zhu Yuanzhang successfully occupied Qing Ji and used this place as a base, so that it later became his capital.
Zhu Yuanzhang became Queen Wu, and immediately named Zhu Biao as Prince. When Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he conferred Zhu Biao as Prince. He has high hopes for Zhu Biao, hoping that he can become a qualified monarch. He equipped Zhu Biao with a strong vassal team, and many founding heroes served as vassal officials. For example, left Prime Minister Li Shanchang and Prince Shao Shi, right Prime Minister Xu Da and Prince Shaofu, and Hanshu recorded the importance of military service to Chang Yuchun and Prince Shaobao. Basically, the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty all served as governors. Zhu Yuanzhang hoped that these civil and military ministers could teach the princes carefully.
Zhu Yuanzhang also attached great importance to cultivating Zhu Biao's ability to handle political affairs. He even ordered that all military power should be handed over to the prince in advance. However, this sentence means that all court affairs should be handed over to the prince first, and then he will deal with them. This shows that Zhu Yuanzhang is deliberately cultivating the prince. But this prince, who had high hopes, came. On April 25th, the 25th year of Hongwu, he died suddenly.
This was a great blow to the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang himself. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang put his mind on Zhu Yunwen. Zhu Yunwen was originally the second son of Zhu Biao, but Zhu Biao's eldest son died young, and so did Zhu Biao's original match. His mother was rehabilitated, so Zhu Yunwen became Zhu Biao's de facto eldest son.
Zhu Yunwen's filial piety made Zhu Yuanzhang like it very much. It is said that when Zhu Biao was ill, Zhu Yunwen waited on him carefully and stayed up all night. All this is very serious for Zhu Yuanzhang. After Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yunwen was emaciated by excessive sadness when he was in mourning. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at this grandson and was very satisfied. Renxiao's successor is his favorite, so Zhu Yuanzhang comforted Zhu Yunwen and said, "Honesty, purity and filial piety, regardless of me."
In other words, I know you are very filial, but your father left me, don't you also care about grandpa? Five months after Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yuanzhang was made the great-grandson of the emperor by Zhu Yuanzhang and became the actual heir to the throne. Zhu Yuanzhang began to slaughter heroes in order to remove the unstable factors after he succeeded to the throne, paving the way for his grandson.
In fact, it was mainly because of the direct eldest son inheritance system in the Ming Dynasty that he became the great grandson's throne. His father was originally a prince and should inherit the throne. But he died young. According to common sense, Zhu Yuanzhang should choose one of the other sons, but in order to maintain the inheritance system of the eldest son, he chose Zhu Yunwen and gave him Daming Jiangshan.
In fact, Zhu Yunwen can become an heir, on the one hand, thanks to the eldest son inheritance system in the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang's love for Prince Zhu Biao, which was passed on to Zhu Yunwen. In particular, even when Judy seized the throne, the eldest son inheritance system was strictly enforced. Later, Zhu Yijun didn't want to abide by it. After quarreling with ministers for many years, he finally gave in, but he couldn't overcome the succession system of the Ming Dynasty.
It seems that this throne is destined to be his. His father, Zhu Biao, did not die young and succeeded to the throne. He will also become an emperor. When his father died of illness, his grandfather directly made him a great-grandson or heir. I have to say that Zhu Yunwen is destined to be an emperor.