In the history of our country, there are several very unfortunate princes, all of whom are close to ascending the throne, the most famous of which are Fu Su and Zhu Biao. Among them, Fu Su died of suicide, while Zhu Biao died of illness, which made people feel a lot of emotions.
After all, Zhu Biao, the prince, has always been praised, whether it was the Minister of Culture and Military Affairs of the Ming Dynasty at that time, or Zhu Yuanzhang and later historians, they all felt that Zhu Biao was indeed talented, and all sides were excellent. If Zhu Biao hadn't died so early, there would have been nothing for Zhu Di to do.
Regarding Zhu Biao's death, the history books only record that he died of illness, but Zhu Biao's death would still be considered to be a prime-age, why did a good end get sick? How did he get sick and die? After carefully studying various documents, some experts finally found two documents related to Zhu Biao's death, namely the MingShu written by Fu Weilin and the Mingshan Collection written by He Qiaoyuan. These two documents are very straightforward to reveal a surprising conclusion, that is, Zhu Biao's death has a lot to do with Zhu Yuanzhang.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to truly take power after Zhu Biao's death, and it can be said that he killed many heroes. Zhu Biao was a kind man, he couldn't bear to see Zhu Yuanzhang kill such a minister, and he also implicated countless innocent people. So every time Zhu Yuanzhang raised his knife to kill someone, Zhu Biao would block it, but Zhu Yuanzhang was such an iron-blooded person, Zhu Biao's words Zhu Yuanzhang did not pay attention to his heart at all, he should kill it.
On the contrary, Zhu Yuanzhang was also very angry about Zhu Biao's obstruction, and sometimes even took things to smash Zhu Biao to vent the anger in his heart. Because Zhu Yuanzhang felt that everything he did was for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, but also for Zhu Biao. Objectively speaking, Zhu Biao is stronger than Zhu Di, but his personality is far inferior to Zhu Di, Zhu Di has completely inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's iron blood and fierceness, and he is the prince who is most like Zhu Yuanzhang.
Therefore, Zhu Biao's repeated dissuasion did not have the slightest effect, and he only saved one person, that is, Song Lian, or together with his mother Empress Ma, to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang, which saved him. But at the same time, Song Lian finally died on the road of exile, and he was inseparable from Zhu Yuanzhang, Song Lian was another father for Zhu Biao, and more than ten years of teaching made Zhu Biao have deep feelings for Song Lian.
After Song Lian's death, Zhu Biao was very remorseful and sad, and he felt that he did not persuade Zhu Yuanzhang to lead to the tragedy. Later, he tried to persuade his father Zhu Yuanzhang to reform himself and stop killing people with a knife, and even gave an example to Emperor Gu Yaoshun, but the response was a stool thrown by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Living in such an environment for a long time, Zhu Biao was shocked by Zhu Yuanzhang's brutal means, and his kind heart really could not withstand such a killing. As a result, Zhu Biao slowly accumulated depression into illness, and his death was inseparable from Zhu Yuanzhang's massacre of heroes.
In fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, there was an emperor who died in the same way, he was Liu Ying, the child of Lü Yan and Liu Bang, the second emperor of the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, Liu Ying was scared to death by Lü Yan's cruelty, and after witnessing Lady Qi's misery, he had been drinking alcohol to dispel his sorrows, which eventually led to a serious illness and death.