Desastre na Grande Ming
Zhu Shuang estava muito descontente. Em vida, foi insultado por Zhu Yuanzhang, que o chamou de "ignorante dos assuntos do mundo, tão estúpido quanto um animal". Depois de morto, uma inscrição em sua estela funerária afirmava que "sua morte foi mais do que merecida". Li Shimin era o segundo filho, e eu, Zhu Shuang, também sou o segundo. Li Shimin era Príncipe de Qin, eu, Zhu Shuang, também sou Príncipe de Qin. O caminho da Porta Xuanwu não funcionou, então eu sigo pela Porta Hongwu. Se Li Er Feng pôde se tornar o Grande Khan Celestial, então eu, Zhu “Bala Implacável” Shuang, serei o Khan do Céu. O imperador Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang, sacou a espada e bradou furioso: “Seu animalzinho, como ousa?” Zhu Shuang fez três reverências e nove prostrações e disse: “Vossa Majestade já está idoso e fraco, este filho respeitosamente convida o pai imperial a se aposentar.”
Desastre na Grande Ming
In the sixteenth year of the Zhizheng era of the Yuan Dynasty, just after Haozhou was captured by bandits and Jiqing Road was renamed Yingtian Prefecture, the rear courtyard of the Grand Marshal’s Mansion of the Red Turban Army under Duke Wu of the Wu Kingdom, Zhu Yuanzhang, was bustling with palace maids and eunuchs coming and going. A stern-faced man in military attire stood at the center, surrounded by others, pacing anxiously.
“Big brother, sit down and rest for a moment. Your wife is surely under divine protection,” Xu Da said, taking a folding stool from a eunuch and placing it before Zhu Yuanzhang.
“Dayan, when we were in Anqing, we consulted Master Liu’s divination who said your wife’s childbirth would be as safe as the first. But the midwives have been inside for nearly five hours—why is there still no sign of progress?”
Zhu Yuanzhang sat down, rubbing his numb, frozen hands as he accepted a brazier brought by a eunuch. Originally, he had been engaged in fierce battles with Zhang Shicheng’s forces around Yingtian. Upon hearing the news of his wife’s labor, he immediately left the army in the hands of Chang Yuchun and Li Shanchang, hastening back to the mansion without removing his armor. When his eldest son Zhu Biao was born, he was unable to leave the battlefield at a critical moment during the siege of Yingtian, leaving him with deep regrets as a husband and father.
Xu Da, appointed as the stationed guardian of Yingtian, comforted him: “Big brother, childbirth is like warfare—one must be natural and patient; rushing only makes matters
