Marks on Chinese Porcelain Ming Dynasty 1. Yongle 1. 40. 3 1. Wade Giles romanization Yung lo, temple name miaohao Ming Chengzu or Ming Taizong, posthumous name shi Wendi, personal name Zhu Di. Born May 2, 1. 36. Yingtian, now Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China August 5, 1. Yumuchuan now in Inner Mongolia, en route to Beijing. The Yongle emperor, detail of a portrait in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. In 1. 40. 3 the Prince of Yan took the throne as the Yongle emperor reigned 1. Third emperor 1. Chinas Ming dynasty 1. Returned the empires capital from Nanjing to Beijing Northern City, which was rebuilt with the Forbidden City and giving that city its present day name. Subjugated Nam Viet, campaigned personally against the reorganizing Mongols in the north and sent large naval expeditions overseas, chiefly under the eunuch admiral Zheng He, to demand tribute from rulers as far away as Africa. Youth and early career. WE05-25003.jpg' alt='Shogun Total War Mongol Invasion Part 1' title='Shogun Total War Mongol Invasion Part 1' />Zhu Dis father, the Hongwu emperor, had rapidly risen from a poor orphan of peasant origin through stages as a mendicant Buddhist monk and then a subaltern in a popular rebellion against the Mongol rulers of the Yuan dynasty to become a virtually independent satrap in part of the rich eastern Yangtze River Chang Jiang valley, with his headquarters at Yingtian Nanjing. There Zhu Di was born fourth in a brood that ultimately numbered 2. Modern scholarship has suggested that Zhu Di was probably borne by a secondary consort of Korean origin, although in traditional Chinese fashion he always treated his fathers principal consort, the revered and influential empress Ma, as his legal mother. In 1. 36. 0 Hongwu was struggling with other contenders for supremacy in the Yangtze valley, while the Yuan government at Dadu Beijing was all but immobilized by court factionalism. In the next seven years the Hongwu emperors armies swept central and eastern China clear of opposition, and in 1. Ming dynasty, with its capital at Nanjing. He drove the last Mongol emperor out of Beijing and then beyond the Great Wall and the Gobi. At the age of 1. 0, in 1. Shogun Total War Mongol Invasion' title='Shogun Total War Mongol Invasion' />Zhu Di was designated prince of Yan an ancient name for the Beijing region. As he grew to manhood during the next decade, the new Ming empire was stabilized, an elaborate governmental apparatus was erected, and a new socioeconomic order characterized by authoritarian reconstruction in many fields was instituted. The boy grew up in the mold of his remarkable fatherrobust, vigorous, and temperamentaland he became his fathers favourite. His natural leadership qualities clearly outshone those of his many brothers. In 1. 38. 0, at the age of 2. Yan took up residence at Beijing. The early Ming governmental system provided that the imperial princes other than the eldest son, who remained at Nanjing as heir apparent, be enfeoffed in strategic areas as regional viceroys. Through the 1. 38. Yan gained experience in patrolling and skirmishing along the northern frontier under the tutelage of the greatest generals of the age. In 1. 39. 0 he and his older half brother the prince of Jin enfeoffed in adjacent Shanxi province to the west were given joint command of a patrolling expedition beyond the Great Wall, and in 1. Super Contra Nes File. Shogun Total War Mongol Invasion Units' title='Shogun Total War Mongol Invasion Units' />Thereafter, the prince of Yan campaigned almost annually to keep the fragmented and disorganized Mongols off balance and on the defensive. Meanwhile, in 1. 39. Some historians believe that the aging Hongwu emperor seriously considered naming the prince of Yan his new heir, in violation of tradition and the household rules he had himself promulgated. The emperor did hesitate for almost half a year before designating his successor, but then he complied with tradition by investing the dead crown princes son Zhu Yunwen, then only 1. From this time forward, and especially after the deaths of his two remaining seniors in 1. Yan became increasingly arrogant and imperious when the old emperor died in the summer of 1. Yan, in full vigour at the age of 3. Shogun Total War Mongol Invasion' title='Shogun Total War Mongol Invasion' />Oynan. Empire Total War, serinin dier oyunlar gibi keif, fetih, koloniler kurma ve savama hakkndadr. Oyunun zaman 17 arasnda. Creative Assembly ve Sega tarafndan yaplan Total War serisinin oyunu Total War Rome 2, serinin kulland mevcut Warscape oyun motorunun gelitirilmi. Delphi Quick Report Pdf. The young new emperor Zhu Yunwen the Jianwen emperor had other intentions. Influenced by Confucian scholar officials, he instituted a series of reforms unsettling to the newly stabilized government. One of his major goals was to take regional power away from the princes, and in 1. Thus the prince of Yan found himself steadily more isolated and endangered, and in August 1. The rebellion lasted from 1. Shandong province and the northern part of the Huai River basin. The central government at Nanjing seems to have underestimated the prince of Yans strength and failed to muster its manpower and matriel effectively the war was a long stalemate. In early 1. 40. 2 the prince of Yans forces broke through the imperial armies in the north, sped almost unopposed southward along the Grand Canal, accepted surrender of the imperial fleet on the Yangtze River, and were admitted into the walled capital by court defectors in July 1. Four days after the fall of Nanjing, the prince of Yan took the throne himself, although he did not formally begin his rule until 1. Yongle Perpetual Happiness. The Jianwen emperor had disappeared. Whether he died in a palace fire as was officially announced or escaped in disguise to live many more years as a recluse is a puzzle that troubled Zhu Di until his own death and has been a subject of conjecture by Chinese historians ever since. Accession to the throne. The accession brought terrible retribution to those who had most closely advised Jianwen. They and all their relatives were put to death. Before the purge ended, thousands had perished. The new emperor also revoked the institutional and policy changes of his nephew predecessor and even ordered history rewritten so that the founding emperors era name was extended through 1. Jianwen emperor had never reigned at all. The one reform policy that remained in effect was that princely powers must be curtailed. Hence, the surviving frontier princes were successively transferred from their strategically located fiefs into central and south China and were deprived of all governmental authority. From the Yongle period on, imperial princes were no more than salaried idlers who socially and ceremonially adorned the cities to which they were assigned and in which they were effectively confined. No subsequent Ming emperor was seriously threatened by a princely uprising. As the Yongle emperor, Zhu Di was domineering, jealous of his authority, and inclined toward self aggrandizement. He staffed the central government with young men dependent on himself and relied to an unprecedented extent on eunuchs for service outside their traditionally prescribed palace spheresas foreign envoys, as supervisors of special projects such as the requisitioning of construction supplies, and as regional overseers of military garrisons. In 1. 42. 0 he established a special eunuch agency called the Eastern Depot Dongchang charged with ferreting out treasonable activities. Although it did not become notorious in his own reign, it came to be a hated and feared secret police in collaboration with the imperial bodyguard in later decades and centuries. The Yongle emperor also relied heavily on a secretarial group of young scholar officials assigned to palace duty from the traditional compiling and editing agency, the Hanlin Academy, and by the end of his reign they became a Grand Secretariat, a powerful buffer between the emperor and the administrative agencies of government.