In July 1435, Yu Qian, the governor of Shanxi, Henan, and the right attendant of the military department, pointed out that the road from Pingyang Mansion (now Linfen, Shanxi) to Taiyuan Mansion had recently been full of people, and many people had gone to the country where King Zhu Meigui of the Jin Dynasty had met.
These people came from all over Shanxi and gathered together for 10 days, causing a lot of trouble to the local area. To make matters worse, their actions were not approved by the Ministry of Rites.
Governor Yu was deeply shocked by this and considered this matter extremely important, so he immediately went to the imperial court and demanded a strict ban. "Recently, on the day of the Jin Dynasty's meeting, the **, students, and old people from various prefectures and counties in Shanxi have gone one after another.
Zhu Meigui: The Hidden History of the Kingdom of King Jin Zhu Meigui, the eldest son of Zhu Jixi, King of Jinding, and the eldest grandson of Zhu Li, King Gong of Jin, his life story is full of variables. As the son of the world, his life seems to have been planned, as long as he grows up healthily and survives his father, he can become the third generation of Jin kings, and live a small life above 10,000 people under one person.
However, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's feudal state-building policy led to the inevitable choice of cutting the domain, especially the Jin Domain, which was above the Yan Domain in strength and order, and it was the shadow in Ming Chengzu's heart, and he wanted to get rid of it quickly.
In the face of the fourth uncle's offensive, Zhu Meigui fought against each other by returning the Taiyuan guards and refusing to welcome the edict, but the uncle and nephew fought back and forth. In the end, Zhu Meigui was in the state of fighting but not breaking in the early stage of the Yongle Dynasty, what was his fate?
In December 1411, at the age of 13, Zhu Meigui accompanied his father to the capital to meet Ming Chengzu, which may have been his first meeting with the emperor's uncle. Ming Chengzu gave their father and son a very high courtesy, and on the day they arrived in Beijing, Zhu Chong, the king of Han, held a banquet to greet the wind and held a crown ceremony for Zhu Meigui.
When they returned to China, Ming Chengzu gave them a rich reward, and the crown prince Zhu Gaochi sent them to Sanshanmen. This may also be the moment when Zhu Meigui has the best impression of Ming Chengzu's uncle.
As time passed, Zhu Laosi began to lay out and showed his fangs to the Jin Domain. On March 23, 1414, Zhu Jixi, Zhu Meigui and his son came to the camp of Jiming Mountain to meet under the successive false accusations of Zhu Jixi, the king of Pingyang, and others.
At this time, Ming Chengzu was on the second imperial expedition, and he put Zhu Jixi and Zhu Meigui under house arrest in Xuanfu in the name of "King Pingyang and others repeatedly said that King Jin was plotting misdeeds", and announced that he would deal with them after the class teacher.
On the first day of August, Ming Chengzu returned to Beijing. On the first day of September, Zhu Jixi, the king of Pingyang, was crowned the king of Jin. However, Zhu Laosi seems to have forgotten that there is another King of Jin, and that Zhu Jixi and Zhu Meigui are still imprisoned by themselves.
It wasn't until November 11 that he remembered this incident as if he were waking up from a dream, and issued an edict to abolish Zhu Jixi and Zhu Meigui as concubines and send them to the tomb of King Gong of Jin to guard the tomb. He also gave them an edict telling them that their crimes could not be forgiven, but because of the brotherhood of King Jin Gong, they could survive, and now they need to think behind closed doors in King Jin Gong's cemetery, put an end to foreign exchanges, and reform themselves in order to save their lives.
Zhu Mi-gyu's father and son, who were originally living a precarious life in the palace, suddenly received improved treatment. All this originated from an old lady who once served King Jin Gong, who secretly went to Beijing to sue the emperor and exposed Zhu Jixi's evil deeds.
When Ming Chengzu learned about it, he immediately released Zhu Jixi's henchmen and ordered him to go to Taiyuan. After Zuo Wei arrived, in front of Zhu Jixi, he read out the edict, announcing that Zhu Meigui and his son had regained their freedom.
After that, Zhu Meigui and his son arrived in Shacheng with Zuo Wei and met Ming Chengzu. Ming Chengzu was very kind to them, restored their clan status, and renamed Zhu Meigui as the king of the county, and let him serve his father.
This series of operations shows that Ming Chengzu began to doubt Zhu Jixi's character and gradually distanced himself from him. This story reminds people of the title and fief he gave to Zhu Jixi when he was in power, and now, Zhu Mi-gyu has received the same treatment, why is this?
Ming Chengzu assigned Lian Bo Tan to the Pingyang Palace, and Zhu Jixi, under the mediation of Ming Renzong, was finally forced to retreat, and Lian Bo Tan continued to be managed by the Pingyang Palace. In this process, Zhu Meigui contributed a lot to protect the interests of the Jin domain, so he received preferential treatment from the imperial court.
The map of Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty and the places involved in the text reveal an astonishing fact: the incident of the Pingyang king's selection of concubines is the best proof of this. Chu Mi-gyu missed the marriageable age during her ten-year prison life and became an older unmarried young man.
Therefore, after he was crowned the queen of Binh Duong, the choice of concubines became crucial. After careful selection, he finally chose the daughter of Zhou Zhong, the commander of Shuozhou Wei, as the princess.
However, just when Zhu Meigui was looking forward to the night of candles in the cave room, Jiang Tong, the commander of Andong Zhongtunwei, suddenly proposed in April of the first year of Xuande that Zhou had already promised to marry his son, which affected Zhu Meigui's wedding plan.
According to common sense, Zhu Meigui should be reprimanded, just like the Xuande Dynasty's Wuling King Zhu Jikun's concubine selection incident, in addition to the divorce, Zhu Mengyan, the king of Chu, was also reprimanded by the emperor.
However, in the case of Zhu Meigui, the imperial court only asked him to withdraw from the marriage and choose another concubine. This seems surprising because it doesn't make sense. In the eyes of the imperial court, this may be because the wedding between Zhou and Zhu Meigui is too far away, and there may be omissions.
Therefore, the imperial court revised the rules for clan dowry, stipulating that each royal palace can only select marriageable candidates from the nearby civil and military ** and military and civilian homes. After abandoning the Zhou clan, Zhu Meigui married Kong Shi, the daughter of Kong Shi, the deputy commander of the Beicheng soldiers and horses, in February of the second year of Xuande.
And Zhu Jixi's throne is vacant, and according to the regulations, Zhu Jixi should be proven innocent and deposed, and the throne should be returned to him. However, the Yan imperial family has been dividing and suppressing the Jin domain, which is not subject to anyone's personal will.
Therefore, no matter how Ming Chengzu, Ming Renzong, or Ming Xuanzong felt about Zhu Meigui's father and son, it would not affect the decision of the imperial court. Therefore, when Zhu Mi-gyu's father was looking forward to it, the court never moved.
After Ming Xuanzong cleaned up Zhu Jixi, he sent a letter to Zhu Meigui as soon as possible, asking him to take all the wives and concubines of Zhu Li, who were still alive, to Pingyang for support. The king of Jin does not exist, and it is the duty of Zhu Meigui as a long branch to support Zhu Li's widow.
But this move shows that his attitude towards Zhu Meigui and his son is very clear, and the treatment can be negotiated, and it is a dream to reinstate. At the request of Zhu Meigui, he was allowed to select envoy women for his younger siblings in the military and civilian homes in Binh Duong Province.
However, when Zhu Jixi proposed to go to Taiyuan in August of the third year of Xuande and September of the fourth year of Xuande, he successively proposed to go to Taiyuan to worship the Jin Gong Garden and return to Taiyuan to worship the King of Jin Gong, Ming Xuanzong found various excuses to stop it, and finally let him build a family temple in Pingyang, which was regarded as breaking his idea of reinstatement.
On the third day of the first month of the tenth year of Xuande, Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty died suddenly, and then the nine-year-old crown prince Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, and the empress dowager Zhang was actually regent.
The lord Shaoguo doubted, stabilizing people's hearts became the first priority, and after cutting the domain, the threat of the vassal king to the imperial court was eliminated, so the Jin domain, which had been closed for eight years, ushered in the dawn of resealing.
On the 22nd day of the first month, the imperial court rewarded the clan with the new emperor enthroned, and the representative of the Jin clan was Zhu Meigui, the king of Pingyang. Immediately made the decision to restore the title of King of Jin. On the ninth day of the second month, with Wang Yi, the commander of the horses, as the main envoy, and Bu Zhen as the deputy envoy, he went to Pingyang to canonize the king of Jin.
Surprisingly, the new Jin king was chosen as Zhu Meigui, the king of Pingyang, rather than the former Jin king Zhu Jixi, who was still alive. Zhu Jixi died in the Pingyang Palace, which was regarded as taking the initiative to help the court avoid embarrassment.
The court agreed to posthumously crown him as the king of Jin, which is probably not unrelated to this. The imperial court restored the king of Jin, and Zhu Meigui was able to return to Taiyuan, but Zhu Jixi was still buried in the plain of Jiufeng Mountain in Pingyang, and the princess Fu Shi, who died in Xuande for five years, was buried here with him.
After some discussion, Zhu Meigui took the relatively young fifth Zhu Meiyuan, the sixth Zhu Meiyuan, the seventh Zhu Meiyan and the eighth Zhu Meiyan back to Taiyuan, leaving the eldest second Zhu Meiyuan and the third Zhu Meiyan.
Zhu Mi-gyu, a Jin king who has experienced the twists and turns of life in the scenery of the prince and the imprisonment of an empty house. His life is like a circle, starting from the Jin Palace, and then returning to the Jin Palace.
His life is full of ups and downs, but he has always maintained the spirit of "being kind and straightforward, and respecting the court over time". He is a person who can still keep a clear head after being weathered, and his evaluation is his life.
Taiyuan Singing Building, once the holy place of the imperial examination. In his short tenure of 7 years, Zhu Meigui, the king of Jinxian, single-handedly rejuvenated the declining Jin clan and was known as the lord of Zhongxing.
He was united by his brothers, especially by the hardships he had endured since childhood. After the death of King Jin Xian, the three brothers of Zhu Meiyuan, the king of Jiaocheng, who were far away in Pingyang, asked to go to Taiyuan to mourn their brother, but they were rejected by Ming Yingzong.