On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, an obituary from Huguang Wuchang Mansion alarmed Ming Shizong, and Zhu Xianrong, the king of Chu, died suddenly at the age of 40. The court did not suspect that there was fraud, and began the regular process of the prince's death to mourn for Zhu Xianrong.
However, in April, Che Chun, the governor of Huguang, and Yi Minsheng, the governor of Huguang, said that Zhu Xianrong, the king of Chu, had actually been killed by his son, Zhu Yingxi. "Ren Yin, at the beginning, the king of Chu Xianrong was killed by his son Yingyi, and he was told that he had sent officials to the sacrificial camp for burial.
As a result, the governor of Huguang was the imperial history Che Chun, and the governor was the imperial historian Yi Minsheng. This news surprised the imperial court and triggered a series of investigations and treatments.
Chu Shizi Zhu Yingyi thought that his father was dissatisfied with him because of the relationship between sexual lewdness and group children, and had the idea of abolishing him.
So, at the instigation of Xu Jingrong, Liu Jin and others, he decided to strike preemptively and set up a Hongmen banquet to ** his father.
As a result, Zhu Yingyi was punished by beheading and burning the body to scatter ashes, Xu Jingrong and 26 others were Lingchi, and the rest were punished to varying degrees according to their degree of participation.
This palace rebellion caused Zhu Xianrong and his son to die dishonorably, and they were given dishonorable titles. Zhu Xianrong was the only prince in the Ming Dynasty who was ** by his son, and Zhu Yingyi was a clan that was beheaded and his bones were scattered.
However, the biggest winner of this palace change is Zhu Yingyi's younger brother Zhu Ying. Zhu Ying is the third son of Zhu Xianrong, born in the twentieth year of Jiajing, and was born to the second concubine of the king of Chushu.
Zhu Xianrong had three sons, of which the eldest son was killed because of **, and the second son died early, so Zhu Ying got the benefits. However, when Zhu Ying's father died, Zhu Ying asus was only 5 years old and could not manage the affairs of the palace independently, so the imperial court had to find a regent for him to help him through his teenage years.
Therefore, Zhu Yingyan, the king of Tongcheng, and Zhu Xianhuai, the king of Wugang, successively took charge of the affairs of the Chu domain.
In the thirtieth year of Jiajing of Ming Shizong, 11-year-old Zhu Ying was named King of Chu, and this knighthood ceremony had been held in December of the previous year.
However, in the year of Zhu Ying's ascension, due to the issue of tribute, Altan Khan, the leader of the Tatar Tumut tribe, led an army to attack the border and approached the city of Beijing, which was the famous "Gengxu Change".
In order to quell the incident, the Ming court partially agreed to Altan Khan's demands, and eventually exchanged the Tatar army for retreat. After this incident, the imperial court began to strengthen the construction of border defenses, and the city of Beijing was changed from an approximate square to a convex shape.
In the process, the relatives and vassals donated money and materials to the imperial court, including a donation of 3,000 taels from Zhu Ying, the king of Chu.
Ming Shizong expressed his gratitude to these relatives and gave Zhu Ying's academy the name "Pure Heart" in June of the following year, and also presented the "Commentary on the Four Books and Five Classics" and the edict that bound the clan.
However, with the increase in the population of the clan and the decline in status, the imperial court became more and more stingy in the naming and canonization of the clan. For example, Zhu Xianrong, the king of Chu, and his princess Wu, they were married as early as when Zhu Xianrong was still the prince of Chu and were canonized as the princess of Chu.
However, after Zhu Xianrong was crowned the queen of Chu, the imperial court has not canonized Wu as the princess of Chu, and she is still Zhu Xianrong's concubine. It was not until Zhu Ying's request that the imperial court officially canonized Wu as the princess of Chu in April of the 34th year of Jiajing (1555).
In other words, the Wu family has been the princess for 20 years, and even after Zhu Xianrong's death, she has been holding the title of princess for more than ten years. If it weren't for the concubine's request, he might not be able to change his title until after his death, and this sadness was only known to the Wu family himself.
From Chu Wang Ying, he invited his mother-in-law Wu to be the princess of Chu. At the beginning, King Chu was the prince, and Wu was the princess. and Jin Jue is the king, and the Wu family is still the old name. Both the attack and the seal are pleased, and it is allowed. ”
Although the princess Zhu Yingxi respects her mother-in-law Wu, she has not forgotten her biological mother Wang. At her request, in November of the 38th year of Jiajing (1559), Wang was canonized as the second concubine of King Chuchou.
In order to ensure the passage of the recital, she also proposed to crown her mother-in-law Wu as the concubine of Chu, which was finally approved. Zhu Yingxi's status as his mother-in-law is also forced by the situation, because he has also reached the age when he should get married.
In the same month that Wu was canonized as the princess of Chu, the eldest daughter of Li Jiong, the governor of the imperial court, was the princess of Chu. If you don't correct the name of the Wu family in advance, there will be an embarrassing situation where the mother-in-law is the princess and the daughter-in-law is the princess.
It's a pity that this Princess Zhang died after not living for a few years, and left no heirs. So Zhu Yingxi Jiajing remarried Zhang (according to the record of Mingshenzong) in October of the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565) as the princess of Chu.
However, Zhu Yingxi did not inherit the family's longevity genes. In August of the fifth year of Longqing (1571), Zhu Yingxi, the king of Chu, died, and the imperial court gave him a gong. Although he reigned for 21 years, he was only 31 years old, and like Zhu Jikun, the king of Chu Xian, he was at the bottom of the Chu kings in the past.
The beginning of the chaos in the Chu Domain was the change in the palace of the Yi Si Chu Domain, which had already made the hearts of the people of the Chu Domain fluctuate. The only heir, Zhu Yingxi, is still a little doll who can't take care of things, and Zhu Yingyan, who is temporarily in charge of the affairs of the Chu Domain, is not a good bird, so the moral collapse of the Chu Clan began.
Wuchang Guard Yu Liu Gui relied on himself to get close to the Chu Palace, and the fox and the tiger made a fortune in Wuchang City. After the change in the palace of the Chu Domain, he lost his biggest backer, and he was afraid that the enemy would come to the door to ask for the family property that he had embezzled, so he invited his uncle, Zhu Xianqing, the lieutenant of the Yong'an Palace, to live at home, intending to use his clan status to deter the enemy.
Unexpectedly, the enemy who was frightened away in this way attracted the covetousness of the predators.
Zhu Xianxiu, the king of Chongyang, Zhu Yingyan, the eldest son of the king of Yong'an, Zhu Rongjin, the general of Fengguo, and many other Chu clan clans looked at Liu Gui's wealth and thought that he was only using his own power, so this property should be enjoyed by the clans.
They entangled the evil young people in Wuchang City, and went straight to Liu Gui's house to rob him. Zhu Xianxiu is just a lieutenant, and he is a little brother for the clan, and his own young sect master, Zhu Yingyan, is also among them, so he will not resist desperately for an aunt and nephew.
Soon, Liu Gui's house was occupied, and the family property was also divided. Originally, this situation was done, after all, the imperial court would not come out for a military surplus who "relied on the prestige of the Chu Mansion and deceived others to make a fortune".
But Zhu Xianxiu and the others didn't look at the yellow calendar when they went out, and just when the robbery was about to end, Zhu Yingyan, the king of Tongcheng, who was in charge of the affairs of the Chu Domain, happened to pass by the door of Liu Gui's house. Liu Gui, who was going to accept his fate, was suddenly overjoyed, and shouted loudly to ask Zhu Yingyan to help arrest the robber.
Zhu Xianxiu and the others obviously didn't take Zhu Yingyan, the regent of the mansion, into account, but after hearing it, they attacked the entourage of the King of Tongcheng and killed them. In the chaos, even Zhu Yingyan's crown belt and the car he was riding in were also damaged.
For him, this is simply a great shame, regardless of whether there was an idea of intervening in this matter before, now he must deal with it personally, otherwise he will not be able to save face.
So, on the one hand, Zhu Yingyan asked Huguang to investigate the matter according to the imperial history, and on the other hand, Sun Jia and other party members used by Zhu Xianxiu were arrested on the grounds of "fraud and harm to others", and were imprisoned in the prison of the Chu Palace.
However, Zhu Xianxiu and others attacked again and led people to break into the prison and rescue them. The matter was so big that Huguang Patrol felt that he could not handle it according to the imperial history, so he reported the incident to the imperial court in 1510 and asked for a ruling.
In the end, Ming Shizong ordered that the main culprit, Zhu Xianxiu, the king of Chongyang, be deprived of his position for one year on the charge of "wanton violation". As for the other people below Zhu Yingzhuo, the eldest son of the king of Yong'an, they were sentenced as accomplices to be "strictly punished by the king of Tongcheng".
This incident occurred in July of the 25th year of Jiajing (1546).
Zhu Yingyan, the king of Tongcheng of the Yellow Crane Tower, was deprived of his regency power soon after he came to power, and Zhu Xianhuai, the king of Wugang, was in charge of the affairs of the Chu domain. However, Zhu Yingyan did not reflect on his mistakes, but held a grudge against Zhu Xianhuai.
In March of the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing (1550), Zhu Yingyan suddenly sued King Wugang for encroaching on the property of the Chu Palace. Not to be outdone, Zhu Xianhuai immediately fought back and accused Zhu Yingyan of violating law and discipline.
After the investigation of the governor of Huguang and the governor of the imperial history, it was found that the matter was caused by the change of regent. The derelict Zhu Yingyan was provoked by the people around him to take the lead in attacking Zhu Xianhuai.
And Zhu Xianhuai, as an uncle, did not educate Zhu Yingyan, and attacked the other party with unfounded rumors at the beginning, causing the situation to get out of control. In the end, Zhu Yingyan, the king of Tongcheng, was sentenced to cut off one-third of his age, and Zhu Xianhuai was required to act steadily.
In addition, Zhu Xianxiu, the head of the Chongyang clan who robbed Liu Gui that year, was given death in April of the 28th year of Jiajing (1549) for killing his brother Zhu Xianzhen, the general of Fengguo, in revenge, and the title of Chongyang County was abolished at the same time.
However, the murder occurred during the reign of Zhu Xianrong, the king of Chushu, and Zhu Xianzhen's heirs sued for many years before they were able to avenge their father. In October of the 34th year of Jiajing (1555), Zhu Yingxi, the auxiliary general of the Tongshan Palace, was deposed as a concubine and imprisoned by the Fengyang high wall for the crime of "obscene murder".
Although Ah Yue said that he did not forget the imperial court, called it loyalty, and raised his mother, and called it filial piety, Zhu Ying, the king of Chugong, practiced Zhu Zhen's last words of "loyalty and filial piety", and can be called a generation of virtuous kings. However, during the reign of his father Zhu Xianrong, the king of Chu, he had an impact on the atmosphere of the Chu clan, such as in four cases, Liu Gui and Zhu Xianxiu, the king of Chongyang, were related to him, and Zhu Xianxiu's crime even included a clause "Listen to the group's small plans, attach to the king of Chu, and most of them are illegal".
The subsequent change in the palace of the Chu Domain dealt a fatal blow to the atmosphere of the Chu Domain.
Zhu Ying Myth: Zhu Ying, list, the only heir of the Chu clan, is only 6 years old, and is unable to shoulder the responsibility of restraining the Chu clan.
February**Dynamic Incentive Plan His performance can be called a virtuous king, but the window period of the previous years has given the Chu clan room to do evil, and the good family style of the Chu clan in the early stage is gone.
What's even more helpless is that he himself died young, leaving only two concubines who had not yet been given names, which made the hearts of the clan fluctuate, and finally detonated the three major cases of the Chu Domain version and the case of the pseudo-Chu king.
Although his overall performance can be called a virtuous fan, he is also helpless to be looked at differently.