Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor, can be described as the most unique model of his children and grandchildren in history. He ingeniously linked the state revenue with the royal life, and did not hesitate to devote the whole country to raising his descendants of the Zhu family.
The direct result of this move was that by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of descendants of the Zhu family had reached tens of thousands. One of the best among them is Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune.
He is the most typical example of the descendants of the Zhu family, showing their supremacy in the local area.
In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Luoyang City was broken, and the king of fortune was in trouble. Why is this blessed king Zhu Changxun famous in the government and the opposition? Just because he is the second son of Wanli, the only prince of the Ming Dynasty who is expected to ascend to the throne.
Wanli was concerned about Zhu Changxun, and in order to establish him as the prince, he worked hard and spent 20 years. During this period, Wanli repeatedly tried to revise the tradition and put the second son's position before the eldest son, but the ministers were unmoved.
The opposition of the civil servants continued, and Wanli had no choice but to remove ministers who disagreed with him in order to achieve his wish. However, the fact that it has not been realized in the past two decades shows that it is not possible.
Why did Wanli finally give in? Because the battle has been fought for a long time and there is no result, it should have been manifested a long time ago, but there has been no movement for 20 years, which is enough to show that there is no hope. Some people may wonder why Wanli needs to ask the opinions of the ministers instead of issuing orders directly?
Because Wanli was not vexatious, he tried to get the support of his ministers. He had issued a holy decree, but was pushed back by his ministers and refused to obey. This may seem to be a defiance of the holy decree, but in fact it is well founded, because behind it is the opposition of the entire civil bureaucracy.
Wanli had two sons, the second son and the eldest son were his flesh and blood. But why does Wanli value the second son more? This is mainly because the birth of the eldest son was not Wanli's will.
Back then, Wanli had fun with Zhu Changluo's biological mother, the palace maid, but he didn't expect that this time Lin Xing would make the palace maid pregnant with a child. Although Wanli does not want to be responsible, the facts cannot be changed.
And the biological mother of the second son Zhu Changxun, Zheng Guifei, is Wanli's favorite concubine, and her existence has changed Wanli's life. Concubine Zheng Guifei was not from a famous family, she was not well educated, but her uniqueness made Wanli fall in love with her.
She dared to be with Wanli in public, and even dared to tease him, which was very rare in the harem at that time.
Wanli was deeply fond of such an interesting woman, and he even extended this love to her son Zhu Changxun.
Although the opposing minister could not change Wanli's decision, Wanli still tried his best to make up for this regret.
Zhu Changxun's wedding was held in the 31st year of Wanli, and what is shocking is that the cost of this wedding is as high as 300,000 taels of silver.
What does this number equate to? Wanli's wedding only cost 70,000 taels of silver, and even Zhu Changluo's wedding cost less than 150,000 taels of silver.
As a vassal king, Zhu Changxun's expenses were so high that the courtiers at that time were deeply uneasy. Because this seems to reveal Wanli's determination to abolish the long-term and establish the young. Therefore, the ministers constantly urged Zhu Changxun to go to his fiefdom.
However, Wanli was not positive about this. He kept delaying, so that the Fuwang Mansion continued to be built from the 34th year of Wanli to the 40th year of Wanli, and it cost 400,000 taels of silver.
In contrast, Wanli's younger brother King Lu's Lu Wang's mansion only cost 200,000 taels of silver, while the cost of other vassal kings was less than one-tenth of Zhu Changxun's.
The palace has been completed, and Zhu Changxun should also go to his fiefdom. He is already 27 years old, how can he stay in the capital for nearly 30 years? Zhu Di is already the king of Yan before he is even 20 years old.
Wanli's attitude is to deliberately delay. He made it difficult for his ministers, and even asked for 40,000 hectares of land. Shoufu Ye Xianggao couldn't bear it, and directly said that now all the fields in the world are occupied by the vassal kings, not only the people have no fields, but the court also has no fields.
How can any vassal king have 40,000 hectares of land? King Zhou was Zhu Di's younger brother, and the land awarded to him by the imperial court was only 5,300 hectares. Not to mention, King Zhao was Zhu Gaochi's younger brother, and the court rewarded him with less than a thousand hectares of land.
Emperor Wanli asked Henan, Shandong, Huguang and other provinces to provide land for Zhu Changxun's accession to the domain. However, Henan was unable to provide enough land and therefore needed support from other provinces.
The governor Dong Hanru suggested that 10,000 taels of silver be used to fill the vacancy, but Emperor Wanli refused. He thinks that the civil officials were very active in opposing his appointment of Zhu Changxun as the crown prince, but now they have forgotten about it.
Wanli used this as a reason to ask Zhu Changxun to gather the fields before he could become a vassal. However, the ministers used the example of King Lu as a reference, and the amount of land obtained by King Lu when he became a vassal was much lower than Zhu Changxun's request, but he still chose to become a vassal.
Wanli wanted to delay Zhu Changxun's appointment to the vassal through Empress Dowager Li's birthday, but Empress Dowager Li objected, believing that things should be done according to the rules of the ancestors.
Zhu Changxun also stood up to support Empress Dowager Li and put forward four conditions, including the distribution of property and the transfer of taxes to the Fuwang Mansion, which made Wanli speechless.
The imperial court stipulated that only salt from Shanxi could be sold in Luoyang, but Zhu Changxun came to Luoyang with the best quality and most expensive Huai salt at that time, trying to break the rules of the market.
He not only forbade the sale of other salt in Luoyang while selling Huai salt, but also smashed and robbed the nearby people on the pretext of dividing 20,000 hectares of land, forcibly occupied the fields and extorted the people.
These actions caused his reputation to plummet, but he didn't care, because he had looted the wealth of Luoyang into his Fuwang Mansion and lived a luxurious life.
However, all this changed in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen.
Original text: This year, there was a severe drought in Henan, and Li Zicheng took the opportunity to attack Henan, and the original team of less than 10,000 people fought more and more, and directly fought more than 100,000.
February**Dynamic Incentive Plan At that time, due to the drought, the soldiers in Luoyang could not eat enough, but he Zhu Changxun was as fat as a pig.
The Nanjing Military Department Shangshu Luvich, who temporarily lived in Luoyang, asked him to set aside part of the wealth of the palace to subsidize military salaries, but what about him? In any case, he refused, so that the soldiers defected.
Those who have sent reinforcements to Luo are clamoring: The palace has millions of money, and my generation is killed by thieves. —Ming History: The Biography of King Fu "What was the attitude of the high-ranking King Fu towards Li Zicheng in the past?
One knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging for mercy. And how can he, who has caused the resentment of heaven and people, live? Not only did they kill them, but they also mixed their blood with the blood of the deer and added it to the wine, which was called "Fulu wine".
The camp soldiers hooked the thieves, the city fell, and the Fu King Chang Xun was killed. Self-contained.
King Fu's death made Chongzhen's reaction seem very peculiar. From a family point of view, although King Fu is his uncle, as the emperor, he does not have many opportunities to meet King Fu, and the family relationship between the two can be said to be quite weak.
From the perspective of the country, the national strength was weak at that time, but Chongzhen was bent on accumulating wealth, completely ignoring the safety of the country, and even reluctant to give up his gold and silver treasures when the enemy army approached.
However, even in the face of such a vassal king, Chongzhen still wept bitterly, and did not hesitate to allocate tens of thousands of taels of silver from the inner treasury as a condolence money for his son who escaped from Luoyang.
From this point of view, the demise of the Zhu dynasty was not unjust.