During the Ming Chongzhen period, the world was in chaos, and at this time, the Ming Dynasty was about to perish under the blows of Li Zicheng Zhang Xianzhong and other rebel armies, and the Ming Dynasty's feudal lords were the first to bear the brunt of it, and became the key targets of the rebel army.
Wuchang was the fiefdom of Zhu Zhen, the sixth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the King of Chu, who continued in Wuchang for more than two hundred years, and the entire family had a large population, relying on his clan status as a blessing, so after Zhang Xianzhong attacked Wuchang, he began a large-scale revenge.
Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, was directly thrown into the Yangtze River, and the other Chu kings were killed, and those who escaped fled, and the palatial Chu king's mansion was looted and burned.
Among the descendants of the chu kings who fled in all directions was a man named Zhu Rongfan (note: The character "Rong" of the Queen of Chu is different from the "Rong" of the King of Min). He was a descendant of Zhu Zhen, but he was not a descendant of the Chu King's concubine, he was a descendant of the King of Tongshan County, a branch of the King of Chu, and he was only an ordinary member of the Tongshan King's lineage, and he was only knighted as a zhenguo general. There were thousands of such clans in the Ming Dynasty, and the history books recorded that "there were rogues at home, and they did not despise the royal palace", such people could only live in the Taiping era, but no one expected that this Zhu Rongfan, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, was in the Southern Ming and Dashun armies, and with some foolishness, he actually maneuvered in various forces, and also pulled up his own people and horses, in a vain attempt to emulate the old ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang to establish a dynasty of his own in the chaotic world. However, it is a pity that the flicker is not reliable after all, and when it is recognized, it can only run away.
When Zhang Xianzhong's army captured Wuchang and began to capture the Chu clan office, Zhu Rongfan gave full play to his usual shrewdness, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he escaped from Wuchang in advance and defected to the army of zuo Liangyu, a Ming dynasty general stationed nearby, because only the army was the safest at this time.
However, there were thousands of clans, and Zuo Liangyu could not take in these rice buckets that could not eat or drink anything but food and drink. So Zhu Rongfan played his best skill nonsense, he knew that in the face of such a heavyweight as Zuo Liangyu, he must not be timid, and he could not tell the truth, if he let the other party know his true identity, it would be all over, so Zhu Rongfan blew himself into the king of the county, and after adding a god chat, Zuo Liangyu was fooled into believing Zhu Rongfan's lies, after all, there were many kings of the Chu County, Zuo Liangyu did not have time to check whether his county king was real, if he did not care about Zhu Rongfan, he could not afford to sit down and lose the king of the county.
Zuo Liangyu not only believed Zhu Rongfan, but he also specially sent a team of people and horses to protect him. Zhu Rongfan, who was a member of the Fallen Sect, received such preferential treatment, and indeed did not adapt, and immediately showed his rogue nature, really regarded himself as the king of the clan, flaunting his might everywhere, and even regarded the soldiers of the camp as his slaves, which quickly aroused the dissatisfaction of the generals in the army, and for a long time Zuo Liangyu also began to suspect this "county king", and his courtesy was getting worse and worse.
Zhu Rongfan felt bad, if zuo Liangyu found out his old bottom, his life could not be saved, so he took advantage of the chaos in the army, and a roll bag would run directly.
Where to leave Zuo Liangyu's army? At this time, Daming had died, the Chongzhen Emperor was also dead, and Zhu Yousong, the Fu King of Nanjing, was proclaimed emperor, and Zhu Rongfan quickly ran to Nanjing. Of course, Zhu Rongfan could not go to see Zhu Yousong, after all, they were not acquainted, and he knew that the person in power was not Zhu Yousong, but Ma Shiying. Therefore, Zhu Rongfan honored Ma Gelao with all the gold and silver treasures looted in Zuo Liangyu's army, and once again sacrificed the Dafa of Deception, which made Ma Shiying very happy, so he rewarded him with the position of supervising the Chu camp and becoming a supervisor.
Zhu Rongfan can be said to have ordered the order to act as soon as the power was in his hand, he completely forgot about his own affairs in Zuo Liangyu's army, so he returned to his attitude, wantonly oppressed the generals, so as to provoke a mutiny, this time Ma Ge LaoYe did not dare to take care of him, just when he was about to take him to the knife to quell the mutiny, Zhu Rongfan once again smeared oil on the soles of his feet and ran.
Leaving Nanjing, Zhu Rongfan ran back to Huguang, this time he was not very lucky, he actually encountered the peasant rebel army, and it was his enemy who destroyed the remnants of Li Zicheng's rebel army of the Ming Dynasty.
Originally, these two types of people were not the same enemies of heaven, and it should be known that the peasant rebel army hated the members of Zhu Ming's royal family the most, but Zhu Rongfan was keenly aware that this rebel army was different from before. This rebel army was the remnant of Li Zicheng, which had recently been scattered by the Qing Dynasty in the north and fled all the way to Huguang. Zhu Rongfan felt that this group of people was easy to use, so he generously said that he was the son of the King of Chu, and if they were willing to submit to the imperial court, he could guarantee that they would be fine and that the high-ranking officials would sit. These people originally joined Li Zicheng's team because of their livelihood, and after Li Zicheng was defeated by the Qing Dynasty, they did not know where to go, considering that the king of Chuang was finished, the Qing Dynasty went all out to encircle and suppress them, and they were ready to submit to Nanming, but they could not find Nanming. As a result, they met Zhu Rongfan, and everyone was very happy, so they all submitted to Zhu Rongfan, and they were very grateful to Zhu Rongfan and decided to honor her as king.
Zhu Rongfan was naturally ecstatic, he was also a person with a team, if he was really respected as a king, even if he did not reach the Jiangshan, at least he would stand on his feet, so he was ready to accept. However, his actions aroused the suspicion of some people in the peasant army, because they felt that Zhu Rongfan did not behave like a prince, but rather like a scoundrel, and at this time, the world was in chaos, there were soldiers and horses everywhere, there were many cheaters, never heard that the King of Chu had such a son, but heard that Zhang Xianzhong had killed the King of Chu, and how the King of Chu Shizi would run to our small temple, so he stopped supporting him.
Zhu Rongfan saw that the situation was not good and ran away again, this time Zhu Yousong's Hongguang regime had long since perished, after many inquiries, he learned that King Gui had already claimed the title of emperor and changed the Yuan Yong calendar, and he hurried to surrender to King Gui.
The previous experience in the peasant army became his capital this time, in the face of the Yongli minister Ding Kuichu, he began to blow nonsense, saying that the Dashun army was already vulnerable, and the Qing Dynasty was only able to deal with the strength of the Dashun army, and as a result, Ding Kuichu, who had no ability, believed his lies and directly told the Yongli Emperor that this was a talent. However, the Yongli Emperor did not like Zhu Rongfan after seeing him, but because of his feelings and reality, after all, there was no one available now, so he appointed him as the head of the clan government and in charge of the clan office. But now that the world is in chaos, and the old Zhu family is dying and fleeing, what can the Zongren Government manage? So he operated again, entrusting people to find connections, and finally the Yongli Emperor granted him the post of Right Attendant of the Military Department and Right Governor of Yushi, the governor of Chuandong Military Affairs.
In the October of the Yong Calendar, he was in Duanzhou, and Rong Fan went to the line, and the situation among the thieves was well known. The cabinet of Ding Kui Chu was mediocre, believed in his tongue and arguments, and recommended the dynasty, and was in charge of the affairs of the people's government; he had to participate in major politics. And BingKe Cheng Yuan liked to talk about soldiers and was very happy with them. Cheng Yuan, also from Sichuan, talked with Rong Fan about Sichuan one day: "Although the thieves in Sichuan are prosperous, the generals have no less than hundreds of thousands of soldiers; the two of us each ask for the post of governor, the governor of the northeast and the southwest of the country, and the thieves are not enough to pingye'. Rong Fan xi, with a loose invitation. The dprk discussed that Cheng Yuanfang's change of military section was not two months, and he did not celebrate the promotion; and the source was manic, which was intended to be obtained. Naikayuan Taichang temple shaoqing, manager of the three provinces, and changed the rong domain to the right attendant of the military department and the right governor of the capital of the imperial history, the governor of Chuandong Soldiers and Horses.
However, Zhu Rongfan did not fight, he did not go to Sichuan, but always followed the Yongli Emperor, and when the Yongli Emperor was driven to Guilin by the Qing Dynasty, he vainly tried to take charge of the imperial government and set up the Yongli Emperor, so he pointed out that "He was weak from a single weak, such as Rong Fan and Cheng Yuan, who were all supportive of heavy subjects, and it was not appropriate to go out." As a result, the Yongli Emperor saw his intentions, and he scolded: "Er wait and want to support Rong Fan evil", and in anger, he wanted to kill Zhu Rongfan. Zhu Rongfan was frightened, and while saying that he had shaved his family, he used his usual bribery methods to find the empress dowager through internal supervision to be spared.
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Shangsu hated Rong Fan, because he was angry: 'Er, etc. want to support Rong FanYe'? He then ordered rong to be stripped of his post and stripped of his governor's seal, intending to behead him. Rong Fan was afraid and shaved as a monk; he bribed the internal overseer Pang Tianshou to ask the empress dowager: 'Since the chaos, the clan has withered; Rong Fan's sins do not lead to death, do not ask for it'! Shangsu Xiaoxiao (上素孝), who inherited empress dowager Yi's will, that is, pardoned Rong Fan; still restored his official, and also with the edict seal.
This time Zhu Rongfan did not dare to stay in Guilin any longer, but went to Sichuan to fulfill his duties, and when he left, he found that he had been wrong before, and it was useless to stay with the Yongli Emperor, but when he came out, there was a bright light, so he took advantage of the position given by the Yongli Emperor to give him the post of Right Attendant of the Army and Right Governor of the Imperial History of Chuandong, and sold officials and lords along the way, making the political situation in Sichuan chaotic, and the Yongli Emperor was furious and removed all his official positions after he knew it.
Rong Fan entered the river from Chu. Cheng Yuan, disguised as the governor of the three provinces and the right attendant of the army, sold officials and sent za along the way, and stole huge amounts of money. In April, Sichuan patrolled Qian Bangqi to evacuate the ginseng. At that time, Liu Chengyin greeted Wugang with March; he was alienated, angered, slashed Cheng Yuan's post, and was arrested.
Zhu Rongfan, who had no official position, was very angry, you Zhu Youluo did not keep me, you had your own place to stay. So Zhu Rongfan used his special skills to escape, and finally arrived in Shizhou, just when the Yunyang defender Wang Guangxing was beaten by the Qing army and did not know what to do, and because the Yongli Imperial Court continued to flee, the Sichuan area had lost contact with the Yongli Imperial Court. Zhu Rongfan seized this gap and immediately said that he was the Prince of Chu Shizi, the deputy marshal of the Terracotta Army, who was sent by the Yongli Emperor. Due to the chaos in the world and the inability to contact the Yongli imperial court, Wang Guangxing believed that it was true, so he immediately expressed his obedience to Zhu Rongfan's dispatches. In this way, Zhu Rongfan suddenly had more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and soon after, the other defenders of Sichuan, Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai, and others successively submitted to his account, and Zhu Rongfan, whose strength grew rapidly, then drove the Qing army away.
Zhu Rongfan, who had strength, naively thought that he had the strength to realize his dream of emperor, at least Liu Bei could stand with the Yongli Emperor and the Qing Dynasty and dominate Sichuan.
Rong Fan went from Chenzhou to Yongshun division to Shizhou Wei, and Wang Guangxing had 20,000 soldiers and horses. Shi Xing was defeated by the Qing soldiers in Yunyang, and walked into ShiZhouwei, with no return; Rong Fan pretended to be "Prince Shizi of Chu and Deputy Marshal of the Terracotta Army", and the Generals of Guangxing did not know its falsity and attached it. When Zeng Ying of Shichuan was defeated by Zhang Kewang (i.e., Sun Kewang), the generals Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai led their boats to the east to Gozhou, and Rong Fan had the Guangxing army, that is, to move Zhanchun and Haihai, and the two generals also returned to them. Shi Da Qing's army broke through Chengdu and other places, and sailed down from Chongqing; Rong Fan ordered Zhan Chun and the sea to intercept it. The second general followed the boat division upstream, and on July 11 met at the lake beach of Chungju; Zhan Chun was surprised, and went straight into his camp with a light boat, firing artillery and artillery, and the Qing soldiers abandoned their boats and landed on the shore and walked north of Sichuan.
Zhu Rongfan triumphantly claimed to be the overseer of the country, except for The Great Seal or the deputy marshal, the others were all tianzi treatment. The place where he lived was called "Xingzai", Chungju was changed to DadingFu, the fumen was called The Gate of Carrying, the nearby Tianzi City was renamed "Tianzi City", and official positions such as Sacrificial Wine, Kedao, and Hongxu Temple were set up, Wang Guangxing, Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai and others were knighted as founding heroes, Zhang Jingcheng Zhengdian and others were named as the governor of Sichuan, and the Tuguan of Sichuan were all named as the chief soldiers of the supervising army, etc. For a time, Chuandong became an independent kingdom of Zhu Rongfan, and Zhu Rongfan's three-legged dream was just around the corner.
Unfortunately, Zhu Rongfan only inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's bloodline, did not inherit Zhu Yuanzhang's luck, although they all caught up with the chaotic world, but Zhu Rongfan did not seize the world, and even did not even divide Sichuan, and in the end Liu Bei did not do it.
Just when Zhu Rongfan was dreaming of being a lonely widow in eastern Sichuan, the yongli Emperor's ministers Tuoba Yinxi and Ma Jinzhong finally entered Sichuan, and they soon learned that Zhu Rongfan was shocked and rushed to Chungju, where they saw Zhu Rongfan screaming that he dared to disobey the Holy Order and try to divide the territory. Although Zhu Rongfan had the ambition to become emperor at this moment, he was still afraid in his heart in the face of the Yongli Emperor's ministers, and he said that the Yongli Emperor did not know where to go, the situation in Sichuan was chaotic, and he had to call himself a prisoner of state in order to gather people's hearts. "The holy driver broadcasts, Kawanaka does not know how to go along; talk about the pseudonym of the ear of the bullet!"
Tuoba Yinxi listened and said that you yourself are a rebel how can you surrender to a rebel, so that Zhu Rongfan's conspiracy to deceive everyone in the name of the Yongli Emperor was exposed, and it turned out that those under him saw that Zhu Rongfan was fake, and naturally did not want to be this rebel, so most of them fled, but Zhu Rongfan still drew some people to stay in Tianzi City.
Just when Zhu Rongfan was stubbornly resisting, the overseer Lü Daqi sent by the Yongli Emperor came to Sichuan, and Li Zhanchun, who had previously submitted to Zhu Rongfan, came to see Lü Daqi.
Lü Daqi said that the deputy marshal of the world's terracotta army, except for the prince of the crown prince, who can serve, Zhu Rongfan is anything that dares to be. Moreover, the emperor is still in charge of what country, this is a traitor. You will inevitably be dealt with along with Zhu Rongfan. "Deputy marshals, non-princes and princes do not dare to call themselves." The Son of Heaven is on top, and the kingdom of He can be imprisoned; this man rebels against Ming! If you accept his office, you will not be guilty! ”
Li Zhanchun was taken aback and immediately said that he would attack Zhu Rongfan and kill the rebel thief to make meritorious deeds.
At this time, Zhu Rongfan no longer had the strength of tens of thousands of troops before, and occupied a Tianzi City, so naturally it could not compete with Li Zhanchun's army and soon failed. Zhu Rongfan played the skill of always fast feet and slipped away in advance.
For Zhu Rongfan, this failure was nothing, after all, he had failed many times before, as long as he did not die, there was still a chance. However, his previous experience has exhausted his life's luck, to this time is gone, he fled to Kuizhou, in order to avoid the army that captured him, he hid around, to avoid the wind, did not expect to hide from the Southern Ming army, did not hide from the local indigenous people, this time Zhu Rongfan's flicker can no longer be used, after all, people can not understand, directly sent to the Southern Ming official palace and then killed, thus ending his legendary life.