In 1645, in February of the first year of the reign of Emperor Hongguang of the Ming Dynasty, Shaoqing of Hongxu Temple secretly reported to the Hongguang Emperor that he had met the chongzhen emperor's eldest son, the crown prince Zhu Cixiu, in Zhejiang.
The Hongguang Emperor attached great importance to this matter, and immediately sent the eunuch Li Jizhou to Zhejiang to investigate, bring it back and properly arrange it.
On the first day of March, the young man who claimed to be Zhu Cixi successfully arrived in the city of Nanjing, and the Hongguang Emperor immediately sent two more fathers-in-law to recognize him, and as a result, when the two fathers-in-law saw the teenager, they were convenient for him to hold his head and cry, and undressed and draped over his body to protect him from the cold.
After this matter was learned by the Hongguang Emperor, he was immediately furious, claiming that whether the teenager was the eldest son of the Chongzhen Emperor or not, and now he was so worried!
The enraged Hongguang Emperor immediately executed the two dukes, along with the previous Li Jiyi.
The next day, the Hongguang Emperor immediately summoned the Manchu Dynasty's ministers of culture and martial arts and took them with them to see if this young man was really the eldest son of the Chongzhen Emperor.
As a result, the former crown prince's lecturer, the university scholar Wang Duo, immediately said that the person was not the eldest son of the Chongzhen Emperor, but a fake, and Wang Duo had taught the prince for three years, how could he not know his appearance.
In addition, the rest of the former Chongzhen Dynasty officials, such as Liu Zhengzong and Li Jinglian, after reading it, also said that they did not know the child in front of them, and the former Eunuch of the Eastern Palace also said that he did not know this person.
From this, it can be basically inferred that this teenager is fake, fake!
However, the matter did not end there, because the Hongguang Emperor was very unpopular in the city of Nanjing at that time, many people who were dissatisfied with the legitimacy of his throne ran out to stir up trouble and spread gossip everywhere.
As a result, the case was hotly discussed by many ordinary people and civil and military officials who did not know the truth, and no matter how much the Hongguang Emperor explained to the outside world that the person was a fake, the result was not believed by the people.
The Hongguang Emperor imprisoned the false prince, which caused an uproar, and many people believed that the Hongguang Emperor wanted to kill people and murder the eldest son of the Chongzhen Emperor in order to ensure the stability of his throne.
The more this incident spread, the more true it became, and many military generals such as Yuan Jixian, the governor of Jiang Defense, and Zuo Liangyu, Ningnan Bo, wanted to rebel and rescue the imprisoned prince.
Zuo Liangyu even raised the banner of "Qing Jun's Side" to raise an army, but fortunately he himself quickly fell ill and died, so there was no war.
As for the person who pretended to be the prince, he was later beheaded, but there were still some people who were still making trouble, and it was not until after the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty that they were able to calm down!
This matter is also directly characterized as the pseudo-prince case in official history books such as the "History of Ming", so the matter of the case should be regarded as clear after all, but it still caused such a big storm, and there must be a political group behind it, which shows how fierce the party struggle between Hongguang and even the whole Ofeing is!