The Chongzhen Emperor was still quite eccentric, and he had already asked the princes to escort them out of the palace before the great calamity was imminent. The daughters who remained in the palace, like the concubines, were all beheaded by him. However, the eunuchs he entrusted only took care of their own lives, so that those princes fell into the hands of Li Zicheng. However, with the defeat of Li Zicheng's army and the withdrawal of the city of Beijing, these princes went into exile.
In addition to the eldest brother (that is, the prince) was killed and the whereabouts of the third brother are unknown, only the fifth prince Zhu Cihuan really survived. Seeing that Li Zicheng's army was defeated like a mountain, he also escaped by the chaos, and was later taken in by a kind squire. After a few years, the descendants of this family were afraid of provoking fire and burning himself, so they drove him out of the unknown source and let him fend for himself.
In order to survive, he did not care about any royal status, and ran to the temple of Yuyao, where he hid his name and became a monk. There was a local squire, and when he went to the temple to offer incense, he happened to meet him, who was only in his early 20s at the time. Seeing that this monk not only looked british and angry, but also was full of talent and learning, and exported into chapters, he felt that it was a pity, so he encouraged him to return to the world.
Zhu Cihuan lived in this squire's family, and also married the daughter of the squire, and since then she has had children and lived a life of an ordinary family. Because of his previous tragic experience, he was also cautious and cautious, and never dared to mention his life to outsiders. After enduring hardships and hardships, he finally lived a peaceful life and lived to the age of 75, when he was full of children and grandchildren.
After Kangxi became emperor, he went to visit Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial tomb many times in order to win the hearts and minds of the people. At that time, Kangxi said that if there was a descendant of the Zhu royal family, he could manage the Ming Tomb. In fact, this was just a trick of the emperor, and I didn't expect that Zhu Ciene, who was already over the age of ancient, would naively believe it.
Perhaps it was the years of comfortable life that made him forget the bloody rain and wind of that year, and after a drunken drink, he accidentally revealed his life to an old friend. As a result, the news spread later, and anti-Qing people rose up in his name to make trouble. Seeing that he had run into a catastrophe, he was frightened and ran away from home with several heirs, but he was still caught by the Qing soldiers.
Although he did not know those who caused the trouble, Kangxi, who had always shown himself as "lenient and benevolent", was determined to kill the dying old man, and did not even consider his appeal. Although he had lived a lifetime of peace and self-preservation, and even when he was in the San Francisco rebellion, he did not have the heart to rebel, but his existence still made it difficult for the emperor to sleep and eat, and put him to death, and his descendants were also beheaded by the door, and Chongzhen never had any descendants.