Few people know that one of Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants was enfeoffed in the Qing Dynasty until the qing dynasty was destroyed.
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty's entry, it was very clever on the sensitive issue of how to deal with the Ming imperial family. Li Zicheng's army once violently destroyed the corpse of The Empress dowager for three days, which aroused great disgust among the people of Beijing. As soon as the Qing army entered Beijing, Dolgun immediately issued a solemn funeral for the Empress Dowager, ordering "officials and people to serve the Emperor for three days." This move greatly touched the people, and they praised Dorgon for his "benevolence", which played a great role in winning the hearts and minds of the people in the north. Holding a grand funeral for the lord of the fallen country was already a grand ceremony for the world, and the Kangxi Emperor went to the Ming Taizu Mausoleum six times and performed three kneeling and nine prostrations, which moved tens of thousands of fathers and elders present in Nanjing to tears, and the people's hearts in Jiangnan were also appeased.
The face project was so beautifully done, but inside, the Qing Dynasty was not soft on Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants. In order to prevent people from supporting the rebellion of zhu's descendants, from the Qing Dynasty to the late Kangxi dynasty, the Qing government slaughtered hundreds of clan kings in various Places in the Ming Dynasty, preferring to kill a thousand people by mistake rather than spare one.
By the time of the Yongzheng Dynasty, the world was completely at peace. The Yongzheng Emperor also remembered that the "ordained prince" should "treat the descendants of the previous generations with courtesy", so as to show the grand intention of "rising and destroying and succeeding". Therefore, he ordered people to visit a "qualified" descendant of the Zhu clan in the world and make him a high-ranking official to show the magnanimity of the Qing Dynasty. After several years of searching, the Rebbe found a qualified candidate, directly under the prefect of Zhengding, Zhu Zhilian. Zhu Zhilian's grandfather was captured by the Qing army and incorporated into the Han army, and by the time he had been a bannerman for three generations, he had not been killed in previous years because he had always been obedient and loyal to the Qing Dynasty and had no second heart. After Yongzheng heard this, he was overjoyed, so he made Zhu Zhilian the "Marquis of Yan'en" of the first rank, hereditary resignation, and ordered him to be responsible for the sacrifice of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Mausoleum. The subjects of the world all believe that this move is beyond the previous generation, and there are "ancient relics" that have praised the virtue of the Qing government.
The last Yan Enhou
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, zhu Yuxun, the last Marquis of Yan'en, still lived off a meager allowance received from the small court of Boyi. The famous educator Zhang Xiangwen once accidentally discovered the address of Yan Enhou while consulting the household registration information in Beijing, and in 1919 he visited with two friends.
The last emperor Puyi
They came to the "mansion" of Yan Enhou in Yangguan Hutong, North Street, Dongzhimen, and found that this was actually an ordinary house, without any Houfu style. Entering his house, he found that the whole family was dressed in flag people's costumes, and several books on the table in the study were all "Jade Box" and "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness" transmitted by Shijing, showing the cultural level and spiritual pursuit of this waiting master.
The last time Yen-eun-ho appeared in history was in 1924. It turned out that Puyi's British teacher Johnston accidentally found that there was another such marquis in the Qing Dynasty in the old paper pile, so he became curious and suggested that Puyi summon him once to see what Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants looked like. On September 7, 1924, the last descendants of the Ming Dynasty and the last heir of the Qing Dynasty met in the Forbidden City.
In this year, Yan Enhou was more than forty years old, and Johnston recorded that he had a round face, a large body, and looked thick and honest, but his education level was not high. Hou Ye told Johnston. He had two sons, one nine years old and one four years old. Because Puyi's small imperial court allowance was not paid in time, Yan Enhou's life was already very poor, and even the official clothes were sold, "the crown dress I wore outside was specially borrowed for this gurudwara", he lifted the robe for Johnston to see the tattered clothes inside, "I have to return this set of clothes to others tonight."
Johnston
A few days later, Johnston sent servants to send some gifts to Yan Enhou, and the servants returned to report that the Yan Enhou family was indeed very poor, and that the house had been crooked.
Soon after this summons, Puyi was driven out of the Forbidden City and fled to Tianjin, unable to take care of the old decorations of the Qing Dynasty, and the last Yan Enhou disappeared from history.