Zhu Dijing was a hero of the difficulty, and Fulu Shou was the only one who survived the Six Dynasties and Five Emperors

The Battle of Jingnan was a famous battle to rewrite the history of the Ming Dynasty and even the history of China. This battle lasted for four years, and Zhu Di finally succeeded his nephew Emperor Jianwen as the Yongle Emperor.

After ascending the throne, Zhu Di was a great meritorious person, and there were dozens of dukes, hou, and uncles, and Chen Mao was one of them. Among the dozens of people, Chen Mao's title was marquis of Ningyang, not the highest; the merit was great, not the largest. However, Chen Mao was the one who lived the longest, and experienced the five emperors of the six dynasties of Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, Zhengtong, Jingtai, and Tianshun.

Judging from his Shinto inscriptions, Chen Mao was born in the twelfth year of Hongwu (1379), a native of present-day Shou County, Anhui, and his father Chen Heng was the former commander of BeipingDu and the governor of the capital. In the first year of Jianwen (1399), the Battle of Jingnan broke out, and Chen Heng, who had rushed to Daning's aid, was defeated and surrendered to Zhu Di, and the twenty-one-year-old Chen Mao also became Zhu Di's subordinates.

Chen Mao was "particularly bold, riding and shooting", and during the hard battles of Jing, Chen Mao led his troops to repeatedly perform miracles, "prancing horses and waving, bleeding everywhere" ("Chen Mao Shinto Inscription"), tired officials to the right governor. In the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), after Zhu Di ascended the throne, Chen Mao was enfeoffed with The Title of Ningyang Bo (宁阳伯) and ate 1,000 stones. At this time, Chen Mao was only twenty-four years old.

In March of the sixth year of Yongle (1408), Chen Mao was enfeoffed as a general of The Western Expedition and guarded Ningxia. Perhaps because of his birth as a general, Chen Mao was "good at soothing the descendants" and was often able to fight without bloodshed. In the autumn of the following year (1409), Chen Mao recruited more than a dozen high-ranking officials of the Late Yuan dynasty in a row, "the former Yuan's chancellor Zan Bu and more than ten people from Pingzhang, Situ, Guogong, and Zhiyuan all came and went down one after another." For those who surrendered and rebelled, Chen Mao pursued them to the end, captured them alive, and "harvested the livestock of the population of all the people" ("Ming Shi Chen Mao Biography"). In the same year, the thirty-one-year-old Chen Maojin was made a marquis, with two hundred stones.

Chen Mao was very masculine, "repairing his hair and looking like Hong Zhong" ("Ming Shi Chen Mao Biography"), which was quite similar to "Mao Qiwei, Beautiful Hair" ("Ming Shi Chengzu Benji"), and Zhu Di had a good feeling for him.

In the following ten years, Chen Mao was also remarkable, either following Zhu Di's northern expedition to destroy the remnants of the old Yuan, or defending Ningxia, defending the northwest frontier, making great military achievements in the storms and rains, and becoming one of zhu Di's most trusted and relied high-ranking military generals. In the twentieth year of Yongle (1422), Zhu Di once again raised Chen Mao's status, "giving the dragon a jade belt and making his daughter a concubine" ("Ming Shi Chen Mao Biography"), and Chen Mao became a relative of the emperor.

During the era of Emperor Renzong and Emperor Xuanzong, Chen Mao continued to be active in the political arena and guarded the border pass. However, Chen Mao also had shortcomings, that is, greed for money, "Mao in the town for a long time, prestige shocked the desert north." Gu Pampered himself, qian did not ju wan" (Ming Shi Chen Mao Biography). Because of this incident, Chen Mao was often impeached, and Emperor Xuanzong, remembering his outstanding merits, did not punish him, but only let him raise greedy wealth. Chen Mao claimed that the ill-gotten gains had been exhausted, and Xuanzong did not embarrass him anymore.

During emperor Yingzong's reign, Chen Mao served as the general of Pingqiang and defended Gansu. During this period, although Chen Mao had meritorious deeds, he also committed many crimes, "caused Kou to lose discipline, and then took the old and weak left behind, and pretended to be rewarded for his meritorious service such as commanding Ma Liang", because his dereliction of duty attracted enemies and falsely reported his military achievements, and he was beheaded according to the law. After all, Chen Mao was the few remaining elders of the Four Dynasties, and Emperor Yingzong could not bear to do so, "To avoid death and seize Lu." Jiuzhi Returned Lu, Feng Chao Please" (Ming Shi Chen Mao Biography).

In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy (1449), Emperor Yingzong was captured and Emperor Daizong took the throne. At that time, the seventy-one-year-old Chen Mao was quelling the rebellion in the south, and Emperor Daizong urgently summoned Chen Mao's class to return to Beijing to deal with the great changes. In the first year of Tianshun (1457), after the restoration of Emperor Yingzong, Chen Mao continued to receive preferential treatment, and Jialu 200 stones. In the spring of the sixth year of Tianshun (1462), Chen Mao fell ill and still said that "the old and the old man of the subject are not hateful enough, but His Majesty thinks of the living people, and uses the ability of the wise to try to rule the Taiping" (Chen Mao Shinto Inscription). In July of the seventh year of Tianshun (1463), Chen Mao died at the age of eighty-five (at the age of eighty-four in the Ming Shizuo) and was given the title of Duke of Junguo and Wujing.

Chen Mao's life merit is great, but the guilt is not light, he can "count the number of wastes, and the death ends in merit", and for more than sixty years, he has survived the six dynasties and five emperors, old and peaceful, which cannot but be said to be a legend. The Biography of Ming Shi Chen Mao states, "The meritorious servant of the Jing Dynasty was not present at the time of Tianshun, but Mao Jiu enjoyed the lu throne." Chen Mao was made a marquis at the age of thirty-one and enjoyed more than fifty years of knighthood, and was the only marquis who was established as a meritorious warrior of Jing dynasty and still maintained his title during the Tianshun period.

Chen Mao Fulu Shou was a hereditary marquis, and he not only made himself a marquis, but also received the honor of "Marquis of Shi", that is to say, he was the hereditary marquis of Ningyang and was the Marquis of Iron Hat. After Chen Mao's death, his sons Chen Run (Tianshun, Chenghua Dynasty), Chen Ying (Chenghua Dynasty), and later Chen Fu (Chenghua, Hongzhi Dynasty), Chen Jizu (Zhengde, Jiajing Dynasty), Chen Weifan (Jiajing, Longqing Dynasty), Chen Daji (Longqing Dynasty), Chen Yingzhao (Wanli Dynasty), Chen Guangyu (Taichang, Tianqi, Chongzhen Dynasty) successively became marquises, and their family glory continued until the end of the Ming Dynasty.