In the history of the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, a total of 16 emperors were born, and of these 16 emperors, 13 emperors were buried in the Ming Tombs, including chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Although Chongzhen chose to commit suicide after Li Zicheng attacked the capital, Li Zicheng became a pacifying of the people in the city and leaving a good impression on the people, so he chose to bury Chongzhen thickly and buried him in the Ming Tombs.
However, of the 16 emperors of the Ming Dynasty, 3 emperors were not buried in the Ming Tombs.
The second was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who revolted in the south, and after he first destroyed Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youyu in the south, he then went north to destroy the Yuan Dynasty. However, although the Yuan Dynasty collapsed, the Mongol forces in the north were still strong, and Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to avoid the Disturbance of the Mongols, plus his roots were in the south, so he chose to build a capital in Nanjing in the south.
Since the capital is in Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang has also been living in Nanjing, so he will naturally be buried in the imperial tomb in Nanjing after he dies. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Di seized Zhu Yunjiao's throne, but Zhu Di's fief was in the north, and his sphere of influence was also in the north, so in order to maintain his throne, he moved the capital to Beijing, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty has always been in Beijing, and future Ming emperors will also be buried in the imperial tombs in Beijing.
The second emperor was the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, because after Zhu Di attacked the capital, his whereabouts were unknown, and his body could not be found, nor did he know whether he was dead or alive, so naturally he could not be buried in the Ming Tombs. Emperor Jianwen was the second emperor of Daming, and because he came to power and implemented a radical policy of cutting off the domain, which caused dissatisfaction among Zhu Di, the King of Yan, he rebelled in the name of the Qing Emperor and launched the Battle of Jingnan.
Emperor Jianwen was the emperor, Zhu Di was only a vassal king, and the strength of Emperor Jianwen was far stronger than that of Zhu Di, but because Zhu Yunjiao was frequently tricked, he lost his advantage. The first was his radical policy of cutting the domain, which caused the kings to be dissatisfied with him, so after Zhu Di rebelled, he was reluctant to send troops to help Emperor Jianwen. Secondly, when Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, the massacre of heroes led to emperor Jianwen's unscrupulous generals, coupled with emperor Jianwen's poor use of people, which eventually caused him to lose to Zhu Di.
After Zhu Di attacked the city of Nanjing, he did not rush into the palace to hunt down and kill Emperor Jianwen, but first went to chase after Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others, at this time, a fire broke out in the palace, and Emperor Jianwen also disappeared in the fire. Whether Emperor Jianwen was dead or alive, no one knew, his whereabouts, no one knew, and his life and death became a historical mystery, so he became one of the Emperors of Daming who could not be buried in the Ming Tombs.
The third emperor was Zhu Qiyu, emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Qiyu was the younger brother of Emperor Mingying's Zhu Qizhen, and he had no chance to become emperor, but when Qizhen was in his twenties, because his favorite wang zhen offended Vala, which led to the outbreak of war between the two countries, the flesh-and-blood Zhu Qizhen decided to march at the instigation of Wang Zhen. In order to dispel the concerns of the ministers, he arranged for his younger brother Zhu Qiyu to supervise the country for him.
Zhu Qizhen itself had no ability to fight, and Wang Zhen was also a straw bag, so although the two led hundreds of thousands of elite troops of Daming, they were defeated by Vala, Wang Zhen was killed, and Zhu Qizhen was captured. After the great victory over the Ming army, the Walla army continued to work hard, until it reached the capital of the Ming army, Daming in order to avoid the disaster of the fall of the country, but also to avoid the use of Zhu Qi town as a chip to blackmail Daming, so they supported Zhu Qiyu as emperor.
Under the leadership of Zhu Qiyu, Daming resisted the attack of the Wala army. Zhu Qizhen became a prisoner of Vala, but because he could not blackmail Daming, Vala saw that it was unprofitable, and killing him might bring disaster to himself, so they took the initiative to release Zhu Qizhen. After a year, Zhu Qizhen returned to Daming again, and everything changed drastically, his throne became Zhu Qiyu's throne, and his courtiers also became Zhu Qiyu's courtiers.
Zhu Qiyu feared that Zhu Qizhen would seize the throne and put him under house arrest.
Zhu Qizhen was placed under house arrest by Zhu Qiyu for more than 8 years, during which Time Zhu Qiyu changed his son to the crown prince, but his son died of illness not long after, which made him seriously ill and no one to take his place, so some speculative ministers took the opportunity to release Zhu Qizhen and support him to re-ascend to the emperor. After Zhu Qizhen became emperor again, he demoted Zhu Qiyu to the rank of prince, and Zhu Qiyu died of illness half a year later.
Zhu Qiyu's identity as emperor has not been recognized by Zhu Qizhen, plus his identity was a prince when he died, and the imperial throne was occupied by Zhu Qizhen, so he was eventually buried as a prince. Since he was buried as a prince, he would naturally not be buried in the ming tomb of the emperor.