What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In the eyes of our ordinary people, the happiest profession in ancient times was definitely the emperor. Because the emperor has supreme power and endless glory and wealth, he can do whatever he wants. But if you think about it carefully, the emperor is sometimes very unfortunate, because they can hardly trust anyone, they have to let others go at all times, there is no sense of security, and the mental pressure is particularly great.
Today I will introduce a very interesting thing, there is an emperor in the face of an old man over 70 years old, the road is unstable but very scared, and finally executed this person.
In 1644, Li Zicheng, the king of the invasion, attacked Beijing, and in the same year, the Qing army entered the customs and occupied Beijing. At that time, the Chongzhen Emperor saw that the general trend had gone, hanged himself in the coal mountain, and the Ming Dynasty also declared its demise. So after Chongzhen's death, did his children survive? The answer is yes, and there is a son of Chongzhen named Zhu Cihuan. The man did not commit suicide like his father, but fled as a beggar.
After Zhu Cihuan escaped, he had to ask for food all the way, and fled while asking for food. Fortunately, he escaped to a wealthy family. Zhu Cihuan then talked to the family, after all, Zhu Cihuan was of royal blood, and his temperament and speech and demeanor really did not look like a person who wanted to eat. So Zhu Cihuan told the family the truth, that is, he was Chongzhen's son, and in order to escape, he could only pretend to be a beggar. The family then took in Zhu Cihuan, for the simple reason that in the future, in case the Ming Dynasty was restored, this was a prince, and the whole family could follow the light, and they could also be promoted to a higher rank and get rich.
However, the good times did not last long, and the family who took him in found that the rule of the Qing Dynasty was becoming more and more stable, and there was no shadow at all, so they absolutely did not take Zhu Cihuan in. Because it was so dangerous to take him in, once he was denounced by someone who knew the truth, the whole family would be affected. So Zhu Cihuan was driven out and once again lived a wandering life.
However, Zhu Cihuan's luck was still good, and after several trips to Zhejiang, he became a monk, and if Zhu Cihuan became a monk for a lifetime, his ending was still very good. But then a local saw him as good, so he persuaded him to return to his vulgarity and gave him his daughter. In this way, Zhu Cihuan married a wife and gave birth to three sons and two daughters.
When it came to Kangxi, in order to alleviate the contradictions of the nationalities, win the hearts and minds of the people, and also to show his generosity, Kangxi announced that he would find a group of descendants of the Ming Dynasty to guard the tombs of the Ming Emperor, and also let these people bow three times and nine times in the Ming Emperor's mausoleum to recognize the orthodoxy of the previous dynasty. Soon Zhu Cihuan heard the news, was very excited, and thought that Kangxi was very generous and would not attack these royal descendants, so he planned to go to the tomb.
Zhu Cihuan felt that so many years had passed, the emperor had changed, and he was old, so he did not hide his identity. Later, Kangxi heard that a person who guarded the tomb was called Zhu Cihuan, so he asked someone to ask about it, but this question happened, and Kangxi knew his true origins, so Kangxi did not ask him to go to the tomb, but arrested him overnight and executed his entire family.
Many people will ask, what threat does a seventy-year-old man pose to a dynasty without a single soldier? It is true that there is no threat, but Kangxi is worried that many of the rebels will rebel in his name, and if this person lives one more day, Kangxi will not be sure in his heart, worried that his descendants will have an impact on the country he rules.
Interestingly, in the history of the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Cihuan died when he was five years old, so there is no true record of Zhu Cihuan's deeds, and perhaps Kangxi also thought that it was cruel to execute a 70-year-old man in this way.