Whether Zhu Yuanzhang's royal descendants had more than 1 million by the end of the Ming Dynasty is still controversial - according to Xu Guangqi's rough calculations at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of Ming Emperors increased by about 30 years, according to population history experts, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants had multiplied to nearly 1 million people, of course, there are also views that this number is less than one hundred thousand or hundreds of thousands. Although Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants could be born, they could not stand Li Zicheng zhang Xianzhong's troops and Qing troops to kill
The most important thing is the domestic rebel army, and the ruthless killing and suppression of the descendants of the Zhu family is probably even worse than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that entered the border. Because the Manchu Qing originally came in with the slogan of suppressing bandits and supporting Daming, although the Ming Dynasty secretly wanted to cut down the grass and roots of Zhu Ming's descendants, it was still not so obvious and radical. However, those rebel armies hated Zhu Ming's descendants who sat down to eat and eat and act as a blessing, and everywhere they went, they were swept away by the wind and clouds of Zhu Ming's descendants. Li Zicheng alone killed tens of thousands of Zhu Ming's descendants in Shanxi.
The reason why the Qing Dynasty slaughtered the Zhu Ming imperial family was very simple, that is, it was afraid that some people would rebel under the banner of the descendants of the Zhu Ming imperial family, and the dead of the Zhu Ming imperial family would be useful to the Manchu Qing, and the living would be a big trouble. The remaining emperors of the Southern Ming dynasty were all executed by order of the Qing Dynasty, and the Yongli Emperor and the Longwu Emperor were all dead. During the Kangxi Dynasty, the third prince of Zhu plotted a rebellion and was executed by the Kangxi Emperor Ling Chi, who showed his head to the public; during the Qianlong Emperor's period, there was a Ming Dynasty imperial family old man, more than ninety years old, who was still executed by Ling Chi after being discovered by Qianlong. The Qing Dynasty will never allow the descendants of the Ming Dynasty's imperial family to exist, the Ming Emperor can worship, the imperial tomb can be protected, but their descendants must die!