The richest people in the Ming Dynasty were the princes! For example, almost half of Sichuan has tens of thousands of royal relatives and domestic servants in a Shu dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, the fiefdom of the King of Shu in Sichuan accounted for 70% of the cultivated land in the Chengdu Plain. Because the successive Shu kings were very rich, therefore, there is a saying that "there are thirteen tombs in the north and the tombs of the Shu kings in the south". The tombs of the Shu kings are exquisite, surpassing the emperors of many dynasties.
According to the statistics of the Wanli Calendar Year, the fertile land of the 11 prefectures and counties in Chengdu Province, the Shu Wangfu actually occupied 70% of it! The military tun is 20%, and the people account for only 10%. That is to say, the residents of the entire Chengdu Plain were almost all serfs of the Shu Dynasty. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang also put the Chengdu Taxation Department "Dusi Dong, Hongwu Jianjian, Qin Zhi Shu Province". That is to say, the entire commercial tax of Chengdu was given to the Shu King's Palace.
Almost half of Sichuan has been raising a Shu king for more than 200 years. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty said that the Shu domain was "rich in armor and thick armor to the kings, and provided the Shu province with taxes and silver, and did not lose the heavenly reserves", and the Shu domain "embraced the thick and the named for the world".
Later, after Zhang Xianzhong attacked and occupied Chengdu, he issued a hunting order to the Shu royal family: "All the royal family branches, regardless of obedience and disobedience, regardless of military and civilian, are those surnamed Zhu, and all are killed." "Tens of thousands of people in the Shu king's clan and family were killed. Those who hid in the deep mountains and old forests were also hunted down. Even many other people with the surname Zhu were not spared.
