Cooking is not enough, because the rumor corresponding to the live cooking is to eat, Li Zicheng no matter how heavy the taste is, it will not be boiled into the pot together with the rice and feces.
There are two theories in the History of Ming of Zhu Changxun's death:
1. Beheaded for public display
2. Drained blood to make Fluke wine.
There is a third statement in the ming dynasty, Hanamura Tanxiang, and the end of the Ming Chronicle:
3. It is sliced down and eaten in a pot of venison, which is for the "Feast of The Lucky".
The two details mentioned in passing are:
4. Zhu Changxun was captured alive and asked Lu Weiqi, who was also captured, for help, but was ridiculed by the latter: "All this is on the table, please don't lose your eyes anymore."
5. After Zhu Changxun was killed, the servants requested a burial, which was sent out by Li Zicheng with a humiliating "tong coffin broken car".
The above five episodes come from different sources, but do not completely conflict with each other. Going through it from beginning to end is like different sides of the same event. Li Zicheng captured Zhu Changxun alive, cooked a meal with a full set of pig killing methods, and the servant who cut off his head and drained the blood slices and then interceded with "kitchen waste" to deal with it, also made perfect sense. However, the so-called "unyielding death" in the Fu Wang's Yuanzhi is purely a tomb (light), the rich and noble can be fearless, but greedy for money and lust must be afraid of death, wine-colored wealth, Zhu Changxun is almost the same. "Drink alcohol in the closed cabinet every day, but women advocate pleasure", you tell me this person's hard bones?
Of course, this is not to say that Zhenzhi is deliberately lying. This view, which seems to be very different from the sayings of the various families, is from the hand of Zhu Yousong, the son of Zhu Changxun, on greed for money, lust, alcoholism and fainting, this second-generation Fu Wang is a fake Fu Wang 2.0, the old Fu Wang can be so tall and magnificent in his pen, not a pure son touting LaoZi. After all, compared with his son, this father can already be regarded as a moral model...
No matter how much you examine it, there are two basic facts that cannot be wrong:
First, Zhu Changxun absolutely died an ugly death.
Second, no matter how miserable it is, he deserves it.
1. Canonical history
History of The Ming Dynasty. The Eighth Book of The Chronicles records that "Chang Xun came out of the city and hid in ying'en Temple." The next day, the thief persisted and was killed. The two captives wept and the thieves went away. Acceptance of the call: the king died and did not want to be born, begging a coffin to collect the bones of the king, and the powder had nothing to hate. The thief is righteous and promised. There is no mention of "grilling" or boiling "Fluke soup" in a large pot. The compilation of the history of the Ming Dynasty lasted more than half a century, condensing the painstaking efforts and wisdom of the historians of the early Qing Dynasty, although under the pressure of the Qing court, it flashed its words and even referred to deer as horses in the war in liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but most of them were detailed and credible. However, there is always a sense of incompleteness in the process of Fu Wang's killing, "killed".
2. Inscriptions
The inscription of Zhu Changxun, the King of Fu, unearthed during the Republic of China period, records that "Wang Stood up alone to resist the festival, accused thieves of scolding, was generous and fierce, and died with the city." Just intestines are strong, although dead and still alive" It can be seen that the Fat Man of Fu Wang is not short, and he is a man. But looking again, the author of the inscription is Zhu Yousong (that is, the Southern Ming Hongguang Emperor you mentioned), the son of Zhu Changxun, the Fu King, how credible do you think his words about his father can be?
3. Unofficial written historical materials
The seventh chapter of the "History of the Peasants' War at the End of the Ming Dynasty" written by Mr. Gu Cheng is basically consistent with the "History of the Ming Dynasty". However, this was written between 77 and 82, when political pressure was forced to treat the peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty as a class history, and the book records that Li Zicheng "ordered the execution of this reactionary bureaucrat" and subsequently gave a speech to the masses affirming the "revolutionary purpose of the rebel army". The words bear the imprint of the class struggle peculiar to that era. Presumably, even if Li Zicheng ate The Fu King, Old Mr. Gu would avoid talking about it.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the beginner Peng Sunyi wrote the "Liu Kou Zhi" (流寇志) that "when the general besieged Henan Province, The Fu King recruited the dead and gained a lot... The king and his sons came out of Songjin City, avoided the ying'en temple, and the soldiers and people were killed by hundreds of thousands... Bai Shangwen's corpse has been eaten by the hungry... Where the thief traces the King of Fortune, Zhizhi, Chu Lu Weiqi met the king in the western suburbs, and said: King, dead life is also, the name is very heavy, do not humiliate yourself! Wang saw that he was self-made, and the internal official Cui Sheng was thirteen years old, advising Wang Ton rather die than yield, and not to go to the king, and to see the Zhou Gong Temple in Xiguan. Thieves put wine in the assembly, the king of the fat is a trick, mixed with venison to eat, the number of Fluke wine. Under the corpse king's city, he accepted the two people to beg the king to bury the king and died, and he became a promise. The book contains a very detailed description of the refuge monastery recorded in the "History of Ming", as well as the burial of the corpses of two loyal eunuchs, the cause of death of King Fu in the "History of Ming", and the detailed explanation in this book that "the king of Ming is a trick, and the venison is eaten with venison." Peng Sun Yi Ming's late Gongsheng, after the death of Ming, did not serve the Qing court, even if he had feelings for Daming, personally he did not think that he had to write Fu Wang so tragically.
4. Wild history
The terms "barbecue" and "fluke soup" come from folklore and are considered wild history. With my limited knowledge, the original provenance has not yet been found. It is not that the history of the wild is not entirely credible, but since it is deeply studied, the argument must be based on evidence. If this is true, then the "History of Ming" and many historical materials are wrong, and it is not convenient for the two eunuchs to cry on their stomachs if they want to come to a cooked corpse or "roast a whole pig".
5. Comprehensive analysis
The "History of Ming" records that the Wanli Emperor was very sorry for his fat son, "under the edict to give Zhuang Tian 40,000 hectares." All the divisions strive for, and Chang Xun also plays the words, and he has to halve it. Zhongzhou is short of soil, taking Shandong and Huguangtian benefits. He also played the beggar's old university scholar Zhang Juzheng's lack of property, and Jiangdu to Taiping along the river Dizhou miscellaneous taxes, and Sichuan Yanjing yu tea silver for self-benefit... Chang Xun closed the cabinet to drink alcohol, but the only thing that was good was for women to advocate pleasure. The rise of thieves in the middle of Qin, the great drought locust in Henan, cannibalism, and the folk use it, saying that the former emperor spent the world to become a fat king, and Luoyang was rich in The Great Interior. Reinforcements passed through Luo, and the clamor said: "The royal palace has millions of dollars, and my generation has died of thieves." "The Nanjing Bingbu Shangshu Lü Weiqi Fang was afraid of hearing about it, and told Chang Xun with his interests and harms, and he did not care." It can be seen that this fat man sits on the fertile land for thousands of miles, but he is insatiable, doing the work of the small people who are profiting, and he is not willing to sell his wealth to avoid disaster until he dies. The generous death of his son Zhu Yousong in the inscription is not credible.
Li Zicheng's army inherently had the deed of cannibalism due to the lack of military food, but the attack on Luoyang was to see that the treasury here was full, and the large army had entered the city, and there was no need to fill the hunger with people.
As for the rumors spread by the Manchu Qing government about "Fulu Tang", the claim that it was hoped to slander both the Ming imperial family and the rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was pure speculation and had no evidence. I think it overestimates the political skills of its Manchu compatriots, while underestimating the creativity of its Han peasant friends in terms of heavy taste.
To sum up, I think that Zhu Changxun, the King of Fu, was captured by the rebels and begged for work, and the leader of the rebel army saw that the instigators could not suppress the fire, so they took him to the banquet, cut off a large piece of meat and mixed it with venison as a wine dish, let him watch and eat (perhaps forced him to eat a few bites), and then he was killed without dignity, and the loyal behavior of the two eunuchs touched Li Zicheng, so he approved them to collect the corpse. The vast number of peasant friends in Henan who did not know the truth gave him some more undignified ways to die through hearsay and full imagination to vent their hatred. The Qing court was also happy to see these statements come true, so they were passed down from generation to generation to this day.
6. Afterword
The gimmick of cannibalism is quite a selling point, but in fact, even if you can't bear it, you must admit that in China's history, whenever there is a disaster year or war, "cannibalism" is a common thing. It is believed that cannibalism certainly has a strong moral impact, but the focus of later generations of history should be on other aspects. For example, "The Enlightening Significance of the Peasant Army's Route to Guerrilla Warfare in the Late Ming Dynasty", "The Enlightenment of the Chaos of the Annexation of Land by the King of the Late Ming Dynasty to Today's Land Policy", "The Lessons of the Tianzi Strategy of Guarding the Gate of the Country for future generations", and so on.
After all, future generations mourn and do not learn from it, and future generations mourn their descendants.