The Ming Dynasty King of Qin originated from Zhu Yuanzhang's second son Zhu Zhu, Zhu Zhuyi, who was made the King of Qin in the third year of Hongwu and his fief was Xi'an Prefecture in Shaanxi. In the eleventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Zhu took xi'an, and since then his descendants have multiplied here.
Although the King of Qin was the first king of the Ming Dynasty, but the fate was not good, many Qin kings had no heirs, and they repeatedly fell into the situation of large heirs, so they had to look for heirs in the side lineage, and finally could only relax the requirements for the emergence of low-level titles such as Lieutenant Zhenguo to inherit the King of Qin.
According to Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations, the King of Qin, as a prince, was succeeded by his eldest son or eldest son, and the remaining sons were crowned as county kings. The Qin King's lineage also once divided into many county kings, and finally a total of fifteen county kings were crowned. However, most of these fifteen county kings were canonized in the early Ming Dynasty, and in the end, there were two people left with the county king, of which the county king who was sealed in the early years of the Ming Dynasty finally had one left.
The first reason for this situation is that the King of Qin has no heirs, not even heirs, and if there are any extra sons who canonize the king of the county, naturally there are no new ones.
The second reason was that Emperor Dazong of Qin had many extinctions, and many Qin kings had no heirs and had to let the king of the county replace the king of Qin, and according to the regulations, the original title was canceled after the king of the county replaced the king of Qin.
The kings of this type of county were: Zhu Zhijun, the fourth Qin king, Zhu Zhijun, the former Weinan king, Zhu Zhi, the fifth Qin king, Zhu Zhi, the former Fuping king, the seventh Qin king, Zhu Chengyong, the former Zhen'an king, the eighth Qin king, Zhu Bingqi, the former Lintong king (who was the third generation lintong king), the eleventh Qin king, Zhu Jingrong, the former Longde king of Qin, and Zhu Yiyi, the thirteenth Qin king, the former Ziyang king.
The third reason is that the Ming Dynasty stipulates that the King of Qin can be collateral succession, but the king of the county can only succeed the father and the son, if the emperor has no children, then the direct throne is canceled, and the younger brother or nephew is not allowed to inherit, if this kind of behavior occurs, it is called a false seal, and once it is found, it is necessary to directly cancel the title from a heavier punishment.
The kings of this type of county were: Zhu Shanglie, the second son of Zhu Zhu, the prince of Yongxing, the first year of Yongle, and the late king of the county, Zhu Weixian, died, because his father inherited the throne as a nephew, he surrendered to the emperor, and finally received the emperor's forgiveness without punishment, but after his death, the throne of Yongxing was revoked; Zhu Shangyu, the third son of Zhu Zhu, the third son of The Prince of Yongxing, yongle yuannian feng, jiajing thirty-six years later, the king of the county, Zhu Bingzhan, died, and after his death, the imperial court found out that his father had inherited the throne as a younger brother, so the throne of the Baoan King was revoked.
The fourth reason was that after emperor Daizong died childless, he did not impersonate the throne, and the throne was naturally revoked.
The kings of this type of county were: Zhu Shangxuan, the fourth son of Zhu Zhu, the fourth son of Zhu Zhu, the king of Xingping, died childlessly, and the throne of Xingping was directly abolished; the second qin king Zhu Shangbing's fourth son, Yichuan Zhu Zhixuan, the king of Yichuan, died childless at the end of the first year of Jiajing, and the throne of Yichuan was directly cancelled; the fifth king of Qin, Zhu Zhi, the fourth son of Zhu Zhi, the king of Gaoyang, died, and Zhu Bingyu, the king of Xiangyang, died at the end of the third year of Zhengde, without children, and the throne of the king of Xiangyang was directly canceled; the fifth king of Qin, Zhu Zhi, the fifth son of Zhu Zhi, the king of Yinyang, died directly; the fifth king of Qin, Zhu Gongyun, the fifth son of Zhu Zhi, the king of Yinyang, died at the end of the thirty-third year of Jiajing He originally had two sons but both died in front of him, so he died childless, and the throne of The King of Fengyang was directly revoked.
The fourth reason is that the rebellion was abolished from the throne. There was only one king of this type of county, that is, Zhu Shangzhuo, the sixth son of Zhu Zhu, the Prince of Anding, who plotted a rebellion in the sixteenth year of Yongle and was directly deposed.
Therefore, more than two hundred years after the Ming Dynasty, there were only two county kings left in the Qin Domain, one was the King of Yongshou and the other was the King of Chongxin. And the only one who really saw the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to the fall of the Ming Dynasty was the Yongshou King.
I have to say that the king of Yongshou achieved a good title, Yongshou really lived a long life, and finally he witnessed the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty, and perished with the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
The ancestor of the Yongshou King's first seal was named Zhu Shangzhuan, from this name it can be seen that he is the son of Zhu Zhu, indeed he is the fifth son of Zhu Zhu, as the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, he ranks thirty-second, he was born in Hongwu for twenty-three years, this rank should have never seen his grandfather, and he did not hope to inherit the throne of the King of Qin, after all, he is not a concubine nor the eldest son, so his best destination is the king of the county.
It is reasonable to say that Zhu Shangzhuan will be crowned the king of the county after he becomes an adult, but his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang does not know whether there are too many grandsons, so he has forgotten him, so he has not decreed that he be made the king of the county, so Zhu Shangzhuan after the death of his father, his brother has become the queen of Qin, and he is very embarrassed to live in the prince's palace as a white body without any title.
Just when Zhu Shangbai was bored, his fourth uncle Zhu Di seized the throne. Zhu Di, who rebelled and seized the throne, was eager to win the hearts and minds of the people at this moment, so after Hongwu thirty-five years (after Zhu Di abolished Jianwen, he changed the fourth year of Jianwen to Hongwu thirty-five years), he immediately gave grace to the emperor, so Zhu Shanglu, who was already in his early twenties, was crowned the King of Yongshou.
Zhu Shangzhuan was a man without ambition, so he was very satisfied with the status of the king of the county, after all, in his opinion, the king of Qin and even the emperor did not have his share, why should he cling to it, so he was very happy to be the king of this county.
However, King Yongshou did not make Zhu Shangzhuan live long, and in the end he only lived for thirty-one years, and died in the eighteenth year of Yongle. Although Zhu Shangzhuan died young, his throne lived a long life, and then passed it on from generation to generation until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
After Zhu Shangzhuan's death, his eldest son Zhu Zhiyan succeeded to the throne. After Zhu Zhiquan's death, his son Zhu Gongquan succeeded to the throne. After Zhu Gongquan's death, his son Zhu Chenglin succeeded to the throne. After Zhu Chenglin's death, his son Zhu Bingyu succeeded to the throne.
These generations of county kings have been very peaceful in their inheritance, there has been no big chaos, and these county kings have all kept to themselves, guarding their own acres and three points of land very calmly, neither meritorious nor chaotic, is an ordinary one of the many county kings of the Ming Dynasty, there is no popularity, but after Zhu Bingfeng's death, there was a big event, so that the Yongshou King showed his face in the country.
After Zhu Bingyu's death, it was natural that his son should succeed to the throne, but his eldest son Zhu Weiyi had already gone before him, but Zhu Bingyu did not have a queen, he had many sons and grandchildren, so Emperor Dazong was not severed and could continue to inherit.
Although Zhu Weiyi died, he had a son before his death, named Zhu Huaiyuan, as the eldest grandson, according to Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations, he should inherit the title of grandfather.
However, Zhu Bingyu's sixth son, Zhu Weiyi, said that he could not be succeeded by Zhu Huaiyuan, on the grounds that he must have a concubine, that is, he himself could succeed to the throne.
When the imperial court received this report, it was very doubtful, Zhu Bingyu did not have a concubine, his six sons, including Zhu Weiyi, were all concubines, and since they were all concubines, then Zhu Huaiyuan, as the eldest grandson, should succeed to the throne without problems.
However, Zhu Weiyi came up with evidence that he was a concubine at this time, that is, his mother Concubine Shao was Zhu Bingyu's princess, and naturally she was a concubine and deserved to succeed to the throne.
At this time, the imperial court panicked, a check of the royal household registration book, Shao Concubine is indeed Zhu Bingyu's concubine, but not the original match, but later canonized, folk called continuation, royal professional terminology called stepfather, but the stepfather is also the right wife. Therefore, Concubine Shao's son Zhu Weiyi should be a concubine and have the right of priority.
Zhu Weiyi's move was really powerful, and he suddenly made himself the first heir. But Zhu Huaiyuan was not willing to lose the right to inherit the throne like this, he could not sit still, he was very smart, he understood that the only proof that the sixth uncle could succeed to the throne was the concubine, as long as he was not a concubine, the throne was his own, but Concubine Shao was the right wife, how to refute that the sixth uncle was not a concubine? Troubled, Zhu Huaiyuan could only go through the archives in the palace, and finally found evidence in the birth records of his father and uncle. Therefore, he immediately countered that Grandma Shaofei was indeed Grandpa's step-concubine, and Uncle Six was indeed Concubine Shao's son, but Sixth Uncle Zhu Weiyi was not a concubine.
How could the concubine's son not be a concubine? So Zhu Huaiyuan came up with evidence, and this evidence was the birth certificate.
Zhu Weiyi forgot that his mother was a stepfather, that is to say, it was not the original match. Princess Shao was originally just an ordinary concubine, and it was at this time that she gave birth to Zhu Weiyi, and later Princess Shao was made a princess, and Zhu Weiyi was born before Princess Shao was made a stepfather, so Zhu Weiyi could not be regarded as a concubine.
What Zhu Huaiyuan said is indeed reasonable, and the evidence is conclusive, and indeed there was such a saying in the past, when a person was born, his mother was a concubine, he was a concubine, even if his mother was raised as a proper wife, he was also counted as a concubine, and the son born later by his mother was a concubine, so Zhu Weiyi was not a concubine, and since he was not a concubine, then the throne should be inherited by the eldest grandson Zhu Huaiyuan.
Zhu Huaiyuan was naturally not willing to fail, but he was powerless to refute his origins, so he could only take other ways, spend money to find a way, and finally found the first assistant Yan Song, hoping that Yan Song would help.
Yan Song really said that he accepted the money in credit, immediately handled things, and intervened in the clan succession dispute as the first assistant, although he intended to help Zhu Weiyi, but the clan inheritance problem was complicated, and he did not dare to manage it too deeply, and the competent department because the emperor attached great importance to the issue of clan succession, if he found that there was a problem with the Yongshou King, everyone would be unlucky. However, these officials did not dare to offend Yan Song, and in the end they could only take the method of delaying with the mud, not saying who was right and who was wrong, nor mentioning who would inherit, and finally dragged on for more than ten years, and the Yongshou King had been empty and no one inherited.
The succession to the throne was unresolved, and Zhu Huaiyuan was very worried, after all, the longer it dragged on, the more favorable it would be to Zhu Weiyi, so he found Zhu Huaixi, the king of Qin, to explain the situation and hoped that he would help.
Zhu Huaiyuan was originally a broken settlement, just a small lieutenant of the town, not even Zhu Huaiyuan, but because he was lucky to become the King of Qin, he was very aware of the pain of this distant brother, and after his investigation, he found that Zhu Huaiyuan was telling the truth, and this Yongshou King should be inherited by Zhu Huaiyuan, so he insisted on writing to emperor Jiajing to support Zhu Huaiyuan as the Yongshou King.
After receiving the report, the Jiajing Emperor was very angry that the case of the succession of the county king had not been clearly handled for more than ten years and immediately let the relevant departments investigate and handle it.
When the emperor spoke, the first assistant was not easy to make, so the competent authorities immediately said that Zhu Huaiyuan had sufficient reasons to succeed to the throne, and Zhu Huaiyuan was indeed not a concubine.
The Jiajing Emperor then ordered Zhu Huaiyuan to inherit the throne, and in order to avoid such disputes in the future, the Jiajing Emperor directly ordered that the concubines of the future county kings should not be re-established as successor concubines if they died, and the whole country was informed of the succession dispute of king Yongshou.
Zhu Huaiyuan became the King of Yongshou as he wished, and after that, the King of Yongshou still inherited in a smooth and orderly manner. Zhu Huaiyuan exhausted his life in this succession dispute and died in the second year of his succession, and was succeeded by his son Zhu Jingyong. After Zhu Jingyong's death, his son Zhu Yiquan succeeded to the throne.
In the forty-fifth year of the Wanli Calendar, Zhu Yiquan's eldest son Zhu Cunsang succeeded to the throne, and this time had reached the end of the Ming Dynasty, and soon the world would be in chaos.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng attacked Xi'an and captured the last King of Qin and Zhu Cunsang, after which they disappeared.
Li Zicheng established the Dashun regime in Xi'an, and then marched to Beijing to kill, soon after Beijing was breached, the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide, the Ming Dynasty fell, according to Li Zicheng's habits, he liked to take the captured Ming Dynasty king to send troops, presumably Zhu Cunsang personally saw the fall of Beijing and the demise of Daming.
Zhu Di must have liked this title when he was crowned King of Yongshou, symbolizing daming yongshou, but he did not expect that king Yongshou had actually become the only county king of Qin domain that lasted for more than two hundred years, and witnessed the demise of Daming.