If an emperor is in a prosperous and prosperous era, he does not need talent to maintain the country well as he follows the path of the previous generation, but the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen does not have such good luck. Zhu Youzhen was the sixteenth and last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and although he was talented and diligent in ruling, the country had decayed and could not return to heaven no matter how hard he tried. And Chongzhen was a suspicious person by nature, and the country was already worried about internal and external troubles, but he killed Yuan Chonghuan at this time, which directly led to the turmoil of the internal army, and at the same time, Li Zicheng, the leader of the external peasant uprising, attacked the Forbidden City, in which case there was only one way to die.
Chongzhen clearly knew the situation at that time, so before Li Zicheng attacked the Forbidden City, Chongzhen arranged his aftermath. In order to keep his daughters and women in the harem from being defiled by the rebel army, Chongzhen let them hang themselves to preserve the dignity of the Zhu family. The ancient saying: There are three unfilial piety, and no descendant is great. At that time, Chongzhen's three sons who were still alive were the crown prince Zhu Ciyi, the third son Zhu Cijiong, and the fourth son Zhu Cizhao, in order to protect these bloodlines, Chongzhen ordered them to take off their yellow robes without any royal things, change into civilian clothes, and be sent out of the capital by several imperial guardians. After arranging the fate of the people around him, Chongzhen himself hanged himself on a crooked neck tree in Coal Mountain, Chongzhen died, and the Daming Dynasty of the Zhu family for hundreds of years also died.
After Chongzhen's death, the country was still in turmoil, and there are many theories about what happened to his three sons, some say that they did not leave the Forbidden City safely, others say that they hid in the mountains or became monks for safety, and some people say that they were found and killed by Wu Sangui, but no one has sufficient evidence to prove their claims, but there is a strong possibility that some of them survived. In recent years, there has been a village where the villagers claim to be descendants of Chongzhen, a remote village called Kuzhuhua Village in Xiangkou Town, Zunyi City, Guizhou, and an old man named Zou Daiqing said that their village is the descendants of Zhu Cizhao, the fourth son of Chongzhen.
The old man Zou Daiqing said that at that time, the three brothers went separately for safety, and Zhu Cizhao followed a eunuch surnamed Zhao to this remote mountain village and changed his name to Zou Qigui, which explains why the descendants are surnamed Zou, and the ancestral rule is Zhu, and the Zou family does not marry, because they are a family. The old man Zou Daiqing took out the "Zhu Family Genealogy" and "Zou Family Origin Table", and also took the visitors to the back mountain to see two tombstones, one is the tomb of the ancestor Zou Qigui, that is, Zhu Cizhao, and the other is the tomb of the Zhao eunuch with Zhu Cizhao, and the descendants of the Zou family have worshiped these two tombs for generations. Not only that, the old man Zou Daiqing also took out a sword, the old man said that this sword was once carried by Zhu Cizhao, once Zou Daiqing took this sword and slashed the bully village chief, the old man said that Shang Fang's sword can behead the unconscious king and behead the traitor, then he can too.