In the eleventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang held the ceremony of the second conferring the title of prince of the clan, and the son born to Gao, his fourteenth son, Zhu Yi, was crowned king of Han.
Although he was named the king of the domain, Zhu Yu was not favored by Zhu Yuanzhang, first, Zhu Yuanzhang had many sons, and Zhu Yu himself did not have any outstanding talents to attract the attention of his father, and second, his mother came from a humble background. Regarding Zhu Yu's mother, only the surname Gao is recorded, there is no record of canonization, and it is estimated that she was a palace girl, although she gave birth to a son to the emperor
It was not liked by the emperor, so it also implicated That Zhu Yu was ignored.
However, after all, it was his own son, Zhu Yuanzhang still made him king according to the administration, and gave him a prominent king in Chinese history, the title of King of Han, as for the fiefdom was not determined, so Zhu Yu has been living in Nanjing and receiving education.
Zhu Yuanzhang was taking over the world on horseback, so he did not want his sons to live their lives in mediocrity, and they should assume the responsibility of defending the world. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang specially ordered Zhu Yu to take his younger brothers Zhu Zhi the Prince of Wei, Zhu Xi the King of Gu, Zhu Li the King of Qing, Zhu Quan the King of Ning, Zhu Yu the King of Min, and others to go to Linqing in Shandong to train troops to increase the skills of leading troops to fight.
Therefore, in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yu was renamed king of Su, and his fief was changed to Ganzhou Prefecture in Gansu, and from then on he was included in the ranks of the king of Sai, and Zhu Yuanzhang also ordered him to act as the military affairs of the five guards of Ganzhou, the capital of Shaanxi Province, and the supervision of grain.
Zhu Yu did not want to go to Ganzhou in his heart, there was the most northwest of Daming, a desolate, far less than Jiangnan, he grew up in Jiangnan, he could not adapt to it, especially for his salary was only five hundred stones, his brothers were tens of thousands, but he only had five hundred, how did he live there? But his father's fate was difficult for him and he had to leave. Perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang saw that his son's face was difficult, he also knew that the environment in Ganzhou was not good, the reason why he gave this son five hundred stones was because of the difficulty of transportation, but in order to make his son not be wronged, he could only make up for him from other aspects, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that more than a thousand acres of land be expropriated in The city of Ganzhou to build a royal palace for his son, and at the same time, Ganzhou and the surrounding zero and zero total were allocated to him nearly 40,000 acres of land, which were not available to other clan kings, even if they did not take wages.
Zhu Yu went to Ganzhou, but when he reached Pingliang, news came from Ganzhou that the grand Su Palace had not yet been built, and the dispatched troops had not yet been assembled. Zhu Yu was dumbfounded when he heard it, the palace was not built, where did he go to live? The army has not been assembled, in case the Mongol army attacks, it will only have to wait for death, what can be done? The entourage officials had no choice but to report the situation to Zhu Yuanzhang. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that since this was the case, he would temporarily live in Pingliang and wait until everything was done, so Zhu Yu could only helplessly live in Pingliang.
After living in Pingliang for a few years, the Su King's Mansion was finally built, and the great general Li Jinglong and the local officials of Ganzhou who were in charge of supervising the work personally went to Pingliang to welcome the King of Su to Ganzhou, which was the most dazzling moment in Zhu Yu's life.
However, Zhu Yu did not stay in Ganzhou for a few years before he was familiar with the luxurious Su Wangfu, his father Zhu Yuanzhang died, and his nephew Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne.
As soon as Zhu Yunxiu came to power, he plotted to cut the domain, and Zhu Yu, who was in Ganzhou, had always been very low-key, and there was no illegal and disorderly thing as the king of Sai, and he did not have any outstanding achievements, but he also aroused the suspicion of Emperor Jianwen, because the place where he was located was the great northwest of Daming, the location was too far, and there was the Yellow River as a natural danger, Emperor Jianwen could not firmly control it, and at the same time, Zhu Yu had the strong strength of five guards, once there was a rebellion, the imperial army could not enter at all, and outside of Ganzhou was the western region, there were many ethnic minorities, and this group of people had strong combat effectiveness. It would be bad if Zhu Yu and them united together.
So Emperor Jianwen decided to move Zhu Yi, but in view of the fact that Zhu Yu had always been very obedient and it was not convenient for him to tear his face, he decided to let Zhu Yu move, closer to himself to control a little. Therefore, in the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunjiao ordered Zhu Yu to move his fief to Lanzhou.
For this will, Zhu Yu was happy to go crazy, this is great, the land in Ganzhou is poor, the surrounding area is nothing but the Gobi is a desert, staying here all day will drive himself crazy, Although Lanzhou is not as good as Jiangnan, but it is better than here, and he just moved the fiefdom much better than his brothers were caught in prison, so he did not hesitate to pack up and go to Lanzhou.
After arriving in Lanzhou, the fourth brother Zhu Di and his nephew Zhu Yunxiu went to war, but Zhu Yu did not care about the struggle between them, it did not matter to himself, who became the emperor did not matter, as long as he was still in Lanzhou as the king of the domain, so he did not express his views on the great war in the Central Plains, but just built his own palace and tried to make his life more comfortable, and this just saved him, and after zhu Di ascended the throne, he was very satisfied with the performance of the fourteenth brother, he not only did not punish his brother, but on the contrary, he gave his brother a great reward.
Su Wangfu
Zhu Yu's greatest contribution in Lanzhou is to promote the development of Lanzhou, lay the urban pattern of today's Lanzhou, and invite a number of well-educated Hongru to vigorously improve the cultural atmosphere of Lanzhou, making Lanzhou gradually become the political and economic center of Gansu Province. He built a palace larger than Ganzhou, which was not burned down after the Ming Dynasty, but on the contrary, it was preserved and became the Inspectorate of Gansu in the Qing Dynasty, the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and became the Governor of Gansu and the Gansu Provincial Government during the Republic of China. After the founding of New China, it has been used as the seat of the People's Government of Gansu Province until today. And the street outside the suwangfu gate has become one of the most prosperous places in Lanzhou in the Ming Dynasty and even today.
After Zhu Di ascended to the throne, he also began to strictly control and guard against these clan kings, and even cut the clans. Zhu Yu was not spared and was reprimanded by the fourth brother.
Zhu Di suddenly ordered the arrest of Chang Shi and Liu Cheng, the officials of Zhu Yusu's palace, and escorted to Jingshi for questioning. Logically, as an emperor, he would never have personally ordered the arrest of such two petty officials. The reason given by Zhu Di was that Changshi was responsible for assisting King Su, but Zhu Yu killed three guards without authorization, and at the same time accepted the cloth and war horses that Hami paid tribute, and Changshi did not advise, as for Liu Cheng, he seduced King Su and Pingliangwei into a dispute.
Zhu Yu was shocked to see that he was in charge of the northwest generation of military affairs as the king of Sai, these activities were within the scope of his normal work, if this little thing had to be reported to the emperor himself, he would not have to do anything. However, after careful consideration, he understood that the reason why Zhu Di arrested him for such a small matter was because of the escort troops that Zhu Yuanzhang gave him and the military affairs of the Five Guards in Ganzhou, the capital of Shaanxi Province, and the fourth brother was giving himself a warning. Therefore, he immediately surrendered his only remaining guards, and resigned from the military affairs of the Five Guards of Ganzhou, the capital of Shaanxi Province, and was willing to be a Taiping Prince with no position and no power.
Zhu Di was very satisfied with his brother's performance, and he no longer worried about Zhu Yu, he could be emperor with peace of mind, and Zhu Di also kept his throne and the glory and wealth of his descendants, and everyone was at peace.
In the sixteenth year of Yongle (1418), Zhu Yu died in Lanzhou at the age of forty-four, and Zhu Di received the report and specially gave his brother the nickname "Zhuang".
After his death, Zhu Yu was buried in Yuzhong County, a small county on the eastern outskirts of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, which is called "Gansu Thirteen Tombs", which is the family cemetery of the su kings of the past, the thirteen tombs are fictitious, in fact, there are only eleven tombs here, in view of the identity of the king of Su, they naturally cannot be compared with the thirteen tombs in Beijing, but it was also a grand scale at that time. Since its construction, the Suwang family cemetery has been a forbidden place in Lanzhou, and Suwang has sent troops to guard it, and ordinary people in the surrounding tens of miles are not allowed to live or enter. However, hundreds of years have passed, and the above-ground buildings here have long been gone, leaving only mounds and weeds.
posterity
Zhu Yuanzhang gave Zhu Yu this lineage of generations: "Zhan Lu Gong Zhen Bi, Jin Shen Zhi Lie Zhong, Xi Hui Dang Luck, Kai Zhi Heng Long." ”
Zhu Yu's descendants are more honest, have no ambition, no addiction to misconduct, and only want to live their own lives in Lanzhou and enjoy prosperity and prosperity.
After Zhu Yu's death, his son Zhu Zhanyan inherited the throne, carefully counting the inheritance only to find that his father was too little as a prince, and his grandfather stipulated that the prince was Wanshi, and he only had five hundred, which was too unreasonable. So he wrote to his nephew Zhu Zhanji to ask for a salary increase. Zhu Zhanji rejected his uncle Zhu Zhanyan and said: King Su's five hundred stones were set by Taizu, and the fourteenth grandfather did not ask for a salary increase because it was inconvenient to transport the place too far. My father, Emperor Renzong, is sympathetic that you have already added five hundred stones to you, and I cannot disobey the will of my ancestors. In fact, Zhu Zhanyan was also bored with himself, just because your age was five hundred, Zhu Yuanzhang had already given 40,000 acres of land, Renzong also added five hundred to you, and now you still have to raise your salary, if you increase other clan kings, do you also want to increase your salary, how will the emperor deal with it when the time comes. So King Su's request for a wage increase was thus over.
After all, the Su Wang family does not live on this salary, and the most headache for them is the problem of heirs, and the Su Wang has been a single lineage for three generations.
It seems normal to people today to have only one son, but in ancient times it was dangerous to pass on a single pass. The ancients pay attention to the generations, incense continues, if there is only one male in a generation, then once there is any accident that no one inherits, then the whole family will end, so the ancients, especially the imperial family, desperately gave birth to many sons, just to let the family pass on.
Zhu Yu had only one son and one daughter in his life, and his son was Zhu Zhanyan, who was looking for a nephew to ask for a salary. This Zhu Zhanyan lived for 57 years and only gave birth to a son, Zhu Lupi. Zhu Lupi lived to be 59 years old like his father, and his son was only Zhu Gongxi.
According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, if the emperor of the royal palace is extinct, he must choose an heir from the collateral lineage, but this heir is not a successor, and the Ming Dynasty also has special provisions that the heir can only be selected from the descendants of the king of the first feudal, and cannot be selected from other branches, that is, the future succession of king Su can only be selected from Zhu Yu's descendants, can not be selected from the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang's other sons, and think that later the Qing Dynasty's collateral princes have no heirs, and the emperor let his son pass on or choose other branches suitable candidates to inherit. As long as no one inherited the Ming Dynasty, he could only remove the title.
Su Wangfu has only one heir for three consecutive generations, unlike other clan kings, there are many clans, and the emperor will look for it from the clan when there is no one, so there is always the possibility that no heir will be removed, which makes Zhu Yu to Zhu Gongxi always worried. Fortunately, Zhu Gongxi finally solved this problem, he worked hard to live for eighty years, gave birth to six sons, and finally let King Su flourish, and his efforts were not in vain, really saved the Su Domain, and the phenomenon of large-scale severance in later generations really appeared, and it was almost unsealed.
The seventh King of Su, Zhu Shen, died in Jiajing for forty-three years, and he had no heirs, so the succession of fathers and sons of King Su that began with Zhu Yu ended. According to the regulations, the Zongren Mansion and the Su Wangfu looked for half a day to find a Zhu Jingui from the clan (the original name was a fire plus a gui, and if he couldn't really type it, he would use a noble character without fire instead), he was Zhu Shendu's cousin, who originally inherited the throne, but the then emperor Jiajing Emperor did not approve it, as for what reason was not explained, just let Zhu Jingui manage the affairs of the Su Wangfu and the Su Wang's clan, and the Jiajing Emperor took back the treasure of the Su King, and dismissed all the palace officials of the palace.
This move of Jiajing made the Su Wang's family, especially Zhu Jingui, tremble with fear, and the emperor was a prelude to abolishing the Su Domain. At that time, the problems of the Ming Dynasty clan were very serious, and the Jiajing Emperor also wanted to solve this problem to reduce the pressure, and the easiest way was to abolish these clans and let them find their own way out, but the cost was too large, and it was easy to produce many new problems, so Jiajing was also undecided, and he was hesitant about whether to inherit or abolish the Su clan.
Fortunately, Zhu Jingui was afraid for a few years, Jiajing died before he could make a final decision, and the Longqing Emperor took the throne, and he did not think so much that after his approval, Zhu Jingui finally inherited the throne of King Su.
When the throne of King Su passed down to Zhu Zhifeng for two more generations, the Ming Dynasty was already in turmoil, and King Su, who was far away in the northwest, could not escape this impact, especially Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong themselves revolted in the northwest, filling the city and plundering land everywhere.
Faced with a rebellious army that seemed to be in no man's land, Zhu Zhifeng was terrified all day, and he went to the imperial court to ask for more guards from the imperial palace and strengthen the city of Lanzhou, but there was no response, because by this time, the Chongzhen Emperor had no time to take care of himself.
At the end of chongzhen's sixteenth year, after Li Zicheng occupied Xi'an and established the Dashun regime, he sent the general He Jin to the northwest in order to leave a stable rear for his own attack on Beijing. He Jin looked at him all the way, and the officers and men around him chose to surrender. Soon the rebel army attacked Lanzhou, at this time the Gansu general saw that He Jinshi had lost his fighting spirit early, so he decided to flee, but there was a Su king in Lanzhou, if he ran away from the Su king and died, then he was likely to fall into the consequences of losing his relatives and being dealt with by the imperial court, so he quickly advised Zhu Zhifeng to quickly escape with himself, as long as he went to the south and had the opportunity to fight back in the future. But Zhu Zhifeng hesitated, he was used to a stable life in the palace, if he escaped, how would he live? The general soldier listened to him and had to flee for his life first.
Soon after, He Jin invaded the unguarded Lanzhou, and Zhu Zhifeng only thought of escaping at this time, so he fled the palace with his family. His concubine Princess Yan, Gu Shi knew that there was no way to escape at this time, instead of being caught and humiliated and dying, it was better to break it on its own, so she crashed into the monument and died.
Zhu Zhifeng did not want to die, he desperately wanted to escape, but where he could escape, he was finally caught, and then he was taken away without knowing the end, presumably he was killed, and then many people were killed in the chaos.
King Su of Lanzhou has since disappeared without a trace, but later there was a family surnamed Zhang, known as "Hongwu Zhang", and legend has it that they were the descendants of King Su.
It is said that after the last King Su was captured in the chaos, a queen Su escaped and met a man named Zhang Mingyan at Bapanxia. Zhang Ming'ein took him in, because the Ming Dynasty had already perished and there was no hope of revival, so Zhang Ming's eunuch recognized him as a righteous son and changed his name to Zhang Xianlong, and since then his descendants have multiplied and lived in The Bapanxia and later moved to the Hekou area to live. After the qing dynasty rule was consolidated, after the strict investigation of the Ming dynasty imperial family was relaxed, this group of people did not change back to the Zhu surname, but continued to surname Zhang, and became a large family nearby, and gradually everyone around them knew that this Zhang family was a descendant of King Su, and they all called them "Hongwu Zhang", which has continued to this day.