How The Fu King Zhu Changxun hollowed out the foundation of Daming

To Zhu Changxun, the Fu King, the Wanli Emperor really gave a generous reward, and it is said that the Fu Wang clan treasury has millions of dollars, far more than the Ouchi warehouse. Just when Wanli deliberately became the most loving and generous father, his harm to the Zhu family's Daming was also deep in the marrow, and later generations believe that the death of the Ming Dynasty actually died in Wanli, which can be described as a word. And the Fu Wang, who thought that his extravagant and beautiful life would last forever, eventually ended up at the hands of a peasant army.

After the "change of Tumu fort", the Ming Dynasty slowly declined, especially in the Wanli years, the Ming Dynasty had reached the brink of national subjugation - the emperor was sluggish, did not go to the dynasty for decades, and was bent on collecting money, and the ministers favorably formed parties and fell in love with each other. It is generally believed that the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty originated in the Wanli Dynasty, and the party struggle during the Wanli Period began in the dispute over the foundation of the country, and the central figures in this dispute were Zheng Guifei of the Divine Sect and Zhu Changxun, the Prince of Fu.

Zhu Changxun the Prince of Fu, the third son of Emperor Mingshenzong Wanli Zhu Yijun. During the more than forty years of the Wanli Emperor's reign, the dispute between the emperor's third son Zhu Changxun and the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo for the throne has always plagued the emperor, his concubines, and the ministers of the court. Why? Because Zhu Changxun's mother was the Wanli Emperor's favorite Concubine Zheng Guifei, who loved Wu and Wu, Zhu Changxun also became the wanli emperor's favorite son. The Wanli Emperor was bent on establishing Zhu Changxun as crown prince, and the ministers adhered to the traditional principles of their ancestors--there was a concubine, no concubine, and insisted on making the eldest son Zhu Changluo the crown prince. Zhu Changluo's mother, Princess Wang Gongfei, was originally a palace maid in Empress Li's palace, and Emperor Shenzong became pregnant by chance, giving birth to the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo. The struggle between the two sides was fierce and protracted, and even led to the bad consequences of the Wanli Emperor not going to the court for twenty years because his wish could not be fulfilled. After almost twenty years of struggle, the tired emperor finally conceded defeat to the tenacious ministers, and in the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli Calendar (1601), after the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo was made crown prince, Zhu Changxun was subsequently crowned the Prince of Fu, and the dispute over the "foundation of the country" came to an end.

The wish to create another crown prince did not come to fruition, and Emperor Shenzong, at the instigation of Concubine Zheng Guifei, did everything he could to benefit Zhu Changxun financially.

According to the regulations, Zhu Changxun, the Prince of Fu, should immediately take up his post in the domain after receiving the title of king of the domain, but he refused to go there. Until the fortieth year of the Wanli Calendar (1612), under the repeated appeals and insistence of the Qunchen, Zheng Guifei had to let King Fu go to Luoyang, but at the same time put forward conditions.

Concubine Zheng Guifei offered to build a mansion for King Fu in Luoyang before taking office. When Emperor Shenzong saw the general trend, this time King Fu had to go, so he had to allocate 280,000 taels of money to build The Residence of King Fu in Luoyang for Zhu Changxun, which cost nine times more than the regulations of the imperial court. However, after all was completed, with the connivance of Concubine Zheng Guifei, King Fu still resolutely did not take office in Luoyang. With this, Concubine Zheng Guifei also requested that 40,000 hectares be allocated to King Zhuang of Fu. During the reign of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to strengthen the absolutist centralized rule, he made his twenty-four sons and one of his great-grandsons kings and called them the King of The Domain. Among the kings, the northern kings were the most powerful, but in addition to Shi Lu, the grassland pastures allocated were no more than a thousand acres, and the land that Zheng Guifei asked to give to The Fu King greatly exceeded this amount, which required the deprivation of the land of many people! Later, because the ministers led by Ye Xianggao were resolutely opposed, Zhu Changxun himself said that he could ask for less, so that Emperor Shenzong finally agreed to reduce it to 20,000 mu.

At this point, Zheng Guifei was still not satisfied, and began to prepare for her son to go to Luoyang for profligacy. For example, he demanded the property of zhang Juzheng, a university scholar, and the Sichuan salt tax and tea tax, and asked the imperial court to give Huai salt 1,300 citations (weight units, about 400 catties per citation), so that King Fu would open a shop in Luoyang to sell salt, monopolizing Luoyang's right to sell salt. Emperor Shenzong not only agreed to these demands, but also, when King Fu was leaving, handed over to King Fu most of the treasures offered by the tax collectors and mining officials over the years to take with him.

After King Fu arrived in Luoyang, he was violent and violent, causing unrest in the north and south of the Yellow River and the Huai of the Qichu River, and henan to be in a famine for several years, and the people couldnibalize each other. And the Fukuo clan had millions of dollars, which exceeded the Ouchi warehouse.

In the first year of Chongzhen (1628), disasters and famines continued in various places, the political corruption of the imperial court, and the people's life was very difficult, and a peasant uprising led by Gao Yingxiang broke out. Since then, peasant uprisings have been raging, one after another, and on a growing scale, and the rule of the Ming Dynasty is crumbling. The rebels issued many accusations against the Ming Dynasty, one of the most important of which was that Shenzong "consumed the world to fatten the king", that is, he plundered the wealth of the world to fatten the king, and pointed out that Luoyang was richer than the imperial palace in Beijing.

When the army sent by the imperial court to suppress the peasant revolt passed through Luoyang, the soldiers all accused that King Fu's wealth was in the millions, and he was rich in the world, but he refused to give a little money to treat the army, so that everyone would go to the front line hungry to serve the court. At that time, Lu Weiqi, the head of the Nanjing Army, was at his home in Luoyang, and when he saw that the soldiers were fierce and afraid that a mutiny would occur and that it would be even more unfavorable to the rule of the Ming Dynasty, he went to visit King Fu, analyzed the current serious situation and interests to King Fu, and suggested that King Fu take out some of his property as military salaries. However, Zhu Changxun, the Fu King, said that he would not contribute anything, and still spent his days drinking and indulging in pleasure.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1625), Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army approached Luoyang, and although Zhu Changxun was very reluctant, he still took out a thousand taels of gold to recruit some outlaws, and at night he hung a rope from the city wall to raid Li Zicheng's camp.

At first, the rebel army did retreat slightly, but soon stabilized its position and surrounded it again. The two sides faced off for several days.

The defenders in Luoyang City had always been very dissatisfied with King Fu's greed and did not want to fight for him at all. At night, the defenders of the city shouted and even laughed with the rebels outside the city. The soldiers on both sides were poor, and they came out to serve as soldiers only to make a living, and of course they did not want to kill each other. So a few days later, the soldiers guarding the city rebelled, killing some officers and soldiers, burning the city gates, and letting the peasant army enter the city.

Zhu Changxun, who lived in the midst of red wine and greenery, saw that Luoyang was lost, knew that the situation was not good, and used a rope to hang himself out of the city and hide in a broken army temple. After dawn, the rebels found him in the temple, killed him in front of the whole city's people and soldiers, and made him into minced meat, so that the people who hated him to the bone were robbed and robbed, and at the same time confiscated all the property in the palace.

Despite the family's wealth of millions, the faint-hearted Fu Wang did not exchange money for his life in the end.