Emperor Ming'an Zhu Yousong
As a blessed king, he lived in exile at the age of thirty-four. Emperor Ming'an Zhu Yousong was born on September 5, 1607, to the yao clan. Zhu Yousong's grandfather was the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, because the Wanli Emperor was fortunate to have a palace maid, he gave birth to the crown prince Zhu Changluo, and later Wanli's favored concubine gave birth to Zhu Changxun, that is, Zhu Yousong's father. Wan Li and Qunchen have experienced more than ten years of battle for the crown prince. In 1601, Wanli had no choice but to make concessions, and zhu Changluo, the eldest son of the emperor, was made crown prince and Zhu Changxun was made the prince of Fu. In 1614, Zhu Yousong and his father Zhu Changxun the Prince of Fu took the domain to Luoyang. In July 1620, Zhu Yousongjin was enthroned as the Son of The Prince of Fu. In the first month of 1641, Li Zicheng attacked Luoyang, and Zhu Changxun, the Prince of Fu, escaped from the city with a rope hanging down to the flat ground, hid in Ying'en Temple, and was later searched out by the peasant army and killed. Zhu escaped from Songcheng and took refuge in Huaiqing. In the first month of 1644, a peasant army attacked Huaiqing, and Zhu Yousong fled to Weihui and defected to Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu. On the fourth day of March, Wei Hui also had the alarm of the peasant army's attack, and Zhu Yousong fled with King Lu to Huai'an, where he lived in a boat with King Zhou and King Chong, who fled south. On March 11, Zhu Gong, the King of Zhou, was on a boat, and on March 18, King Zhu Yousong of Fu came ashore and lived in Du Guangshao's Garden.
Nanming Zhu Yusong
Second, he ascended the throne as emperor and lived a rogue life at the age of thirty-seven. On May 15, 1644, Zhu Yousong, the emperor, was located in the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, with the following year as the first year of Hongguang. Its national name is still "Ming", and the history is called "Southern Ming". Zhu Yousong was proclaimed empress, he fainted and decayed, ignored the government, only cared about the color of wine, ordered the selection of ladies into the palace, sent eunuchs to search the alleys in the city of Nanjing, and all those who had a female home would be pasted with yellow paper and held on to it, and there was a commotion in the city of Nanjing, and because of his indulgence, he also ordered people to catch toads and prepare aphrodisiacs for him, and the people of Nanjing called him "The Son of the Toads." Zhu Yousong demanded that the standard of living should be in line with the emperor of the Chengping period, and he ordered the construction of a palace for himself and the empress dowager, and bought jewelry everywhere in preparation for the big wedding. In the one year since the founding of Hongguang, the money obtained has almost never been used to relieve disaster victims and build water conservancy projects. In addition to raising an army, another part of the revenue was spent on the emperor, the court, and the bureaucracy, who lived a life of poverty and luxury.
Nanming Zhu Yousong's father, Zhu Changxun
Third, the rebels and relatives, only forty years old became a ghost under the knife. Zhu Yousong turned to the warlord to become emperor, he did not have much power to decide, and he was the enemy of the peasant army in decision-making, fantasizing about peace with the Qing army. He entrusted great power to Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and other courtiers, and excluded anti-Qing factions such as Shi Kefa and Gao Hongtu, so that internal party strife was fierce, and external preparations were not made to defend the Qing army. He coveted pleasure himself, and the effect of going up and down, the monarch and the courtiers wantonly plundered the people's wealth and operated their own nest of comfort. On May 20, 1645, after the Qing army conquered Nanjing, Duo Duo ordered the general Liu Liangzuo to lead the Qing troops to pursue the Hongguang Emperor. Zhu Yousong, who had rebelled and fled to Wuhu, had to flee to Wuhu, and on May 22, the generals Tian Xiong, Ma Degong, Qiu Yu, Zhang Jie, Huang Ming, and Chen Xiance rushed to the imperial boat, kidnapped the Hongguang Emperor, and presented him to the Qing soldiers. In May 1646, the Hongguang Emperor and Seventeen others, including Zhu Changshu the Prince of Lu, Zhu Cixuan the King of Jing, Zhu Youque the Prince of De, Zhu Youque the Prince of Heng, and Wang Zhiming, the "Prince of Heng", were beheaded at Caishikou at the age of 40 and buried with Concubine Huang in Dongshantou Village, Mengjin County, Henan. In April 1657, Zhu Yousong Temple was called Anzong.