In Huang Renyu's book "Fifteen Years of the Wanli Calendar", the author attributes the reason why the Wanli Emperor did not go to the court for many years to revenge on the civilian official clique because of the "dispute over the foundation of the country".
Emperor Qianlong commented that "the death of Ming was not due to exile, but to the absurdity of Emperor Shenzong", and there was also the saying that "the death of Ming is not due to Chongzhen but to Wanli".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > the dispute over the country</h1>
"Guoben" refers to Li Chu. In the tenth year of the Wanli Calendar, when the Wanli Emperor asked the empress dowager for peace, on a whim, he was fortunate to have a palace maid and gave birth to the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo; in the fourteenth year, the emperor's third son Zhu Changxun was born, and his birth mother, Concubine Zheng, was given the title of noble concubine, that is, the later Zheng Guifei. However, Chang Luo's birth mother, Princess Gongfei, gave birth to her eldest son but was unsealed for several years, which shows the favor of the Wanli Emperor. Concubine Zheng Guifei was naturally pampered and proud, and sought to make Chang Xun the crown prince.
Therefore, the ministers all requested that the eldest son Chang Luo be made crown prince, so as not to have illusions in Zheng Guifei's heart, and cite the former dynasty to become a constitution, such as Ming Yingzong was 2 years old, Ming Xiaozong was 6 years old, and Ming Wuzong was made crown prince at the age of 1. But Wanli Emperor's reply was:
Yuan Zi Baby is weak, and the young man is held for two or three years.
There are even fathers who hope that their son will die early, which is not to imply that Zheng Guifei can poison the prince with her hands and feet behind her back! This delay dragged on for more than ten years, which was the "dispute over the origin of the country" during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and also led to the 30-year sluggishness of the Wanli Emperor, making the ming dynasty administrative affairs abolished.
It was not until October of the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli Dynasty (1601) that the matter of establishing the Crown Prince could no longer be delayed, and the Wanli Emperor was forced to appoint the eldest son Zhu Changluo as crown prince, and at the same time, the third son Zhu Changxun was made the Prince of Fu, the fifth son Zhu Changhao was the King of Rui, the sixth son Zhu Changrun was the King of Hui, the seventh son Zhu Changying was the King of Gui, and the second son zhu Changlu and the fourth son of the emperor Zhu Changzhi all died early. At this time, Zhu Changluo was 20 years old and Zhu Changxun was 16 years old.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > the world is the fat king</h1>
The Wanli Emperor's favor for Zheng Guifei and The Fu King Zhu Changxun was incomparable. The fiefdom of Fu Wang was in Luoyang, and it cost 280,000 taels of silver to build the mansion alone. King Fu had already been crowned king, and should have left for the fiefdom and could no longer stay in the capital, but no matter how much the ministers persuaded him to play the song, Wan Li and Zheng Guifei kept him by their side. It was not until the forty-second year of the Wanli Calendar (1614), 13 years after the reign of the king, that King Fu set out for Luoyang to take the domain. The History of the Ming Dynasty contains:
In the 29th year, Emperor Guangzong was made crown prince, and the marriage fee was up to 300,000 yuan, and the marriage fee was 300,000 yuan, and the ying Luoyang residence was 280,000 yuan, ten times the regular system. The courtiers asked the king's vassals to play dozens of hundreds. Not reported. By the age of forty-two, the first order was established
When the ministers repeatedly asked King Fu to take the throne as soon as possible, and there was no way to delay, Princess Zheng Guifei finally allowed King Fu to go to the fiefdom, but put forward harsh conditions:
First, the 40,000 hectares of Zhuangtian were halved, and 20,000 hectares were still needed, and the soil in Zhongzhou was insufficient, and the fertile fields in Shandong and Huguang were taken to make up for it;
Second, without Zhang Juzheng's wealth, the remaining officials were transferred to the Fu Wangfu;
Third, from Yangzhou to Taiping, Anhui, various miscellaneous taxes along the river were allocated to the Fu Wangfu;
Fourth, a portion of the proceeds from The Salt Well in Sichuan were allocated to the FuWangFu;
Fifth, please Huai Salt 1,300 citations.
Moreover, the Wanli Emperor loved money, and sent tax envoys and mining envoys all over the world, and the people's fat and people's creams collected were hundreds of millions of people, and the rare treasures were pushed and squeezed like mountains, and they also funded Chang Xun. These reasons were not enough to satisfy Zheng Guifei's greed, or put forward the above-mentioned harsh conditions for her son, not only consuming state property and a huge amount of good land, but also competing with the people for profits, affecting the national economy and people's livelihood and even the salaries of border guards.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were clear regulations on the distribution of salt, and the Luoyang area originally only sold Hedong, which is now Shanxi, for salt. The salt of Fuwang is the salt of Lianghuai, which is of better quality, but the price is also more expensive. In order to monopolize the local salt market, he asked Luoyang to only buy and sell Huai salt, that is, he could only buy and sell "Fu Ji" his family's salt, so that there would be no market for Shanxi's salt. The Shanxi salt is an important source of border guards' salaries, so that border salaries are extremely scarce.
This behavior that disrupted the market order and seriously affected national defense and security was ignored by Wanli Emperor. The Hubu and Bingbu asked that the salt of the FuWangfu be changed to the supply of Shanxi to solve the problem of unsalable salt, and requested that the Fuwang should not compete with the people for profit. But Wanli Emperor's response was always only two words: no retribution.
At the same time, because of the shortage of fertile land in Henan, it is necessary to find another field in Shandong and Hubei, which has also brought great disasters to the local people. King Fu sent his own men to clear the streets and demarcate the boundaries, and used the excuses to cut off the waterways of people's fields and dig up their graves, so as to extort and extort money, and even the local officials could not do anything.
Before leaving, parents bid farewell to their beloved son, fell in love, and estimated that they would cry many times with headaches. The Ming Dynasty began with Taizu and established rules, the two kings did not see each other, the prince could rarely enter the dynasty, and he was not allowed to go out of the city in peacetime, and the freedom of movement was extremely strict. However, for the Fu King, it was agreed that there would be a three-year dynasty.
Wanli was notorious for not seeing the chancellor, and it was difficult for the prime minister to see the heavenly face, but the officials of the Fu Wangfu who stayed in Beijing were specially allowed to see the emperor and "report to the emperor". Because of this privilege, there was an endless stream of people walking through the door of the Blessed Queen. The History of the Ming Dynasty records:
The emperor lived deeply for a long time, and the group of ministers was unconscious. Dufu Domain envoys to the middle left door, a day to count please, as the upper night can be reported. The four traitors are desperate, probing the wind, and walking like a bird. If so, he will end up in the world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > the fuking king who was eaten meat and drunk blood</h1>
The heavens are good reincarnation, and the heavens have spared no one.
Parents spoil their children too much, and the huge family property given today will cause him misfortune tomorrow. Some people said, "The first emperor spent the world as a fat king, and Luoyang was rich in The Great Interior", which became the fuse for the tragic death of King Fu.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1641), Li Zicheng attacked Henan, and at that time, the locust plague was raging, and the people of Henan had reached the point of cannibalism. Lü Weiqi, the Shangshu of the Nanjing Army, was horrified and hurried to inform The King of Fu with an analysis of the stakes, but the King of Fu did not think so, and refused to accept the refugees, and the people's hearts were lost.
Li Zicheng, the king of the invasion
The defenders in Luoyang city defected and colluded with the rebel army, luoyang fell, and King Fu was killed, and his death was extremely tragic.
After King Fu was captured, he begged Li Zicheng for his life, and Li Zicheng blamed him several times, slapping King Fu's fat belly with a knife, and everyone coaxed "a good piece of meat." So Li Zicheng killed King Fu, weighed three hundred and sixty pounds, cooked it with the sika deer in the royal garden, and ate it in part, called "Fulu Feast"; and The blood of Fu Wang became the raw material for "Fulu Wine". Fu Wang's huge wealth became the capital for Li Zicheng to continue his rebellion, and became a source of military expenses for the years after the rebel army.
In the Fujia Hai Of the Fu Dynasty, Li Zicheng asked people to open the warehouse and send a large amount of silver, grain, and materials to support the hungry people and expand the ranks. The Wanli Emperor loved his son with the fat of the world, but in the end he became the asset of the enemy and became the "captain of the transport brigade", eating the evil consequences himself.
King Fu had a lot of money but could not raise soldiers, and when things were urgent, he could not scatter wealth and recruit troops to share the worries of the country, and finally ended up being "eating meat and drinking blood".