There is a mausoleum of an emperor in Guizhou, many people do not know, this mausoleum is the mausoleum of zhu Youluo, the last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youluo's fate was very tragic, once exiled to Burma, sent to the fence, and later their father and son were hanged by Wu Sangui and died at the Golden Cicada Temple in Kunming, and the burial place after his death was unknown until the Republic of China period.
After Li Zicheng's rebel army captured Beijing and destroyed the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty clan and the Minister of Culture and Military Affairs who were exiled to the south established a number of regimes, which were collectively known as the Southern Ming. After the Qing army entered the customs, Emperor Longwu, who was proclaimed emperor in Fuzhou, was captured and died of hunger strike, and later the Ming bureaucracy supported the Gui king Zhu Youluo as emperor in the southwest region, and was historically known as the Yongli Emperor, but Wu Sangui, who was later demoted to the Qing Dynasty, was executed in Kunming.
Zhu Youluo was the last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, who reigned for 16 years, at the age of 40. Wu Sangui was a general of the Ming Dynasty, but in the face of the Yongli Emperor, in order to express his determination to the Manchu Qing, he really dared to make a cruel move and hang the Yongli Emperor with a bowstring in Kunming. After the death of the Yongli Emperor, the world did not know where he was buried, for a long time, people thought that the Yongli Emperor was buried in Yunnan, but did not know where, until the Republic of China years did not find it in Guizhou.
Gaotang Mountain, more than ten kilometers east of Duyun City, Guizhou, is the location of the Yongli Emperor's mausoleum, and in 1921, Ren Kecheng, who was then the governor of Guizhou Province, confirmed as the tomb of the Yongli Emperor, and ordered people to write an inscription with the inscription "Daming Yongli Emperor Mausoleum", which is also the only emperor's mausoleum in Duyun. You may have a question, the Yongli Emperor was killed in Kunming, why was he buried in Guizhou? It was actually done by one person.
This person was fu gang, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty university, who was living in seclusion in Huiduyun at that time, after learning of the martyrdom of the Yongli Emperor, he sent his subordinates back to Duyun, Guizhou, with his skeleton, secretly buried it on a hill, and instructed his subordinates not to reveal that it was the Yongli Mausoleum, leave no inscription, and wait for the situation to stabilize before erecting a monument to worship. However, the imperial tomb was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, the stele was broken into two pieces, and the mausoleum was dug from front to back with a large pit, which was later renovated to become what it is today.
From the bottom of the mountain there are hundreds of stone steps leading to the mountain, the mausoleum is 3 meters high, 6 meters in diameter, with bluestone edges, cement cracks, there is an inscription in front of the tomb "Ming Yongli Emperor Mausoleum", this mausoleum specifications are very low, there is no kind of momentum of the imperial tomb, it seems relatively simple, the surrounding environment is desolate, do not pay attention to see, really do not know that this is the imperial tomb, perhaps there is a certain research value, in 1986 listed as a Uniform cultural relics protection unit.
The last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty ended up with a tragic death, and after his death, he was hastily buried, so there was no specification of the imperial tomb. On both sides of the Yongli Tomb are the Tomb of Wu Jie and the Tomb of Tu shu Hongyou, these two people were two of the 42 ministers who were killed in the Curse of the Water In Burma, the tomb is much smaller than the Emperor's Tomb, one left and one right accompany the Yongli Tomb, the three mausoleums are side by side, and the monarchs and subjects will never be separated.
There are not many people who know this imperial tomb, not many people come to visit, it is relatively quiet, in fact, in addition to the three mausoleums, there is nothing to see here, if you are interested, you may wish to take a look.