On the twentieth day of the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1641), Luoyang, Henan, the residence of the Fu King.
Against the backdrop of the magnificent red walls of the cornices, the Wangfu Zhongtang Square is particularly flat. In the boiling of people, the flames soared, and countless royal furniture made of rare incense wood became firewood, roasting a "thousand people pot" carried from Ying'en Temple on the outskirts of Luoyang. The huge iron pot is sprinkled with ginger, green onions, garlic, cinnamon, peppercorns and countless broth stew ingredients. In the midst of the raging flames, the most frightening sight was that in the midst of the giant cauldron, in addition to seven or eight whole sika deer that had been skinned and horned, there was also a bald-headed, three-hundred-pound giant fat living man inside, who was swimming blindly, sometimes swooping on the surface of the water, sometimes sinking to the bottom of the water, howling and screaming, so it was not miserable. In the meantime, this fat man like a "lard cake" whose pubic hair had been shaved had just grabbed a floating sika deer carcass and gasped, and two or three thousand peasant army soldiers around the cauldron immediately stabbed him in the arm with a spear, so that the man had to scream and let go of his hand and "swim" again in the hot water that had been slightly boiled.
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The giant fat who was stripped and shaved clean in the pot was not a monk in the temple, nor was he performing some "peerless martial arts". This person was the uncle of the current emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen, and the favorite son of Emperor Mingshenzong, Zhu Changxun, the Prince of Fu. The cheerful onlookers around the cauldron were Li Zicheng's peasant army, and the "living creatures" they were admiring were the "Fu" dishes in the "FuLu (Deer) Feast", the main dish that was about to enjoy the feast.
After an hour had passed, zhu Changxun, the cooked fu king, and several sika deer in the pot had been eaten by thousands of soldiers and become a delicious dinner for everyone.
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Henan was originally a rich country, but after years of disasters, coupled with the seven feudal domains of the Ming Dynasty, the land was highly concentrated, and the poor people either died or fled. At the beginning of Li Zicheng's entry into Henan, he only had about a thousand soldiers under his command, and his strength was weak. Due to the ming dynasty's strong taxation, the local people could not bear the oppression of the official government and rebelled, and in a few months it grew to tens of thousands of people, and the peasant army conquered Yiyang, Yongning, Yanshi, Lingbao, Baofeng and other places in one fell swoop, killing hundreds of Ming dynasty clan officials and county officials. It was also at this time that two "intellectuals," Song Xiance and Zhu Jinxing, joined Li Zicheng's peasant army. Zhu Jinxing is a "lifter" who has violated the law and been degraded, and Song Xiance is a jianghu warlock, and the two are deeply valued. In particular, Song Xiance, the first to offer the proverb of "Eighteen Sons Of the Lord Artifact", made Li Zicheng extremely happy: "The surname Li should become the emperor!" As for Li Yan, who is vigorously rendered in Mr. Yao Xueyu's novel, there should be no such "real person" in history, and it is only based on the contradictory records in historical notes.
The peasant army attacked and plundered in Henan, and the biggest target was naturally Zhu Changxun, the Fu King of Luoyang. This person was the third son of Emperor Mingshenzong, born to his favorite concubine Concubine Zheng Guifei, who almost took the position of prince of Emperor Mingguangzong at that time. The "three cases" at the end of the Ming Dynasty, tracing back to the source, are all related to this person and his mother. In the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli Calendar, Emperor Mingshen made this beloved son the King of Fu, with a marriage fee of 300,000 gold, and built a magnificent palace in Luoyang, which exceeded the cost of the ordinary royal system by ten times. Hundreds of millions of dollars were all encircled by the Fu King's domain, and Emperor Shenzong gave more than 40,000 acres of land at a time. After the establishment of the country, the Fu King levied a tyrannical campaign, invaded the fishermen and small people, and did everything possible to loot, and bad things were done. After Chongzhen ascended the throne, because this Fu Wang was an imperial subordinate, he was very respectful.
This fat prince, who weighed three hundred pounds, drank fine wine all day long, prostituted women all over the place, and spent days drinking wine, which was also considered to be Taoguang and obscure. When the thieves in Shaanxi were rampant, Henan was plagued by drought and locusts for many years, and the people couldnibalized each other, and the Fu King did not pay any attention to it, still collecting taxes, and did not even express the basic relief appearance. The four-party conscription team passed through Luoyang, and the soldiers of the army angrily said: "Luoyang is rich in the imperial palace, and the Divine Sect spends the world's wealth to enrich the king, but let us go to war with an empty stomach, and kill the thieves, how unfair!" At that time, Lu Weiqi, the Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department of the Ming Dynasty, who was retired at home, repeatedly entered the palace to persuade the King of Fu, persuading him that even if he only planned for himself, he should also open the government treasury and take out some money to help the people. Like his father, the Ming Dynasty, King Fu was a man of fortune and did not listen.
In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1641), on the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Zicheng led an army to attack Luoyang with cannons (stone throwers). After all, Luoyang City was extremely strong, and the peasant army could not attack it for a whole day. In the evening, hundreds of soldiers in the city roared on horseback on the city wall, and the peasant army under the city responded. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty defenders, resentful, suddenly tied Wang Yinchang, who was commanding the defending city, to the city and prepared to surrender the city.
When the chief soldier Wang Shaoyu heard the news, he hurried to explain. The mutinous soldier shouted, "The thief army is already under the city, general soldier Wang, what can you do to us?" For a time, the rebels moved to kill several people of the Ming army defending the city, and many people fell to the city because of the shock.
The peasant army outside the city saw the situation and took advantage of the chaos to climb the city, and the mutinous Ming army reached out to lead the ladder, and Luoyang fell immediately. Wang Yinchang saw that the situation was not good, turned the horse's head and ran (the Chongzhen Emperor arrested him, Ling was late in the city).
The giant fat Fu Wang and his female relatives hid in the secluded Ying'en Temple on the outskirts, still wanting to live. His son Zhu Yousong was fast on his feet, and Jincheng fled, and was later welcomed by the Ming dynasty to Nanjing, that is, the "Hongguang regime".
Others have fled, but the King of Fortune has no such blessing. Soon, he was arrested by the peasant army and taken back to the city. Halfway through, he met Lu Weiqi, the Shangshu of the Nanjing Army. Lü Shangshu encouraged: "The name is very heavy, and Wang Ye must not humiliate himself!" At the end of the speech, Lü Shangshu scolded the thief for being unyielding and heroic and dying. Fu Wang Xiong wrapped one, saw Li Zicheng, immediately lay on the ground, prostrated his head like mashing garlic, knocked his head to bruises, and begged for his life.
Li Zicheng also laughed, and when he saw the three-hundred-pound fat prince kneeling in the hall crying and crying for his life, he made a clever move, let his men tie him up, strip him naked and wash him, and then get a few deer from the back garden to slaughter, and cook them with the Fu King in a huge pot, called "Fulu Feast", to share with the soldiers. The peasant army has all kinds of experts from all walks of life, and a few former soldiers from the chef are enthusiastic, holding knives forward, lightly shaving, first scraping the hair on The King of Fu's body, then removing the nails, draining the feces with a medicated enema, cleaning him inside and out, sending him to a large pot like a hairy crab to slowly stew, laughing at him rolling up and down between the white soup condiments, fat and venison flying together, and the soup water is the same color as pepper, and finally a good meal.
Afterwards, Li Zicheng's men carried the gold, silver treasures and grain from the Fu King's Mansion, and thousands of people pulled the cart and carried it for several days, all of which were empty.