The reason why the Ming Dynasty is talked about is that it is iron-blooded, tenacious and uncompromising, no matter who it is, it is said to fight, and there is no ambiguity.
And this iron blood and tenacity, in fact, does not lie in not paying tribute and discord, but in the son of heaven guarding the gate of the country and the death of the king.
When Chongzhen was hopeless in state affairs, he resolutely chose to climb Mount Mei and hang himself, that is, his final explanation to the Ming Dynasty and the final answer sheet to the Hongwu Emperor, although the behavior was not necessarily desirable, but the courage was commendable, which was enough.
Coincidentally, there was also a prince of the Ming Dynasty, who went to the country with five concubines, which can be called the last prince of the Ming Dynasty, and after his death, the Qing army tried its best to find his grave.
He was Zhu Shugui, the tenth Liao king of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Shugui, born in the forty-fifth year of the Wanli Calendar, was made a general of the Auxiliary State in his early years, and his fief was Jingzhou, which is now Hubei.
Ming Dynasty prince stills
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Jingzhou, and Zhu Shugui hurriedly fled into the Great Lake, only to survive.
Later, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen hanged himself and the Ming Dynasty fell. Zhu Shugui fled to Jinling, supported the Southern Ming Hongguang Emperor, and was made a general of zhenguo.
Later, the Qing army went south, Jinling fell, Zhu Shugui and the ninth Liao king, that is, his own brother Zhu Shuya, fled to the south, unfortunately, Zhu Shuya and Zhu Shugui in the process of escape, so Zhu Shugui attacked the Liao King.
Zhu Shugui, who had fled abroad, heard that Zheng Hongkui had established the Tang Emperor as Emperor Longwu, so he went to defect.
Soon after, he learned that his brother was still alive, and he couldn't help but cry with joy, and still returned the prince to his brother, which was said to be able to understand things and argue right from wrong, and Emperor Longwu had a feeling and renamed him the King of Ningjing.
Soon after, the Qing army attacked the south, Longwu died, and King Gui became the Yongli Emperor, and Zhu Shugui went to surrender and accepted the appointment, becoming a supervisor in Zheng Hongkui's army.
Yongli Emperor
After that, he went back and forth many times, and finally defected to Zheng Chenggong, who let him live in Kinmen and Xiamen with other Ming Dynasty clans, where he could live a relatively stable life.
After that, Zheng Chenggong died, Zheng Jing succeeded to the throne, and his life was still good.
It was not until the sixteenth year of the Yong calendar, when Zheng Jing died and Zheng Ketuan succeeded to the throne, that his good days came to an end.
Because at this time, the Qing Dynasty had basically stabilized the Central Plains, and a few islands were naturally out of the question.
Up to this point, Zhu Shugui was actually an inconspicuous Ming Dynasty prince, under the difficulties of the country, he was in a terrible state, hiding in Tibet, and he had turned to many people before and after, and wherever he was unlucky, whoever touched him would die.
He traveled from north to south, east and west, and almost experienced all the resistance movements of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty after the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
Zheng Chenggong stills
Because of this, his death can represent the end of the Ming Resistance Movement, in other words, he is the last prince of the Ming Dynasty.
What's more, he died so grandfatherly, so bloody.
In June of the 37th year of the Yong calendar, Shi Lang attacked Penghu, Zheng Ketuan himself was unable to protect himself, the people of the civil and military hundreds of officials were panicked, and the surrender rhetoric was widespread, seeing that Taiwan was about to fall into the hands of the Qing army in an instant.
Zhu Shugui made up his mind not to be a prisoner and to martyr himself.
He first divided the family property and rewarded the next person.
The palace was then donated to the Buddhist temple.
Stills of Princess Zhu Shugui
Finally, he summoned the five concubines of the Yuan clan, the Wang clan, the Xiugu, the Mei sister, and the Sister He, and the tears were hazy, and he choked and said to them: "This king has no virtue, he has been upside down for half a lifetime, he has been displaced from overseas, he originally wanted to spend the rest of his life, and then go to see the patriarchs, and now that the general trend has gone, I am going to die, so you should each find a way to live!" ”
None of the five concubines left, and one by one they cried and said, "The king can die, the concubine wishes to lose his body, the king is born, the king dies and dies, please give the ruler, and die with the king." ”
After saying that, one by one, they hanged themselves.
Zhu Shugui personally buried the five concubines after kuidou Mountain outside the South Gate City, and people felt it at the time, called the Tomb of the Five Spirits, also known as the Five Concubines.
After properly disposing of the five concubines, Zhu Shugui committed suicide at the age of sixty-six, and the locals were deeply moved, so they buried him in the shed forest of Hunei Village, in order to confuse the Qing army, no tombstones were erected, and then more than a hundred fake tombs were built around.
Five concubines
It is said that later, the Qing army searched in that area and did not find the place where Zhu Shugui was buried.
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