After the death of the Ming Dynasty to the Yongli Emperor, even if it was completely destroyed, Zhu Yuanzhang handed down millions of descendants, except for those who were killed and a very small number of anonymous people hiding in the inland, the rest ran to Taiwan and were enshrined by the Ming Dynasty Yanping County King Zheng.
The Zheng clan still regarded the Ming Dynasty as Zhengshuo in Taiwan, and although they did not let these clan kings come out to participate in political affairs, they were still treated kindly, allowing them to live in various parts of Taiwan with peace of mind, and Taiwan became the last place for the descendants of the Ming Dynasty Zhu clan who escaped the pursuit of the Qing soldiers.
However, the good times were not long, the twenty-third year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty, the thirty-seventh year of the Ming Yong Calendar, the Qing Fujian Admiral Shi Lang led his troops to conquer Taiwan, and the Ming Yanping Commandery King Zheng Ketuan was ready to surrender, and the arrival of the Qing army was a thunderbolt to these Descendants of the Zhu family left over from the Ming Dynasty.
For them, the destruction of the country and the death of the family, and the desire to live in peace and stability have become an extremely luxurious possibility, these people want to live and have to follow Zheng Ketuan to qing, waiting for the unknown fate after going to Beijing, but there is also a Ningjing king Zhu Shugui who vowed not to surrender, and committed suicide and martyrdom with his family.
Zhu Shugui (朱術桂) (24 October 1617 – 20 July 1683), courtesy name Tianqiu (天球), nicknamed Yiyuanzi (一元子), was a descendant of Zhu Zhi, the eighth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ming emperor, and the fifteenth prince of Liao.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, he was also wandering everywhere, and when Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty was enfeoffed as the King of Ningjing, after the Yongli Emperor ascended the throne, he was appointed to serve as an overseer in the Zheng family's Zheng family and Zheng Chenggong's army in the south.
Later, Zheng Chenggong made special rooms in Xiamen and Kinmen to take in these refuge Ming Dynasty clansmen, Zhu Shugui went to the family to surrender, and Zheng Chenggong treated him kindly with the courtesy of the king of the domain.
Zhu Shugui's family lived in Xiamen and Kinmen until Zheng Chenggong's death, and Zheng Chenggong's son Zheng Jing attacked the queen of Yanping County, took Zhu Shugui to Taiwan and built the Ningjing Palace in Tainan for him to live in.
After Shi Lang attacked Taiwan, when he learned that Zheng Ketuan was going to surrender, Zhu Shugui immediately made up his mind to martyr the country and summoned his concubines to confess: "Lonely and virtuous overseas, I hope to protect the rest of the year to see the first emperor and the first king underground, now the big thing has gone, there is a day of lonely death, Ru generation young Ai, you can calculate yourself." "
However, the five concubines Yuan, Wang, Xiugu, Meijie, and Hejie who accompanied the attendants were also unwilling to live, and all wept to the king: "The king can be full of festivals, and the concubines and so on are willing to lose their bodies, the king is born, the king dies, please give the ruler first, and die with the king." "
After saying this, the five people committed suicide one after another, and the next day, Zhu Shugui buried the coffin of the five concubines behind Kui dou Shan (now the site of the Five Concubines Temple) outside the South Gate City.
After burying the concubines, Zhu Shugui added wings and good crowns, wore four dragon robes, jade belts, and wore seals. He also sent the seal of the Ningjing King's Kulture to Zheng Ketui.
Zheng Ketuan led Wen Wuzhi and sighed goodbye. Zhu Shugui wrote to Yu Biyi: "Since the noonday thieves have fallen into Jingzhou, they have gone south with their families. Jia Shen avoided chaos in the Fujian Sea, always had a few hairs, a small body, and had been diving overseas for more than forty years, and now there are six of them in their sixties. When the time is very difficult, he has to die with his full hair and crown. Do not live up to the high emperor, do not live up to the parents, life is over, no shame. "
Subsequently, he bid farewell to the ancestors of heaven and earth. The elders, young and old, went to worship, and King Ningjing answered the prayer. He also wrote the fatal words on the back of the yan: "Hard to avoid overseas, always a few stems." Now that the matter is over, it will not be picked up again." After the book was finished, the knot was tied to Liang Shengshen, and I was told that I would go to the temple, and the two eunuchs would also die next to him.
Because Zhu Shugui had reclaimed the countryside in the area of Luzhu Township in Kaohsiung County, he burned the deed before his death, and gave all of the dozens of jia fields to tenants, and the local villagers who were grateful for his loyalty buried him and Yuan Concubine Luoshi in the shed forest of Hunei Village in Kaohsiung County.
At that time, in order to avoid the search of the Qing army, the cemetery was not specially marked, and more than a hundred pseudo-tombs were built to cover up. It was only discovered in 1937, but the museum was empty, and the relics buried in the tomb had long been dug up and taken away by the Japanese.
After the surrender of Japan, local residents pooled funds to merge more than 100 authentic and false tombs to build a large tomb, and the Kaohsiung County Government also specially renovated it, and in 1988 designated the tomb of King Ningjing as a third-level monument.
The Ningjing Palace in Tainan was renamed tianhou Temple by Shi Lang to enshrine Mazu (also said to be renamed by Zhu Shugui's will), and in 1985 it was listed as a first-class monument for its historical and cultural status, and it is also the only Mazu Temple listed in the official Spring and Autumn Festival. The Temple of the Five Concubines behind Mount Kui Doo has also been designated as a First Class Monument after renovation.
Zhu Shugui, the king of Ningjing, was the last martyred king of the Ming Dynasty, and he followed Zheng Ketuan to Beijing, such as the descendants of the Zhou King, and most of the other descendants of the Zhu family disappeared, and they did not know the end, and they wanted to know what the end was.
More than thirty years after Zhu Shugui committed suicide, sixty years after the Qing Kangxi Dynasty, the Taiwanese peasant Zhu Yigui claimed that the Ming Dynasty sect launched an anti-Qing uprising, and also posthumously honored Zhu Shugui as "Ming YiZong Bingtianzheng Dao Yuanrui Liangmin Dun Wen Jian Wu Si Ren Zhen Xiao Kao Emperor", and zhu Shugui, the king of Daming Ningjing who committed suicide and martyrdom in his family, can also be regarded as leaving the last backbone for the Ming Dynasty.