Author: Our special guest author Zhu Yingyuejiang
In 1641, Li Zicheng's army attacked Luoyang and incorporated this important town of western Henan into the territory of the Dashun army in one fell swoop, and when the news came, the Ming court was shocked, and Chongzhen could not help but worry about the safety of Zhu Changxun, the Prince of Fu.
Luoyang was the territory of Zhu Changxun, the Fu King, and after the city was destroyed, Zhu Changxun came out of the city. He had wanted to save his life in an attempt to make a comeback, but unfortunately he was captured and executed by Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses halfway through.
However, although Zhu Changxun, the Fu King, died, there are still legends of him in the folk.
Among them, a widely circulated wild history mentions that Zhu Changxun, the King of Fu, was once made into a "Fulu Feast" by Li Zicheng, and his death was miserable. So, is the final outcome of Zhu Changxun really as recorded in the history of the wild?
Speaking of Zhu Changxun, the Fu King, he had to mention the thousands of favors that the Divine Sect had for him.
Zhu Changxun's birth mother was The Most Favored Concubine Zheng guifei of the MingShen Sect, and zhu Changxun easily became the most beloved son of the Mingshen Sect.
At one point, Emperor Mingshen even wanted to depose Chang Liyou and let Zhu Changxun succeed to the throne, and for this reason, he also caused a vigorous "dispute over the foundation of the country".
After the "dispute over the foundation of the country", although Emperor Mingshen made his eldest son Zhu Changluo the crown prince and Zhu Changxun the Prince of Fu, he kept Zhu Changxun by his side, causing the world's subjects to speculate and feel that the Mingshen Sect still had the intention of making Zhu Changxun the prince.
In 1613, Emperor Myeongshinjong finally could not withstand internal and external pressures and let Zhu Changxun take the throne. Perhaps emperor Mingshenzong felt that the position of king of Fu had wronged Zhu Changxun, and out of compensation for his son, Emperor Mingshen left the richest Luoyang to Zhu Changxun as a fiefdom.
According to the "History of Ming", after Zhu Changxun arrived in Luoyang, "he drank alcohol in the closed cabinet every day, and only women advocated music", and he enjoyed countless fine wines, dances, and glory and wealth every day, and his life was also leisurely.
After Chongzhen ascended the throne, "Chang Xundi was close to the respect, and the imperial court honored him", which showed that Zhu Changxun still lived a day of drunken dreams and dreams, and ate himself into a 300-pound fat man.
At the same time, Henan is suffering from a drought that has not been encountered in a hundred years, and the people are selling their children and women, changing their children and eating, while Zhu Changxun, as the "richest man" in Henan, guards the mountains of wealth in his own treasury and refuses to take it out for disaster relief.
"Zhumen wine smells of flesh, and the road has frozen bones", Zhu Changxun saw that death was not saved, and finally attracted the indignation of the people, and the people said one after another, "The first emperor spent the world to be a fat king, and Luoyang was rich in The Great Interior".
Because of this, when Li Zicheng's army invaded Luoyang, the death of King Fu did not make the people remember, but became a wonderful story in folklore.
Looking closely at the folklore of the death of King Fu, the most popular saying is this:
After the destruction of Luoyang, King Fu was captured alive by Li Zicheng.
At that time, King Fu had begged Li Zicheng to spare his life, but Li Zicheng hated King Fu's extravagant and hedonistic behavior.
On the spot, he reprimanded King Fu and said, "Ru is the prince, rich in the world." When there is such a famine, and they refuse to give a single penny to the people, Ru Nu cai also", after saying that, let people beat the forty plates of the Fu King.
After the fight, Li Zicheng asked fu wang to be cleaned up, and immediately several soldiers shaved off fu wang's hair, cut off his nails, and scrubbed Fu Wang's whole body up and down.
After this, Li Zicheng ordered people to support a large cauldron, put the 300-pound Fu Wang into the pot, and then stewed with a few deer, named "Fulu Feast", and the Da Shun army drank and ate meat together to enjoy the fruits of victory.
This story about the end of Fu Wang has been circulating for hundreds of years, and once became the real death of Fu Wang in the hearts of many people, until the unearthing of a key piece of physical evidence changed people's perception of Fu Wang's death.
In 1924, The Fu King Zhu Changxun was excavated in Mengjin County. The Record clearly records Li Zicheng's attack on Luoyang and the death of King Fu, which has become the key physical evidence for people to explore the death of King Fu.
According to The Chronicle of the Ming Dynasty, "On the twentieth day of the first month of the fourteenth year of The Reign of Daming Chongzhen, tens of thousands of rogue thieves suddenly attacked the capital city... Wang Du stood up against the festival, accusing the thief of scolding, being generous and fierce, and dying with the city. ”
It is true that Xi Zhi beautified Fu Wang, but Xi Zhi itself shows that there was a cemetery after Fu Wang's death, not as recorded in the history of Ye.
Coincidentally, in the "History of Ming", Zhu Changxun, the Fu King, was buried after his death, and there is no mention of the legend of the "Fulu Feast" in the wild history.
So, where is the source of the legend about the death of King Fu, and is there a written record of the "Feast of FuLu" in the historical data?
In fact, the late Ming scholar Peng Sunyi's "Liu Kou Zhi" once appeared in the record of "Fulu Feast", which may have provided inspiration for the folk tales and legends of the death of King Fu.
However, even in the "Liu Kou Zhi", the record of the death of King Fu is only: "The thief put the wine assembly, the king of the thief is a trick, the venison eats it, and the number of Fulu wine." Under the corpse king's city, he accepted the two people to beg the king to bury the king and died, and he became a promise. ”
That is to say, Li Zicheng only cut a piece of fu wang's meat and cooked it with venison, and fu wang was eventually buried by his entourage.
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Kouzhi
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