Was King Fu, the father of the first emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the richest prince of the Ming Dynasty? The King of Shu gave up his life and did not give up his wealth!
Ancients Cloud: Gentlemen love money and have a way to get it. The ancients also died: people died for money, birds died for food. Therefore, since ancient times, the world's view of money has been contradictory and complicated. Although some people regard money as dung, some people would rather give up their lives than give up money; when it comes to the richest prince of the Ming Dynasty, everyone must think that it is the Fu King, the 230-pound fat king, and his son Ming AnZong Zhu Yousong is the first emperor of the Southern Ming regime.
This Fu Wang is rich and enemy of the country, there is a saying that it is very vivid, the ming Dynasty emperor spent the world's wealth to fat fu wang, all said that fu wang sacrificed his life and did not give up his wealth, was made by Li Zicheng as "Fu Lu Shou", in fact, this is all a misunderstanding, according to the "History of Ming" records, and Zhu Changxun's epitaph unearthed in 1924 directly confirmed that Fu Wang was not made by Li Zicheng into a bloody "Fu Lu Shou" banquet, and Fu Wang also gathered soldiers and horses to resist the Dashun army and contribute the last strength to the Ming Dynasty.
The father of emperor Ming Anzong of the Southern Ming Dynasty, King Fu, although he was rich enough to rival the country, did not love money as much as his destiny, and a prince in the last years of the Ming Dynasty profoundly interpreted the latter. Let's see who this prince is?
After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he divided his sons into all parts of the country, and the eleventh son, Zhu Chun, was enfeoffed to Shudi, as the first Shu king of the Ming Dynasty. Shu land has been rich since ancient times, it is the country of Tianfu, and coupled with the successive Shu kings, by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Shu King has become the richest of all the ming dynasty kings. When it was transmitted to Zhu Yuanzhang's tenth grandson Zhu Zhishu, although Daming was terminally ill at this time, the King of Shu was still firmly on the throne of the richest man in Daming Domain, which showed the wealth of Shu.
As for where the wealth comes from, in addition to the accumulation of the people's cream of the Shu people in the past generations of Chu kings, there is also an important source, from the first generation of Chu kings to master the long-lost "yellow and white art" (derived from the ancient warlock refining Dan, through some chemical methods to refine gold and silver), these two sources of wealth are enough for the King of Shu to sit on endless wealth.
The difficulty of the Shu Dao is difficult to go to the qingtian. Li Taibai had already drawn conclusions about the natural dangers of Shudi. The King of Shu lived in a remote position, and he had endless wealth, so there were very few rebels in the successive Shu Kings, unless they had brain diseases, all of them were dashing and happy "Earth Emperors". The last Shu king Zhu Zhishu naturally could not be excluded, this Tu Emperor was a brother when he was young, and there was not much difference between the eight banner officials and eunuchs in the late Qing Dynasty, who was idle all day, only knew that Xiao Xiao was sprinkling red dust, and for state affairs and world affairs, it was deaf, of course, this was also in line with Ming Chengzu Zhu Di's "pig raising" policy. However, when the country is in danger, as a royal family relative, it is obviously inappropriate to still hold the attitude of not caring about oneself and hanging high.
Since the Land of Shu was so rich, it was naturally the target of the first attack after the peasant rebels rose up. In addition to Li Zicheng in the north, there was also a peasant army leader Zhang Xianzhong, who had already coveted Shu land, and before attacking Shu land, he had already taken the territory of the King of Chu with his brothers, and the wealth and reserves of the Ming Dynasty king made him marvel. In addition to the amazement, his soldiers had already pointed to the "fattest meat" Shudi.
As early as Zhang Xianzhong had not yet attacked Chudi, and the world was just in chaos, the magistrates of Shudi had repeatedly knelt down to beg the King of Shu for mercy, recruiting troops and horses to protect themselves, but the King of Shu was like an iron rooster, and the courtiers had to give up. Later, Zhang Xianzhong sacked Chu land, and the Qunchen again persuaded the King of Shu to take action, but was still rejected by the King of Shu. What is even more ridiculous is that this time the King of Shu also moved out of the Ancestral Training of Daming, the kings of various localities can only supervise the localities, but can not raise soldiers and respect themselves, as obedient relatives of the Ming Imperial Family, how can they violate the ancestral precepts, and take it with them, he also severely criticized the group of ministers, and the suppression of rebellion is the responsibility of the local officials, the bird affair of the King of Guan Shu! The group of ministers was dumbfounded, and had to cry and go home.
When Zhang Xianzhong's army marched into Shudi and sang triumphantly, the King of Shu reluctantly took out 50,000 taels of silver for the defense of Shudi, and this little 50,000 taels was just a cup of water. At that time, the world was in chaos, Li Zicheng had already entered Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor martyred himself, and the Shu emperor advised the king of Shu to stand up and take on the responsibility of supervising the country and save Daming from danger, and the king of Shu at this time dreamed of becoming emperor after supervising the country, so this time he readily agreed to the request of the Qunchen. When the King of Shu was dreaming of being an emperor, Inspector Liu Zhibo of Sichuan jumped out to oppose, although the Chongzhen Emperor died, but the emperor still had remnants, if the King of Shu jumped out to supervise the country and respect himself, the other kings were bound to follow, then the world was bound to be in chaos, and Daming was bound to perish. Although the King of Shu was confused, he also listened in a cold sweat, and he had no choice but to die of this heart of being an emperor.
When the King of Shu and the Qunchen were still hesitating, the time left by heaven for them was running out, Zhang Xianzhong had already attacked the city all the way, and in a few days he had already attacked the city of Chengdu. At this time, the King of Shu could not take care of anything else, he packed his property overnight, ready to flee to Yunnan to avoid the scourge of war, but the officials of the Shu land did not do it, you old Zhu family's Jiangshan, others came in and you ran to let us die for you, it is simply unreasonable, so the King of Shu, who had just walked to the city gate, was driven back to the palace by the soldiers guarding the gate.
Soon, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Chengdu, the King of Shu sat in peace, and he knew that he would not be able to escape death, but when he thought of the death of the King of Chu who had recently been humiliated and forced to jump the Yangtze River, he really did not want to die so badly, or he may have found out in his conscience, feeling ashamed of his ancestors, in short, after a fierce psychological struggle, the King of Shu jumped into the well of the palace with the big gold yuanbao he loved most in his life, ending his life of loving money as much as his life. As for the Officials of Shu Prefecture, most of them fought with Zhang Xianzhong's army to the death, and after Inspector Liu Zhibo was captured, Zhang Xianzhong slashed him with a thousand swords, and the people wept bitterly. After the death of the King of Shu, none of the officials of the Shu Lands shed tears, and the common people clapped their hands and applauded, and the death of the King of Shu made the people smile and smile.
After Zhang Xianzhong attacked Chengdu, he rode a fast horse straight into the legendary Goose Shu King's Mansion. Hearing that the King of Shu had thrown himself into the well, he felt that he was not relieved enough, so he sent someone to salvage the body of the King of Shu and slash it with a large knife, of course, this was not what he cared about most, his favorite was the long-coveted treasury of the Shu King's Palace and the fiery and enthusiastic princesses who had not had time to kill themselves. It may be that the wealth of Shu land is too much, Zhang Xianzhong did not go out for a moment and others to grab the mood of the world, he transformed the Shu palace into his palace, and directly set up the name of Dashun to become the emperor of the earth.
The king of Shu would rather give up his life than give up his wealth, and finally he did not take anything away when he died, and the thousands of wealth he had accumulated finally belonged to Zhang Xianzhong, the so-called kingdom was also dead, the wealth was gone, and his life was lost, if he had known that there was today's fate, he did not know if he would have been a dime at that time! Money is precious, dog life is more expensive, friends must remember not to follow in the footsteps of the King of Shu!
It was the Ming Dynasty princes like King Fu and king of Shu, the ming dynasty's vassal king ate the Ming Dynasty, and also ate the public opinion of the world, and also laid the groundwork for the short-lived dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty!