Zhu Youjian was born in the 30th year of Wanli. His father was the prince of Tang Fan Zhu Qibang . Although he was born in a noble family, Zhu Youjian's life was quite tragic. First of all, he had a very partial grandfather, , Tang Duanwang , Zhu Shuo-hui.
Zhu Qibian is Zhu Shuoqing's eldest son. In the 22nd year of Wanli , he was named the crown prince of Tang by the court. However, in his later years, Zhu Shuohui loved his concubine very much, and loved the house and the underworld, and also extremely doted on the concubine's son Zhuqian , and then had the idea of passing the throne to Zhuqian .
However, The vassal system of the Ming Dynasty , the prince basically had no say in the matter of canonizing the prince, and the court decided based on the ancestral system (the establishment of the legitimate and the chief). In order to achieve his goal, Zhu Shuohui came up with a vicious plan - kill his prince, and his youngest son would have the chance to inherit it.
He banned Zhu Qibang and Zhu Youjian, who was only twelve years old, in the Tang Fan Chengfengsi. Lower dietary rations and try to starve them to death. Fortunately, there is no way out. A small official named Zhang Shutang felt sorry for their experience and often secretly delivered some food. The father and son were able to survive in the cage for sixteen years.
Zhu Youjian is also very successful. He has not abandoned these sixteen years and has been studying hard. Sixteen years not only allowed him to have a lot of knowledge in his stomach, but also cultivated a heart that was worried about the king and the country.
The emperor prefaced him:... The twelve-year-old great-grandmother passed away, and the ancestors were about to ban me and my father. The bonsam lamp is studied day and night. Sixteen years of ban. I am twenty-eight years old and have not yet repaid. In February of the second year of Chongzhen, my father was avenged for his uncle and I vowed to take revenge. It is up to you, Si Chi, who was the master of Tianqi's heart and asked him to go to Lie Temple. The seal was approved by the imperial edict. On December 12th of this year, Zukao also passed away, and I am a vassal.
"Unknown History of the Southern Ming Dynasty·The Chronicle of Emperor Shaozong"
In the second year of Chongzhen, the King of Tang Duan, who felt that he had not had much time, acquiesced to let him poison his brother Zhu Qiying. When King Duan of Tang was preparing to be appointed as the crown prince for Zhu Qizhan , Zhu Youjian met with help from noble people.
Henan Right-sponsored political Chen Qiyu (later promoted to the governor of five provinces) was mourning Zhu Qiyan, and he warned King Duan of Tang: the prince's death should be appointed as the son (general grandson) according to the ancestor's system. Now that the prince has passed away inexplicably, he still wants to change the candidate for the prince, and the court must have doubts. Once the court sends personnel to investigate, what will happen to the King of Tang and the Tang vassal?
Chen Qiyu's words scared King Tang Duan, so he gave up his whims and changed it to Zhu Youjian to be named the grandson. At the end of that year, King Duan of Tang passed away. Zhu Youjian, who had expired in the five-year mourning period, was officially named King of Tang by the court's envoy.
At the beginning, Qi Yu official Nanyang . The King of Tang killed his prince and wanted to abolish the prince's son. Lai Qiyu's strength is the grandson of I.K.
"History of Ming Dynasty·Biography 148"
In July of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army outside the pass broke through the border wall and invaded again. The Ming army around the capital could not resist, and the court ordered the world to serve the king. Zhu Youjian, who was eager to serve the country, submitted a memorial to Chongzhen to ask for his troops to help the king. After Chongzhen praised Zhu Youjian for his loyalty, he refused on the grounds that Tang Fan had no soldiers.
Long-term imprisonment made Zhu Youjian fail to understand the taboos of the court. If there is no soldiers, then you will disperse all your family’s wealth and recruit your own soldiers. Then Zhu Youjian took more than a thousand troops he had collected and set out from Nanyang to go north to serve the king. Before the team left Henan, Chongzhen, who learned the news, immediately ordered the Henan Xingdusi to intercept it and ordered Zhu Youjian to immediately go to the stage.
What is Chongzhen afraid of? He was not afraid that this relative would die on the battlefield, he was afraid that this vassal king would not want to live in the vassal states and wait for death, he was afraid that this vassal king would actually imitate his ancestor, King Yan. As for whether Zhu Youjian is a king or not, it doesn’t matter how big a wave can be made by more than a thousand soldiers. What is important is that the emperor believed that "his heart is already punishable", so Zhu Youjian also enjoyed the maximum punishment.
In November of that year, Zhu Youjian was deposed as a commoner (his younger brother Zhu Youjian inherited the title of King of Tang) and was banned from Fengyang High Walls. This level has been eight more years.
Note: "Fengyang High Wall" is not an adjective, it is an nickname for the royal prison built by Zhu Di in Fengyang.
Zhu Youjian's eight years have been more miserable than when he was imprisoned in the Fengshi Department. The eunuch who was responsible for taking care of him was tortured by the punishment of "pier locking" (locking the limbs in a wooden box, so that the prisoner could not stand) for failing to ask for bribes. In the 16th year of Chongzhen, the governor of Fengyang, Lu Zhenfei, discovered Zhu Youjian who had been tortured to the point of being unseen during the inspection. He sent someone to treat him and submitted a memorial to the court to avenge him. After that, Zhu Youjian's life became more stable.
In the 17th year of Chongzhen, the dynasty changed drastically. Chongzhen hanged himself in Beijing to sacrifice his country. King of Fu Zhu Yousong was promoted to emperor in Nanjing. With the amnesty of Emperor Hongguang of the ascension of the throne, Zhu Youjian was able to step out of the wall and see the light of day again. At that time, Zhu Youjian was crowned as the king of Nanyang by Emperor Hongguang, and ordered him to move his vassal state to Pingyuefu, Guangxi.
In the first year of Hongguang, Zhu Youjian recovered from his injuries and was in a vassal state just after he set out, and there was a huge change again. In May of that year, the Qing army captured Nanjing and the Hongguang Dynasty was destroyed. Zhu Youjian, who ran to Jiaxing , went south to Fujian with the help of Zheng Hongkui ( Zheng Chenggong 's uncle), and also ushered in his last "opportunity" in his life.
The identity of the royal nobleman and the situation of the commander alone made Zhu Youjian a dazzling " star " in Fujian. First, he was supported as a ruling state by everyone, and then in July 1645, he was promoted as emperor, namely Emperor Longwu .
At this time, Zhu Youjian had the heart to worry about the country and the ability to worry about the country (later generations evaluated him as the most talented among the emperors of the Southern Ming ), and also had the qualifications to worry about the country, but he had no power to worry about the country. Because his emperor also needs to add a prefix "puppet" to the front.
The one who insulted him was a pirate gang headed by the Zheng family. They supported Zhu Youjian not to serve the Ming Dynasty and be loyal ministers. He just wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the world to borrow Zhu's signature to expand his territory and expand his power.
Faced with the Qing army raging in the Jiangnan region, they did not think about how to defend against the enemy and save the people from fire and fire, but instead sold official positions and plundered the people. Because the methods were too cruel, many people in many places even hoped that the Qing army would come sooner -- " Qing soldiers are like crabs, why not come later! "
1645 The Qing Dynasty issued a "Shaving Order", and the people in Jiangnan asked for help from the Longwu court in Fujian, and Zhu Youjian ordered the generals to lead the army north. However, Zheng Zhilong (Zheng Chenggong's father) and others who actually controlled the military power ignored it at all. In the end, , who was only in his sixties, turned their wealth and led several children to recruit rebels to respond to Emperor Longwu's call to go north to fight against the Qing Dynasty.
In December of that year, Huang Daozhou was defeated and captured. He refused to surrender and was executed in Nanjing in March 1646. Zhu Youjian, who learned the news, was unwilling to be a puppet. For his own wish to revive the Ming Dynasty, he decided to lead his army north to march in person, but there were less than 4,000 Ming troops who followed him to fight.
What Zhu Youjian did not expect was that Zheng Zhilong had secretly surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Under his order, many important passes in Jiangxi and Fujian were abandoned, and the generals led their troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty (Zheng Cheng Cheng did not rebel against the Ming Dynasty among the main generals of the Zheng family). With the cooperation of Zheng Zhilong, the Qing army led by Li Chengdong was able to advance straight into and captured Zhu Youjian and his queen Zeng in Tingzhou.
The demise of the Ming Dynasty was nothing worth regretting, after all, it was already rotten and could not be saved. However, the Qing Dynasty was able to conquer the Central Plains dynasty with a small tribe of hundreds of thousands of people, which was really not the tribe itself capable of. People like Zheng Zhilong were the "heroes" behind the scenes.
After being captured, Empress Zeng was unwilling to be humiliated by the destruction of the country. It is said that when she was escorted by Jiuxi, a tributary of the Minjiang River, Zeng Hou found an opportunity to run to the edge of the cliff, leaving behind the last words "Your Majesty should die for the country", and then jumped off the cliff and committed suicide. The ending of Zhu Youjian is recorded in different historical books. He died of Changting , died of hunger strike, and was executed in Fuzhou...
This is the life of a vassal king who was worried about his king and the country in the Ming Dynasty.Some friends may say that this is an extreme example, which I do not deny, but who can list a counterexample of a vassal king who is worried about the king and the country but is not suspicious or rectified by the court?
Take the vassal as an example. Starting from the first prince Zhu Gui , some of them were arbitrarily and cruel to the military and civilians in the vassal states; some were cowardly and incompetent, kneeling down to worship military generals in order to seek self-respect; some were only for pleasure and mourning; some were only concerned about themselves and abandoning the country to avoid disaster; some were also buried in the royal palace and didn't care about anything... At most, the court issued an order to refute, and the life of the previous dynasties can be said to be boundless.
And the sixth generation king Zhu Tingsae has a rare heart with the court and the king. The low-level clan relatives had a difficult life, so he asked the court for their salary; the court's border defense was under great pressure, so he took the initiative to donate silver and land to the court...
As a result, the clan relatives at all levels under the Daifu were discussing, and the court also sued various black materials one or two of them from time to time, causing him to die. Finally, Zhu Tingsai understood and became the Happy Prince, and the trouble disappeared.
So after Taizu, no matter whether you are willing or not, the vassal kings cannot worry about the king and the country - the court does not allow it. These vassal kings can only be like ordinary people who seek profit and avoid harm. They are just doing what the court requires them to do - eating and waiting to die.
