Pingyang Prefecture is a local plan of Ming Dynasty in Shanxi Province, and it is also an area where the Ming Dynasty vassal kings gather. Because the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the prince was granted the title of prince and went to the fiefdom to live after adulthood. Except for the prince's son, the other sons of the prince must be granted the title of prince. Not enough, a city could not accommodate so many princes due to economic, geographical space and other reasons. For this reason, the Ming Dynasty finally adopted the method of living separately, that is, the prince left the fiefdom of his prince to go to another city to live.
The first king of Jinfan was Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's third son Zhu 㭎. After his descendants reproduction, the number of people grew rapidly. In addition, the life of the royal family was different from that of the common people, so soon Taiyuan City could not provide living space for these royal families. In order to get a better life, many royal families in Jinfan could only move out.
Pingyang Prefecture is a place in Shanxi with good economic conditions, so a large number of Jinfan princes moved here soon. However, due to the civil strife and extinction of Jinfan, three princes were left in Pingyang City, namely Jiaocheng King, Yangqu King, and Xihe King. These three branches were descendants of the second generation of Jin kings Zhu Ji's .
The royal family of the Ming Dynasty did not have to work, because his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang endured too much back then, so he set out excessive welfare benefits for his descendants. As long as he was the old Zhu family, he would not have to work and receive monthly salary. With this benefit, you can live your life comfortably.
According to the regulations of our ancestors, these descendants of the Zhu family have a beautiful life, but the reality is cruel.
Zhu Yuanzhang's treatment was small in number, so it was easy to achieve, but with the development of time, problems arose. The population was too large, and the salary Zhu Yuanzhang's payment was impossible to achieve at all, which made the emperor very worried.
However, it is stipulated that it is dead and people are alive. After discussing and deliberating, the emperor and the ministers decided to take the method of demolishing the east wall and repairing the west wall. This method is to satisfy the near branch and damage the far branch. The salary of the relatives of the royal family is paid according to regulations, and the salary is paid in part to the remote area, and the remaining ones are paid to Daming Baochao .
This Ming Dynasty treasure banknote was quite valuable during the Zhu Yuanzhang era, but it became waste paper more than a hundred years later. In fact, the salaries of the royal family in the remote branch were reduced.
The Fengguo General Zhu Biaozhai of the Prince of Xihe Mansion is the fifth level of the Ming Dynasty royal family, with a salary of 600 stones a year. It is logical that he has no worries about life, but he is a descendant of the King of Jin . As a descendant of the King of Jin , he is too far from the emperor. After being deducted from all kinds of things, he didn't get much food. Because his ancestors could not work, he could only find other ways to get rich.
Zhu Biaozhai found the lieutenant of the Yangqu Palace Zhu Zhiyi and Zhu Zhijie (with the word "fire" and cannot be typed) to discuss how to live? After all, the salary is getting worse every year, and if this continues, everyone will starve to death.
Zhubiaozhai means that everyone can find a way out and how can they make money. I didn't expect that Zhu Zhijie immediately suggested that since the court doesn't care about us, then we should not listen to the court and just rob him of his mother. His words shocked Zhu Biaozhai. After all, this was a major matter of illegality. Once his superior, King Xihe, knew that he could not afford it.
Zhu Biaozhai is afraid of King Xihe. Why did Zhu Zhijie propose robbery? Isn’t he afraid of King Yangqu dealing with him? Zhu Zhijie is really not afraid, because there was no Yangqu King at this time. As early as the Zhengde years, Yangqu King was deposed, so Zhu Zhijie is not afraid of anyone punishing him.
Zhu Zhiyi saw Zhu Biaozhai hesitant, and immediately said that everyone was going to starve to death. There is no need to worry about the high title of King Xihe. Who cares about us low-level royal families? If you are afraid, you will have to do it with your elder brother.
As soon as Zhu Zhiyi said this, Zhu Biaozhai (Biao is older than Zhi) immediately said that since he couldn't survive, he wouldn't care about any prince, and everyone would do it together.
Zhu Biaozhai three people formulated a robbery plan, but the three people definitely didn't do it. For this reason, they found another royal family, whose name was Brother Shi, who was the son of Zhu Qitan, the general of the Yangqu Palace, the auxiliary country.
Since it is a royal family, why doesn’t it have a name? It turned out that the court stipulated that the names of descendants of the royal family must be given by the court and then registered in order to receive wages. However, in order to prevent these royal families from pursuing their lives to seek benefits, the court formulated strict birth plans and did not recognize the children who had illegally given birth to the royal family. In other words, the Tenth Brother was an illegitimate child and the court did not give him a name, so naturally there was no salary. This made the Tenth Brother angry, so when Zhu Zhijie looked for him, he immediately joined. Then he also found Yibin from the Prince's Mansion of Yang District, namely his son-in-law Zheng Zhihai and Zhang Shichao, the official commander of Pingyang Mansion, to join.
Zhang Shichao joined quickly improved the business quality of this desperate group. He immediately recruited fugitive prisoners and local rogues to strengthen his strength, and then began to commit crimes near Pingyang.
A robbery gang suddenly appeared in Pingyang, and the government naturally had to take care of it. However, after investigation, it was found that the gang actually had a royal background, which made the government feel a headache because the royal family's crimes were not under their control. If they were in charge, they were the emperor's family, and everyone was finished playing. Therefore, they could only let the robbery gang go.
The government dares not take care of it, but someone dares to take care of it. This person is Zhu Zhijie's father Zhu .
Zhu said that he was the Fengguo General of the Yangqu Palace. He was afraid of the behavior of his two sons. This was illegal. The current Jiajing Emperor is severely dealing with the illegality of the royal family. If the actions of Zhu Zhijie and others were known by the emperor, they would inevitably be dealt with. Originally, the Yangqu King's lineage was abolished for his violation of the law. If Zhu Zhijie was discovered, everyone would be in trouble. In order to protect themselves, Zhu 本 号 voluntarily found the government to report his son's violation of the law, demanded that the government handle it severely, and took the government to arrest those who followed his son's violation of the law. After this governance, the public security in Pingyang quickly improved.
Zhu 's behavior of exorcising his relatives was quickly praised by Pingyang from the government to the people, but his behavior angered his son.
Zhu Zhijie Zhu Zhiyi's brothers resented his father for reporting him, so Zhu Zhijie decided to take revenge. He found accomplices and said that he could no longer sit still and wait for death. If he was arrested, everyone would not escape death. It would be better to learn from his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang and just turn around. His proposal was recognized by everyone again, so Zhu Zhijie rushed to his residence to prepare to seek revenge on his father.
Zhu When he learned that his son was coming to take revenge, he jumped over the wall and ran away. Zhu Zhijie then took out the remaining five horses in his home, then led people into Pingyang Prison to release the prisoners, rushed to the arsenal with great momentum to distribute weapons, and then fought against the officers and soldiers, burned and robbed Pingyang's shops and houses along the streets, and the whole Pingyang was in chaos.
However, Zhu Zhijie and others were mobs, and their men had no combat power. After a night of beating, smashing, looting, they were quickly defeated. Zheng Zhihai, Zhu Zhiyi, Shi Ge, Zhu Biaozhai were captured by the officers and soldiers in the chaos. Zhu Zhijie and Zhang Shichao were quite combative. They fought against the officers and soldiers for a long time, but in the end they could not defeat them, so they fled.
Is the kingdom under the world? Where can they escape? Soon, Zhang Shichao met the officers and soldiers who arrested him in Zhongtiaoshan , and was killed after fighting.
Zhu Zhijie ran to Wu Lao Peak. He knew that he had no way out and he didn't want to be caught and killed, so he committed suicide at Wu Lao Peak.
Just when Zhu Zhijie committed suicide at Wu Lao Peak, the angry Zhu expressed his hatred for his son rebelling and assassinating himself, so he beat Zhu Zhiyi to death directly. As for the others, they were handed over to the government for handling.
Pingyang government immediately told the court that Zhu Biaozhai Zheng Zhihai and others were extremely guilty and that according to the law, they should be executed to warn others.However, after receiving the report, Emperor Jiajing ignored Zheng Zhihai's life and death. He was very hesitant about Zhu Biaozhai's handling. After all, Zhu Biaozhai was his relatives and was all descendants of Taizu. He did not want to be criticized for killing the royal family. Fortunately, he had just issued an imperial edict to amnesty for the world. Therefore, Emperor Jiajing said that Zhu Biaozhai should be sentenced heavily, but he had just announced a general amnesty for the world. It is hard to say that he would be deposed as a commoner. If he violated the law again in the future, he would not be spared. said that the Biaozhai violated the law and practiced the law to be punished seriously, but recently there was a grace to be issued by the emperor, and the other party would not resign.
Zhu Biaozhai didn't expect that he would not die after committing such a serious crime. He breathed a sigh of relief, and this farce-like rebellion came to an end.
However, Jiajing never expected that this would encourage the royal family to commit crimes. After all, Zhu Biaozhai was not punished for participating in the rebellion, so it would be fine if he was accused of committing crimes. Therefore, everyone would do whatever they did before. Don’t be afraid. The emperor would not blame him. This also indicates that Emperor Jiajing’s plan to rectify the royal family was completely bankrupt. The royal family problems will continue to grow as a cancer that poisoned the Ming Dynasty and finally broke out completely and died together with the Ming Dynasty.
