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In 1417, Zhu Yuanzhang's 19th son, Prince of Gu Zhu Tan, attempted to usurp the throne together with his 11th son, Prince of Shu Zhu Chun. Zhu Yunhuan was implicated for no reason. Soon after, the 39-year-old Zhu Yunhuan died suddenly in his residence in Fengyang.

Zhu Yunhuan left behind a son named Zhu Wenkun. When Zhu Yunhuan died, Zhu Wenkun was still an infant. Wang Zhong, a loyal old eunuch of Zhu Yunwen, risked his life to take Zhu Wenkun away from Fengyang. Later, Wang Zhong took Zhu Wenkun to settle in Laiyang, Shandong, and asked Zhu Wenkun to change his surname to Wang to avoid the court's pursuit.

Zhu Wenkun and his descendants no longer regarded themselves as members of the Ming Dynasty royal family. He no longer named his descendants according to the generation name set by Zhu Yuanzhang. Later, Zhu Wenkun's descendants flourished in Laiyang. To this day, most of the villagers with the surname Zhu in Nanzhujiacun Village, Laiyang are his descendants.

Zhu Biao's fourth son was Zhu Yunjian, the son of Zhu Biao and his successor, Empress Lü, and the younger brother of Zhu Yunwen. After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he demoted him and his elder brother Zhu Yunhuan to commoners and imprisoned them in Fengyang.

It was not until the Southern Ming Dynasty that Emperor Anzong of the Ming Dynasty posthumously conferred the title of King Heng on him, and there is no recorded offspring.

Zhu Biao's fifth son, Zhu Yunxi, was born a year before his father Zhu Biao's death, so Zhu Yunxi never experienced the warmth of fatherly love.

When he was 7 years old, his uncle Zhu Di successfully usurped the throne and overthrew the regime of Zhu Yunxi's elder brother Zhu Yunwen. Adhering to the principle of running away if you can't win, his mother Lu took the young Zhu Yunxi to live in Zhu Biao's mausoleum.

He thought he could live a peaceful life away from trouble, but when he was 16 years old, a fire reunited him with his father Zhu Biao. Zhu Yunxi also became the only one among Prince Yiwen's brothers to be given a posthumous title during the Yongle Dynasty. The posthumous title was Aijian, and he had no descendants.

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Zhu Yuanzhang had 26 sons in total. One of them had military ability that was no less than Zhu Di. He was Zhu Chong, the first King of Qin in the history of the Ming Dynasty. However, as one of the nine kings of the frontier, he often made Zhu Yuanzhang so angry that his blood pressure soared.

Zhu Yuanzhang even listed more than 20 crimes against him after his death, saying that he deserved to die. So what was the fate of the descendants of the second son of the Zhu family? In this issue, let us take stock of the Qin Wang lineage in the Ming Dynasty royal family.

Zhu Chong was born during the years of conquest when Zhu Yuanzhang founded his empire. His mother was Empress Ma. Zhu Chong was very smart when he was young, and he followed his father in many battles, and his military skills were maxed out.

Three years after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, the 14-year-old Zhu Chong was named the Prince of Qin, with his fief in Xi'an. In 1378, the city wall and the Prince of Qin's Palace in Xi'an were completed, and the provinces officially moved to Xi'an.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang advised him that the people inside the Great Wall had been very tired since the Yuan Dynasty, and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, they had to bear the KPI of transporting grain and paying taxes, so they really needed a rest. Therefore, after the completion of the Qin Palace, the unimportant work should be stopped.

However, Zhu Chong turned a deaf ear to his father's words and started massive construction projects, allowing residents to build pavilions and ponds in his palace for entertainment. Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he scolded him for "not understanding the feelings of scholars and common people and being as stupid as beasts."

Zhu Yuanzhang did not stop there. Zhu Yuanzhang tried every means to settle and provide relief to the 18 tribes of Tubo. Although Zhu Chong won a victory during his expedition, he captured pregnant women there and brought them into his palace, separating them from their husbands and wives.

When they went on the expedition to the Western Regions, they not only abducted 150 young girls, but also castrated 155 young boys. Many of the castrated boys even received boxed lunches because they could not recover well, which made Zhu Yuanzhang so angry that his blood pressure soared.

Zhu Chong favored Concubine Deng, so he placed Concubine Wang under house arrest and simply fed her some food every day.

Faced with the fact that Deng was favored, Zhu Zong turned into a wife-doting maniac. He even sent people to make queen's clothes for Deng to wear, and made the bed in his room into a five-clawed dragon bed exclusively for the emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang, who could no longer bear it, stabbed Deng to death.

After his beloved Concubine Deng was stabbed to death, Zhu Chong not only did not listen to his father's advice to treat Concubine Zheng Wang well, but became even more brutal.

Zhu Chong often abused private punishment in the palace in various ways, cutting off the tongues of workers, burying them in the snow to freeze them to death, tying them to trees to starve them to death, and burning them to death. The workers were all in danger, so in 1395, three old women in Zhu Chong's palace poisoned Zhu Chong to death.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was still resentful after Zhu Chong's death, ordered a reduction in the scale of Zhu Chong's funeral. He also wrote a eulogy that shocked people of all ages, listing more than 20 crimes of Zhu Chong and saying that he deserved to die.

Zhu Shangbing was the eldest son of Zhu Chong. When his father died when he was 15, he inherited the title and became the second King of Qin. He was the first prince of the Ming Dynasty to inherit the title as the crown prince, and also the first prince to inherit the title.

After Taizu's death, the crown prince Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne and immediately launched a massive campaign to reduce the power of the princes. Fortunately, Zhu Yunwen's targets were all his uncles, and second-generation princes like Zhu Shangbing were not affected.

After several years of success and failure, the Prince of Qi's fourth uncle, the Prince of Yan Zhu Di, broke into Nanjing City and became the new emperor, Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty.

Within a few months after Zhu Di proclaimed himself emperor, vassal kings such as Prince of Chu Zhu Zhen, Prince of Shu Zhu Chun, Prince of Xiang Zhu Bo, and Prince of Jin Zhu Ji all took the initiative to come to Beijing to pay homage and recognize the legitimacy of the new emperor.

Only Zhu Shangbing himself did not go, but sent his younger brother. In 1402, Zhu Di arranged for the son of Ru Chang, an important court official and Minister of War, to marry Zhu Shangbing's sister, Princess Chang'an, and at the same time asked Zhu Shangbing to come to Beijing for an audience. Only then did Zhu Shangbing reluctantly set off.

It was thought that in this way, the King of Qin and Zhu Di would be able to live in peace, but Zhu Shangbing used two borrowed titles when offering sacrifices to his parents, calling his parents "Huang Kao Bi" and his biological mother "Minlie Fei". Zhu Di did not investigate this further.

However, he had already used the excuse of conquering the Tatar Khan Bayanchur to withdraw nearly 2 people from the Qin Wang guards. This made Zhu Shangbing's mentality explode. When Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty sent envoys to Zhu Shangbing's fiefdom, he also used illness as an excuse to refuse to greet them in protest.

Zhu Di took this as an opportunity to dismiss a bunch of high-ranking officials in the palace, including Qin Wang Changshi, Ji Shan, Dian Yi, etc., on the grounds of poor guidance. He also wrote an extremely harsh imperial edict to criticize Zhu Shangbing. After receiving the edict, Zhu Shangbing immediately set off for Nanjing to apologize.

Soon after returning home, Zhu Shangbing died at the age of 32, and passed the throne to his legitimate son Zhu Zhiqi. Zhu Zhiqi, the King of Qin, was cautious throughout his life, reigned for 13 years, and died at the age of 21. He was posthumously named Xi. Since Zhu Zhiqi had no offspring, his eldest half-brother, Zhu Zhijun, the King of Weinan, was finally enfeoffed. However, when Zhu Zhiqi died at the age of 24, he also had no son, so his younger brother Zhu Zhihao inherited the throne of Qin.

This lineage eventually passed to the 15th Qin Wang Zhu Cunshu. In 1643, Li Zicheng captured Xi'an, and Zhu Cunshu surrendered and was named General Quan by Li Zicheng. A year later, Li Zicheng attacked Wu Sangui, and he and other captured Ming kings followed the army to Shanhaiguan and their whereabouts were unknown.

Zhu Shanglie was the second son of Zhu Chong. After Emperor Chengzu ascended the throne, Zhu Shanglie was sent to the capital by his brother Zhu Shangbing to meet with the emperor and recognize his fourth uncle's official rulership. The following year, Zhu Di conferred Zhu Shanglie the title of Prince of Yongxing, and at the same time, he also appointed the daughter of Li Ma Commander Gao Zhi as Princess of Yongxing.

However, Zhu Di did not let Zhu Shanglie go home, but sent him to garrison Gongchang, Gansu.

As a result, Qin Wang Zhu Shangbing lost a helper, but Zhu Shanglie was not willing to go to Gongchang. So when he arrived at Fengyang Prefecture, he beat up the people who came to greet him, from the officials of the garrison to the commanding officers, causing an uproar in the city. In the end, the plan to guard Gongchang had to be abandoned, and Zhu Shanglie finally stayed in his hometown of Xi'an.

Zhu Shanglie died in 1418 at the age of 17 after 35 years in power. The court gave him the posthumous title of Yijian.

Zhu Shanglie had two sons. His eldest son, Zhu Zhiyi, inherited the throne of Yongxing at the age of 15 and died at the age of 48. He was posthumously named Gongxian. Zhu Zhiyi had three sons, Zhu Gongxuan, Zhu Gongran and Zhu Gongqin.

Zhu Gongxuan later inherited the Yongxing throne from his father Zhu Zhiyu, and passed it on to his son Zhu Chenglan. However, since Zhu Chenglan's two sons unfortunately died later, his nephew Zhu Bingju inherited the Yongxing throne.

However, his nephew Zhu Bingju inherited the title illegally, so the title was passed to Zhu Bingju's son Zhu Weicui and was never passed down further.

Zhu Shanglie's second son, Zhu Zhicheng, was later named the General of the State. According to historical records, he had three sons, Zhu Gongxuan, Zhu Gongling and Zhu Gongkai, and a grandson, Zhu Cheng.

Zhu Shanglie's third son, Zhu Shangyu, was named King of Bao'an after Zhu Di ascended the throne. Zhu Shangyu later died at the age of 26. King of Bao'an had no children when he died, and only his concubine Zhao was pregnant.

Fortunately, Zhao later gave birth to a posthumous son for Zhu Shangyu, named Zhu Zhi'an, which ensured that the incense of the King of Bao'an would not be cut off. Zhu Zhi'an died young like his father, and the court gave him the posthumous title Daoshun.

Fortunately, Zhu Zhiqi left behind his eldest son Zhu Gongxuan, his second son Zhu Gonghong and his third son Zhu Gongdu.

Zhu Gongxuan inherited the throne of Bao'an after Zhu Zhi'an's death. However, after Zhu Gongxuan's death, since he had no heirs, the throne of Bao'an fell to his younger brother Zhu Gonghong. Zhu Gonghong died at the age of 36 without any heirs, and the baton was passed to his younger brother Zhu Gongdu.

Later, the title was passed to Zhu Gongdu's son Zhu Bingzhan. After Zhu Bingzhan's death, his son Zhu Wei should have been the examiner. However, at this time, Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao, began to investigate strictly. Since the King of Baoan had experienced two false titles before, Zhu Wei was exempted from the title. The Baoan Kingdom, which had been passed down for nearly 150 years, came to an end.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, Zhu Shangyu's illegitimate son Zhu Zhou went to the court with his brothers and were all granted titles, among which Zhu Zhou was granted the title of King of Xingping.

After Zhu Zhou died, the position of King of Xingping was first passed to his son Zhu Gonghui and then to his grandson Zhu Gongshuo. Unfortunately, Zhu Gongshuo had no son, and the Kingdom of Xingping disappeared.

Zhu Shangyu's sixth brother Zhu Shangxun was the Prince of Yongshou. Zhu Shangxun's eldest son Zhu Zhizhi then passed the title to seven generations of Princes of Yongshou, including Zhu Gonghong and Zhu Chenglin. This lineage lasted for more than 7 years. The last generation of Prince of Yongshou, Zhu Cunsang, disappeared with the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Shangyu's seventh brother, Zhu Shangkai, was named King of Anding, but he did not live a peaceful life like his brothers. At the age of 25, he wanted to rebel, but was later accused and demoted to a commoner, and was assigned to guard his father's tomb. After that, his descendants all became commoners, and there was no record of him in history books.

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He was the third among Zhu Yuanzhang's 26 sons. Many people said that if he had not died in his prime, the subsequent Jingnan Campaign might have happened, and whether Zhu Di could have survived the Ming Dynasty.

I'm afraid we all have to put a question mark, he is the most powerful prince in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gang. So in the long history of the Ming Dynasty, what is the fate of the descendants of Prince Jin Zhu Gang? In this issue, let us take stock of the lineage of the Prince Jin in the royal lineage of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gang was the legitimate son of Empress Xiaocigao Ma. He was smart since childhood and studied under the great Confucian scholar Song Lian together with his brother Zhu Biao. In addition, he was good-looking, so Zhu Yuanzhang loved this child very much.

Zhu Gang was named King of Jin at the age of 13 and was one of the nine kings of the frontier. When he was 20 years old, on his way to his fiefdom of Taiyuan, he whipped the cook for him because of a trivial matter. When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the news, he was very anxious.

The imperial edict was sent as fast as possible to tell the chef Zhu Gang, who was in charge of the food, that he could punish people arbitrarily, and that he might be poisoned. He received a box lunch, and he also used himself as an example, saying that during the period when he was conquering the world, he punished anyone who made a mistake.

The only thing was that for 23 years, no one dared to blame the chef Xu Xingzu. Later, Zhu Gang stopped beating the chef. Zhu Gang even dared to often kill people by chariot dismemberment, which made Zhu Yuanzhang even angrier. He wanted to abolish Zhu Gang's title of king. Fortunately, his brother Zhu Biao persuaded them to stop fighting, and Zhu Gang was able to keep his position as King of Jin.

Zhu Gang, who was stationed in Taiyuan, was an important force in resisting the Mongolian forces in the north. He and his younger brother, Prince of Yan Zhu Di, joined hands to fight against the Yuan Dynasty and once worked together to subdue the Northern Yuan Taiwei Nairbuhua.

However, the relationship between the two was just a fake brotherhood. Zhu Di once reported to his father Zhu Yuanzhang because a captain under Zhu Gang had seized his orchard in Damingchuan. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an imperial decree to take over the orchard.

It can be seen that Zhu Gang always suppressed his younger brother Zhu Di. Later, Zhu Gang was ordered to cultivate land to consolidate national defense. Zhu Yuanzhang also personally taught Zhu Gang his own experience as a shepherd boy. He asked the King of Jin to teach the Wei army how to herd horses and sheep, distribute horses and sheep, train foals, and how to build cities in their spare time.

But at this time, Zhu Gang, 40, died of illness. Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely sad but could do nothing.

After Zhu Gang's death, his son Zhu Jihui succeeded him.

Zhou Jixi's third brother Zhou Jihuang seized the opportunity and constantly slandered his brother Zhu Jixi's intention to rebel in front of Emperor Chengzu. Finally, in 1414, Emperor Chengzu issued an edict to deprive Zhu Jixi of his title of King of Jin and ordered him to guard his father Zhu Gang's mausoleum. Zhou Jihuang was made King of Jin instead, and Zhu Jixi was imprisoned by Zhu Jixi for 10 years before being rescued.

When Zhu Jihui died at the age of 61, he was demoted to a commoner for his crimes, so the throne of King of Jin returned to Zhu Jihui's lineage, and their eldest son Zhu Meigui succeeded to the throne and became the fourth King of Jin.

When he was young, Zhu Meigui accompanied his father to the coffin. He died after only 5 years as the King of Jin. His posthumous title was King Xian. After his death, his son Zhu Zhongxuan began his 60-year career as the King of Jin, and he outlasted his eldest son Zhu Qiyuan and eldest grandson Zhu Rong.

Finally, he passed the baton to his great-grandson Zhu Zhi. Later, the throne of Jin was passed down twice by the elder brother and younger brother, and finally passed to Zhu Shenxuan in 1644. Zhu Shenxuan was captured by Li Zicheng and taken to Shanhaiguan by Li Zicheng. He was captured by the Qing army in the Battle of Shanhaiguan.