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From 1646, the Qing court stopped conferring titles on vassal kings. Two years later, Zhou Shenxuan was executed by the Qing court along with the King of Zhou and the King of De. Zhu Gang's second son, Zhu Jiye, was conferred the title of Prince of Gaoping at the age of 23 and died at the age of 29. Since Zhu Jiye died without an heir, his property was inherited, so the county was abolished.

Zhou Jihuang was a bastard son of the Zhou family. He had been jealous of his father's favoritism towards his elder brother Zhu Qixi since he was a child. After Zhu Di usurped the throne, Zhou Jihuang seized the opportunity, called on his brother's subordinates, and seized the throne of King of Jin.

After Zhou Jihuang became the King of Jin, he became even more arrogant. He poisoned the wife of the King of Jin, Xie, and placed his brother Zhu Ji and nephew Zhu Meigui under house arrest. Later, Emperor Taizong Zhu Di and Emperor Renzong Zhu Gaochi died one after another. In 1425, Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne.

Zhu Jihuang then conspired with Zhu Gaoxu, the uncle of Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, to rebel. A year later, Zhu Gaoxu's rebellion failed, and Zhu Jihuang's conspiracy was exposed. He was stripped of his title and exiled with his sons to Fengyang, a high wall that was specially used to imprison criminals of the Ming Dynasty royal family.

When Zhu Gang's fourth son Zhu Jixuan was born, Zhu Yuanzhang happened to be holding a celebration banquet. Upon hearing the news of Zhu Jixuan's birth, Zhu Yuanzhang was even happier, so he bestowed the title of Qingcheng.

Therefore, among the many princes, only Zhu Jixuan did not use a place name as his title. Originally, the fief of King Qingcheng was in a certain place, but because his soldiers robbed merchants and caused public outrage, Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di recalled him back to Taiyuan.

It was not until nine years later that Zhu Jixuan, because of his meritorious service in the war, was approved by Zhu Di to settle down in Fenzhou with his mother. Later, his sixth brother Zhu Jilang also settled in Fenzhou, so Fenyang had two palaces. The Qingcheng Palace was in the east, so people called it the East Palace.

The Yonghe Palace is in the west, so it is called the West Palace. The two Prince Palaces have existed in Fenyang City for more than 200 years, and their descendants have multiplied for 11 generations, and are still distributed in Fenyang, Pingyao and other places.

Zhu Jihuan is the son of Zhu Gang, and was named Prince of Ninghua at the age of 17. When Zhu Jihuang slandered his elder brother Zhu Jixi for attempting to take the throne, he also wanted to drag Prince of Ninghua Zhu Jihuan along, but Zhu Jihuan was unwilling.

Later, Zhu Jihuang became the King of Jin. He was so narrow-minded that he decided to take revenge on Zhu Jihuan. He used Zhu Jihuan's fault as an excuse to detain Zhu Jihuan and his mother. Even their livelihood was cut off, and the mother and son were so embarrassed that they could only rely on selling things to survive.

At that time, Zhu Jihuan's mother was ill, and Zhu Jihuang did not allow the doctors in the Prince of Jin's Palace to treat her. The folk doctors were afraid of the power of the palace and did not dare to treat her either.

Prince Ninghua was forced into a corner and had no choice but to find Zhu Sheng, the Shanxi Censor who was about to return to Beijing to report on his work, and ask him to say a few good words to the emperor and ask him to send an imperial physician to treat his mother.

After Zhu Jihuang's fall, Zhu Jihuan's quality of life improved dramatically, and his sons were able to live a stable life. General Zhu Jihuan's two previous wives did not give birth to legitimate sons for him, so after his death, his eldest son Zhu Meiran should inherit.

However, the third son Zhu Meihe and the fourth son Zhu Meibao jumped out at this time to try to seize the throne. They claimed that Zhu Meiran's biological mother, Qiao, was a musician and was not born in the royal palace, so she might not be Zhu Jihuan's biological son at all.

Zhu Meiran quickly submitted a memorial, stating that Holy Mother Qiao was the singing girl given to his father by Prince Jin Zhu Jixi, and that this could be found in his personal records. This is how he managed to keep his position as Prince of a County.

Zhu Meiran died and was posthumously named Shun. His second son, Zhu Zhong, the Prince of Ninghua in Xifeng, was absurd and lustful, and he robbed other people's wives and even the concubines left by his father. It was really outrageous.

His younger brother Zhu Zhongyu couldn't stand it, so he complained to the then emperor, Zhu Youtang. Zhu Youtang didn't punish him severely, but just stripped him of his official hat and belt. Zhu Youtang's kindness made Zhu Zhongyu even more arrogant.

Seeing Zhu Zhong doing such evil things, his stepmother Zhao was so worried that she died of fear. His biological mother Liu repeatedly advised Zhu Zhong to curb his bad habits, but not only did it not work, she was beaten by him instead.

Later, the matter of the palace was reported to Zhu Youtang again. Zhu Youtang sent people to investigate the matter, but they were bribed by Zhu Zhongyu, who tried to distort the facts into his brother Zhu Zhongyu having an affair. However, Zhu Zhongyu refused to sign the confession even under torture.

Zhu Zhong came up with another plan. He imprisoned his own son Zhu Qiying in the palace and beat him with a hammer, forcing him to give false testimony. His biological mother Liu felt sorry for her grandson and begged for mercy in front of Zhu Zhong.

However, Zhu Zhong bit Liu's shoulder and then hit her wound, causing blood to flow all over the ground and soak her clothes. Eventually, Zhu Zhong's crime was exposed and he was demoted to a commoner and imprisoned in Fengyang. It was not until 1529 that Zhu Zhong's grandson Zhu Chao applied to the emperor again for the title.

The Ninghua Palace lasted until the last generation, Ninghua Prince Zhu Min. Zhu Jilang was the sixth son of Zhu Gang, and was named Prince of Yonghe in 1403. It is said that the original fief of Prince of Yonghe was in Yonghe County, SX Province, but because the land there was remote and sparsely populated.

Zhu Jilang was unwilling to go, so he refused to go to his fiefdom and built a palace in Fencheng on the grounds that he could not fulfill his filial piety to his mother Liu. Zhu Jilang died at the age of 55 and was posthumously named Zhaoding. The Yonghe King passed down for 9 generations. The last generation of Yonghe King Zhu Min disappeared after Li Zicheng conquered Fenzhou in 1644.

Zhu Gang's seventh son Zhu Jihe had much less screen time than his brothers. He was named Prince of Guangchang at the age of 8, died at the age of 33, and was posthumously named Dao.

The throne of Pingjun was inherited by his son Zhu Meijian. However, Zhu Meijian's two queens died early, and Zhu Meijian died at the age of 32 without a son, so the line of Guangchang Prince was extinct.

[A comprehensive review of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, historical knowledge of Zhu Su, King of Zhou, Ming Dynasty]

Zhu Yuanzhang had 26 sons. One of them loved plants more than the country. He once wrote a plant atlas "Compendium of Materia Medica for Famine Relief", which not only became a reference for Li Shizhen, but also attracted scholars from all over the world to support him. He was Zhu Yuanzhang's fifth son Zhu Su.

Although he had no intention of seizing power, he was exiled to Yunnan twice for the crime of treason, and all this was thanks to his son who betrayed his father. In this issue, let us take stock of the Zhou Wang lineage in the Ming Dynasty royal lineage.

Zhu Su was Zhu Di's younger brother. Since they were only one year apart in age, they were quite close. At that time, Zhu Di was very reluctant to study and was a naughty child, but Zhu Su was serious and loved to read.

In 1370, the 9-year-old Zhu Su was named King of Wu and his fiefdom was in Hangzhou, but he did not go there because he was still young. In 1377, Zhu Su married the daughter of Feng Sheng, a founding hero and Duke of Song.

After getting married, he was ready to leave for his fiefdom of Hangzhou. However, a minister wrote to the emperor saying that Hangzhou was a first-tier city where wealth was concentrated. If it was given to a vassal king, the country would suffer a great loss.

Zhu Su was then named King of Zhou and his fiefdom was changed to Kaifeng. After arriving at his fiefdom, Zhu Su always obeyed the law until 1389, when he violated the rules and secretly left his fiefdom for Fengyang.

Zhu Su's father-in-law Feng Sheng happened to be training troops in Fengyang, which was undoubtedly a minefield for Zhu Yuanzhang and touched his sensitive and suspicious nerves. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and immediately ordered that King Zhou Zhu Su be exiled to Yunnan and let his eldest son Zhu Youdun take over Zhu Su's management of the vassal affairs.

During his exile, Zhu Su saw that many local residents lived in difficult conditions, were easily sick, and lacked medical care and medicine. So he organized the good doctors in the city to compile "Puji Fang", a must-have medical book for home and travel.

"Pu Ji Fang" summarizes the prescriptions used by medical practitioners throughout the ages. It not only contains more than 3000 prescriptions, but each prescription is written in great detail. It was reprinted more than 10 times in the Ming Dynasty.

Two years later, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Zhu Su had not made any unusual moves, so he allowed him to return to his fiefdom. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang died, and his grandson Zhu Yunwen succeeded him. Zhu Yunwen was worried that the power in the hands of his uncles would threaten him, so he began to reduce the power of the vassal states.

The eldest two, Prince of Qin Zhu Chong and Prince of Jin Zhu Gang, had already died of illness. Zhu Yunwen was most worried about his fourth uncle Zhu Di. Zhu Su had the closest relationship with Zhu Di and became the first to be squeezed.

It happened that Zhu Su's second son Zhu Youji reported his father's intention to rebel, which was exactly what Zhu Yunwen wanted. So Zhu Su was demoted to a commoner, revisited his hometown, and was exiled to Yunnan. It was not until 1402, when Zhu Di seized the throne, that Zhu Su's title was restored. After that, Zhu Su could finally study medicine in peace in his fiefdom.

In 1406, Zhu Su's "Jiuhuang Bencao" was published. As a book that records edible wild plants, "Jiuhuang Bencao" is a symbol of the development of Chinese herbal medicine from pharmacology to applied botany. The book has two volumes, a total of 414 plants, nearly 2/3 of which have not been recorded in previous herbal books, and the illustrations are exquisite.

Not only did it become a reference for Li Shizhen's literature, but it also attracted the support of scholars from the United States, Britain, Russia, and Japan. At the age of 64, Zhu Su died of illness and was posthumously named King Ding. After his death, the position of King Zhou was passed to Zhu Youdun.

When Zhu Su was exiled to Yunnan for the first time, Zhu Youdun was only 10 years old. At such a young age, he worried a lot about the family and managed the affairs of the vassal king on behalf of his father. In three years, he managed the Zhou Palace in an orderly manner.

After Zhu Yunwen came to power, he and his father were demoted to commoners and exiled to Yunnan because of his younger brother Zhu Youjie's denunciation. The power struggle made him feel exhausted.

So he deliberately stayed away from politics and concentrated on studying opera and opera creation. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, zaju was gradually replaced by the emerging legendary drama and tended to decline. However, Zhu Youdun insisted on creating 31 kinds of zaju, which made him the main representative of the transformation of zaju at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, and the first person to perform zaju in the early Ming Dynasty.

In 1439, Zhu Youdun died without any offspring. According to the laws of the early Ming Dynasty, if a prince had no children, his wife and concubines had to be buried alive with him. Zhu Youdun thought this was too cruel, so before his death he specifically asked the court not to let his wife and concubines be buried alive with him.

However, the imperial edict came too late, and Zhu Youdun's queen Gong and concubines Chen, Han, Zhang, Li and others who had accidents still died.

When Emperor Yingzong of Ming heard the obituary, he sent eunuchs to pay tribute and issued an edict to posthumously posthumously confer the title of Zhenlie on Princess Gong and the title of Zhenshun on the Sixth Lady. Eventually, Emperor Yingzong abolished this cruel system.

Zhu Youjie was the fourth son of Zhu Su. He was unable to inherit the throne of Zhou. After Zhu Su came to power, he had evil intentions and reported his father Zhu Su for treason. He used his own strength to betray his father and brother, causing both Zhu Su and Zhu Youdun to be exiled to Nanyun.

However, Zhu Youjie did not anticipate his fourth uncle's rebellion. After Zhu Di succeeded, Zhu Su and Zhu Youdun came back and resumed their original status. Facing his rebellious son again, Zhu Su had only one attitude:

He asked his brother Zhu Di to execute Zhu Youjie, but perhaps because he was afraid of leaving a reputation of harming the royal family, Zhu Di simply appointed Zhu Youjie as King of Runan and sent him to Dali, Yunnan.

It was not until 1422 that Zhu Youxie's mother, the wife of King Zhou, Feng, passed away, and Zhu Youxie finally had the opportunity to return to Kaifeng after 20 years. After Zhu Su's death, Zhu Youdun became the second King of Zhou.

Moreover, Zhu Youdun had no offspring. If Zhu Youdun died, he would be the next King of Zhou. So Zhu Youxie set his sights on his brother again. After Zhu Zhanji, the Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, succeeded to the throne, he repeated his old tricks and repeatedly spread rumors that Zhu Youdun was going to usurp the throne.

However, Zhu Zhanji knew that Zhu Youdun was a man who was always busy with writing and writing, and who stayed away from political disputes and would not rebel. For this reason, Zhu Zhanji wrote a letter to Zhu Youdun, saying that although Zhu Youdun had done something wrong, they were brothers after all.

Zhu Youdun, who was a Buddhist, accepted the mediation of the emperor's nephew, but Zhu Youdun was determined to rush to his death. He knew that Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty was very worried about his uncle, Prince Zhao Zhu Gaosui.

So he found Wuding Hou Zhu Youxi and went to Zhao Wang's fiefdom, deliberately leaving a bow and arrow with a letter. The letter attempted to prove that Zhu Youdun's fourth brother Zhu Youjue, who was close to him, intended to join forces with Zhu Gaosui to rebel.

Zhu Youxie thought that this would help Zhu Zhanji get rid of Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Youdun. At that time, the throne would belong to him, but Zhu Youdun immediately wrote a letter stating that Wuding Hou Zhu Youxi had been to Zhangde.

Zhu Zhanji immediately ordered Zhu Youxi to come to the capital, but he did not expect that Zhu Youxi would immediately summon Zhu Youjie as soon as he saw the emperor. Zhu Zhanji was furious and demoted both Zhu Youjie and Zhu Youxi to commoners.

In his early years, Zhu Youjue was betrayed twice by his brother Zhu Youjie. At the age of 77, he was demoted to a commoner and exiled with his father. Later, during the Xuande period, he was wrongly accused of attempting to rebel. Fortunately, Zhu Youjie did not succeed in the end.

Since his elder brother Zhu Youdun had no son, Zhu Youjue inherited the title at the age of 47 and reigned for 14 years until his death at the age of 61.

Zhu Yongjie had a total of 13 sons and 10 daughters. After his death, his eldest son Zhu Zihou was promoted to the 4th generation King of Zhou. Since his eldest brother Zhu Youdun had no sons, Zhu Zihou grew up with his uncle Zhu Su.

Zhu Youdun treated him as his own son and taught him poetry, literature, music theory, benevolence, righteousness, propriety and law. Zhu Zihou was good at everything, but he liked to gather scholars and sing while drinking. He was a drunkard and died of excessive drinking at the age of 34.

Since he had no offspring, his younger brother Zhu Zidi took over the throne of Zhou. Zhou Zidi inherited the career of his grandfather Zhu Su, and at the age of 19, he began to treat the people. Not only that, he also opened a prescription training class and trained more than 3000 doctors from all over the country.

In addition, Zhu Zidi also learned from his brother Zhu Zihou's experience and lessons, never drank alcohol, lived to the age of 62, and then passed the throne of Zhou to his son Zhu Tongbao. Zhu Tongbao adhered to the principle of becoming bigger and stronger, and gave birth to a total of 25 sons and 11 daughters.

The eldest son Zhu Anheng was also an expert at betraying his father. Not only did he manipulate his father to put money into his own pocket, he also bullied his brother's wife, which made his biological mother Gao's blood pressure soar. She became depressed and eventually died.