Volume 10 Chapter 16 Whoever commits many acts of injustice will be killed
In other words, why did Li Zicheng cook King Fu and make a "Fulu Banquet" to share with his subordinates? Forget about cooking people, you really eat it, how big a hatred is this? Besides, Li Zicheng is not known for being cruel, and there is no need for him to pretend to be cruel to increase his prestige, why did he do such a cruel thing?
This "Fulu Banquet" is not a fictional thing, it is recorded in many history books, and no one has ever criticized Li Zicheng's cruelty, as if it was justified! Cannibalism is still a matter of course, is there any mistake?
If you want to understand what King Fu did, then you are really not mistaken, the common people really want to eat his flesh and drink his blood!
This blessed king Zhu Changxun is the third son of Emperor Wanli of Mingshenzong, it can be said that he was born a scourge, because Emperor Wanli favored his biological mother Zheng Guifei, and wanted to abolish Chang Liyu to make him the prince, which caused the 'national dispute', and finally Wanli succumbed to the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo as the prince, but this matter directly forced the resignation of the four first assistants, and more than 10 senior officials of the six ministries were convicted, and a total of more than 300 officials of all sizes were dismissed, dismissed, and distributed, and Mingshenzong was therefore not in court to protest.
This dispute over the national capital intensified the contradictions between the civilian clique and the imperial family, and it can be said that it really shook the national capital of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the fall of the dynasty began here.
But this Fu King's scourge to the Ming Dynasty did not end, he was forced to give him most of the gold and silver treasures looted by the Ming God Sect after the domain, and gave him 40,000 hectares of fertile land, so that the people have the saying that 'the first emperor spent the wealth of the world to fat the king, and Luoyang was rich in the palace'.
It stands to reason that with the money that can't be used up in these lifetimes, he will honestly be his own blessed king and enjoy the blessings of the Qing Dynasty, but he doesn't, he is addicted to wine, and relying on the favor of Mingshenzong, he connived at his subordinates to forcibly seize and rob the people's daughters everywhere, crazy money, crazy annexation of land.
How crazy is he? Not to mention Henan, he is a soil overlord, he even occupied the salt wells and tea markets in Sichuan, and grabbed people to Shandong and Huguang!
These are all enough, at most it caused some public resentment in the places where he was raging, and it was not enough to shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and the most excessive thing he did was that after the drought broke out in the northwest, he not only did not open a warehouse to help the victims, but also took the lead in collecting taxes, that is, no matter whether the people under his rule had no food to eat, or starved to death, the tax could not be less! He took the lead, and the clans in various places followed suit, forcing the people's resentment everywhere to boil, and finally caused peasant uprisings in various places.
Although he cannot be blamed for the disaster of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he took a very bad head, regardless of the disaster, and it is strange that the common people did not rebel. If he had taken the lead in reducing taxes and providing relief to the victims, there would have been no chaos in the northwest.
This is not the most hateful, the most hateful thing is that the imperial court has organized soldiers and horses to exterminate the peasant uprising many times, but due to the emptiness of the treasury, most of the soldiers are hungry to the battlefield, Emperor Chongzhen is also benevolent to him, every time there is a thief who threatens Luoyang, he sends troops to help, but every time the soldiers come hungry, go back hungry, he never takes out a grain of rice to reward the army that came to support! In the end, it was not at all surprising that the officers and soldiers who had come to help him defend the city opened the gates to meet the king, and he was entirely to blame.
The so-called many injustices will kill themselves, not only the king of Fu, but also the royal relatives of Xiang, Guiyang, and Chu are all virtuous, only caring about their own pleasure, and completely ignoring the life and death of the people under their rule. More than 300,000 children of the clan, Yulu accounted for more than half of the national taxes of the Ming Dynasty, and also occupied nearly half of the country's fertile land, and relied on the identity of the clan to do evil everywhere, so if it continues, even if there is no drought, sooner or later the common people will be forced to rebel, to show that it is not an exaggeration to say that the death of the dynasty is not an exaggeration to the royal family, and the drought in the northwest has only accelerated this process.
Zhu Cijiong had already understood this truth under Xu Guangqi's hint, so he came to "borrow a knife to kill" and asked the rebel army to clean up the moths of this clan, and now Li Zicheng has cooked the biggest moth, what happened to Zhang Xianzhong?
The reason why Zhang Xianzhong has not captured Xiangyang and Li Zicheng for so long is a reason, and he also knows that he can't be the first bird, to say that although these two people are not good at fighting, the way to save their lives is still very powerful, or how about the thirteen families and seventy-two road rebels will finally come out of the two of them.
Zhang Xianzhong's patience is even better than Li Zicheng, so he has lived longer than Li Zicheng in history, and in the end, if he hadn't had a hot brain, he would have been a hero and led the Great Western Army to fight the Qing army to the death, I'm afraid the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not be able to help him.
Of course, in the end, he still didn't become a hero, because history is written by the victors, and he led the army to fight the Qing army like this, can the Manchu Qing Dynasty let him stay for a hundred years? This is naturally impossible, and in the end, the Manchu Qing simply described him as a murderous demon king in the history books, making him stink for 10,000 years!
Those old things of the Chongzhen Dynasty will not be said more, in short, Zhang Xianzhong is more slippery than Li Zicheng, he heard that the main force of the righteous army Gao Yingxiang was wiped out after the whole army did not move, until he heard that Li Zicheng entered Luoyang, cooked the Fu Wang, and then pulled the looted grain and grass property to the north He did not move.
He besieged Xiangyang for so long, and the city naturally contacted Neiying, so he also rushed into Xiangyang City without much effort, which was the result of the unpopularity of these royal clansmen, Chongzhen was almost like this at that time, and few of the peasant rebels resisted, all of them surrendered in Kaicheng.
If it were to really fight, would the Ming army not be able to defeat the rebel army? You don't see Chongzhen casually sending a fierce man to lead tens of thousands of peasant troops who can fight with the Ming army, like Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, Zuo Liangyu, etc., whichever one, the rebel army that can fight with tens of thousands of horses and horses can't find the north. Cao Wenzhao even dared to lead more than 1,000 Guan Ningtie to chase more than 100,000 righteous troops, of course, the ratio of 1,000 to 100,000 was a bit too different, it was really a person who could kill him by throwing a stone, so Cao Wenzhao hung up accidentally.
The reason why the old words are brought up here is just to illustrate one point, that is, these royal clansmen have really gone too far, not only the common people hate them, but even the Ming army is unwilling to fight for them, not to mention that many of the rebels are guards or border soldiers, so the rebels can generally find internal responses to attack the city, and the city is simply useless in front of them.
Xiangyang has always been an important military town, and with the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, Zhang Xianzhong can't attack it even if he doubles his troops, but it is different with Neiying, he rushed in one night.
This Xiangwang Zhu Yiming is just greedy for pleasure, regardless of the life or death of the civilians, but he is not perverse like King Fu, but he is also not immune, in the eyes of the common people, the royal family is a heinous villain, no matter if you do many bad things, if you are caught, you will be killed, and those who have done bad things will eat your flesh and drink your blood.
There is an unlucky guy in this Xiangyang city who is more unlucky than King Xiang, this is Zhu Changfa, the king of Guiyang, that place in Guiyang was almost a wild place in the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Changfa, the king of Guiyang, basically did not stay in his own territory, and generally accompanied the old Xiangwang in Xiangyang, and this time he was also caught by Zhang Xianzhong and cut it together!
After Zhang Xianzhong captured Xiangyang, he didn't run away immediately like Li Zicheng, because this King Xiang was not as bad as King Fu, so he didn't loot much people's fat and people's ointment, and the property he grabbed in Xiangyang was not enough, what should I do? If it is not enough, he will continue to rob, he thinks that Li Zicheng has attracted the attention of the imperial court, and he should still have enough time, so not only did he not run away, but also led the army directly to Wuchang City.
Wuchang City is the location of the palace of Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, this king of Chu is not a good thing, and the king of Fu has to fight, it is said that he looted no less than 10 million taels of people's fat and ointment, robbed him at least these two years is not to worry about military expenses.
To say that this Chu King Zhu Huakui is really unpopular with the people, the officers and soldiers who defend the city don't even bother to do anything, as soon as they heard that the righteous army is coming, they scattered directly, and the city was too lazy to defend him, he had to pay to recruit a group of civilians to defend the city for him, the result can be imagined, the people and the righteous army are a family, so naturally the righteous army is directly welcomed into the city to clean up your big villain.
Zhang Xianzhong did more than Li Zicheng, and the royal clansmen in Wuchang City were all driven into the Han River by him one by one and drowned alive, asking you to help the abuse! As for the main culprit, Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, was also cooked by him and shared it with his subordinates!
is still the same sentence, if you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, and if you do all the bad things, you will be punished one day.