Compared with the shock caused by the death of the British Duke Zhang Weixian, the Minister of Military Aircraft, the Metropolitan Governor, in the circle of the powerful people in Beijing, the death of the acting king Zhu Dingwei was not paid much attention except for the Zongren Mansion and the Ministry of Rites being busy.

In fact, for the death of these two figures, the current Emperor Chongzhen is not surprised.

As far as the British public Zhang Weixian is concerned, since last year, he has been in the midst of illness, and he is bedridden if he doesn't move, and he can't be on duty in the court.

It is already surprising that the British Duke has been able to persist until now, and helped Emperor Chongzhen to restructure and reorganize the Governor's Office of the Five Armies before he died.

Among the two people who came to the news of their deaths on the same day, in terms of noble status and estrangement of relatives, of course, it was Zhu Dingwei, the acting king, who was in front.

However, compared with the specifications of the emperor sending people to treat the funeral after the death of the British prince Zhang Weixian, the death of the acting king Zhu Dingwei can only be lighter than a feather.

If it has no usable value, this Chongzhen Emperor may not even bother to ask.

Emperor Chongzhen's ascension to the throne of the emperor is inseparable from the strong support of the British Duke Zhang Weixian.

Therefore, whether it is the Chongzhen Emperor in history or the current Chongzhen Emperor, he still recognizes the contribution of the British Duke Zhang Weixian.

Especially now, the Chongzhen Emperor has always been grateful to the British Duke Zhang Weixian's performance at many critical moments.

Of course, in addition to being grateful, he still has some guilt in his heart.

Because although the British duke was not in good health in history, he persisted until Chongzhen died of illness four years later.

In this life, it was almost a year ahead of schedule.

During this period, whether it was the formation and training of the new army of the guards, the rectification of the two capitals, the reorganization of the governor's office of the five armies, and the imperial conquest of Juyongguan to defend against the enemy, etc., were all unprecedented actions in the original history.

On top of this series of major events, the British public Zhang Weixian has spent countless efforts.

And this may be the reason why he didn't survive to Chongzhen for four years when he was seriously ill.

As for the acting king Zhu Dingwei, in the original history, that is, during this time period.

If you look closely, it may be a few months earlier than that.

It may also be precisely because of the fact that Emperor Chongzhen sent the imperial doctor from Beijing before and sent tonic medicines, that Zhu Dingwei, the acting king, insisted on it for half a year longer than the original history.

For this acting king Zhu Dingwei, although Emperor Chongzhen is very indifferent, he does not have any bad feelings.

This person's reputation in Datong City, as well as his reputation among Datong's civil officials and military generals, is not too bad.

Of course, if he has a bad reputation, or if he has some heinous crimes, then Emperor Chongzhen is now worry-free.

There is no need to consider such and such considerations, and directly according to the precedent of King Fu, King De and others, a holy decree was sent to the army to deal with the matter.

It's a lot simpler.

It's a pity that things in this world are never so easy and simple.

Zhu Dingwei, who entered the title of successor to the throne as a concubine, is still one of the more serious children of the clan, not only does not have any handle in the hands of Jinyiwei, but also has no loss of virtue, and is also loved by the people.

When Datong City was besieged by Jianqing, perhaps considering the lessons of the Shen Palace, the Jin Palace, and the Qin Palace, he still responded more actively to the call and request for help from the governor Fan Fucui and the then prefect Ma Shiying, and successively contributed money, food and people to help defend the city.

However, after the retreat of Jianyu, the branch palaces of the Daiwangfu and Xuanda and other places from the Daiwangfu suffered heavy losses, and the Daiwang Zhu Dingwei was also ill, and in May and June of this year, he was critically ill several times.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen asked the Zongren Mansion and the Ministry of Rites to send personnel to visit the palace to greet the illness was mainly because the critical illness of the acting king Zhu Dingwei came at the right time.

Because, next, Emperor Chongzhen wants to take advantage of the inheritance of this dynasty palace and force Zhu Yi, the son of the acting king, to accept the new clan feudal system.

It's not that Emperor Chongzhen is really mean and unkind, and it's not that he doesn't care about the blood relationship between the royal family and his relatives.

But at this time in the late Ming Dynasty, the clan problem really had to be solved.

The reason why he aimed at the Daiwangfu as a breakthrough was because this time, Emperor Chongzhen's idea of solving the problem of the clan was different from the previous easy and then difficult when solving other problems, and he planned to make it difficult first and then easy.

It may be much easier to start with the big sects, set a rule, and then solve the problems of other clans.

So what is the difference in status and power between the prince of the clan and other vassal kings?

That's a long story.

Compared with other vassal kings, large feudal lords such as King Qin, King Jin, and King Dai were considered to be first-class in the Ming Dynasty.

They belonged to the nine princes of Biansai who were personally divided by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and they were originally on an equal footing with King Yan.

At the beginning, the purpose of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, to divide these nine princes of the frontier was to let them expand their territory and wings the Ming Chamber.

Therefore, the military power, financial power, and other personnel privileges possessed by these border princes are incomparable to other feudal kings in the interior or Jiangnan.

These nine princes of Biansai, that is, the princes of the Ming family who were later known as the kings of Sai, were the kings of Yan, Liao, Ning, Qin, Dai, Jin, and Gu, Su, and Qing.

Now when it comes to the Chongzhen period, the Liao Wangfu, the Ning Wangfu, and the Gu Wangfu no longer exist.

After Zhu Di, the king of Yan, became the emperor of Yongle, they were quickly taken to the interior one by one, not only seizing their military power, but also carrying out various restrictions.

The original fief of Ning Wangfu was in Daningwei, because King Ning had a large number of Mongolian cavalry under his command, so before Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised troops, Ning Wangfu was the most powerful and powerful of the nine Sai kings.

Later, after the successful rebellion of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, he was worried that these brothers with soldiers and horses would also rebel in their own way, so they started to think about these kings.

Among them, Ning Wangfu is the first to bear it.

In short, Emperor Yongle abolished Daning Wei and moved the Ning Dynasty to Nanchang Mansion, Jiangxi.

Subsequently, the Liaowang Mansion was moved from Kaiyuanwei in Liaodong to the Jingzhou Mansion in Huguang, and the Guwangfu was also moved from the Xuanfu town in the land of the Nine Sides to the Changsha Mansion in Huguang.

Next, Ning Wangfu, Gu Wangfu, and Liao Wangfu were indeed abolished for rebellion, rebellion or other crimes, and their descendants were abolished as concubines.

Several other kings, such as the King of Qin, the King of Jin, the King of Dai, the King of Qing, and the King of Su, were also reduced from their military power and relieved of their function of guarding the border fortress.

The fiefs of King Qing and King Su were also changed and moved again and again.

Today, King Qing is in Ningxia, and King Su is in Lanzhou.

In this way, after more than 200 consecutive years of restrictions and weakening, among the nine Biansai princes entitled by Taizu, no matter which one of the existing feudal domains is, there is no longer any threat to the royal descendants of the Yan Dynasty.

Therefore, starting from the palace of the king to solve the problem of the clan, it is said that it is difficult first and then easy, but in fact, it is not necessarily true.

At the very least, the current royal palace is at its weakest time in the history of its inheritance.

The reason why I say this is not only because of the death of the current acting king Zhu Dingwei, but more importantly, the Jianyu army broke through the border from the two places of killing the tiger and the victory to the land of Xuanda, and then broke the state and destroyed the county, and all the county kings who were born in the lineage of the king's mansion, but all the fiefs under the rule of Xuanda, such as the king of Shanyin, the king of Guangling, the king of Lingqiu, the king of Huairen, etc., were also swept away.

The Acting Wangfu is not just a acting king, the descendants of the clan who were born in the lineage of the acting king, there are more than 20 county kings with just two words, and the fiefs are all over Xuanfu, Datong and Shanxi.

The two words below the county king, that is, from the general of Zhenguo to the lieutenant of Fengguo, are even more so many that they cannot be calculated.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen asked the Zongren Mansion to count the number of sect children today, but they couldn't get it out for a long time, was because after the war in the north, the new ones were not added and recorded, and the dead ones were not marked with annotations.

Especially after the invasion of Jianlu ravaged the land of Xuanda, the Daiwangfu lineage, except for the descendants of the Daiwang branch who guarded the city of Datongfu, many others could not be counted.