Daming Military Empire

Chapter 240

By the way, why did Li Zicheng boil King Fu into a "Fu Lu Banquet" and share it with his subordinates?It's okay to boil people, but it's really delicious. How much hatred is this?Besides, Li Zicheng is not known for being cruel, and he doesn't need to pretend to be cruel to increase his prestige. Why did he do such a cruel thing?

This "Fu Lu Banquet" is not a fiction, it has been recorded in many history books, and no one has ever criticized Li Zicheng's cruelty, as if doing so is justified!Cannibalism is justified, is there a mistake?
If you want to understand what King Fu did, you're right, ordinary people really want to eat his flesh and drink his blood!

This Fu Wang Zhu Changxun is the third son of Emperor Wanli of Ming Shenzong. It can be said that he was a scourge at birth, because Emperor Wanli doted on his biological mother Zheng Guifei and wanted to abolish the elder and make him the prince, which resulted in the "national dispute" 'In the end, although Wanli succumbed, Zhu Changluo, the eldest son of the emperor, was made the prince, but this incident directly forced the four chief assistants to resign. More than a dozen senior officials from the six ministries were convicted for this, and more than 300 officials were dismissed, dismissed, As a result of the distribution, Ming Shenzong no longer went to court in protest.

This dispute over the foundation of the country exacerbated the conflict between the civil service group and the royal family, and it can be said that it really shook the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to say that the demise of the dynasty started from this.

But the blessings of the King of Fortune did not end to the Ming Dynasty. He was forced to surrender. After that, Ming Shenzong gave him most of the gold and silver treasures he had looted, and gave him [-] hectares of fertile land, so that the people have It is said that the first emperor spent the wealth of the world to enrich the king, and Luoyang was rich in the palace'.

It is reasonable to have money that cannot be used up in these lifetimes, so he can honestly be his own lucky king and enjoy the happiness. However, he is not, he is addicted to wine and sex, and relying on Ming Shenzong's favor, he connives his subordinates to take the rich everywhere. Grabbing and robbing civilian women, amassing money crazily, and annexing land crazily.

How crazy is he?Not to mention Henan, he is a tyrant, he even seized the salt wells and tea markets in Sichuan, and robbed people to Shandong and Huguang!
That's all, at most, it caused some public grievances in the place where he ravaged, and it was not enough to shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. The worst thing he did was after the drought broke out in the northwest, he not only did not open warehouses to relieve the victims, but also took the lead in collecting taxes. , that is to say, no matter whether the people under the rule have no food to eat or starve to death, there must be no less taxes!When he took the lead, the clans all over the country followed suit one after another, forcing people's resentment to boil everywhere, and finally led to peasant uprisings everywhere.

Although he cannot be blamed for the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he took a very bad lead and extorted money regardless of the disaster. It is no wonder that the common people did not rebel.If he took the lead in reducing taxes and helping the victims, there would be no chaos in the Northwest.

This is not the most hateful thing. The most hateful thing is that the imperial court has organized soldiers and horses to suppress peasant uprisings many times. However, due to the empty treasury, most of the soldiers went to the battlefield hungry. When some rebels threatened Luoyang, they would send troops to help, but every time the soldiers came and went back hungry, he never offered a grain of rice to reward the troops who came to support!In the end, it was no surprise that the officers and soldiers who came to help him defend the city opened the city gate to welcome King Chuang. He did it entirely on his own.

The so-called unrighteous deeds will lead to self-death, not only King Fu, but also the royal family members such as King Xiang, King Guiyang, and King Chu are all virtuous, only caring about their own enjoyment, and completely caring about the life and death of the people under their rule. There are more than 30 clan children, their salaries accounted for more than half of the Ming Dynasty's national taxes, and they also occupied nearly half of the country's fertile land. Rebellion, it is not an exaggeration to explain that the death of the dynasty was caused by the royal family. The severe drought in the northwest only accelerated the process.

Zhu Cijiong has already understood this truth under the hint of Xu Guangqi, so he came to "kill with a knife" and asked the rebel army to clean up the moths of the clan. Now Li Zicheng has cooked the biggest moth, King Fu, so what about Zhang Xianzhong? What?
The reason why Zhang Xianzhong has not captured Xiangyang and Li Zicheng for so long is one reason. He also knows that he cannot be the first bird. Although these two people are not good at fighting, they are still very good at saving their lives. In the end, the 72nd Route Rebels came out with the two of them.

Zhang Xianzhong's patience is even better than that of Li Zicheng, so in history he has lived longer than Li Zicheng. In the end, if he hadn't had a hot head and wanted to be a hero once again, leading the Western Army to fight against the Qing army, I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty would not be able to do anything to him .

Of course, he was not regarded as a hero in the end, because history is written by the victors. If he led the army to fight against the Qing army like this, would the Qing Dynasty allow him to live forever?This is naturally impossible. In the end, Man Qing simply described him as a murderous demon king in the history books, leaving him infamous for thousands of years!

I won’t talk about the old stories of the Chongzhen Dynasty. In short, Zhang Xianzhong is even more cunning than Li Zicheng. He didn’t move after he heard that Gao Yingxiang, the main force of the rebel army, was wiped out. He didn't do anything until the looted food, grass and property fled north.

He has surrounded Xiangyang for so long, and the city has naturally contacted the internal response, so he rushed into Xiangyang City without any effort. This is the result of the unpopularity of these royal family members. It's all like this. Few of the peasant uprisings resisted, and they all surrendered in Kaesong.

Would the Ming army not be able to defeat the rebel army if they really fought?Don't you see that Chongzhen sent a fierce man at random to lead a peasant army that could fight with tens of thousands of Ming troops? Not going north.Cao Wenzhao even dared to lead more than 1000 Guanning iron cavalry to chase more than [-] rebels. Of course, the ratio of [-] to [-] is a bit too big. It is true that one person can kill him by throwing a stone, so Cao Wenzhao accidentally just hung up.

The reason why the old saying is repeated here is just to make it clear that these royal family members have really gone too far. Not only the common people hate them, but even the Ming army is unwilling to work hard for them, let alone many of the rebels. They are guards or frontier soldiers, so the rebel army can usually find internal support when attacking the city, and the city is almost useless in front of them.

Xiangyang has always been an important military town, and with the fighting power of the Ming army, Zhang Xianzhong would not be able to attack even if his strength was doubled. However, with internal support, he rushed in overnight.

This Xiang Wang Zhu Yiming is just for pleasure, he doesn't care about the life and death of the common people, he is not like the king of Fu, but he is not immune, in the eyes of the common people, the royal family members are all heinous villains, no matter how many bad things you do If caught, they will be killed, and if they do all kinds of bad things, they will eat your flesh and drink your blood.

There is another unlucky person in Xiangyang City who is even more unlucky than King Xiang. This is Zhu Changfa, the king of Guiyang. Accompanying the old King Xiang in Xiangyang, this time he was also caught by Zhang Xianzhong and chopped off together!
After Zhang Xianzhong captured Xiangyang, he did not run away immediately like Li Zicheng, because the king of Xiang was not as bad as the king of Fu, so he didn't search for much people's fat and anointment. The property he robbed in Xiangyang was not enough, what should we do?If it is not enough, continue to grab it. He thinks that Li Zicheng has attracted the attention of the court, and he should still have enough time, so not only did he not run away, he even led the army directly to Wuchang City.

Wuchang City is the residence of Zhu Huakui, king of Chu. This king of Chu is not a good thing. He has a fight with King Fu. It is said that he has collected more than 1000 million taels of people's fat and people's anointing. If he is robbed, he will not have to worry about military expenses for at least the past two years.

To say that Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, is really unpopular. The officers and soldiers guarding the city didn't even bother to act. The civilians were assigned to guard the city for him, and the result can be imagined, he and the rebels are family, so naturally welcome the rebels into the city to deal with you big villain.

Zhang Xianzhong did a better job than Li Zicheng. All the royal family members in Wuchang City were driven into the Han River and drowned alive one by one. He asked you to help the tyrant!As for the main culprit, Zhu Huakui, the King of Chu, was also cooked by him, and he shared the food with his subordinates!
Still the same sentence, if you do many unrighteous deeds, you will die, and if you do all the bad things, you will be punished one day.

(End of this chapter)