At the same time, Emperor Wanli himself doted on this younger brother, which is rare in the royal family. Throughout his life, Emperor Wanli almost let him do whatever he wanted without restraint. This is also the root cause of Wang Lu's slowness. In the tenth year of Wanli, yi zhu was fourteen years old and was going to get married according to the royal custom. In order to prepare for the wedding of King Lu, the imperial court used 3869.2 gold, 8700 sapphires, 102000 silver and 24000 coral pearls. Due to the extravagant expenses, the household department can't stand it. The ritual law "Da Ming Hui Dian" contains "the prince's bride price, the gold is only fifty taels, and the pearl is twelve taels", which makes the wedding expenses of Wanli Emperor Wang Lu exceed the standard.
However, Emperor Wanli ignored it, embezzled more than 900,000 yuan from military expenses alone, and even bought all the jewels in Beijing: "Although the capital is extracted by department stores, these treasures are different from millet and silk for daily use, so it is difficult to make a profit all the time."
After ten years' efforts and rectification, the economic situation of the Ming Dynasty has greatly improved, but Zhu Yi's wedding expenses are really amazing. If Zhang hadn't died in Wanli, he would be angry alive in the future: some people gave an idea that the Zhang family had a rich family, so they wouldn't have to worry about a wedding if they copied their home. In order to get back the wedding expenses for her precious son, the old lady from a peasant family and Zhang, once a respected woman, agreed. As a result, the property only got tens of thousands of silver, far less than one tenth of that of Yan Song, which was not enough for my son.
However, compared with Zhu Yizhong's later greed and luxury, these are just the beginning. After the wedding, the kingdom of King Lu was put on the agenda. Originally, there were no hard and fast rules on the age and time of the vassal kingdom in the Ming Dynasty, but there was a practice that the vassal discussed it as soon as he got married. In the twelfth year of Wanli, under the auspices of Huiji, Huguang Hengzhou and Weihui were elected as the fiefs of King Lu. Emperor Wanli ordered the richer Huguang Hengzhou to build a palace for his younger brother.
At this time, Zhu Yizhang went to his notebook and said, "I'd like to be closer. I'm just a few feet away." Request to change to Wei Hui. Wanli certainly recognizes it. Why Zhu Yichang has a soft spot for Wei Hui has never been said in history.
Lu's huge project soon overwhelmed the local government. In the thirteenth year of Wanli, Zang, the governor of Henan Province, had to ask the emperor for help: the budget for land construction was 677,820 taels of silver, and all the stones were collected from the deep forests of Huguang and Sichuan, which required a lot of manpower. So someone suggested that Dai Guangqi, a Taoist priest from Hebei, be stationed in Weihui.
After four years, in May of the 16th year of Wanli, Lu finished his work. The entire Wang Fu complex is magnificent and located in the eastern half of Jixian County. Up to now, the remains of Wang Fu on Weihui Road in the past are faintly visible.
During the construction period, King Lu still lived in Beijing. Emperor Wanli visited the Ming Tombs in Changping many times to pay homage to the ancestral graves and inspect the construction of Shougong. Every time he left Beijing, he ordered Wang Lu to lead the minister to supervise the country. Wanli's trust and closeness to Wang Lu can be seen.
In the seventeenth year of Wanli, King Lu was about to become a vassal, and the hapless household department needed to give King Lu a family allowance. The index for the household registration department this time is 302,000 gold. Zhang died of illness in the tenth year of Wanli, and the sensitive, fragile and poetic emperor Wanli decided to liquidate Zhang. Even Zhang's contributions to the rejuvenation of the Ming dynasty's national strength were left behind, thinking that if he stayed in his own hands, the country would be rich and Zhang Shoufu would lose his country.
Regrettably, Emperor Wanli soon discovered that it was one thing to watch ministers govern the country, and it was another to do it himself. After all, judging from his lifestyle, he is not a strategic and talented person. As a result, the empire once again fell into a situation of living beyond its means, and no one could help him this time.
This is the real background of Lu Wang becoming a vassal. It happened that there were famines in Zhejiang, Zhi Zhi and other provinces. Where did the Ministry get three hundred and two thousand gold? The ministers who couldn't bear it went up one after another to impeach Minister Song Xun and officials in the Ministry. The reason is: the country has been affected, and your household department not only does not compensate the victims, but succumbs to the unreasonable demands of the emperor!
Poor Minister Song Xun, who dared not offend the emperor, was irrefutable about his position and had to be demoted and quit.
Wanli, of course, knew it well. While comforting Song Xun, he said to the courtiers, "Peace is good for the public, and there is no need to argue with words." Trying to silence the ministers.
Finally, Wanli had to make a decree: reduce it by one third. In the seventeenth year of Wanli, King Lu left Beijing and went to San Francisco. He used more than 500 ships to transport treasures and furniture, and officials from various counties in Shuntian and Henan provinces held a grand welcoming ceremony along the way.
This is another disaster. Governor Baoding poured bitter water on the emperor in the memorial hall: Wang Lu Kingdom passed Hejian and Daming Mansion, which cost a lot. After years of famine, it is difficult to take measures. There are 17,000 stones in Tianjin and 11,000 stones in Linqing.
According to the rice price at that time, the price of 28,000 stone rice was about 22,000 silver! These loans, officials will be assessed at the next level, and the suffering of the people can be imagined! Anyone who knows the history of the Ming Dynasty knows that the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to cutting off the vassals because Judy, the prince of Yan, joined the army, and all the vassals in previous dynasties were not allowed to master the military power. Desperate and energetic princes can naturally come up with all kinds of tricks. If you are addicted to skills, you can be addicted to debauchery. For the royal family, it may be nothing more than raising a few black sheep, but for the people, it is tantamount to a disaster. Unfortunately, Zhu Yizhong happens to belong to the latter.
Just a year before Francisco, in order to find a good horse, Zhu Yichang ignored the government's military horse law and sent government servants to the military horse farm to select a good horse. He acted rashly and killed an unruly horse. The head of the military horse farm had to come forward to stop it. According to the military law, killing an army horse should be dealt with according to law, and even the prince should be admonished. Unexpectedly, the wicked complained first and went to the emperor's brother to falsely accuse the head of the military horse farm: "bullying the princes and threatening politics."
Regardless of the guilt of King Lu, Emperor Wanli ordered seven officials and foot soldiers of General Horse Farm to be severely punished by Dali Temple.
The officials of Dali Temple knew that people were innocent, but they were sentenced to "banishment" by Qufa. Seven officers and men were greatly wronged, but the royal brothers still didn't feel wronged. Wanli ordered Da Cang to be the leader for a month.
Imagine that with the protection of such an emperor's younger brother, Zhu Yichang's arrogance and lawlessness are also in line with common sense.
Regardless of politics, Zhu Yichang began to plan ways to make money. He inherited King Jing Zhu's manor in the town. In fact, King Jing is a short-lived ghost who has no children. Most of the 40,000 mu of land sealed in his name is empty.
As for Zhu Yichang, he didn't say how much land or industry he wanted, but only said "to play for the legacy of King Jing." This is a clever decision. Zhu Yishuang's idea is to follow the former king and fall behind the real number.
Emperor Wanli of course agreed, which frightened courtiers and local officials. After King Jing's death, the land has been returned to the people, and after Zhang's whipping, the land all over the country has been measured. How can there be land for distribution?
Regardless of this, Emperor Wanli ordered all localities to survey and plan land according to the imaginary number of old files. This move caused an uproar in the ruling and opposition parties, and the people "turned pale at the smell." Counties, States and households have written many times, but Wanli is still presented in full. In the end, 40,000 mu of land was forcibly searched in place, and King Lu took back the room class and salt tax under King Jing's name. ...
There is an example of Lu Wang's frenzied accumulation of wealth for several years: during the Shunzhi period, the Qing government forcibly demolished Lu, and all other properties were sold, except the Yihe Salt Shop, which the Qing court was reluctant to sell. There is a simple reason. By the early Qing Dynasty, according to the official price, Yihe Salt Shop still earned more than 2,000 taels of silver every year. According to Ming History, although Lu Wang lived in San Francisco for 26 years, he still occupied private land. He has more than a dozen wives and concubines, but he still robs women, even all newly married women, and he will have the "first night right".
King Lu is evil, and so are the people in the Lu family. They set up courts in private, not through torture. At that time, the punishment of the Ming Dynasty was constantly reported, and Luf's villain "violated the law sexually" to the point where he was crucified alive, bent to death, strangled, and broke his tibia and bones. Judging from people's reaction, Lu Wang's reputation is not very good. There is a local legend: there is a small village on the south side of Luwang Mountain called Chengnanzhuang. One year, a family named Ma in this village wanted to marry a daughter-in-law for their son. The day before the wedding, the Ma family slaughtered the cattle and sheep, cooked and stewed them, and everything was ready. The next day, the whole family got up to hold a wedding ceremony. When they opened the lid of the pot, all the meat and vegetables were gone. Who stole that thing? Ma's family went out to look for it Before they found Lu Wang's tomb, they found that the beadle holding the horse on the west side of Shinto was greasy and had minced meat. The Ma family said angrily, "King Lu didn't do much good when he was alive. You, the head of the horse, should learn from him! " "Scold, while picking up the hammer to hit. As a result, a big hole was left in the chest of the little official who led the horse.
Now, the chest of the horse-pulling Buddha head next to the Shinto of Lu Wangling has been filled with cement.
Although it is a legend, it can be seen that King Lu is really not a good king. But among the princes of the Ming Dynasty, he was not too bad. His posthumous title Jane is above average. On the other hand, among the princes and emperors of the Ming Dynasty, there were more illegitimate children than the kings of Lu. King Lu can be called "the head of princes", and Emperor Wanli also regarded him as "the view of princes". He must be the richest vassal, which is fully revealed from the tomb of King Lu.
The entire Luwangling tomb area is connected in one breath, and the architectural layout is rigorous and standardized, neat and exquisite. It is divided into three courtyards, which are basically the same as the Ming Emperor Mausoleum in Beijing. It has the same gate, hall and underground palace as Dingling. The city wall covers an area of more than 80 mu, and all buildings are carved with bluestone. The scale is bigger than Dingling.
It is said that all the stones in Luwangling were collected from Xun County. In order to transport stones, migrant workers have to dig wells all the way in the cold winter, pour water on the ground to form ice, and use the sliding power of ice to transport the boulder weighing 10 thousand kilograms step by step.
In the Ming dynasty, the tombs of members of the royal family were strictly divided into three, six and nine categories. Of course, the emperor's mausoleum is the highest standard, followed by the queen and prince, and so on. Any prince or minister who used the emperor's specifications privately was guilty of beheading.
However, regardless of the king of Lu, the tomb of Lu is simply the world of dragons. The dragon patterns of the Supreme and the Emperor are wantonly used on all archways, watchtowers, plaques and monuments in the cemetery.
It is a traditional routine to set up a stone in front of the mausoleum. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, there were six kinds of stone beasts in front of the imperial mausoleum, and only six kinds of stone beasts were listed in Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Mausoleum and Beijing's Ming Changling Mausoleum: lion, forest, elephant, camel, barbarian and horse. But the arrogant captaincy may be unconvinced. He set up fourteen kinds of stone beasts on both sides of his tomb Shinto in one breath. Nine doornails were used in the underground palace, that is, 8/kloc-0 doornails were counted vertically and horizontally, which was the highest specification among door decorations in feudal society in China.
Even the second princess's tomb on the side adopted the Queen's "standard". The exquisite degree of all stone carvings amazed the world heritage experts who visited Luwangling Mausoleum in 2002: This is the treasure house of China art!
King Lu is so incompetent, do the emperor and the queen mother know? It is said that his second concubine, Zhao, took care of Zhu Yichang and advised him to pay attention to whether he was a vassal or not. The devil incarnate is tired of Zhao's nagging and doesn't listen to her at all. Later, Zhao Fei secretly told the Empress Dowager, but the Empress Dowager, who dotes on her young son, seems to pretend not to know and doesn't mind her son's "ambition".
According to historical records, it is impossible to know how much the Luwangling cost, but referring to the figure that his brother Emperor Wanli spent seven million and two thousand pieces of silver to build Dingling, it is also expensive to build the Luwangling. It is worth mentioning that seven million and two thousand is equivalent to the GDP of the Ming Dynasty in two or three years, and the Wanli emperor finally spent all the money that Zhang worked so hard to accumulate.
King Lu died in forty-two years of Wanli (16 14). It is reported that his mother died of illness. As a captaincy, he couldn't go back to Beijing to attend the funeral, and soon he was terminally ill and unhappy. Counting, Zhu Yi lived for 46 years.
It is a traditional routine to set up a stone in front of the mausoleum. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, there are six kinds of stone beasts in front of the Imperial Mausoleum, and only six kinds of stone beasts are listed in ming tomb, Zhu Yuanzhang, Nanjing and Beijing Ming Changling Mausoleum. Wang Yi, who was extravagant and extravagant, set fourteen kinds of stone beasts on both sides of his tomb Shinto. The picture shows the stone beasts on both sides of the Shinto of King Lu Jian's tomb.