According to legend, there were nearly one million descendants of Zhu in the late Ming Dynasty. Why did it almost disappear in the Qing Dynasty?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of descendants of the Zhu family was just a legend, and there was no credibility at all. Some night markets and folk stories are misleading. If you want to know the history of the Ming Dynasty, you should read more serious historical materials, and don't confuse folklore with historical facts. The Ming Dynasty developed for more than 300 years. There are indeed many emperors and grandchildren of Zhu Yuanzhang, but none of them have reached the million level. In ancient times, except the Qing Dynasty, the total population of other dynasties was only tens of millions, one tenth of which came from Zhujiajian Island's family. Is it a bit unreliable?

The reason why so many royal aristocrats disappeared in the late Ming Dynasty was closely related to the policies adopted by the Qing Dynasty after it entered the Central Plains. In order to stabilize the rule, the Qing dynasty took high-handed measures, preferring to kill one thousand by mistake rather than let one go. All the descendants of the Zhujiajian family, under this high-handed policy, kill one and leave none. The descendants of Zhujiajia were almost slaughtered, and only the Nanming regime was still struggling to support them. But this is just a matter of shaking trees, which can't save the Ming Dynasty and shake the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.

If Zhu Yuanzhang knew what happened under the spring, he would be half dead with anger. How high-spirited he was in those days, when did the kings and royal nobles of the Ming Dynasty fall into such a situation that they could not save their own lives? No one dared to say no to Zhu Yuanzhang during his reign. The descendant of Zhu Jiajia is really a minister, holding others' life and death in his hand.

But I didn't expect the Ming dynasty to develop to this point. The life and death of Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants are in the hands of others, which really turns the tables. Although the Nanming regime struggled to support it, thinking that this era was promising, but looking at its own situation, it was just wishful thinking and was wiped out by the Qing Dynasty after a short period of resistance.