In the fifth year of Hongwu (1372), the historian Zhao Yun was sent from Wang Fu, Jingjiang, Nanjing, to Guilin to inspect Feng Shui and look for auspicious land. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, geomantic omen was the spiritual pillar of royal architecture. They finally chose to build Wang Fu, the former hidden house of Yuan Shundi, in the ninth year of Hongwu (1376), and open the tomb at the southern foot of Yaoshan Mountain in the eastern suburb of Longteng. In the 26th year of Hongwu (1393), the mansion was rebuilt, which lasted more than 20 years, and Jingjiang Wang Fu, which was more than 30 years earlier than the Forbidden City in Beijing, resembled Nanjing Mingnei Palace.
Jingjiang Wang Fu is a huge roof built on the mountain, with polished tiles, drywall and blue glazed tiles, which is very spectacular. Dai Wendeng, a poet in Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem:
Zhu Hu loves to open his mouth and carve more pillows;
Qi Shucheng claws Wei, pipa plays Yuanyang.
Qubo leading diarrhea, high pro-tension;
The dark wind is golden, and the moon is like jade.
The circumference of this city is three miles (measured at three and a half miles) and there are four doors. On the axis of geomantic omen, the ritual door, the carrier door, the carrier hall and the bedroom stand in turn. The seventh bay of the carriage hall has five depths and two double eaves, which depends on the prince's system when it was first sealed. It is also a tradition to sit north and face south.
In the ninth year of Hongwu (1376), Zhu Shouqian was the only member of Jingjiang royal family in Guilin. When Zhu Zan I and II returned to Guilin in the first year of Yongle (1403), there were 13 people (nine brothers and four sisters), which increased to 25 in the eleventh year of orthodoxy (1446), and the number of elderly people soared in the thirty-seventh year of Wanli (65438). In the Ming dynasty, the gift to the king was very generous. At the beginning of the flood, the prince enjoyed 11 thousand to 20 thousand stones, and after Yongle, he also spent 1000 stones. In addition, there are countless old gifts like imperial clan.
The captaincy does not manage civil affairs, but there are three departments and seven departments and other huge institutions in the palace, such as Chang Shi Department, Yi Wei Department, Cheng Feng Department, Dian Shan Department, Dian Bao Department, Good Doctor Department and Gong Zheng Department. They have no worries about food and clothing, get something for nothing, don't work or be officials, suck up the bone marrow of the people and become parasites of society.
Lao Lu was never profligate enough, so he exploited the working people with his privileges. According to historical records, first, public robbery, eunuchs are often ordered to take flag school soldiers to the streets and leave when they see what they need or like. The second is forced occupation. In the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632), Wang Fu pointed out in Zhaoping that a large area of private land belonged to Wang Tian, that is, forced rent collection. Third, extortion. Every year, Wang Fu sends officials to Guangdong to collect salt, but every time it takes the opportunity to smuggle smuggled salt. On the way back, he raised the price of salt and forced the businessman to buy it. The market price is 14 bags of five taels of silver, and Wang Fu only gave 12 bags. Not if you don't buy it.
After hanging himself in Jingshan Park in Chongzhen at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hengjia, the 13th king of Jingjiang, thought that his palace and tomb were good in geomantic omen, so he called himself the king of the county and the prince, and confronted the court of Longwu in Nanming, the provincial capital. As a result, he was defeated in Wuzhou, and was finally sent to Fuzhou by the sill and killed by the Tang king. His prince fled to Quanzhou Xiangshan Temple overnight and became a monk, which was later the painter Shi Tao. At this time, Chen Bangbo, the general of Zhu Hengjia's kindness, was ordered to capture in Wang Fu, seize the opportunity to plunder Wang Fu's treasures and transport them to Nanning for his own use.
In the fourth year of Li Yong (the seventh year of Qing Shunzhi, 1649), 1 1 month 17, the traitors and Ming Dynasty surrendered to Kong Youde and led the Qing army south to occupy Guilin. "Jingjiang Pseudo-King was captured and beheaded, with 473 officials including Prince, General, Lieutenant, Cabinet Department and General Troops, and 247 recruited officials." The remaining 2,000 royal families fled the city, and Jingjiang Wang Fu became Kong Youde.
At this point, Chen Bangbo saw that the Qing army was attacking Yong, and immediately surrendered to the Qing army. He was shipped to Jingjiang and the plundering land of the provincial capital in several ways and sent to Kong Youde in Guilin as a tribute.
However, in less than two years, Li Dingguo, as the leader of the anti-Qing peasants in the Ming Dynasty, led 80,000 peasant troops and 50 elephants from Daxi to Guilin, and defeated Kong Youde with the trend of "being at the forefront of the elephant array and struggling to hold the top of the mountain", which matched Wang Fu.
Since ancient times, traitors have come to no good end Kong Youde knew the end was coming. He released a son and a daughter, let his wives Li and Bai walk around, and then set fire to the palace. He flew into a rage, drew his sword and burned it with the palace and the looted property. There are only three buildings left in Wang Fu: Jiyun Jade, Goulan with Flame Head, Qubog faucet, blue and white plum bottles and precious porcelain buried in the king's mausoleum. Kong Sizhen, the released daughter, was the only Han princess awarded by the Qing court later.