1, after Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, all the potential fertility of the Zhu family was brought to the limit. Zhu Yuanzhang himself gave birth to twenty-six sons and sixteen daughters.
2. Zhu Yuanzhang also encouraged future generations to have more children, without having to undertake any work, only according to the head salary. Thus, in the fifth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1492), Yang Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi Province, reported an amazing news in the history books: Zhu Zhongying, the king of Qingcheng, Jin Fu, once again set a new record for the birth of Lao Zhu's family. By August this year, he had 94 children and 163 grandchildren. The population growth of Wang Fu in Qingcheng is only a microcosm of the royal population explosion in Ming Dynasty.
According to Wang Shizhen's estimation, the number of Ming royal families increased by 50% every ten years. According to Xu Guangqi's calculation, the number of Ming imperial clan doubled in about 30 years. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang enfeoffed his descendants all over the country. At the beginning, it was only 49 pro-county generals. The total number of the royal family is 58, Yongle has increased to 127, Jiajing (1553) has increased to1961person, and Wanli (1604) has increased to more than 80,000 people.
Brief introduction of Zhu Yuanzhang's life
1, Ming Taizu Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang (1328,10,21-1398, June 24th), the word Guo Rui, formerly known as Chongba, later known as Xingzong, Han nationality, Zhonghao.
2. Zhu Yuanzhang was poor when he was a child. He used to herd cattle for the landlord. 1344 (four years from Yuan to Zheng Zheng), entered the ancestral temple. At the age of 25, he joined the Red Scarf Army led by Guo Zixing to resist the Yuan Dynasty. 1356 (16 years ago), was honored as Wu Gong by his subordinates. In the same year, Qing Ji Road was captured and Yingtianfu was changed to Yingtianfu.
3. 1368 (in the 28th year of Zheng Zheng), after defeating the peasant uprisings, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Tianfu, with the title of Daming Hongwu, then ended the rule of Mengyuan in the Central Plains, pacified Sichuan, Guangxi, Gansu and Yunnan, and finally unified China.
4. 1398 (thirty-one year of Hongwu), Zhu Yuanzhang died in Yingtian at the age of 7 1, with the temple name Taizu. He was appointed as Shen Wenyi Wu Junde by the emperor from Tian Kai Road to posthumous title, and was buried in Nanjing Ming Tombs.