Today, I would like to tell you about an amazing celebrity, the name of this person, everyone is familiar with: Yu Qian.
As soon as I say "Yu Qian", you will be happy: I know this person!Teacher Yu, who said cross talk, smoked and drank and burned his head.
Teacher Yu, who loves perm hair, is indeed a great character, let's talk about him another day. However, what about Yu Qian who I want to talk about today is an ancient, this ancient man is not an ordinary person, he is a national hero who has been passed down through the ages!He is the minister of the Ming Dynasty!
We talked earlier about the ministers of life and the heroes of the founding of the country, what is the concept of "ministers of the society"?Rank, not all ministers can be called ministers of the society. First of all, he must be an important minister who has been in charge of the government for a long time and has always influenced the situation in the whole countrySecondly, it must be a loyal and good minister who is "people-oriented";Third, we must have the outstanding ability to help the crisis and stabilize the situation, and to govern the country and the countryFinally, there must be a noble festival that will last for centuries. These four things must be accounted for before they can be called a minister of society!
Looking back at our thousands of years of history, there are very few people who can deserve this title. However, Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department during the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, is such a valuable minister of the society!
Yu Qian, whose name is Tingyi, was born in Qiantang, Zhejiang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). Yu Qian was born in a family of eunuchs, and the history of his ancestors as officials can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. Yu Qian's father is Mingren, the word Yanzhao, Yu Yanzhao is a scholar with lofty ideals and moral pursuits, in his opinion, the officialdom at that time was full of too much filth and unbearable, and it was really difficult to go along with it. Therefore, Yu Yanzhao never embarked on a career in office, but lived in seclusion in the countryside and passed on his talents to his son.
It is said that on the night before Yu Qian was born, Yu Yanzhao had a dream in which an old fairy said to him: "I have been running for the Great Song Dynasty all my life, but I can't save the Great Song Dynasty Yu Water and Fire, which is really the regret of my Wen Tianxiang's life." After dozens of spring and autumn periods in the Ming Dynasty, there will definitely be the worry of losing the country, I can't bear to see Huaxia have such regrets, so I plan to reincarnate and be the heir of your Yu family, so as to save the Ming Dynasty from fire and water in the future. When Yu Yanzhao heard this, he was taken aback, and quickly thanked him, saying that he didn't dare to be, he didn't dare to be. But after the fairy finished speaking, he disappeared in a blink of an eye. Soon after Yu Yanzhao woke up, he heard the sound of a baby crying in the backyard, and Yu Qian was born. So, Yu Yanzhao named the child "Qian", "with the meaning of gratitude in the dream", that is, for Wen Tianxiang's grand intentions, Yu Yanzhao's heart has always been uneasy.
We dare not say whether Yu Qian is the reincarnation of Wen Tianxiang or not, but Yu Qian himself does have lofty ambitions and admires those patriots and heroes who are worried about the country and the people. It is said that the entire Yu family is a fan of Wen Tianxiang, and there is always a portrait of Wen Tianxiang hanging in the home. Yu Qian was admitted to the Jinshi in his early twenties, and at the age of twenty-five, he was appointed as the supervisor of the ** supervision agency, and later served as a governor in Shanxi, Henan and other places. Yu Qian is very upright and honest as an official, and is deeply loved by the people, and is praised as a "clean official" and "blue sky" by the people of Shanxi and Henan. When the governor had to go back to Beijing to report on his work, someone said to him: "When you come to the capital, even if you don't bring some money for gifts, you should at least bring some souvenirs to make a relationship, right?"Yu Qian raised his sleeves and replied, "All I brought was the breeze." ”
In order to express his heart, Yu Qian also deliberately wrote a poem "Into Beijing": "Silk pa mushroom (mushroom) and incense sticks, the capital and civilians are in trouble." The breeze went with his sleeves facing the sky, so as not to speak short and long. This poem was recited far and wide at the time and became a beautiful conversation. The idiom "two sleeves and a breeze" comes from this poem by Qian.
This tone is very arrogant, and the king of the journal felt that this person was not small, and immediately reported it to the envoy of the Ming Dynasty to identify it, and only then did he know that he had assisted the Ming Dynasty's Emperor Jian!Strange goods!He was also overjoyed and ordered his subordinates to entertain Yingzong with good food and drink, and put him under house arrest.
This is known as the Tumu Fort Change.
When the news of the emperor's capture reached Beijing, the civil and military officials hugged their heads and cried in the palace. The Queen Mother collected the treasure Huang Yuan and prepared to redeem Yingzong. That is, Wang Zhu Qiyu forcibly calmed down, convened the courtiers, and discussed countermeasures.
Xu Lizitong, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy, studied astronomy, geography, the art of war, water conservancy, and the five elements of yin and yang.
When everyone heard him say this, they were a little shaken, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
At this moment, Yu Qian, who was the left attendant of the military department at the time, stepped forward and reprimanded sharply: "The capital is the foundation of the world, the temple, the shrine, the mausoleum, the hundred officials, the surname, the treasure, and the warehouse. Foolish words should be beheaded!”
What does that mean?That is to say: those who propose to move south should be beheaded!Jingshi is the foundation of the world, as long as you move, the general trend will go, don't you know the ending of the Song Dynasty's southern crossing?
Yu Qian was awe-inspiring, Wang Zhi, the secretary of the ministry, and Chen Xun, a cabinet scholar, also came forward to second, and the king immediately appointed Yu Qian as the secretary of the military department and ordered him to deal with the military and civilian war of resistance and defend the Beijing division.
During this period, there were still some remnants of Wang Zhen's forces in the government and the opposition. Chen Jian, the imperial envoy of the capital, made a statement to the king of Yu, counted Wang Zhen's crimes, and strongly demanded that Wang Zhen, the culprit who caused the Tumubao Change, be wiped out, and the courtiers also echoed it. The king didn't know what to do for a while, so he ordered to change the discussion at the right time, but the courtiers resolutely refused. Wang Zhen's sworn friend, Jinyi Wei commanded Ma Shun to see that King Yu hesitated, so he stood up and reprimanded the hundred officials, and Wang Hong saw that Ma Shun was still pretending, and he was furious, and stepped forward to grab Ma Shun and punch and kick, and the angry courtiers rushed up and killed Ma Shun on the spot. In the chaos, Wang Zhen's other two sworn friends, Mao Gui and Wang Changsui, were also beaten to death.
Seeing the blood splattered in the court, King Yu was shocked and wanted to avoid it. Yu Qian struggled to stand beside the king of Yu to escort him, while appeasing the ministers, while persuading the king of the servant, the king also came back to his senses, complied with Yu Qian's admonition, and announced Ma Shun.
and others should be punished to death, but the ministers are not guilty. After thanking the officials, they left one after another.
This is the only vicious court brawl in the history of the Ming Dynasty, known as the "Wumen Bloody Case". If it weren't for Yu Qian's urgency, the consequences would be unimaginable, and when Yu Qian withdrew from the left door, the sleeves of his robe were torn by everyone. The official Shangshu Wang held Yu Qian's hand and sighed: "The country is relying on you. In today's situation, even a hundred kings can't handle it!”
Since then, the civil and military forces of the dynasty have relied heavily on Yu Qian, and Yu Qian has also resolutely taken the safety of the community as his own responsibility.
Under the circumstances at that time, if you want not to be held hostage by the tile spurs, the Ming royal family had only two options:
1. Set up the young prince as the king, and the king of servant Zhu Qiyu will be the regent. This option is okay in peacetime, but in times of rapidly changing war, it really does more harm than good.
2. Make another king king. At that time, there was only Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, who was the regent in the court, and there were no other figures in the clan to choose from. The major move to establish a new monarch can only be presided over by the Queen Mother. At this life-and-death juncture, Yu Qian once again put forward the slogan of "the society is important, the monarch is light", and righteously asked the empress dowager to hand over the throne to King Yu, so that Yingzong in the hands of the tile spur completely lost its political value.
Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, did not expect that he would become the emperor one day, and tried to resign. Yu Qian told him that they were doing this for the country, to prevent the tile thorn from using Yingzong to blackmail, not for personal selfish interests.
King Yu had to be ordered to be in danger, and ascended the throne as the emperor with the support of everyone, that is, the Ming Dynasty Zong, changed the year name to Jingtai, and respected Ming Yingzong as the emperor.
At this time, the most effective elite troops of the Ming Dynasty had fallen to Tumubao, and the remaining soldiers were all old, weak, sick and disabled, with less than 100,000 people. In order to stabilize the people's hearts, Yu Qian transferred troops from Henan, Shandong, Nanjing and other places into Beijing, and the people's hearts settled down a little.
Shi Heng, the former deputy general who guarded Datong, was defeated in the Battle of Tumubao, fled back on horseback, and was demoted to prison and imprisoned. Yu Qian believed that the main responsibility for the defeat was not on him, so he not only released him, but also appointed him with the important responsibility of the chief military officer of the Beijing Division.
In addition, Yu Qian also asked the famous generals to command the firearms troops and cavalry units in the capital to guard important passes, and severely punished a group of generals who were greedy for life and afraid of death and dereliction of duty.
At that time, there were millions of stone grain reserves in Tongzhou, and because they could not be quickly transported to Beijing, some people were worried that they would be taken away by the Tile Spur Army, so they suggested that they burn it down, but Yu Qian disagreed. Not only did the government requisition 500 carts to transport grain day and night, but also mobilized the people, the families of officers and soldiers, relatives and friends to bring their own vehicles to transport grain, and the freight was paid by the government. This policy was strongly supported by the people, and the task of transporting grain was quickly completed under heavy rewards. Yu Qian waved his pen again and advanced half a year's salary and salary for the officers and men, and the officers and men naturally cheered and their morale was greatly boosted.
After more than a month of rearmament and warfare, the soldiers in Beijing were well fed, and the army and the people were united, and Yu Qian personally reorganized the troops, deployed key points, and prepared for the defense of Beijing.
He also got Emperor Yingzong as a hostage first, and he was very proud, and his troops were divided into three routes, from Yongguan and Bauhinia Pass all the way south, approaching Beijing, like a tiger and a wolf.
Yu Qian did not show weakness, and dispatched the generals to lead 220,000 soldiers to set up a position outside the nine gates: Governor Tao Jin guarded Andingmen, Guangning Bo Liu An guarded Dongzhimen, Wujin Bo Zhu Ying guarded Chaoyangmen, Governor Liu Juzhen guarded Xizhimen, Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Xingzu guarded Fuchengmen, all commanded Li Duanzhen to guard Zhengyang Gate, Governor Liu Dexin guarded Chongwen Gate, and all commanded Tangjie to guard Xuanwu Gate, Yu Qian himself and Shi Heng led the deputy commander-in-chief Fan Guang and Wuxing to line up outside Desheng Gate, ready to resist Yexian.
Yu Qian ordered all the city gates to be closed, and then ordered: If the generals in the battle ignore the troops and retreat first, they can behead the generals!The sergeant will retreat regardless of the lead, and the rear team will cut the front team!
The officers and men of the whole army understood that this was a death battle that would determine the fortune of the Ming Dynasty. The soldiers waited for the arrival of the Tile Thorn army.
On October 11, the Tile Spur army approached the city, and Gao Li and Mao Fushou, deputy commanders of the Ming Army, took the initiative to meet the vanguard troops of the Tile Spur at Zhangyi Gate, and recaptured more than 1,000 captured Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians. Yu Qian sent people to attack at night to make him tired.
On October 12, he also decided to play the hostage card of Yingzong, he lined up the main force outside the Xizhi Gate, held Emperor Yingzong hostage to Tucheng outside the Desheng Gate, and asked the imperial court to send Yu Qian, Shi Heng and other senior generals to meet him in person, and asked for tens of thousands of gold silks, in an attempt to capture the main general of the Ming army and force the Ming Dynasty to surrender the city. Ming Dynasty Sect, that is, the original King Zhu Qiyu, said: "Not allowed!."”
It was only then that I discovered that the Ming Dynasty had little interest in the bait Yingzong in its hands. Looking at what Daizong meant, he may wish that Yingzong would die quickly.
In addition to being frustrated, he also decided to put Yingzong in front as a shield and attack Deshengmen with all his might. Yu Qian ordered the large army of Deshengmen to wait in hiding, feigning defeat and retreating. He was also eager to win first, and immediately waved more than 10,000 elite horsemen to roar in pursuit, and as a result, the army entered the ambush area, Yu Qian commanded the Shenji battalion to launch firearms and rockets, and the army was killed on their backs, and the formation was in chaos. Shi Heng, the chief officer of the Ming army, led the ambush soldiers to rush into the enemy formation and fought bravely. The Warat army was defeated, and Yexian's younger brother Polo and Pingzhang Mao were all killed.
He also hurriedly transferred the team to attack Xizhimen, and the governor Sun Bo fought with all his might, and the defenders of the city also fired firecrackers and rockets at the tile, and Gao Li, Mao Fushou, Tao Jin, Shi Heng and others also rushed to support in time. had to withdraw troops from Xizhimen first.
On October 14, the Tile Thorn Army changed to attack Changyi Gate, and the deputy commander-in-chief Wu Xing fought with his life, and together with the governor Wang Jing, defeated the advance of Yexian. The enemy army was retreating, and the eunuch sent by Daizong to supervise the army led hundreds of cavalry to pursue the enemy formation, wanting to seize the merit. The Ming army's formation was suddenly chaotic, Wuxing died in the chaos of arrows, the tile spur army took advantage of the weakness to enter, counterattacked to the Changyi Gate, at this critical juncture of nine deaths, the residents of the capital climbed on the roof, threw bricks and stones at the troops of the first, and the sound of killing shook the sky for a while. Yu Qian sent Wang Hong and Mao Fushou to rush to reinforcements, which crushed the enemy army.
The two armies held each other for five days.
Seeing that the peace talks could not be achieved and the battle was lost again and again, he also had the idea of retreating, he heard that the troops from all over the country that Yu Qian had dispatched before would soon drive to the capital Qinwang, and he was afraid that his back road would be cut off, so on the night of the 15th, he took Yingzong and fled all the way from Liangxiang. Yu Qian sent generals to pursue, fought another battle in Gu'an and Bazhou, and captured eighteen enemy generals. At this point, the battle to defend the capital division was basically over.
After the Tumubao Incident, almost everyone thought that the Ming Dynasty was exhausted: the emperor had taken prisoners, the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty were wiped out, the gate of the capital was opened, and the financial resources were scarce... The Ming seemed doomed.
Under such conditions, Yu Qian led a second-line army of the old, weak, sick and disabled, turned the tide of the war and forcibly continued the life of the Ming Dynasty.
After the war, the Ming Dynasty wanted to be crowned with the positions of Qian Shaobao and Governor. Yu Qian said, there are many fortresses in the suburbs, this is the shame of Dr. Qing, how dare you ask for a reward and credit!Resolutely refuse.
Let's start by talking about the four standards of the ministers of the society, and now looking back, Yu Qian supports the new emperor and organizes a counterattack, which is the impact on the overall situation;In order to protect the safety of the people, it is said that the emperor will be replaced, which is a good minister based on the peopleAs for the outstanding ability and noble discipline of helping the crisis and stabilizing the country, governing the country and the country, it is not an exaggeration to say that Yu Qian is the hero who saved the entire Ming Dynasty. Such a great heroic figure ended up with an extremely tragic ending.
After returning to the station, he detained Yingzong, who had become the emperor, for nearly a year, seeing that he couldn't squeeze any oil and water from him, and he was always chased and beaten by the Ming army, he was also very upset, so he sent people south to sue for peace, saying that he was willing to let Yingzong Zhu Qizhen go back.
He is willing to let people go, but the Ming Dynasty Sect still doesn't want it!
Zhu Qiyu, who was appointed at the time of crisis, can be regarded as a Ming monarch, who lived up to expectations and turned the Ming Dynasty into a safe place, which is worthy of recognition. But once a person becomes an emperor and has tasted the sweetness of power, he refuses to give up his seat easily.
Ming Dynasty Zong was reluctant to welcome his captured brother back to China, so he quarreled with his ministers. At this time, Yu Qian spoke, and said frankly that Emperor Jingtai's throne had been stabilized, so there was no need to doubt, and he should welcome Emperor Taishang back as soon as possible.
At Yu Qian's suggestion, Daizong Zhu Qiyu's boss reluctantly welcomed his brother Zhu Qizhen back to Beijing and imprisoned him in Nangong. The titular Emperor Taishang was guarded by the Jinyi Guard, tightly controlled, and the locks on the palace gate of Zhu Qizhen under house arrest were filled with lead, leaving only a small hole to deliver food and drink to Zhu Qizhen. Emperor Jingtai's greed for the throne is actually understandable, but he abolished Zhu Qizhen's son's crown prince.
, renamed his only son Zhu Jianji as the crown prince, which is a bit too much.
In the third year of Jingtai (1452), Zhu Jianji was made the crown prince, and died in November of the following year. As soon as Prince Huaixian died, the ministers began to privately discuss that King Yi (Zhu Jianshen, the son of Yingzong) should be reinstated as the crown prince, but Emperor Jingtai thought that he was not yet thirty years old at this time, and it was the so-called peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and he also looked forward to giving birth to a dragon as soon as possible and establishing a parent-child crown prince.
In more than three years, Emperor Jingtai not only did not give birth to a boy and half a girl, but became seriously ill due to his addiction to women, and his health deteriorated. In the seventh year of Jingtai (1456), Emperor Jingtai was bedridden.
In the eighth year of Jingtai (1457), Zhu Qiyu was seriously ill, Shi Heng saw Zhu Qiyu's sickness, and thought: Emperor Jingtai is seriously ill, if there is an accident, and there is no prince, if you take advantage of the situation to ask the emperor to reinstate, it is an immortal achievement. Who is Shi Heng?It was the chief officer and soldier who was promoted by Yu Qian in front.
He immediately found Zhang Ji, the former governor of the right capital, and Cao Jixiang, the eunuch, and told the two that Zhu Qiyu was no longer good, and discussed to find a way out for himself. These three ambitious speculators decided to bet on the emperor Zhu Qizhen and support Zhu Qizhen's restoration.
Shi Heng and Zhang Ji went to find Xu Huo overnight. Xu Huo was very excited, claiming that he was watching the sky at night, seeing that Ziwei had changed, and the emperor star was displaced, urging Shi Heng to start as soon as possible. After careful planning, several people decided to start on the night of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.
During the day on the sixteenth day of the first month, Yu Qian and several other ministers discussed and decided to play together to invite King Yi to be reinstated as the crown prince. The crowd elected the chief writer of the university scholar and the businessman, drafted the "Restoration of the Reservoir and Shu", and then the ministers signed it one after another. After the sparse completion, it was already sunset, and it was too late to play the court. The ministers then decided that when Zhu Qiyu came to the court the next morning, he would hand over the song again.
Unexpectedly, the coup d'état broke out that night. In just a few hours, it not only changed the history of the Ming Dynasty, but also changed the lives of many people.
That night, Shi Heng and others took advantage of the night to go to Nangong to find the Emperor Taishang, as we said earlier, the locks of the Nangong Palace Gate are filled with lead, which is extremely strong and abnormal, and it can't be opened. Shi Heng asked people to use a rope to hang a thick log, and dozens of ** and soldiers slammed the door together. Although the door was not slammed open, the courtyard wall was shattered, and everyone rushed in.
Zhu Qizhen hadn't rested at the moment, he was reading by candle, and when he saw a large group of generals breaking in, he thought that his younger brother had sent someone to kill him, and he couldn't help but panic. When everyone saw this scene, they fell to the ground together and shouted in unison: "Please ascend the throne of the Emperor!"”
Only then did Zhu Qizhen understand: "Do you want to ask me to reset?"Caution is required in this matter. ”
Shi Heng and others invited the Emperor Taishang into the sedan chair, and at this time the sky was already slightly dawning, and the Emperor Taishang asked Shi Heng and others about their official positions and names while walking. The group hurried to the Donghua Gate, but the guard refused to open the door, and shouted in the sedan chair: "I am the emperor!".”
The goalkeeper was also dumbfounded, what is the situation?Don't dare to stop it, the gate of Donghua Gate opened, Shi Heng directly sent the Emperor Taishang into Fengtianmen, watching the Emperor Taishang ascend in the palace, Xu Huo led everyone to kneel and worship, and shouted "Long live, long live"!
A few days ago, Daizong had just announced that he was going to meet with the ministers on the morning of the 17th, so the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs came to wait outside the palace gate early in the morning, and suddenly heard a voice "Long live" from the palace, and they were all shocked.
At this moment, the bells and drums rang out in unison, and the palace door was wide open. Xu Hui came out and announced to all the courtiers: Emperor Taishang has been reinstated, please come in to congratulate!
Emperor Taishang said to the ministers: "Emperor Jingtai is seriously ill, and the ministers welcome me to the throne, and you will continue to do your job as before." ”
Shi Heng and other generals stood aside, staring at each other. The ministers looked at each other and had to kneel down to pay respects.
At the same time, Daizong, that is, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu was freshening up in the dormitory, preparing to go to the court, when he heard the bell and drum in front of him, Emperor Jingtai was very sensitive, and immediately asked left and right: "Could it be Yu Qian?"”
What does that mean?is to ask, is it that Yu Qian plotted against usurpation in the previous dynasty?
Left and right were stunned, not knowing how to answer. After a moment of embarrassment, the eunuch Xing'an replied, saying that the emperor had been reinstated, and it was not about Qian.
Zhu Qiyu said: "Good, good, good." He gasped for a few breaths, then returned to his bed and lay down facing the wall.
After the restoration of Yingzong, the name of the era was changed, and the eighth year of Jingtai was changed to the first year of Tianshun (1457). Youngjong who returned to the throne.
Learned the lesson of Emperor Jingtai, he was not merciful to his younger brother who was sick, and ordered his subordinates to strangle him alive in the palace, and Emperor Jingtai was only thirty years old when he died.
This is not counting, Yingzong "destroyed the Shou Tomb of the camp and buried Xishan with the prince's ceremony", and did not allow his younger brother to be buried in the imperial tomb. Among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, only two emperors could not enter the imperial mausoleum, one was Emperor Jianwen, whose whereabouts were unknown, and the other was this Emperor Jingtai.
Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and Xu Youzhen welcomed the emperor to restore the throne, and after announcing to the courtiers, they immediately arrested Yu Qian and imprisoned him, framed Yu Qian for making misdeeds, and planned with the ministers to welcome King Xiang and sentence Yu Qian to death. The newly appointed Yingzong was still a little hesitant, saying that Yu Qian had merit. Xu Youzhen said that if he didn't kill Yu Qian, the matter of restoration would be unknown.
This sentence has a lot of weight, and Ming Yingzong's idea has been decided.
On the 23rd day of the first month, Yu Qian was escorted to Chongwen Gate and executed.
Why did Yu Qian, the minister of the society who renewed the life of the Ming Dynasty, die unexpectedly?
It has something to do with his personality. There are two people who want to kill Yu Qian, one is Xu Youzhen and the other is Shi Heng.
Xu Youzhen, formerly known as Xu Hui, was the attendant of the Hanlin Academy who advocated moving south during the Tumubao Change. He was a very talented person, and the "History of the Ming Dynasty" called him: "He is short and concise, wise and numerous, and likes fame." All the books of heavenly officials, geography, the art of war, water conservancy, and yin and yang are all well studied. ”
Xu Youzhen is keen on fame, as early as the nineteenth year of Yongle (1421), he went to Beijing with Yu Qian to participate in the examination, but Yu Qian was a high school jinshi, but he fell to Sun Shan. In the fifth year of Xuande (1430), Yu Qian patrolled Shanxi and Henan provinces with the title of the right attendant of the military department. He is not right, his career is not smooth, after 17 years of naturalization, he became a six-grade rank of Hanlin Academy, but he is proud of his talents, thinking that looking up at astronomy can know the good and bad in the world, looking down on geography can see the gains and losses of the past dynasties, all the sons of a hundred schools, all know. Xu Youzhen has been living in shame in the first half of his life, and when the Tumubao Change, he advocated moving south, but was severely reprimanded by Yu Qian, and his reputation has been discredited since then, and he has failed to be promoted several times.
As a last resort, Xu Hui changed his name to Xu Youzhen, hoping that his career would go smoothly. Once, Guozijian.
There was a vacant position, and in order to win this position, Xu Youzhen also went to visit Yu Qian and hoped for him.
can ignore the past suspicions, recommend yourself in front of the emperor, and let yourself shine for the Ming Dynasty again.
Yu Qian is not discouraged by his words, he thinks that Xu Youzhen has certain abilities and ambitions. The talent of the court is naturally the blessing of the society, so he was readily introduced. However, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu couldn't get over this hurdle, and when Yu Qian recommended Xu Youzhen to him, the emperor immediately remembered the urine that persuaded him to run away!Naturally, this recommendation was not successful. Xu Youzhen did not review her cowardice and incompetence, but suspected that Yu Qian deliberately made trouble, and she always held a grudge against Qian.
Before Shi Heng's "change to seize the door" was implemented, Xu Youzhen seized the four words "early selection of Yuanliang" in Yu Qian's "Fu Chu Shu" written by them at that time, and said everywhere that "Yu Qian sent troops to Changsha to welcome the prince of Lixiang". Xu Youzhen's purpose was to let Shi Heng and others, who were opposed to Qian, quickly carry out the "change of seizing the door" and welcome the restoration of the emperor as soon as possible. He believes that if Yu Qian is in power, his fame and wealth in this life will end here. The so-called Yu Qian's "welcoming foreign domains" problem created by Xu Youzhen is actually nonsense.
According to the ancestral law formulated by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, if you want to recruit the prince of a foreign domain to enter Beijing, you must hold a gold medal. However, the gold medal symbols are all stored in the seal and ribbon prison in the great internal ban, and no one can take them out without the permission of the current emperor's decree or the queen mother. Therefore, to prove Yu Qian's innocence, as long as you instruct the seal and ribbon prison to conduct an inventory and review, if the golden talisman of Xiangwangfu is still there, then the so-called Yingli Xiangwang Shizi will be self-defeating.
The eunuchs were instructed to check the gold medal talismans of the princely mansions of the feudal domains, and the results were echoed: "The golden talismans of all the royal mansions are there, but the golden talismans of the Xiangwang Mansion are missing." When Yingzong heard that the golden talisman of Xiangwangfu was not there, he was furious, thinking that Yu Qian was ready to welcome the prince of Xiangwang, and immediately ordered Yu Qian to be sentenced to death.
The good golden talisman of Xiangwangfu, why did it suddenly disappear?It's a long story, when Ming Xuanzong died, the crown prince Zhu Qizhen was only nine years old, and the then empress dowager Zhang liked Renzong's fifth prince Xiangwang Zhu Zhandong, so he wanted to establish King Xiang as the king on the grounds of "the country has a long monarch and the blessing of the society", and ordered the seal supervisor to take out the golden talisman of King Xiang, and prepare to send someone to Changsha, Hunan with the golden talisman, to welcome King Xiang into Beijing to succeed the monarch.
This move was resolutely opposed by the court ministers headed by the three elders, and after some persuasion, the Empress Dowager Zhang also.
felt that his reason was not as justifiable as "building the country as a descendant", so he canceled his own proposition. But after all, the Empress Dowager Zhang is very old, and her memory is not good, she took out the golden talisman of Xiangwangfu, but forgot to send it back to the collection of the Yin-level supervisor, so the important evidence of "Xiangwang Golden Fu" has been left in the deep palace warm pavilion where the Empress Dowager Zhang lived from the tenth year of Xuande (1435) to the first year of Tianshun (1457).
And the evidence of "Yu Qian is ready to welcome the prince of Xiangwang" is irrefutable!
If it is said that Yu Qian offended Xu Youzhen out of consideration for the country and offended Shi Heng, it can only be said that Yu Qian is really too upright. Shi Heng's merits in the defense of Beijing were not as good as Yu Qian's, and Yu Qian was promoted all the way. Afterwards, Shi Heng was named a marquis, and he felt a little guilty, so he recommended Yu Qian's son Yu Mian to be an official. This incident was originally Shi Heng's attempt to repay Yu Qian's kindness, and it was also a good intention, but after Yu Qian knew about it, he politely declined and slapped him in the face directly.
After that, Yu Qian played again and transferred Shi Heng's nephew Shi Biao from Datong Town. Of course, Shi Biao is indeed at fault first, he is greedy and cruel, and his reputation is extremely poor. But this move made Shi Heng angry at Qiansha.
From Shi Heng's point of view, Yu Qian doesn't give himself face!I'll reward you for you, if you don't appreciate it, forget it, and you have to ** knife!How can Yu Qian, who doesn't understand the unspoken rules of officialdom like this, not be hated by his colleagues?
The people who planned the "change of seizing the door" were basically people who were ** by Yu Qian. When these people took power, they took revenge by unscrupulous means, and poisoned Qian.
Yu Qian is loyal and honest, but he is too upright to handle good relations with his colleagues. There is one small thing that we can see in the humility and straightforwardness of the character. Once, Yu Qian said to Li Xian, the new soldier of the military department, why didn't the old man in the ministry return to his hometown?Li Xian said that he heard that the ** sued several times, but the emperor did not agree. Yu Qian said that he was insincere.
Li Xian said, no, I think he is quite honest. Yu Qian said that if you really want to retreat, you will be sick in bed and will not go to court for a month, and the emperor will definitely let you go. "When the water is clear, there are no fish, and when people are observed, there are no fugitives. We can see that in addition to the indisperability of destiny, Yu Qian, a heroic minister of society, finally died of grievances, which is also inseparable from his character.
Although the white bi is slightly flawed, Yu Qian is still a great man worthy of our admiration and commemoration.
Let's end with a poem by Yu Qian. This poem is called "Lime Yin", which is a seven-character quatrain written by Yu Qian when he was seventeen years old, which is like a mysterious prophecy, indicating Yu Qian's dedication to the country and the fate of the eternal. When we read this poem again today, we can still feel the kind of "a piece of Dan heart shines on the sweat and green" of the high wind and bright festival:
Thousands of hammers were carved out of the deep mountains, and the fire burned as if it were idle. Don't be afraid of broken bones, you have to leave your innocence in the world. ”