On August 15, the 14th year of Orthodoxy, the Tumubao Rebellion broke out, and the first reaction of the highest levels of the imperial court was to conceal it.
Because once the news of this defeat spreads, it will cause panic in the whole of Beijing, and even the entire Ming Dynasty.
Because the commander of the Tumubao Revolution was not an ordinary general, but the emperor Zhu Qizhen himself.
The emperor drove the expedition in person, and there must have been countless civil and military officials accompanying him, and this is also the case.
Among this group of civil and military officials, there was not even a shortage of the most senior officials of the imperial court at that time, such as Kuang Yu, the secretary of the military department, Wang Zuo, the secretary of the household department, Cao Ding, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Zhang Yi, the cabinet minister.
No matter which of these four people was pulled out, it was the dream of the high school scholars at that time, and their dreams were all reduced to the swords of the Mongol soldiers at this time.
There are two of them who carry much more weight than the four mentioned above, because the four mentioned above have the possibility of success, and you don't have that possibility at all.
Who's in the first place?It is the British public Zhang Fu.
The father of the family was Zhang Yu, the biggest contributor to Zhu Di's Jingyan Battle, and he also followed Zhu Di during the Jingjing Battle, fighting in the south and the north.
When it came to the "founding of the country", although his father had died in battle in the process, he was no less than his father, and Annan was pacified by him.
In the entire imperial court at that time, he said two, and no one dared to say one, except for Zhu Qizhen, of course.
And Zhu Yong, another general second only to Zhang Fu, also died in this war.
This general is Zhu Yong, the son of Zhu Neng, another major first contributor to the Battle of Jingjing.
Because Zhu Yong's ability is too limited, he is the king of Pingyin who is personally crowned by Zhu Qizhen.
"In the fourteenth year, he drove to the civil engineering, faced the Harrier Ridge, died in ambush, and the 50,000 horsemen he commanded were gone. —History of the Ming Dynasty, Vol. 33The so-called King of Pingyin, as the name suggests, is, since you can't do it in the yang world, then go to the underworld, maybe you can do it in the underworld, which is obviously a mockery.
In addition to their two dukes, there are countless other counts and marquis (the Ming Dynasty has regulations that non-military merits cannot be knighted).
Similar to the scale of such a campaign, the number of soldiers who go out will certainly not be in the minority, and this is also true.
At that time, there were 200,000 troops on the march, and these 200,000 troops were not ordinary 200,000 troops, but the most elite 200,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty at that time.
It was composed of the three major battalions of Beijing and the large army near Beijing, and the final result of this large army was, of course, the total annihilation of the army.
"The enemy jumped in, and the six armies were crushed, with hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded. —History of the Ming Dynasty, Vol. 216
Just imagine, a war directly smashed the highest level of the imperial court, and also put Beijing's offensive and defensive forces into it, so that no one could be sure of the final outcome of the war.
After all, once it is made public, no one knows what will happen, maybe the Mongols have not yet fought, and the Ming Dynasty has already thrown itself into chaos.
But this kind of news must be suppressed, and the reason is very simple, because the scale of this war has reached this extent, and it is not only one person who knows about it, but the entire border at that time.
And there are eunuchs and civil officials at the border, so it is impossible not to leak the news.
And this leak, the ministers must hope that the imperial court will give a true statement, and the imperial court also knows that the matter has reached such a point, and there is no need to hide it, so it was officially made public on the day of the 18th.
Although the ministers already have a psychological expectation of this result, they are still frying, you hold me, I hold you, and cry bitterly to each other.
After all, all those who died were their friends, or relatives, family members, and, of course, themselves.
After all, the Mongols fought such a wonderful battle, it was impossible to stop there, but would choose to continue to march, and maybe they could return to the Central Plains.
What's more, they also learned another news, that is, Zhu Qizhen has become a prisoner, how do you say this battle will be fought?The emperor became a prisoner.
Since the emperor has become a captive, then it is enough to set up another one, after all, what is really valuable is not the emperor himself, but the name of the emperor.
The same was true at that time, Zhu Qiyu became the new emperor, but the time when he became the emperor was problematic.
Because the time of the Tumubao Revolution was on the 15th day of August in the 14th year of Orthodoxy, and it was already known to everyone on the 18th day.
But the time when he became emperor was on September 16, half a month apart.
You must know that the situation at that time was quite critical, no one knew when the Mongols would be killed, and for nearly half a month, there was no emperor in the Ming Dynasty.
It stands to reason that there were only two candidates for the successor to the throne at that time, the first was Zhu Qizhen's son Zhu Jianshen, and the other was Zhu Qiyu.
Hearing the name, you know that Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Qizhen are the same generation, why can he become the successor to the throne?
Because Zhu Zhanji only had two sons, he and Zhu Qizhen, and at that time, Zhu Jianshen had a hard time talking, and it was better not to make him the emperor.
After all, the emperor plays the role of the backbone, so Zhu Qiyu can also fight it.
What's more, it was him Zhu Qiyu who was in charge of the auxiliary government at that time.
But it was these two candidates who were forcibly delayed for half a month before it was determined that it was Zhu Qiyu.
And the reason why there will be a situation of no emperor for half a month is because the civil official group does not know which side he is on.
You must know that when Zhu Qizhen was there, he was on the side of the eunuchs, and of course it was the civil officials who suffered.
Originally, there was only one emperor above them, but now there was another eunuch above them, which they couldn't bear no matter what.
Because this extra leader is clearly divided up with their power.
For example, Zhu Qizhen's opinion was to agree with their last performance, but the leader's opinion was not to agree, so this arrangement could not be implemented.
And if they want to have no leader between themselves and the emperor, they must find out what Zhu Qiyu's attitude is towards the eunuchs.
If he was like Zhu Qizhen, they wouldn't be able to repeat the same mistakes again.
Therefore, in the past half a month, they liquidated Wang Zhenyu's party, and the process of this liquidation can be described as extremely tragic.
Three of Wang Zhen's comrades, Ma Shun, Mao Gui, and Wang Changsui, were beaten to death in front of Zhu Qiyu.
You must know that they were able to beat these three to death in front of Zhu Qiyu, which means that they were above the court at that time, but was they above the court at that time?It is indeed above the court.
If it were replaced by other ** emperors, they would definitely be punished, after all, Zhu Qiyu did not give an order to kill these three people.
What's more, Ma Shun was killed by them on the spot, Mao Gui and Wang Changsui were carried from the palace to the court by them and killed
What does this behavior mean?It shows that Zhu Qiyu is not taken seriously at all.
But what is Zhu Qiyu's attitude towards this?No punishment was imposed.
And after that, he also complied with the wishes of the civil official group and arrested Wang Zhen's nephew Wang Shan and executed Ling Chi.
After all, Wang Zhen himself had died in Tumubao, and he could only suffer his nephew to take his place in the punishment he deserved.
From a series of liquidation of Wang Zhenyu's party, the civil official group is enough to determine that Zhu Qiyu will definitely be their partner in the future, so if they do not support Zhu Qiyu, who will they support.
But there is another hurdle that they need to cross, and this hurdle is the side of the Empress Dowager Sun.
After all, without her nod, Zhu Qiyu would not have become the emperor, and she nodded.
Because he has exchanged interests with the civil official group, Zhu Qiyu can become the emperor, but he must first canonize Zhu Jianshen as the crown prince, and Zhu Qiyu must guarantee that he will not abolish Zhu Jianshen in the future.
There is no harm to this matter for the civilian clique, and the result is of course approval.
And there is no harm to Zhu Qiyu, after all, he was not an emperor in the first place, and now he is picking up an emperor for nothing, how can he not be satisfied.
Therefore, he made the same choice as the civilian clique.
"The master and apprentice did not quit and were left in the royal court. The artifact can not be without the owner, here for the three princes, the selection of virtuous and long, immediately see that Shen is the crown prince, and is in the East Palace. —Ming History Chronicle
Some people may have a question, where did the military generals go?
Originally, military generals had a natural disadvantage compared to civilian officials, after all, as the leaders of the army, the emperor was very protective of them, and it was impossible for them to directly participate in the government affairs.
But civilian officials are different, they have no soldiers in their hands, and they can directly participate in the government politics.
And now, with the death of Zhang Fu and Zhu Yong, the military general group has completely collapsed, and they no longer have the strength to compete with the civilian official group, and they naturally have no sense of existence in supporting Zhu Qiyu.
In the first year of Jingtai, Zhu Qizhen, the original captive, returned to the Ming Dynasty. Some people may wonder why Mongolia didn't kill himThe reason for not killing him is very simple, if you kill him, you will offend the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, the top leaders of Mongolia did not dare to offend the Ming Dynasty.
You must know that Mongolia at that time was not monolithic, he could be the leader, just because his strength was the strongest, but due to the reason for the defense of Beijing, his main army suffered heavy losses, and for this field, he could barely hold on.
And the forces of other tribes have not lost, such as the two who originally promised to attack the Ming Dynasty with him.
Not only did he not support him, but he also negotiated peace with the Ming Dynasty in the rear, which was simply wishing that he would disappear from the grassland quickly.
Regarding this point, he himself knows that if he offends the Ming Dynasty, these two will definitely die without a place to be buried with the support of the Ming Dynasty, so he must not break with the Ming Dynasty.
And if you can't break with the Ming Dynasty, you must put Zhu Qizhen back. What's more, there is another advantage to doing this, that is, to provoke the internal fighting of the Ming Dynasty, after all, he still understands the truth that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers.
And the fact is that Zhu Qizhen is quite unpopular with Zhu Qiyu, as soon as he returned to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qiyu threw him to Nangong.
You must know that Nangong is located in the outer city of the imperial city, and to put it too far, even if someone demolishes Nangong, Zhu Qiyu may not necessarily know.
From here, it can be judged that Zhu Qiyu will definitely not be good to Zhu Qizhen in the future, and this is also the case.
Why did he throw Zhu Qizhen to Nangong?It's not because he's afraid that Zhu Qizhen will affect his throne.
Since this is the case, he will definitely isolate Zhu Qizhen from the ministers, if he is not isolated, who knows if he will be restored.
And the way of isolation is very simple, first, lock the door of Nangong;Secondly, order the Jinyi guards to surround it;Finally, cut down all the trees to prevent anyone from using the trees as cover to pass information on each other.
If you offend anyone, you can offend to this extent, you might as well offend again, originally he promised Empress Dowager Sun that he could not abolish Zhu Jianshen, but by this time, he couldn't take care of it so much.
In the third year of Jingtai, he abolished Zhu Jianshen and appointed his own son Zhu Jianji as the crown prince.
"On the first day of the fifth month of summer, the abolished crown prince saw Shen as the king of Yi, and the prince Jianji was appointed as the crown prince. —Ming History BenjiIf there was still room for relaxation between him and Zhu Qizhen back then, then this space for relaxation was that he did not move Zhu Jianshen's position as the crown prince, but now he has destroyed this space of relaxation with his own hands.
It can be said that there is no room for maneuver between him and Zhu Qizhen's father and son, but for him, there is no worry.
After all, his sons are already princes, and he can only inherit the throne in the future by his son Zhu Jianji. Zhu Qizhen's father and son can still turn over the sky.
But people are not as good as heaven, Qin Tai four years, Zhu Jianji died, and Zhu Jianji is his only son, if he is replaced by other emperors, Jingtai four years will be the death of Zhu Qizhen's father and son.
But what was the result?This period of death did not come during the use of the name of Jingtai.
The reason, of course, is that he did not attack Zhu Qizhen's father and son.
Some people may say that he no longer has a son, and Zhu Jianshen will be the successor in the future, isn't this looking for a way out for himself?
You must know that the descendants of the Zhu family are not only Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Qizhen, and Zhu Qiyu, but there are also others, Zhu Yuanzhang alone gave birth to twenty-six sons that year, could it be that these twenty-six sons have no descendants?
If you can't pick it from Zhu Zhanji's vein, you can also choose from other veins.
So why didn't he do it?Because of indecision.
You must know that if the emperor wants to kill someone, it is simply easy, and if it is inconvenient to attack directly, there are many ways to do it.
For example, if you put something that shouldn't be put in Zhu Qizhen's food every day, after a long time, he will naturally die.
But Zhu Qiyu didn't do anything, this is a flaw in his character.
After all, someone has a mortal enmity with another person, knowing that this person will fight back against him once he gains power, and he now has the means to eradicate that person, but he sits there indifferent.
You must know that Li Shimin back then was Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji.
The world is bustling, all for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit, and profit-seeking has always been human nature.
Zhu Qiyu personally planted the thunder of Zhu Qizhen's father and son for himself, and the cake of the imperial court was originally so big, and the ministers who did not get the cake in Jingtai would naturally have crooked thoughts.
For example, Xu Youzhen, who was excluded because he advocated moving south, naturally wanted to redivide the cake.
And as long as one of Zhu Qizhen's father and son is put on the throne by himself, then he can redivide the cake.
Back then, Lü Buwei's father once said that supporting the monarch was a business with countless times the profits.
Xu Youzhen, a minister of this type, how could he give up?So the change broke out to seize the door. Zhu Qizhen took advantage of Zhu Qiyu's critical illness to launch a coup d'état and forcibly took away the imperial power in Zhu Qiyu's hands.
Some people may wonder why his coup d'état became so simple, because he was originally the default successor in everyone's hearts, and no one would oppose him when he sat on the throne.
And what did Zhu Qiyu get in exchange for opening the net back then?In exchange for being strangled.
Zhu Qizhen is worthy of being the horn of the coup d'état, and the means are decisive.