On June 14, the 14th year of Zhengde, Governor Sun Sui led the civil and military officials of Jiangxi to the Ningwang Mansion to congratulate Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, on his birthday. However, when Sun Sui stepped into the mansion door, he immediately noticed an abnormality.
It is understandable that hundreds of family members were arranged at the banquet to maintain order, but the hundreds of soldiers in armor were puzzling. This is not a battlefield, so why do you need to be so vigilant?
Despite his misgivings, Sun Sui decided to set foot in King Ning's mansion. After all, no one knew what kind of calculation King Ning was making.
After greeting King Ning, King Ning walked to the podium and asked those present what righteousness was. Sun Sui was alert and bluntly asked what King Ning's words meant.
King Ning's next words frightened Sun Sui, and even the majesty of the governor was left behind, and he wanted to flee in a hurry.
King Ning claimed that the current emperor Zhu Houzhao was not born to Ming Xiaozong, but to the illegitimate son of the eunuch Li Guang. The Empress Dowager knew about this and ordered me to launch a mutiny and expel Zhu Houzhao from the throne. Do you support or disagree?
This statement is blatant and almost undisguised. However, before Sun Sui could escape outside the door, he was intercepted by the guards.
King Ning asked him what he wanted.
Sun Sui replied: If you kill yourself, don't implicate me.
How did the civil and military officials at the scene react? Only one deputy envoy, Xu Kui, stood up and scolded King Ning, but the others were silent. The fate of the two can be imagined, they were all taken by King Ning to be executed outside the city.
June Bingzi, Ning Wang Chenhao rebelled. Sun Sui, the imperial historian of the capital, and Xu Kui, the deputy envoy of the judicial department, died. —Ming History Chronicle
In the face of the uprising, the support of the local ** is crucial. Without support, it is difficult to gain a foothold. King Ning reused his supporters and threw his opponents in jail.
However, he found that there were no supporters on the list, with the exception of one - Wang Shouren, the governor of southern Gansu.
He went**? He had left Nanchang the day before King Ning launched his rebellion.
In fact, the reason for his departure was not complicated, he had already learned that King Ning was about to launch a rebellion, and the person who sent him away was none other than Sun Sui.
Because at that time, King Ning's intention to launch a rebellion was already Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knew it.
As we all know, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were regarded as poultry raised by the emperor and were not allowed to hold official positions, let alone engage in government affairs, because their appointment would threaten the emperor's position.
If the vassal king held an official position, it could tarnish the emperor's reputation. Therefore, the vassal king was destined to live an ordinary life. However, King Ning is an exception.
Zhu Di, the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who had ascended the throne through an uprising, knew that Zhu Yuanzhang's vassal system was unreliable. If the system is reliable, it will be difficult for Zhu Di to become the emperor. As a result, he implemented a policy of reduction of feudal kings, thus eliminating the threat of feudal kings to the emperor.
One might wonder why no feudal king rebelled when the feudal kings were reduced.
This is because no feudal king has the courage to confront the imperial court alone, and only Zhu Di dares to challenge the imperial court.
When he decided to cut down the other vassal kings, the other vassal kings naturally did not dare to resist. Otherwise, they would have rebelled a long time ago, why wait until now? Moreover, Zhu Di has proved through practical actions that he is an expert who is good at rebellion. Rebelling in front of him is like an axe in the door. At that time, King Ning restored his army.
It is not simple to achieve this goal, and the fact that a vassal king has an army cannot be explained in itself. However, his army was still able to recover.
This is because he already controls two leaders of the imperial court, one is the first eunuch Liu Jin, and the other is the prime minister Yang Tinghe.
Some people may wonder that it is understandable that he controls Liu Jin, because Liu Jin is not a good thing in the first place. If he were a good person, he wouldn't have stipulated that all ** people who went out of Beijing had to give him gifts.
However, it is difficult to understand the control of Yang Tinghe, after all, he is a famous minister in the history of the Ming Dynasty and the main person in charge of the "Jiajing New Deal".
As long as the current position is maintained, the guard can be restored. —Ming History Chronicle
Why would he be on King Ning's side? Because no matter what happens, he is invincible, and the money he got for nothing cannot be given up in vain.
If King Ning wins, he will definitely be indispensable. And if King Ning fails, with his influence in the court, no one can do anything to him, after all, he is not only the head of the hundred officials, but also the teacher of Emperor Zhu Houzhao.
King Ning had already shown sensitivity to the recovery of the army, and after the two governors of Jiangxi died in Jiangxi inexplicably, the two governors who took over took the initiative to leave Jiangxi in less than a year, preferring to resign from their official positions and return to their hometowns rather than continue to stay in Jiangxi.
The governor has the power equivalent to the governor at the local level, and there is no ** higher status than him in his jurisdiction. This is also the reason why the ** people in Jiangxi went to Ningwangfu to congratulate Sun Sui on his birthday.
But why did these governors flee Jiangxi like rats? As long as anyone who knows a little about officialdom can see the problem, and the core of the problem lies in King Ning.
Since only the vassal king was greater than the governor, it was certain that the vassal king who went to Jiangxi to serve as the governor could only be King Ning.
This is also the reason why Sun Sui has said goodbye to his wife and son before leaving.
His wife persuaded him that he knew the road ahead was dangerous, so why should he go? He replied that this official was given by the state, and it was natural for him to serve the country with loyalty, wasn't it?
The people of Nanchang are turbulent, and they are called the son of heaven in the twilight. Sui left and right to know Chenhao's ears and eyes, Sui to prevent secrets, left and right can not peep. —History of the Ming Dynasty, Volume 177
Some people believe that if a feudal king first reorganizes his army and then expells the governor, then everyone will think that he is plotting a rebellion.
Moreover, he did something that proved even more that he was planning a rebellion, which was to actively recruit soldiers and buy horses.
There are a large number of robbers hidden in the south of Jiangxi, no matter how the local ** encircles and suppresses, it is difficult to **, and even some robbers openly roam the streets, while the local ** turns a blind eye.
Why is that? Because they all knew that these robbers had the support of King Ning behind them, and the reason why they entered Jiangxi was for King Ning.
In peacetime, such a situation seems somewhat unusual. Why did King Ning raise an army to rebel? Moreover, Zhu Houzhao did not oppress King Ning or any other vassal king. It all seems a little strange.
In the fourteenth year, Xiao Huai, the imperial historian, said that he was not early in the system, and he would suffer from unspeakable people in the future. —History of the Ming Dynasty, Vol. 5
As the saying goes, "there must be a demon when things go wrong", if you want to find out the root cause, you have to go back to the Zhu Di dynasty hundreds of years ago.
Back then, Zhu Di rebelled with Zhu Quan, the first king of Ning.
King Ning was not willing to follow Zhu Di to rebel, but was forced. When bidding farewell to Zhu Di, all his guards were bribed by Zhu Di and he was forced to join the rebels.
In order to appease him, Zhu Di promised to divide the world equally with him in the future, but on the day of victory, Zhu Di forgot this promise, and King Ning did not dare to mention it, because it would be self-defeating.
King Ning originally thought that Zhu Di would seal him in Hangzhou because of his merits, but Zhu Di refused, because Hangzhou was a major tax area.
He made a request for another fief, Wuchang, but Zhu Di also refused, because Wuchang was located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and Nanjing was the capital at that time, located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and it was impossible to give him Wuchang.
Although he was rejected twice, he knew that it would be useless to mention it a third time, so he gave up.
After being forcibly sealed to Nanchang, his heart was full of resentment. It doesn't matter if you refuse to divide the world equally, you won't even agree to a request, this is the behavior of a brother?
This hatred was passed down from generation to generation until Zhu Chenhao's generation completely broke out.
It stands to reason that such a rebellion has been going on for many years and should have had an impact on the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but the result only lasted for 35 days.
It's unbelievable, what the hell is going on? The reason lies with Wang Shouren.
Before King Ning launched a rebellion, Wang Shouren had already prepared, and his strategy was to use the royal banner to make use of the royal order.
Although as a governor, he could not mobilize large armies or recruit soldiers, but with the royal banner it was different, he could mobilize large armies and recruit troops.
He chose Ji'an as a base to mobilize the surrounding armies and recruit troops.
One might ask, what would King Ning do if he suddenly attacked? That's a problem.
Therefore, he asked King Ning to wait in Nanchang for him to complete his recruitment before launching an attack.
King Ning was not his son, so why should he listen to him? Despite this, King Ning obeyed his arrangement and waited in Nanchang for more than ten days until Wang Shouren was ready.
How did he do it?
First, he spread rumors in Nanchang that the imperial court's 160,000-strong army was about to arrive in Nanchang.
At that time, King Ning's army was only 80,000, and if the army of the imperial court arrived, Nanchang would inevitably be difficult to defend.
In order to defeat the imperial army, he could attack other regions first.
But can rumors alone make King Ning sit idly by? Wang Shouren has another plan.
He arranged for someone to carry the letter hidden in the wax pill to Nanchang, pretended to panic, and was searched by the soldiers defending the city, so as to find the letter hidden in the wax pill.
This letter was addressed to Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng, the prime ministers of King Ning, urging them to persuade King Ning to attack Nanjing, because as long as King Ning was not in Nanchang, the arrival of the imperial army would be successful.
When King Ning received the letter, Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng arrived just in time to urge King Ning to attack Nanjing, which made King Ning suspicious.
How did Wang Shouren expect that they would propose an attack on Nanjing? Because attacking Nanjing is the wisest choice, and both of them have the intelligence to not ignore this plan.
Although King Ning is not a stupid person, more than ten days have passed, and the army of the imperial court has not yet arrived, and the spies have reported that Wang Shouren has been deploying troops and recruiting troops, and it is obvious that he has been tricked.
Therefore, he immediately attacked in the direction of Nanjing, but was blocked at Anqing.
This is not surprising, after all, Anqing is located above Wuhan and below Nanjing, once Anqing is lost, Nanjing will be just around the corner, so there must be heavy garrisons.
This is also the reason why Zeng Guoquan jubilantly said that it was only a matter of time before the city of Nanjing was broken after he broke through Anqing.
When King Ning was attacking Anqing, news came that Nanchang had been breached.
He never expected that Wang Yangming would be so insidious and directly attack his lair.
At this time, his wisest choice should be to capture Anqing, use it as a stronghold, trap Wang Shouren in his rear, and launch an attack on Nanjing.
If you return to Nanchang, it will be impossible to capture Anqing, and Nanchang still has Wang Shouren's 80,000 army, this battle is destined to be a protracted battle.
But he chose to come back to help.
In this rebellion, his strategy was frequently misguided.
And Wang Shouren did not choose to fight him in the city, but chose to fight him at Poyang Lake.
Because a battle of Anqing has weakened the morale of King Ning's army, if he hides in the city, he will boost the enemy's prestige. Therefore, fighting outside the city is the best option.
Throughout the rebellion, King Ning was pinned down by Wang Shouren, and the final decisive battle was naturally not his opponent.
Since the strength of the two sides is equal, there are about 80,000 soldiers each, and the quality of the soldiers is similar, some are regular troops, and the other part is ruffians and hooligans.
It is no wonder that Wang Shouren had an urgent task and limited conditions at that time, so he had no time to review them one by one.
Therefore, he was always in a state of being suppressed by Wang Shouren, and although he fought several battles, he suffered heavy losses every time.
The end of the war was rather absurd, because the land had become Wang Shouren's territory, and he chose to connect all the ships in a row.
Anyone who is familiar with Romance of the Three Kingdoms or knows its plot knows what will happen next, the Battle of Chibi.
King Ning was finally defeated.
The argument was still unresolved, and our troops took cover, and the fire and the boat were scattered. The concubine said goodbye to Hao and wept, and went to the water to die. Wang Yang's next year's spectrum
It is worth noting that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" had been published for more than 100 years at that time, but King Ning and his left and right prime ministers Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng obviously had no contact.
This shows the importance of reading extracurricular books, and perhaps one day you will benefit from it.
King Ning's rebellion seems absurd, but if it weren't for Wang Shouren's intervention, it might really become a reality.
Because the whole process of rebellion was stopped by Wang Shouren, without him, I am afraid that no one would be able to organize an army against King Ning.
At that time, Jiangxi was in chaos, and the people were fleeing in all directions, and no one wanted to fall into strife.
The situation in the imperial court was also worrisome, and some ministers had even prepared their bags to flee, knowing that King Ning's rebellion had been brewing for a long time, and it would be difficult to quell it if there was no big movement.
More importantly, when King Ning's rebellion was put down, the imperial army had not yet set out, which is enough to show Wang Shouren's merits.
Without him, the follow-up development is difficult to predict.
The decision at the highest level of the imperial court was that Zhu Houzhao personally went on the expedition, while Qian Ning, the Jinyi Wei he trusted the most, was a supporter of King Ning.
If Qian Ning secretly poisoned Zhu Houzhao, the consequences would be unimaginable.
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