In the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court was in turmoil for a long time. Since Timur, no emperor has lived past the age of forty, and there are still a few emperors who have only been the Son of Heaven for a month, and the ministers cut off one after another, who still has the heart to care about the livelihood of the people in the world? Moreover, natural disasters are more frequent than ever. Since the common people can't wait for the care of the imperial court, they can only rise up and rebel.
Although the ethnic minorities in the south kept holding high their banners and rose up again after being defeated, the riots of these ethnic minorities were only caused by those Tusi who disobeyed the leadership of the local government, and their purpose was only to work alone in a certain place for a period of time, and after getting a vote, they would wash their hands, or if the government agreed to their conditions, they could stop doing it. If the masses in the disaster-stricken areas of the Central Plains had risen, the nature would have been very different. The broad masses of the people in these areas have a large population, and on the other hand, those elites who are well-versed in the past and the present, have a broad field of vision, are well versed in the general trend of the world, and are more proficient than anyone else in the business of changing the dynasty.
Previously, the Zhou Ziwang riot in the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty actually had the intention of pulling the emperor off the horse. Readers who have read Jin Yong**'s "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" must know Zhou Zhiruo and Monk Peng, and they must also know that Zhou Zhiruo is Zhou Ziwang's daughter, and Zhou Ziwang is Master Peng's apprentice.
Monk Peng's name is Peng Yingyu, and his family worked as farmers near Cihua Temple in Yuanzhou, Jiangxi Province a long time ago, and no generation of ancestors has ever been lifted out of poverty and become rich. His father was a faithful Buddhist, he was born to be "given to" Cihua Temple, became an apprentice of a monk surnamed Peng, and officially became a monk at the age of ten.
Although Peng Yingyu has lived in the temple since she was a child, she is with monks every day, chanting scriptures and worshipping Buddha, but those eyes have never stopped observing the world. He saw that the peasants' lives were becoming more and more difficult, and many neighbors had no rice to cook during the festival, so they begged the government to ignore it. As a result, these peasants all joined the White Lotus Sect. Therefore, the local White Lotus Sect was all the rage. Although this phenomenon has attracted the attention of the imperial court many times, and troops have been sent to eliminate the cult organization many times, this cult organization has become more and more powerful, and the common people within a radius of 100 miles are basically White Lotus cultists.
Peng Yingyu saw that the White Lotus Sect was becoming more and more powerful, and also joined this organization as a monk. When Peng Yingyu, a monk, joined the White Lotus Sect, he swore an oath with a lofty ideal. He soon became the backbone of the local White Lotus Sect, and then became the boss of the local White Lotus Sect. From the very beginning, he had the highest goal of overthrowing the reactionary rule of the Yuan Dynasty, so he had been engaged in clandestine anti-Yuan activities. Like the leaders of many religious organizations, he not only propagated the teachings of his own religion and vigorously exposed the decadence of the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty, but also mastered the art of medicine. Peng Yingyu was very prestigious for his excellent missionary ability and superb medical skills. The Cihua Monastery where he was stationed was not only a prosperous outpatient clinic, but also a good place for him to preach and preach. On the one hand, he helped people to treat their diseases for free, and on the other hand, he preached the teachings of "Maitreya Buddha came to the world and changed the world" and "the world is bright and harmonious". At first glance, this doctrine is a political slogan for overthrowing the Mongol dynasty and changing the dynasty. In a short period of time, there were several thousand members of his congregation. His subordinates called him "Patriarch Peng".
Peng Yingyu saw that there were so many believers under her command, and these believers could no longer live, and they all asked to get up and make trouble as soon as possible. When he saw that the people's hearts were available, and his confidence was overflowing, he announced the uprising. Of course, he didn't take the lead himself, but asked one of his apprentices to come out and carry the banner. This apprentice is Zhou Ziwang.
When they announced that they would pick up the **, Peng Yingyu knew that although these peasants who were forced to rise were very enthusiastic, and they were all full of anger to fight the reactionaries of the Yuan Dynasty to the end, but they were all peasants in the end, and their combat experience was equal to zero. So, he came up with a way to write a big word "Buddha" on the vest of each combatant, saying that now that the Buddha has settled on you, you will be invulnerable as soon as you go to the battlefield.
Zhou Ziwang took these 5,000 people and really captured Yuanzhou. After taking Yuanzhou, Zhou Ziwang called himself "King of Zhou", worshiped Peng Yingyu as the national teacher, and appointed his junior brother Guo Tian as the left and right Pingzhang. The start was very good, but the imperial court sent troops to suppress it, and Zhou Ziwang was quickly defeatedZhou Ziwang also became a prisoner and was finally executed. However, Peng Yingyu and Guo Tian escaped.
The Yuanzhou incident has subsided, but it doesn't mean that the White Lotus Sect is no longer troublesome. They just lurk and wait for their moment.
The White Lotus Sect hadn't come out to make trouble again, but that Fang Guozhen had come out first. Fang Guozhen is a native of Taizhou, Zhejiang, and is a salt seller. As a family of salt sellers, Fang Guozhen's life should not be very bad, so he did not have the idea of changing the world like Peng Yingyu did early. He just wanted to make the profession of a salt seller until the day he died. The profession of a salt dealer is actually a mixed affair. In the rivers and lakes, you will always mix up a few enemies who do not share the same sky.
Fang Guozhen also has such an enemy. It's just that he has five brothers, and he is born with a long body and a dark face, plus he is muscular, he can rein in the horse, and he has the style of a *** boss plus that force index, how dare his enemies directly compete with him? They just wait, wait for the opportunity to take revenge.
The opportunity was not long in coming.
At that time, there was a man named Cai Lantou who carried out robbery activities at sea, and the scale of the activities became larger and larger, and finally the government had to send troops to fight. When Fang Guozhen's enemies saw it, suddenly inspiration came up: Cai Chaotou was a bandit at sea, and Fang Guozhen was also doing business at sea. This enemy organically combined the commonality of mixing at sea, and went to the government to report it, saying that Fang Guozhen and Cai Chaotou were in the same group.
After Fang Guozhen found out, of course, he was furious, and found the enemy at the first time to kill him, and then fled to the sea to hide for his life, and together with a few brothers, he organized thousands of people, and really started to be pirates, specializing in robbing Caoyun - this is the economic lifeblood of Dayuan. He did a larger scale and more powerful than Cai Rantou, and even the pirate Qianhu Deliu was caught by him.
The news soon reached the imperial court.
Tu Timur ordered Jiangsu and Zhejiang to participate in politics Dorzibal to lead the sailors to attack, and be sure to capture the Fang brothers alive to protect the safety of Caoyun. Fang Guozhen's brothers couldn't defeat the regular army, so they had to turn around and escape. Dolzibal pursued all the way to Fuzhou Wuhumen. Fang Guozhen saw that the ** army was in hot pursuit, and he didn't know how to flee to **, seeing that the ** army and sailors were coming in the wind and waves, and the situation was very critical, so he gritted his teeth and asked his brothers to burn the boat, and then fled in chaos.
Seeing that the other party was in a hurry, Dorzibal was overjoyed, and was about to give the order to strike at the pirates so that the pirates could not escape.
Before his order could be heard, his own troops suddenly became chaotic.
When Brother Fang Guozhen saw it, they didn't know what was going on. Is it fooling us? But when I looked at it, it didn't look like a fool at all. At this time, they came to the same conclusion as Dorzibal's: ** The army is really in disarray.
Fang Guozhen was overjoyed, she always heard the phrase "God help me", and this time it was really God who helped me. Of course, he will not let go of this opportunity and lead his team to fight towards the ** army. As a result, not only did they defeat the ** army in all directions without any suspense, but even Dorzibal became their prisoner.
At this time, Fang Guozhen was still reluctant to rebel. He knew that his brothers were robbing the fishermen at sea, which was very fierce, but if they really went to war, they didn't have much combat effectiveness. When they captured Dorzibal, they forced him to write a letter to the imperial court, asking for permission to surrender.
The imperial court decided to allow Fang Guozhen to surrender and appointed him as Dinghai Lieutenant, but also to hold Dorzibal responsible. But the Privy Senate disagreed:"If you lose the battle, you should have been demoted, but you have to look at the specific situation. The naval division led by Dorzibal was basically composed of temporary cavalry infantry from the north, and it had never been accustomed to water warfare. The imperial court sent him to fight Fang Guozhen, which was equivalent to telling him to die. The correct way is to recruit people who are familiar with water warfare by the sea to fight Fang Guozhen, and they will definitely be able to defeat Fang Guozhen. We resolutely do not agree to Fang Guozhen's surrender, but send troops to defeat him completely, so that those in the world who have a rebellious mentality know that the imperial court is clearly suppressing the rebels. ”But Timur did not agree, and he was afraid of losing the battle again.
Several other ministers took the opportunity to make Bei'er cowardly and forced Tu Timur to demote Bei'er to Bohai County.
Fang Guozhen's side was temporarily calmed down, but the Yellow River broke again, and ** also followed, and robbers of all sizes were everywhere.
The imperial court really has no way to deal with the Yellow River, but it still has to take care of it. As a result, the imperial court set up water supervisors in Henan and Shandong, where floods often occur, to control the floods of the Yellow River. Of course, these departments still have nothing to do with the Yellow River.
At this time, a few of the cowardly friends were very depressed. They had followed Bei'er timidly before, and when they didn't succeed, they turned their anger on the Hama brothers. After some planning, organized by Taiping and Han Jina, it was finally decided that several ministers led by the superintendent of the imperial Shi Wolle Haishou would come forward to expose the crimes of the Hama brothers, and these crimes mainly included: accepting camels, horses and other things from King Xuanrang and others, setting up accounts behind the emperor's tent, committing the crime of great disrespect, entering and leaving the queen's palace at will, and violating the ...... of upper and lower ranksThen through the Imperial Historian Hanjina, the matter was directly played to Timur.
Will Timur be able to get them to take these two brothers down? Moreover, before that, the Hama brothers already knew that they were going to make these charges to defeat them, so they exonerated themselves in front of the Toyo Timur in advance, pointing out that these charges were all woven by Taiping and Han Jinaro to bring down their brothers. Of course, Timur only listened to the Hama brothers.
When Han Jina handed over the letter of accusation from the Imperial Observatory to Tu Timur, Toe Timur threw it aside and scolded Han Jina, saying that I will not be misled by you people to wronged the Hama brothers. Han Jina also lost his temper, and the next day he handed the chapter to Tuo Timur, which means that if you don't deal with the Hama brothers, Yushitai will ** them every day.
When he saw it, he knew that if he was the umbrella of the brothers again, it was estimated that ** would really be unfavorable to him. At this time, his mind was still clear, and he knew that the crimes they had reported against the Hama brothers were really true, so he had to order the Hama brothers to be removed from their posts. Mr. Woller Haishou, you took the lead in reporting these two brothers, which can be regarded as a meritorious service, so you decided to be released as the deputy envoy of Shaanxi Province. As for Mr. Taiping, you also have to have a good rest, go to be a Hanlin bachelor, only receive a salary and don't have to work, Han Jina was promoted to the Xuanzheng Yuan as a leader.
In this way, all of these Maha brothers' rivals were promoted and then suppressed by Tuo Timur, and they were transferred out of key departments, laying a solid foundation for the comeback of the Hama brothers in the future.
Of course, before the Hama brothers can make a comeback, they have to get Tokh back to work. Now it was too necessary for Timur to get out of his hands and solve the great problems before him.
In July of the ninth year of Zhizheng, he adjusted a wave of personnel changes, and his younger brother Yetemur became the imperial historian, and the right prime minister Dorji was removed from his post and only became his hereditary king. Then the vacant position of the right prime minister was naturally held by Taifu Tuotuo. did not forget to suppress Han Jina again and transfer him to Pingzhang in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
Although Tokhtar is full of poetry and books, and has always flaunted the Confucian doctrine to demand that he be a man, but he was once made by other cowardly flowers, his father died of illness and degraded to the house, and he was almost defeated by them, and his heart was extremely angry. At this time, everyone else has basically been demoted from the imperial court, and only Taiping is still alive in Beijing. Taiping had been the most effective assistant of Bei'er Cowardice, so Tokhtar was convinced that Taiping must have worked hard with Bei'er Cowardice to get himself, so he decided to cut the knife of revenge at Taiping, and first took the people who Taiping had promoted, regardless of whether they were good or bad, and all of them were framed and dismissed from office. Then he also dismissed the officials of the peace. But Tokhtar's heart was still uncomfortable, and he continued to make several accusations to retaliate against Taiping, and finally said that Taiping's son also first wanted to marry the daughter of the clan. In fact, although Taiping is a backbone member of the Don't be cowardly and spruce group, in the framing incident, he firmly stood on the position of Tokhtar and spoke for Toto.
After the death of Tokhtar's father Mazartai, it was the Taiping who kept asking Tokhtar Timur to let Tokhtar return to the imperial court as a concubine, but Tokhtar didn't know. But his mother knew about this, and when she saw her two sons frantically attacking Taiping, she called them over and said, "I tell you, Taiping is a good man and has never harmed you." Why do you have to ** him? ”
But the Tokhtar brothers didn't listen.
The servant Sarmat couldn't see it, and shouted directly in the court: "The imperial history is now doing things to frame righteous men and gentlemen every day, corrupting the principle of supervision, see what people will say about you in the future?" Then he strode out, saying he was sick and no longer coming to work.
In such a situation, many people persuaded Taiping to simply dispose of himself, but Taiping was very calm, saying: "I am not guilty, why should I commit suicide?" If I commit suicide, it will be tantamount to telling the world that I really have a problem, and it is a serious problem. ”
Think about it, even people like Taiping who are kind to Tokhto, don't let go, can he still let go of those few people who have been demoted from the court early? Moreover, Toh Timur was even more angry with these people than at Tokhtar. Therefore, it is much easier to deal with these people: Waller Haishou was directly dismissed from office, ordered to go home, and permanently dismissed from public office; Another cowardly gangster, Han Jina, was also framed**, and after being sentenced to cane punishment, he was exiled to Neurkan and then died; Tumendale was transferred to Sichuan as the right man - on the way to the post, he was also charged with additional crimes, and then chased and killed on the way.
This time, Tokhtar joined forces with Tokh Timur to get rid of their common opposition party in a neat and straightforward manner, and it was very happy to take revenge. Of course, after dealing with these people and happy grievances, it is a matter of gratitude and retribution. Tokhtar regarded the Hama brothers as his benefactors and reinstated them as brothers, with Hama once again serving as a member of the Privy Council.
However, Tokhtar would not have thought that the two brothers had saved him, but after that, he would be so miserable by the two brothers!
After Tokhtar did these things, his nemesis Don't be cowardly and died depressed in Bohai County.
The counterattack from being cowardly and not spending money to getting rid of it made the Great Yuan Dynasty fall into an officialdom again, and the already scarce talents suffered another devastating blow.
And at this time, after experiencing this storm of revenge, Totok's mentality is also a little inflated.
After Bei'er died of cowardice, Toto's mother also died. Tokhtar is a person who is deeply influenced by Confucianism, and in the matter of mourning for his parents, he absolutely follows the rules and regulations of Confucianism. Now that his mother is dead, of course he has to mourn for his mother and take a long leave not to work. Of course, Tuo Timur disagreed, and always sent the staff around him to ask Tokhtar to come back as soon as possible to deal with state affairs. It was difficult to shirk Toto, so he organized a team, the core members were: Wugu Sun Liangzhen, Gong Bosui, Ru Zhongbai, Beitmur, etc., and let these people temporarily handle various affairs on his behalf. As a result, major and minor matters in the DPRK and China were decided by this small group after discussion. Many policies have been implemented, but ministers are not yet aware of them.
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