In August 1449, an unusual meeting was held at the Zuoye Gate of the Forbidden City. The host of this meeting was not Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, but his younger brother Zhu Qiyu.
What makes people wonder is why Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was not present? It turned out that a month earlier, Warat had been frequently harassed, and he insisted on driving the expedition in person despite the dissuasion of his ministers. Unfortunately, his army of 200,000** was almost completely wiped out, and he himself was captured by the Warats.
This plunged the Forbidden City into a crisis, and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty immediately convened a meeting to discuss countermeasures. Some ministers suggested abandoning the Beijing division and moving to Nanjing, the capital of the country, in order to preserve the foundation of the country.
Those who held this view were represented by Xu Hui, a waiter of Hanlin, who even moved out the argument that the stars had changed and the number of great Ming qi had been exhausted, advocating moving south to survive this catastrophe. Xu Hui's remarks represented the thoughts of Wenchen who were afraid of war and death at that time, which made people deeply worried.
Although the ministers can shed their blood when talking about national affairs, they tend to retreat first at critical moments. However, there are others who don't give up easily.
For example, Yu Qian, the squire of the military department, is a loyal, patriotic, brave and courageous person. When he heard Xu Hui's suggestion to move south, he stood up angrily and resolutely objected: Those who proposed to move south should be severely punished!
What he said makes a lot of sense, because there have been such examples in history: after Sima Rui crossed to the south, although the Eastern Jin Dynasty temporarily settled down, he lived under the threat of the Sixteen Kingdoms for a long time; Song Gaozong fled south to Lin'an, but was eventually wiped out by the Mongols.
Therefore, we must not repeat the mistakes of history, and we must firmly stay in the capital and live and die with it. In the end, the ministers were infected by Yu Qian's firmness and expressed their willingness to live and die with the capital.
However, there is still one small thing that needs to be solved, and that is the problem raised by Chen Yi, the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Chen Yi, as the supreme leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is a member of the first rank, and his words have a very high influence. He said that the nine clans of the eunuch Wang Zhen must be exterminated to stabilize the hearts of the people, otherwise the ministers will not dare to retreat.
Wang Zhen was deeply favored by Zhu Qizhen, and bullied others, causing the Ming Dynasty to be in a dangerous situation. Chen Yi demanded that Wang Zhen and his henchmen be punished in order to clean up the atmosphere of officialdom. Although Wang Zhen's fate is unknown, Chen Yi's appeal provoked a strong response from the ministers, who all demanded in unison that Wang Zhen's henchmen be punished.
The moderator of the meeting was Zhu Qiyu, a feudal lord in Beijing, who did not have much presence, no connections, no work experience and no political foundation. When he was temporarily pulled to preside over the meeting, the ministers wanted to explain the matter, and Zhu Qiyu had to say that he listened to everyone's opinions.
Since Wang Zhen was not in Beijing at this time, Zhu Qiyu decided to raid Wang Zhen's home. However, the ministers were not satisfied with this, because Ma Shun was Wang Zhen's minion, and he should let Chen Yi, the imperial historian of the right capital, go to check it.
Jin Ying, the eunuch who delivered the decree, stood on the stage, facing a group of emotional ministers, and his heart was also a little nervous. He was responsible for conveying the emperor's will, and these ministers opposed it below, causing chaos in the court.
Although Zhu Qiyu is a vassal king, he is exercising the power of the emperor at this moment, and he holds the emperor's edict and will in his hands. Usually, the ministers only kneel and obey orders, but today they dare to jump against him?
Looks like you're spoiled! Kim Young immediately rebuked the ministers, believing that they were unruly. When a dynasty is stripped of its dignity, all that remains is hatred.
This time, the officials who nested the fire would not let go of any guilty person. Jin Ying passed the decree and ordered the hundred officials to retreat, and the people wanted to beat Ying, but Ying got out. Jin Ying knew that the ministers' emotions were already a little out of control at this time, so he quickly avoided it and avoided a fat beating.
However, Jinyi Wei Ma Shun, who was standing on the stage and listening, had no idea. He stood on the stage and listened to the ministers discussing how to punish Wang Zhen's henchmen, and his heart became more and more uncomfortable.
Ma Shun) Ma Shun shouted at everyone and asked the ministers to disperse and not to make trouble for nothing. He knew that if he stood by Wang Zhen's side at this time, the same punishment would await him.
As the senior leader of Jinyiwei, he should understand that the ministers at this time could no longer vent their anger on Wang Zhen, and could only find other outlets. However, he chose to stand on Wang Zhen's side, isn't this his own guilt?
Ma Shun, Ma Shun, you really have to suffer an old sin.
Ma Shun's arrogant behavior caused dissatisfaction among everyone, and Hu Ke gave Wang Hong a decisive shot in the matter, pressing him to the ground and hitting him wildly. When the ministers saw Wang Hong's actions, they joined in one after another, and finally beat Ma Shun to death.
Then, the ministers began to ask Zhu Qiyu for help, demanding that Wang Zhen's two cronies, Mao Gui and Wang Chang, be handed over. Mao Gui and Wang Chang, who learned of this, immediately went into hiding, but they were still pushed down by the eunuch Jin Ying, and the ministers then besieged them, and finally the two died here.
The behavior of Ma Shun, Mao Gui and Wang Chang was unique not only in Chinese history, but even in the history of the Ming Dynasty, becoming the first and only case in history of Jinyi guards and eunuchs who were beaten to death by ministers in the court without the permission of the emperor.
In this magnificent Oriental palace, a bloody case is quietly staged, and the good and evil rights and wrongs of human nature are thought-provoking.