After the Ming emperor seized the world from the Mongols, in view of the lessons of the Song Dynasty's fiasco, the Ming Dynasty has maintained a severe crackdown on the northern nomads, such as Zhu Di's five pro-conquests of Mongolia, such as fishing in the sea to eliminate the Northern Yuan regime.
When he arrived at the town of Zhu Qi of Emperor Mingying, he also wanted to follow the example of his ancestors to make a royal conquest and promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, but in the end it almost became the Ming Dynasty's version of jingkang's change, which could not help but make people sigh.
Zhu Qizhen was the 6th emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and his era name was Orthodox. Zhu Qizhen began to take the throne at the age of nine, and because he was young and did not understand government affairs, the empress dowager presided over the administrative affairs, continued to appoint the "Three Yangs" of the previous dynasty, and implemented the policy of the reign of Ren Xuan, and the economy and society achieved some economic and social development.
But after all, the child will grow up, and when he grows up, Zhu Qizhen will expose his playful nature. He began to reuse the eunuch Wang Zhen, scouring all kinds of novelties around the country for him. The teenage emperor even rode a horse in the palace for fun.
In this way, the imperial historians were frightened, and they hurried to see the superiors, and kindly advised the emperor to do less of these things, read more books of the sages, and learn more about how to govern the country. But where can Zhu Qizhen listen to this, how rebellious the teenagers in modern society are in adolescence, and how disobedient Zhu QiZhen was at that time. He not only refused the advice of a group of old courtiers, but also deposed them as commoners at the instigation of the eunuchs, and played like this.
The officials of the ancient feudal empire were easily corrupt, and once the imperial court was corrupted, it was easy to become chaotic below. The leak in the house coincided with the overnight rain, and at this time there was another incident at the border gate.
Mongolia is originally a nomadic people, nomads eat meat and drink milk three meals a day, which makes their stomachs difficult to digest, and in the long run, it is also very bad for the body, and the tea leaves of the Ming Dynasty happen to be good things to promote digestion. The Ming dynasty ministers knew the importance of tea, so they restricted the export of tea to them. As a result, the Mongols could only obtain tea from the tributary trade, and the original annual tribute was changed to almost once a month, just to get more tea.
At this time, Wang Zhen was not accustomed to it, he had participated in the crusade against the Mongols in his early years, so he hated the Mongols very much, so he secretly ordered that the Mongols should not be allowed to do so, so that the Mongols' way of life would be cut off.
You really can't imagine a war breaking out like this, but that's the way it is.
It is said that war has always served politics, but this war of the Ming Dynasty is more like serving Zhu Qizhen, and the entire Ming Empire set out to satisfy the selfish desires of Zhu Qizhen alone.
The following year, the Mongol army of 100,000 attacked the Ming Border Pass by a divided road, and Zhu Qizhen led a 500,000-strong army out of Zijin Pass at the instigation of the eunuch Wang Zhen. Although there were also many famous military generals in the army, due to Wang Zhen's selfishness, these Ming generals had no chance to play at all, and repeatedly changed the route of the march, making the Ming army exhausted, and finally under the stranglehold of the Mongol cavalry, hundreds of thousands of troops were almost completely destroyed, and even Zhu Qizhen himself was captured.
At this time, Zhu Qizhen did not know whether it was the true Heavenly Son or the false Heavenly Son, and in the face of the threat of death, he was not afraid at all, and he also said that the Mongolian one had come to see him before, which was how funny it seemed to the other party! But he actually accepted it first, and also spread the news of the emperor's capture to the city of Beijing.
Li Hui once said: Those who have benefited from China since ancient Times have not been as easy as they are today. When the news of the capture of the orthodox emperor reached the city of Beijing, many ministers panicked and proposed to move the capital to Nanjing, at this time Yu Qian stood up, and he righteously said: Anyone who moves south can be killed! Have everyone forgotten the lesson of the Southern Song Dynasty's southward migration?
Under yu Qian's persuasion, the main war faction gained the upper hand and began to reorganize the armament war. The Mongol army had already reached the city of Beijing, and they played the sentiment card, threatening the Ming government to kill the orthodox emperor if it did not open the city to surrender. At this time, Yu Qian had already made preparations, and he wrote to the empress dowager to ask for the establishment of a new emperor, and said bluntly to Ye First: I already have an emperor in the dynasty, and I don't know what orthodoxy is.
Seeing that there was no result in persuasion, he directly attacked the city. But it was so easy to attack the city, the walls of Beijing were already very tall, coupled with the single-minded defense of the city by many soldiers, they quickly repelled the Attack of the Mongols, and finally under the command of Yu Qian, they also killed many Mongolian soldiers, frightening the Mongols to quickly run back to the grassland, and also returned the orthodox emperor to the Ming Dynasty.
However, the Ming Dynasty already had an emperor, and Zhu Qizhen became a hot potato and was placed under house arrest by emperor Jingtai for several years. In the end, Zhu Qizhen made a comeback in the change of seizing the door, and also killed Yu Qian and other capable generals, only because Yu Qian did not go to rescue him that year.
As everyone knows, it is precisely because of the game life of the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen that the second fault line of the Daming regime was caused, laying the groundwork for the disaster of the Jurchens in the later period, and the Daming Jiangshan began to decline from him.