Ming Yingzong Zhu qi town, in history, the reputation is very bad. The main reasons are two points: the reuse of eunuch Wang Zhen led to the change of Tumu Fort; the wrongful killing of Yu Qian caused thousands of ancient injustices. Among them, reusing Wang Zhen was his decision-making mistake and belonged to a mistake committed without knowing it; but the wrongful killing of Yu Qian was forced to do so when he knew it was wrong, which was forced to be helpless. Why? Let's first draw our eyes back to the period after the change of the Civil Fort and start from scratch.
In the fourteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1449 AD), the Mongol Wallachians invaded the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Qizhen and Wang Zhen led 200,000 troops to meet the battle, but under the blind command of Wang Zhen, the elite of the Ming army was almost completely destroyed, and Emperor Zhu Qizhen was captured. The leader of the Wallachians was also prepared to extort money from the Ming Dynasty, but was stopped by Yu Qian. Yu Qian said very clearly, seeing that the ransom was hopeless, he first took Zhu Qizhen to Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, hoping to regain the glory of the Yuan Dynasty with the "master key" in his hand.
When the news reached the capital, Zhu Qiyu, the king of the state who was supervising the country, immediately asked the minister to discuss countermeasures. The attendant Xu Heng said that the stars had changed, and the imperial court should move south to avoid disaster. Yu Qian said: "Those who say that the imperial court moving south should be cut off!" The capital is the foundation of the world, and if the capital moves south, then everything will be over. The lessons of the Southern Song Dynasty are still fresh in our minds! Zhu Qiyu supported Yu Qian and blasted Xu Huan out of the palace.
However, the biggest difficulty remains unresolved. At present, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is still Zhu Qizhen, and once he orders the general to open the door and surrender, the general cannot fail to listen. Even if Zhu Qizhen himself did not say it, no general dared to risk accidentally injuring the emperor and bravely resisted the attack of Vala. In fact, it is not difficult to solve this point, as long as zhu Qizhen's position as emperor is abolished. However, there must be a standing, and it is another difficult problem to establish who will be the emperor. Zhu Qizhen's youngest son, Zhu Jianshen, was too young to take on the heavy responsibilities of his homeland, so he could not make him emperor. And even if Zhu Jianshen is really established, it will still involve the issue of filial piety, and the authority of Zhu QiZhen will still make people throw rats and rats. Yu Qian, on the other hand, made Zhu Qiyu the Prince of Li the Emperor. This was the only option for the Ming Dynasty to resist Wala at that time, so although Zhu Qiyu had been pushing back, Yu Qian and others were very resolute. In the end, Zhu Qiyu could only agree to ascend the throne as emperor, and Yao honored Zhu Qizhen as emperor.
After having a new emperor, the Ming Dynasty had the main backbone. Therefore, the monarchs and the people fought a wonderful "defense war in Beijing" with one heart and one mind. Even though the Emperor Taishang was in his hands, it was of no use and could only swallow the bitter fruit of failure.
In the whole thing, it is not difficult to see that out of humility, he did not take the safety of Zhu Qizhen seriously. What he had in mind was the safety of the entire Ming Dynasty. As for what kind of trouble this matter will bring to himself, Yu Qian did not consider it. In his own words, it is "ministers and others who are sincerely worried about the country, not for selfish purposes." "Of course, we can't say that Yu Qian is at fault, and that's exactly what a minister with a heart for his country and the world should be." However, it also has to be said that it is also conceivable how seriously Zhu Qizhen was psychologically hurt at this time.
For the following year, the Ming Dynasty ignored Zhu Qizhen. Seeing that this Emperor Taishang was really useless, Wa Lai let him return to the Ming Dynasty with his emissaries. Zhu Qiyu actually did not want his brother to return, but at this point, he could only imprison Zhu Qizhen in the Nangong, hoping that he would die sooner. In the third year of Jingtai, Zhu Qiyu deposed Zhu Qizhen's youngest son Zhu Jianshen as crown prince and replaced him with his own son Zhu Jianji. Although this move has been criticized by posterity, it is also reasonable. Therefore, although Yu Qian was silent throughout the whole process, he did not support or oppose, which was a tacit acquiescence to this result. However, people are not as good as heavenly calculations, and Zhu Jianji died mysteriously in the second year after he was made crown prince, which is another unsolved case for the Ming Dynasty.
In the eighth year of Jingtai, Zhu Qiyu suddenly fell seriously ill and his control over the imperial court declined. The zuo capital Yushi Xu Youzhen (also xu huan, who advocated fleeing southward) together with the general Shi Heng and the eunuch Cao Jixiang launched the "Change of Seizure of the Gate" and restored Zhu Qizhen to the throne. Yu Qian received the news, did not make any action, and once again acquiesced to the occurrence of the whole thing. It can be seen from this that Yu Qian's loyalty is indeed only to the Ming Dynasty, and whoever becomes emperor is actually the same to him, as long as it can bring happiness to the world.
After Zhu Qizhen was reinstated, Xu Youzhen and others immediately launched revenge on Qian. They framed Yu Qian as the mastermind for the replacement of the crown prince, and after the change of the gate, they colluded with the eunuchs to prepare to welcome the son of King Xiang as emperor. If this crime is confirmed, it is absolute rebellion. Later, Wang Wen, a university scholar who was imprisoned with Yu Qian, could not survive the torture, and was beaten into a confession, forming a confession. When Yu Qian saw this result, he accepted it calmly and did not defend himself at all.
When the trial personnel reported the results to Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qizhen hesitated. He was originally a wise and benevolent man, and the cruel system of concubines' burial was put to an end in his hands. Moreover, what Yu Qian did in those years was indeed for the country and the people, and Zhu Qizhen would not hold on to this little braid. Therefore, he also had the heart to put on a path of life in humility, so he said a sentence, "Yu Qianshi has merit." But Xu Youzhen disagreed, and also said a sentence: "Do not kill Yu Qian, this move is nameless." Zhu Qizhen made up his mind to kill Yu Qian, causing a thousand ancient injustices.
So at that time, did Zhu Qizhen have any other choice besides killing Yu Qian? The answer is that there really isn't. Xu Youzhen's sentence "This move is nameless." ", it does speak to the nature of the matter. The change of the door was a coup d'état without a doubt, but it was really hard to say that the old emperor was restored because the emperor was ill, after all, Zhu Qiyu was not dead at that time. Then it is necessary to find a legitimate reason for this coup, otherwise Zhu Qizhen will become a rebellion. And this reason, Xu Youzhen has already added to yu Qian's crime: yingli the son of King Xiang. In this way, the rebels became Yu Qian, and Zhu Qizhen and others became heroes who maintained the society. This matter, only in this way can the operation remain legitimate. Therefore, Zhu Qizhen had no choice but to know Yu Qian's grievances and still had to kill him.
But after that, Zhu Qizhen used his ability to minimize the impact of Qian's death. In the imperial court, he often said a sentence when he encountered someone who was corrupt: "Yu Qian was met by the Jingtai Dynasty, and there was no money left in his death." Moreover, he also maintained a tacit attitude toward the praise of other ministers for Qian; within the court, Empress Sun publicly paid tribute to Qian, and Zhu Qizhen also showed remorse. All this laid the groundwork for him to give Yu Qian a rehabilitation in the future.
In addition to the ambush, Zhu Qizhen was also working hard to eliminate Yu Qian's opponents: Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng, and Cao Jixiang. On the one hand, he "killed" Xu Youzhen and gave him great power, which resulted in Xu Youzhen having a vendetta against two others and being relegated to the Golden Tooth (present-day Baoshan, Yunnan) as a civilian; Shi Heng grew up after Xu Youzhen, but at this time he was already alone, and was soon captured by Zhu Qizhen and imprisoned to death; and the last Cao Jixiang, who was implicated in the rebellion of his son Cao Qin, was killed by inches. After the death of the three, Zhu Qizhen was officially named Yu Qian Zhaoxue. A generation of famous courtiers can also be regarded as having a home.