After the "Tumu Fort Revolution", Wa Lai captured Ming Yingzong and took advantage of the victory to attack Beijing, but under the desperate resistance of Qian and Shi Heng, he finally returned home. After Wa Lai retired from the army, he repeatedly threatened the Ming Dynasty with Yingzong and demanded a large amount of land and wealth. In this case, Yu Qian and others established Emperor Yingzong's half-brother Zhu Qiyu as emperor (Emperor Mingjing) in order to cut off The idea of Wallachia in September of the first year of Jingtai (1449).
After Emperor Jing ascended the throne, he promoted Yu Qian to the post of Bingbu Shangshu (兵部尚書), took charge of military affairs, and made Emperor Yingzong's son Zhu Jianshen (朱見深) still crown prince. Not long after, Out of the psychology of creating internal contradictions, Vala released Yingzong back to the Ming Dynasty, thus causing great trouble to Emperor Jing. Emperor Jing did not want to return the throne to his brother, nor did he want to bear the insult of killing his brother, so he honored him as Emperor Taishang and imprisoned him in Nannei. Three years later, Emperor Jing deposed Zhu Jianshen and made his only son Zhu Jianji crown prince.
During emperor Jing's reign, he went to great lengths to imprison his brother and depose his nephew
Emperor Jing went to great lengths to imprison his brother and depose his nephew, thinking that he could pass the throne to his son as he wished, so that the throne would always be passed on to his own lineage. Unfortunately, people are not as good as heavenly calculations, and Zhu Jianjifu has a shallow life, and he died after only one year as a prince. After this heavy blow, Emperor Jing was mentally unbearable, and gradually became ill, and when he waited until the beginning of the eighth year of Jingtai (1457), he was even more ill.
Because at that time, no candidate for the crown prince had been established, and once the palace car was driven, the consequences were unimaginable. Therefore, for the sake of national security, The Soldier Shangshu Yuqian, the official Shangshu Wang Zhi, and the Rebbe Shangshu Hu Qian decided to jointly ask the emperor to restore Zhu Mishen as crown prince. Since it was already evening when the recital was written, the crowd decided to play it again in the morning of the next day, but what they did not expect was that there was a big change that night.
Yu Qian and the others were ready to play the role of re-establishing Zhu Mishen as crown prince
It turned out that when Yu Qian and others were discussing the matter of establishing a reserve, the crown prince Shi Heng, for his own benefit, conspired with the former governor of the right capital of the former capital, Zhang Xuan, the eunuch Cao Jixiang, the left deputy capital Yushi Xu Youzhen, and others, and after obtaining the consent of Empress Sun, decided to rescue Emperor Ming and restore him to the throne as emperor. Coincidentally, the time they agreed on was the same day (the sixteenth day of the first month) on which Yu Qian and others planned the recital.
Therefore, when Yu Qian and the others were in a nervous mood and prepared to play the matter of li chu early tomorrow morning, Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and others led their troops to break into Nannei that night, knocked open the palace gate with a huge log, rescued Yingzong, and then quickly rushed to the Fengtian Gate to help him to the throne. Afterwards, Shi Heng rang the bell and drum and summoned the courtiers to come. When the courtiers gathered at the Fengtian Temple, Xu Youzhen again threatened them to pay homage to Emperor Yingzong. In this way, he was restored to the throne by Emperor Yingzong, who lived in the deep palace for eight years, at the seventeenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Jingtai (1457).
Tianshun First Spring Moon Noon, Ming Shuang, Marquis Shi Heng of Wuqing, Du Du Zhang Shu and Zhang Xuan, Zuo Du Yu Shi Yang Shan, Vice Du Yu Shi Xu Youzhen, Eunuch Cao Jixiang greeted Emperor Yu Nan with soldiers, Imperial Gate of Heaven, and Chao Baiguan. See Ming Shi Vol. XII.
Emperor Mingyingzong was restored to the throne through the "change of the door"
After Emperor Yingzong was restored to the throne, he was immediately rewarded with meritorious service. Among them, Xu Youzhen was promoted to the position of former official and Hanlin scholar and entered the cabinet to prepare for the aircraft, Shi Heng was awarded the title of Duke of Zhongguo, Zhang Feng was made Marquis of Taiping, and Cao Jixiang was promoted to the eunuch of Si Li Supervisor Bingbi. At the same time, Emperor Yingzong executed Shangshu Yu Qian and wang Wen, a scholar of the university, on the charge of "conspiracy to rebel", and persecuted the civil and military officials recommended by Yu Qian. Yu Qian had the merit of rebuilding the country, but in the end he ended up with such a miserable end, and the world thought that he was wronged.
After Emperor Mingyingzong was restored to the throne, he was busy purging dissidents and paying homage to meritorious servants all day long, but he forgot a very fatal thing: the Jing Emperor Zhu Qiyu was still alive and was still a righteous emperor. Emperor Yingzong was considered to be "big", because without adjusting the identity of his younger brother, he was reinstated as emperor, which in the eyes of the people of the world was usurpation. Therefore, when Yingzong returned to the taste, he quickly took remedial measures.
Half a month after Emperor Yingzong's restoration, he deposed Emperor Jing as king
On the first day of February, Emperor Mingyingzong issued an edict angrily rebuking his younger brother for "filial piety, unsympathy, unkindness, unrighteousness, defilement, and common indignation of gods and men", declaring him deposed as the king of Xi and going to live in The Inner Province ("In February, the deposed emperor was made the King of Qi, and moved to Xi Nei.) See Ming Shi, vol. XI). At this point, it can be regarded as solving the embarrassing situation of "two emperors coexisting", and at this time, half a month has passed since Emperor Yingzong's restoration.
Although Emperor Jing was deposed, his condition gradually improved, but what was extremely strange was that just over ten days later, he died mysteriously. Because of Emperor Jing's death, the rumors of "Emperor Yingzong killing his brother" began to prevail, and some people claimed that the eunuch Jiang An was ordered by Emperor Yingzong to hang Emperor Jing on his sickbed ("On the ninth day of the tenth month, the king of Yingzong was cured of his illness. The eunuch Jiang Anxi ordered to strangle the king with a bow and repay the king. See Book VIII of Sin).
Jingtai Mausoleum, located at the northern foot of today's Yuquan Mountain
After Emperor Jing's death, out of hatred for him, Emperor Mingyingzong gave him the nickname "戾" and forbade him to be buried in the imperial mausoleum area, but instead buried him in the northern foothills of the Western Mountains according to the standards of the prince, which is today's Jingtai Mausoleum. After the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing, all the emperors were buried in the Changping Imperial Mausoleum Area, with the exception of Emperor Jing. After Emperor Mingxianzong took the throne, he ordered the restoration of his uncle's throne and renamed him "Gongren Kangdingjing", which later generations called Zhu Qiyu the Emperor of Mingjing.