Thousands of hammers strike out of the mountains, and the fire burns as if idle.
Don't be afraid of crushing your bones, and leave your innocence in the human world.
- "Lime Yin" Yu Qian
This famous "Lime Yin" is from Yu Qian, a famous national hero in ancient China, and in the history of our country, not many people can be called national heroes. From Huo Fuyi, who sealed the wolf Juxu, to Yue Fei, who was loyal to the country, from Wen Tianxiang, who "left Dan xin to take care of Khan Qing", to Qi Jiguang, who attacked Wu Kou, and Zheng Chenggong, who recovered Taiwan, all of them were dragons and phoenixes among people, and loyalty and courage were outstanding.
Compared with them, Yu Qian seems to be less famous, but his contribution is not inferior to others.
As a loyal and important minister of the Ming Dynasty, Yu Qian's contribution was great in the era at that time, and the role he played was irreplaceable.
It can be said that it was precisely because of Yu Qian's "continuation of life" that the Ming Dynasty was able to continue to exist for one hundred and ninety-five years. However, like many good ministers in history, Yu Qian did not get a proper ending, he was loyal and kind, but he was not treated well by the king and his colleagues. After the change of the door, Yu Qian was sentenced to death, according to the "History of Ming": "'At that time, he was not unjust'", which made the people cry and fall, and the whole world knew that it was impossible to kill, which showed his position in people's hearts.
In the thirty-first year of Hongwu (1398), Yu Qian was born in Taipingli, Qiantang County, Hangzhou Province, Zhejiang, in the area of Ancestral Hall Lane in shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Yu Qian's family had been officials in the dynasty since his ancestors, although his father did not enter the career. But he was also from a family of officials and eunuchs, so he studied diligently from an early age and wanted to emulate his ancestors in the official field.
When he was only seven years old, a monk, after seeing Yu Qian, was amazed: "'He saved the prime minister every day'", and I am afraid that no one at that time expected that this statement would really come true in the future.
In the nineteenth year of Yongle (1421), Yu Qian, who was in his early twenties, experienced a brief reign of Emperor Renzong, and his son Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, and Yu Qian was given the title of Imperial History. When he wrote about things, Yu Qian ''yin tu hong chang'', xuanzong was very fond of him, so he crowned him as the imperial history of the capital.
In the first year of Xuande (1426), the King of Han Zhu Gaoxu rebelled, and after Emperor Xuanzong pacified him, he let Yu Qian, who had a loud voice, read his guilt, and Shi Zai: "The words of humility are brand-new and the sound is shocking. Gao Xu trembled and said that he would die. ''
After winning the victory and returning to the dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong was very happy and immediately sent Yu Qian out to tour Jiangxi. Soon after arriving in Jiangxi, Yu Qian rehabilitated hundreds of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, which made Xuanzong admire his talent.
In the fifth year of Xuande (1430), Emperor Xuanzong personally hand-wrote yu Qian's name to the official, and promoted him to the post of "Right Attendant of the Bingbu" and patrolled Henan and Shanxi. As soon as he took office, Yu Qian searched around to investigate the local situation, and actively wrote the matters that needed to be solved, and connected several things in a year.
After Emperor Xuanzong's death, his eldest son Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne, also known as Emperor Mingyingzong. In the early days of Emperor Yingzong's reign, the government was run by the "Three Yangs", and these three sages were well aware of Yu Qian's talents, so they attached great importance to his suggestions. After Sanyang's death, Emperor Yingzong favored the eunuch Wang Zhen, and Yu Qian became a thorn in his eye because he refused to bribe, and soon, Yu Qian was impeached for "not changing his grievances for a long time, arbitrarily raising people to replace himself", although Wang Zhen later claimed that he had mistaken people and would release Yu Qian, but still demoted him to the rank of Shaoqing of Dali Temple.
At that time, the people in Shanxi and Henan were unwilling to leave Yu Qian, so they wrote to Yu Qian, asking for thousands of people to stay qian," and even the kings of Zhou and Jin asked to keep Yu Qian.
At the local level, Yu Qian stayed for nineteen years, solved countless people's livelihood problems, and won the unanimous recognition of the people.
These outstanding achievements also led Emperor Ming to return to Beijing in the thirteenth year of orthodoxy (1448) as a left attendant of the military department. The following year, the mongol wara chiefs also invaded the border first, and Emperor Mingyingzong was seduced by Wang Zhen and insisted on the imperial conquest despite Yu Qian's persuasion, and as a result, he was captured by the change of Tumu Fort.
After Emperor Yingzong was captured, the Wallachians wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and capture the Ming capital Beijing, and the elite of the Ming army had been almost exhausted in the Tumu Fort Rebellion.
At the critical juncture, Yu Qian assisted Zhu Qiyu, the king of the jianguo, to persist in resisting the enemy, and while mobilizing troops that could be mobilized in other parts of the country, he stepped up the training arrangements, because of Yu Qian's calmness, at that time, the whole country and the central government relied heavily on modesty, and Qian also resolutely took the safety and security of the society as his responsibility. ''
In order to calm the people's minds and avoid extortion by The Wallachians, Yu Qian advocated the establishment of the King of Qi as emperor, that is, the Ming Dynasty Emperor. After Emperor Daizong succeeded to the throne, the original panic situation was improved, and Yu Qian also trained a decent army in a short period of time.
Under the single-minded struggle of the military and the people, the defense of Beijing ended in the victory of the Ming army, and the Vala people saw that Yingzong had lost its use value and sent him back to the Ming Dynasty. After Emperor Yingzong returned to Beijing, Emperor Daizong was unwilling to relinquish power, so he also put Emperor Yingzong under house arrest.
In the eighth year of Jingtai (1457), Emperor Daizong was seriously ill, and the ministers Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others took the opportunity to rescue Emperor Yingzong and support him to restore the throne, which is known in history as "the change of the gate". Emperor Yingzong, who had returned to the throne, knew of Yu Qian's merits, but he was still sentenced to abandoning the city and raiding his home under the persuasion of Xu Youzhen's "Do not kill Yu Qian, this move is nameless".
It was not until the time of Emperor Xianzong that Yu Qian was rehabilitated. He gave his all for the Ming Dynasty, but in the end he ended up miserable, which is really regrettable and sad.