In September of the fourteenth year of the orthodox dynasty, a very rare interesting thing happened in the history of the Ming Dynasty: the sixth tianzi, Emperor Mingyingzong Zhu Qizhen, was in his prime, but his younger brother Zhu Qiyu was supported by the courtiers to ascend the throne as emperor.
Speaking of which, this was also a helpless move by the Ming Dynasty, because although the town of Zhuqi was as strong as an ox, it was captured by the Mongols in the war.
It can be said that this change of Tumu Fort, which was ridiculed by later generations for 570 years, directly led to the transformation of the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline.
However, the nobles of the Ming Dynasty did not care about how to revitalize the Ming Dynasty for the time being, and they were facing a similar dilemma in the Northern Song Dynasty: the Wala army was about to enter the city.
It is puzzling that the Wala army did not attack the North China Plain without Juyongguan, but chose to take the Zijing Pass.
In fact, taking the Bauhinia Pass into Sai was not a plan conceived by the Wala people, but his initiator was the Ming eunuch Xi Ning, who was captured at Tumu Fort with Emperor Yingzong.
Stills of Zhu Qizhen and Xining
Perhaps because he was a Mongol, Xining had a special hatred for the Ming Dynasty, especially the unbearable past of entering the palace as a slave and a maid aroused his desire for revenge.
Therefore, he surrendered and immediately put forward the troop allocation of important strongholds of the Ming Dynasty and the situation of the generals.
Unexpectedly, because of the emergency deployment of the Ming Dynasty minister Yu Qian, the Wallachian army not only did not take advantage, but was also chased by the Ming army all the way in the process of withdrawing.
Xi Ning stole the chicken and did not become a corrupt rice, so he once again proposed a more vicious plan to Ye Yi first: coercing Emperor Yingzong to first take the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi, and then tricking the King of Qin and Shaanxi envoys and other ministers to support Emperor Yingzong as emperor and confront the Beijing regime.
Considering that Daoxi'an was close to Taiyuan and Datong, the people of Daoxi were not easy to tame, and they did not adopt Xi Ning's suggestion.
Who expected that the thief of Xi Ning would not die, but directly found Yingzong, instigated Zhu Qizhen to persuade him to send troops to Ningxia first, destroy the Ming Dynasty's horse breeding land, and then send troops south to take Yingtian and confront the Ming Dynasty in the north and south.
He also understood that he had just experienced a big battle and was in urgent need of rest. Moreover, the Mongols often lived in bitter cold and dry places, and they were not adapted to the climate roads in the south.
Therefore, he once again and simply rejected Xi Ning's suggestion.
Also first stills
At this time, Ming Yingzong woke up under the reminder of his entourage Ha Ming, and he finally knew that Xi Ning's real intention was not to establish himself as emperor, but to find a way to bring down Daming.
Therefore, if Xi Ning did not die, he would repeatedly come up with a plan to encourage and constantly use the "strange goods" of Yingzong. In this way, Zhu Qizhen would never want to leave the grassland.
Therefore, Zhu Qizhen brought Yuan Bin and Ha Ming to discuss how to eradicate Xi Ning.
After careful planning, Zhu Qizhen sent Yuan Bin to find Ye Xian the next day, hoping that he could send someone into the palace to face the empress dowager and explain the amount of money that Vala needed. Finally, Yuan Bin added: Gao Pan and the envoy Hana could not enter the palace according to the Ming Dynasty system, and this matter must be done by the eunuch Xi Ning.
I didn't know what the plan was, but I was naturally very happy to see that Emperor Taishang personally sent someone to ask the empress dowager for gold, so he agreed to Yuan Bin's suggestion.
The Ming Dynasty had already heard about Xi Ning's rebellious behavior, and with Zhu Qizhen's handwritten secret letter to prove it, Xi Ning was detained by the guards as soon as he entered Xuanfu City and was directly tied up and sent to the Beijing Division.
Xi Ning had just been escorted to Jingshi, and the people inside and outside the city heard that this eunuch was the culprit who had repeatedly guided Wa Lai into the interior of Kou, and they all picked up stones and smashed him in the face.
Finally, after the impeachment of the Six Branches and Thirteen Imperial Histories, Xi Ning was deliberately sentenced to disc punishment after being tried by the Three Laws Division.
The Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu did not understand the hatred, and personally wrote down the imperial approval, "Rebellion against the country, ling for three days, in order to make an effect!" ”
(Note: The Criminal Law of the Ming Dynasty stipulates that in addition to the five criminal laws of flogging, rod, disciple, stream, and death, all those who commit the most heinous crimes such as rebellion, rebellion, rebellion, murder of the father, and killing of a door are punished by Ling Chi))
References: Ming Shi Yingzong Pre-Chronicle, Ming Yingzong Records