With the change of Tumu Fort, Zhu Qi Town became a hit, and from then on, the glorious title of "MingBao Sect" could no longer be shaken off by Zhu Qi Town!
How ridiculous is this dude? I feel that using "absurd" to describe him is an overestimation of the strength of the word "absurd". Because Zhu Qizhen was not careful, he almost destroyed the thriving Ming Dynasty.
Let's first look at the historical background of the Ming Dynasty before Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne:
The first wave of prosperity: Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, laid the foundation of the Jiangshan and created the Hongwu prosperous world. At least let the people stay away from the chaos of war and eat enough.
The second wave of prosperity: Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, after the Battle of Jingnan, created the Yongle prosperous world. The people not only had enough to eat, but also began to try different tricks.
The third wave of prosperity: Akihito Zhu Gaozi and Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji father and son, they teamed up to create the rule of Ren Xuan. This is the famous prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, during which the common people had enough food and clothing, not to mention the days were prosperous.
To continue to develop in this way, living in the Ming Dynasty is almost like living in heaven, and the days are definitely getting better and better every day. But at this time, God sent such a strange thing as Zhu Qi Town to the Ming Dynasty, which directly destroyed all the achievements accumulated by the first three waves of prosperity.
First, what absurd things did Zhu Qizhen do? Let's take a brief look.
In 1435, Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne at the age of 9, and in the first 11 years, Zhu Qizhen was basically a puppet, because the empress dowager Zhang Shi and the three Yang (Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi, Yang Pu) jointly assisted the government. These 11 years continued the rule of Renxuan, and the Ming Dynasty was still thriving.
But with the death of Yang Rong in 1440, the death of Empress Dowager Zhang in 1443, the death of Yang Shiqi in 1444, and the death of Yang Pu in 1446, no one could restrain Zhu Qizhen anymore!
As a result, Zhu Qizhen began a variety of self-indulgent lives, especially favoring the little eunuch Wang Zhen beside him. Wang Zhen was a man who did not think it was too big to see the hilarity, and at that time, the Wala army often went south to harass, so Wang Zhen constantly instigated Zhu Qizhen to march in person.
Is war a family affair? Zhu Qizhen, such a young heavenly son, had never been on the battlefield, and now what good fruit could the Imperial Driving Conquest have to eat? But with Wang Zhen's encouragement, Zhu Qizhen even felt like a "cosmic great general", a god of war who fell from the sky!
Therefore, an inevitable Northern Expedition began, and Zhu Qi town hastily gathered 200,000 troops to the north. As a result, when he arrived near Datong, Zhu Qizhen regretted it, why? Because he found that the front line and the family were completely different, there were corpses everywhere, and he was sick to his stomach after seeing it, and it was not as good as fighting at home.
But it's hard to ride a tiger, you can't just come out and go back, right? At this time, Wang Zhen saw the emperor's thoughts, and as soon as his eyes turned, he gave Zhu Qizhen an idea: Do you want to go to Weizhou? Then go straight back from Ulju.
Wang Zhen proposed to go to Weizhou, in fact, full of selfishness, because Weizhou is Wang Zhen's hometown, he took a large army back to his hometown, is not it to return to his hometown! I really don't know what a eunuch has to show.
However, just as the army was marching to Weizhou, Wang Zhen was worried that these 200,000 people would trample on the crops of his hometown, and even if he had a little conscience, Wang Zhen suggested that Zhu Qizhen retreat according to the original route.
In this way, the Ming Army was like a headless fly, not knowing the way to go. When the Ming army reached Tumu Fort, the Wala army finally rushed over. Because the Ming army was defenseless, it was basically annihilated by the Wallachian army. The British Gong Zhangfu, Bingbu Shangshu Kuang and other important ministers were all killed.
Wang Zhen was naturally slaughtered, but the most terrifying thing was that Emperor Mingying's Zhu Qizhen was actually arrested by the Wala people during the change of Tumu Fort! Good fellow, a thousand ancient anecdotes, the emperor's royal conquest, the result was captured alive, you say that Zhu Qi town can still do some personnel work, right?
The leader of the Wallachians also took Zhu Qizhen with a smile and sent him to the front line to threaten the Ming Dynasty, he wanted to force the Ming Dynasty to give up the capital and retreat to the south. If the Ming Dynasty really agreed, then not long after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it would face the doom of the country's subjugation.
Second, Yu Qianli spared the public opinion to protect daming Jiangshan, how did he do it?
When word reached the capital, did you say that the ministers were panicked? Empress Sun (Zhu Qizhen's birth mother) panicked? Are the people panicking? It's basically a mess.
Empress Sun had been crying, and the ministers were quarreling, some demanding to hold out, and others demanding to move south. The people have prepared dry food and are ready to run away.
At this stall, a man named Yu Qian stood up and said: Whoever dares to mention moving south again will kill his head!
Suddenly, there was silence on the field, and everyone was ready to obey Yu Qian's arrangement. So who is Yu Qian? Why did he speak so straight?
It turned out that Yu Qian was the soldier attendant at that time, and because the soldier Shangshu Kuang was killed by the rebel army in the Battle of Tumu fort, the affairs of the Ming Dynasty's military department at that time were entrusted to Yu Qian.
Under Yu Qian's arrangement, Empress Sun supported Zhu Qiyu the Prince of Qi to succeed him as emperor, thus stabilizing the overall situation. In addition, Yu Qian also informed the local border generals not to have private contact with Vala and to bring troops to Qinwang as soon as possible. In an instant, this disaster that almost destroyed the Ming Dynasty was solved.
Third, then the question is, why can Yu Qian mobilize the world's soldiers and horses to serve the king?
Logically, the army of the imperial court was exhausted, and the emperor was arrested by others, which indicated that the dynasty was about to end its calves. Then why did the generals who led the troops in the world obey the orders of the imperial court and come to serve the king? I think there are several reasons for this.
First, Yu Qian was a soldier and often issued documents with his signature to local troops.
Ming dynasty civil officials ruled over military generals, which was a common thing. The military department of the imperial court was already in charge of the world's soldiers and horses. In the past, there was a soldier Shangshu Kuang, so naturally everyone did things through Kwong's signed documents.
Sometimes there was something wrong with Kuang, and many documents were signed by Yu Qian, a military attendant. Over time, the generals of the world approved the documents signed and sealed by Qian. When Yu Qian dispatched his troops to serve the king, they were naturally willing to come, which was not the same as in the past!
Second, the gun shoots the first bird, and no one dares to be the first to emerge.
There must be some generals who have seen the hint of a chaotic world and intend to establish themselves as kings, not to serve the king. But would they dare to be the first to do so? Obviously impossible.
Surely you look at me, I look at you, the gun shoots the head bird, in case everyone else is very loyal, you a fool will rise up, and others will destroy you in minutes?
Even if you could occupy the mountain as king at that time, wouldn't you be afraid that the Ming Dynasty would slow down and clean you up? Therefore, the risk of occupying the mountain as the king is really too high, and the general generals do not dare to try easily, or it is safer to be obedient and obedient, and they can also get a good reputation of loyalty and patriotism.
Third, it was not the main force of the Ming Dynasty that was lost in the Battle of Tumu fort.
It was also introduced earlier that Zhu Qizhen planned to march in person, but the main force of the Ming Dynasty was basically not in the dprk at that time. At full strength, the capital can only mobilize 50,000 troops.
At this time, Zhu Qizhen began to recruit soldiers temporarily, that is to say, of the 200,000 troops brought to the Northern Expedition, at least 150,000 were temporarily patched together, and there was no combat effectiveness at all.
The main force of the Ming Dynasty, which was truly effective in combat, naturally wanted to return to Qinwang after learning that Zhu Qizhen had been captured, which was the imperial court's concubine troops. With this army supporting the scene, the other Qin Wang armies in the world naturally did not dare to neglect the Ming Dynasty.
Summary: Zhu Qizhen instantly became an abandoned baby.
At this time, Zhu Qi Town was more miserable, the Ming Dynasty did not want him, and Vala also disliked him for only eating and not working, and for a time Zhu Qi Town had no place to go.
Later, he also thought of a trick first, and after 1 year, he actually sent Zhu Qizhen back! Dude, this is not to make the two brothers fight among themselves! Sure enough, Zhu Qiyu imprisoned Zhu Qizhen in the Nangong for 7 years, and Zhu Qizhen was not desolate.
7 years later, Zhu Qiyu was seriously ill and childless, and the guys who saw the wind and made the rudder immediately got Zhu Qizhen out and reset. After that, Zhu Qizhen connived with these ministers who had meritorious service for a long time, causing a miasma in the imperial court. The prosperity of Daming is gone.
Reference: History of the Ming Dynasty