Many times some seemingly inconspicuous small things will lead to very big consequences, just like a small butterfly stirring its wings, but it can cause a big storm, so small things can not be ignored, and sometimes it will bring unexpected consequences.
In China's long history and development, such small things have caused great turmoil, and the following will give you three examples.
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In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had the upper hand in the original Salhu Campaign, who knew that in the next development, the Later Jin Nurhaci actually reversed the situation, resulting in the Ming Army being very passive, just after a bloody battle, the Ming Dynasty ended in defeat.
However, after some panic among Daming's courtiers, they quickly calmed down, because they remembered that they still had Xiong Tingbi, a fierce general.
Xiong Tingbi was soon appointed as a general to take over Liaodong, and after taking office, he also correctly saw the situation of the country and rectified the army, first of all, he found out the officers and non-commissioned officers in the army that had no value at all, and then quickly formed a strategic defense line.
Sure enough, after Xiong Tingbi's rectification, the Ming Dynasty army that had originally suffered defeats in the battle actually won victories many times, giving Nurhaci a heavy blow and bringing the Ming Dynasty, which was hopeless at that time, on the road to victory again.
Image: Stills of the Ming Dynasty army
Although Xiong Tingbi was a very capable general, his martial personality was obvious, grumpy and did not pay attention to people, so Xiong Tingbi offended many people in the official arena, and there was always impeachment of him in the imperial court.
The imperial court needed his guard, so there was nothing he could do for a while, and because of his fame, many people came to him, hoping to get the benefits they wanted through him.
One of the people who befriended Xiong Tingbi was named Yao Zongwen, who was once a yan official, and because there was a funeral in his family, he went home to keep filial piety, but after the filial piety period expired, he could not continue to return to the dprk as an official because of the full number of officials in the DPRK.
At this time, he thought of Xiong Tingbi, hoping that he could return to the Dynasty as soon as possible by walking through Xiong Tingbi's back door.
Image: Xiong Tingbi stills
Originally, Xiong Tingbi also agreed to help him, but because he was busy training troops, he completely forgot about this matter, and later Yao Zongwen went through the back door of others to return to the dynasty and became a counselor, and Xiong Tingbi was determined to take revenge because he did not help him to be held in resentment at all times.
Once Yao Zongwen had the opportunity to inspect Liaodong, he took the opportunity to describe Xiong Tingbi as not training military horses at all, and a well-trained general as a person who did not have the ability to do the right thing.
At this time, the Wanli Emperor, who had great trust in Xiong Tingbi, had passed away, and there was originally a voice of biting Xiong Tingbi in the DPRK, but there was no actual evidence, and Yao Zongwen's so-called evidence-based remarks were used by these people.
In the end, Xiong Tingbi was dismissed from his post, and the generals in the army were replaced by new people without any experience, so the Liaodong Ming army, which had originally improved its combat effectiveness, faced the situation of being crushed by Nurhaci, and the two important areas of the Ming Dynasty in Shenyang and Liaoyang were also lost, and the Ming Dynasty gave the Qing Dynasty the capital to start in vain.
Second, a ruthless fire caused by the palace's arrest of adulterers caused the Song Dynasty to lose countless important wealth.
In 1015, his younger brother Zhao Yuanyu (赵元俨) the Prince of Rong, a young lady surnamed Han was secretly having an affair with someone in the palace, and was discovered by the nursing lady in the palace, and learned under duress that the two had also stolen the bracelet in the palace.
Han Yatou was ashamed and angry, and picked up the burning candlestick and threw it on the curtain of the Palace Buddha Hall, originally this would not have caused any big fire, but that night it was a bit of a northeast wind, and the wind was very strong, so the flames burned more and more with the east wind.
In the architectural style of the imperial palace, the Rong King's Mansion was located in the northeast corner, coupled with the direction of the wind, soon the fire surrounded the entire palace, in the face of such a fire, the Song Dynasty launched a large-scale fire extinguishing operation, however, the fire was too large, and the live burned all night.
Photo: Stills of the RongWang Mansion in the northeast corner of the fire
At this time, many warehouses were burned down, including more than 2,000 houses such as the treasury containing spices and the Secret History Pavilion, and the number of people killed in this fire was as high as thousands, and as the wind became smaller, everyone worked together to finally extinguish the fire.
However, compared to other burned things, what made Song Zhenzong most distressed was the burning of zuozangku. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, every emperor has had an unwritten rule that he will save money and put it into the Zuozang Treasury, just like the people keep coffins.
Desperately trying to save money from between the teeth, it was to save enough military salaries for the Song Dynasty to recover Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, but the savings of several generations of emperors were wiped out in this fire, and the hard-earned money that several generations of emperors had painstakingly saved for the rich country and strong soldiers was gone, and the flesh of Song Zhenzong's heart was simply dripping blood.
Picture: Stills of the blood and sweat money that made Song Zhenzong's heart drip blood
Third, the Tang Dynasty was too defensive to harass the female relatives accompanying friendly countries, resulting in one of the most serious disasters in the Tang Dynasty.
From the time of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, the State of Nanzhao befriended the Tang Dynasty, especially after the nanzhao leader Pi Luoge was officially crowned king of Yunnan by the Tang Emperor, and the relationship between Nanzhao and the Tang Dynasty became closer.
At that time, Tubo often harassed the Tang, and the Tang dynasty joined forces with the Nanzhao to impose a strong restraint on it, and for a time the southwest border of the Tang dynasty was very peaceful, and later the emperor of the Nanzhao state was changed to Ge Luofeng, and he still had close contacts with the Tang. However, with the corruption of the Tang Dynasty's officials, many officials were infected with unhealthy trends, among which Zhang Qiantuo, the Taishou of Yao prefecture in Yunnan, was not only greedy for power, but also a lustful person.
When he received Ge Luofeng, the king of Nanzhao, he was so upset that he openly flirted with Ge Luofeng's accompanying female relatives, and at this time Ge Luofeng was very angry in his heart, and he did not expect that a small Taishou of the Tang Dynasty would be so disrespectful to himself.
Photo: Nanzhao Wang Ge Luo Feng drama interpretation
However, due to the face of the Tang Emperor, he did not make a big fuss about this matter, but at this time, Zhang Qiantuo did not know how to restrain himself, and even made up some charges for Ge Luofeng, which eventually led to Ge Luofeng's anger and send troops to attack Yao Prefecture, just to kill Zhang Qiantuo. Although Zhang Qiantuo died, he brought about an irrevocable calamity, and the Tang and Nanzhao, which were originally good friends, caused military unrest.
At this time, Yang Guozhong wanted to make a contribution, so he led more than 100,000 Tang troops to attack Nanzhao, forcing Nanzhao to surrender to Tubo, and these hundreds of thousands of Tang troops were also killed, which can be said to have lost his wife and folded his troops. This then triggered a rebellion by An Lushan, and when the rebels came, the Tang Dynasty had no troops to use because of the heavy losses of the previous large army, until Tang Xuanzong was forced out of Chang'an by An Lushan, and at this point, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty ceased to exist.
Article author: Dahui
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