Foreword: Xu Da, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, and Chang Yuchun are known as the "Double Wall of the Empire". Zhu Yuanzhang commented that he was "a general in and out of the picture, and his talent is unparalleled in the world of literature and martial arts." Hongwu was posthumously honored as the King of Zhongshan after his founding merits in the third year, and was posthumously honored as the King of Zhongshan, with the six founding kings ranking first. Xu Da is such a heroic and heroic figure, but there is a straw bag among the descendants, which is not a joke of the author, but a record in the history books.
Xu Pengju, who is known as yue fei's reincarnation
Xu Pengju, the seventh grandson of Xu Da, the sixth Duke of Wei. It is said that when Xu Pengju was about to be born, his father Xu Kuibi dreamed of Yue Fei in his dream. Yue Fei said in a dream, "I have worked hard all my life, and I was killed by the traitor Qin Juniper. In this life, I will be reborn in your house, and I will enjoy decades of glory and wealth. Xu Kuibi woke up from the dream, and when he was a god, after his wife gave birth to a son, he took Yue Fei's table character as his name (Yue Fei Zi Pengju), which was for Xu Pengju.
Xu Pengju, the seventh grandson of King Wuning of Zhongshan (Xu Da), father Kui Bi, and the dream song Yue Ewang said: "My life was hard, trapped by power and adultery, and in this life I surrendered to the Ru family, enjoying decades of peace and wealth." 'Bi Sheng, so he took the name of Yue Zigzag. - "Wan LiYe Won"
He dared to use yue Fei's table characters to take his name, and he thought that he was also an extraordinary figure, but judging from Xu Pengju's absurd life experience, he was lifted up if his name was not worthy of the truth. I don't know how Yue Fei will feel if he knows about it.
In the twelfth year of Zhengde, before his father Xu Kuibi had died prematurely, Xu Pengju directly inherited the title of Duke of Wei from his grandfather Xu Li and became the sixth Duke of Wei.
In the fourteenth year of Zhengde, Zhu Chenhao, the king of Zongmu Ning in Jiangxi, rebelled, and at the instigation of Jiang Bin and Channing's traitorous courtiers, Emperor Mingwu decided to march in person. Before reaching Jiangxi, the rebellion was put down by Wang Shouren, the governor of Gannan Province. Emperor Mingwuzong refused to give up this opportunity to tour the south, and paraded around between the southern provinces.
Soon after, Emperor Wuzong of Ming traveled to Nanjing, and as the number one hereditary courtier living in Nanjing, Xu Pengju naturally had to go with him. When he saw the driver, he could not avoid contacting Jiang Bin, Channing and others, and at that time, Jiang Bin, the traitorous minister around Emperor Wuzong, was arrogant and arrogant. When meeting Jiang Bin, Zhu Fu, the Duke of Chengguo, actually bowed to Jiang Bin on his knees, and Xu Pengju and other Nanjing Xungui also nodded and stood on both sides to accompany him. There is no doubt that it can be seen that this is a soft egg.
When it was, Bin led tens of thousands of border troops, and even more so. Zhu Fu, the Duke of Chengguo, knelt for a long time, and Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei, and the chancellor of the Gongqing Dynasty all did their thing. - "History of Ming. Jiang Bin》
In the sixteenth year of Zhengde, Emperor Wuzong died of illness. Sejong succeeded Emperor Sejong as the king of the domain, and as the first minister of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Pengju led the group of ministers to persuade him to advance three times.
In July of the sixteenth year of Zhengde, in return, Emperor Mingshizong ordered Xu Peng to take charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army in Nanjing, and also to garrison Nanjing. Compared with the previous work that was only responsible for the worship of the Ming Tombs, the Nanjing garrison was a real power faction. All the previous garrisons in Nanjing were the descendants of Zhu Neng, the Duke of Chengguo, and by the time of Zhu Fu, the fourth duke of Chengguo, he actually knelt down to the traitorOus Minister Jiang Bin and was swept away by Emperor Mingshizong.
The soldier mutinied and fled, known as the "Straw Bag General"
Xu Pengju was in a high position at this time, but he was still a master who did not slip. First of all, he competed with Liu Yu, who was also the head of the Nanjing Governor's Office, and even disbanded the soldiers to practice. Later, he repeatedly encroached on horse farms and grasslands; private servitude, mistreatment of soldiers; dereliction of duty, ineffective counterinsurgency, and so on, and the impeachment was like snowflakes. With Zu Shang Yuyin, the first lord of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Shizong never punished.
Until the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing, the Nanjing Zhenwu Battalion mutinied.
According to the old system, Nanjing soldiers who established a family were given a stone of monthly grain as a subsidy. If there is no family, the subsidy is about half a stone. Nanjing Hubu Shangshu Ma Kun took office and changed it to folding silver, and soon this bit of folding silver will be folded by one cent.
What's worse is that the Beijing household attendant Huang Maoguan, the governor of Nanjing Grain Reserve, directly dismissed the subsidy of the non-commissioned officer. In that year, there was another famine in Nanjing, and the soldiers stopped the road and asked for food. This Huang Mao official was harsh as an official, often scolding the soldiers, and the payment was never on time, and various factors led to the mutiny.
In the old system, those who had wives in the southern army had one stone of grain and rice per month; those who did not have it were reduced by four; in the spring and autumn of the second month, the rice stone was folded into silver and five dollars. Ma Kun was in charge of the Southern Household Department, playing one of the subtractions, and the Governor Waiter Huang Maoguan also played the reform of the wife food of the recruiters, and the armies complained bitterly. - "History of Ming. Biography of Li Sui
The soldiers of the Zhenwu battalion flocked to Huang Maoguan's official residence, and Huang Maoguan was so frightened that he fled over the wall. But he was caught, slaughtered, and left naked in the street.
It is reasonable to say that this is not directly related to Xu Pengju, but as a garrison in Nanjing, he did nothing in the face of the mutiny of the soldiers, and ran away at the first time. When it was necessary to give orders, they only sent their subordinates, did not dare to show their faces, and watched the imperial court Qin cha being slaughtered by random pawns, which was a big problem. The soldier originally wanted to go to Xu Pengju for justice, but when he saw him running away, he called him a straw bag.
When it was garrisoned, the Zhenwu battalion mutinied, called for the pawns as straw bales, and left in a daze. - "Wan LiYe Won"
In the end, liu Bowen's descendant, Liu Shiyan (liu Yu had died at this time), took the initiative to negotiate with the rebels and appease the rebels. Coupled with the fact that Li Sui, a squire of the Nanjing Military Department, promised to restore the previous system, the mutiny was solved. In the event of such a major accident, the officials concerned were either dismissed or demoted. Xu Pengju also finally overturned, and soon after, he was impeached by Yan Guan and stripped of his official position in Nanjing Garrison.
Spoil the young son, try to abolish the long and young
Xu Pengju's wife Zhang Shi died early, with the eldest son Xu Bangrui and the second son Xu Bangning. According to the Ming system, the eldest and youngest are orderly, and the brother and the elder brother should be the eldest son Xu Bangrui. However, he preferred his second son Xu Bangning, and Xu Bangning's mother, Zheng Shi, was Xu Pengju's favorite concubine and often blew him a pillow wind. He wanted to pass the title to his second son, Xu Bangning.
He had already made this small move during the Jiajing period, bribing Yan Song's son Yan Shifan and making Zheng the Duchess of Wei. It is really a good calculation, so that the Zheng family will become a wife, and Zheng Bangning will become a concubine.
By the time of the Longqing period, he may have thought that he was old and had to implement the matter of the viscount again. Xu Pengju wanted to send his second son to Xu Bangning to learn Tao Strategy in the military department and prepare for the future attack on the army. So he went to ask Liu Cai, the Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department, for help, hoping to open a back door.
However, Liu Cai was an upright person, and he had long heard that Xu Pengju was trying to abolish Chang Liyou. Liu Cai said sharply: "Standing up for a long time is the law of the state, and you prefer your young son, so you should put him in a suitable position, which will hurt him." Liu Pengju could only awkwardly send both of his sons to the military department to study, and his second son thought that he was a stupid disciple, and after knowing the origin of the matter, he did not even report it.
He sent Bang Ning to send a prison gift, plotted against the bingbu Shangshu Liu Cai, and Cai Zheng Se Yue: I wen Lizi should be the eldest, and the public loves the young son, and it is advisable to put it in peace, and there is no regret in yi. Pengju was silent, and sent Bonrui, and governor Bonning was not. - "Records of Ming Muzong"
Xu Peng failed to make a plan, and he had another plan. He sent people to send gold and silver treasures to bribe Liu Shiyan, hoping that Liu Shiyan would help him with advice. The two conspired in a temple, and Liu Shiyan gave him an idea. In the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's courtiers inherited it, and it was jointly inspected by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the Rebbe, and the Officials, and Xu Pengju was already in charge of the affairs of the Nanjing Zhongjun Government, as long as the officials of the Rebbe and the Officials were dealt with, then this matter could be expected.
Liu Shiyan wrote a letter to his colleague and friend Jiang Bao in the Rebbe, telling him not to receive him when Xu Bangning came to the Rebbe in the future, and Jiang Bao was coerced into agreeing and instructing his officials to do the same. At the same time, Xu Bangning is also actively plotting, he bribed the assistant teacher Zheng Rujin, and the two of them went around lobbying in many ways.
However, this matter was reported by Feng Qian, a deputy envoy of the Ministry of Rites, and Liu Shiyan's conspiracy with Xu Pengju to depose Chang Liyou was exposed. The imperial court ministers rushed to impeach, and Emperor Mingmu ordered the Nanjing Punishment Department to try the case. Liu Shiyan is worthy of being a descendant of Liu Bowen, and this official old fritter, on the contrary, he has a straight face and says that he has been an enemy of the Xu family for generations, how can he conspire with Xu Pengju. Moreover, the attitude was fierce, and the officials of the Punishment Department were frightened by him.
The Lower Nanjing Law Division asked, so Shi Yanshi also sent a reversal to the Punishment Department, saying that he had already had a disagreement with Xu Shi, and did not try to abolish the discussion with Pengju, and his resignation was very fierce, and the officials did not dare to question it. However, Ru Jin sat down to dismiss the people, Pengju seized Lu Mi in January, Zheng Shi pursued the Curse, and Ordered Bang Ning and his party to punish and govern poorly. - "Records of Ming Muzong"
In this way, Xu Pengju's intention to abolish Chang Liyou was well known to everyone in the north and south of Beijing. Again, with Zu Yin, he was punished for only one month, but his wife was stripped of the title of Duchess of Wei and commandments. The matter of seizing the knighthood for the young son is stillborn.
I don't know if this matter was deeply affected, Xu Pengju died within two years. Xu Pengju, who had never done a serious thing in his absurd life. After his death, he was absurd again, and before he died, he instructed his eldest son Xu Bangrui to ask the imperial court to give him a nickname, which was also brazen.
Xu Peng, the Duke of Wei, was in charge of the Governor's Mansion of Nanjing... His son Bang Rui resigned from the funeral at pengju's will and asked for sacrifice, and the minister consulted with the ministry to stop the sacrifice as usual, and Yu was not allowed. - "Records of Ming Muzong"