The Ming Dynasty was a dynasty that attached great importance to etiquette, but anyone who could be an official and a half-time official, regardless of his own character, but in public, always had to put on the appearance of "incivility, incivility, and incivility". In order to advise the emperor, even if they prostrate their heads in blood, they will obey the etiquette law, otherwise they will obstruct the etiquette system and despise the imperial power.
However, just after the "Tumu Fort Change" of the Ming Dynasty, there was an all-out martial act in the Golden Ruan Hall of the Ming Dynasty, and its intensity was really rare.
After the tumubao rebellion, Empress Sun made Zhu Qizhen's son Zhu Jianshen crown prince and ordered Zhu Qizhen's younger brother Zhu Qiyu to act as regent, and shortly after Zhu Qiyu's regency, that is, on the seventh day of Zhu Qizhen's capture, emotions began to erupt among the ministers who were extremely dissatisfied with Wang Zhen, the grand eunuch who had instigated the emperor to go on a campaign. First, a royal historian began to cry, and more and more ministers began to cry loudly, interspersed with curses against Wang Zhen, etc. After an impeachment, the ministers collectively demanded that Wang Zhen's henchmen be executed and his Nine Clans exterminated!
Zhu Qiyu was not long after he came to the dynasty, where did he experience this kind of formation? I wanted to use this reason to reconsider to block back, but the ministers were very stubborn, using a sit-in to express their demands, and just when the situation was about to be chaotic, an untimely person appeared and instantly ignited the situation.
This person was one of Wang Zhen's henchmen, Jinyi Wei Ma Shun. Ma Shun, seeing that the ministers intended to coerce the emperor, stood up and rebuked the ministers and beat wang Hong, who was the leader. At this point, the ministers were unwilling, first Wang Hong bit Ma Shun's ear fiercely, and then hit Ma Shun with the wat in his hand, and the other ministers were dissatisfied with Wang Zhen's henchmen, and the folding line was even more passionate, and rushed up, beating Ma Shun to death above the Golden Palace.
In front of the acting emperor, a Jinyi guard was beaten to death, these civilian officials who had no power to bind the chicken were very fierce at the moment, and after killing Ma Shun, this group of people still refused to give up, the order of the scene was once out of control, the scene was extremely chaotic, and Zhu Qiyu, who was sitting on the emperor's throne, was also frightened and stunned.
Seeing that the scene was out of control, Zhu Qiyu, under the protection of the eunuchs, intended to sneak away quietly, but was blocked by the ministers, asking Zhu Qiyu to order Wang Zhen's entire clan, and under the eunuch's constant reprimand, he was still unwilling to retreat, and even pointed his hand directly at Zhu Qiyu, asking him to hand over Wang Zhen's yu party!
The opposite, the complete opposite! The minister dared to blackmail the emperor, although he was an agent, but he was also a king. At this moment, the so-called etiquette of the monarch and the court system had been violently trampled under the feet of the civilian officials, who openly asked Zhu Qiyu for Wang Zhenyu's other two cousins, Mao Gui and Wang Changsu, and after the eunuch leader arrested these two people, the civilian officials beat them to death with a fist. Where did Zhu Qiyu see this position and wanted to leave, but he was pulled by Yu Qian and would not let him go, he helped Zhu Qiyu to sit down, and "asked" Zhu Qiyu to pardon the ministers present today, Zhu Qiyu had to agree, and declared: "Ma Shun and others have more than enough to die, and they will not pursue the hundred officials!" ”
This all-martial march on the Golden Ruan Hall ended in this way, and the ministers gradually quieted down after hearing Zhu Qiyu's edict. A mass violence was legalized under duress, and those who fought in the court became traitors, and Wang Zhen was also accused of exterminating the Nine Tribes.
This incident is unique in the history of the Ming Dynasty. For this matter, many of the interpretations of the history books were mostly filled with the indignation of the ministers, and there was more than enough guilt for the great eunuch Wang Zhen to instigate the Yingzong Imperial Conquest and cause the defeat of the war to die, and Wang Zhen's henchmen should also be slashed with a thousand swords. But in fact, after carefully studying this period of history, we will find that this is actually a premeditated palace drama by civilian officials!
From the civilian officials asking Zhu Qiyu to curse Wang Zhenjiu, to killing Ma Shun in front of Zhu Qiyu (it is not an easy task to beat people to death, indicating that the civilian officials have laid down their dead hands), and then still refusing to give up and beating Mao Gui and Wang Changsui to death, all this can no longer be explained by simple impulse.
So, what is the purpose of the civilian officials in such a drama of forcing the palace? In fact, the answer is very simple, they are demonstrating to the imperial power, that is, to Zhu Qiyu, who has not yet become emperor, to show their powerful power, so that Zhu Qiyu can submit, so that in the series of subsequent reforms, they can pave the way.
In fact, the purpose of the civilian officials is very obvious, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, from the Hongwu Dynasty onwards, it has always been the military generals who occupy an important position, and the civilian officials are in the inferior position. This has a lot to do with the merits made by the military generals in the process of founding the country, and at the same time there are great reasons for the strategies of several emperors before the founding of the country, but this time in the Tumu fort incident, most of the military generals died cleanly, and the red eunuch group next to the emperor, and because Wang Zhen became the target of everyone, then, the keen people found that the era belonging to the civil administration was about to be brought about, so it made sense to force the palace drama that violated the etiquette system in the court.