Yu Qianli's Kwa army welcomed back the captured Yingzong, but he himself was killed for rebellion. He led his troops to defeat the enemy and saved the Ming Dynasty, why couldn't he save his own life and family?
When people evaluate historical figures, they like to use the words "loyalty" and "adultery" as the standard, and what is "loyalty" and what is "adultery" in the end is very different due to the different times in which they live, and all this is based on the needs of the rulers.
For example, Yu Qian, a famous minister and national hero of the Ming Dynasty, after the change of Tumu Fort, vigorously defied the public opinion, insisted on the Beijing Division, repelled the Army of Wallachia, and had the merit of rebuilding Daming. After he defeated the enemy and crushed the dream of The Wallachian Master Yexian, the captured Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was able to return to the dynasty. However, after Zhu Qizhen launched a change to seize the door and regained the throne, he was the first to take Yu Qian's knife and kill him for treason. As the saying goes, "Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger", this is the unpredictable heart of the king! Yu Qian's experience is the best proof.
Yu Qianben was a literati and a scholar of the nineteenth year of Yongle, but his appearance was not weak. In the first year of Xuande, Zhu Gaoxu, the King of Han, rebelled, and Yu Qian went out with Emperor Xuanzong of Ming on a campaign as Emperor Xuanzong. Yu Qian's mission was to strike at the anti-wang's arrogance and defeat Zhu Gaoxu from the spirit. According to history, when Zhu Gaoxu surrendered, Yu Qian was reprimanded. As a result, Zhu Gaoxu was scolded by Yu Qian so much that he could not lift his head, and he lay on the ground and shivered constantly, claiming that he deserved to die. Yu Qian's performance made Emperor Xuanzong greatly pleased, and he immediately assigned Yu Qian to patrol Jiangxi.
Yu Qian, who was deeply trusted by Emperor Xuanzong, was soon promoted to the rank of Right Attendant of the Army, patrolling Henan and Shanxi, and during the period of the Jin Dynasty, the territory was safe and peaceful, and the political achievements were remarkable. However, When Emperor Mingyingzong did not give gifts to the dictatorial eunuch Wang Zhen when he entered the capital for a visit, he was hated by Wang Zhen and his gang, and on trumped-up charges, he was imprisoned on trumped-up charges, actively fabricating charges, and wanted to put him in the place of humility to death. Hearing that Yu Qian had been sentenced to death, the people of the two provinces of Jin and Yu were indignant for a while and jointly wrote a letter to Yu Qian to seek revenge. For this reason, Wang Zhen had to release Yu Qian, but Yu Qian was demoted to the post of Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and later imprisoned in Shanxi. Later, he was reinstated as an inspector at the request of the people, officials, and even the king of the two provinces.
Yu Qian ruled Shanxi and Henan for nineteen years, and when his parents died, he was asked to go back to handle the funeral, and soon took up his original post. In the thirteenth year of orthodoxy (1448), Yu Qian was recalled to Beijing and appointed as the left attendant of the military department.
In July of the following year when Yu Qian entered The Capital as the Left Attendant of the Army, The Great Eunuch Wang Zhen vigorously encouraged Emperor Ming's Emperor Yingzong to march on zhu qizhen, and Zhu Qizhen gladly agreed. At that time, the bingbu Shangshu Kuang and Yu Qiandu were strongly discouraged, and even Empress Sun did not agree to the emperor's adventure out of Beijing.
However, the arrogant Emperor Zhu did not listen. The reason why Zhu Qizhen wanted to act willfully, in addition to the instigation of wang zhen and others, he also had his own reasons, first, to emulate his father, Ming Xuanzong, who had personally marched and defeated the King of Han; second, in order to prove himself, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty was at its peak and was a barbarian, afraid that he would not succeed?
At that time, the main force of the imperial court's army was in the field, and it was difficult to assemble in a hurry. So the emperor temporarily cobbled together 200,000 people from near the capital division, claiming to be half a million troops, and the imperial conquest. Bingbu Shangshu Kuang followed Emperor Ming Yingzong on his expedition and stayed behind to preside over the work of the Bingbu.
In order to persuade his mother, Empress Sun, he made the two-year-old crown prince Zhu Jianshen crown prince and put his half-brother Zhu Qiyu the Prince of Qi in charge of the country.
However, Zhu Qizhen was not as lucky as his father, and the Battle of Tumu Fort destroyed the Entire Ming Army. At the Battle of Tumu fort, more than fifty civilian and military generals who accompanied the expedition, including zhang fu, ma Jingyuan, Shangshu Kuang, Hubu Shangshu Wang Zuo, Waiter Ding Ming, Wang Yonghe, and cabinet members Cao Ding and Zhang Yi, were killed in battle, and Emperor Zhu himself became a prisoner of Yexian.
When the bad news came, Kyoshi was greatly shaken, and people were panicked. Seeing that the large army of Ye Xian was approaching the city, some people proposed to move the capital south to save their lives, and Yu Qian, as the left attendant of the military department, vigorously discussed the proposal of moving south, and insisted on sticking to the Beijing Division. Yu Qianli advocated the War of Resistance, and was supported by the official Shangshu Wang Zhi and the cabinet scholar Chen Xun. In the end, Zhu Qiyu, the King of Qi, adopted the stubborn strategy of Yu Qian and others.
It is said that "the country cannot be without a monarch for a day", and in the special period when Emperor Yingzong was captured, the crown prince was young, and the state affairs were becoming more difficult, the imperial court could not be more unable to have the backbone, so Yu Qian and others suggested that Empress Sun let Zhu Qiyu the Prince of Qi become emperor, for the Ming Dynasty, and to honor the captured Zhu Qizhen as the emperor. At the same time, he ordered the border generals not to have private contact with Wa Lai, even if Wa Lai used the name of the emperor, he did not need to take care of it, which shattered the conspiracy of "blackmailing Emperor Yingzong to make Daming" first.
Subsequently, Yu Qian was promoted to the post of Shangshu of the Bingbu And was fully responsible for planning the defense of the Beijing Division. At that time, the most effective troops of the Beijing Division had all fallen at Tumu Fort, and Yu Qian only had less than 100,000 tired soldiers left in his hands. However, under Yu Qian's deployment and command, the Beicao army in the north and south of Beijing and Henan, the Beiwu army along the coast of Shandong and Nanjing, and the grain transport army in Jiangbei and Beijing's provinces rushed to the aid of the Beijing Division, and only then did the situation stabilize the situation.
After Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty ascended the throne, Yu Qian began to reorganize his troops, deploy key points, personally supervise the battle, and line up outside the nine gates of Beijing to resist the Wallachian army. Master Vala also threatened Emperor Yingzong to make peace, and he did not allow it to be "the most important thing in the society and the lighter in the king". The Ming army repulsed Wallachia. In desperation, Vala retreated from the desert.
The following year, the new emperor Zhu Qiyu changed his name to Yuan Jingtai. Zhu Qizhen was captured for nearly a year, and he could no longer get benefits from him, the abdicated emperor, and in the past year, the Wala army was defeated many times by the Ming army led by Yu Qian, so he sent people south to seek peace, saying that he was willing to release Zhu Qizhen.
Although "the country cannot be without a monarch for a day", "the sky cannot have two days", Zhu Qizhen was released by the Wala people, which was not a good thing for the new emperor Zhu Qiyu, it was simply a hot potato that was difficult to fiddle with.
After Zhu Qizhen returned to the dynasty, he was locked in the Nangong and lived a life of confinement for seven years. For seven years, Zhu Qiyu not only locked the gate of the Southern Palace with lead, but even sent Jinyi guards to keep it under close guard, and even food could only be delivered through small holes. Sometimes, there was not enough food and clothing, resulting in the original money empress of the Emperor Taishang having to make some female red herself, and entrusting people to take them out to sell to supplement the family. However, such a defense against crimes still allows people with ulterior motives to catch the opportunity.
It turned out that during Zhu Qiyu's reign, with the assistance of Yu Qian and others, he governed the country in a rather orderly manner. However, in order to make himself a monarch for generations, he not only put his brother under house arrest, but even insisted on deposing the crown prince Zhu Jianshen for three years by Jingtai and replacing him with his son Zhu Jianji. As a result, Zhu Jianji died prematurely, and the position of crown prince was vacant. In the first month of the eighth year of Jingtai, Jingtai Emperor suddenly became seriously ill and was bedridden. Suddenly, people were in a panic.
At the same time, Shi Heng, the Marquis of Wuqing, the Governor Zhang Yuan, the TaichangQing Xu Bin, the Left Vice-Governor Yushi Xu Youzhen, and the eunuch Cao Jixiang under the former Wang Zhenmen began to plot to support Emperor Taishang. In the early morning of the seventeenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Jingtai, Shi Heng and Xu Youzhen led a thousand troops and took control of Chang'an Gate and Donghua Gate. A group of people knocked open the gate of the Nangong Palace, welcomed Zhu Qizhen to reset, and changed the yuan tianshun on the twenty-first day of the first month. History is called "the change of seizing the door", also known as the "Restoration of the Southern Palace".
On the day of Zhu Qizhen's restoration, he sent a decree to arrest Shangshu Yuqian of the Military Department and Wang Wen, a scholar of the university. Du Yushi Xiao Weizhen suggested that the two be executed for treason. The emperor hesitated, saying that Yu Qian had merit in defending against Wallachia. Xu Youzhen said, do not kill Yu Qian, you reset the nameless. The emperor finally agreed, and on the twenty-second day, he was sentenced to death by Qian and Wang Wen for treason, without his home. A generation of heroes who defended the country were unjustly killed under the knife.
Yu Qian's death is actually a "blood certificate" that Zhu Qizhen was looking for for his own reset to be correct--if you don't die, why am I a "righteous person"? From this, I suddenly thought of a question, if Yue Fei could have directly pounded the Yellow Dragon and welcomed back the Second Emperor of Qin Hui, would he really be able to die well?