Zhu Yuanzhang had been worried about the "succession" before his death, and although the heir had been selected as the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunjiao, he was worried that Zhu Yunjiao would not be able to suppress the ministers. In addition, he was worried that other princes would tear their faces and compete for the throne.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang had asked Tomei Yin to assist the new emperor. So who is this Mei Yin? It was surprising that Zhu Yuanzhang could be so trusted.
In fact, Mei Yin was the husband of Princess Ningguo, the second daughter of Zhu Yuanzhang, that is, Daming's horse master, who was brave and upright. Later, when Zhu Yunjiao fell into distress, Mei Yin held 400,000 heavy troops in his hands, but he did not help, why was this? Had he forgotten Zhu Yuanzhang's dying instructions?
After Zhu Yunjiao succeeded to the throne, he also entrusted Mei Yin with great trust. Later, Zhu Di was ambitious and launched the "Battle of Jingnan" under the guise of "Qing Jun's side". In the face of Zhu Di's attack, Zhu Yunjiao quickly took measures and sent Mei Yin to command an army of 400,000 to guard Huai'an.
By the time Jianwen was in his fourth year, Zhu Di had taken many of Emperor Jianwen's generals prisoner. At that time, Zhu Di wanted to reach Nanjing through Huai'an,
So he sent an emissary to see him
Mei Yin
，
The excuse is that it is to "enter Beijing and incense".
whereas
However, he righteously refused, and said: "When the former emperor was alive, he said that all princes were not allowed to enter the capital, and those who violated it were not filial piety."
Zhu Di was furious about this, so he wrote another letter to Mei Yin, indicating that he had launched the Qing Emperor's side
"When you conform to the sky, manpower is unstoppable"
。
Similarly, Mei Yin also refuted it, and said
"When you see the emperor, say your majesty and righteousness."
Photo: Zhu Di wrote another letter to Mei Yin stills
Zhu Di was angry in his heart, but in order to enter Beijing as soon as possible, he had to give up entanglement with Mei Yin. Since the gate of Huai'an is not open, let's take a detour. Eventually, Zhu Di led his army around Huai'an. At this time, Nanjing was also short of troops and had no resistance.
Zhu Di took the city of Nanjing in one fell swoop, and Emperor Jianwen was nowhere to be found. At this time, under the condition that most people had surrendered, Mei Yin still resisted desperately and resolutely did not surrender. Zhu Di had just been humiliated, and now he could not force him to surrender, and his heart was even more angry.
Zhu Di knew that Princess Ningguo had a deep affection for Mei Yin's horse, so he forced Princess Ningguo to write a letter to recall Mei Yin. Princess Ningguo was forced to be helpless, so she had to write a blood letter to let Mei Yin quickly return to Beijing.
Photo: Stills of zhu Di who is angry in his heart
After Mei Yin saw this blood letter, she looked sad and indignant, and her heart ached. However, after calming down, the first thing to worry about was the safety of Emperor Jianwen. Unexpectedly, the envoy said, "I am already dead."
Hearing this, Mei Yin felt a pang in her heart, and then sighed:
"The king is in the subject, the king is dead, how can I live secretly?"
It can be seen that Mei Yin already has the determination to die.
However, some scholars had doubts, why didn't Mei Yin lead his troops to stop Zhu Di when he detoured? And when Zhu Di attacked Nanjing, Mei Yin did not send troops to the rescue. Therefore, some scholars believe
: Emperor Jianwen originally had a glimmer of hope, yes
Choose to pass up this opportunity.
Image: Stills from the Blood Book
In this way, Mei Yin held a sense of shame and chose to enter Beijing. I thought that Zhu Di would take his life, but instead of that, he went to comfort him. In fact, Zhu Di didn't want to cut his corpse into ten thousand pieces, but because of Mei Yin's identity as a horse master, it was not good to attack him.
After the disappearance of Emperor Jianwen, Mei Yin did not take any measures of resistance or martyrdom. In this regard, Mei Yin felt very ashamed, ashamed of Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions, and even more ashamed of Emperor Jianwen, for a long time he was worried.
Photo: Mei Yin enters the Peking Opera photo
Although Zhu Di did not explicitly attack Ma Meiyin, he also secretly used a lot of means. For example, sending people to monitor Mei Yin's every move is to grab Mei Yin's handle.
When Yongle was in his second year, someone even framed Mei Yin, saying that he was secretly cultivating killers and wanted to assassinate Zhu Di. At the same time, he also slandered him for colluding with the show girl Liu Shi and wanting to murder Zhu Di and so on.
These winds and grasses naturally fit Zhu Di's wishes, first inspecting Mei Yin's honor guard, and then sending people to escort Mei's family to Liaodong. Not long after, Mei Yin was impeached by other ministers, saying that he was secretly hiding outlaws and had the intention of plotting against him.
In this regard, Mei Yin also refuted it with facts, and the false accusations of those ministers were unsuccessful, so they had to change to a more vicious method and wanted to assassinate Mei Yin.
Photo: The minister impeached Mei Yin stills to Zhu Di
Once, Mei Yin was passing a bridge when he was not paying attention, and someone suddenly pushed him into the river and drowned. Of course, this incident was disguised as suicide, "throwing himself into the river". But this matter is full of loopholes, why did you want to commit suicide on the way to the dynasty?
Princess Ningguo was very saddened by this and insisted that it be traced to the end and that an account be given. Princess Ningguo also knew that this matter was related to Zhu Di, but there was no way to move him, so she had to ask for an explanation, which could also be regarded as revenge for Mei Yin.
At that time, a governor named Xu Cheng saw the whole story of this incident and pointed out that it was the former military governor Tan Shen and Jin Yiwei who commanded Zhao Xi and killed Ma Meiyin. Of course, reasonable people know that where did these two people have the courage to harm the horse? The spearhead naturally pointed at Zhu Di again.
Although everyone knew it, Zhu Di was already the most powerful person in the whole world at that time, and everyone did not dare to say it.
So
Tan Shen, Zhao Xi
The two became political victims
Picture: Princess Ningguo went to Zhu Di to ask for stills
afterwards
Zhu Di in order to compensate for the deceased
He also gave both of his sons official titles and replaced them
A very solemn funeral was held
to show respect for Mei Yin.
Of course, Zhu Di's purpose in doing this is clear to everyone, that is, to hide his eyes and ears, and perhaps to make up for his own guilt. Subsequently, Zhu Di comforted Princess Ningguo,
He also made her the Princess of Ningguo
What is the use of this title for her? No amount of compensation could make up for the pain of her widowhood. Moreover, the feelings of these two people are still so deep.
Image: Stills of Zhu Di
In fact, all this was the result of Mei Yin's "indisputable", knowing that Zhu Di wanted to harm him, but he did not have a sense of resistance, and even had little heart to guard. At the beginning, when the city of Nanjing fell and Emperor Jianwen fell, Mei Yin did not send troops to rescue, which eventually caused tragic consequences.
If Mei Yin had chosen to prevent Zhu Di from approaching at that time, perhaps things would have turned around. Moreover, later Mei Yin also entered Beijing with the determination to die, but after discovering that Zhu Di did not kill him, this mortal force also disappeared, and he did not even resist a little, but let others slaughter.
Therefore, some historians are not very optimistic about him, believing that although he has a loyal heart, he has no loyalty, and finally he has become a "wall grass", which is inevitable to sigh.
Article author: Dahui
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