The reason why the change in the door was related to Zhu Qiyu's personality, in other words, Zhu Qiyu did not have the talent to become an emperor.
To be an emperor, you must have execution, determination, and superior measures. It is equivalent to saying that an emperor must be 'cruel', 'poisonous', and 'hypocritical'' enough.
As the saying goes, a small amount is not a gentleman, no poison is not a husband, nothing is so.
But Zhu Qiyu is not only not fierce enough, not poisonous enough, not hypocritical enough, nor is he the kind of gentleman who is kind of generous and benevolent; strictly speaking, he is the kind of person who is very small, powerful and narrow.
From the following things, we can see Zhu Qiyu's character.
First, it is not benevolent enough.
In the change of Tumu Fort, everyone let Zhu Qiyu, the king of Qi, come out as the boss and let him be the acting emperor, or the transitional emperor, so it was called Daizong. Because the empress dowager had agreed with everyone, the crown prince was still Zhu Jianshen, the son of Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen. However, as soon as Zhu Qiyu came to power, he broke the contract and deposed the crown prince and made his own son the crown prince.
After Emperor Yingzong returned to China, Zhu Qiyu put him under house arrest. If you keep your word, you give up power, if you covet the throne, then eliminate dissidents and leave Yingzong missing or sick.
However, Zhu Qiyu chose not to rely on both sides, abused And put Yingzong under house arrest, and continued to appoint former imperial ministers.
Second, there is no temperament.
Xu Youzhen was a courtier of Emperor Yingzong, and you should appoint him if you like it, and dismiss the official if you don't like it. But Zhu Qiyu is very feminine, both appointment and disgust, is not he begging for bitterness?
Xu Youzhen was a capable official, but because he proposed to move after the Tumu fort rebellion, he was despised by Emperor Daizong Zhu Qiyu, and he was still grumpy after a few years.
At that time, Yu Qian's subordinates recommended Xu Youzhen (then called Xu Heng) to Emperor Daizong, and Emperor Daizong did not appoint him as soon as he heard the name, because people had suggested moving the capital.
Everyone is accustomed to calling the main war faction heroes and the main and factions the traitors. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, who did not advocate moving the capital, was called The Emperor of Xia, saying that if the capital was moved, the Ming Dynasty regime might survive.
To put it bluntly, proposing to move the capital is only to advocate different political views, there is no need to put on the moral label, the intentions are all good, but Zhu Qiyu does not have this mind.
Later, Xu Heng had to change his name to Xu Youzhen, which was appointed.
In the third year of Jingtai (1452), the Yellow River had been at a section of Shawan for 7 years, and no one could manage it well, Xu Youzhen volunteered to go, and even managed it well, eradicating the flood. What does this mean? Xu Youzhen is clearly a capable person, and Emperor Daizong Zhu Qiyu is not meritocratic, but according to personal likes and dislikes, can such a person be a good emperor?
Having said all this, it means that people are multi-faceted and complex, not facial, either loyal or adulterous.
Shi Heng was the initiator of the change of the door, and Xu Youzhen was a Sanpin official at the time, feeling that he was ostracized by Yu Qian, oversized and overused, and had always been dissatisfied, so he followed and participated in the coup.
After the success of the coup, the restored Yingzong was rewarded for meritorious deeds, Xu Youzhen was promoted to shangshu of the military department, and he was also a scholar (prime minister) of Huagaiden University, which can be described as a success and a proud ambition.
Xu Youzhen and Yu Qian were originally political enemies who did not share the heavens, and after the coup was successful, Xu Youzhen eliminated Yu Qian through the hand of Emperor Yingzong, because Yu Qian was there, Xu Youzhen would never emerge; when Yu Qian was there, Xu Youzhen would have no sense of security. But Xu Youzhen forgot that politics is dirty, and it is also your life and death. As long as the local struggle for power will be endless.
After Xu Youzhen took power alone, he and Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang also began to fight for power and profit, and fought openly and secretly. In the end, Shi Heng's chess was high, Xu Youzhen fell out of favor, was cut off by Emperor Yingzong, returned to his hometown, and died of depression at the age of 65.
Let's talk about Shi Heng.
Shi Heng was a military general with explosive combat effectiveness and outstanding achievements in the fight against Wallachia. Because Yu Qian was reused by the emperor, Shi Heng, like Xu Youzhen, felt that he was suppressed and overused.
In fact, if you look at it from the perspective of the old Zhu family, the changes in seizing the door will have more advantages than disadvantages.
Because Zhu Qiyu was critically ill at that time, he himself had no son, and Daming had no successor.
The best candidate to succeed is Zhu Qizhen.
1. Zhu Qizhen was an emperor and had work experience. Second, Zhuqi Town has a good reputation and has a high prestige among the people. Third, most of the ministers of the DPRK were subordinates of Zhu Qizhen and were willing to obey his leadership. Fourth, Zhu Qizhen has a good character and is generous in virtue.
About the character, I want to say a few words about Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qizhen is a very generous emperor, and ruan lang, who saw the eunuch at the gate, was like a friend, there was no emperor shelf at all, and he also gave Ruan Lang the royal golden sword as a gift.
When Zhu Qizhen was a prisoner in Vala, he had a very good relationship with his brother who guarded him, and when Zhu Qizhen returned to China, his brother was still clinging to it, crying bitterly: "Today, I don't know when I will see my emperor?" ''
Therefore, after Zhu Qiyu, Zhu Qizhen became emperor, which was a great thing for the country and the people in the past.
However, Yu Qian, who was in power at that time, did not have a public heart, let Zhu Qizhen succeed him, and gave the ambitionist Shi Heng a chance to ask for credit.
Shi Heng considered it from his own standpoint at that time, Yu Qian controlled the government, and whoever appointed him as the crown prince himself would not get the benefits, it was better to let Emperor Yingzong restore, and he could make a head contribution.
Yu Qian's attitude toward Yingzong was also debatable, and after Zhu Qiyu welcomed Zhu Qizhen back to Beijing, he imprisoned Yingzong in the Nangong Palace and nominally honored him as Emperor Taishang. However, he sent a Jinyi guard to take strict care of Zhu Qizhen, not only locked the palace door, but also poured lead, eating and drinking Lasa was inside, and the food sent could only be passed through a small hole. Such an abuse of the former supreme leader, Yu Qian was the first minister at that time, there was no responsibility?
In addition, Emperor Daizong Zhu Qiyu was critically ill, so why didn't Yu Qian make a comeback with a public heart?
Therefore, the so-called loyal traitors need to be divided into two and cannot be faced.
However, this Shi Heng is really not an authentic thing, he has merit in his own merits, and he not only killed Yu Qian, but also deposed the opposition to chengzhang, Yushi Ganze and nine other people who were deposed from official positions. Create unjust imprisonment, retaliate against Geng Jiuyu and Yue Zheng, and drive Yang Xuan and Zhang Peng to the border. If you don't die, you won't die, you don't know the way of the courtiers, you can only kill yourself.
In the autumn of the third year of Tianshun (1459), Shi Heng was plotted by his nephew to rebel against Zhulian and was deposed by Emperor Yingzong.
In the first month of the fourth year of Tianshun (1460), the former political enemy and jinyi wei commanded the envoy Lu Gao to fall into the well, and the imperial court said that Shi Heng was plotting against him, and Zhu Qizhen ordered Shi Heng to be arrested, sentenced to death for treason, and confiscated property. Before the execution could be carried out, Shi Heng fell ill and died in prison, and his two sons were also beheaded.
A good system can turn good people into bad, Shi Heng and Xu Youzhen are not born bad people, but because there is a problem with the system design, they cannot rely on talent to promote and display their talents, and they use their wisdom and wisdom to fight for power and profit, harm people, and prevent people.
Shi Heng was like this, and why weren't the officials of China's dynasties like this?
Just at this moment, there was a vision in the sky, thunder and lightning flashed non-stop, Zhu Qizhen thought that this was a warning from heaven, released Xu Youzhen, and demoted him to Guangdong to participate in politics.
Shi Heng did not give up, and he made a letter of praise to Zhu Qizhen and blamed Xu Youzhen. Zhu Qizhen was furious and arrested Xu Youzhen, who had gone to Texas, and sent him back to prison, and not long after, there was another vision, the Chengtian Gate was burned, Zhu Qizhen was amnesty for the world, and there were also signs of letting Xu Youzhen out.
Shi Heng added another momentum and slandered Xu Youzhen again.
In the end, Zhu Qizhen demoted Xu Youzhen to a commoner, exiled to Jinya (in present-day Lancang River, Yunnan), Tianshun was pardoned and returned to his hometown in the fourth year of Tianshun (1460), and Chenghua restored his official status in the first year of Chenghua (1465), but because of the slander against Yu Qian, he was hated by the world, failed to re-enter the official field, and Chenghua died in eight years.
Compared with Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng's ambitions are greater and his end is even more tragic.
Shi Heng was a truly vicious man, Yu Qian used his various promotions and reuses to give him the opportunity to approach the center of power, and Zhu Qiyu also trusted him and ordered him to wait when he was seriously ill.
But he turned his face ruthlessly, and everything started from his own interests. Seeing that Zhu Qiyu's life was not long, he immediately planned for himself, "'Embrace the restoration of the Emperor Taishang'", this strange idea was what he first thought of, persuaded Cao Jixiang, and then found Xu Youzhen.
He was cruel to Zhu Qiyu, and he was not soft on Yu Qian, who had the grace of knowing and encountering, and vigorously advocated killing Yu Qian.
After Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, Shi Heng regarded himself as a hero and arrogant, and the whole family floated up, and the record in the "History of Ming" is that "there were more than fifty people in his brothers and nephews' family who risked meritorious deeds, and more than 4,000 people who were named 'snatching the door' and obtaining officials." ''
When Xu Youzhen was there, there were still some checks and balances on him, and after Xu Youzhen fell, he interfered in the government as he pleased, and replaced all the civilian inspectors of the imperial court with military generals loyal to him. The most excessive thing was that he did not have much respect for Zhu Qizhen, and regarded the palace as his own, even if he was not summoned, he wanted to go.
Zhu Qizhen was still tolerant at first, but then he couldn't stand it, and complained to another confidant, Li Xian: "The cabinet minister has something to do, and Xu Yan will see it." Why is it so common to see Him? This means that Shi Heng is a military general, how can he be qualified to enter the palace at any time to see Yuan?
After that, he told Zuo Shunmen: "Unless summoned, you must not be put into the military attaché." ''
Shi Heng's number of times he entered the palace had only become less, but he did not seem to understand that the emperor was impatient with him and was as tyrannical as ever.
His nephew Shi Biao was made marquis of Yuan, and there were tens of thousands of warriors in his family, and later he was convicted of rebellion and insulting the prince, and Shi Heng was also implicated in cutting officials and serving the people, and all his henchmen were deposed. Later, he was denounced as a "crime of conspiracy", Shi Heng fell ill and died in prison, and his nephew Shi Biao and nephew Shi Hou were also beheaded.
The record of this incident in the history books is very simple, but we can fully imagine the bloody and brutal struggle in it.
In short, Xu Youzhen and Shi Heng supported Zhu Qizhen out of selfish desires, they were not honest and loyal people themselves, and it was very gratifying to have such an ending. By the way, that Cao Jixiang did not have a good end, and was executed by torture.