The "change of seizing the door" was not particularly necessary for Emperor Mingying's Zhu Qizhen.
Because Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty was seriously ill at that time, and his son died prematurely, the officials Shangshu Wang Zhi, Libu Shangshu Hu Qian, Bingbu Shangshu Yuqian, and others had already persuaded Zhu Qiyu to restore Zhu Qiyu's son Zhu Jianshen as heir.
Although it is not the same thing that his son became emperor and himself became emperor, for Zhu Qizhen, who had been imprisoned for seven years, many things had been seen through, and it was not bad to be able to come out of the Southern Palace and become a veritable Emperor Taishang. What political opinions can be implemented by the son.
However, the speculative politician Xu Youzhen, the military general Shi Heng, and the eunuch Cao Jixiang launched a change to seize the door in order to fight for the merits of support.
In fact, they didn't do anything, just opened the door of the Nangong Palace, the follow-up things were almost all done by Zhu Qizhen himself, he went to the Fengtian Temple to sit on the dragon chair, Xu Youzhen and others took the lead in shouting long live, this matter became, and the other courtiers also knelt down to pay their respects.
This is probably an easy coup in history, and since then, the heroes of this restoration have been reused.
So what is the ending of Xu Youzhen and Shi Heng? Not very good.
Let's start with Xu Youzhen
A major stain on Zhu Qizhen's history is to kill the loyal minister Yu Qian, but in fact he did not want to kill at first, thinking that Yu Qian had great merit, but Xu Youzhen said "do not kill Yu Qian, this move is nameless", which means not to kill Yu Qian, and the restoration of the matter is unknown.
Everyone in the world knows that Zhu Qiyu was standing in Yu Qian. If Zhu Qizhen wanted to deny the legitimacy of Zhu Qiyu's ascension to the throne, he had to deny it together with Yu Qian. Probably with this in mind, Zhu Qizhen listened to Xu Youzhen's suggestion and beheaded Yu Qian.
In March of the first year of Tianshun (1457), Xu Youzhen was given the title of Fengtian Yiwei Tuicheng Xuanli Shouzheng (奉天翊衛) Tuicheng Xuanli Shouzheng (奉文族臣), Wu Gongbo (武伯), concurrently serving as a scholar of huagaidian university, in charge of the Wenyuan Cabinet, giving vouchers, and hereditary jinyi wei commanders for his descendants, and later becoming the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty.
After experiencing the change of Tumu Fort and the confinement of the Southern Palace, Zhu Qizhen no longer had the ambition of the first time as emperor, and had no intention of ruling the government, and Xu Youzhen power fell to the opposition.
However, although Xu Youzhen and Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others joined forces to do things, there were also contradictions between them. There are so many rights, some people get more, some people get less. Xu Youzhen was not willing to give them away powers, and after becoming the first assistant, he was even more consciously estranged, and he was very unaccustomed to some of their illegal things, and often said bad things about them in front of Zhu Qizhen.
Shi and Cao were furious and slandered him as soon as they seized the opportunity, and under their various framings, Zhu Qizhen arrested Xu Youzhen for "trying to arbitrarily exert authority and rejecting Xun Lao".
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 (around the Lancang River in present-day 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 murder of 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 gone, he immediately planned for himself, and the strange idea of "supporting the restoration of the Emperor Taishang" was the first thing he 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 entire 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 service, and more than 4,000 people who were born and won the official status of 'snatching the door' in the family." ”
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 did not summon, he wanted to go.
Zhu Qizhen was still tolerant at first, but later 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? "It 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 accused of "treason", 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.