Gao Ming once wrote: I would have set my heart on the bright moon, but the bright moon shone in the ditch.
For an emperor, it is very important to have a capable courtier. In history, the ming dynasty and the Song dynasty suffered more like the humiliation of Jing Kang in the Northern Song Dynasty, which humiliated the emperor, and the emperor was caught by the Jin people and the country was in chaos and on the verge of extinction. At that time, Yue Fei, in order to resist the invasion of the Jin people, fought bloody battles on the battlefield and killed countless enemies in order to protect his country, but in the end he was killed for some false charges. During the Ming Dynasty, there was also a hero as powerful as Yue Fei, who was able to write and fight, was a rare all-rounder, and when the country was in danger, he also relied on his own efforts to resist the enemy outside Beijing, but in the end it also ended in tragedy.
This man's name is called
Yu Qian
Born in a relatively wealthy family, the ancestors are all officials, and the officials are not small, so Yu Qian received a relatively high level of education from childhood, and Yu Qian's own awareness ability is relatively high, although the family conditions are good, but he is still studying very hard, from a young age to Wen Tianxiang as his own example, has always had lofty ideals, talent, coupled with the late hard work,
Yu Qian had already passed the jinshi examination at the age of 23.
As the saying goes, children grow up watching the backs of their parents, when they were young, Yu Qian's father Yu Ren had a great influence on him, so Yu Qian also developed the same upright personality as his father from an early age.
After Yu Qian entered his career, he held many positions before and after, but no matter what position he was in, Yu Qian could be clean and clear
。 At that time, the eunuch Wang Zhen in the imperial court was quite powerful, and many people would go to him to give gifts in order to promote officials and get rich or consolidate their position, but Yu Qian did not go. Because the education he received from childhood has cultivated his current character, Yu Qian, who is an errand boy in the imperial court, is also a clean wind with two sleeves and a decent person, which also makes his status in the imperial court higher and higher day by day.
As many as a hundred unjust, false and wrongly decided cases in Jiangxi were rehabilitated under Qian's rectification, and the thieves of the Taihang Mountains did not dare to appear there again because they heard of his arrival. At that time, three high-ranking ministers in the DPRK, Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, and Yang Pu, all regarded him
Character
And the behavior is very appreciated.
Yu Qian's ability to do things for the sake of honest officials is also particularly strong, and it can be seen from the defense of Beijing that he is strong. At that time, Ming Yingzong listened to Wang Zhen's one-sided words and personally led his troops north to resist the Wallachian army, but because of the lack of preparation and the excessive haste of sending troops, the 200,000 horses of the Ming army were almost completely destroyed, and even Ming Yingzong was captured by the enemy army. Suddenly, the ministers in the imperial court were confused and did not know what to do, and none of the people who were more powerful than Yu Qian could come out and preside over the overall situation. It was at this time that
Yu Qian stepped forward with the support of the official Shangshu Wang Zhi and the cabinet scholar Chen Xu.
The court cannot be left without a master for a day,
In order to dispel the idea that the Wallachian army wanted to use Emperor Ming Yingzong to coerce the Ming court, Yu Qian supported Zhu Qiyu as emperor.
Although Ming Yingzong was captured, he was not yet dead, and it was a great rebellion to support another person to become the new emperor when he was not dead, and Zhu Qiyu was also relatively weak in doing this throne, but at that time, Yu Qian could only make this decision in order to stabilize the situation in the imperial court.
So Zhu Qiyu became the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty
Emperor Ming of the Ming Dynasty also had great trust in Yu Qian.
It was with this trust that Yu Qian dispatched his troops without any worries, and successfully resisted the attack of the Wallachian army, blocking them outside the city of Beijing, and even the younger brother of the leader of the Wallachian army died in this war
。 After the victory of the war, Yu Qian, with his outstanding performance in the war, successfully promoted from Bingbu Shilang to Bingbu Shangshu, and this defense of Beijing also continued the Ming Dynasty for 200 years.
The ancients said that villains are difficult to defend, and gentlemen should beware of villains, but Yu Qian did not guard against them. At that time, Ming Yingzong, who had lost any use value, was of little use to the Wallachians, and wanted to send him back through negotiation. But at that time, there were already emperors in the dprk, and if Ming Yingzong went back again, there would be two emperors in the imperial court. One mountain does not allow two tigers, this is certainly not OK, so some people in the imperial court at that time did not want to take Ming Yingzong back. However, Yu Qian was an upright person and had a just nature, and he still felt that he should take Ming Yingzong back and make him the Emperor Taishang. But
Ming Yingzong was not as atmospheric as Qian imagined, and he had always held a grudge against Qian's private emperor, so much so that he later instigated a mutiny and regained the throne, and the first thing to regain the throne was to execute Qian
He forgot all the contributions he had made before, because of the resentment in his heart, he executed the lives of Yu Qian and other loyal subjects.
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Yu Qian gave everything he had to his country, but because he was not understood by the emperor, he was killed, which was really regrettable. There are not a few people in life who are not thankless like Yu Qian, most of them work "behind the scenes", silently paying for themselves without asking for returns, but they are often ignored and misunderstood. Therefore, if we find that we have such people around us in daily life, we should cherish them.
Citations: "Wisdom of China", "Advancing together in the same boat"