After the Ming Dynasty's Tumubao Incident, the Mongol tribes once again sat on the throne, but decades later, The Wallachians were also assassinated first, and the Ming Dynasty greatly strengthened its national strength through the vigorous reforms of Emperor Mingxianzong Zhu Jianshen.
At this time, the Mongol tribes fell apart again with the death of Ye Xian, coupled with the recuperation of Ming Xiaozong and the conquest of the Mongol tribes by Ming Wuzong, the strength of the Mongol tribes could only decline again and again, and it could not turn over any big storms.
However, Emperor Xiaozong of Ming and Emperor Wuzong of Ming both died young, and his successor, the Jiajing Emperor, was relatively long-lived, but he was also a strange emperor who did not like to govern the country and only liked to cultivate immortals.
In the early Jiajing period, the Jiajing Emperor also did something, abolishing and modifying some policies that were not good for the country, and in the middle and late period, the Jiajing Emperor began not to do the right thing, although he had the ability to govern the country well, but he did not spend effort to govern, but focused on cultivating immortals and "great etiquette", and he was even less concerned about the Mongol tribes outside the Guan.
Originally, the Ming Dynasty and the Mongol tribes had always had the habit of mutual marketing, and the Central Plains Dynasty used some commodity goods that were more in voracious on the steppe, such as salt, such as tea, etc. to trade with the Mongolian tribes on the steppe, for only two purposes:
First, let the Mongol tribes stop, don't go south every day to rob the Ming Dynasty frontier people, after all, salt, tea and other necessities on the grassland are extremely scarce, and you can also increase some taxes for the Ming Dynasty;
Second, control the important strategic materials of the Mongolian tribes, use salt, tea and other grassland necessities in exchange for the grassland strategic resources - horses, and at the same time strictly control the strategic resources such as iron and firearms, do not sell the Mongolian tribes, so that the strength of the Mongolian tribes can not be enhanced, and the Ming Dynasty has horses, the strength of the cavalry is greatly enhanced.
Originally, this policy was very good, but after the Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne, he did not care about trade with the Mongol tribes at all, resulting in intermittent trade between the Mongol tribes and the interior of the Central Plains, and many times even if they were traded, they were often vigorously withheld and exploited by the Ming Dynasty border officials.
The Mongol tribal missions had no way to report to the Ming Emperor, and the Mongol tribes were becoming more and more scarce in materials, and even if they had money, sheep, and horses, they could not exchange salt, tea and other necessities of life, so they simply went south to rob them.
In this way, the Ming Dynasty simply closed the border trade directly.
At this point, the Mongol tribes completely fried the pan, there was no border border mutual market, there was no border trade, and the Mongolian tribes even became a problem in their lives.
At this time, the more prestigious Khun Tha Khan in the Mongol tribes, with the hopes of most Mongol tribes, decided to ask the Ming Dynasty to reopen the border trade, but the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi was troublesome, so he "righteously and sternly" rejected the Khata Khan.
In the twenty-first year of Jiajing (1542), the Khan of Uttar once again sent a Mongol mission to the Ming Dynasty to negotiate, hoping that the Ming Emperor would be magnanimous and reopen the border trade.
As a result, who knows, when the Mongol mission passed through Datong, it was arrested by The Inspector of Datong, Long Dayou, and after asking the imperial court, Yan Song, the head of the imperial cabinet, said that he would not accept it, and Long Dayou was very excited, thinking that it was time to make a great contribution, and directly beheaded the Mongolian mission to show his prestige.
For this reason, He was furious and wanted to take revenge on the Ming Dynasty, but he knew that the timing was not right, and he could only slowly accumulate strength.
Finally, after eight years of forbearance, Qata Khan thought the time was ripe.
In June of the 29th year of Jiajing (1550), the 1550 lunar calendar Gengshu year), Utat Khan personally led 100,000 Mongol cavalry to attack Datong.
At this time, The chief soldier of Datong, Qiu Luan, was the son of Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, and he had never learned any tactics at all, and he had a black eye on leading the soldiers to fight, and he was usually good at bullying the common people, as for dealing with the Mongol cavalry, it was too high to look at him.
No, as soon as he saw the Mongol cavalry overwhelmingly under the city, he was so frightened that he directly wanted to wet his pants.
Fortunately, Datong has always been an important border town of the Ming Dynasty, and there are still many experienced generals and soldiers in it, and it is difficult for the Mongol cavalry to attack.
However, Qiu Luan, such a mediocre and stupid person who could climb to the commander-in-chief of the town guard side, was also very powerful, and he racked his brains to come up with a so-called "brilliant plan" for retiring.
He collected a large number of gold and silver treasures, sent people to give them to The Khan, and promised the Khan a series of conditions, only hoping that the Khan would not attack Datong, and said that the xuanfu garrison was relatively weak and could go there.
The Khan was overjoyed, and this good thing, not only to give gold and silver jewelry, but also to provide ming dynasty garrison information, so with this batch of gold and silver jewelry, he attacked Xuanfu (Xuanhua, Hebei).
Xuanfu's garrison was already relatively weak, and with Qiu Luan, the leading party, the city was quickly breached by The Khan.
After the Ming Dynasty border pass was breached, the Uttar Khan went all the way to the Gubeikou Great Wall in Miyun on the outskirts of Beijing, and then the Mongol cavalry of the Uttar Khan directly hit the city of Beijing.
The Jiajing Emperor finally began to panic, and ordered the dispatch of troops to the king.
Qiu Luan also received an edict from the Jiajing Emperor and immediately sent someone to present his recital to the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi.
In the middle of the recital, Qiu Luan boasted to himself, saying that Li Da Khan was preparing to attack Datong, and when he heard his name, he was afraid and decided to change his route to Xuanfu.
If you are willing to be the master of the king, you will definitely be able to make the Khan come and go.
The Jiajing Emperor actually listened to Qiu Luan's words and appointed Qiu Luan as the general of Pingfu, in charge of all the soldiers and horses.
Soon, the troops of various QinWang arrived in beijing one after another, but the imperial court was extremely reluctant to see Qinwang's troops, and even food was not prepared. At first, The QinWang troops were able to produce three loaves of bread per person, but within two days, there were not even any loaves.
The soldiers' stomachs are hollow, where is the strength to fight?
The Bingbu Shangshu Ding Rukuo, who had no master, asked Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, for advice on the strategy and tactics of dealing with the Mongol tribes, and Yan Song said: "Fighting at the border pass, if you defeat it, you can still cover the past with Your Majesty." But under the capital, in case of defeat, how to explain it to His Majesty? But he came to rob him, so he couldn't grab it, so he left on his own. So he ordered the city of Beijing to clear the wilderness.
Along the way, the people fled to the city of Beijing, but when they fled to the city of Beijing, they found that the gates of Beijing were closed, and the emperor had abandoned these people and allowed them to be slaughtered by the Mongol cavalry.
At this time, Qiu Luan led a hundred thousand Ming Dynasty troops out of Datong to rescue the Beijing Division, but just arrived in Changping and met Li Da Khan.
As a result, once the advance troops of the two units engaged, the Ming army was greatly defeated, and the entire advance force was defeated, killing and wounding thousands of people, and fled in a hurry.
After eight days of sweeping the city of Beijing, the Ming army led by Qiu Luan only dared to shrink in the city and did not dare to go out of the city to fight.
The Mongol cavalry of Uttar Khan snatched a large amount of grain, livestock, gold and silver jewelry, and also abducted countless Ming Dynasty people to the Mongol tribes as slaves.
Finally, Li Da Khan had enough and decided to quit the Ming Dynasty and return to the grasslands.
Qiu Luan watched as the Khan and the Mongol cavalry withdrew in a big way, so he dared to come out to breathe, and in order not to be punished by the Jiajing Emperor, he ordered his Ming army to kill hundreds of Ming dynasty people and cut off their heads to report military merits to the imperial court.
The faint-hearted Jiajing Emperor also greatly rewarded Qiu Luan for this and made him crown prince Taibao.
However, this time the Mongol cavalry wandered around at the foot of the capital, which was nothing less than a great shame for the Jiajing Emperor, and the entire Ming Dynasty, except for The Town of Zhu Qi, Emperor Mingyingzong, had never suffered such a disgrace, and someone had to come out and take responsibility.
The emperor cannot take responsibility, and it is impossible to assume responsibility forever.
Therefore, Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, was well aware of the holy will and decided to push out The Soldier Shangshu Ding Rukuo to be a bearer, so Ding Rukuo, as the first leader of the military department and the top commander of the whole army (at this time, the heads of the hundreds of Ming Dynasty people pretending to be Mongol cavalry killed by Qiu Luan would be useful, otherwise Qiu Luan's head would not be saved), and became the culprit who carried the black cauldron for the emperor.
The Jiajing Emperor ordered Ding Rukui's execution for the crime of "imperial kou is helpless and the garrison is not strict".
The following year, the Khan decided to open up the border trade to the Ming Dynasty, and this time the Ming Dynasty finally twisted and twisted to agree, opening a mutual market at the border pass, allowing the Mongol tribes to exchange gold and silver jewelry, horses, cattle and sheep for the property of the Central Plains, and the irony is that the gold and silver jewelry was robbed from the Ming Dynasty.
Later, I don't know what kind of wind the Ming Dynasty Jiajing Emperor and the cabinet Yan Song smoked, and said that cattle and sheep could not be traded.
But the Khan is no longer the khan he used to be, and since he can't be exchanged, grab it until you agree.
So the Mongol cavalry began to knock on the pass again, and the border trade was once again forced to stop.
Since then, The Khan has no longer put forward border trade applications, simply organize troops to grab the Border of the Ming Dynasty several times a year, before the Khan was still weak-minded, worried about the Ming Army blocking, after several times, the light car familiar with the road, the courage is also big, regularly come to the Ming Border to fight tooth sacrifice.
The ming border people were abandoned by the ming emperor and cabinet, allowing the Mongol tribal cavalry to rush and rob, and the prestige of the Ming Dynasty was gone.
What is even more speechless is that in order to achieve sustainable development, the Ming army on the border only robs and does not kill people, and as a result, the Ming army on the border does not dare to attack the Mongol cavalry and strikes hard at the common people, saying that the border people collaborate with the enemy and often kill good and risk meritorious deeds, and finally cause many of the border people to become the leading party of the Khan of the Ming Dynasty, and every time they make the Ming army disgraced.
Although Yan Song was not directly responsible for this defense of Beijing, his approach was indeed disgraceful to the world.