As we all know, after the successful usurpation of the throne by Emperor Wuzong of Ming, Zhu Di led the Ming Dynasty to a new peak. However, Emperor Wuzong was more miserable, and he tried his best to succeed to the throne without heirs, and finally he could only give it to others and find a cousin from the side branch to inherit the throne.
The lucky one who accidentally became emperor was The Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi. The Jiajing Emperor was intelligent since childhood, had a good achievement in literature, and even if he was not an emperor, he was an excellent literati.
In the first few years of becoming emperor, the Jiajing Emperor was also quite diligent, and he corrected the book all day until the middle of the night. Not only that, he also boldly reformed and implemented the New Deal, killed the courtiers and reused the virtuous ministers, and restrained the eunuchs to rectify the imperial program, and after this effort, the Ming Dynasty presented a thriving scene.
In addition to rectifying the interior, the Jiajing Emperor also had a bold idea, that is, to send troops to clean up Vietnam. Many people may be curious, how did Vietnam make Jia Jing worry about it?
It turned out that Jiajing had just been pro-government, eager to show his ability, and Wenzhi had achieved initial results, and he still needed martial arts to help. However, the Ming Dynasty's military value at that time could not be called the first in the world, so it was a very difficult problem to take who had a high probability of success in opening the knife.
JiaJing looked left and right and found that the strength of mongolia in the north was too strong for him to fight, and he might punch himself in the face, so he could only look to the south. Coincidentally, at that time, Vietnam was in the mire of civil war, and JiaJing weighed the strength of the enemy and us, and felt that the chances of success in the south were much greater.
Of course, there must be a suitable reason for sending troops, and the excuse given by Jiajing was that Vietnam had not paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty for more than twenty years, and then he ordered the liangguang region to gather troops and let them give the Vietnamese a little color.
Regarding Jiajing's order, the local officials of the Liangguang region expressed great difficulty. But what if the emperor's order cannot be violated? The clever magistrates began to make Jiajing forget about it by means of procrastination. However, Jiajing was an emperor with a good memory, and after a few months, he saw that Liangguang had not moved, and once again issued a decree urging.
I have to say that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were also bold and fat, Jiajing urged several times, they still did nothing, Dong Laxi found a lot of reasons, anyway, it was not to send troops, so Jiajing was very annoyed.
Why did the magistrates not cooperate with the work of the Jiajing Emperor so much? It was not because he looked down on this little emperor, but mainly because he felt that relying only on the strength of liangguang's troops to fight might have a greater chance of losing, because at that time, the Ming soldiers of liangguang did not have much combat effectiveness at all.
At first, Jiajing naturally ignored such remarks, and the idea of sending troops to Vietnam was not dispelled. It was not until later that the officials gave him a note, bluntly saying that if they wanted to fight this battle, they would need two million taels of silver at the beginning, and the huge war consumption frightened Jiajing, and this time the army was not finished.