As mentioned above, Emperor Zhu Houzhao had a hard time extinguishing the heart of the southern tour, and as a result, suddenly, there was another major incident in the south, which in turn aroused Zhu Houzhao's heart of the southern tour. It turned out that Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, rebelled against the imperial court and gave the Zhengde Emperor an excuse to go south.
The rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, the King of Ning
The rebellion of the Ming Dynasty king against the imperial court was a hidden danger buried by Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the kings were widely sealed, and the kings were given great power in military and political power, and finally became the foundation of the imperial court. From the Jianwen Dynasty onwards, although the domain was cut many times, the phenomenon of the king of the domain rebelling against the imperial court still occurred from time to time. In the Zhengde Dynasty, there were successively the Rebellion of Zhu Huan, the King of Anhua in the fifth year of Zhengde (1510), and the Rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, the King of Ning in the fourteenth year (1519).
Zhu Chenhao was a descendant of Zhu Quan, the 17th son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Prince of Ningxian, and the fifth King of Ning. The fiefdom of King Ning was originally in Daning, and since Yongle II (1404) changed the title of Nanchang, he had always harbored dissatisfaction with the imperial court and "had long been interested". In the eleventh year of Hongzhi's reign, contradictions became increasingly intense, and after the second year of Zhengde (1507), it further developed into a dilemma. The imperial court was wary of Zhu Chenhao, and Zhu Chenhao secretly planned to raise an army. In May of the fourteenth year of Zhengde, the imperial court sent envoys to Nanchang to replace their guards and return all the officials and civilians. Zhu Chenhao knew that the conspiracy was exposed, so he broke the ship and sank the boat. June 13 is Zhu Chenhao's birthday. On the fourteenth day, he took advantage of the opportunity of important officials at all levels in Sifu Prefecture and County to come to celebrate the opportunity to thank the wine, pretending to be under the secret orders of the empress dowager to raise troops into the country of supervision, launch a rebellion, kill those who did not obey the order, confiscate the seals of various yamen, release the prisoners, open the treasury, set up a chancellor, and be knighted. Subsequently, "100,000 troops" were gathered out of Nanchang, trapped in Nankang, and slightly Jiujiang. Along the way, he issued a text denouncing the imperial court, "do not use the Zhengde era name, stop calling Daming Himself", claiming to take Nanjing directly, ascending the throne, changing the name to "Shunde", and dividing the troops to go north.
Wang Shouren of the Thousand Ancient Wonders (Yang Ming)
Wang Shouren, who was then the governor of Nangan, was on his way to Fujian, and after arriving in Fengcheng County on June 15 to hear the news of Zhu Chenhao's rebellion, he was so loyal that he did not receive orders from the imperial court, so he decided to return to Ji'an urgently against the current. When the south wind was urgent and the boat could not be forward, Shou Ren Nai burned incense and prayed in the boat, "vowing to die to repay the country." Whiskers, the north sails up. Zhu Chenhao sent troops to pursue him. Wang Shouren designed zhang suspiciously, sneaked in easy clothes, did not rest for three consecutive days and nights, and rushed to Ji'an City on the eighteenth. The next day, he sent a special person to Beijing to report the change, and explained the reason for stopping the south to Fujian in the evacuation, saying: "The affairs of the world should not be anxious about the difficulties of the king's father." If he goes down the river to the east, in case the south is unprepared and attacked by him, he will take advantage of the victory and move north. Between the months of October, Kyosuke will be shaken. In this way, the outcome of the victory or defeat has not been returned. Thinking of this, the heart was cold and cold, and he could not bear to give it up, so he went into the city to comfort the soldiers and the people. On the one hand, he secretly discussed grand plans with Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an, formulated a strategy, spread the word to the four sides, exposed Zhu Chenhao's guilt, gathered troops to raise salaries, and pretended to be following the secret instructions of the imperial court, calling on all localities to raise troops to serve the king.
Wang Shouren broke the King of Ning
Map of the rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, king of Pingning
On the second day of the first month of July, Zhu Chenhao left more than 10,000 troops to defend Nanchang, and he himself led his boat division down the river to the east and attacked Anqing. When Anqing was besieged, it was advisable to lead troops straight to Anqing to rescue it. Wang Shouren looked at the overall situation, according to the balance of forces between the two sides, and vigorously rejected the public opinion, believing that it was necessary to capture Nanchang: "Jiujiang and Nankang have been based by the King of Ning, and the tens of thousands of people in Nanchang City are also fierce and more than 10,000, and the food is full of goods. If our soldiers arrive in Anqing, the thieves will return to the army to fight to the death, and the soldiers of Anqing will only defend themselves, and they will not be able to help me in the lake. The soldiers of Nanchang, cut off our grain road. And the thieves of Jiujiang and Nankang are scratching their heads. The help of the four parties is not expected, and it is difficult to achieve anything. Now that our division has gathered suddenly, the city will be shocked, and therefore it will be attacked with all its might, and it will inevitably fall. Nanchang has been destroyed, and the thief has broken his courage and lost his roots, and is bound to be rescued. In this way, the siege of Anqing will be solved by itself, and the King of Ning can also sit down. ”
Sure enough, Zhu Chenhao failed to capture Anqing, and when he heard that Wang Shouren led his troops to attack Nanchang, he was worried about breaking his lair, so he abandoned Anqing on July 17 and sent 20,000 troops back to Jiangxi. On July 20, Wang Shouren led his troops to attack Nanchang and counterattacked the troops of King Ning's Hui division. Nanchang was broken, and Zhu Chenhao could not enter the city. On the 24th, the two sides fought at Poyang Lake. The Shouren division attacked Zhu Chenhao's boat with artillery, and was greatly defeated, Zhu Chenhao withdrew to the barn, and his concubines all went to the water to die, and the soldiers burned and drowned more than 30,000 people. On July 26, Zhu Chenhao and Fang Chenchen's courtiers, who were not responsible for their lives, were unresolved and Wang Shouren's soldiers suddenly arrived, and Zhu Chenhao, his sons, the king of the county, and yibin were captured alive. The rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, the King of Ning, which lasted for 43 days, was thus quelled. On July 30, Wang Shouren connected "Jiangxi Jieyin Shu" and "Captured Chenhao Jieyin Shu".
The faint and decadent Wuzong did not seem to be concerned with quelling the rebellion, and as early as the spring of this year, he thought of "touring" in the south, robbing the women of the people and playing in the mountains, but due to the persuasion of the courtiers, he was unable to make the trip. Zhu Chenhao's rebellion finally found an opportunity for him to travel south in the name of "conquest". In August, when Zhu Chenhao had been captured, he issued a personal campaign in Beijing, calling himself "Fengtian conquest of the mighty general Zhen Guogong", and a group of eunuchs around him also plotted to seize the merit, the eunuchs Zhang Zhong, Zhang Yong, the generals Jiang Bin and Liu Hui, and Emperor Wuzong's son Xu Tai, all called "generals", led tens of thousands of troops, and rushed out of the capital. Arriving in Liangxiang, I received Wang Shouren's August 18th "Please Stop The Pro-Conscription". Shu said: Zhu Chenhao has been captured, the rebel party has been captured, the thieves have been swept away, the troops dispatched from Fujian and Guangdong have dispersed, and the people who are disturbed in the local areas have been posted, and there is no need to "personally enlist." He also said, "The sacrifice of captives by thieves is the norm of the state and the office of a courtier." Fearing an accident along the way, he will personally lead the officers and troops to release Zhu Chenhao and other serious criminals to Quemen on September 11. Because Emperor Wuzong intended to travel south, he neglected to enter and "repeatedly stopped it, so that the prisoners waited for the car to arrive." The university scholars Liang Chu and Jiang Mian repeatedly asked luang to return to Luan and did not listen", and continued to lead the people south to prevent Shouren from going north to offer prisoners.
Zhu Houze's southern tour arrived at Nanjing, the former capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the history of the Ming Records that Emperor Wuzong lived in Nanjing for more than eight months. In February of the fifteenth year of Zhengde (1520), Zhu Chenhao arrived, but after six or seven months, he was not officially captured. Wang Shouren was ordered to repay the victory again, and all the credit was given to the taishi Zhu Shou, and the ceremony was officially held. According to Emperor Wuzong's plan, after leaving Nanjing, he then traveled to Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huxiang, and then ascended the Wudang Mountains. The accompanying cabinet ministers Liang Chu and Jiang Mian knelt outside the palace and wept for advice, and it was only after two hours from time to time that Emperor Wuzong agreed to return to the north.
On the way back to Beijing, While Continuing to Play, Emperor Wuzong had a sudden idea to release Zhu Chenhao and then capture him personally. After being dissuaded by the crowd, he did not persist any longer. This is the absurd Zhengde Emperor, but he can do more than this one thing in the south, and the other absurd things in the south can be explained to you next time!