There was such an emperor in the Ming Dynasty who almost lost the great rivers and mountains left by his grandfather and father, and also "pro-villain, far-reaching sages", reused eunuchs, killed the country's important ministers, and famous heroes; Kill his brother and persecute loyal and meritorious men; In the end, hundreds of thousands of displaced people revolted, and the country was forced to turn from prosperity to decline.
He is the "Ming Baozong" Zhu Qizhen, who was later known as the "Ming Bao Sect" Zhu Qizhen, who was the sixth and eighth emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the eldest son of Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, because Ming Xuanzong left early, the 9-year-old Zhu Qizhen officially took the throne, and the era name was orthodox. In the many years after he ascended the throne, he did not inherit the legacy of the previous emperor and concentrate on rectifying the government, and complained that he did not have real power and could not decide on major state affairs before he pro-government. After he took the government, he spoiled the eunuchs, took the eunuchs around all day to play, abandoned the important affairs of the dprk and the middle, did not listen to the words of loyal subjects, and completely looked like a wasted emperor. Because when he was young, he had Empress Dowager Zhang and the "Three Yang Cabinet" (Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu) in charge of the imperial government, Daming was still running on the right track, but the good times were not long, the empress dowager was gone, Sanyang was old, and what was more terrifying was that Emperor Mingying's Zhu Qi had grown up.
The Shame of the Ming Dynasty: The Change of the Tumu Fort
With the death of Sanyang one after another, Ming Yingzong began to worship the eunuch Wang Zhen, who colluded with internal and external bureaucrats to be good at Weifu. In the capital city, a large number of civil engineering mansions were built, and for eight years of dictatorship, the minister of public secretary called it Father Weng and competed to climb it.
In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the leader of the Mongol Wala tribe also led more than 2,000 emissaries to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and invited them, but the eunuch Wang Zhen sternly refused and subtracted four-fifths of the horse price. First of all, I will use this matter to create a provocation. In July of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, he commanded all the departments and attacked the Ming Dynasty in four ways. The eunuch Wang Zhenli persuaded Emperor Yingzong to march in person. Emperor Yingzong himself also felt that it was intolerable for the state of the Walla Projectile to dare to invade the Ming Dynasty, so he decided to lead 200,000 of the most elite Ming troops to personally march.
The march to Datong retreated without a clash. Wang Zhen wanted to show off himself, wanted Yingzong to "visit" his hometown of Weizhou, causing the army to be exhausted and exhausted, surrounded by Yexian troops at Tumu Fort, the Ming army collapsed, Wang Zhen and his ministers died in the rebellion, Yingzong was captured, 200,000 elite Ming troops were also depleted, and the Wallachian army advanced into Beijing. If yu Qianli had not proposed to move south later, insisting on sticking to Beijing, the Ming Dynasty would have been like the Southern Song Dynasty. The battle commanded by Emperor Yingzong also ruined the efforts of the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty to seek development, resulting in the military strength of the Ming Dynasty never returning to the past, and the Ming Dynasty was almost destroyed.
The change of the door, the murder of Yu Qian and other loyalists
After Emperor Mingyingzong was captured, the Ming Dynasty immediately declared Emperor Ming's younger brother Zhu Qiyu the Prince of Qi as the overseer of the state, and in September, in order for the Ming Dynasty not to be blackmailed by The Wallachians, Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne with the era name Jingtai, and Ming Yingzong was honored as Emperor Taishang. The next month, the Wala army took Zhu Qizhen to the city of Beijing, and the Ming army and people, under the command of Yu Qian, won the defense of Beijing, and seeing that it was impossible to make the Ming Dynasty compromise and retreat, the Wala department had no choice but to retreat to Guanwai. The following year, Zhu Qizhen was sent back by Wa La, and there was no room for two tigers on the mountain, and Wa Lai hoped to use Emperor Yingzong to return to the dynasty to disrupt the Ming Dynasty.
Sure enough, eight years later, the revolution to seize the door was successfully restored. Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng, and Cao Jixiang were equal to Jingtai's eight-year support for the successful restoration of Zhu Qizhen, who was imprisoned by Zhu Qiyu in the Southern Palace. The first thing after the restoration of Zhu Qizhen was to kill Yu Qian and other loyalists, knowing that these people had all tried to turn the tide and save the people of the Ming Dynasty in the depths of the waters, otherwise Daming would have died long ago. Yu Qian finally got a decisive ending in this city that he had defended desperately, which was really sad and indignant! What is even more heart-wrenching is to copy Yu Qian's home, there is no extra money in the house, only the main house is locked tightly. When I opened it, there was only the python robe and sword weapon given by Zhu Qiyu, and nothing else. So much so that the officials who raided the house poured wine and sacrificed their lives, weeping bitterly, which is really a strange injustice throughout the ages!
He did not remember long and then favored the eunuchs and traitors
In view of the lesson that his brother's close eunuchs and traitors had led to disasters to the country and the people, Zhu Qiyu focused on suppressing the castration party, reusing the virtuous ministers, recruiting talents and recruiting talents, reducing the number of frugality, and striving to recuperate. Under his vigorous rule, the Ming Dynasty once again embarked on the road of stable development.
But the good times did not last long, the change of the door, Zhu Qizhen was restored to become the emperor, he could forget the tragic lesson of reusing eunuchs and almost destroying the country and being captured, and began to favor and reuse the traitors such as Menda and Luo Gao, who were close to the Jinyi Guards, and directly became the executioner of the court, which eventually led to the outbreak of hundreds of thousands of displaced people's uprisings in the people, the state capital of the Ming Dynasty was shaken, and the great future of several generations of emperors who worked hard to govern was ruined by it.
If Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di knew that there was such a waste wood emperor among their children and grandchildren, it is estimated that the coffin board would have been unable to be suppressed.