"Chopping The Ming" - the gain and loss of employing people, the road of using power, for you to depict the power of the Ming Dynasty (26)
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(Forbidden City)
Zhu Houxi liked to hide in the Forbidden City, at least more than his cousin Zhu Houzhao liked to stay at home.
As an emperor from Anlu, Hubei Province, Zhu Houxi seemed to have a special affection for the Forbidden City.
Under the wrapping of this emotion, Zhu Houxi's perception of the outside world was once very weak.
In the third year of Jiajing, in 1524 AD, in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, Datong Province, Shanxi, ushered in a mutiny without warning.
The spearhead of the mutiny was directed at Zhang Wenjin, the governor of Datong Province.
Inspector Yushi, who was the highest-ranking official in the Datong region, was in charge of military, political, and civilian power, and could be said to be the emperor of the northern territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhang Wenjin, a benevolent brother, can be said to be a corrupt official, who did not say anything about the border areas, withheld military food and salaries, and from time to time scolded the non-commissioned officers, which quickly aroused the dissatisfaction of the local garrison troops.
Therefore, these soldiers raised a fire in the dark night of a month when the wind was high and they could not see five fingers, killed Zhang Wenjin, and occupied Datong City.
The soldiers killed the court officials and occupied important towns, not for rebellion, but only for demonstrations, or to punish the administrators who had been persecuting them on behalf of Skywalker.
Therefore, after controlling Datong City, they did not smash and burn, nor did they harass the people, but opened the granary, actively distributed grain, and by the way, smashed the prison gate and released many prisoners.
Such an act, from a certain point of view, can even be said to be a righteous act.
(Zhang Wenjin image)
However, the imperial court, whether you are righteous or what you do, it is not good to garrison the border areas, but instead killed Lord Zhang, who was appointed to patrol the past, and also occupied Datong City to cause trouble.
For Jiajing, this incident made him even more annoyed, the mutiny occurred in Jiajing three years, that was the time when the great ceremonial dispute was the most fierce, the emperor was angry with the civil officials in the court, and in the afternoon he went to the imperial study to approve the folds, and when he saw the news of the Datong mutiny, he naturally thought that it was these soldiers who gave themselves the new emperor a dismount.
Zhu Houxi was furious and immediately dispatched two comrades, Cai Tianyou and Gui Yong, the counselor general, to handle the matter.
Generally speaking, to quell a mutiny is nothing more than to send a stronger force to carry out military conquest.
This is the easiest way, you can disobey, then you have to allow me to hit you.
But coincidentally, Cai Tianyou and Gui Yong are not good at leading soldiers to fight, but belong to that kind of intelligent and strategic talents.
Moreover, these two resourceful people were very keenly aware that the Datong Mutiny was different from the mutinies in other regions, because behind Datong was Guanwai, and Guanwai was the territory of the Mongols.
The problem of recovering Datong alone was not a big problem, but if these soldiers were forced to rush and make them defect to the Mongols, the problem would be serious.
Therefore, in order to avoid the dog jumping the wall caused by the grass snake. Cai Tianyou and Gui Yong decided to use the tactic of "soothing" to deal with these mutinous soldiers.
The so-called "edict" means that the imperial court is here to comfort you soldiers, not to come and collect you.
(Cai Tianyou image)
Cai Tianyou and Gui Yong went to Datong City, after making this position clear, the attitude of the two sides really eased, Cai Tianyou hit the iron while it was hot, saying that you have been "sticking" to Datong City for so many days is hard enough, I Cai Tianyou know the great righteousness, know that your life is not easy, and I also know that you are not bent on mutiny, but really can't stand the cruel rule of the former inspector Zhang Wenjin, so I came to this step, so on behalf of the imperial court, but also on behalf of me, invited you to the city to set up a banquet, I brought food and wine from the Beijing Division, Today we complain about the intestines, a drunken party hugh, what do you see?
Cai Tianyou's words can be regarded as talking about the hearts of these rebellious soldiers.
The soldiers looked up at the sky and shouted, plus tears, thinking that Cai Tianyou was really a confidant, they surrendered their weapons one after another, and one by one ran out of Datong City to want to eat the table, but on the way to eat the table, Cai Tianyou turned his face and did not recognize anyone, arrested these soldiers on the spot, and immediately killed them all.
Killing one's own people is inevitably a little guilty.
In fact, these mutinous soldiers were not too bad, they suffered from the wind and sand outside the Seychelles for many years, and they also struggled to kill the enemy and repel the Mongol attack.
They were also the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and they had also made their own promises to the imperial court.
The long night is long, outside the quiet pass, in the wind and sand outside the plug, I will stand here, except for the dead.
Some of them did not marry, did not have children, some did not have official ranks, not even a hundred households.
Here, they can't compete for power in the court, and they can't mix with noble titles.
The only thing they can do is to be faithful and completely integrate themselves into this world.
(Outside)
They are the shining blades of the night, they are the lonely guards outside the pass, they are the warmth of the dynasty Xiaoice the river era before the advent, they are the dazzling light at dawn, they call for a stable life, the front line of tranquility, they are the emperor's most loyal guards.
They dedicated their lives, and the honor of being a general, a soldier, and a pawn, to Daming.
This is true tonight, and it is true on every night.
However, there may be eternity in this world, there is no change, and in the end, before dawn, they still stand against the court.
Now, they were drunk and fell in a pool of blood, they were the disgrace of the whole dynasty, they were rogue thieves.
However, such an example was repeated nine years later, in the twelfth year of Jiajing, in 1533 AD.
The leader of this mutiny was a man named Zhu Zhen.
Zhu Zhen was a survivor of the mutiny nine years ago, and nine years ago, he had served as the commander-in-chief of Datong.
Maybe it was to take revenge, maybe to vent anger, maybe it was the welfare of the border guards and soldiers became worse again, anyway, nine years later, Zhu Zhen organized a group of soldiers, burned Datong Province, and killed Li Dao, the chief soldier at the time.
(Zhu Zhen image)
Time flies, Zhu Houxi nine years ago and Zhu Houxi now are no longer what they used to be, but his means of dealing with this border mutiny have not made much progress.
He did not carefully consider the reasons for the two serious mutinies in Datong in ten years, but chose to quickly cut through the chaos and directly send troops to suppress it.
This time, even the wisdom was saved, and the large troops sent from the imperial court arrived in Datong, Shanxi, and destroyed the rebels with three strokes and five divisions.
If Zhu Houxi is not willing to think about the reasons behind this, the author is willing to think about it for him.
After the Ming Dynasty overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, it did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, and completely eliminated the northern Yuan forces with one blow.
Although our comrade Zhu Yuanzhang once launched a large-scale Northern Expedition in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in fact, except for the famous general Lan Yu, who once severely damaged the Northern Yuan in the Fishing Sea, the Ming army almost never encountered the main force of the Northern Yuan army.
Since they hadn't completely beaten beiyuan down, their strength should not be underestimated
Although the Mongols on the Mongolian plateau coincided with each other, becoming independent today, united tomorrow, and divided again the day after tomorrow, they were always spying on the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty and were always a serious threat to border troubles.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was national strength or emperors, they were all more stylish, all of them were macho men, and all of them could effectively contain the power of the Northern Yuan in that period.
However, in the middle and late period of the sluggish Ming Dynasty, under the background of the rapid decline in national strength, the Attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards the Mongol tribes had changed from active attack to passive defense.
(Zhu Di's Northern Expedition)
In the five marches of the desert north in that year, the majesty and heroism of the wolf Juxu were now just the evening photos and residual shadows under the sunset.
The most obvious example of this is the Loop.
The Hetao of the Ming Dynasty was an area where the Yellow River flowed through the northern part of present-day Ningxia to Bayannaoer City in Inner Mongolia, and then used the Wujia River as the main artery to the east, then flowed through Baotou, Tokto County, and then south to Shanxi Hequ, Baode, a few-character area.
The place is big and the territory is vast.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Hetao area was the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court also set up a guard house in the Dongsheng area, but as a result, the calendar of the Ming Dynasty was torn up day by day, and the location of the guard house began to migrate backwards little by little.
The relocation of the Weishou means that the forces of the Mongol tribes are constantly moving south.
The Ming court in the middle and late period had no intention of directly clashing with the Mongols, so under the premise of minimizing unnecessary wars, the border guards of the imperial court adopted the strategy of building forts and dispatching troops to cope with the southward migration of the Mongols.
Fort building is to build a fortress on the vast land that is deep into the desert, and to send troops is to move a part of the soldiers into the desert and use the fortress as a stronghold to guard the territory.
This is not to say that the author is nonsense, that is what Zhang Wenjin, the inspector who was killed by his subordinates, did just that.
(Ming Army)
In traditional Chinese culture, it is born again and worships death.
Life is precious, and death is worthy of respect.
But the problem is that I can't be blind to death for this respect, death is not worth it, death is confused.
Haruki Murakami once said: Death is not the opposite of life, but eternal existence as a part of life.
This is indeed very comforting, but in the material world, life is life, death is death, this is different.
How to be born? How to die? How to live forever?
Not everyone is a philosopher, and they are not obligated to exonerate themselves.
The border guards saw this matter very clearly, Daming's national strength was not as good as a day, the imperial court was originally reluctant to provoke disputes, and the leader Zhang Wenjin still sent himself to the depths of the desert.
(Ming Dynasty Health Center)
In the eyes of the soldiers, the fortress in the desert was not a fortress, it was a ready-made tomb that had been repaired for themselves.
Therefore, in the records of the Ming Shilu, when Zhang Wenjin "wanted to move to the town of 2,500 families to fight", everyone decisively launched a mutiny.
Since both horizontal and vertical are dead, it is better to kill the hateful leader first.
As the sun set, the sun was as bloody as the sun, and the trumpet of the golden collection sounded again, only this time there was no cheer of victory, only endless silence.
Silence, silence, don't erupt in silence, die in silence.