Wang Zhen (1413-1488), courtesy name Gongdu ,戆庵,休庵,谥号庄毅), was a military secretary under Emperor Mingxianzong. Originally from Jiangxia, Hubei Province, his grandfather Wang Junqing sat in Hezhou and settled in Hezhou. His father, Wang Zuo (王佐), was a close friend of Xie Jin University scholar in He Prefecture. Wang Hu was trained in court and was intelligent and studious. In the third year of the Ming Dynasty (1438), he took the ceremonial examination and gave him the second rank of Jinshi and the Guanzheng Household Department. In the eleventh year of the orthodox era (1446), he was appointed to the post of Tobu Shōshū, and later served as the Right Governor Of the Imperial Household, the Left Vice Capital Imperial History, and the Bingbu Shoshu.
Wang Hu was knowledgeable, upright, and dared to give advice, and made outstanding contributions in resisting foreign invasions, defending the capital, patrolling Suwan, and relieving disasters and saving the people. In the autumn of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy (1499), the Mongol Wa thorn army and the Ming army fought fiercely at Tumu Fort, and the eunuch Wang Zhen was captured and the Ming army was destroyed. The main warrior faction supported Emperor Yingzong's brother Zhu Qiyu the Prince of Qi to oversee the country, and the group of ministers impeached Wang Zhen for the crime of misleading the country at noon gate. The king did not dare to surrender, and the courtiers of the full hall knelt down and wept and wept to request a quick decision. At that time, Jinyi commanded Ma Shun to scream and order the Qunchen to retreat. Wang Zhen was furious and rushed to the crown, raised his arms, grabbed Ma Shun's hair, and denounced Ma Shun as Wang Zhen's traitorous party, and deserved to be condemned to death. Then he bit Ma Shun's face fiercely, and the courtiers rushed up, punched and kicked, and beat Ma Shun to death on the spot.
In November of the same year, the Wa assassin army held Emperor Yingzong hostage and pressed directly into Beijing. The imperial court made Wang Zhu the right governor of yushi and guarded the capital. The Wattle Army captured the Gaoliang Bridge on the outskirts of the capital, and the capital was in a hurry. The lord and faction, led by the empress dowager, prepared to abandon the city and flee. Undaunted by the danger, Wang Hu personally led three battalions of pro-army troops to bravely meet the battle, and fought with the reinforcements inside and outside, repelling the Wa Thorn Army, so that the capital and the people could not be harmed by the fires of war. Houzhen guards Yongguan, and Gyeonggi is solid.
In the first year of Jingtai (1450), Wang Hu supervised the management of the canal from Tongzhou to Xuzhou. He fought day and night to dredge up the water transport in a short period of time. Later, he also took care of two Huai salt classes. At that time, this area was hit by a huge flood, the dead were sleeping, and the displaced people were on the road. He wrote to the imperial court to release relief, and decisively opened a warehouse for relief. Victims from Shandong and Henan also rushed to the scene. There was not enough grain storage, so he forcibly opened the Xuzhou Guangyun warehouse to provide relief to the victims. In order to prevent officials from acting arbitrarily, Wang Hu inspected day and night and bowed down to supervise. Due to the large number of people affected by the disaster, Wang Hu ordered merchant ships and rich households to donate money and grain on the Huai River. He fed porridge to those close to his home, millet to those who were far away, rations to those who migrated from exile, doctors to treat the sick, and more than 1.85 million people were saved and survived. Wang Hu was promoted to the position of left deputy capital Yushi, and many ancestral halls in Suwan and other places commemorated him.
In the eighth year of Jingtai (1457), Emperor Yingzong was restored, and the traitorous ministers frequently entered the rumors, and Emperor Yingzong first demoted Wang Hu to participate in the politics of Zhejiang, and then sent Jiangxia to serve as a citizen. Half a year later, Emperor Yingzong saw Wang Zhu's advice and good advice, and sent him back to Hezhou, where he was properly cared for by local officials. In the fifth year of Tianshun (1461), the northwestern bo came to attack Zhuanglang, and the situation was fierce, so the imperial court summoned Wang Zhu to counsel the military affairs. Wang Hu was a pawn in the first place, charging into the battlefield, forcing Bo Lai to retreat, and did not dare to attack.
In the sixth year of Tianshun, when Wang Hu touched Jianghuai again, the local people "cheered and greeted each other for hundreds of miles."
At the beginning of emperor Ming Xianzong, Wang Zhu was appointed as the Shangshu of the Bingbu Department. He chose the best and the best, and showed his great talents, but from time to time he was hindered by the power and adultery, so he wrote five times to say that he was sick and begged. After returning to Hezhou, the emperor received more than a hundred letters of recommendation from China and abroad, and the imperial court also issued many edicts to invite him to serve, but they were all politely rejected. He "has been an official for thirty years, and his family has no spare assets", stayed at home for more than 20 years, worked in agriculture and poetry, read books in lessons, and left behind poetry collections such as "The Collection of Shu'an" and "The Collection of Xiu'an" to posterity.
On the third day of the first month of the twelfth month of the first year of Hongzhi (1488), Wang Hu died of illness and was buried in the northeastern suburbs of Hezhou. The imperial court posthumously gave the crown prince Shaobao, the nickname "Zhuang Yi", and a statue of the temple. In the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing (1560), Qiu Mao, a scholar of Hanlin Academy, offered an edict to sacrifice and praised him as "a great man of the world and a great minister of the country." Minghe Prefecture Jinshi Ma Yinglong praised him as "a hero of thousands of ancients, a hundred generations of hengjian." ”