(Yuan Dynasty Imperial Palace)
In 1323 AD, according to the unique Chinese chronology of the dry branch, it was the year of the decylogeny.
In the first half of the year, the people of Guilin County, Nanning County, and Quanzhou County rose up and launched a rebellion, but it was quickly put down.
The rebellion of three counties in a row should have attracted the attention of the imperial court, but according to the size of the territory of the dynasty, the vast territory, and the turmoil in the three barbarian lands, it was really not worth the special Dao Folding Zi to play the emperor.
So overall, the first half of the year is a year of smooth wind and rain, Andi Min'an.
On August 5 of the same year, at nightfall, on the outskirts of Beijing.
A makeshift Mongolian tent was brightly lit, and two spirited young men were talking about something in the tent.
These two young men, one was the fifth emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Yuanyingzong, Who was only Jin Shuode Bala, and the other was the most capable and accomplished Minister of the Yuan Dynasty, Zaray.
The empire under their feet is the largest in history, its territory far exceeds the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the Tang and Song Dynasties are unprecedented, but such an empire has an unprecedented crisis that has never been faced by all dynasties.
Corruption is rampant, corruption is rife, officials are betrayed, and decrees are delayed.
At this moment, they are intensively raising funds for the future development of the Yuan Empire, and for the emperor and the chancellor, the task on them is not easy, and if they want to restore the glory of the empire in the past, they must concentrate and be meticulous.
The summer night breeze was faint, and outside the tent, dozens of Mongolian soldiers dressed in light armor and soft armor with sharp blades had quietly approached the tent.
They are all the armors of the Son of Heaven, with a steady pace, tall and burly, but at this moment they are going to do a great thing that breaks the earth:
regicide.
At the order of the soldier leader in the distance, the soldiers snatched the door and entered, the noise in the tent was loud, the soldiers slashed with their blades, the blood splashed the camp, and the emperor and the minister were killed on the spot.
The fire outside the tent flickered, and the wind blew even more.
(Yuan Yingzong Shuo de Ba La)
The news of Emperor Yingzong's assassination soon spread throughout the country, according to the rules, the son of heaven died violently, the whole country must be in a deep pain, the people were mourned, the courtiers wept, but strangely, the death of Emperor Yingzong did not seem to cause too much waves.
The people's days were illuminated, and the ministers were already illuminated.
It is understandable that the people did not care about the emperor's life or death, because the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty always paid no attention to the life and death of the people.
It is understandable that the ministers did not react much to the news of the emperor's death, because when the emperor died, at most it was a new leader, and the new leader was replaced, and it was not clear that they could still have a job transfer, such as promotion, and so on, and the ministers certainly did not care.
But these royal relatives are the emperor's blood thicker than water relatives, once the emperor dies, do not raise the funeral, all day long party, singing and dancing, hunting and drinking is what is going on?
The answer is simple, because the emperor was sent by these nobles to die.
Emperor Yingzong Shuode Bala, who can be said to be a reform prince in the history of the Yuan Dynasty, engaged in many reform policies that benefited the country and the people during his reign, including the use of Han officials, the respect of Confucianism, the implementation of military service, and so on.
Of course, I don't think you're interested in these rigid and boring historical endorsements, so you just need to remember that the ultimate purpose of Emperor Yingzong's reforms was to combat the imperial aristocracy of the Yuan Dynasty.
To put it simply, these Mongol nobles belonged to the "not enough to eat, what not to do", they held important positions in the imperial court, received huge amounts of money, and owned a large amount of land and real estate, which made the emperor very unhappy.
When I was the emperor, I was diligent and earnest, but I lived in a two-bedroom and a living room, and you were such a delicious and lazy aristocrat with a big villa, why?
The emperor, of course, could not bear it and began to restrict the privileges and property of the nobility through reforms.
The nobles looked at it, oh, this is going to put us to death!?
The nobles met overnight and came to a conclusion: the first attack is strong, and the second hand suffers.
Don't wait for the emperor to clean us up, let's clean up the emperor first.
Therefore, these people took advantage of Emperor Yingzong and Xiang Xiang to go out to discuss, launched a mutiny, and directly knocked the emperor out.
Emperor Yingzong was born a single child, and before he died, he did not leave a son.
Although the emperor died, the country could not be without a monarch for a day, the mighty Yuan Dynasty needed to take care of things, and in full view of everyone, the nobles could not usurp the throne and become emperors themselves.
They chose among the young people of the royal family, and finally they chose the king of Jin, Sun Timur.
Comrade Jin Wang lived in the desert grassland for many years, could fight good battles, and was the great-grandson of Kublai Khan according to generations, capable and qualified, and he came to be the emperor, and everyone had no opinion.
(Emperor Taiding, also grandson Timur)
In 1323, people sat at home, and Timur, the grandson of the emperor who came from heaven, took the throne and became the sixth master of the Yuan Dynasty, known as emperor Taiding.
When the emperor ascends the throne, he will issue the edict of the ascension to the throne as usual, and the edicts of the enthronement of the dynasties must be written by the most influential courtiers of the dynasties, and the whole set of atmospheric and very gorgeous words.
What is "inheriting the emperor's heavenly orders, listing to the holy Hong Xiu", "putting the new soil of the Mo bandits, the guest of the land, the new minister of the Mo bandits", anyway, the high-end atmosphere on the grade is finished.
Of course, Emperor Taiding also had an edict, but his edict can be said to be the only one in China for five thousand years, and the edict was written by the emperor himself, without trimming the edges, without showing off culture, and the whole text was written in vernacular.
Due to the limitation of space, the full text of the edict I will not show here, interested friends can go to search for it, but I summarized the general content of the edict of the Emperor Of Taiding for the readers, that is:
I became the emperor, all worked hard, worked hard, came on, Ori gave!
It is not my spoof, nor am I a fiction, looking at the more than four hundred emperors in China, he is the only one who has written the edict like this.
The enthronement ceremony was also held and the edict was issued. Emperor Taiding sat on the throne and watched as the ministers below fell to their knees in unison, crawling to the ground, shouting long live him, but the emperor's heart was muttering.
The meaning of the nobles is obvious, the previous Emperor Yingzong was not very honest, so we gave him a click, let you come to be the emperor, I hope you can learn from experience and lessons, honestly behave, do things in a down-to-earth manner, you, be your puppet emperor, we, and then live our rich life, we are mutually beneficial, cooperation and win-win, no one should target anyone.
Emperor Taiding said: What else is it to say, I can become this emperor with you, you are all my good big brothers, I have to provide for you."
When the nobles saw that the new emperor was not only obedient, but also very good at things, they all thought that the overall situation had been decided, and there was no need for them to be stretched anymore, so they let down their guard against the Emperor Taiding and began to enjoy themselves non-stop.
What they did not expect was that this seemingly obedient and flattering emperor was actually a master of thick black learning, and played a trick with them to "play a pig and eat a tiger", taking advantage of the arrogance of the nobles, the emperor was fierce, and directly took them to the pot.
The soldiers and courtiers of the emperor were killed one after another, and the nobles who planned the mutiny were also killed one after another.
(Mongol nobles of the Yuan Dynasty)
The ministers were stunned by the emperor's operation, and everyone understood at this time that this seemingly kind-eyed, gentle-spoken emperor was actually a ruthless person.
Killing people is invisible between laughter and laughter, which is the means of the emperor.
The universe is clear, and the four seas will eventually be at peace.
The court was clean, and Emperor Taiding was still not very happy.
From the beginning of the founding of kublai Khan, the cultural development of this dynasty was slow, science and technology stagnated, the economy collapsed and shrunk, and after the four dynasties of Chengzong, Wuzong, Renzong and Yingzong, one generation was not as good as the next, and in the hands of the Taiding Emperor, it became a mess with many holes.
Man-made disasters followed, and natural disasters followed.
The Sichuan earthquake, the Jianghuai flood, and the Locust Plague in Luoyang caused the people of Li to suffer unspeakably.
The people had a hard time, there was no way out, they had to rebel.
The people of Henan, Yunnan, and Sichuan revolted one after another, and the uprising was most powerful by the two benevolent brothers of The Henan people, Zhao Ugly and Guo Bodhisattva.
The two brothers raised a big anti-flag and shouted the slogan "Maitreya Buddha should have the world".
As soon as this slogan was shouted, it never stopped, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled for a while, and most of the people shouted this slogan.
Although Zhao Guo and his men were quickly crushed on the ground by their tall Mongol cavalry and were quickly suppressed, their uprising was considered by many historians in later generations to be the precursor to the peasant revolt at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
The emperor was very devastated, why did other emperors eat and drink spicy when they reigned, and when I became emperor, I would spread so many broken things?
Natural disasters are frequent, and there is nothing that the emperor can do.
It's going to rain, the mother is going to get married, and many things in this world can't be solved.
It was even more tragic for Emperor Taiding, because according to some historical records, this emperor was a benevolent, wise, and capable emperor.
He did not like women, did not have bad hobbies, treated his courtiers with courtesy and courtesy, and treated the people with leniency.
From any point of view, he is a wise man and a wise man.
But it was such an emperor who could only watch the complicated situation in the middle and late Yuan Dynasty.
What is it like to have the ability, the ability, the ambition, but the downward trend of the dynasty, but there is nothing that can be done?
No way, history is so cruel.
When the Han Dynasty founded the country, the country was in ruins waiting to be rebuilt.
When the Tang Dynasty was founded, the struggle for imperial power was fierce.
When the Great Song Dynasty was founded, the world was divided into two parts, and it was ruled across the river.
Any dynasty has its outstanding questions from the very beginning.
Similarly, the Yuan Dynasty was no exception.
(Yuan Dynasty)
Since the founding of Kublai Khan in 1271, the Yuan Dynasty has been in a precarious state.
Someone else's dynasty is the peak of the founding of the country, and the Yuan dynasty is the opening of the country, that is, bankruptcy.
The world under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was always in trouble, and it seemed that there would never be a peaceful day.
Any subsequent emperor thought that if he did not get it right, he would become the king of the fallen country, including of course the Taiding Emperor.
Emperor Taiding also ruled for five years with Sun Timur, and he had the heart to support the society, but the torrent of history rushed over, and no one could resist it.
The emperor is sometimes inferior to an ordinary person.
In 1328, Emperor Taiding died at the age of six Chinese New Year's Eve.
The problems of the Yuan Dynasty still exist, and the future of the dynasty will not be the worst, it will only be worse.