After the success of the Battle of Jingyan, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di began to move the capital of the Ming Dynasty from Nanjing to his old territory Beiping out of various considerations.
In the fourth year of Yongle, Zhu Di officially ordered the construction of the Beiping Imperial Palace and city walls, and it took 14 years to complete this huge project. In another four years, the Ming Dynasty officially moved its capital.
The Forbidden City, also known as the Forbidden City, was used as a place for the royal office to live after the relocation of the capital, and has since moved to the stage of history. Since then, it has witnessed the personnel metabolism and vicissitudes of the Ming and Qing dynasties for hundreds of years.
As a palace complex that was once majestic and solemn and inaccessible to ordinary people, it has become one of the most popular tourist attractions since the new era.
Friends who have traveled to the Forbidden City, if they observe more carefully, will find that there is a "Longzong Gate" in the Forbidden City, but there is a broken arrow inserted in the plaque on this door.
This broken arrow is no more than a dozen centimeters long, and after the baptism of time, the body of the arrow has lost its original appearance, and has decayed into dark brown.
Why was there an arrow shot at the majestic Forbidden City, so damaging to the emperor's prestige, and why was it unlucky that it had been stuck in it for hundreds of years and not pulled out?
Let's talk about the origin of this today.
According to historical records, all this has to start from the Jiaqing period two hundred years ago.
Since Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, in addition to Heshen and Ping Bailian, he can also be regarded as having made some achievements. But the limitations of the feudal dynasty are here, no matter how hard Emperor Jiaqing tries, the people at the bottom are still getting more and more miserable.
The poor people change, they are displaced, and the people who are miserable begin to become active in their minds, and what they usually dare not think about or do can be done at this time.
Lin Qing is such a person, he has been living a life of eating without eating in his early years, and by chance he joined an organization called "Tianli Society", and since then his thoughts and life have been qualitatively improved.
The Tianli Sect, also known as the Bagua Sect, is said to be a branch of the White Lotus Sect. The White Lotus Sect has a great influence among the people, and there are many believers, and since its appearance, it has been behind the peasant uprisings of all dynasties.
"There are capable people in the world who live in it", since the current emperor makes the people unable to eat, it is not doing well, why not replace him.
Many people at the bottom who couldn't eat were bewitched by Lin Qing, and when they thought about it, it seemed to be this reason, so Lin Qing's gang grew a lot in a short period of time. There are also many court officials, palace eunuchs and banner people who have become his fans.
September 15, 1813. On the occasion of high horse fat in this autumn, in order to carry forward the style of riding and archery of his ancestors, Jiaqing took the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces and went to the Mulan paddock to hunt, and a large number of elite forbidden troops also escorted him.
"Willing to cut his body, dare to pull the emperor off the horse", Lin Qing wanted to take advantage of the good opportunity for Jiaqing to patrol the capital and the empty troops to start an incident, originally he deployed more than 1,000 troops, but nearly 1,000 people were exposed in advance under the leadership of his companion Li Wencheng.
Lin Qing felt that the arrow was ready to be sent, so he organized and led more than 100 people to infiltrate the capital, and under the guidance of the inner eunuchs, launched an attack on the Forbidden City.
The incident happened suddenly, and the Forbidden City's defense was lax, and for a while, Lin Qing's more than 100 people easily entered the imperial city.
This is also the "change of Lin Qing" and "change of Guiyou" in history.
Lin Qing and others, under the leadership of the eunuchs, attacked from Donghuamen and Xihuamen respectively.
No one expected that the seemingly heavily guarded Forbidden Palace was just a look, Lin Qing and the others shouted and shouted to kill, the plan was very smooth, and they soon killed the Longzong Sect.
The Longzong Gate is an important passage between the inner court and the outer court, and it is the last barrier of the deep palace, as long as this gate is broken, the Heart Cultivation Hall and the harem are presented in front of Lin Qing like a lamb to be slaughtered.
Both sides were aware of the importance of the Longzong Gate, so there was a fierce battle around this gate.
When the two sides fought, I don't know who shot an arrow, which happened to be inserted on the plaque of the Longzong Gate, which was the arrow left later.
However, due to the fact that Lin Qing's more than 100 people had no backup force, and the guards on the palace side reacted and rushed over to reinforce in a steady stream, and finally the uprising failed, and Lin Qing and others also died in front of the Longzong Gate, and they were caught.
The second son of the emperor, Min Ning (later Emperor Daoguang), was infinitely beautiful in this incident and had a good sense of existence.
After Emperor Jiaqing returned, the end of the chaos was over, and Lin Qing, who was captured alive, was also killed.
Although Jiaqing did not personally experience this uprising, this incident still stimulated him a lot.
The dignified Inner Palace was almost captured by more than 100 rebels, which is impossible to find a second one in history, which simply refreshes his three views.
For this reason, Jiaqing expressed a deep emotion: "The change of the Emperor" is "the unprecedented change of the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties", which is simply a shame.
At the same time, Jiaqing also issued an edict to review his own mistakes.
Afterwards, in order to let future generations and hundreds of officials under his rule remember the shame of this incident, Emperor Jiaqing specially ordered the craftsmen to keep the half of the broken arrow shot in the chaos when repairing the Longzong Gate, hoping to warn the descendants to be brave after shame.
In this way, more than 200 years later, we can still see the half of the broken arrow.