The Ulju Castle, located outside the Guanxi, is actually a transportation point connecting Biansai and the Central Plains. As the saying goes, "one side of the water and soil feeds the other side", here there are frequent wars, villagers are often plundered, and over time, rough folk customs have been bred. Bubei Fort, which guarded the Yanyun Ancient Road, began in the Western Han Dynasty, and was once stationed by Bo Ji, the biological mother of Emperor Wen of Han, staggered with cars, shuttled by military horses, and flourished for thousands of years.
History is fixed in the Ming Empire, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di expedition to the north of the desert, chariot canopy, Rong Ma Wei, several times through bubei fort. A young man named Wang Zhen in the village probably witnessed the vast marching procession, which was a huge contrast with the desolate and lonely bitter cold land, which deeply touched the Luo Di Xiucai, and his desire swelled rapidly. A few years later, he chose a "shortcut to the end of the south", and with the wisdom and courage of this land, he took a jaw-dropping action - "self-castration into the palace"!
Bubei Fort Gate
Shi Zai, Wang Zhen "skillful and intelligent", sleek by nature, good at observing people's wishes. This is probably the imprint of his personality on the growth experience of the Central Plains and the buffer area of the nomads. At this time, Taizu's ancestral precept that "internal ministers must not interfere in political affairs" had been forgotten by Emperor Xuanzong, and in order to balance the power of the courtiers, Zhu Zhanji set up the "Inner Book Hall" to specially train and educate eunuchs, and directly gave the eunuchs the privilege of "approving red". Because of his knowledge of the scriptures, Wang Zhen was quite favored by Emperor Xuanzong after entering the palace, and was appointed as the Bureau Lang of the Eastern Palace to serve the crown prince Zhu Qizhen.
The misfortune of Daming is the untimely death of the virtuous monarch. Crown Prince Zhu Qizhen was 9 years old when he succeeded to the throne, and the lord was suspicious of the country, and still relied on the "royal companion" around him. Seven years later, Wang Zhen became what Emperor Yingzong called "Sir", and the "Father Weng" of the Gongqing Ministers. Since then, he has ascended to heaven, openly overthrown the iron medal of Taizu's hadith, and become the first generation of power supervisors of the Ming Dynasty.
The current situation of Bunanbao
After reaching the peak of his power, Wang Zhen became more and more unscrupulous in order to make up for the pain caused by physical defects. The loess-filled Bubei Fort also ushered in another highlight moment of its own, there is a Yuquan Temple next to the Yanyun Ancient Road, occupied by Wang Zhen, converted into a family temple, Han white jade stone bridge, the top of the former Baoxia Temple... Any official eunuch and merchant who was practicing the scriptures stopped to watch, bathed in the light emanating from the peak of power.
If it continues to develop in such a bland way, with the trust of Emperor Yingzong, history may still give him a good ending. But Wang Zhen has been in power for eight years, and he has been above ten thousand people for a long time, making him fearless and extremely arrogant. Although the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties had expelled the Mongols from the Central Plains with successive troops, it was still necessary to maintain border stability by means of mutual markets. But Wang Zhen broke the balance this time! In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy (1449), because Wang Zhenke withheld the reward for The Wallachians, angered Bye Xian, the Wallachian soldiers invaded the country in four ways.
The Jade Emperor Pavilion at the north gate of Bubei Fort
Everyone aspires to success, and the young Zhu Qizhen also yearns to make meritorious achievements and go down in history like his ancestors, of course, including Wang Zhen, who is "disabled and determined". The two masters and servants decided to march in person and led an army of 200,000 to Datong. Although there were more than 100 civil and military officials in their entourage, they may have been only foils, and the story has been dominated by the master and servant since then. Wang Zhen, who was well versed in Yingzong's thoughts, dressed the young Tianzi as a great hero like his great-grandfather, killing and deciding, all based on fantasy. It was as if a military operation had been directed into a farce.
Wa Lai lured the enemy deeper, and Emperor Yingzong's army marched to Datong without resistance, so he had to return to the Dynasty. Wang Zhen planned to retire from Bauhinia Pass in order to allow Emperor Yingzong to ride his mansion in Bubei Fort and perform a big comedy of "returning rich and noble to his hometown". However, halfway through the journey, the selfish man was worried about the pastoral crops of his hometown, and was deeply afraid of trampling and damage by the centaurs. Therefore, Wang Zhen quickly issued an order to change the route to the east, detour through Xuanfu, and return to Beijing from Juyongguan. Passing through Tumu Fort, he was surrounded by the Wala army, 200,000 troops were destroyed, Yingzong was captured, and Wang Zhen was hammered to death.
Aerial photography of Bubei Fort
Villains are terrible, and villains are not all fierce. But the short-sighted and selfish, once the situation is gained, is bound to lead to disaster. The ancient Bubei Fort was silent for more than five hundred years in the blink of an eye. A border fortress, out of such a character, almost broke a dynasty, and died in another castle. In the end of the Ming Dynasty, the problem of border congestion was never solved, and the Yunwei region was stable, but finally died in another section of the border disaster. This is probably the fate of history.