Among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, there were two pairs of brothers and wrongdoers, one was Zhu Gaozi and Zhu Gaoxu, and the other pair was Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu that we want to talk about today.
Zhu Qi Town
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="3" > the big tomorrow son of the imperial conquest</h1>
In 1435, Ming Xuanzong, the "good saint grandson" of the Ming Dynasty who had achieved the "rule of Ren Xuan", died, and according to his will, the nine-year-old Zhu Qizhen officially ascended the throne as the great tomorrow's son.
Due to the young age of the young Tianzi, the empress dowager Zhang Shi was in charge of state affairs and vigorously reused the old minister "Sanyang". With their assistance, during the reign of Zhu Qizhen, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty once reached its peak. However, with the successive deaths of Zhang Shi and "Sanyang" and others, the prosperous Ming Dynasty began to fall into a dilemma.
Perhaps because he had been restrained for many years, Zhu Qizhen inevitably had some haste after he pro-government, and while he tried his best to do it himself, he also wantonly promoted his own cronies. When the flesh-and-blood young emperor met the prosperous Ming Dynasty, reality told him that blood came at a price.
Grandfather Zhu Gao was benevolent and benevolent, and father Zhu Zhanji was wise, and as a result, when he arrived at the town of Zhu Qi of Ming Yingzong, he became extremely irritable. Soon after his pro-government, Emperor Mingying launched three northern expeditions against the Mongol ethnic groups in nine years. During the fourteen years of orthodoxy, it was even more the Imperial Guard, which launched the Battle of Luchuan and quelled the civil unrest in Luchuan.
Originally, according to this momentum, although the dispatch of troops undermined the stability of the border, as long as the foreign invasion was subdued, it would not be a problem. Looking at it this way, after two generations of accumulation, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qi Town really has a hint of the momentum of the Han Wudi period. It is a pity that he has the personality of Emperor Wudi of Han, but he does not have the life of Emperor Wudi of Han, after all, although Emperor Wudi of Han is belligerent, he does not like the imperial conquest.
In the change of Tumu Fort, Zhu Qizhen once again marched in person, and temporarily cobbled together hundreds of thousands of troops to requisition the wattle thorns. Under the combination of many factors, a jaw-dropping tragedy also appeared.
The Ming army suffered a crushing defeat in this battle, and countless casualties were inflicted on the soldiers. More importantly, the great tomorrow's son Zhu Qizhen was also captured.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="31" > sudden throne</h1>
As the saying goes, "the country cannot be without a monarch for a day", fortunately, in order to be able to drive the imperial conquest, Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen first established Zhu Mishen as the crown prince, and let Zhu Qiyu, the king of Hao, supervise the state and assist the government.
Although the prince was there, Zhu Mishen was only two years old, and it was enough to be a prince at such an age, let alone an emperor. At that time, Wa Shi was still eyeing the land, and after eliminating the remnants of the eunuch Wang Zhen,for the survival of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Zhi, Yu Qian, and other important ministers elected Zhu Qiyu to Empress Sun as emperor.
In 1449, Zhu Qiyu, the King of Qi, officially ascended the throne with the support of his courtiers, taking over the precarious mess of Daming, and Zhu Qizhen, who became a prisoner, became the Emperor Taishang.
However, with the ascension of the Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu to the throne, this plan was declared bankrupt, and even Zhu Qiyu issued an edict ordering the border guards not to listen to Emperor Yingzong's orders.
The tile thorn, which had just tasted the sweetness, failed several times to repeat the old technique, so he was embarrassed and angry and attacked the Beijing Division. Seeing that the rebels were approaching, Emperor Jingtai released the power of shangshu Yuqian and reused it on Qian, Shi Heng and others to start this defense of Beijing. Under the leadership of Yu Qian's organization, many of the attacks of the Watt thorn were thwarted, and the Watt Thorn army also suffered heavy losses. The thorn had no choice but to retreat, swallowing the evil consequences of the bitter battle.
After that, the Ming army took the initiative to attack and beat the tiles into the wilderness and fled. Seeing that the sharpness that had been won after the change of the Tumu Fort was lost, The Watt thorn had to ask for peace and retreat. Before running away, he still did not forget to disgust the great Ming Emperor and made a far-reaching move.
Let emperor Zhu Qizhen, who was useless to them, come back.
Zhu Qiyu
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="32" > enemy brothers</h1>
The return of Emperor Yingzong may be eagerly awaited by many people, but it definitely does not include Zhu Qiyu, who has just ascended to the throne, and Yu Qian, who supports the new emperor.
In order not to fall into the tongue, Yingzong will definitely welcome back, but how to deal with it has become a problem. Emperor Jingtai privately tried to qian and others, "I didn't plan to be emperor in the first place, but you had to let me be emperor, but now that it's good, my brother is back, what should I do?"
Yu Qian and others did not know their minds, and when Zhu Qiyu was outside, the Ming Dynasty was indeed thriving. So he praised him and said, "Don't worry, since the throne has been decided, it is impossible to change it at will." Emperor Jingtai was also relieved after hearing this, and personally went to Dong'an to pick up Yingzong.
After welcoming back Emperor Yingzong, in the face of this "Emperor Taishang", Emperor Jingtai was always relieved. So he began the seven-year house arrest of Emperor Yingzong, and in order to transition the throne to his own line, he even abolished the position of crown prince of his nephew Zhu Jianshen and established himself as his son Zhu Jianji. Speaking of which, this crown prince was also unlucky, and after being the crown prince for a year, he suddenly died of illness.
In 1457, Emperor Jingtai was seriously ill and did not have a successor. Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and others saw this scene and secretly plotted to rescue Yingzong from restoration. After Zhu Qizhen regained the throne, he arrested and imprisoned Qian and others on the same day, and let the seriously ill Jingtai Emperor also experience the taste of house arrest.
Shortly after his imprisonment, Emperor Jingtai died of illness. Although people die and disappear, the pain of seven years of house arrest can be forgotten, and the paranoid Yingzong is willing to let his brother go. Therefore, he denounced Emperor Jingtai as an unfaithful, filial piety, unkind and unjust person, and even deposed his emperor and gave him the evil title of "King of Qi". He was also ordered not to be buried in the imperial tomb, and was only buried in Xishan with the courtesy of a prince.
At the same time, he was also the only monarch who was not buried in the imperial tomb after the Ming Dynasty moved the capital, otherwise the Ming Tombs should also become the Ming Tombs.
Ming Tombs
Perhaps the Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu was too fond of the imperial throne, resulting in his improper handling of his brother Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, but it has to be said that compared with Emperor Yingzong, who loved the imperial conquest, he was more suitable to be a Ming ruler. Of course, if he hadn't insisted on stealing the throne of his nephew Zhu Jianshen, he might not have become so miserable after his death.