Text: Sandstorm (Reading History Columnist)
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According to the Records of Emperor Ming Yingzong, the Chronicle of the Ming Dynasty, the Records of Tianshun, etc., in February of 1449 (the fourteenth year of orthodoxy), Master Wa Lai also sent people to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute.
Originally, 2,000 people were sent, but they also falsely claimed 3,000 people in order to get more rewards.
At that time, the master of this matter was Wang Zhen, a powerful eunuch who was deeply favored by Emperor Mingyingzong.
Wang Zhen not only insisted on calculating 2,000 people, but also reduced the price of horses paid by the Wallachians by four-fifths - saying that it was a tribute, in fact, the tribute had to be given money, and the money given far exceeded the market price.
Originally, the purpose of their tribute was to knock a stroke, which had become the norm, and It was not expected that Wang Zhen, the castrated goods, would dare not give face!
Greed was not satisfied, so he deliberately created an incident, and in July of that year, the soldiers went to the territory of the Ming Dynasty in four ways to harass them.
The eastern route was responsible for the wuliang habu, attacking Liaodong, and the western road attacking Zhangye, Gansu, and the western road, which was the focus of the attack, was divided into two branches, one attacking Xuanfu to encircle Chicheng, and the other led by Ye Xian personally to attack Datong.
The first one attacked the most fiercely, the Ming Dynasty Datong defenders suffered defeat in the battle, "Saiwai Castle, so that it fell", the general Wu Haozhan died in Maoerzhuang.
This is no longer harassment, it is simply the rhythm of an all-out attack!
The bad news of Datong continued to spread to the Beijing Division, and Ming Yingzong was not calm, and summoned the ministers to discuss countermeasures.
Wang Zhen vigorously instigated Emperor Yingzong of Ming to march in person, but was resolutely opposed by The Bingbu Shangshu Kuang (Yě) and the Bingbu Attendant Yu Qian, and the official Shangshu Wang Zhi even led his ministers to advise him, but failed to dispel Emperor Yingzong's idea of pro-conquest.
Listening to Wang Aiqing, it was not wrong - at that time, Ming Yingzong could only listen to Wang Zhen, and it was no exaggeration to say that Wang Zhen told him to eat, and he would not refuse.
On July 16, Emperor Mingying ordered his brother Zhu Qiyu (朱祁钰) the Prince of Qi to oversee the state, and then, together with Wang Zhen, set out from Beijing with an army of 250,000 (claimed to be 500,000) to attack the Wallachians.
The preparation time for the military operation of hundreds of thousands of troops is so short that people feel that this is not to fight a war, but to play a child's play!
This battle, which was basically unprepared, was lost without suspense, Ming Yingzong himself became a prisoner, 66 ministers who escorted the conscription, such as Shangshu Kuang and Hubu Shangshu WangZuo, were killed in battle, and more than 200,000 elite troops were almost completely destroyed, with heavy losses.
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There has been no greater bad news than this, for it is a national shame, and there is nothing more infuriating than this, because this tragedy could have been avoided.
The ministers naturally put the account on the culprit Wang Zhen's head, and although he had been smashed to death by the angry guard general Fan Zhongyi on the battlefield, the ministers still did not spare him, and demanded that Zhu Qiyu, the king of the overseer, order Wang Zhenman to be beheaded.
The first person to put forward this motion during the court discussion was the right capital Yushi Chen Yi, who cried while playing: "(Wang) Zhen poured out the Dangerous Sect Society, please exterminate the clan to reassure the people." If they do not obey the commandment, the courtiers will not dare to retreat! ”
Chen Yi's crying was tantamount to throwing a spark into the gasoline, and the extremely angry courtiers all agreed one after another, insisting that Zhu Qiyu "do as he pleased." The timid and cowardly Zhu Qiyu hesitated, coughed dryly, and said, This matter, later on, everyone should go out of the palace to wait, and then announce the adjournment of the meeting.
Zhu Qiyu knew that Wang Zhen was deeply favored by his brother Yingzong, and if his brother came back to him one day to settle the account, how would he account for it?
But what he needs to consider more is that if he does not "do it", how will he account to the ministers at present?
The ministers did not comply and "forced" Zhu Qiyu to make a decision on the spot.
Zhu Qiyu wanted to come to a good luck, stood up and left, the ministers followed Closely behind Zhu Qiyu's ass, where he followed, Zhu Qiyu had to order that there be no Wang Zhen's family, and sent Jinyi Wei to command Ma Shun to carry out specific executions.
Zhu Qiyu's decision was opposed by the ministers: Ma Shun was Wang Zhen's henchman, and the two of them wore a pair of pants, so they could not send him!
The ideal candidate for the ministers was the imperial envoy Chen Yi.
Who knew that Ma Shun was very blind, did not understand what the wrath of the ministers meant, and actually stood up and rebuked the hundred officials -- you have eaten the leopard's guts, do you want to rebel, don't give your face no face, get out immediately if you are interested, otherwise it will be too late to roll!
When a person is extremely angry, he is not a normal person, he will become a madman who does not care about anything, Huke gave Wang Hu in the matter, he became such a "madman", Ma Shun's voice did not fall, he stood up, jumped in front of Ma Shun, grabbed his hair, first used the wat in his hand, split his head to cover his face and slammed it at him.
Ma Shun, this cold-blooded agent who usually kills people without blinking an eye, was actually beaten to the point of no power to fight back, Wang Hu held his head again, took a bite in his face, bit down on a piece of flesh raw, and spat it out, saying, your boy used to use Wang Zhen's prestige to do bad things, and now he is like this, he didn't even know to be afraid, and he dared to shout at the hundred officials!
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Ma Shun, whose face was bitten off a piece of flesh, quickly became a bloody man, and the other ministers smelled blood like sharks, surrounded Ma Shun in the middle, and used their hands and feet, and more people used their hands and feet, and soon beat him out of breath.
Killing this Wang Zhen henchman alive, the anger of the ministers seemed to be even greater, and they demanded from Zhu Qiyu for Wang Zhen's other two henchmen, Mao Gui and Wang Changsui (also eunuchs).
The eunuch Jin Ying (an Annan) realized that if he did not hand over these two people, the hundred officials would not give up, so he asked the two people to come out, and the two twisted and pinched, and were kicked by Jin Ying in front of the hundred officials.
The ministers copied the process of beating Ma Shun on Mao Gui and Wang Chang, and soon the two of them were also angry.
Killing Wang Zhen's three henchmen, some ministers were still angry and hung their corpses on the Dong'an Gate, and the soldiers rushed up after seeing them and rushed to whip the corpses.
Not long after, Wang Zhen's other jinyiwei commander Wang Shan, who was also his nephew, was also arrested, and the people tied him up and made him kneel in the court, and for a while, the spit of the ministers and the shouts of the soldiers and soldiers were heard one after another.
The court was chaotic into a pot of porridge, and even the basic court etiquette did not exist.
The scene of flesh and blood frightening Zhu Qiyu stunned, and suddenly he was excited, got up and wanted to leave, but did not leave.
Yu Qian, a soldier's attendant, realized that the matter was so big that everyone could not get rid of it when it was investigated, so he quickly squeezed in front of Zhu Qiyu and grabbed Zhu Qiyu's arm.
Yu Qian said to Zhu Qiyu that Ma Shun and others deserved to die for their sins, and not killing them was not enough to vent the anger of the Qunchen, not to mention that everyone was bent on serving the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, and not to avenge their personal vengeance, and asked the King of Hao not to pursue responsibility and forgive the crimes of the Qunchen.
Zhu Qiyu had no choice but to agree, ordering the hundred officials to return to their respective positions, what to do, Ma Shun's crime should be killed, and the matter would not be investigated.
At that time, Yu Qian, in order to "catch" Zhu Qiyu before he disappeared, exerted all his strength, so that in the process of squeezing zhu Qiyu, due to excessive force, the sleeves of his robe were torn.
Next, Zhu Qiyu followed Yu Qian's words and ordered That Wang Zhen's nephew Wang Shan be tied up to the execution ground and Ling Chi executed.
Wang Zhuyi, who jumped up in anger and "took the lead" to kill Ma Shun, became famous in anger and shocked the world, and some ordinary people even made his portrait into a door god.
He beat Ma Shun's bridge section, and later inspired the creative inspiration of people in the literary and art circles, was processed into multiple versions of opera and commentary, and even gave birth to martial arts novels with him as the protagonist, and throughout the Ming Dynasty after that, he was an Internet celebrity.
Decades later, during the Zhengde period, a poem by the great poet Li Mengyang wrote the voice of people's hearts and expressed their infinite reverence for him:
Although Wang Hun was foolish,
Lay down your life for a husband.
In December 1488, Wang Hu died at the age of seventy-five.