On the sixteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of the Great Tomorrow Shun (February 23, 1464), just after the fifteenth day of the first month, which was a national celebration, Zhu Qizhen, the protagonist of this article, completed his legendary life. He was a standard "milk treasure man", who ascended to the throne twice before and after, and was one of the few great emperors in history who could jump back alive after being captured by the enemy, and he was also one of the few emperors who could counterattack the throne after being imprisoned and sitting on the cold bench for several years. The emperor with such a legendary experience was Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen of Daming, and these things happened to him alone at the same time, which cannot but be said to be a miracle. However, the emperor of the Daming family is so magical, today I will talk about the extraordinary life path of Zhu Qi Town.
Portrait of Emperor Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen
Name: Zhu Qizhen.
Place of birth: Beijing.
Era name: Orthodox, Tianshun.
Emperor Yingzong of the Temple, Emperor Rui of the Ming Dynasty, the sixth and eighth emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
Reign: 1435-1449, 1457-1464.
Mausoleum: Yuling in the Ming Tombs in Beijing.
When Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji ascended to heaven, the little crown prince Zhu Qizhen was only nine years old, and at this time, rumors circulated in the palace that he wanted to depose the young lord and establish him as king. Zhu Zhanji's mother, Zhang Shi, who was also Zhu Qizhen's grandmother, calmly gathered the courtiers, pointed to the nine-year-old doll and said: This is the new Jun.
Zhu Qizhen's grandmother, Empress Chengxiao Zhang
Nine-year-old Zhu Qizhen, in this way, under the protection of his domineering grandmother, sat on the throne and became the little heavenly son of Daming.
After the little emperor of Zhu Qizhen ascended to the throne, this domineering and experienced grandmother still did her best to assist the young lord.
In the second year of Zhu Qizhen's ascension to the throne, in the first year of the orthodox era (1436), Empress Dowager Zhang summoned the five important ministers left by Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu, Zhang Fu, and Hu Qi, all of whom were also ministers of The Qiu Dynasty, to the imperial court, along with the little emperor Zhu Qizhen. Grandma Zhang said to the little emperor in a serious tone: You look at these five people, these are all the important subjects left by your father for you, and if you have anything in the future, remember to discuss with these five people, if these people oppose things, remember not to do it.
The little emperor looked at the serious grandmother and nodded as if he understood.
Later, Zhang Shi called the eunuch Wang Zhen, who was playing well with the little emperor at that time.
The statue of Wang Zhen in The Temple of Zhihua
Wang Zhen came to the middle of the court to take a look, Oh, several important ministers are there, and he wondered in his heart, is this going to be something big?
There was really a big deal, Zhang Shi glared at him fiercely, and said sharply: Wang Zhen! You are a eunuch who serves the emperor, but you have committed many illegal acts, and you will be killed today!
The guards on the side immediately put the cold sharp knife on Wang Zhen's neck, Wang Zhen was frightened and scattered, and finally Wang Zhen certainly did not die, Zhang Shi was to scare and frighten him, so that Wang Zhen would be a eunuch who would keep to himself in the future.
And history proves that Zhang's vision is indeed correct, Wang Zhen should have been killed in the first place, and Zhu Qizhen's throne was not so bumpy.
In history, those who dared to march on the battlefield and attack the steppe peoples, Zhu Di of Daming counted one, even in the twilight of his life, the Yongle Emperor was still full of courage, personally leading the army to gallop the grassland, frightening the nomadic tribes only had a distant choice.
Twenty-five years after Zhu Di's prestige died with the wind, another emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the twenty-two-year-old Zhu Qizhen, under the flicker of the eunuch Wang Zhen, personally stepped on a warhorse and embarked on an expedition to the grassland, but this time it was not so lucky. What is the end of what awaits Zhu Qizhen?
Map of the situation between Daming and Wallachia before Tumu Fort
Under the leadership of Emperor Zhu Qizhen, the Ming army set out from the Beijing Division, passed through Juyongguan, and went all the way to Datong, the nine-sided important town of the Ming Dynasty.
However, as soon as he arrived in Datong, he received a report that this time the Vala was moving south, and it was not easy to confront each other head-on, so the emperor took the army back, and the result was that he still did not run through the iron hooves of the Wallachian army led by him first.
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In the Battle of Tumu Fort, the Ming army was defeated miserably, and almost the entire army was destroyed.
What about the emperor in the rebel army?
When the army was defeated, the guards around the emperor were either killed in battle or disappeared. There were shouts of killing everywhere, and at this time, Emperor Zhu Qizhen calmed down, sat cross-legged, waiting for the verdict of fate. A small soldier sent down Zhu Qizhen and tried to snatch the valuable clothes from him, but Zhu Qizhen ignored this small soldier wielding a knife. As soon as xiao bing saw that this man was not simple, he reported it to his superiors, and finally his younger brother, the King of Saijian, came over. After the King of Saijian saw Zhu Qizhen, he didn't know that this was the Great Tomorrow Son, only to see that this person looked good, and before he could speak, Zhu Qizhen spoke first: "Zi Ersen (also first)? Boyan Timur (also the younger brother of the first)? Racing? (Archives of the Forbidden City, Vol. 1)
After asking three questions in a row, and guessing the identity of the person who came, he immediately calmed down the Saijian King, so that the great tomorrow saw the supreme commander of the Wallachians- Ye Xian.
Schematic of the Battle of Tumu Fort
After that, he also took this treasure to the steppe and thought of making Zhu Qizhen a living ATM to blackmail the Ming Dynasty.
Unfortunately, as soon as Daming heard that the emperor had been defeated, he did not know where he was, and in a panic, he quickly established a new emperor, which was Zhu Qiyu, the overseer appointed by Zhu Qizhen before his departure, and zhu Qizhen's younger brother.
But unexpectedly, Zhu Qizhen, the captive emperor, could not bring the treasure he wanted first. Daming already has a new emperor, and although the old emperor is a hostage, he can't play much of a role.
At first, he did not believe that the Emperor Daming in his hand was really useless, so he sent troops to Daming's generals to ask for red envelopes, and after eating the closed door soup, he simply led the troops into the pass and surrounded the capital of the Ming Kingdom, Beijing.
Under the leadership of Yu Qian, the defense of Beijing was vigorously launched, and at first it did not get any cheap, but it was defeated by Daming, and the soldiers were damaged, and the gray slipped back to the grassland.
Yu Qianxiang
Since the Emperor Daming in his hand was not easy to use, and he also lost interest in Zhu Qizhen, the emperor who was in the steppe at this time was also very uncomfortable, not accustomed to eating meat and milk that was indispensable to every meal, and wearing the leather clothes worn by the nomadic tribes of the grassland, so he wrote letters to his brother in the palace letter after letter, asking for someone to take the ransom and come to pick himself up.
However, the younger brother Zhu Qiyu in the palace had already tasted the magic of being an emperor, and naturally did not want to pick up the emperor, and finally Zhu Qizhen, with tenacious perseverance, insisted on living an unaccompanied life in the grassland on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wrote a letter, believing that someone would come to pick him up.
As early as when Zhu Qizhen was a prisoner of Yexian, he was eager to see through it and wanted to return to the city of Beijing, where he was thinking about it. Even if you don't want this throne, "willing to be the head of the Qian, guard the tomb of the ancestors" - when a flat-headed people, or to guard the tomb of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, you can ah, as long as you do not herd sheep in this grassland!
Statue of Emperor Zhu Qiyu of Jingtai
Perhaps it was Zhu Qizhen's sincerity that touched the heavens, and there was really a person who, by his own strength, took him back from the steppe. This person was Yang Shan, and with three inches of uncorrupted tongue, without spending a single soldier or pawn and a piece of gold and silver, he let Zhu Qizhen go first. Of course, at this time, Zhu Qi Town, for Ye Xian, is also a hot potato, Yang Shan verbally gave enough face first, and also first happy, he sent Zhu Qi Town back to Daming.
On this day, more than a year has passed since the thrilling battle of the tumu fort change, and the history books beautify and summarize the legendary experience of Emperor Zhu Qizhen of the Ming Dynasty for more than a year into two words - Northern Hunting. This means that the emperor has a hunt in the north.
Zhu Qizhen returned to the long-lost capital, the throne was his brother's, and the previously honest little brother Zhu Qiyu had already felt the sweetness of power, and it was impossible to let go easily. So Zhu Qizhen became an unpopular "Emperor Taishang", living a quiet, dead guarded life. Zhu Qizhen's good luck had not yet run out, and it was not long before he changed from Emperor Taishang to true emperor.
Just when Zhu Qizhen was imprisoned, his younger brother Zhu Qiyu always wanted to find an excuse to kill him, after all, there was this "former emperor", and his throne was always restless.
Partial Zhu Qi town is very peaceful, and there is no fault at all.
Zhu Qizhen and Empress Qian were dependent on each other, and in the simple courtyard, because of true love, it was not deserted.
A small eunuch who guarded him, named Ruan Lang, had been talking to him for a long time, and Zhu Qizhen had a good chat with him. One day, zhu Qizhen was happy, so he gave Ruan Lang a splendid bag and a gold-plated knife he carried. Later, this matter was discovered by Zhu Qiyu, who arrested Ruan Lang for the crime of conspiracy and severely tortured him, and must let Ruan Lang confess Zhu Qizhen's attempt to plot against him.
If Ruan Lang fabricates something for self-preservation, then Zhu Qizhen's life will really be finished, and the history of Daming will be rewritten. But this Ruan Lang, although he was a eunuch, was also very backbone, tortured, and finally beheaded, and did not say a bad word about Zhu Qizhen. That's it.
In the end, Zhu Qiyu went farther and farther on the road of dictatorship, deposed Zhu Qizhen's children as princes, and made his own children crown princes, hoping to completely seize his brother's Jiangshan. Unfortunately, the heart is higher than the sky, the life is thinner than paper, first the child died prematurely, and then he became seriously ill.
Just when Zhu Qiyu was seriously ill, Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and others launched a coup d'état and put Zhu Qizhen back on the throne. After seven years of house arrest in this nameless courtyard, Zhu Qizhen finally saw the golden ruan hall that seemed to be similar and sat on a somewhat unfamiliar dragon chair.
Because her husband, who was the king of a country, became a captive of Chengwa, he cried and blinded one eye, knelt down and begged the Buddha to kneel and mutilate a leg, and finally waited until her husband returned, and the Qian clan, who did not abandon him, became the empress of daming's palace.
Statue of the Queen of Money
Looking back at Zhu Qizhen's life, it is really too ups and downs. Later generations will look at Zhu Qizhen again, and they will find that he is a person with good luck.
In the midst of the chaotic soldiers, he was able to sit calmly and be safe; living in the grassland, he could move the enemy and let Boyan take good care of him; when his brother tried every means to obstruct his return to Beijing, there were noble people to help him, completed the divine operation that made people call the impossible, and finally returned to his own capital; when he was imprisoned in the Capital Division, he turned the crisis into safety several times, and finally got the throne that belonged to him.
Why is Zhu Qizhen so lucky?
This all stems from a unique personality charm in him.
How far can this charm go? Consider the following scenario:
When Zhu Qizhen left the grassland, his heart should have been like putting down a stone - finally sending this hot potato-like uncle away!
However, there was one person who really did not want him to leave. That was the former enemy, Ye Xian's younger brother Boyan Timur.
Zhu Qizhen's days in the grassland are thanks to the care of Boyan, a confidant. Before leaving, Boyan yiyi said goodbye, after the send-off teams returned one after another, Boyan still accompanied Zhu Qizhen, had been walking for a day, until it was sent to the Wild Fox Ridge near Juyongguan, before stopping, because if you go further, you will walk to daming's territory, and you have to say goodbye here.
Before parting, Bo Yan pulled the horse's head of Zhu Qi Town, a stout man who grew up on the grassland, and even burst into tears, and the historical records recorded: "The great cry: 'When the emperor goes to see him again!'" '"。 The Daming that Zhu Qizhen had longed for was finally close at hand. Didn't go far, the sound of horseshoes in the rear was loud, Zhu Qizhen was startled, what happened? Did you regret it first?! When I asked the people who came, it turned out that Bo Yan saw a few wild beasts on the way back, so he personally pulled a bow and shot arrows, and after hunting, let people offer pegasus to Zhu Qi town, eat well on the road, don't be hungry...
A few years ago, Boyan was still an enemy of Zhu Qi Town, and now this enemy has become a friend with deep friendship, which is the natural magic of Zhu Qi Town, and can use his unique personality charm to impress the people around him.
In the eighth year of Tianshun (1464), Zhu Qizhen, who had experienced the ups and downs of his life, was thirty-eight years old, and in the first month of this year, he lay on his hospital bed, called his own child Zhu Jianshen, entrusted the heavy responsibility of the empire to the child, and then said his last wish: "The Will of the Palace Concubines is Martyred" ("Ming Shi Yingzong Houji"). The day after a testament was issued, Zhu Qizhen passed away quietly.
This is the life of Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen of Daming, although he is an emperor, he can sympathize with everyone around him, and he does not look at everything because he is an emperor. Therefore, he can become a close friend of the people around him, which is also Zhu Qizhen's unique personality charm, and it is this charm that gives him endless good luck and accompanies him through the ups and downs of life.
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