After Zhu Di, the King of Yan, declared himself emperor, in order to consolidate his throne, he continued the policy of cutting the domain during the Jianwen Period. By the fifteenth year of Yongle, the king of the clan who held military power at that time was basically reduced, or his guards were cut off, or abolished as a commoner. To the Xuande Emperor, the imperial court further implemented this policy of cutting the clan, and from then on the royal palace no longer set up guards, and the king of the clan even wanted to rebel, which was tantamount to hitting the stone with a pebble. But the adventurous ambitionists are still racking their minds and trying their best to satisfy their own selfish desires. During the Zhengde period, Zhu Chenhao, the King of Ning, embarked on this road of no return again. In the face of the most absurd and foolish Zhengde Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, can he replace him?
Emperor Xiaozong of Ming was a wise and promising monarch in the history of the Ming Dynasty. He gave birth to the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao many years after marriage, so he was very fond of him, even to the point of doting. Later, Zhu Houzhao's younger brother died prematurely, and Zhu Houzhao became his only son, and naturally became the heir to the ming imperial throne.
In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi (1505), Emperor Xiaozong died suddenly, leaving a huge dynasty to Zhu Houzhao, who was only fifteen years old and did not like to read and was happy, that is, the historical Zhengde Emperor. Without the discipline of his father, the Zhengde Emperor was even more lawless, and all day long he was having fun with his own pro-signal for the eight eunuchs of the "Eight Tigers", leaving aside the government affairs, not knowing what year it was.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's son Zhu Quan, the Prince of Ning, was sealed in the Daning area, which was a very powerful Sai King in the north at that time, known as "80,000 with armor and 6,000 leather cars". After the Yongle Emperor ascended the throne, in order to weaken the power of the King of Ning to avoid the threat to himself, he resealed the most powerful King of Ning to Nanchang, Jiangxi, and later the King of Ning was also stripped of his guards.
In this way, by the time Zhu Chenhao, the fifth grandson of Zhu Quan, the King of Ning, inherited the title, the Palace of Ning was no longer what it used to be. This frivolous disciple of the clan thought that he was a dragon and a phoenix, had the appearance of a son of heaven, and wanted to be the emperor, so under the seduction of several warlocks, he decided to test the Fa by himself.
However, after several lessons of fratricide, the Emperor began to gradually weaken the power of the king of the domain in order to completely change this situation of brotherhood and uncle cannibalism. After the Xuande Emperor put down the rebellion, he further implemented this policy of cutting the domain, and from then on the palace no longer set up guards. That is to say, at that time, the Ning Palace no longer had any armed forces, so if Zhu Chenhao wanted to rebel, of course, he first sought to restore the protection of the Ning Palace.
At that time, the Zhengde Emperor was unscrupulous and did not pay attention to the government, and the power of the imperial court was actually in the hands of Liu Jin, a eunuch who was one of the "Eight Tigers", and his henchmen, who deceived and deceived the upper and lower levels, and the power fell to the opposition, known as the "Li Emperor", which means that during the imperial meeting, Liu Jin was another emperor who stood next to the Zhengde Emperor.
Zhu Chenhao bribed Liu Jin with 20,000 gold and silver, and finally changed the Ming Dynasty's Nanchang Zuowei to the guard of the Ning Dynasty. There is a reason why it is the Nanchang Left Guard, and not other garrisons in Jiangxi. This is because, during the Tianshun years, the Ning Wangfu was stripped of its guards for sin, and the guards of the NingWang Mansion were changed to nanchang Zuowei. However, the good times did not last long, and Liu Jin was soon ousted from power, and the guards of the Ning Palace were removed. However, all this did not make Zhu Chenhao feel discouraged, but on the contrary, it made his heart to restore the guard more urgently.
This time, Zhu Chenhao even spent a huge amount of money to bribe the then Bingbu Shangshu, and let Zang Xian, a handsome man favored by the Zhengde Emperor, lobby the princes and ministers on his behalf, and they acquiesced. Unfortunately, at this time, there was a stumbling block Fei Hong.
According to the regulations, if Zhu Chenhao wants to restore the guard, he must obtain the consent of the cabinet. Fei Hong, a Scholar of the Ming Dynasty Who was in charge of the Cabinet, was also from Jiangxi, and he could be said to know zhu Chenhao at the bottom of his roots, and he saw through Zhu Chenhao's ambitions and said that he did not agree with Zhu Chenhao's restoration of the guard.
Therefore, Zhu Chenhao took advantage of the day of the Jinshi Court Examination that the cabinet ministers wanted to go to the East Pavilion to read the file and take advantage of Fei Hong's absence from the cabinet to submit a request to restore the guard's performance. Since the other ministers had already been bought by Zhu Chenhao, they all approved this song. However, Zhu Chenhao was afraid that Fei Hong would oppose, so he asked someone to frame Fei Hong in front of the Zhengde Emperor, and Fei Hong was forced to resign.
After Zhu Chenhao's wish to restore the guard was finally fulfilled, he tried everything to please the Zhengde Emperor. He donated many rare treasures for the Zhengde Emperor to enjoy, in order to weaken the Zhengde Emperor's vigilance against himself. He also used himself to bribe many princes and ministers in the DPRK as a backing, and he did no evil in Nanchang. They even killed local officials without authorization, occupied the people's fields and houses, and forcibly robbed the women of good families, causing a miasma of local smoke. Local officials repeatedly complained to the imperial court of Zhu Chenhao's various illegal acts, but the Zhengde Emperor did not pay attention to it.
On June 14, 1519, in the fourteenth year of Zhengde (1519), Zhu Chenhao, on the pretext of celebrating his birthday, finally officially rebelled with the bandits he had raised. He invited the magistrates to the palace, claiming that he had followed the secret instructions of the empress dowager to raise troops into the dynasty, killed all the disobedient magistrates, and led an army to attack Anqing. At that time, the deputy governor of Tinggan, Yushi Wang Shouren, was a general of all-round talents in literature and martial arts, and he had long been secretly attentive to Zhu Chenhao's actions. When he heard the news of Zhu Chenhao's rebellion and attack on Anqing, he immediately gathered his forces and directly attacked Nanchang, Zhu Chenhao's old home.
The news of Zhu Chenhao's rebellion reached the imperial court, and the Zhengde Emperor was not worried but was overjoyed. Why? It turned out that the Zhengde Emperor had two hobbies, one was to have fun, and the other was to fight. He preferred to be a general than an emperor, and had toured the northern border defense towns many times, led an army to a small victory over the Tatars, and made himself a "governor and mighty general of military affairs". When he heard the news of Zhu Chenhao's rebellion, the Zhengde Emperor was simply overjoyed and decided to march in person. Unfortunately, when Zhengde first arrived in Zhuozhou, Wang Shouren's good news had already been delivered. It turned out that Zhu Chenhao besieged Anqing, and when he heard that the old nest had also been attacked by Wang Shouren, he hurried back to rescue it, and when Huangjiadu encountered Wang Shouren's army, Zhu Chenhao was defeated and captured by Wang Shouren.
After only a little over a month, the rebellion was put down. The Zhengde Emperor traveled all the way to Nanjing and held a captivity ceremony, which led to the return of the master to the dynasty, and Zhu Chenhao was also executed on the road.