A butterfly flapping its wings on the banks of the Amazon River in Brazil may cause a tornado in Texas, the famous "butterfly effect," an insignificant little butterfly that can change the world's climate.
Similar to a butterfly, some insignificant little people can also greatly rewrite Chinese history, and the most widely known are two: one is Xia Wuhe when Jing Ke stabbed the King of Qin, helping Qin Shi Huang block Jing Ke's move and let Qin Shi Huang successfully draw the sword, otherwise Qin Shi Huang may die at the hands of Jing Ke; second, the unknown pawn in the fishing city, a cannon seriously injured Möngke Khan, resulting in the death of the latter, otherwise where is Kublai Khan rising?
What is less known is that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, an insignificant Hubei woman, because she entered Beijing to capture Xiao San, but as a result, ignited the fuse of the ming Dynasty's demise, leading to Li Zicheng's uprising, and the little people once again rewrote Chinese history. What is the relationship between Li Zicheng and this woman?
First, let's take a look at a historical celebrity, this jun is called Mao Yujian.
Mao Yujian, no. Zhitian, Hubei public security man, the second year of the Apocalypse, a Ming Dynasty official, later entered Beijing as the inspector of Yunnan Province, the main job is "provoking and spraying people", good at mouth racing. As we all know, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, officials were morally corrupt, and among them, officials who should have been moral role models to supervise the imperial history and the like were actually duplicitous, saying one thing and doing one thing after another.
Judging from the "Biography of Ming Shi Mao Yu Jian" compiled by the Donglin Party, Mao Yu Jian was a noble and upright official, otherwise he would not have been listed separately. During his tenure in imperial history, he was deposed and dismissed from his post because of his impeachment of the eunuchs Yang Weiyuan and Ruan Dacheng. Chongzhen ascended the throne and took over Wei Zhongxian, who had brought misfortune to the Ming Dynasty, and Mao Yujian was transferred back to Beijing and restored yushi to his official position.
After the removal of the castration party, the Manchu Dynasty was almost all Donglin party members, the Zhejiang party Wen Tiren believed that the Donglin party had formed a party to deceive the monarch for personal gain, and the Chongzhen Emperor canceled the practice of meeting the ministers to elect the cabinet, Mao Yujian was very indignant, accusing the emperor of "His Majesty does not know the right and wrong in the courtiers and the traitorous party ministers... If a husband is high-minded and suspicious of the party, he will be led by a series of vines, and he will not be able to exhaust the net." In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the formation of parties for personal gain was very serious, almost to the point of opposing for the sake of opposing.
The Chongzhen Emperor summoned Zhou Yanru alone, and the two talked for a long time, and Mao Yujian was like a fighter in a rooster, once again, believing that it was wrong for the emperor to summon Zhou Yanru alone, and that the conversation with Zhou Yanru should be made public, because the courtiers of the Han Dynasty had said that "what is said is a public affair, it is said openly; what is said is a private matter, and the monarch does not accept private requests" (The Chinese political tradition is indeed mainly open, and the Qing Dynasty practiced secret politics). Later, Mao Yujian also praised Yuan Chonghuan.
In short, Mao Yujian is a super fighter, just like eating squeezed vegetables every day, spraying out bombs, and looking at Chongzhen all day long. However, such a fighter has a fatal weakness, that is, "fear of the inside" - fear of the wife, the same as the famous Qi Jiguang.
Some scholars commented that Mao Yujian was the phoenix man of the late Ming Dynasty, because he was poor when he was young, he married a rich woman Wen Shi, and money is a man's waist pole, and men without money naturally can't stand straight, so Mao Yujian fell behind the root of the disease of "fear of the inside", even if countless officials, including the emperor, trembled under his spitting obscenity, even if he almost "sprayed invincible hands all over the world", in front of his wife Mao Yujian still did not change his past appearance.
The so-called promotion of officials to get rich and die wives is one of the ultimate pursuits of men, but Wen's health is healthy and fragrant, and he is jealous and wants to enjoy the love of Mao Yujian exclusively. Therefore, Mao Yujian can only take the side of the sword and achieve the pursuit of the second level, that is, the red flag at home does not fall, and at least one bunting flag is flying outside. For the safety of Jinwu Zangjiao, Mao Yujian sent Wen Back to his hometown, so that he could live happily with his little lover.
However, the so-called people do not know unless they do nothing, Mao Yujian's raising of a little wife was leaked, Wen Shi knew that he was green after the anger, immediately took a taxi to rush to the capital, under the sudden attack, Mao Yujian was not prepared to be arrested. Wen Shi first grabbed Xiao Sanyi and beat him, and then slapped Mao Yujian, who was kneeling on the ground and trembling.
Faced with such humiliation from his wife, Mao Yujian had no choice but to turn humiliation into spitting: Why did Wen come to the capital so quickly? It turned out that the reason why Wen Shi was like a divine soldier descending from heaven was that he took the express train of Daming Station.
Therefore, Mao Yujian, who was angry from the bottom of his heart, immediately went to the post to cancel the post, and together with his good friend and distant relative Liu Mao (the criminal department gave the matter) to the Chongzhen Emperor, he wrote that "the matter of the posting is the most harmful to the people", and the station is too dense, spending money and grain, and increasing the state expenditure in vain. According to his calculations, the abolition of the station could save 600,000 taels a year, and Chongzhen, who clearly wrote the two big words "poor ghost" on the door of his head, quickly agreed to abolish the station.
The station was evacuated, resulting in the layoff of hundreds of thousands of people, including a young man from Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, Li Zicheng. Unemployed, Li Zicheng, who had nothing to do, then flowed into the rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty and eventually overthrew the Ming Dynasty.
Under the double blow of the internal peasant rebel army and the external Houjin clique, the Ming Dynasty collapsed violently, and if there was only one force alone, the Ming Dynasty could hardly fall. Therefore, Wen Shi, a woman with mao yujian, is like a small butterfly, flapping its small wings, but it has rewritten the fate of the Ming Dynasty.
It is worth mentioning that regarding the reform of the Ming Dynasty's post stations, Zhang Juzheng had already existed in the era, when Zhang Juzheng saw the drawbacks of the cost of the post and wanted to abolish it, but was strongly opposed, on the grounds that the people in the northwest region were poor in the mountains, but the people were fierce, and the imperial court should keep some post stations and give the local people some employment opportunities, so that they would not make trouble or even revolt. Unexpectedly, in this word, 50 years of consequences are really magical, paying the price of the demise of a dynasty.