"The Queen Mother Sun protects Yingzong and his son. I can understand. Isn't this her biological mother? Why should she protect Yingzong first? Didn't he capture Yingzong? Aren't the two sides enemies?"
Zhang Shize smiled mysteriously, "Yexian, huh, he is a person whose bloodline is questionable, and he can be the actual controller of Wala. He was completely supported by Yingzong. He and Yingzong are completely in the same group."
"What are you talking about? First of all, my family is not Mongolian. Isn't he the son of a gay man?" Yang Fan asked in disbelief.
Zhang Shize did not continue to dwell on this issue. He continued: "This matter is controversial. What I want to say is that the Yingzong's personal expedition was caused by the issue of Xuanda."
"Do you know why His Majesty involved us in this matter?" Zhang Shize said while chewing on the chicken leg.
"Why, does this have anything to do with Tumu Fort?"
"That's not true, but the situation is somewhat similar." Zhang Shize spit out the chicken bones, wiped his hands with a towel and continued: "The background of the Tumubao Incident was that Yingzong wanted the Qing army."
One stone stirred up thousands of waves, and Yang Fan felt a bolt of lightning flash across the sky.
Qing army!
This time, the same problem was still the Qing army.
Donglin wants to clear the army, and His Majesty also wants to clear the army. What are they planning?
"At that time, after Yingzong ascended the throne, he was very ambitious. He wanted to be an emperor like Chengzu. He wanted to suppress the civil servants. So he wanted to take back military power."
Yang Fan asked: "Isn't the army always controlled by nobles? If Yingzong didn't use nobles to contain civilian officials, why should he deal with nobles?"
"At that time, the nobles had been tamed by the civilian officials, and their food and salary were in the hands of the civilian officials. The two parties worked together to devour military supplies and withhold military salaries. The loss of military salaries began from that time."
"I understand. The royal family originally designed the class of nobles to form a structure to balance with other forces, but now, the nobles and civil servants are colluding. The system design has failed."
This was something the emperor could not tolerate. Because if nobles and civil servants come together, the emperor will be ignored. This resulted in the emperor becoming a puppet in the Forbidden City.
The emperor must reorganize the nobles and harden their bones so that they can confront and confront the civil servants again.
"Because there were only four generations in the Ming Dynasty from Taizu, Chengzu, Renzong, and Xuanzong, the nobles began to become inferior to each other. They were completely suppressed by the civil servants. The civil servants were particularly patient. They endured the death of Taizu, Chengzu, and It also turned the descendants of the nobles into useless people. So Yingzong wanted to rectify the nobles and re-establish them."
Yang Fan sighed and said: "If you want to rectify it, it is nothing more than adjusting personnel. Personnel is the biggest politics. Who should be used and who should not be used, who should be promoted and who should be demoted, that's all. The difference lies in the theme of the struggle. Those who need to go down can do so."
Zhang Shize nodded and said: "At that time, the military leaders were extremely corrupt. They ate their pay, stole and sold the army's supplies, and withheld rations to the point of madness. Yingzong wanted to check the true number of troops and the actual inventory of the military ration warehouse. Check the inventory of weapons and equipment."
This means clearing the army. It’s the same as what Chongzhen is doing now.
The theme of this struggle has emerged: anti-corruption.
However, in Yingzong's case, it was the emperor himself who came forward to ask for the Qing army. But this time, it was Li Banghua, the Secretary of the Ministry of War who was a suspected member of Donglin, who was mainly responsible for cleaning up the army.
The emperor hid behind the scenes and no one knew his intentions.
Obviously, Yingzong's Qing army failed, and Yang Fan knew it without even thinking. Otherwise, Jingying wouldn’t be so bad.
"Yingzong checked the warehouse in that place. The warehouse in that place caught fire and basically burned to the ground. Since the military supplies could not be checked, Yingzong decided to check the number of border troops. The method is also simple, that is, go there yourself. You all give I will stand still and verify it myself."
Yang Fan nodded, that's right. The best way to verify the true number of troops is to see it in person. As long as the officials from above are willing to come down and check on the spot, the lake will basically not be able to get through, and everything will be exposed.
At that time, Emperor Yingzong went with his cabinet and nobles.
Why did the imperial commander take away the cabinet and all the nobles during his personal expedition?
It is easy to understand that war requires nobles to lead troops. How can one lead a cabinet to fight a war?
The only explanation is that Yingzong made a surprise attack and forcibly took them to Xuanda to verify the army's situation. Because the cabinet and local military leaders have collaborated in corruption. It’s impossible to find out without going down. In order to prevent them from leaking information, we can only take them all away.
Yang Fan asked: "You mean that Tumubao was not fighting the Mongols, but a coup and mutiny."
Zhang Shize said: "Look where the Tumu Fort is. It's deep inside the Great Wall, very close to Beijing. It's inland, not a frontier at all."
"After Tumubao, the biggest consequence was not that the civil servants took control of the court, but the even greater consequence was that the five brothers of the Empress Dowager Sun took control of the capital. The relatives of the nobles came to power by colluding with the harem. Now there are knights. There are more than 50 people in your country, and half of these people were knighted because of their relatives. They are actually in charge of the capital camp." Zhang Shize said.
Why did Wei Zhongxian have no military power? It was because the military power was in the hands of a series of nobles of Concubine Zheng.
If Concubine Zheng cannot control the palace internally and the Beijing camp externally, how can she control Wei Zhongxian. At least among these forces, Concubine Zheng's force, the King Fu Group, occupies a large proportion.
Yang Fan knocked on the table, wondering what the purpose of Chongzhen's Qing army was this time. Although it was the Qing army both times, the purpose was different, and the direction of this matter would definitely not be the same.
Zhang Shize is a distinguished person, so he must know many inside stories that he doesn't know. The Zhang family were participants and parties in a series of major historical events in the Ming Dynasty. And many of the situations he said are consistent with his own analysis.
In many historical events, what you see from the outside is violent storms, and rivers of blood flow from the people below. For real participants, it may be a very simple intention and reason.
To His Majesty, what is the Qing army? What is the corruption and incompetence of the army? What is the taking back of military power? Maybe it's not the first reason.
The first reason is that he wants to preserve his throne and life, and he wants to preserve the throne and pass it on to his descendants. He must kill his competitors.
Unplugged Wei Zhongxian and just stood firm.
If he didn't want to end up like Daizong. We must regain control of the Forbidden City. Only by completely controlling the palace can he sit back and relax. Only in this way can you truly feel safe.
Obviously Tianqi failed to do this, and none of his heirs survived. He himself died young. He's okay, he has a younger brother.
But Chongzhen has no brothers anymore, and in Taichang's lineage, this is the only one left.
No more today
