"The emperor's love for the eunuchs led to the eunuchs' autocratic power. At that time, if the minister wanted to see Zhu Qizhen, he had to give Eunuch Wang Zhen a gift. If Wang Zhen thought the gift was okay, the minister could successfully see the emperor. If he If the minister feels that the gift is not valuable enough, let alone wants to see the emperor, the minister will be thrown out directly, and because of this gift, some local officials will not be able to see the emperor even once for several years.”
When a local official reported that Wala often harassed the people of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch Wang Zhen found out about this. He ran over to encourage Zhu Qizhen and said to Zhu Qizhen: "Your Majesty, in order to prove your ability as soon as possible, I suggest you lead your own army to conquer Oara."
"Zhu Qizhen was in his twenties at that time, and it was an era of vigorous blood. After listening to Wang Zhen's advice, he ignored the opposition of ministers and wanted to imitate his father Zhu Zhanji and make achievements on the battlefield. But this Zhu Qizhen might It’s because he became an emperor. He doesn’t know how to fight, and he doesn’t understand the art of war, but he still wants to lead the conquests himself.”
"The emperor is determined to personally lead troops to conquer Oara, and the ministers can't stop it. What if they can't stop it? We have to let Zhu Qizhen do it according to his temper."
"In this way, Zhu Qizhen gathered 500,000 soldiers and horses from the Ming Dynasty and began to go out. Later, when the Ming army was unprepared, Wala also decisively led the attack first. Zhu Qizhen panicked when he saw this sudden attack. , desperately shouting for support, resulting in a disastrous defeat for the Ming army, the loss of 200,000 elites, and the dozens of civil and military officials who followed were all martyred, known in history as the Battle of Tumubao. The battle of Zhu Qizhen turned all the savings accumulated by generations of Ming Dynasty people into None, which is why later generations affectionately called him the "God of War of the Ming Dynasty."
"In this battle, the elite Central Army of the Ming Army who followed Ming Yingzong on the expedition were completely wiped out. The loss of the firearms battalion directly affected the future development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty."
"Before the "Tumubao Incident", the Ming Dynasty went through many northern expeditions during the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Ming Chengzu Zhu Di periods, weakening the armed forces of the grassland nomads, and adopted a strategic posture of active defense against the grassland nomads. The Ming Dynasty The army relied on the Great Wall and the castles inside and outside the Great Wall to form a strategic defense zone to protect the capital."
After the "Tumu Fort Incident", the Ming Dynasty shrank its defense lines and lost almost all military strongholds outside the Great Wall. The Great Wall became the "front line". Once it was breached, it would face a passive situation and almost lose the initiative to attack. , which directly led to the Ming Dynasty becoming conservative and inward-focused, directly changing from active defense to passive defense. "
"The "Tumubao Incident" was a sudden disaster for the Ming Dynasty. Even the emperor was captured by the enemy. The emperor was captured, and Wala used Ming Yingzong to invade the pass. At the critical moment, the Ming Dynasty elected Zhuge Liang under the leadership of Yu Qian. Qi Zhen’s younger brother Zhu Qiyu is the new emperor.”
"Originally, Zhu Qiyu was just a vassal king, and the throne was not his turn. The "Tumubao Incident" allowed him to ascend to the throne. However, this man did have great virtues. When Wasi was about to destroy the imperial city, he made great use of talented people. Forcibly restored the Ming Dynasty."
"Originally, the matter came to an end, but who knew that Zhu Qiyu who succeeded to the throne was seriously ill, so Zhu Qizhen once again had some ideas. Some officials who were not taken seriously wanted to re-establish Zhu Qizhen as emperor in order to gain the merit of serving the dragon. , launched the "gate-stealing coup."
Zhu Qiyu unexpectedly succeeded to the throne due to the "Tumubao Incident". After the Seizing of the Gate incident, Zhu Qizhen became emperor again. The two abnormal changes of emperors directly affected the stability of the court and caused turmoil in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty had a profound impact. The various consequences caused by the "Tumubao Incident" caused the Ming Dynasty to turn from prosperity to decline. "
"After Zhu Qizhen became emperor again, he started to do outrageous things again. First, he built monuments, tombs and temples for Wang Zhen, the ridiculous "general". He also listened to slander and killed people who wanted to continue the Ming Dynasty. Zuo Yu Qian."
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes darkened, what? Did he hear wrongly and kill Yu Qian?
Cao Cao: A "castrated dog" called a general is really good at playing.
Kangxi: Yu Qian was a talented person. He went through four dynasties without incident, but when he came to Emperor Mingying, he was directly killed. Such a talented person, even if his merits are higher than his master, he should only be suppressed and not killed.
Ying Zheng: This is on par with the one from the Song Dynasty. Another one captured by foreigners. This is the third one.
Zhu Yuanzhang: The fourth child blames you!
Zhu Di: What do you care about me?
Zhu Yuanzhang: These are not your descendants. If you had not seized the throne, Ming Dynasty would have come up with such a thing.
Zhu Di: Huh, if I hadn't succeeded to the throne, the Ming Dynasty would have died like the Qin Dynasty.
Zhu Houzhao: Emperor Yongle was right.
Zhu Youjian: I think that’s right too.
Kangxi: Indeed, if Emperor Yongle had not seized the throne, the Ming Dynasty would have been destroyed in the hands of Zhu Yunwen.
"A series of coups caused by Emperor Ming Ying led to the weakening of the Ming Dynasty. Although several Ming Dynasty emperors later tried to turn the tide and there was some improvement, the prosperity of the early Ming Dynasty would never be restored."
"The last generation of emperor Zhu Youjian was a benevolent emperor. After Zhu Youjian succeeded to the throne, he vigorously eradicated the eunuchs. After that, more than 260 eunuchs were executed, sent to garrison, or imprisoned for life, which made them arrogant. The arrogant eunuch party received a fatal blow. The injustice was redressed, and the officials who had been deposed during the Tianqi period were reinstated. Yuan Chonghuan was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of War, gave Shang Fang a sword, and entrusted him with the important task of recovering the entire Liao Dynasty."
"He was diligent in political affairs, lived a frugal life, and had six edicts against himself. He was a young and promising emperor. However, a peasant uprising broke out during his reign. The Hou Jin regime outside the country was eyeing him. The Ming Dynasty was already in a situation of internal and external troubles."
"Hannan Xujun Chronicle" once recorded, "In the first year of Chongzhen, the sky in Shaanxi was as red as blood." There was great famine in the fifth year, floods in the sixth year, locusts and great famine in autumn in the seventh year, drought in Xixiang in September of the eighth year, floods in Lueyang, and all the houses were destroyed. Nine years of drought led to locust drought, ten years of autumn crops were gone, eleven years of summer locusts covered the sky... thirteen years of severe drought... fourteen years of drought." Since the Chongzhen Dynasty, Shaanxi has experienced severe drought every year, and many people have been displaced.
"There was another great famine in Shaanxi in the third year of Chongzhen. Ma Maocai, the governor of Shaanxi Province, wrote in "Bei Chen Great Famine" that the people competed for the grass in the mountains. When the grass was gone, they peeled the bark off the trees to eat. After the bark was gone, they could only eat Guanyin. soil, and eventually died of abdominal distension.”
In the sixth year of Chongzhen's reign, "the locust drought spread all over Shaanxi, killing more than half of the people in Yaozhou and Chengcheng counties." "
"In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, there was a serious epidemic in Shunde Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture and Daming Prefecture, and it was an epidemic of severe infectious diseases. "The plague spread, and eighty-nine people died." The epidemic spread for more than a year, and the plague appeared again, almost Hundreds of people died every day, many families, and this plague, from plague to bubonic plague, spread for three years, causing almost half of the deaths in every city."
