What do you think of Ming Yingzong and Zhu Qizhen killing Yu Qian?

In A.D. 1457, Zhu Qizhen, Ming Yingzong, was restored and proclaimed himself emperor for the second time. At the same time, at the request of Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen, Cao Jixiang and others, Zhu Qizhen killed the famous minister Yu Qian. Seriously speaking, Yu Qian is one of the most important civil servants in the history of famous officials, keeping pace with Wang Yangming, Zhang and others. After Yu Qian was killed, he was buried in Hangzhou West Lake. Therefore, he became one of the three outstanding figures in the West Lake, with the same fame as Yue Fei and Zhang Huangyan. An important problem has arisen. Why was Yu Qian, a loyal minister, killed after the restoration of Zhu Qizhen?

First of all, let's talk about the ins and outs of this matter. Yu Qian was one of the senior civil servants in the Ming Dynasty, but during the first reign of Zhu Qizhen, he was suppressed and excluded. In A.D. 1449, the Mongolian Wala tribe went south on a large scale. Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, egged on by the great eunuch Wang Zhen, personally led more than 200,000 elite troops of the Ming Dynasty to personally levy troops. Due to the interaction of various factors, during the civil war, more than 200,000 Northern Expedition troops in the Ming Dynasty were completely annihilated, and even Zhu Qizhen himself was captured. With the capture of the emperor and the attack of the Walla army, the Ming Dynasty was in chaos.

Many officials suggested moving the capital to Nanjing to avoid the attack of the Walla army. Xu Youzhen is a representative figure who strongly advocates moving south, while Yu Qian is a standard hawk. Xu Youzhen and Yu Qian describe, it is from this time. Xu Youzhen became a joke in the Ming Dynasty officialdom after his victory in defending the capital, and he was always excluded. Shi Heng belongs to one of the generals who fought fiercely. After the civil war, Yu Qian became the minister of war, responsible for the military work of the Ming Dynasty, and naturally he was Shi Heng's immediate superior. There are a series of contradictions between Shi Heng and Yu Qian. With the capture of Ming Chengzu, the country cannot live without a monarch for a day. Zhu Qizhen's younger brother, Zhu Qiyu, came to power and became Ming Daizong in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Walla army is aggressive, it is good at fighting in the grassland and has no siege technology at all. In the civil war, a large number of firearms were scattered by the Ming army, and the Walla army was almost intact. This shows that the Walla army is not good at using firearms. Under the auspices of Yu Qian, the Ming Dynasty assembled various second-line armies from Shandong and Henan and launched a famous battle to protect the capital. Finally, after several rounds of fierce fighting, the Walla army retreated, the Ming Dynasty won the battle of the capital, and Yu Qian entered a glorious moment in his life.

With the retreat of the Walla Army, the position of Ming Daizong Zhu Qiyu began to gradually stabilize. Although it was suggested to negotiate with Vala to recapture the captured Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qiyu didn't want to recapture his brother. Please think about the shame of Jingkang in Song Dynasty. After Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were arrested, Song Gaozong didn't want to take back his brother and father. Because once you get it back, how can you take care of yourself? The awkward relationship between Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Qizhen is almost a copy of Song Gaozong and Song Qinzong. Therefore, several negotiations between officials sent by Zhu Qiyu and Valla are basically a formality and have no practical effect.

But it was in this case that Vara sent Zhu Qizhen back to the Ming Dynasty, which was even more embarrassing. He has secured the throne, and Zhu Qiyu certainly won't give up. Zhu Qiyu ordered Zhu Qizhen to enter the Nangong and was not allowed to contact anyone. In those years in Nangong, Zhu Qizhen really had a hard time. Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and other people who were not popular in Jingtai Dynasty began to unite and prepare to do a great thing, that is, support the restoration of Emperor Taizong and Zhu Qizhen. In this way, he changed from a dragon to a hero. By 1457, Zhu Qiyu was terminally ill. The opportunity has finally come. On the 17th day of the first month, Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang, Xu Youzhen and others jointly supported the restoration of Zhu Qizhen, and Zhu Qizhen proclaimed himself for the second time.

This event is called the change of the door. In this coup, Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and Cao Jixiang gradually formed the three giants in the political arena of the Ming Dynasty. Xu Youzhen is a civilian, Shi Heng is a military attache, and Cao Jixiang is a eunuch, which happens to be a model of the iron triangle combination. Out of hatred for modesty, all three demanded that Zhu Qizhen kill Yu Qian. In fact, Zhu Qizhen is very contradictory. Yu Qian is a hero of the imperial court, and successfully saved the capital, which is an indelible achievement of Yu Qian.

At the same time, Yu Qian was also one of the main officials who supported Zhu Qiyu's coming to power. This makes Zhu Qizhen very contradictory. For Yu Qian, Zhu Qizhen didn't want to kill him at first, but Xu Youzhen and Shi Heng urged Zhu Qizhen to yield. Although Zhu Qizhen is the emperor, he has just been restored and his position is still unstable. What's more, you can reposition yourself and really rely on Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng and others. Faced with the joint demands of several people, Zhu Qizhen had no choice.

Finally, Zhu Qizhen ordered to slay Yu Qian. But a few days later, Zhu Qizhen regretted it. After Yu Qian was killed, he was finally buried in Hangzhou West Lake. At the right moment, we can be neighbors with General Yue Fei. Later, Zhang Huangyan was also buried in the West Lake. For Zhang Huangyan, many people are strangers, and this is also a great figure. Heaven has a good cycle. A few years after Yu Qian was killed, Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang came to no good end and were killed one after another. As for Xu Youzhen, he was driven back to his hometown. Seriously speaking, among the civil servants in the Ming Dynasty, Yu Qian is among the best, if not the first, and can keep pace with Wang Yangming, Zhang and others. Without Yu Qian's persistence and efforts, the Ming Dynasty would probably lose the whole northern region, reappear the confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties or the Song and Liao Dynasties, and affect all aspects of development.

Zhu Qizhen ruled twice before and after. Judging from the ruling level of Zhu Qizhen, he is not the legendary bad king, and certainly not as good as those wise kings before, and he belongs to the Lord of persistence. During the reign of Zhu Qizhen, the Ming Dynasty began to decline gradually. Due to the civil war, the military attaché s and nobles of the Ming Dynasty were almost lost, and the politics of the Ming Dynasty was seriously unbalanced. The civilian group began to dominate and completely suppressed the military attache group. In order to suppress the civilian group, Ming Chengzu intentionally or unintentionally expanded the power of the eunuch group. By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Jian and Cabinet had become two central institutions.