Chapter 51: Looking Back at the Civil Fort

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On August 29, the 14th year of orthodoxy, the civil and military officials jointly wrote to the Queen Mother, in this extraordinary period, we should take into account the principle that the society is the most important and the monarch is light, and the state affairs are the most important, and ask for the establishment of a long monarch.

After the chapter was sent to Cining Palace, for a long time, the Queen Mother sent a decree, agreed to the invitation of the hundred officials, and ordered the king to be the emperor. In this way, on the sixth day of September in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, officially ascended the throne, and respected the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen as the emperor, changed the next year to the first year of Jingtai, and issued an edict to amnesty the world.

A large-scale liquidation operation was launched, many of Wang Zhen's cronies, eunuchs and henchmen were dismissed one after another, and Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department who was in charge of Beijing's defense, purged the interior, mobilized heavy troops, and calmed the people's hearts.

Wara also saw the stability of the political situation in the Ming Dynasty, and knew that Zhu Qizhen was no longer a "strange commodity to live in", so he moved the idea of letting him return to the south.

However, although he repeatedly sent people to Beijing to sue for peace, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu was indifferent and ignored him. Even at the court meeting, he went against the norm and counted the evil deeds of Warat in a stern tone, and said that there was no peace with Warat, and repeatedly refuted it with the arrogant attitude of the Warat envoy and the absurd words of the letters.

At first, he was a little annoyed, but by this time, he was already difficult to ride a tiger, so he thought about personally sending Zhu Qizhen back to the capital. He wanted to take this opportunity to negotiate peace with Tonggong, after all, Warat's wealth came from Tonggong, without Tonggong, their gold and silver would be useless, and if they remained hostile to the Ming Dynasty, they would have nowhere to buy all kinds of necessities, and they couldn't exchange what they wanted, and gold and silver were waste.

So, in October, in the name of returning the Emperor Taishang, he took the Emperor Taishang with him, commanded the army to bypass Datong, fell into Baiyangkou, went down to Bauhinia Pass, walked all the way around the capital city of the Ming Dynasty, and soon came to the city of Beijing.

The civil official group headed by Yu Qian said that they also had the intention of attacking the capital first, and asked the emperor to give an order to fight a battle to defend Beijing.

Soon, the Ministry of War ordered the urgent transfer of the Liangjing, Henan garrison army, Shandong and Nanjing coastal garrison armies, Jiangbei and Beijing prefecture grain transport troops to Beijing division, plus the more than 100,000 defeated troops who fled back from Tumubao, reorganized the army of more than 200,000 men and horses to protect Beijing.

Coupled with the capital and hundreds of thousands of people, countless ordnance and rice, strong city defense, a large number of paramilitary troops: factory guards, government officials, wealthy generals, the royal forest army, and the army of Qinwang from all over the city, in front of the Mongolian tribes who are determined to plunder and have never been good at attacking cities, it is not a problem to hold Beijing at all.

Although some people say that he was first disturbing the border tactics and forcing peace with war, because of the strength of Yexian at this time, it was impossible to enter the Central Plains, he went all the way to Beijing, never captured any castle, did not attack Datong, which was less than 10,000 people, and did not attack Xuanfu, which was only tens of thousands of people, how could it be possible to capture Beijing guarded by more than 200,000 troops? It is impossible not to know that with only 30,000 people, after entering the city, what awaits him is the fate of catching turtles in an urn.

If he really wanted to attack the city, he would immediately go east after the Tumu Fort, at that time, Beijing was not prepared at all, so it was possible to win in one drum, at this time, first return to the north and then go south, and only arrived in Beijing in October, the best time to attack the city has already passed, so it must have come to send back the Emperor Taishang, and wanted to negotiate peace.

Along the way, only the Bauhinia Pass was also broken first. This Bauhinia Pass was recommended by Yu Qian to Sun Xiang to guard the town, which was the first battle commanded by Yu Qian after he was appointed as the secretary of the military department, and it was lost, but the crime was borne by Sun Xiang, so few people knew about it.

The other Luo Tong, who was recommended by Chen Xun, was guarded by Juyong Pass, which was immovable.

Of course he didn't dare, and it was impossible to attack Beijing City, and he went north to the Beijing Division, just wanted to force peace with the war, so that the Ming Dynasty could pay tribute with it, otherwise, how could he even capture the corresponding siege equipment necessary for the capture of the Beijing Division, such as artillery and ladders, as well as the supplies that should be prepared for the long-term siege, were not prepared.

However, such cries, like small droplets flowing into the sea, are ignored in the blink of an eye.

For the newly enthroned emperors and the officials who remained behind to serve as their substitutes and were promoted in a justifiable manner, fighting a battle of defense that was sure to win was a necessity to stabilize the people's hearts and improve the status of the new dynasty.

Therefore, Emperor Jingtai deduced that Wara was cunning, and this time he sent an envoy to come, maybe in the name of escorting Emperor Taishang back to Beijing, he came to attack secretly, and he must think about the common people in the world to avoid such a thing, and he must be fully prepared to fight with Wara.

Naturally, no one can refute such a high-sounding truth, otherwise, wouldn't it violate the principle that the society is important and the monarch is light?

Ignoring Warat's repeated requests for peace talks, Beijing began a battle to defend the capital.

As a result of a well-prepared defense, abundant reserves, and despite the lack of commanders to command the troops, under the implementation of a prudent and serious strategy, the monarch and the ministers worked together to repel the Warat in the Battle of Beijing in November.

The Ming Dynasty won a total victory, and on the eighth day of November, he also took Zhu Qizhen first and withdrew to Guanwai.

Yu Qian and other officials who stayed behind became famous in the first battle, and Yu Qian himself was regarded as a national hero, and his prestige reached its peak from a plate of scattered sand to unity, and everyone believed that the new military secretary was capable of leading them to defeat any enemy.

Sun Qingyang of Cining Palace turned a deaf ear to all this, in fact, she knew very well that with her as a woman, it was impossible to wake up those civil servants who were carried away by fame and fortune in the deep palace, and the voices of those who had the same opinion as her before were not quickly drowned out?

She just wants to save her son, the so-called Emperor Taishang who is still wandering on the grassland.

After the Battle of Beijing, she met with Wang Zhi, a minister who was known for his incorruptibility and straightforwardness.

At the court meeting, Wang Zhi went to Emperor Jingtai again and asked to send an envoy to welcome back the emperor.

This time, Emperor Jingtai sent Li Shi, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to envoy Wara. However, the letter of state did not contain the content of the Emperor Taishang.

Li Shi was taken aback, so he asked the eunuch Xing'an about it, and Xing'an reprimanded him sharply: "Your Excellency will go on the road with the national letter, these are the emperor's and Yu's meaning, how do the servants know, you will act according to the national letter, what do you care so much about?" โ€

On July 11 of the first year of Jingtai, Li Shi arrived in Warat. The monarchs and ministers were full of emotion when they met, looking at each other and crying.

Zhu Qizhen covered his face and said to Li Shi: "Now you have already promised to let me go, please go back and tell the emperor and send someone to pick me up, as long as I can go back, even if I am only a common man, even if I guard the tomb of my ancestors!" โ€

After reading the national letter first, he frowned, and said to Li Shi: "The national letter does not mean to be returned to the emperor. You go back and tell the emperor that you must send eunuchs and important ministers to pick you up. In this way, caution can be shown in this matter. โ€

After Li Shi went back, he truthfully conveyed Yexian's thoughts to Emperor Jingtai, but Emperor Jingtai still ignored it.

Wang Zhi and others couldn't stand it anymore, and strongly asked to send another envoy, and Emperor Jingtai had no choice but to appoint Yang Shan, the right capital of the Imperial Palace, as an envoy.

And the old trick was repeated, and this so-called mission was given a letter of state, which still did not mention the return of the emperor.

Before leaving, Hu Tong mentioned that the Emperor Taishang had been in Warat for so long, so he should let Yang Shan bring his royal clothes and food with him, so that he could welcome the royal car back. However, no one heeded his bits and pieces of advice.

After Sun Qingyang in the harem heard about it, he met with Yang Shan in private, handed over the gold and silver raised in the inner palace to him, and asked him to take the emperor back.

Because she heard that at the beginning of the year, the ministers congratulated each other on the New Year, but Yang Shan cried and said: "Where is the emperor, and I, Cao, congratulate each other!" So much so that the ministers were ashamed and stopped celebrating. Sun Qingyang believes that in Yang Shan's heart, there must be an emperor.

Sure enough, Yang Shan promised her that he would definitely welcome the Emperor Taishang.

After leaving the palace, Yang Shan took out his family wealth, bought some necessary items in the market, and brought them on the road. When he led the delegation to the camp in Warat, at the welcome banquet, he was confronted with the same questions as Li Shi.

"Why didn't you write in your national letter that you want to take over the emperor?"

Yang Shan said calmly: "This is to fulfill your good name, let you do it yourself." If we write an edict, it will be regarded as the Taishi you are forced by the Chinese court, not the Taishi's sincerity. โ€

He was overjoyed after hearing this, and asked, "Will the emperor return to be the son of heaven?" โ€

Yang Shan replied, "The position of heaven has been determined, and it is difficult to move again." โ€

also said: "How about Yao and Shun?" โ€

Yang Shan replied, "Yao let Shun, and now brother let brother, just the same." โ€

At that time, Mongolian Pingzhang Angke asked Yang Shan: "Why don't you buy your emperor with a heavy treasure?" โ€

Yang Shan said, "If you exchange goods, people will say that you are too profitable." This time I deliberately didn't bring it, because I wanted to prove that you are benevolent and righteous, and you are a good man, and you will go down in history in the future and praise it for eternity. โ€

also laughed and praised the kindness after listening to it, in fact, in private, he had already taken a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry given by Yang Shan, and he had all the face, so he was naturally very happy.

Due to Yang Shan's shrewdness and eloquence, he firmly grasped the psychology of Yexian's eagerness to reopen border trade, and under the difficult situation of Yexian's subordinates, the prefect Boyi Timur persuaded him to leave an envoy and asked Beijing to send an envoy to welcome the emperor to reinstate the throne.

In this way, Yang Shan welcomed back Emperor Zhu Qizhen without a holy decree.

At that time, the whole court praised Yang Shan's miraculous achievements, but Emperor Jingtai did not reward him for his reputation as not the first envoy to send an edict. At the same time, when the court and China were discussing the plan to welcome the emperor, they directly intervened, and the result of the court's deliberation was to meet Juyong Pass with one public opinion and two horses, and then change cars to Andingmen.

As for the objections raised by some people in the court, if they thought that the etiquette system was too light, the emperor said lightly that the emperor wrote a letter himself, and everything was blocked from being simple.

On August 15, after being captured in Tumubao, Zhu Qizhen, who had spent a whole year in the vast grassland, finally returned to the Forbidden City.

However, from the greeting etiquette and the cold attitude of his younger brother Zhu Qiyu, Zhu Qizhen saw that he was already an undesirable person.

After a brief greeting, the sedan chair he was riding in was quietly carried into a palace at the southernmost tip of the Forbidden City. This so-called South Palace, the sleeping palace of the Emperor Taishang, is just a very desolate and dilapidated courtyard outside the Donghua Gate, and since then, Zhu Qizhen, the Emperor Taishang, has been living here.