Chapter 53: Snakes and Scorpions

In this chapter, we talk about the death of Gonggong Liu.

Death from a femme fatale.

Liu Jin was killed by the civilian official group, the military general group, and the eunuch group. The person who stabbed Liu Gonggong for the first time was called Zhang Yong. This is not only a eunuch, but also one of the former "Eight Tigers".

Zhu Ningxia, the king of Anhua (the fake word for "place"), was a fool as his name - a shovel shovel placed in Ningxia by the old Zhu family.

There are two kinds of kings of the Ming Dynasty. One is the one-character prince, who often uses the name of the country in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, such as the King of Qin, the King of Chu, the King of Zhou, etc. The second class is the two-character county king, with the name of the county, such as Zheng Chenggong, called the king of Yanping county. This Zhu Ningxiao is a second-class county king, a county king who is always psychologically unbalanced: why can others be sealed to the land of fish and rice, but they get Lone to this place where they eat sand, drink wind and birds and don't?

Fools like to be praised by others, and if they praise him, they really give money, so people from all walks of life wait for what they like. There is a goddess named Wang Jiu'er, who boasted the hardest: "You look like the Son of Heaven"! Wang Jiu'er specially raised a parrot and taught a sentence: "Son of God, Son of God!" Seeing Zhu Ningxiao remove the bird cage, the parrot shouted, and the fool was happy: Reward!

Fools love to be lively, and they like to greet a group of people to come to the house to entertain and pose as the boss. Some civil officials looked down on this fool, and no one paid attention to him, so they always dragged a group of illiterate generals to drink and brag. On the one hand, people are despised by civil officials all day long and are very depressed without playing, on the other hand, the free wine and meat in the palace are not eaten for nothing. It's been a long time, and the relationship seems to be very good.

Originally, it was nothing to have fun by himself, but it happened that Liu Jin sent someone to measure the acres of land in the army and found out the land occupied by many generals. Seeing that they were about to vomit out what they had eaten, everyone was angry. In particular, the governor of Shaanxi, the right deputy capital Yu Shi An Weixue, implemented Liu Gonggong's policy more resolutely, "It is to apply for a strict ban with the general soldiers, to collect the accumulated arrears of grain, to make up for the horses, and there are many people who have been tartled" - if the deficit is not made up, the big board will be drawn to the fart (by the way, in the report of the civil officials who later blackened Liu Jin, it was said that An Weixue repeatedly insulted the wives of the soldiers. Deputy ministerial-level cadre, inspection team leader and secretary of the provincial party committee, to insult the wife called Hanako? Hehe. Of course, the most illustrative of character is the style problem, this trick is a traditional show, understand! ）！ Everyone got together to drink and scold the street, scolding while drinking, scolding and drinking, and the fool was a little on the head: "Or, let's just rebel, right?" Didn't the divine bird say that Lone is the Son of God? The unlucky child in the palace is about the same age as Emperor Jianwen, and the lonely is about the same age as Grandpa Cheng, and the big one is the excellent tradition of our old Zhu family, so you can't lose it! ”

So it was the other way around.

As the saying goes, if you rebel, you won't succeed in three years. What about the rebellion of fools? Just do it!

If you are fast, you will die quickly. Eighteen days before and after, the farce ended. The process is very bloody and has little to do with the topic of this article, so I won't say much.

The slogan of the rebellion was: "Punish Liu Jin, Qingjun side." "It's quite uncreative, there is Liu Bi of the Han Dynasty far away, and Zhu Di of Chengzu is near, and the slogans shouted are all on the side of the Qing monarch. What's more interesting is that when the rebellion was sent, all the border towns ignored it directly after receiving this open letter of rebellion - no one took the fool seriously, and most of them pretended not to see it! Only Yansui Town sealed the text to the imperial court.

Emperor Wuzong Zhengde received the news and was a little afraid. Gotta suppress, send troops!

Who will lead the army?

Yang Yiqing.

Yang Yiqing's previous position was called the trilateral general system, and when he heard it, he knew that his power was very powerful and powerful. In addition to controlling the trilateral military affairs, the main work is to preside over the Ningxia horse administration and repair the Great Wall. This kind of construction project, in today's excavators, is a large project that costs countless money, and in ancient times, it completely relied on people to pull their shoulders, and it was a gold-swallowing beast. Liu Jin found out about the problem in the accounts, first arrested Yang Yiqing and put him in prison, and interceded with the scholar Li Dongyang (note that it was not Li Mengyang) and others, and let him retire and go home.

King Anhua rebelled, and he needed a person who was familiar with the local situation and had military experience to lead the troops to quell the rebellion, so Zhang Cai, the secretary of the ministry, recommended Yang Yiqing to Liu Jin.

This Zhang Cai can be said to be a real Ming elite - everyone knows Zhang Juzheng's whip method and test method, and he has continued his life for the Ming Dynasty for decades - and the prototype of the test method is from Zhang Cai's hand!

Liu Jin recommended Yang Yiqing to Zhengde without saying a word - Liu Gonggong felt in his heart, you embezzled public funds, I arrested you, someone interceded, and I let you go again, you should always be grateful for this, right?

It's a pity that Yang Yiqing doesn't think so. What Mr. Yang thinks is: Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents, and this hatred is not shared!

In addition to Yang Yiqing, Zhengde also sent a eunuch to supervise the army: Zhang Yong.

Zhang Yong was once tied with Liu Jin as one of the "Eight Tigers". But time has passed, and at this moment, there is a lot of personal grudges with Liu Jin. The reason may be that Gonggong Liu is jealous - because Gonggong Zhang is good at riding and shooting, brave and brave, and is very liked by Wuzong. Wu Zong loves the military the most, not only did he personally go into battle to meet the little Mongolian prince, but also "I once slashed an enemy"! Such an emperor, among the kings of Shoucheng in history, is definitely second to none, and he likes Zhang Yong logically, calling Zhang Yong "strong man Zhang" - so, Gonggong Liu is a little unhappy. Once he stumbled and wanted to send Zhang Yong to Nanjing, but Zhang Gonggong ran to Zhengde and cried. The little emperor is a soft-hearted person, and he was a little embarrassed to see Gonggong Zhang crying with snot and tears: It's not that I don't love you, it was Liu Jin who proposed it, just call Liu Jin to make it clear. Don't look at Father-in-law Zhang's body like a woman, his personality is very gentlemanly, when enemies meet, he will beat him without saying a word. Father-in-law Liu's mouth was so bad that his fists and feet couldn't work, and he was pressed to the ground by Father-in-law Zhang...... The little emperor hurriedly pulled the fight, and called Gu Dayong again, let him be a peacemaker, and everyone had a drink and wine together, and the matter was over.

Father-in-law Liu felt that this matter was over, but Father-in-law Zhang didn't think so, and wrote down the hatred.

Zhang Yong, the eunuch of the supervising army, is very different from the father-in-law of the other supervising army. Because it was a public rebellion by the prince of the clan, the nature was far from being comparable to other ordinary mutiners or thieves, Zhengde personally awarded the "Governor Military Eunuch", and also gave the golden gourd axe that represented the authority, and engraved a gold seal (it used to be a copper seal), and personally wore a military uniform to Donghua Gate to see off the road to the strong line!

The eunuch supervision of the army in the Ming Dynasty was an old tradition left by Zhu Di.

The rebellion of ethnic minorities in Yunnan was suppressed by Zhu Yuanzhang. Adult males were beheaded, and females were either divided among the sergeants or sold along with the dolls. The dolls who were smart were castrated and sent to the palace to be the successors of the eunuch career. The palace didn't need so much, so it was reassigned to the palaces.

Among them, there is a Hui boy named Ma He, who was assigned to the Yanwang Mansion in Beiping and followed Zhu Di.

Time flies, the boy has grown into a young man, and Zhu Di also shouted a voice to clear the Jun's side, and reversed.

Once in Zhending, Hebei, Zhu Di and his gang were blocked by an army of 100,000 loyal to Zhu Yunwen, and the leader was called Li Jinglong, the son of the famous Li Wenzhong. There is a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, and seeing that it is difficult to escape the fate of the annihilation of the whole army, Cheng Zu sacrificed a ruthless move, called "If you give up Lao Tzu, you have to trap the wolf": use yourself as bait!

At that time, the military formations of the two sides were linear phalanxes, and the two sides first confronted each other, and then shouted and rushed up to cut each other - generally speaking, the more people will definitely win, and there is no suspense.

The two sides had just lined up their formations, and Zhu Di took a few entourages and rode his horse to the opposite side. Settle your mount at a distance of more than a dozen paces and greet the opposing soldiers one by one:

“Hi，I’m Judy. How are you?”

"My nephew said that he offered a reward of 10,000 taels for catching me, don't listen to him, little kid talking nonsense! Surrender to me, I'll give you five taels, cash! What do you think? ”

"Damn, why do you look so ugly......"

Wandering all the way through, the mouth is not idle. Originally, there were no photos at that time, and everyone didn't know what Judy looked like, but now everyone knows that this person in front of him is the main one! Everyone looked at King Yan who was close at hand, and it was like looking at a walking 500,000! As long as you stretch out your hand, you can grab the endless glory and wealth of a lifetime, how can you let the brothers of the Ming soldiers called Huazi endure it?

Finally, someone shouted out in a loud voice and rushed out of the line to catch the 500,000 uncle...... Uncle turned his horse's head and ran away—but the 500,000 uncle didn't turn his head and run back, but seemed to be dizzy, sideways, and ran along the opponent's military formation!

None of the sergeants could watch the golden mountain within reach be grabbed by others in front of their eyes, and they all didn't wait for orders to catch up!

Li Jinglong under the flag of the commander of the Chinese army is so happy: Do you say that you are stupid, if you don't run into your own military formation, run diagonally, where can you run! Hahaha.

When the fun is over, look left and right: Ouch, I'll go! What about my people?!

Zhu Di used his body as bait to pull the front of Li Jinglong's army, the army was in chaos, and they were all chasing after themselves, leaving General Li Jinglong alone on the battlefield with a small number of his Chinese troops!

The drums beat loudly.

Zhu Di's army was waiting for this time, and he was stunned!

Li Jinglong ran away, and King Yan's troops cut down the general banner - the army chasing Zhu Di was already in a mess, and when he turned his head and saw that the Chinese army's general flags had fallen, he shouted "defeated" and fled in all directions!

It's a service, King Yan is victorious!

Chasing and killing the Ming army (that's right, it's called the Ming army, Zhu Di's own army was called the Yan army at that time) more than 20 miles!

Zhu Di was chased not only by soldiers on foot, but also by generals on horseback.

However, they encounter a bad star: Ma He.

Ma and Zema followed closely behind Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and beheaded more than ten close enemy generals!

The place where the battle took place is called Zhengcunba.

After the war, Zhu Di laughed loudly. looked at Ma He, who was full of blood, and solemnly declared: "Ma He! Today, I give you the land as my surname. From now on, whenever I call your name, I will remember you today! From now on, you will be called Zheng He! ”

Zheng He!

Three treasure eunuchs, Zheng He who went to the West!

To this day, we still sing the name.

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Knowing this history, it is not surprising that when we look at the history, it is not surprising that the eunuchs of the prison army are everywhere.

It is said that Yang Yiqing and Zhang Yonggang had not gone far before they got the news that King Anhua had been captured alive by a local guerrilla general (well, almost the level of a regimental battalion commander). To put it simply, since Zhu Shusho rebelled, he first killed several magistrates, and then ...... And then I don't know what to do! Shrinking in the city and doing nothing, waiting for the imperial court to send an army to beat him, and put a guerrilla named Qiu Yue under house arrest. I heard that Cao Xiong, the general soldier of Shaanxi, was the first to lead troops to suppress it, so he sent only a few thousand people to resist, Qiu Yue took the opportunity to lead the family to rush into the palace, and arrested the fool with three strikes and five divisions, and the farce ended.

The two sent the large army of the Beijing camp back to the Beijing division and led hundreds of guards to the local area to deal with the aftermath. Yang Yiqing came to Zhang Yong to discuss: Do you hate Liu Jinbei? I hate it too. Neng's shit!

The reason is ready-made: Didn't King Anhua's rebellion shout Liu Jin? Is the anti-thief bad or not? Oh bad! You see, even such a bad thief hates him, so you can see that he is the worst! It's all him, the chaos of the DPRK is not sluggish, and the border is restless!

Zhang Yong returned to the dynasty, Wu Zong gave a banquet, and everyone drank together as in the past.

It was almost dawn, Liu Jin was a little sleepy, and went back to the house to sleep. Zhang Yong immediately "sobered up" and kowtowed on the ground: "The old slave wants to join Liu Jin!" Yang Yiqing's list of crimes came out with a sprinkle. The other eunuchs who had been cleaned up by Liu Jin fell to the ground one after another.

Wu Zong, who was drunk and confused, listened to everyone's gossip and sighed: "Liu Jin has failed me."

Zhang Yong immediately picked up the conversation: "What do you think should be done?" ”

The drunk Wu Zong replied casually: "You can watch it." ”

Zhang Yong immediately led people to break in, arrested Gonggong Liu, and threw him into prison.

This was followed by a raid.

Of course, a lot of things were copied out. We know that Liu Jin is a father-in-law, not a saint. However, I don't believe the amount recorded in the book - "240,000 ingots of gold, another more than 57,000 taels, 5 million ingots of silver, another 1,580,000 taels ......"

Hehe.

Let's not talk about gold, let's just talk about the five million ingots of silver. We don't count fifty taels of big ingots, even if Father-in-law Liu's hobby is counting steel hammers, let's replace them all with five taels of small ingots - that's 25 million taels!

The three major expeditions of Wanli, the Battle of Ningxia cost two million taels, the Battle of Banzhou also cost more than two million taels, and the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea lasted for seven years, spending more than seven million taels - a total of 11 million taels of silver! What was the total national income of the Zhengde Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty?

Liu Jintuo, who was in prison, cried to Wu Zong: "The old slave was caught naked and put in prison from the bed, it's cold." Can you give the old slave a dress or two to cover his body? ”

Wu Zong was a soft-hearted and kind-hearted child, and immediately asked people to pick out a hundred old clothes and send them to Liu Jin. Then he gave a handling opinion: demoted to Fengyu (low-level eunuch) and sent to Fengyang to live idle.

How does this work? Liu Jin must die! Otherwise, Wu Zong is kind, one day Liu Jin will find another opportunity to cry in person, everything will be in vain - Zhang Yongke has a personal experience of this kind of thing.

Zhang Yong took Wuzong's order to the cabinet and discussed countermeasures together.

Immediately, the foreign court's civil official group Shen Liu Jin's recital came like snowflakes and sent it to Wu Zong's desk through the hands of the eunuchs of the inner court.

This is not enough.

Everyone unanimously decided: to raid the house for the second time.

Well, this time it is no longer gold and silver treasures that have been "copied out".

Not to mention the standard equipment of rebellion such as bows and crossbows, fake jade seals and fake dragon robes are all available.

Moreover, there is also a powerful one: a folding fan, and there are two sharp blades hidden in the fan bones!

This is not only to rebel, Liu Jin also wants to assassinate the emperor directly!

Dead! Punishment.

Seeing that many people believe in this, I just want to ask: Is the thing wrapped in the skulls of these people brains or brains?

Regardless of the social consensus that those who are physically handicapped in the superstitious era cannot be the "Son of Heaven" (Son of Heaven) if there are fewer heavy weapons such as bows and crossbows, and armor, it is not possible to hide them, and it is not good to use the ready-made genuine goods directly with the dragon robe and jade seal? How deep does it have to be in your brain, so that you can make a bunch of fake things in advance to find yourself unhappy! What's more, a single dragon robe takes hundreds or thousands of labor to spend more than half a year to complete - who can hide this? However, the rules of the game of Daming are that it is enough to list the crimes, and there is no need for evidence, let alone logical thinking.

A few small things to end with.

One. When Wuzong was still the crown prince, just six months ago, the Ministry of Rites gave his father Emperor Xiaozong a seal: according to the etiquette practice, the official documents of the world should be copied to the prince, so that the prince can be familiar with military affairs since he was a child!

Don't laugh. This isn't pedantic, it's the chicken thief at home! This is called "the work of support"! In the future, when the crown prince ascends the throne and becomes the emperor...... "When you are still an infant, it is the old minister who stands up and speaks up, and you inherit the unification today, and slightly follow the example of the dog and horse." ”

The subtext is - don't look at Xiaozong who only loves Empress Zhang now (by the way, among the ancient emperors, the only one who has only one wife is Xiaozong), if you can't keep it, you will press down that like a flower and a jade, and have a little cub, and you may want to change the prince if you love the house and Wu. It's a precautionary bet.

Understand?

Second. Kang Hai saved Li Mengyang - "Save me from the mountain", remember? Since then, it has been marked as a eunuch. Liu Jin fell, and Kang Hai was of course implicated and imprisoned. And Li Mengyang was popular at this time. And then what?

As we said earlier, silence.

Fortunately, I really couldn't find out what was wrong with Kang Hai, so he cut his job for the people and went home. Kang Hai saw through the guys who were full of benevolence and morality, and from then on, he attached himself to the mountains and rivers and no longer cared about those hypocrites.

Third. The chief planner behind the overthrow of Liu Jin is Yang Yiqing. Well, Liu Jin smashed Yang Yiqing's job, and he held a grudge.

So, who recommended Yang Yiqing for resumption?

Zhang Cai. Zhang Cai, the secretary who has a good relationship with Liu Jin, and Zhang Cai, the original inventor of the Ming Dynasty.

Hey, you have a good relationship with Liu Jin? Eunuchs!

Scratch!

The crime is to assist Liu Jin in rebellion.

Zhang Cai questioned the judge during the trial: "I have already become an official to the Ministry of Officials, and this position can be regarded as the head of the official, right?" said that I helped Liu Jin rebel, can he reward me as a vice emperor? The Emperor and the Queen of Heaven can learn from my heart! You are all scholars, and you can't help but talk about your conscience! ”

What about Yang Yiqing's reaction?

Silent. Hehe, what is conscience? How much is a pound?

Zhang Cai died tragically in prison (one said that he was poisoned). Mother, wife and children were assigned to Lingnan, and never returned to the Central Plains until they died!

Fourth. King Anhua rebelled, and the first general to raise troops to quell the rebellion was Cao Xiong, who was the chief soldier of Shaanxi at the time. In terms of merit, it should be second, second only to the guerrilla Qiu Yue who captured Zhu Ningjiao. However, unfortunately, he is Liu Jin's in-laws! So, the end is exile! The first dignified commander of the military region to raise troops to quell the rebellion went to be the head soldier. What's more, in the so-called official history "Wuzong Shilu" of civil official cultivation, the fact that he was the first to raise troops to quell the rebellion was directly tampered with - this historical truth was discovered in Yang Yiqing's private diary!

The so-called righteous gentlemen are just one side they use to show people~ The other side, their own self, is a femme fatale!

This knowledge point: stealing, stealing, thief, these words mean the same thing today, and the difference in ancient times is big.

Stealing: Thief, thief.

Bandit: A robber who blocks the road and robs (just a roadblock robbery, not with the goal of opposing the court).

Thief: A large group of bandits who openly rebelled.