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In the original history, Zhu Qiyu collapsed in Xiyuan in the eighth year of Jingtai at the age of 30. The restored Ming Yingzong cut his emperor name, called him "King of Yuer", and was buried in Jingtai Mausoleum, Xishan, Beijing, with the rites of the prince. Ming Xianzong Zhu recognized his position as emperor when he saw Shen, and he was called "Emperor Gongren Kangdingjing", which affirmed Zhu Qiyu's merits to a certain extent.

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And now in the ninth year of Jingtai, in September, the leader of the Wara tribe also sent more than 2,000 people to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty to invite rewards, because the eunuch Wang Zhen refused to give more rewards, and subtracted four-fifths of the price of the horses, failed to meet their requirements, and created a provocation.

So in February of the 10th year of Jingtai, he commanded all the departments and harassed the mainland in four ways. On the east road, Liaodong was attacked by the Department of Takekh Buhua and Wuliang Ha; On the western route, the faction will attack Ganzhou (Gan-Su-Zhang-Ye); The middle lane was the focus of the attack, and it was divided into two groups, one led by the Arazhi Academy, which directly attacked the Xuanfu siege of Chicheng, and the other was led by Ye Xian to attack Datong. Also attack Datong all the way first.

Wang Zhen abused his power, not only did not arrange to strengthen the northern border defense, but accepted bribes from Warat and carried out smuggling transactions with Warat nobles. In order to make a profit, Wang Zhen asked his sworn friend, Guo Jing, the eunuch who guarded Datong, to privately make a large number of arrows every year and give them to Wara, who returned Wang Zhen with a good horse in return.

In order to curry favor with Warat, Wang Zhen gave him a gift and a generous reward. Since the establishment of the "tribute" relationship with the Ming Dynasty, Warat has sent tribute envoys to the Ming Dynasty every year to carry good horses and other goods to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, and the Ming Dynasty government will give corresponding rewards according to the amount of tribute items. In general, the value of the reward item should slightly exceed the value of the tributary item, and at the same time, a certain reward should be given to the other party's tribute.

Therefore, in order to obtain the wealth of the Central Plains, Warat was very willing to come to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute. According to the original regulations, no more than 50 people were allowed to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty each year. Later, Wara's desire to reciprocate from the Ming Dynasty grew, and the number of tribute envoys increased day by day.

Wang Zhen increased the tribute to the tile thorn, and gave rewards according to the number without any restrictions, so that the appetite of the tile spur became bigger and bigger.

The leader of Warat also sent a group of more than 2,500 tribute envoys, and in order to receive more rewards, he falsely reported that there were 3,000 people. Because Wang Zhen colluded with Wa Zhu and accepted a bribe from Ye Xian, he pretended not to know.

On one occasion, Wang Zhen went against the norm and asked the Ministry of Rites to give a reward according to the actual number of people, and rashly cut the price of the Vara Gong horse by four-fifths, and only paid the Varat for one-fifth of the things he demanded. Unsatisfied, the envoy returned in anger and reported to Yexian with added fuel and vinegar. Under the pretext that the Ming Dynasty reduced the reward, the troops were divided into four routes, attacked the Ming Dynasty in a big way, and personally led a large army to attack Datong.

The Warat army came fiercely and quickly advanced southward. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty guarding the northwest lost several battles and hurriedly asked the Beijing division for rescue. Wang Zhen, who didn't understand military affairs at all, didn't have enough understanding of Wara's military offensive, and he persuaded Emperor Zhu Qiyu to conquer in person many times, so he could scare the tile soldiers away. Therefore, in order to win by luck, he risked his side work, and instigated Emperor Zhu Qiyu to follow the example of Zhao Heng of Song Zhenzong without adequate preparation in the Ming Dynasty, so as to leave a good name in history.

After Emperor Zhu Qiyu issued an edict, Kuang Yu, the secretary of the military department, and Yu Qian, the squire, strongly said that the Ming army was not prepared enough, and the emperor should not rashly march in person. Wang Zhiyi, the secretary of the ministry, also led the ministers to say: "Now the autumn and summer have not subsided, the weather is hot, the drought has not returned, the grass is not abundant, the water spring is still congested, and the use of horses is not sufficient. Besides, if there is a rush in the Quartet, how can you arrive as soon as possible.

Originally, Emperor Zhu Qiyu listened to the advice of Kuang Yu and Yu Qian, but under the persuasion of Zhu Qizhen and Wang Zhen many times, he secretly made up an army of 200,000 within two days, claiming to be 500,000, and set off in a hurry.

When Kuang Wei and Yu Qian found out and angrily reprimanded Wang Zhen for being killed, the wood was already in the boat, and more than 100 civil and military officials, including the British official Zhang Fu, the military department secretary Kuang Yu, the household department secretary Wang Zuo, and the cabinet university scholars Cao Nai and Zhang Yi asked to go with the emperor Zhu Qiyu, not let them participate in military and political affairs, and hand over all military and political power to Wang Zhen at his own discretion.

Soon after the departure of the army, the army was in turmoil, and before it arrived in Datong, there was a shortage of food in the army. People are constantly dying, and zombies are paving the roads. In addition, after days of wind and rain, the people's feelings were turbulent, and they had not yet reached the front line, and the morale of the army was already unstable. Some of the officers accompanying the driver, seeing this scene, again asked to return to the army.

When Wang Zhen heard this, he was very angry, and in order to make an example of him, he specially punished Kuang Yu, the secretary of the military department, and Wang Zuo, the secretary of the household department, who knelt in the grass until it was dark. Later, Wang Zhen's comrade Peng Deqing used celestial phenomena to dissuade him, but Wang Zhen did not listen, and still forced everyone to continue to move forward.

Wang Zhen and Zhu Qiyu successfully entered Datong, and when they saw Warat's army retreating north, they thought that Warat was afraid of Zhu Qiyu's personal expedition and insisted on continuing to advance north.

Kuang Yu and the others deeply felt that it was not a good sign that they did not see a single soldier or arrow on the way, and they were afraid that the tile spurs had tricks.

Therefore, Kuang Yu once again asked to return to the army, reminding Wang Zhen not to be ambushed. Wang Zhen was afraid and hurriedly gave an order to withdraw from Datong the next day.

Wang Zhen wanted to withdraw his troops from Zijing Pass (present-day He-Bei-Yi-County-Xi-Bei) so that he could pass through his hometown of Ulzhou, so that Zhu Qiyu could take advantage of his mansion and show his prestige to his hometown fathers.

Originally, Zhu Qiyu was ready to refuse, but under Wang Zhen's hard request, he agreed to return to Beijing through Zijing Pass, because Wang Zhen did not engage in battle with Wara, that is, he retreated in a panic, and military discipline was even more chaotic.

Wang Zhen suddenly remembered that the brigade passing through Ulzhou would definitely damage the pastoral crops in his hometown, so he changed his mind and quickly ordered a change of route to the east, heading in the direction of Xuanfu (now He-Bei-Xuan-Hua). At this time, Warat knew that the Ming army had fled without a fight, and hurriedly organized an army to chase after him, and the situation was very tense.

General Guo Deng and university scholar Cao Nai suggested to Wang Zhen: "From now on, it is only 40 miles to Zijing Pass, and the adults should return to Beijing from Zijing Pass, and should not take Xuanfu again, so as not to be chased by the Wara army."

Wang Zhen didn't listen, insisted on going his own way, and insisted on turning to Xuanfu.

Because the Ming army ran in a roundabout way, the Wara army had already pursued it, and Gongshun Bo Wu Kezhong and Du Du Wu Keqin led their troops to die on the battlefield after the break.

Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, and others led 30,000 horsemen to block the attack, but Zhu Yong ventured to march to Harrier Ridge and fell into the siege of Wara, although he fought bravely, he was outnumbered, and all 30,000 troops were annihilated.

Wang Zhen thought that more than 1,000 heavy military vehicles had not arrived, and he was afraid that what he had looted would be lost, so he ignored the safety of hundreds of thousands of troops and ordered him to camp in Tumubao.

But it was too late, and the next day, the Warat army had already surrounded the fort.

Hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming Dynasty were surrounded for two days, unable to get water to drink, and their throats were so thirsty that they smoked. There was no way, Wang Zhen had to ask the soldiers to dig a well on the spot, but they dug more than two zhang deep, and there was not a single drop of water.

The soldiers were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, complaining and scolding, and the morale of the army was further weakened.

The Tile Thorn army besieging Tumu Fort knew that the Ming army could not find water to drink and was hungry and thirsty, so they prepared to lure them out of the fortress and annihilate them in one fell swoop.

In the tenth year of Jingtai, in May, the tile spur sent an envoy to the Ming army to pretend to negotiate peace with Wang Zhen, in order to confuse the Ming army, pretended to retreat, deliberately gave up the river water south of Tumubao, and secretly made an ambush, just waiting for the opportunity of the Ming army to fight for water and chaos, and sent troops to annihilate all.

Wang Zhen saw the Tile Spur Army retreating backwards, thinking that the Tile Spur Army really wanted to negotiate peace, so without analysis, he easily ordered the camp to be moved. After the hungry and thirsty sergeants got the order, they rushed up and rushed to the river, and when the Ming army was scrambling to run, the Ming army was ambushed in all directions, and the Ming army was defeated.

The only difference is that in history, Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong felt that there was no hope of breaking through, so he simply jumped off his horse, faced the south, sat cross-legged, and waited to be bound.

And Zhu Qiyu led the final army to prepare to break through and fight to the death with the king of Saikan, and Wang Zhen finally died in the chaos of the army, and almost all the dozens of civil and military ministers who served in the expedition died on the battlefield.

The only different Wang Zhen will not be like after the restoration of Yingzong in history, miss Wang Zhen, issue an edict to correct his name, and use fragrant wood as a statue of Wang Zhen to bury and summon souls.

The Civil Revolution was a turning point in the history of the Ming Dynasty, which had a significant and far-reaching impact on the political situation of the Ming Dynasty and the growth and decline of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu was seriously wounded and captured, 200,000 troops were defeated, the news reached Beiping, hundreds of officials cried in the palace, and Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, laughed after knowing the news. At that time, Yu Qian, the squire of the military department, used the method of clearing the wilderness to defend Beiping and protect the Ming Dynasty in distress.

The imperial envoy Chen Yi played the Han King Zhu Gaoxu, and counted Wang Zhen's crimes, and they said with grief and indignation: "Wang Zhen's crimes cannot be punished, and there is more than innocent death." If His Highness hadn't executed his family in a canonical manner, the ministers would all die here today. "Anyway, you can't get on your knees. At this time, Wang Zhen's sworn friend Ma Shun also protected Wang Zhen and drank the ministers. In the matter, Wang Hong saw that Ma Shun was still pretending, and he was furious, so he stepped forward and grabbed Ma Shun, punched and kicked him, and killed him on the spot.

Han King Zhu Gaoxu ordered to kill Wang Zhen's nephew Wang Shan and punish Wang Zhen's party, dragged Ma Shun's body to the street to show the public, Wang Zhen's family was beheaded regardless of age, and confiscated Wang Zhen's family property, and for a time the Han King Zhu Gaoxu's reputation increased greatly.

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