Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 496 Nangong and Xuanwu Gate
People will always be angry for what they don't get.

For Wu, she has been cautious and cautious for half her life. Even though she was once a dragon and respected as the queen mother, the regrets and unwillingness in the past can never be made up for.

When she saw Hang, it was like seeing her former self. She tried her best, but couldn't get results. Looking around, there was no one and no one could help her.

The palace is deep, an unfavored concubine, with a child who is also unfavored, is suffering hard, innocence and longing, in the long palace road, become the strongest protective color.

At that time, she didn't have the ability to change everything, but now, she can!

Zhu Qiyu can understand this complicated mood.

Because it was the same for him.

The unfavored prince always stands on the background board next to the prince, trying his best to please him, but what he gets is indifference.

The fate of their mother and child is roughly the same.

Therefore, he had no way to refute Wu's even a word, so he could only bow his head and admit his mistake.

The atmosphere was somewhat stagnant, and after an unknown period of time, Empress Dowager Wu finally calmed down and asked.

"You said just now that you went to the Compassionate Peace Palace? What did you talk about?"

This topic that made both mother and son choked on their throats was finally exposed, and Zhu Qiyu breathed a sigh of relief.

After pondering for a moment, he explained everything that happened in the Compassionate Ning Palace.

After listening, Wu also frowned and asked.

"That's all for the palace servants. If you insist on arranging it yourself, everyone will lose face if you make a fuss. However, do you really want to hand over the Habayashi guards to them?"

Although it is difficult to do anything with a mere Jingwei, it is still the imperial army, and there are 5000 people.

If the Empress Dowager Sun were to grasp it like this, of course Wu would not be at ease.

On the contrary, Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "Don't worry, my concubine, the guards of Yubayashi are the forbidden army after all, and the forbidden army is directly under the front of the imperial court. No matter which Jingwei it is, if it can be ordered by a single commander, then I don't know how many times I have been defeated by the owls." time."

All Imperial Guards, except Jin Yiwei, have strict regulations on patrol locations and changing defense time. Under normal circumstances, they only need to follow the rules.

Once there is a situation to mobilize the imperial guards, there must be a hand edict from the emperor.

Including the commander of the guards, anyone without an edict who mobilizes more than 300 people from the Jingwei without edicts can be killed on the spot by the second officer.

This is called the emperor's army!
Therefore, at least for Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to completely control an imperial guard army.

This is not something that can be done by buying off one or two key positions.

In the absence of an imperial edict, if you want to completely control a Jingwei, you need to start from the commander and infiltrate to the lowest level of the pacification step by step, and bribe all these people.

However, how could such a big movement not be noticed by others.

Moreover, there are 26 guards in the upper straight, and they do not belong to each other. It is meaningless to control only one guard.

Thanks to the painful lessons of the Tang Dynasty and the mature experience of the Song Dynasty in controlling the army, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the possibility of the army's rebellion was basically eliminated from the system.

In particular, the 26 Shangzhi guards who guarded the palace were nailed to death in terms of the system and could only be mobilized by the emperor.

Of course, there is a loophole in this.

That is, once the emperor is seriously ill and unable to issue an edict, no one can mobilize the entire imperial guards. They can only stand by and guard the gates step by step, instead of privately reinforcing troops everywhere.

This was actually the most important reason for the success of the Nangong Restoration.

Throughout the dynasties, if they wanted to seize the throne by force, the first thing they wanted was to invade the palace city and control the emperor.

This is the case with the most famous change of Xuanwu Gate.

At that time, Li Shimin led the army to kill Jiancheng and Yuanji brothers at Xuanwu Gate, and then entered Wude Hall all the way to force Li Yuan to abdicate.

This is a real mutiny!

At that time, the subordinate army of Prince Qin's Palace to which Li Shimin belonged really fought a battle with the imperial guards guarding the palace city, and broke into the palace ban from the Xuanwu Gate.

However, the restoration of Nangong was not the case.

Strictly speaking, when Zhu Qizhen was restored at that time, there was no real attack on Miyagi, but only breaking through Donghuamen, the outermost palace ban.

In fact, if he imitated the change of Xuanwu Gate and wanted to drive all the way to the Qianqing Palace, then he would have no chance of success.

Because at that time, there was no real army in the hands of Shi Heng and others, but only three thousand private troops put together by various governments.

Among them, the main force is the private soldiers raised by Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang, and Zhang Fu, which add up to nearly 1000 people, and the remaining 2000 people are servants, house slaves, and guards of various mansions.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qiyu later concluded that the restoration of Nangong was led by the British government, and the Xunchen counterattacked the civil servants.

Except for the alliance of the deeply rooted Xunchen family in the capital, no one can gather such a huge private army.

Of course, what is put together is what is put together. With such a mob, it is impossible to break through the heavily guarded palace ban.

So they chose another path.

At that time, Shi Heng and others used the Supreme Emperor as a shield to break through the Donghua Gate first, then turned around and went to the Inner Jinshui Bridge, and surrounded all the ministers who were about to go to the early court.

They didn't intend to fight the Imperial Guard at all, but wanted to force the fact of restoration, and then control the Imperial Guard in turn.

The risk of this road is extremely high, it is almost a life gamble.

This is completely a bet on how long Zhu Qiyu will be unconscious.

Once Zhu Qiyu can wake up before their restoration is completed, then an imperial edict is issued, and the imperial guards will immediately kill their three thousand mobs on the spot.

But unfortunately, Zhu Qiyu woke up too late at that time.

On that day, Shi Heng and others attacked Donghua Gate, coerced all the ministers into Fengtian Hall, and forced the cabinet ministers to draw up a restoration edict.

Then, the officials were forced to kowtow, the enthronement ceremony was performed on the spot, and then all the ministers were detained, and people were sent out of the palace to convey the order of restoration to every yamen.

At the same time, in the name of restoring the new monarch, the imperial guards everywhere were ordered to lay down their weapons and hand over control of the imperial city.

The whole process lasted from early morning to evening, a full day.

It should be said that the imperial guards were dedicated to their duties. They waited for the emperor's edict for the whole day and guarded the palaces everywhere strictly.

However, they never waited for the imperial edict dispatching them to quell the chaos.

Therefore, in desperation, they had no choice but to lay down their weapons and accept the edict of the "new king".

When Zhu Qiyu woke up, it was too late.

Under coercion, the ministers have already admitted the restoration of the Supreme Emperor.

All the yamen in the entire capital knew the news that the Supreme Emperor had been restored.

All the commanders of the imperial guards were guarded, and the imperial city was controlled by the three thousand mob brought by Shi Heng.

And he, the emperor who has "abdicated", can only wait to die.

It should be said that there are many important reasons for the restoration of Nangong.

For example, after Zhu Qiyu abolished the Yidong Palace, all kinds of actions made the monarch and his ministers alienated. When the courtiers faced the restoration, no one resisted too much.

For example, at that time, people were in a state of panic, and everyone was thinking about who the new emperor should be if the emperor didn't hesitate, so they were cautious and did not dare to take drastic actions.

For example, Jin Yiwei had some troops in the imperial city at that time, although it was not enough to fight against Shi Heng and others, but if Yu Qian made up his mind to use these people to highlight the palace ban and go to the Beijing camp to transfer troops, it would be in time.

After all, the Jingying is different from the Jingwei. Yu Qian, who is the Minister of the Ministry of War and is responsible for saving the world, is capable of mobilizing a part of the army without worrying about being blamed afterwards...

But among all the reasons, the core is actually only one.

That was Zhu Qiyu was in a coma at that time, and the imperial guards were tightly imprisoned at each palace gate.

There is more than enough to guard the palace, but there is no edict, and no one dares to leave his post to put out the "rebellion".

This is the loophole of the Jingwei system, but also the advantage of the Jingwei system.

Therefore, Zhu Qiyu was not worried, and handed over the commander to Queen Mother Sun.

Because under this system, as long as he is still alive and awake, no matter who the commander is, he has to be obedient.

Although the Empress Dowager Wu knew a little about the military affairs because of her early experience, she didn't know much.

Seeing that Zhu Qiyu was confident, she didn't bother and asked instead.

"Then, what's the matter with the crown prince Kaimeng? You agreed so easily? Also, what's the reason for the draft? You don't always think about finding something for the Supreme Emperor to do after he comes back?"

　The transfer of troops from the Beijing camp requires reconnaissance and cooperation, which are kept in the Ministry of War.

　　Although in theory, an edict was required to invoke Kanhe, but given Yu Qian's status at the time, if he took the risk of a big mistake and invoked Kanhe privately, there is a high probability that he could be invoked to mobilize the Beijing army, because no one dared to ask him to check the edict.

　　Therefore, when Jingtai heard that someone had invaded the imperial city, Jingtai's first reaction was that Yu Qian rebelled...

　　In addition, the situation at the time, Yu Qianzhen transferred troops, but he died in the end, because he proved that he really had the ability to transfer troops privately, turning the possibility into reality.

　　So when Yingzong was restored, Yu Qian's ending was doomed...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)