Ming Dynasty: A mere unruly commoner is rebelling against the heaven?

Chapter 228 The Truth of the Tumubao Incident (Part )

When Zhu Youtang heard this, his eyes flickered slightly.

But he didn't say anything. He just looked at Zhou quietly, waiting for her next words.

Zhou's eyes were looking forward lightly, and it was unclear whether she was looking at Zhu Youtang, or looking through the long river of time at Emperor Yingzong of forty years ago.

"In June of the fourteenth year of Zhengtong, the Jinyiwei's investigation soon yielded results."

"First, the former Fujian Province inspector Liu Hua was convicted of building a village building without authorization, and was given a military cane. He was sentenced to beheading and his property was confiscated."

Zhu Youtang knew that this charge meant that Liu Hua supported the rebel Deng Maoqi in Minzhou and secretly provided him with weapons.

"The current Fujian Prefecture Censors Chai Wenxian and Wang Cheng knew about the situation but did not report it. They negotiated peace without authorization and allowed the rebels to rebel."

"Chai Wenxian was sentenced to lingchi (death sentence) and his property confiscated, while Wang Cheng was beheaded in public."

Zhu Youtang sneered: "Are these inspectors all sent by the cabinet?"

“Are they all from the Southeast?!”

Zhou looked at Zhu Youtang meaningfully, with both relief and emotion in her eyes.

"Tian'er, you have grown so fast in the past year."

"They were indeed all sent by the cabinet, and they are indeed all from the southeast."

As mentioned before, the group of cabinet ministers during the Zhengtong period, headed by Yang Shiqi's Three Yangs, were basically from Jiangnan and Fujian.

Yingzong had just ordered Jiao Hong to build ships in Minzhou, and immediately people in Minzhou started an uprising. How could this be such a coincidence?
The unrest in the southeast region is closely related to the cabinet!

"In June of the fourteenth year of Zhengtong, Emperor Yingzong ordered that the captured Minzhou rebel leader Chen Jianhu and more than sixty rebels be taken to the capital for interrogation."

"As soon as these people arrived in the capital, they were immediately sent to the Ministry of Justice. At the same time, the three judicial departments held a joint trial and quickly sentenced all of them to immediate execution!"

"From the time they arrived in Beijing to the time they were sentenced to death and escorted to the execution ground, it took no more than three days."

"But Emperor Yingzong stopped them and transferred all of them to the Jinyiwei prison."

After hearing Zhou's narration, Zhu Youtang, who had already been trained, quickly analyzed the reasons.

The Ministry of Justice and the three judicial departments are all the territories of civil servants.

These rebels must have the support of the cabinet and the southeastern gentry.

Once these people are captured alive, they will become a time bomb and must be killed immediately so that there is no evidence to prove their guilt.

But Emperor Yingzong must have begun to suspect the cabinet at that time, so he immediately transferred these rebels to the Jinyiwei prison.

The Jinyiwei Prison was the emperor’s territory.

If he is sent to the Imperial Prison...

By then, anything could be found out.

"But on the second day after Chen Jianhu and his group were transferred to the imperial prison, on the eighth day of the sixth month of the fourteenth year of the Zhengtong reign, a fire suddenly broke out in the Jinshen Hall of the Nanjing Imperial Palace."

"On the same day, the Miao chieftains in Huguang and Qianzhou simultaneously started a rebellion!"

Zhu Youtang was so angry that he slammed the table hard.

This group of southern civil servants are truly lawless and do not take the Zhu family's emperor seriously at all!
After the imperial palace in the capital was burned down, the imperial palace in Nanjing was burned down next. Burning imperial palaces had become a habit!
Do these southern officials really think that no one can control them?
Zhu Youtang asked, "How did Emperor Yingzong deal with these matters?"

When asked this question, Zhou smiled rarely.

"How else can we solve it? Just like you, we can send troops to fight."

"Emperor Yingzong sent Jingyuan Earl Wang Ji with the 100,000 troops returning from the third expedition to Luchuan, and 40,000 reinforcements from Shuzhou and Guizhou."

"We have a total of 140,000 troops. We will fight until these chieftains surrender or we kill them all."

"When the Jinshen Palace was burned down, Emperor Yingzong issued an edict."

"While granting amnesty to the entire nation, I am also warning everyone that if anyone violates the law or discipline again, they will be severely punished, and there will be no amnesty for any severe punishment!"

"At the same time, Emperor Yingzong dispatched a large number of nobles to the border towns and replaced a large number of governors of the Five Military Governors' Offices."

"On the second day of July in the fourteenth year of the Zhengtong reign, Emperor Yingzong rewarded each of the border troops with one tael of silver."

"But they sent a dozen censors and secretaries to the border towns of Xuanfu, Datong, Liaodong, etc. to distribute silver in person."

"The silver must be delivered personally to the hands of every soldier in the border town."

"But these censors and secretaries have just left the capital for less than ten days."

"On July 11, the 14th year of Zhengtong, news came from Xuanfu, Datong, Liaodong, and Suzhou at the same time..."

Before Zhou finished her words, Zhu Youtang's face was gloomy and he gritted his teeth and continued, "Wala Koubian!"

Zhou sighed: "Yes, you know everything."

Zhu Youtang knew more than just that!
Isn't Emperor Yingzong's action exactly the same as what he did before when he asked Liu Jin to go to Xuanfu to distribute silver?

The purpose was actually to use the excuse of issuing silver to directly count the actual number of soldiers and generals in the border town.

Afterwards, news came from these border towns: Walakou border!

Exactly the same, exactly the same!

Afterwards, Zhou told Zhu Youtang in detail about the Battle of Tumu.

The more Zhu Youtang listened, the uglier his expression became, and the rage in his heart grew stronger!

He was not only familiar with what happened next, but he had also personally experienced it once. The Tumubao Incident forty years ago and the Tumubao Incident he was experiencing now were not exactly the same, but they were also 80% similar!
What they did in the Second Battle of Tumu had corresponding effects in the First Battle of Tumu!

Yang Tong did what Yang Hong had done before.

Yu Shen did what Yu Qian had done before.

Yang Kui did what Yang Jun had done before.

Wang Zhi is Wang Zhen and Gao Shun is Zhu Yong.

Xu Pu and Liu Daxia were the then Minister of Revenue Wang Zuo and Minister of War Kuang Ye.

Zhu Youlang is exactly the same as Zhu Qiyu at that time.

What Zhou did was also what Empress Dowager Sun did back then.

Bolohan played the role of Yesen of the Oirat Mongols back then.

……

There are still slight differences in the general direction.

For example, Emperor Yingzong was ambushed by Yang Jun, the son of Yang Hong, on his way back to Beijing.

Zhu Youtang was ambushed by Yang Kui on his way to Xuanfu.

For example, Zhu Youtang won the Battle of Tumu, while Emperor Yingzong lost completely.

For example, during the month that Zhu Youtang was away from the capital, he went to inspect the nine borders, rectify military discipline, and consolidate military power.

Emperor Yingzong followed Yesen back to the grassland to gather troops and actually attacked the capital, wanting to send Zhu Qizhen back.

For example, Zhu Youtang won the battle to defend the capital and led his troops directly into the capital.

Emperor Yingzong lost the battle to defend the capital and followed Oirat Yesen back to the grassland.

At this moment, Zhu Youtang really felt like the clouds had cleared and light appeared.

Many things that seemed contradictory to him before now make sense to him once he thinks about them.

No wonder he always felt that there were many inexplicable things about the Battle of Tumu.

Even the history books have been tampered with, hiding the most important truth about the mutiny and coup. Even if it can be explained in the general sense, how can the details make sense?

It’s just that Zhu Youtang didn’t delve into the details before, so he believed in the revised history.

No wonder Mr. Ziren once commented on the History of Ming Dynasty: "The History of Ming Dynasty made me angry the most. Except for the two illiterate emperors, Taizu and Chengzu, who did a relatively good job, and Wuzong and Yingzong, who were slightly better, the rest of the Ming Dynasty were not good and did only bad things.

At that time, Zhu Youtang did not understand why Mr. Ziren had such a high opinion of Emperor Yingzong.

Zhu Qizhen led an army of 500,000 to go on an expedition, but was defeated at his doorstep by 30,000 cavalry led by Yesen. He was captured by Yesen and sent to a border town to become a gatekeeper.

It is obvious that this person is a mentally retarded and brain-palsed good-for-nothing who would do such a thing. Yet, Mr. Zi Ren, who is well-versed in the Twenty-Four Histories, speaks highly of him.

Now it seems that this should be the case that Mr. Zi Ren, who was well aware of the dangers of political struggles, saw the irrationality in the Ming History at a glance after reading the Twenty-Four Histories.

And through the things that Emperor Yingzong did and the laws he issued during his reign, and the impact they brought, we can come to a fair evaluation.

Mr. Zi Ren's vision is far beyond the reach of ordinary people.

After learning the truth about the Tumu Incident, Zhu Youtang hated the civil officials and military generals who had rebelled.

What's more, he hated the historians in the Hanlin Academy who were responsible for compiling the Veritable Records.

It is really not unfair to exterminate these three tribes!

It is said that the only lesson mankind has learned from history is that it has learned no lessons from history.

Human history is a circle, and the mistakes made in history are still being made today.

Even the history books are wrong, they are all tampered with, and the real reasons and processes are hidden. How can future generations learn and draw lessons? !
If Zhu Youtang had known the truth about the Battle of Tumu early on, would he have made the same mistake as Emperor Yingzong did?
If he didn't have the help of the system, if his tolerance rate wasn't ridiculously high, he would probably be the second Yingzong.

Zhu Youtang really didn’t know what would happen if he didn’t have the help of the system.

How can he be a good emperor based on the wrong historical impressions in his mind?

I'm afraid he doesn't even have the qualifications to be a puppet emperor, as he has long been framed by people in the cabinet and the harem.

Not only will he die young, but he will also be cursed and infamous for eternity.

This shows how cruel the civil servants are.

Although Zhu Youtang had figured out the cause of the incident, he still had doubts about what happened after the Battle of Tumu.

"If that's the case, how did Emperor Yingzong come back after he was defeated by Yu Qian in the defense of the capital?"

Having said that, Zhou answered all of Zhu Youtang's questions without reservation.

"Although Yu Qian won, his authoritarian behavior in the capital angered Wang Zhi, Hu Yi and others in the cabinet."

"Plus, the Oirat Mongols have been attacking the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, forcing Zhu Qiyu to take back Emperor Yingzong."

"So the cabinet took the Emperor Yingzong back without the permission of Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian."

Zhu Youtang sneered. He didn't expect that the alliance of interests among civil servants would be formed and broken so quickly.

Finally, Zhu Youtang asked the question that puzzled him the most.

"Since all the power was in Yu Qian's hands, why did the coup d'état go so smoothly when Emperor Yingzong was restored to the throne?"

(End of this chapter)