Xiangye

Chapter 25 A New Day

The change of Tumubao in the 14th year of Zhengtong was a watershed in the politics of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that it directly affected the political ecology of the later political and official circles. Many official game rules were completely rewritten from this year.

People who don't study history, when they mention the change of Tumubao, they probably know that Ming Yingzong was held hostage by the eunuch Wang Zhen, and the imperial conquest was personally conscripted.As a result, he suffered a big defeat in Tumu Fort, not to mention the destruction of the whole army, and even himself became a prisoner of Wara Grand Master Yexian.

After that, not many people know what happened.It's just strange, as for the war, Ming Yingzong ordered you to let an experienced general take command.

Isn't it good for you to stay in the capital and be his emperor, and you have to lead the troops yourself?Fighting is about death, and it is not a fun thing. Of course, everyone is happy when they win.But if he loses, what is the majesty of the emperor.This time, even myself was captured by the enemy.

Many people who don't understand Ming Shiji may be confused about this matter, but as long as they analyze it carefully, they can understand the general idea.

As the military is an extension of politics, this civil war involved the political background of the limited monarchy since the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Ming Yingzong ascended the throne at the age of nine. Because he was too young, the state affairs were all controlled by the Empress Dowager Zhang, and the three Yangs in the cabinet were in charge.The three Yangs are Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and Yang Pu.In ancient China, there has always been a tradition of scholar-bureaucrats and kings governing the world together. Emperor Yingzong ascended the throne as a young man, and his monarchy was not hindered, but he was severely restricted by officials.Even if the Empress Dowager and San Yang died, the monarchy was greatly restricted by the officials.

He had no choice but to support the eunuchs in the inner period and fight against the bureaucracy.It's a pity that the officials of the imperial court are too powerful, and Emperor Yingzong's ability is limited, so he will want to establish his prestige through a war.The reason why he was held hostage by the eunuch Wang Zhen in the battle of the Tumu Fortress was that later generations would hide it for his honor and save face for him.Anyway, eunuch Wang has been taken down with a hammer, and there is no proof of his death.

After suffering such a defeat, and the noble regiment in charge of the army was destroyed.The struggle between Emperor Yingzong and the civil official group was completely at a disadvantage, so that in the future, the civil official power was so powerful that they even dared to point at the emperor's nose and scold his mother.

It's hard for the emperor to say anything, so he can only do it on his own.Later, there were even emperors who stayed in the deep palace for decades, but did not go to court, and became shopkeepers, which was already a passive confrontation.

All this is because of Ming Yingzong's reckless decision.

At this moment, almost a month has passed since the emperor was captured, but the battle of Tumubao is still going on.In order to prevent Ming Yingzong from being threatened by Yexianna, under the auspices of the minister of the Ministry of War, Yu Qiang, the empress dowager was asked to make King Ying the emperor, but King Ying repeatedly declined.Yu Qian said loudly: "We are completely thinking about the country, not for the individual." The king then accepted the order.In September, King Yi took the throne, and Emperor Yingzong was honored as the Supreme Emperor.

After the emperor succeeded to the throne, he appointed Yu Qian as Minister of the Ministry of War to defend the capital.

Just last month, he also held the Supreme Emperor hostage to break through the Bauhinia Pass, which is only one step away from Beijing.Yu Qian led the soldiers and horses of King Qin who rushed to the capital from all over the country, lined up outside the nine gates, and fought against Ye Xianwa's army.

Both sides come and go, dozens of battles, big and small.Seeing that the Ming army is united as one, and the Beijing city wall is high and thick, it is difficult to get down.And his own soldiers and horses were hanging alone in the capital, seeing that they were about to be surrounded on all sides, there was no other way but to retreat westward with the Supreme Emperor Zhu Qizhen, and finally, they crossed the Great Wall of Wanquanwei in one breath and returned to the Mongolian grassland .

The Battle of Beijing ended with the victory of the Ming Dynasty. After this battle, there were no large-scale battles between the two countries, and there will be endless negotiations about the Supreme Emperor Zhu Qizhen.In any case, the military threat in northern Shanxi and the Gyeonggi area was lifted, and the newly enthroned emperor Zhu Qiyu breathed a long sigh of relief.

Next, not to mention the life and death of the Supreme Emperor, the most important thing for the new Zhu Qiyu regime is to cut off Wang Zhen's party members and eliminate the influence of the Supreme Emperor in the court.Then, major personnel changes at the central and local levels are also on the agenda.

The war in the north may not affect Hancheng, which is located in the northeast corner of the Guanzhong Plain, and the people of Hancheng are not too concerned about this battle.After all, Beijing is too far away from Xuanfu and Datong.But you don't care about politics, politics should care about you.

At least, Gao Wen was cared for a little in this situation.

First of all, the former magistrate of Hancheng was transferred to Fujian because he was a protégé of an old man from the reign of the Supreme Emperor.As soon as he was transferred, Hancheng immediately became a political vacuum. Before the arrival of Xinzhi County, Bo Huangwei appointed Bo Huangwei to replace Han Wei as the head of the silk team.In order to prevent Gao Wen's seventh uncle Li Jinbao from causing trouble, he nodded and made Gao Wen a quick step to be a police officer, which was regarded as a full-time job.

Just imagine, if it weren't for the sudden transfer of the magistrate of Hancheng, and the leaderless dragons in the yamen, this matter would not have been so easy.

I don't know whether it was Gao Wen's luck or that guy Han Kui stepped on the gun. The new county magistrate arrived just after the formalities of the two's errands were completed.If it is another day in the evening, this matter will be yellow if it is uncertain.

By dawn, the snow was falling and it was freezing cold.After walking for half a day, I arrived at the gate of the yamen, and my feet were still warm.

Gao Wen was wearing a clean blue arrow-sleeve shirt and a flat cap with bird feathers on his head today. As he walked, he was thinking about this major event that would affect the history of the Ming Dynasty for nearly 200 years in the future.

Emperor Daizong was enthroned. Although he was young, he seemed to be in poor health. He was seriously ill. Due to his illness, he could no longer take care of things. This gave some people in the court an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Just next year, Grand Master Wala first negotiated with the Ming Dynasty without any major breakthroughs. No matter how he blackmailed, the Ming Dynasty ignored him.There is no other way but to release Taishanghuang Zhu Qizhen back to Beijing.

Now the imperial court is lively, there are two days in the sky, and the people have two masters, which makes the hearts of the ruling and wild people turbulent.In the end, the Taishanghuang was imprisoned by the emperor in Nangong, and he was imprisoned for seven years.As for the supply of supplies, there is no one, and the majestic Ninety-Five is even hungry.In order to survive, Queen Qian of Zhu Qizhen had to make some female celebrities herself, and asked someone to take them out and sell them to make up for the family.

However, seven years later, this Ming Yingzong's time changed.In the eighth year of Jingtai, Emperor Zhu Qiyu of Ming Dynasty became seriously ill, and in the end, he was dying.

For a while, rumors spread everywhere in the capital, and people were panicked.

In fact, there is an end to life and year, and birth, old age, sickness and death are natural laws.The emperor died, let the prince succeed.The problem is that Emperor Jingtai has no son, so the throne hangs in the air.Marquis Shi Heng of Wuqing, Governor Zhang Zhe, Taichang Qing Xu Bin, Zuo Fudu Yushi Xu Youzhen, and former eunuch Cao Jixiang under Wang Zhenmen's family began plotting to support the Supreme Emperor.In the early morning of the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Shi Heng and Xu Youzhen led thousands of troops to control Chang'an Gate and Donghua Gate.A group of people knocked open the gate of Nanguan, knelt down in front of the Supreme Emperor Zhu Qizhen, and shouted at the same time: "Please ascend the throne, Your Majesty." Zhu Qizhen was helped to ascend the throne and regained the throne.

Upon hearing this news, Emperor Jingtai passed away, which is known in history as the change of seizing the door.

As a time traveler, Gao Wen was naturally familiar with the ins and outs of the whole incident, its cause and effect.This is a good opportunity, if you can prepare early, maybe you can get a servant of the dragon.

In this way, this time travel is somewhat interesting!

But now I am just a small policeman, with a humble status, even if I know the history well, even if I get the royalties a month later, I am still just a rich man.What can you do with limited resources?
God, you are really, since you let me time travel, why did you give me such an identity.The difficulty is also too high.

All of a sudden, all the thoughts flooded in, making the mind a mess and making the heart a little impetuous.

"Good dog!" Suddenly, a force surged from behind.

If Gao Wen hadn't practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his horse gait was extremely stable, he might have been knocked down to the ground.

At the same time, the body naturally released the surging force, and then hit back.

"Ah!" The person behind let out a low cry, and fell down with a "prone".

"Who dares to violate the tolerance?" Gao Wenhuo turned around with a sound, raised his foot and was about to kick him down.

At this time, he saw a familiar face, who was it if it wasn't his old enemy Han Kai?

It turned out that before he knew it, he had already reached the gate of the county government.Today, I and Han Kui met each other at the gate of the yamen on the first day of work after becoming a full-time employee.

This kid also came, and judging by his attire, he seemed to have become a yamen servant too.

There were two yamen servants beside him. Seeing Han Kui fall, they hurriedly reached out to help him.

Gao Wen smiled and retracted his feet: "Who am I? It turns out to be Wuchang Han. What a coincidence! Why, I haven't seen you for a few days. Does Han Wuchang feel very kind when he sees my younger brother? Are you here to make fun of Gao Wen?"

"What is the corporal leader? He is the head of the Han team. Gao Wen, to tell you the truth, I am the head of the Zao team now. You are a small policeman, why don't you come to greet me when you see me?" Han Kai pushed the two men away. The subordinates stared at Gao Wen fiercely, with expressions of resentment and complacency.

"Oh, so it's Team Leader Han." Gao Wen chuckled, and casually cupped his hands, but he didn't take Han Wei to heart.The head of the team is not an official, everyone is subordinate, so whoever follows whom.Besides, I belong to the fast class, and I have no affiliation with this villain.

However, there was still a slight movement in my heart.I had long heard that Han Kai's uncle Huang Wei was very powerful, but he was so powerful that he let a Minzhuang directly become the team leader in the yamen, as if later generations promoted a temporary urban management worker to be a regular, or a key position.

It's just that this Han Kui's character is inferior, he is still very naive.

They are all department-level cadres, and they still play childish tricks of bumping into people from behind, and they are not afraid of being laughed at by people on the scene.

"You don't know the etiquette of such a thing, take him down!" Seeing the ironic smile on Gao Wen's face, Han Kui was furious and wanted to do it, but remembered how powerful he was, and was afraid in his heart, so he couldn't help but look at him. The men ordered.

At this time, a tall middle-aged man in a blue robe of a civil official came out of the gate of the yamen, and shouted: "What's the matter, it's early in the morning. Today is the first day of the county's elder's inspection, which disturbed him. Can you afford it?"

The two yamen servants knew that Gao Wen was Lin Jinbao's nephew, and they all looked up and didn't see each other.Han Kui asked them to take Gao Wen down, so he was naturally unwilling.When he was in a dilemma, seeing this middle-aged scribe, he hurriedly said: "You guys have seen the third master."

Gao Wen was startled, and immediately knew that this person was Huang Wei, Huang Zhubo, and he bowed: "Gao Wen has seen Huang Zhubo."

Han Kui was still yelling: "Uncle, this man surnamed Gao is really abominable, take him down quickly."

"Shut up, bastard, this is a yamen, don't make trouble anymore." After speaking, he suddenly stretched out his hand to help Gao Wen up.With a smile all over his face: "So you are Captain Li's nephew Gao Wen. I heard that you are skilled in martial arts. When I saw you today, you are indeed handsome and talented. Not bad, not bad."

The attitude was unusually kind, which made Han Kai dumbfounded.

Gao Wen: "Huang Zhu Bo Miu praised it, I can't afford it."

"Hehe, since you've entered the yamen, do your best and don't let your uncle down. Captain Li must be waiting impatiently, so let's go!"

"Yes, Gawain has gone." Gawain straightened up, took his leave and left.To be honest, this Huang Wei looks refined and gentle, quite self-cultivated, he seems like a modest gentleman.Such a person is naturally very favorable to others. If Gao Wen was replaced by someone else, he would have been moved by him long ago.

However, Gao Wen was also a person who worked in a large national publishing house for many years in later generations.Because it is a state-owned enterprise, it is a big yamen, and the political struggle in the office is very fierce, and people like Huang Wei are seen a lot.

This kind of person always has a smile on his face when he meets people, whether they are enemies or friends, high or low status, which makes people feel like they are in the spring breeze.But once he wants to deal with you, he will make a decision before acting, and his hands will be very ruthless.

Gao Wen's seventh uncle Li Jinbao and Huang Wei have always been at odds, and there is a conflict of interest between the two factions.For a person like Huang Wei, there are only factions in his heart, friends are enemies, he will not look at Gao Wen differently because of his decent behavior and good looks!

This point cannot be hidden from Gao Wen.

Among the six rooms of the third class of the county government, not to mention the sixth room.Among the three classes, the fast class has the greatest power, playing the role of the Public Security Bureau and the Armed Police Force of later generations.There are also many people, and they have their own prisons, which are called classrooms.Therefore, I do not work in the yamen, but in an alley next to the yamen, which is quite large.

As soon as he entered the fast shift room, Li Jinbao and a dozen or so policemen had already arrived.

Li Jinbao asked someone to bring a lancet and an iron chain to Gao Wen, and then tightened his face and told him for a long time before he smiled and said, "Gao Wen, since you are working under uncle, everyone is a family." People, if you encounter something in the future, don’t be rash, just ask if you don’t understand. However, if something really happens, don’t be afraid, you have me!”

Gao Wen was grateful in his heart: "Thank you, Uncle Seven."

"Have you had breakfast yet?"

Gao Wen: "No, we'll settle it with lunch. By the way, can I leave the classroom and go home for dinner at noon?"

Li Jinbao smiled: "You don't need to go back, otherwise, if there is something wrong with the yamen, what should we do? In other words, it is a good thing to fight in the north of Shanxi, and we have a lot of trouble."

When he smiled, several other policemen also laughed, and Gao Wen was puzzled by the laughter.

(End of this chapter)