Chapter 65 dreaming of a general all day long

Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty played wantonly and indulged Liu Jin's misbehavior, which led to a civil uprising.In the fifth year of Zhengde (1510) from October to the seventh year (1512), Liu Liu and Liu Qi of Wen'an County, Bazhou, North Zhili rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.He moved to eight provinces, passed Nanjing three times, and approached Beijing four times, which forced martial law in the capital, and the difference in combat effectiveness of the Forbidden Army stationed in Beijing was fully exposed.The emperor was very dissatisfied, so he directly dispatched the frontier soldiers guarding Xuanfu to suppress the rebellion, and later relied on the strength of these frontier soldiers to suppress the uprising.After this change, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty was amazed by the fighting power of the frontier army, so he called those generals who had made meritorious deeds to the Leopard Room.

Among these officers was a man named Jiang Bin, who was burly, powerful, brave and good at fighting.Once he was hit by three arrows in a battle, one of which pierced his cheek and came out of his ear, but he ignored it completely, pulled out the arrow and continued to fight the enemy.When Wu Zong heard about his legendary experience, he was amazed, so he specially summoned him to see the sword scar.When talking about military affairs, the two were very speculative, and the emperor kept Jiang Bin by his side.Wu Zong has been interested in military affairs since he was a child. When he was a prince, he often practiced riding and shooting in the palace.The ministers persuaded Emperor Xiaozong to take care of him, but Emperor Xiaozong said that the prince's attention to military affairs is a good thing and a good thing, so he let it go.Later, when he became emperor, he practiced military exercises with the little eunuchs in the leopard room.But these are all jokes, he has not been to the battlefield himself.Now there is Jiang Bin, who assists the emperor in commanding the military formation, and replaces the little eunuchs trained by Wu Zong with elite soldiers selected from the border town.After Jiang Bin's training and guidance for a period of time, the emperor learned a lot of practical experience. In the confrontation exercises, he became even more fascinated with leading soldiers in battle. He longed for the opportunity to get out of the palace and truly experience the feeling of fighting on the battlefield.

The opportunity came not long after all.In June of the ninth year of Zhengde (1514), the little Tatar prince led the Mongolian cavalry to attack Xuanfu. The Ming army was unfavorable in the first battle, and later used the tactics of front and rear flanking to force the Mongolian army to retreat, but at a heavy price.In the eleventh year of Zhengde (1516), Mongolia invaded again, killing and plundering people, plundering livestock, and withdrawing after a lot of harassment.When Wu Zong heard about this, he felt that it was just a chance for the "army" in the palace, which he had practiced for a long time, to practice in actual combat.In addition, Jiang Bin and Qian Ning competed for favor with each other. Jiang Bin was afraid that Qian Ning would harm him, so he boasted to Wuzong how heroic the frontier army was and how graceful and charming the singers of Xuanfu were, which made the emperor full of fascination for the frontier.Therefore, the emperor made a decision that he would go to conquer the Mongols himself.

In the early morning of August 1st in the twelfth year of Zhengde (1517), Emperor Wuzong secretly changed into casual clothes. Changping.The court officials knew nothing about this, and the next day when they went to the court to find that the emperor was gone, they were all shocked. The three cabinet scholars immediately mounted their horses and went out of the city to chase them. There was a memorial, saying that the emperor's behavior was quite dangerous, and he should come back quickly to reassure the people.Of course, the emperor will not be persuaded to go back by a memorial, his goal is the Xuanfu.

The emperor threw off a group of ministers, but was blocked at Juyongguan.The patrol censor of Juyongguan ordered the gate to be closed tightly, and no one was allowed to pass through. Wu Zong sent someone to tell him to open it, but he took the imperial seal, sat under the closed gate with his sword, and ordered the pass to say: "There is a word. Cut off the switch!" and immediately wrote a memorial to urge the emperor to return.Wu Zong had no choice but to return. It's just that although the emperor went back, he was very unwilling and was still looking for an opportunity to sneak out.Half a month later, he found out that the censor had gone on a tour and was not in Juyongguan, so he slipped out of Beijing, rushed to Juyongguan, got out of the gate, and ran towards Xuanhua at high speed.On the way, the emperor repeatedly asked the censor Anzai, which shows that he still knew he was wrong.So, in order to prevent those ministers from coming to pull him back, he left an eunuch to guard Juyongguan, and no officials were allowed to leave the pass.The ministers were helpless, and Wu Zong finally fulfilled his long-cherished wish and came to Xuanfu.

Ordinarily, the emperor's expedition is also an aboveboard matter, why bother to do it so sneakily and waste a lot of trouble.It turns out that in the traditional concept, the emperor is the ninth-five-year-old, with an important status and cannot act rashly.If the "national foundation" is shaken in order to eliminate a few small thieves, the loss outweighs the gain.Besides, the Ming Dynasty itself has a tragic precedent: Ming Yingzong once went to Mongolia under the instigation of the eunuch Wang Zhen, but was defeated and captured. .Therefore, as soon as Wu Zong had the idea of ​​going to Mongolia, the ministers dissuaded him one after another.On the way Wu Zong "fleeed" to Xuanfu, he received countless memorials urging him to go back.Wu Zong was very annoyed by the noise of ministers with high morals.Therefore, in order to rationalize his border patrol, Wu Zong came up with a "brilliant" idea.He issued an imperial decree, named himself the "Mighty General and Chief of the Army", and changed his name to Zhu Shou. He used this childish method to confront the ministers: Don't you hate the emperor's patrolling the border? Are you going out to fight now? Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Shou, the mighty general.

The emperor gave him an official title, and he was just a small general soldier, but it had never happened before.Wu Zong's move made the ministers dumbfounded. The "mighty general" sent a decree to the cabinet, requesting the mobilization of money, food and troops to prepare for the battle.The ministers collectively wrote a letter to him, pointing out that what he did was against the ancestral system.But the emperor had already gone to the Xuanfu, and the ministers were prevented from leaving the customs. In four months, the officials in Beijing almost lost contact with the emperor.Although the memorials of the ministers were sent to the emperor, the emperor had very little imperial approval, so the protests of these ministers were useless. The "mighty general" is full of confidence and is ready to start a battle with the Mongols.

After a fierce battle, there are different opinions on the outcome of the battle.Since the emperor went out to fight the Mongols without a minister with him, none of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty would recognize the victory of the emperor's personal conquest.According to the "Records of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty", only 16 Tatar soldiers were killed in this battle, while more than 600 soldiers were killed or injured in the Ming Dynasty.Moreover, during the battle, "Chengyu was trapped", Wuzong was almost arrested like Emperor Yingzong, so such a result is not worth publicizing at all.

But the emperor himself didn't think so. He felt that he had won a great victory and that the trip was worthwhile, so he prepared to return to the court with enthusiasm.On the eve of returning to the court, Wu Zong made an ingenious purpose: ordered the eunuchs to reward all kinds of silks and satins to all officials, and asked them to immediately make new court clothes and wear them to pick them up. He also personally designed the style of the hat and distributed it to them Put it on as you do.So on the day when the emperor came back, all the officials of the court, dressed in messy clothes and weird hats, gathered outside the gate of Desheng to greet him.Looking from a distance, it is also colorful and full of flowers, like a group of jugglers.In the ten-mile canopy that welcomes you, there should be a curtain of slogans praising victory as usual.But Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty had a decree: "The mighty general Zhu Shou" won the victory and returned to the court, not the emperor Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty, so words related to the emperor should not appear on it.The minister had no choice but to write the words "Welcome to the mighty general". Therefore, no one dared to concede to a broken general in the next paragraph, which seemed nondescript and indescribably awkward.

Unfortunately, the weather was not perfect, and the weather suddenly changed that day, with heavy rain and snow, and all the officials stood there until evening, when the emperor appeared amidst the torches, wearing armor and a sword.He couldn't wait to brag to the court elders: "I even cut down a Tatar soldier with my own hands." It is estimated that those ministers were about to cry, but they could only bow their heads and praise the emperor Shengming.The emperor's vanity was satisfied, he drank a glass of wine handed by his chief assistant Yang Tinghe, and drove straight back to the leopard room to rest.And those ministers were in a mess in the rain and mud, all in a mess.Ming Wuzong finally took revenge for not letting himself out last time.

Although the ministers were not optimistic about the emperor's record, the siege of the officers and soldiers in front was resolved, and in the end of Ming Wuzong's reign, Mongolia never invaded again.In this way, regardless of the casualties, the emperor did achieve strategic success.It seems that the "mighty general" did not conduct military training in vain, and he is still very competent.Naturally, success should be rewarded, so Emperor Wuzong made a decree: to make the mighty general Zhu Shou the Duke of Zhen.And decided to continue patrolling the next year. The ministers will quit this time.Regarding the emperor's order, the four cabinet scholars refused to accept it.One of them was still prostrate on the ground, with tears streaming down his face, saying that he would rather let the emperor give him death than do such unfaithful things.The two academicians questioned: Your Majesty let the emperor do nothing, but degraded himself to be a township. If the three generations were granted the title, wouldn't it mean that the three generations of the first emperor would be degraded in the same way.The chief assistant, Yang Tinghe, was furious, and protested severely in the memorial: Who is the so-called mighty general Zhu Shou? Please list his resume;Wu Zong still ignored the protest of the Grand Scholars.At dawn on July 9th in the thirteenth year of Zhengde (1518), he repeated his old tricks, slipped out of Beijing, passed Juyongguan, and went to Xuanfu.Immediately, Wu Zong led an army of 17,000 people and began his border patrol trip. But this time, maybe the Mongols were afraid of the emperor Tianwei and kept avoiding contact. The emperor couldn't find the enemy for a long time, so he couldn't help being a little bit uninterested.But he finally ran out, so he was not willing to go back like this, so he stayed in the "Zhen Guogong Mansion" in Xuan Mansion, changed into casual clothes with his favorite minister Jiang Bin, and disguised himself as a commoner to play in Xuan Mansion. Various entertainment activities and markets.One of the main motives for the emperor to come to Xuanfu is the beauties here, so naturally he will not let them go now.Jiang Bin was originally from the Xuanfu, so he did his best to search for beautiful women everywhere for him as a landlord, and for a while, he made a fuss and closed his house.However, for Wu Zong, this was not exciting enough. He often walked at night in low clothes, broke in when he met a wealthy family, asked for food and drink, and searched for women.The Beijing opera "You Long Xi Feng" is about his romantic experience in Xuanfu.The emperor was in the Xuanfu, where there were endless fun and beauties, and there was no noise from the ministers with high morals in his ears. He was really happy and happily called the "Zhenguo Gongfu" his "home" .But having enjoyed enough of the scenery in the north, the emperor became interested in the beautiful south again.So, after returning from the northwest, he began to plan a southern tour.