Chapter 337 Chapter 336 Hui Zong Bo'er is only happy and happy with Muer

Emperor Yuan Shun, named Tuohuanmu'er, was the eldest son of Mingzong and his mother Hanlulu.Yanyou was born in the seventh year, and died of illness in the third year of Ming Hongwu.Reigned from 1333 to 1368 AD. Tuohuan Tiemuer was born in April of the seventh year of Yanyou (AD 1320). He was the eldest son of Yuan Mingzong and Shi Wangshu.In his childhood, Tuohuan Tiemu'er suffered several catastrophes and was treated coldly.Before he was old enough to understand, his mother passed away. At the age of 9, his uncle Tutiemuer poisoned his father and usurped the throne, and exiled him to a Koryo island under the pretext that Tutiemuer was not Mingzong's biological son. A year later, he moved to Guangxi Jingjiang (now Guilin, Guangxi).

In his later years, Tutiemuer deeply regretted killing his brother and seizing the throne.In August of the third year of Zhishun (AD 1332), Tutiemuer told everyone on his deathbed that the throne would be inherited by Mingzong's son.After Tutiemuer's death, Empress Bu Dashili and power minister Yan Tiemu'er took control of the power in the court. After careful planning, the two decided to support Mingzong's second son, Yizhen Zhiban, who was only 7 years old, to inherit the throne. The little emperor died after only 43 days, the throne was once again vacant, and Bu Da lost his way as a temporary regent.

Yan Tiemu'er urged Bu Dashili to make her own son Yantiegusi the emperor. Bu Dalishi felt that doing so violated her husband's will and was worried that it would cause dissatisfaction from the government and the public. He also sent envoys to Guilin to welcome Tuohuan Tiemuer back to Beijing.When Tuohuan Tiemuer saw the envoy, he immediately set off for the north.After arriving in Beijing, Yan Tiemu'er used various tricks to delay the time again and again, so that Tuohuan Tiemu'er could not ascend the throne for a long time.A few months later, Yan Tiemu'er died, and Tuohuan Tiemu'er, supported by Bu Dashili and the ministers, became emperor in June of the fourth year of Zhishun. This was Yuan Huizong.

When Huizong came to the throne, the Mongol rule was on the verge of decline, and what his predecessors left him was a tattered shelf.However, the emperor was young and didn't care about state affairs at all, he only knew how to play with women.In this way, the power in the court is completely monopolized by the two families of Boyan and Yan Tiemu'er. Relying on his high merits and authority, Boyan had no scruples, and he laid a poisonous hand on the Mongolian kings.At that time, Meng Ge’s descendant, Chechetu, was enshrined as King Tan, and Boyan’s ancestors were slaves in Meng Ge’s family. According to Mongolian tradition, Boyan’s family should respect Meng Ge’s descendants as envoys from generation to generation.Boyan felt that this was a great shame for his family, so he framed Chechetu in front of Huizong for treason and asked him to be executed.Huizong became increasingly dissatisfied with Boyan's actions, but he couldn't help him.

One day at the beginning of February in the sixth year of Zhiyuan (AD 1340), Boyan invited Huizong to go hunting. Huizong, who had always been active, was wary and could not go with the excuse that he was unwell, so Boyan invited Prince Yan Tiegusi Hunting Liulin (now the southwestern suburbs of Beijing).Boyan’s nephew, Tuotuo, was already uneasy about his uncle’s power over the government and offending the king. In order to protect himself, he offered Huizong a plan to chase Boyan away. Seeing that the time was right, Huizong hurriedly discussed the countermeasure with Alu and Shijieban. Secretly sent someone to Liulin to pick up the prince back to Beijing, and on February 15th, he ordered the city gates of the capital to be sealed off.That night, Huizong summoned his ministers to draft an edict to expel Boyan and demote him as Prime Minister Zuo of Henan Province, and sent envoys to Liulin to proclaim the edict that night.The next day, Boyan sent someone to the capital city to inquire about the reason, and Tuotuo stood on the city and read out the imperial decree: "All those who follow Boyan are innocent, they can be disbanded immediately, and everyone returns to their guards. Boyan is the only one who committed the crime." Boyan asked to go to the city to bid farewell to Huizong, but the envoy refused, saying to him: "The emperor has ordered the prime minister to leave immediately, and there is no need to say goodbye." Boyan had to bow his head and obey the order.Empress Dowager Bu Da, who had a close relationship with Boyan, was not spared either.Huizong also heard that his uncle Tutiemu'er publicly said that he was not Mingzong's own son when he was in office. In Dong'an Prefecture (now Anci County, Hebei Province), Crown Prince Yan Tie Gusi was killed in exile in Korea.At this point, Huizong finally took revenge for killing his father.

When Boyan was eradicated, Huizong was 21 years old. He made Mazhaertai the Grand Master and Prime Minister of Zhongshu You, and Tuotuo knew the affairs of the Privy Council. Doctor Shi, Mazartai father and son took over the military and political power.At this time, the two-year-old son born to Queen Boyan Hudu of the Zhenggong Palace died unfortunately, and the second queen Qishi gave birth to a son, named Aiyou Shiridara, who was deeply loved by Huizong. After Ma Zhaertai became the right prime minister of Zhongshu, he believed that he had made great contributions to assisting the emperor in eradicating Boyan, so he opened taverns and bad workshops near the capital without permission, and sent people to sell salt in the south.Tuotuo was afraid of being criticized and harming himself, so he secretly had someone sue Huizong, and Mazartai, who had only been in office for half a year, was forced to resign.In March of the sixth year of Zhiyuan (AD 1340), Huizong appointed Tuotuo as Prime Minister of Zhongshu You.After Huizong came to the throne, he first established the Yuan Dynasty "Yuan Tong" (1333-1334 AD), and then changed to Kublai Khan's reign title "Zhiyuan" (1335-1340 AD), which is customarily called "Later Zhi". Yuan". In 1341, Tuohuan Tiemuer changed Yuan to "Zhizheng", decided to appoint Tuotuo to carry out reforms, abolished Boyan's old politics, revived the great cause of the ancestors, and had great ambitions to restore the prosperity of the Yuan Dynasty, which was called "Genghua" in history.

In the first year of Zhengzheng, Huizong resumed the imperial examination system that had been interrupted for six years, and personally tested 78 Jinshi to win over Han scholar-bureaucrats.He issued an edict to summon four prestigious Confucian scholars Ouyang Xuan, Li Meiwen, Huang Mo, and Xu Youren into the palace, and asked them to give lectures once every 5 days to help him read the Four Books and Five Classics and practice calligraphy.In order to express respect for the orthodox thought of Confucianism, in the second year of Zhengzheng, Huizong sent people to Qufu to offer sacrifices to the Confucian Temple.In the second year, an edict was issued to compile the three histories of Liao, Jin, and Song Dynasties, and Tuotuo was appointed as the chief officer of the capital. Many Han literati participated in the compilation, and achieved the important content of "cultural governance" in Huizong's New Deal.

Huizong used Tuotuo and handed over all the power to him, thinking that he could sit back and relax.In order to win people's hearts, he rewarded nobles and bureaucrats indiscriminately, and was extravagant, causing the treasury to make ends meet.At the same time, the Yellow River suffered from floods year after year, and Tuotuo successively put forward the proposals of "changing banknotes" and "opening the river".Unexpectedly, in the context of increasingly acute social conflicts, "changing banknotes" and "opening rivers" became the fuse of the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

In May of the 11th year of Zhizheng, Han Shantong and Liu Futong, migrant workers for river control, launched an uprising, and elected Han Shantong as King of Ming Dynasty, named after him with a red scarf.The rebel army captured Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui) in one fell swoop, which opened the prelude to the vigorous peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Zhang Shicheng, a native of Taizhou, also revolted with the Red Turban Army, and after a series of victories, he proclaimed himself king in Gaoyou in the first month of the 14th.In September, Tuotuo sent a large army to attack Gaoyou. Soon after, he was impeached by Zhongshu Youcheng Hama, exiled to Yunnan, and was poisoned to death by Hama.Zhang Shicheng took advantage of the chaos before the Yuan army and sent out troops to defeat it.After the Battle of Gaoyou, many people from the disintegrated Yuan army joined the Red Scarf Army.The army of the Yuan Dynasty government fell into a slump, and Huizong had to change the policy of anti-Han, and encouraged and relied on powerful landlords to suppress peasant uprisings. The landlord's armed forces that prospered in the peasant uprising, the most important of which were the two forces of Dashi Badulu and Chahan Timur.

During this period, Emperor Huizong appointed Sijian as the Prime Minister of Zhongshu You, and Taiping (formerly known as He Weiyi) of the Han Dynasty as Prime Minister of Zuo.He also doted on Tibetan monks and set up promiscuous places for longevity, where men and women were naked.Hama selected folk beauties for Huizong, and asked them to dress up as Bodhisattvas, known as "demon dancers", and surrounded Huizong all day long.The second queen, Qishi, couldn't stand it anymore, and begged him to take care of his body, not to be deceived by the demon dancer, and to stop the construction.Huizong was furious, and shouted loudly: "I am the only one in ancient and modern times!" After that, he became more and more alienated from the Qi family. Get foreign aid.

Seeing that the political situation was in turmoil and Huizong allowed the courtiers to sway, the Qi family and the crown prince Aiyu Shiridara stepped up their actions and planned to join forces with Ha Ma, Pu Buhua, Qu Sijian and others to force Huizong to abdicate. Taiping objected.In December of the nineteenth year of Zhengzheng, Aiyou Shili Dala ordered the supervisory censor Maizhu and others to impeach the Han official Zhongshu Zuo Chengcheng Zun and Zhao Zhong who had been promoted by the Queen Mother, and killed the two of them in prison. This hurt peace.Seeing that it was impossible to stay, Taiping had to go to Huizong to ask for his resignation on the grounds of illness. The ministers immediately appealed to the emperor to keep Taiping. Huizong was forced to dismiss Taiping because of the aggressiveness of the Qi family and the crown prince.However, due to lack of support, Aiyu Shiridara forced his father to abdicate and failed to do so. In the 23rd year of Zhizheng (1363), Aiyou Shiridara and his mother Qishi stepped up their plot to force their father to become Zen. All important military and political affairs were suppressed, and Huizong was not allowed to hear about them.In March of the twenty-fourth year of Zhengzheng, Aiyoushi Lidala, Qusijian, and Pu Buhua borrowed from Aiyushiridara's royal doctor, Lao Sha, to know that Tujian Yimu'er was hiding in Bobo, a matter of the Privy Council. Regarding the incident in the Luo army, he accused Polo Timur and the old Sha of conspiring against each other, and asked the emperor to expel Polo Timur, a military minister on whom the imperial party relied.Huizong, who was isolated and helpless, had to obey the orders of the crown prince, and issued an edict to cut off the military power and official title of Polo Timur, and relegated him to Sichuan.Zongwang Buyan Timur and Tujian Timur were outraged, so they united with Polo Timur and wrote to Huizong to defend Polo Timur.Huizong felt that Polo Timur's loyalty to himself was an important weight for him to contend with the crown prince, so he issued an imperial edict, enumerating Qusijian, Pu Buhua's arbitrary use of power, bullying and other crimes, and punishing Pu Sijian. The prisoner was exiled to Lingbei, Pu Buhua was exiled to Gansu, and Bolo Timur was restored to his official position.However, at this time, the power of the crown prince had surpassed that of the emperor. Therefore, although the edict was issued, the rights and duties of Pinsijian and Pu Buhua were still in power in the court. In the 23rd year of Zhengzheng, Polo Timur and the expansionary Timur who ruled Shaanxi separatist fought over land disputes. Polo Guanjue, Polo was already very dissatisfied. In May of the twenty-fourth year, Aiyou Shiridara returned to the capital, and once again ordered the expansion of Timur to attack Polo Timur.Expansion Timur divided his troops into three groups, one route led by the general Bai Suozhu, and marched to defend the capital, and the other two groups advanced to Datong where Polo Timur was stationed.Polo Timur angrily killed Qu Sijian and Pu Buhua, and left a part of the army to guard Datong. He himself took the bald Timur and Lao Sha, and led the main force to attack Dadu, threatening to wipe out all of them. A traitor in the court.After the capital earthquake, Aiyou Shiridara personally led the army to fight, but was defeated and returned. Under the protection of Bai Suozhu's army, he hurriedly fled to the expansion of Taiyuan's Timur army.Polo Timur marched into the city with troops, and together with Tujian Timur and Lao Shamian met Huizong.Huizong immediately appointed Boluo Timur as Prime Minister of Zhongshu Zuo, the old Sha as the political affairs of Zhongshu Pingzhang, and Tujian Tiemuer as Yushi doctor.Soon, Boluo Timur was promoted to the right prime minister of Zhongshu, controlling the world's army and horses, and taking over the power of the country.After Polo Timur took office, he immediately killed Huizong's favored "Yina" and his close ministers, expelled Tibetan monks, and imprisoned Qi's family. In March of the twenty-fifth year of Zhengzheng, Aiyouzhili Dala ordered the expansion of Timur and Li Siqi to send troops to denounce Polo Timur, and dispatched troops from Lingbei, Gansu, Liaoyang, Shaanxi and other places to reinforce.Polo Timur sent Tujian Timur to lead his troops to fight against the crown prince's party in Shangdu, and then sent troops south to resist the expansion of Timur's army.At this time, Polo Timur was so dissolute that within a few months, he took more than 40 women as concubines, drank and had fun with the old Sha and others all day long, and even killed people with alcohol.The courtiers were afraid of him, and Huizong gradually lost his trust in him. In July, he issued a secret decree, ordering Boyandaer and other warriors to kill Polo Timur.The strife between the courts and the warlords came to an end with the victories of Aiyu Shiridara and Kuokou Timur. Huizong, who retreated step by step, only kept the throne of the emperor, but lost the last pillar of his rule. During this period, Zhu Yuanzhang's team rose rapidly, directly threatening the northern regions under the control of the Yuan Dynasty.Zhu Yuanzhang wiped out the heroes one after another, his reputation was greatly shaken, and he decided to send troops to the Northern Expedition to destroy the Yuan Dynasty. At this time, the court struggle within the Yuan Dynasty intensified.When Aiyoushili Dala fled to Taiyuan, he wanted to imitate the story of Tang Suzong proclaiming himself emperor in Lingwu and establish himself as emperor, but Kuokuo Timur disagreed.After Polo Timur was killed, the Qi family sent an order to the army, ordering Wang Kuo Timur to follow the crown prince to Beijing with heavy troops, with the purpose of coercing Huizong to abdicate.The Qi clan once again persuaded Kuokao Timur to come forward to force Huizong to abdicate with the crown prince, but Kuokao Timur refused again, thus offending Qi's mother and son.Hui Zongben was at odds with Kuango Timur, and he was afraid that he had too much military power. The ministers in the court also thought that he was young and had little qualifications, so they didn't take him seriously.Kuo Kuo Timur, who was used to being arrogant and pampered in the army, served as Prime Minister Zuo for two months.In the intercalary October of the twenty-fifth year of Zhengzheng (1365 A.D.), Huizong granted Kuokuo Timur the king of Henan, and ordered him to take over the army and horses of the world on behalf of the crown prince, and to attack Jianghuai. After Kuo Kuo Timur led the army to leave Dadu, not only did he not intend to organize the army to fight, but instead took advantage of the military power granted to him by Huizong to recruit various troops at will, which caused dissatisfaction among the warlord leaders.Huizong began to suspect that he had a rebellious heart. In August of the seventeenth year of Zhizheng, Huizong severely reprimanded the queen and the crown prince, saying: "In the past, Polo Timur raised his troops to invade the capital, but now it is not beneficial to expand Timur's army to the world. Your mother and son have missed my plan." The world. Now the country is falling apart and the difficulties are all caused by you, mother and son!" After speaking, Huizong angrily punched Aiyu Shiridara several times.Afterwards, Emperor Huizong issued an edict ordering the crown prince to rule the world's troops and horses, and ordered Kuo Kuo Timur to lead his army to the Jianghuai River from the east of Tongguan, Li Siqi to attack Sichuan from the west of Fengxiang, and Zhang Liangbi, Kong Xing, and Tuolebo to take Xiangfan together. .But even though the imperial edict was issued, the crown prince sat idly by, and the expanded Timur and other warlords also refused to accept it.Seeing that the commander-in-chief disobeyed the king's order and only cared about fighting civil wars, the generals of Kuo Koo Timur, Kou Gao and Guan Bao, fell to the side of the court and turned their heads to attack Kuo Koo Timur, gaining Huizong's support. In the first month of the twenty-eighth year, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing, and the name of Jianguo was Ming.In February, Ming general Xu Da led his army to capture all parts of Shandong, and then returned to Henan, directing his troops to Bianliang and Luoyang.However, the civil war among the warlords of the Yuan Dynasty continued.In the intercalary July of this year, Huizong saw that the situation was not good, and felt apprehensive, so he had to resume the posts of expansion Timur Henan king and Zhongshu Zuo prime minister, and let him lead the army to the south, imagining relying on him to save the defeat.At this time, the Ming army had joined forces in Linqing, Shandong, and headed straight for Dadu. On the 28th day of the seventh month in the 28th year of Zhengzheng, Xu Da led the Ming army to capture Tongzhou. When Huizong heard about it, he ignored the repeated persuasion of the ministers and decided to flee. That night, Huizong led the concubine, the prince and some ministers. , Open the Jiande Gate and escape from Dadu, pass Juyongguan, and head to Shangdu. On August 2, Xu Da led his army into Dadu. So far, the Yuan Dynasty regime that had ruled for 97 years came to an end.In April of the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1370), Huizong, who had been emperor for 36 years, died of dysentery in Yingchang (now southwest of Dalinuoer, Inner Mongolia). He was nicknamed "Shundi" at the age of 51.The temple name is "Huizong".