Chapter 53 Snakes and Scorpions

In this chapter, we talk about the death of Eunuch Liu.

Died by snakes and scorpions.

Liu Jin was killed by a group of civil servants, a group of generals, and a group of eunuchs. The person who stabbed Eunuch Liu first was named Zhang Yong. This man was not only an eunuch, but also one of the former "Eight Tigers."

The Anhua King of Ningxia, Zhu Zhi (a pseudonym for "Zhi"), Xiu (pronounced "Fan", meaning shovel), was named just like his name - a shovel placed by the old Zhu family in Ningxia - he was a fool.

There are two kinds of kings and titles in the Ming Dynasty. One is the one-character prince, which often uses the country name from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, such as King of Qin, King of Chu, King of Zhou, etc. The second one is the two-character prince, who uses the name of the county. Names, such as Zheng Chenggong, are called the Prince of Yanping. This Zhu Zhixiu is a second-class prince, a prince who is always mentally unbalanced: why can others be granted a land of plenty, but let him be here to eat sand? A place where wind-drinking birds don’t poop?

Idiots all like others to praise them, and they will give money to them if they praise them, so people from all walks of life will do what they want. There is a goddess named Wang Jiuer who praises the most: "You have the appearance of an emperor"! Wang Jiuer specializes in When he raised a parrot, he taught him a sentence: "Old emperor, old emperor!" When he saw Zhu Zhixiu, he opened the bird's cage, and when the parrot shouted, the fool burst into laughter: "Bonus!"

Idiots love to be lively, and they like to invite a group of people to their homes to entertain guests and act like they are the boss. Some civil servants look down on this idiot, and no one cares to talk to him, so they always bring a group of illiterate generals to drink and brag. On the one hand, people are depressed because they are looked down upon by civil servants all day long and don’t want to play with them. On the other hand, if you don’t eat the free wine and meat in the palace, you can come here and eat and take it. It’s so fun. As time goes by, the relationship seems to be similar. very nice.

It was fine to just have fun by myself, but it happened that Liu Jin sent people to measure the acres of land occupied by the army, and found out that many generals had privately occupied the land. Seeing that they were about to vomit out what they had eaten, everyone was very angry. Especially especially An Weixue, the right deputy governor of Shaanxi Province, was more resolute in implementing Eunuch Liu's policy. "He made an agreement with the general of the army to issue a strict ban, collect grain arrears and replenish horses, and many of those who were beaten with a cannon were left with no trace of their skin." - - If the shortfall cannot be made up, it will be slapped with a big slap in the butt. (By the way, in the report of the civil servants who later accused Liu Jin, it was said that An Weixue repeatedly insulted the soldiers' wives. Deputy ministerial-level cadres, inspection team leader and provincial party committee secretary , to insult the beggar’s wife? Haha. Of course, the best indicator of character is the issue of style. This trick is a traditional program, understand!)! Everyone gathered together to drink and curse, and they cursed and cursed while drinking. , the fool got a little carried away: "How about we just rebel? Didn't the divine bird say that Gu is the old emperor? The unlucky child in the palace is about the same age as Emperor Jianwen, and Gu is about the same age as Grandpa Cheng. The older one will be chopped off the younger one. It is an excellent tradition of our old Zhu family and cannot be thrown away!"

So it was the other way around.

As the saying goes, if a scholar rebels, it will take three years. But what if a fool rebels? Just do it!

The quickest reaction is the quickest death. Eighteen days later, the farce ends. The process is bloody and has little to do with the theme of this article, so I won’t go into details.

The slogan of the rebellion was: "Kill Liu Jin, Qing Jun will side." It was quite uncreative. There was Liu Bi of the Han Dynasty in the distance, and Zhu Di, the founder of the Han Dynasty, was near. The slogans they shouted were all on the side of Qing Jun. What is more interesting was that the rebellion slogans were sent out, and all sides After the towns received this open letter of rebellion, they all ignored it - no one took the fool seriously and most of them pretended not to see it! Only Yansui Town reported the letter to the court.

Emperor Wuzong Zhengde was a little scared when he received the news. He had to suppress it and send troops!

Who should be sent to lead the army?

Yang Yiqing.

Yang Yiqing's previous position was called the Trilateral General System, and once he heard it, he knew that he had great power. In addition to controlling the trilateral military affairs, his main job was to preside over Ningxia's horse administration and build the Great Wall. This kind of construction project is common today when there are excavators.

Big projects that cost countless dollars relied entirely on people's shoulders in ancient times, and they were even more gold-eating beasts. Liu Jin found out about the problems in the accounts, so he first arrested Yang Yiqing and sent him to prison. After intercession from the great scholar Li Dongyang (note that he was not Li Mengyang) and others, he allowed Yang Yiqing to be

He retired and returned home.

King Anhua rebelled and needed someone who was familiar with the local situation and had military experience to lead the army to put down the rebellion, so Zhang Cai, the Minister of Civil Affairs, recommended Yang Yiqing to Liu Jin.

This Zhang Cai can be said to be the real elite of the Ming Dynasty - everyone knows Zhang Juzheng's whipping method and the examination method, which forcibly extended the life of the Ming Dynasty for decades - and the prototype of the examination method came from

Zhang Caizhi!

Liu Jin recommended Yang Yiqing to Zhengde without saying a word - Eunuch Liu felt in his heart that you embezzled public funds, I arrested you, and someone interceded, but I let you go. You should be grateful for this, right?

It's a pity that Yang Yiqing doesn't think so. What Mr. Yang thinks is: destroying people's wealth is like killing their parents, and this hatred is irreconcilable!

In addition to Yang Yiqing, Zhengde also sent a military eunuch: Zhang Yong.

Zhang Yong was once one of the "Eight Tigers" alongside Liu Jin. But times have changed, and at this moment, he has a lot of personal grudges with Liu Jin. The reason may be that Eunuch Liu is jealous - because Eunuch Zhang is good at riding and shooting, and is very brave in martial arts.

Wu Zong's favorite. Wu Zong loved the military the most. Not only did he personally go into battle to fight against the little Mongolian prince, but he also once "killed an enemy with my own hands"! Such an emperor is definitely second to none among the emperors who defended the throne in history. He likes Zhang

Yongshun naturally called Zhang Yong "Strong Man Zhang" - so Eunuch Liu was a little unhappy. One time, he wanted to send Zhang Yong to Nanjing, but Eunuch Zhang ran to Zhengde and cried. The little emperor was a soft-hearted person.

Seeing Eunuch Zhang crying with runny nose and tears, I felt a little embarrassed: It's not that I don't love you, it was Liu Jin who suggested it. Let's call Liu Jin to make it clear. Even though Eunuch Zhang has a woman's body, he has a very manly personality.

Son, when enemies met, they would grab and beat them without saying a word. Eunuch Liu had a strong mouth and was weak with fists and kicks. Eunuch Zhang pinned him to the ground and beat him violently... The little emperor quickly broke up the fight and called Lai Gu Dayong to be the peacemaker.

, let’s all have a drink together to make peace, and forget about it.

Eunuch Liu thought that the matter should be forgotten, but Eunuch Zhang did not think so and took a grudge.

Zhang Yong, the eunuch who supervises the army, is very different from the other father-in-laws who supervise the army. Because it is a prince of the royal family who openly rebels, and his nature is far beyond that of other ordinary rebels or bandits. Zhengde personally conferred the title of "Governor-General Military Affairs Eunuch" and also gave him the title of Representative

The authoritative golden melon ax was even engraved with a gold seal (previously it was given a copper seal), and he personally wore military uniform and went to Donghua Gate to see him off as a grand gesture of farewell!

The use of eunuchs to supervise the army in the Ming Dynasty is an old tradition left by Zhu Di.

The rebellion of the ethnic minorities in Yunnan was suppressed by Zhu Yuanzhang. All the adult men were beheaded, and the women were either divided up by the sergeants or sold together with the dolls. The smart ones were castrated and sent to the palace.

As the successor of the eunuch business, the palace could not use so many, so he was assigned to various princes' palaces twice.

Among them, there was a Hui boy named Ma He who was assigned to Prince Yan's Mansion in Peiping and followed Zhu Di.

Time passed by, and the boy grew up into a young man. Zhu Di also shouted to Qingjun and turned against him.

Once in Zhending, Hebei, Zhu Di and his group were blocked by a hundred thousand troops loyal to Zhu Yunwen. The leader was Li Jinglong, the son of the famous Li Wenzhong. There was a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides. Seeing that it was impossible to escape the fate of the entire army being annihilated, Chengzu sacrificed

A cruel trick is called "I have to trap the wolf even if I have to give up": use yourself as bait!

At that time, the military formations set up by both sides were linear square formations. The two sides faced each other first, then shouted and rushed to kill each other - generally speaking, the one with more people would definitely win, there was no suspense.

The two sides had just arranged their formations. Zhu Di took a few followers and galloped to the opposite side. When he was about a dozen paces away, he reined in his mount and greeted the other side's soldiers one by one:

“hi,i’m judy. how are you?”

"My nephew said he offered a reward of 10,000 taels for catching me. Don't listen to him. That kid is talking nonsense! Surrender to me and I'll give you five taels in cash! How about it?"

"Damn it, why are you so ugly..."

Walking all the way there, I kept talking. Originally there were no photos at that time, so no one knew what Judy looked like. But now, everyone knew that the person in front of them was the real owner! Everyone looked at Yan who was just a few feet away.

Wang, it’s like looking at a walking five hundred thousand! With just one stretch of your hand, you can grab a lifetime of endless glory and wealth. How can you, the beggars of the Ming soldiers, endure it?

Finally, someone shouted loudly and rushed out of the team to catch Uncle Five Hundred Thousand... The uncle turned the horse's head and ran away - but Uncle Five Hundred Wan did not turn around and run back, but seemed to be dizzy and lay sideways.

, run along the opponent's military formation!

None of the sergeants could watch the golden mountain within their reach being caught by others before their eyes. They all rushed to catch up without waiting for orders!

Li Jinglong, who is under the banner of the Chinese Army Commander, is so happy: Do you think you are stupid? If you don’t run into your own military formation and run diagonally, where can you go? Hahaha.

When the fun was over, I looked around: Oh, I’m going! Where are my people?!

Zhu Di used his body as a bait to stir up the lines of Li Jinglong's army. The army was in chaos, and everyone was chasing him. Only General Li Jinglong and his few Chinese troops were left alone on the battlefield!

The drums are beating loudly.

Zhu Di's army was waiting for this moment, and came over in a daze!

Li Jinglong ran away, and King Yan's troops chopped down the generals' flags. The army chasing Zhu Di was already in a chaotic mess. He turned around and saw that the generals and flags of the Chinese army had fallen down. He shouted "defeated" and fled in all directions!

This is a battle, a great victory for King Yan!

Chasing the Ming Army (yes, it was called the Ming Army, Zhu Di’s own army was called the Yan Army at the time) for more than twenty miles!

Zhu Di was pursued not only by soldiers on foot, but also by generals on horseback.

However, they encountered an evil star: Ma He.

Ma He Cima followed closely behind King Zhu Di of Yan and killed more than ten enemy generals who were close to him!

The place where the battle took place is called Zhengcunba.

After the war, Zhu Di laughed loudly. Looking at Ma He who was covered in blood, he solemnly declared: "Ma He! Today, I refer to the land as my surname and give it to you. From now on, as long as I call your name,

I will remember you today! From now on, you will be called Zheng He!"

Zheng He!

The Three Treasures Eunuch, Zheng He on his voyages to the West!

To this day, we are still praising this name.

!!!

Knowing this period of history, when we look at the history of the Ming Dynasty, it is not surprising that eunuchs were everywhere.

It is said that Yang Yiqing and Zhang Yonggang had not gone very far when they got the news that King Anhua had been captured alive by a local guerrilla general (well, about the level of a regiment and battalion commander) led by more than a hundred people. To put it simply,

Since Zhu Tuantuan rebelled, he first killed several local officials, and then...then he didn't know what to do! He huddled in the city and did nothing, waiting for the court to send an army to beat him, and even put a man named Qiu under house arrest.

Qiu Yue's guerrilla attack. I heard that Cao Xiong, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi Province, was the first to lead troops to suppress it, so he sent only a few thousand people to resist. Qiu Yue took the opportunity to lead his servants and rushed into the palace, and captured the fool three times, five times and two times.

The farce is over.

The two sent the large troops from the capital camp back to the capital, and brought several hundred personal guards to the local area to deal with the aftermath. Yang Yiqing came to Zhang Yong to discuss: Do you hate Liu Jin? I hate him too. You can't die!

The reason is ready: Didn't King Anhua's rebellion call for the death of Liu Jin? Are the rebels bad? Bad! Look, even such a bad rebel hates him, which shows that he is the worst! It's him, the one who messed up Chao Gang

The border is restless!

When Zhang Yong returned to the court, Emperor Wu gave him a banquet, and everyone drank together as before.

It was almost dawn, and Liu Jin was a little sleepy, so she went back to the house and fell asleep. Zhang Yong immediately "sobered up" and kowtowed on the ground: "Old slave, I want to join Liu Jin!" Yang Yiqing recited the crimes listed by Yang Yiqing. Liu Jin took care of the rest.

The eunuchs fell to the ground to respond.

Wu Zong, who was drunk and confused, listened to everyone's accusations and sighed: "Liu Jin has failed me."

Zhang Yong immediately caught the conversation: "What do you think we should do?"

The drunken Wu Zong responded casually: "You can figure it out."

Zhang Yong immediately led people to break into the house, arrested Eunuch Liu, and threw him into prison.

Then came the house raids.

Of course, a lot of things were copied. We know that Liu Jin was a father-in-law, not a saint. However, I would not believe the amount recorded in the book - "two hundred and forty thousand gold ingots, and another fifty-seven thousand taels,

Five million silver ingots and another one million and a half million taels..."

hehe.
To be continued...