Anhua King is a branch of Prince Qing of the Ming Dynasty (Qingjing Prince Zhu Huan). The fourth son of Prince Jing, he was granted the title of Prince of Anhua County in the 19th year of Yongle. The fiefdom was in Anhua, Gansu Province. The title was inherited to Zhu Houzhao. The person holding the title of Prince of Anhua County is Zhu Chixiu, the great-grandson of Prince Qingjing. According to the seniority in the clan, Zhu Houzhao has to call him Uncle Wang.
Well, to be honest, Zhu Zhixiu is not a treacherous and evil conspirator, he is just a bitter boy at best. I don’t blame him for this, I really don’t blame him. There were many princes, princes, and fiefdoms in the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, there are good and bad things. His ancestors did not perform well during the Jingnan period, so they ended up in Ningxia, an unlucky place.
If things develop normally, as the king of the Ming Dynasty, although his fiefdom is a little barren and some Tatars harass him every now and then, it will not have much impact on his personal quality of life. He will live a life of wealth and honor, and then Prince Qing's family gave birth to a bunch of sons and daughters, and that's probably it.
But the problem is that after he attacked the prince, he met someone.
This man's name is Wang Jiu'er. It is said that he has great supernatural powers and can communicate with ghosts and gods. He has a somewhat bad reputation in Gansu. I don't know if Wang Jiu'er took the wrong medicine. After some twists and turns, he met Zhu Zhixiu. When the goods met, they made a loud noise, knelt three times and kowtowed, and shouted "Old Emperor" to Zhu Zhixiu!
To be so favored by such a "godly" figure, Zhu Zhixiu also murmured in his heart. These three kneels and nine kowtows are not something ordinary people can afford, especially for such a capable person. Could it be that there is really something in my life? Ninety-five phase?
Probably from that day on, this kind of seed was planted in Zhu Zhixiu's heart by Wang Jiuer. Speaking of which, Zhu Zhixiu can't really be blamed for this. This is similar to the "Jingnan" incident of Emperor Gao Zuwen back then. What a resemblance. They are both young emperors who have brought chaos and ruined the country. They are also Uncle Wang guarding the border and holding heavy troops. When he thinks about the glorious future, his heart becomes even hotter. This was not the case for Jingnan back then. If you succeed, the world has changed its master!
Now that he has this idea, he will naturally recruit talents a lot. Not to mention, in recent years, he has really recruited some talents, both civil and military, including Sun Jingwen, Meng Bin and others. , there are He Jin, Zhou Ang, Ding Guang and others from Wu. At first glance, it feels like there are so many talented people here.
Now that he has a strategist and a general, what seems to be lacking is soldiers and horses. The imperial court decrees that the prince can have three guards and horses as a rule, and the prince can have one guard and horses to serve as a guard and rely on his responsibilities. He Anhua King He is not a one-word king. There are guards and horses beside him, which is already overwhelming. Even if this guard and horses are tried harder, they will not be of much value. You can't put more than a thousand people into it. Suddenly it becomes tens of thousands of elites.
Therefore, Zhu Zhixiu's ambition has encountered a bottleneck in this place. Again, I really don't blame him. The income from his fiefdom, even if he is allowed to work hard to raise troops, he really can't raise much. This It's a very expensive job.
Fortunately, this man is going to have good luck, and God is helping him. Not long after Liu Jin came to power, he began to think about clearing the land and reorganizing the army. This kind of job is a fat and oily job, so Liu Jin naturally sent him to join him. His officials went out. Zhou Dong, the young minister of Dali Temple, came to Gansu and Anhua with great pride.
Well, this Zhou Dong is extremely mean, and he has all kinds of ways to make money. When he arrived in Anhua, he met a guy who had the same bad taste as him - the guard eunuch Li Zeng. When these two people are together, it's really awesome They met late, and their relationship was as good as that of brothers. They got along well, and the unlucky one was naturally the owner of the field they cleaned up.
Note that Anhua is not a good place. This is a border town. Most of the land here is military villages. When these two people join forces, there are not just one or two unlucky generals, such as the ones mentioned above. He Jin, Zhou Ang, Ding Guang and other generals hated these guys even more.
Zhu Zhixiu is not stupid! These military generals all hold the military power of the imperial court. Zhou Dong and Li Zeng are so generous this time. They try their best to stuff people into my pocket. If I don’t accept it, then This was so disappointing. So, with the help of Sun Jingwen, these resentful military generals were quickly won over by Zhu Zhixiu's "generous and benevolent virtue" and joined his camp. According to the media, many of the guards from nearby cities in Anhua also joined Zhu Zhixiu's "great cause!"
Well, everything is ready now, all we need is the east wind.
In March, the border was in a critical situation, and troops and horses from various places in Anhua were mobilized frequently. These generals who had defected to the army were finally able to run around with their troops and horses legitimately. Zhu Zhixiu took a look and said, "Acridine, the east wind is coming. This is the east wind." Opportunities don’t come often, so just do the opposite!
So, in the name of the labor force, Zhu Zhixiu invited all the leaders of Anhua to his palace. Naturally, there was some persuasion during the banquet. It is estimated that the number of people persuaded was not very good, and it didn't seem to be very big anyway. Since persuasion didn't work, let's just kill him. So, Ningxia's commander-in-chief Jiang Han died; the guard eunuch Li Zeng died; the governor An Weixue died; and the Shaoqing Zhou Dong died.
Although the young minister Zhou Dong and the guarding eunuch Li Zeng had a plan to kill themselves, the Ningxia commander-in-chief and the governor were just two companions. However, since Zhu Zhixiu planned to start an uprising, the person who sacrificed the flag would have to kill him. , it would be too shabby if there were only a few of them who mattered. After all, their deaths were not unjust. Although Zhu Houzhao thought that the general and governor deserved to die, if the imperial court really announced this to the world, The loyalty of the officials in the world has suddenly dropped. This is not how things are done. The imperial court commends loyalty, grants posthumous titles, etc., and they will not fall behind. The reputation behind them, this If you don't "loyalty" to the imperial court, ordinary people really can't get it.
Of course, in this war, the Chinese have always paid attention to "the teacher has a reputation." The so-called reputation is not justified, just like the battle of Jingnan. Even if everyone in the world understood what it was about, Zhu Di still He had to desperately push the righteousness to his side and raise the banner of "Qingjun, Jingguo is in trouble!". Zhu Zhixiu naturally followed his example, but when Jingnan was in trouble, the villain on the side of the king was Qi Tai. Huang Zicheng and other important officials did not have such a goal at the moment. The most powerful Eunuch Liu, the Supervisor of Ceremonies, naturally won the bid with honor, although this was not actually an injustice to Eunuch Liu.
Zhu Zhixiu spread the word to the world, enumerating Liu Jin's crimes, saying that he "collaborated internally and externally, and had evil intentions." Now he, Zhu Zhixiu, raised "rebels" to "clear the emperor's side and settle the world!"