What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Confucius said, "The people can make it by it, but they cannot make it know." This means that politics should maintain a certain sense of mystery to the people, and if everything is clearly explained to the people, it will be very troublesome - on the one hand, it is really not easy to explain clearly, on the other hand, it may lead to a fierce reaction to the strategy at that time from the position and perspective of the emperor or officials. Lao Tzu said, "The weapon of the kingdom must not be shown." In fact, not only the common people, but also the emperor and the officials often have to maintain a certain distance.
Therefore, ancient emperors often "did not look at colors" in order not to let the ministers know too much about their preferences. Under normal circumstances, ministers often show "sincere trepidation" in front of the emperor, not pretending, but the emperor can decide whether they live or die, so they are really afraid. But there are also many special cases in Chinese history, such as the Ming Dynasty, where the relationship between monarchs and subjects was very special.
In addition to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, basically the emperors of the Ming Dynasty belonged to the kind of power that was very restrained by themselves, and the ministers sprayed spit on his face, and it is estimated that many Ming emperors will not treat the ministers as well, which is a very typical Tianzi and the scholar to rule the world together. For example, the emperor wanted to change a prince, the minister did not allow it, and then discussed back and forth for many years, making the emperor out of the psychological shadow, and finally did it according to the will of the ministers - this is the famous Shenzong Emperor's struggle for the country.
However, a bloody case in 1449 was completely out of the category of the Son of Heaven and the scholar and the master, and it can even be said that the ministers "intimidated" the emperor. Because in this incident, the civil and military officials took advantage of the emperor's absence, and directly killed the 3 emperors' cronies in front of the then jianguo (later emperor), and the blood flowed to the ground, which can be described as extremely bloody and ferocious, and also seriously weakened the emperor's prestige.
The cause of this incident was because Emperor Mingying listened to the eunuch Wang Zhen and personally led the Northern Expedition. Originally, it was not inappropriate for the Ming Emperor to personally march, the key was that Ming Yingzong handed over military command to a person who was not very good at commanding the army- the eunuch Wang Zhen. Wang Zhen led hundreds of thousands of troops to swing across the rugged terrain, while at the same time leading the army to show off everywhere in his hometown - there was no war, the Ming army was exhausted.
In the end, on September 1, 1949, Ming Yingzong was defeated and captured, and all 200,000 elite troops of the Ming Dynasty were consumed. At this time, the emperor was gone, and the Valar people still came to the city of Beijing with hundreds of thousands of troops- and the city of Beijing was in chaos. But at that time, the biggest problem in Beijing was actually about how to deal with Wang Zhen and his henchmen, and other things were basically not controversial. Emperor Ming's younger brother Zhu Qiyu eventually became a prisoner of state.
So everyone gathered in the court hall and began to discuss, and the right capital Yushi Chen Yi was the most fierce, he strongly said that wang Zhen's entire clan must be killed in order to calm the anger of the people in the world. The other ministers also agreed with him with a handful of snot and tears, demanding that the emperor must deal with Wang Zhen. For Zhu Qiyu, in fact, he was not very opposed to this matter, but the first time he came here as a "acting emperor" to face a group of indignant ministers, the surprised Zhu Qiyu was stunned.
Unfortunately, Wang Zhen's henchman Ma Shun saw that the Qunchen had persecuted the emperor's younger brother (the Ming eunuchs, although of varying abilities, were mostly loyal to the emperor) felt that they had seriously violated the courtesy of the emperor, so they stood up and rebuked the Qunchen. This is good, although everyone was excited, they did not dare to take what to do with Zhu Qiyu, the prisoner state. But Ma Shunna was a proper castration party, Wang Zhen's number one dog leg, and now he actually stood up and rebuked them.
The 36-year-old Huke slapped Wang Zhu in the incident, directly scolded Ma Shun, and then raised his fist that was not very sharp, and waved it in Ma Shun's face. Ma Shun was immediately blinded--this courtier actually dared to beat me JinyiWei? But what happened next made him even more confused—the angry ministers all ran toward him and waved their fists one by one. Although Ma Shun is a good military attaché, he can't stand the beating of so many people! Soon he was beaten into meat paste in front of Zhu Qiyu.
Zhu Qiyu was completely frightened and stupid--what were these crazy people doing? Do they want to kill me along with me? However, the courtiers still felt that they were not addicted, and they swung their indestructible fists and smashed them into the other 2 eunuchs, Mao Gui and Wang Changyi. The courtiers, who usually have no power to tie the chicken, have once again committed two murders - the victim's body has become a "lump". Watching the court gradually get out of control, finally Yu Qian stood up and shouted loudly, on the one hand, to stop the riots of the Qunchen, on the other hand, to let Zhu Qiyu order the Qunchen to be innocent, and this murderous court turmoil was stopped.
This was the only court brawl in the Ming Dynasty, and it is estimated that it was rarely seen in the entire ancient history of China. For this matter, Ma Shun and others certainly deserved it, but this kind of bloody violence to the emperor in person also further deepened the contempt of the Ming Dynasty's civil officials for imperial power, and eventually even directly influenced and manipulated the emperor, leading to the demise of the Ming Dynasty. So the Chongzhen Emperor said before committing suicide:
"The sudden loss of the world is due to the fact that corrupt officials and corrupt officials are usually bad, civilian officials are not in line with their hearts, and military attaches do not use their lives, so this is the case." Civilians and martial arts can be killed, but the people cannot be killed. ”