Emperor Xuanzong of Ming died prematurely after only ten years in power, and his son Zhu Qizhen had to ascend to the throne early and use the empress dowager to assume imperial power. Zhu Qizhen, who was born in peacetime, did not experience any major disasters or calamities, and after coming to power, the whole country was stable and peaceful, and the whole sea rose to peace. Because the empress dowager neglected to manage the emperor in her daily life, the little emperor did her homework very badly, and she just mixed with the eunuchs all day long. After Emperor Mingyingzong Zhu Qi grew up, he made his master Wang Zhen, who had been teaching him to read, a celebrant of ceremonies, and Wang Zhen controlled the government, blocked the connection between the emperor and the cabinet, and flattered the emperor to the extreme, so the emperor knew very little about the affairs inside and outside the government and the public.
Northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty has always been unstable, and the Tatars and other ethnic minorities in the north often went south to rob Han Chinese property. In order to emulate his ancestors, Emperor Ming Yingzong had to lead an army to personally conscript. The Ministry of War and the Cabinet tried desperately to dissuade them, but with little success. The imperial court could only try to cooperate with the emperor's Northern Expedition. The emperor led half of the civil and military officials and the eunuch Wang Zhen to lead more than half a million soldiers and horses from Beijing, all the way to the mighty banner to cover the sky.
The emperor, who had never experienced a battlefield war, was also busy and tired of coping when he arrived at the battlefield. After a major battle with Yexian, Emperor Mingyingzong surrendered more than 500,000 troops to this place in Tumu Fort, and his favorite eunuch Wang Zhen was smashed to death by Fan Zhong's hammer (and said to have died in the rebellion), and the emperor himself was also captured. The emperor was captured, and the humiliation was great. After the news reached the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the subjects were panicked, and some people said that the Mongols were going to fight in Beijing, so many people fled with their families and mouths. Even Xu Youzhen, a minister in the imperial court, pretended to use the theory of astrology to persuade the empress dowager to move south, and the general Shi Heng fanned the flames on the side. At this critical moment, Yu Qian, a soldier's attendant, shouldered the responsibility of defending the city, and with great courage and determination, he encouraged the people and soldiers to persist in resisting the enemy army, and at the same time advocated the killing of these courtiers who advocated ines of which they could not escape. Because it was still at the time of employing people, the empress dowager did not agree. Although the government and the opposition were already in the same vendetta, but because the emperor was captured and the imperial court had lost its main backbone, the soldiers' enthusiasm for resisting the war would not be too high, so Yu Qian and a group of ministers advocated that Zhu Qiyu be made emperor and Zhu Qizhen in the Tatar camp honored as the emperor.
The Ming Dynasty had a new emperor, so the Tatars could not get any bargains, so they could only return to the grasslands from under the city of Beijing. Before returning to the grassland, they still sent back Zhu Qizhen, the emperor. Emperor Mingying's return to Beijing was not a good thing for the new emperor Zhu Qiyu, so Zhu Qiyu ostensibly respected Zhu Qizhen and arranged a palace for him, in fact, he wanted to imprison him, lest the Emperor Taishang usurp his hard-won throne. In this way, Emperor Mingyingzong Zhu Qizhen was imprisoned for nearly seven years. However, although Ming Yingzong was a wingless bird, many people still had very high political expectations for it, because Ming Mingzong's body was worse than a day. Among these ministers, Xu Youzhen and Shi Heng were the most prominent, because under the ming dynasty patriarch, the two had been suppressed by Yu Qian, so they had long been dissatisfied with the Ming Emperor and Yu Qian. Shi Heng and Xu Youzhen joined forces with the eunuch Cao Jixiang, and the three of them took advantage of Emperor Ming's illness to open the gate of Emperor Mingyingzong's palace to welcome Emperor Mingyingzong's restoration, which was a famous change in history.
After the change of the gate, Emperor Mingyingzong was greatly rewarded for meritorious service, first the eunuch Cao Jixiang was made the eunuch of the Si Li Supervisor, and Xu Youzhen was named wugong bo, and entered the cabinet to lead the overall situation of the government. Shi Heng was also made the Duke of Zhongguo and was in charge of the most elite of the three battalions of the Jing Division. Of course, for a courtier like Yu Qian, Although Ming Yingzong did not want to kill him, there was no way, after all, Xu Youzhen and Shi Heng in the change of the door still needed to be appeased, so Yu Qian could only get the end of being in a different place. After the ceremony, Xu Youzhen and Shi Heng suddenly became hot figures, and the ministers competed with each other, and the two began to form a powerful party force headed by each other, especially Xu Youzhen. In order to suppress Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng made a small report to Xu Youzhen in front of the emperor, saying that Xu Youzhen often had no cover in front of the ministers, and repeatedly mentioned the credit for his change of seizing the door. For the emperor, the change of the door was a disgraceful political struggle, and of course he did not want others to know, so he severely punished Xu Youzhen. Xu Youzhen's whole family was sent to Yunnan by an edict from the emperor for the people, and they could never be officials in this life and this life.
Although Xu Youzhen lost his official position, after all, his life was still there, and Compared with Xu Youzhen, Shi Hengke was miserable. After Shi Heng overthrew Xu Youzhen, he was extremely arrogant, and the Gonggong Mansion he built was comparable to the specifications of a prince, after all, he often carried a large number of guards in and out of the palace, which made the emperor very dissatisfied. Shi Heng also befriended many henchmen, who were all over the imperial court and localities, and the emperor had long wanted to get rid of this shi party. Once, above the court, Shi Dang sent a difficult attack to protect Shi Heng's nephew Shi Biao and put him in the local army. Although the emperor had already shown great reluctance, Shi Dang still advised again and again. In a fit of rage, the emperor ordered Jinyi Wei to investigate Shi Biao, and then found a lot of illegal items in his home, which was trespassing. Jinyi Wei expanded the scope of his search and gradually set his eyes on Shi Heng's mansion. Emperor Mingyingzong personally ordered Jinyiwei to arrest Shi Heng, and later Shi Heng was beaten to death by Jinyiwei in zhao prison, and the whole family was also killed and exiled, and the fate was extremely miserable. Birds are exhausted, good bows are hidden, cunning rabbits are dead, and lackeys are cooked. I believe that both Shi Heng and Xu Youzhen have heard this sentence, but the two of them forgot this proverb after gaining power, resulting in the last one always being for the people, one with a different head, and the result is full of people sighing!