Yang Fan took a sip of water, cleared his throat, and said: "There once was a person. He made some high-level remarks. He put forward some views, thinking that the Tumubao Incident was full of doubts, and that the truth inside was covered up by civil servants. I think the British
My father-in-law personally participated in the Tumu Fort Incident back then. Your family should know a lot of the truth at that time."
Zhang Shize sighed and said, "Is the truth important?"
"It's very important, because civil engineering is a watershed. Before and after this incident, Ming Dynasty was completely two countries. I am definitely not being alarmist when I say this." Yang Fan said seriously.
Zhang Shize asked: "What have you heard? You tell me first, and I will listen too."
"What he said was very complicated. Let me summarize the key points. Yingzong wanted to clear the army back then, just like His Majesty does now. As a result, whichever warehouse he checked, that warehouse caught fire. Later, the emperor decided to go to Jiubian to see the actual situation.
The civil servants and local generals became anxious and plotted to attack the imperial commander on the road."
Zhang Shize had heard Yang Fan's statement before and was not too surprised this time.
He thought for a while and explained calmly: "If you check, you will find that fires in warehouses in the Ming Dynasty are very common in the winter. The winter is dry and the grain is dehydrated. A large number of granary fires occur every year."
"There are a lot of granaries near the capital, so there are naturally a lot of fires. This theory is untenable. You can go to the Ministry of Household Affairs to make statistics. My memory should be correct, and it cannot be true."
Yang Fan nodded and said: "The Yingzong Qing Army is indeed true."
"It's true. The Ming Dynasty has been like this for a long time, and it didn't just appear now. It's a normal idea for the emperor to want to cheer up. In fact, every emperor wants to reorganize the army, inventory the warehouses, and verify the soldiers. In the end, it's all
It’s an anticlimax, it’s nothing.”
Yang Fan nodded, and he also discovered that no matter how big the incident in Ming Dynasty was at the time and how much people paid attention to it, it would be settled in the end.
"It is true that civil servants are corrupt and lose military pay, and you know it. However, I don't think that if the emperor wants to find out that they colluded with local military commanders to be corrupt, they will take such extreme measures to deal with the emperor." Zhang Shize said.
Yang Fan said: "Because Yingzong could not find out clearly in the capital, he decided to patrol the nine borders. Instead of the Mongolian invasion, he was actually raided by the generals of the border army in Tumubao. Because he brought more than a dozen people with him on this expedition.
The censor actually went to investigate local officials and military generals. Yingzong took away the cabinet, which was the biggest suspicion. He was worried that the cabinet would take the opportunity to cause chaos, and at the same time he also took them to the Qing army to investigate the problems and places they found.
Officials and generals confront each other."
Zhang Shize said: "This is really a conspiracy theory. This person is so tricky. Some of the things he told you are indeed true, but they are only part of the truth. If you know part of it and if you know all of it, your views will definitely be different.
Even the complete opposite.”
"Let me just talk about the matter of censors. Just because Yingzong brought a lot of censors, we can't say they are here to investigate. We also brought more than twenty censors, more than Yingzong. Can you say that we
Are you going to investigate? It is normal for a large army to go on an expedition and bring many censors with them," Zhang Shize said.
"It is true that Officer Xuan Da was smuggling to Wala, but does the Emperor have to go and investigate it himself?"
"There is another doubtful point. The Wara captured Yingzong on August 16, and the Wara army arrived at the gates of Beijing on October 11. At that time, the entire Beijing camp was wiped out, and the emperor was captured. They did not attack the empty capital in one go. On the contrary,
Two months wasted in vain, taking Yingzong to Datong to call for help. In these two months, the Ming Dynasty established a new king and summoned troops from other places. As a result, they waited until the Ming Dynasty passed the most difficult period before attacking. As a result
Failed."
Zhang Shize also said distressedly: "God knows what Ye Xian was thinking at the time. He captured the emperor and instead of striking while the iron was hot, he quickly attacked Juyongguan and occupied the capital. Instead, he took Yingzong on a grand parade across the grassland and called for help. I don't know how to explain it.
.”
"There is a saying that Yingzong was treated too well in Mongolia, and it was not like he was defeated and captured. They suspected that Yingzong was transferred with 50,000 cavalry, and then was attacked by the Xuan army chiefs. When the emperor's army collapsed,
, when he met those who came to pay tribute, he first wanted to send Yingzong back, but Xuanda refused to accept it. He didn't bring too many people with him, and he didn't dare to go to Juyongguan."
Zhang Shize thought for a while and said: "I can be fair to this matter. Yingzong did receive very good courtesy in Mongolia. When he was sent back, twenty Mongolian warriors were sent to protect him. But paying tribute
This thing is definitely false. Before Tumubao, Ye Xian came to pay tribute ten times, and each time he sent envoys. What a coincidence, this time he came to pay tribute in person. Ye Xian is actually from Mongolia.
Your Majesty, is it possible for your Majesty to pay tribute in person?"
Yang Fan nodded, his rebuttal was very forceful, indeed he wouldn't.
"They also have a view that the reason Yingzong was not murdered by Emperor Jingtai after he returned is because the Mongols have been protecting him personally."
Zhang Shize laughed and said: "This is absolute nonsense. How could the Ming Dynasty agree to station more than 20 Mongolian Tatars in the Forbidden City. They are still elite soldiers. These Mongols sent Yingzong to Dong'anmen and went to stay at the Seyi Pavilion
Yes. There is a record of this, you can check it. I think he was not killed, and he was even able to be restored later because the Forbidden City was in the hands of Empress Dowager Sun, his own mother."
Yang Fan thought about it carefully and realized that what Zhang Shize said made sense. He had been in the Ming Dynasty for more than two years. He felt that Tumubao might indeed be full of fog, but these statements were obviously exaggerated.
"Why did Yingzong pack up the cabinet and six ministries and take them away? Is it necessary? Is it to prevent the cabinet from tipping off the border town? On the way to the army, Wang Zhen also punished the first minister, second minister and elder minister of the cabinet by kneeling. Is it necessary for the cabinet to do so?
I tipped off the border troops and was caught by Yingzong. In fact, it was Yingzong who asked Wang Zhen to kneel as a punishment."
Zhang Shize raised his head, thought for a long time, and said: "I can't explain it, and I don't know why the Yingzong emperor took away so many important members of the cabinet, the Sixth Ministry and the Fifth Army Governor's Office. The capital was empty, there were no people, and there were no soldiers.
No. Later, Oara came, and Yu Qian had to urgently mobilize troops from other places."
"Actually, Yingzong did not take away all the cabinet. As for the punishment of kneeling down the first assistant, second assistant, and cabinet elder, there is no such thing. It is all made up."
"There were indeed a lot of civil servants brought with them at that time. The list of those who died includes: Taishi Yinggong Zhang Fu, Taining Marquis Chen Ying, Prince Consort Jingyuan, Pingxiang Bo Chen Huai, Xiangcheng Bo Li Zhen, Sui'an Bo Chen Xun, Xiuwu Bo Shen Rong, the governor Liang Cheng, Wang Gui, the Minister of Hubu Wang Zuo, the Minister of War Kuang Ye, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy Cao Nai, the right minister of the Ministry of Justice Ding Xuan, the right minister of the Ministry of Works Zhu Yonghe, The right deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Imperial Censor Deng Li, and others, I won’t talk about the rest of the officials.”
Yang Fan knew that all this information could be found, and if Zhang Shize dared to say it, he would be right. He had believed these things before, but now that he heard Zhang Shize's words, he felt that these claims still lacked basis.
"What do you know about the Tumubao Incident? Can you tell me about it?" Yang Fan said.
"What I know may not be complete or true. But at any rate, my family is also the first noble of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Fu was also a party involved. Therefore, what I know is closer to the truth." Zhang Shize said.
