How can this be?
Zhao Dajing froze in place, his eyes looking straight at the head in the water tank, staring at the obvious traces of netting in the head’s hair, unable to believe his eyes.
Think not understand.
Obviously is the border troops into the Tartar head?
How did it become the head of the people?
Zhao Dajing at this moment is like a gambler who has lost everything, his eyes are red with blood, shaking his head uncontrollably, chanting impossible impossible …….
How is it impossible?
Zhu Pingan looked at Zhao Dajing and pulled the corners of his mouth, you Zhao Dajing killed Liang and risked his life, and some of the border generals are not good birds!
If it was any other year, Zhu Pingan might not be aware of it, but last year was too special.
The Gengxu Revolution!
Because it was less than a year ago, and it was a scandal, the current court was still blocking all kinds of information, and the Ming people at this time were not very clear about the inside story. But later history is recorded very clearly, many historical books have described this, Zhu Pingan in the modern era has read a lot of information, is not wrong.
In June last year, the leader of the Mongolian Tumurtle Department, that is, the Tartar I-Ta Khan because of Daming closed the “tribute market” between Daming and Tartar, and started a war.
The so-called tribute market, that is, the Tartars to the Ming Dynasty, and then send people with cattle, sheep and horses and other things to follow the tribute envoy, in the Ming Dynasty designated places, and the Ming Dynasty trade, in exchange for the Ming salt, iron, tea and grain and other materials.
Because Daming closed the tribute market, Tartary can not get from Daming salt, iron, tea, grain and other materials.
But at this time, in order to consolidate the rule of Tartary, at the same time, in order to defeat the conquest of the Warat ministry, and in urgent need of the petition materials.
At the beginning, I-Than did not start a war, but sent ambassadors to Daming, saying that he would pay tribute to Daming, and hoped that Daming would open the tribute market, and hoped to expand the scale of the tribute market.
The attitude of the Tartar envoys was not very good, and the scale of the tribute market was requested to be very large.
The Ming Dynasty was already worried about a repeat of the Tumu Incident, and was irritated by the attitude of the Tartar envoys, which have the appearance of claiming the tribute ah, said to claim the tribute, but also so wanton. So the Ming Dynasty righteously rejected the I-Ta Khan, and by the way, the arrogant Tartar envoys were beheaded.
Formal means could not be obtained, so the I-Ta Khan launched a war, aiming to force Daming to open the tribute market through war. In some ways, it was somewhat similar to the Opium Wars.
“I captive land newborn children have grown into a big Han, foal grow into a big horse, but his China unreasonable bully my tribe, kill my ambassadors, cut off my trade, so that my children eat meat without tea and salt, so that my girls get married without rouge. Now I swear to wash away this insult with blood, sons and daughters, feed your horses, polish your cutlasses, sharpen your arrowheads, I will lead you to trample on the Central Plains, and use our horses, cutlasses and arrowheads to restore the glory of our ancestors.”
In June, I-Ta Khan finished the oath, burned the paper and threw the sky, and brought up more than 100,000 people of the Tatar ministries to control the strings, and killed to Datong and Xuanfu in a furious manner.
At that time, the town of Datong is the general soldier Qiu Luan, this buddy look at the I’m Khan people, strong horses, killing, thinking of their own anyway, but not, so he used his best trick, sent people with gold, silver, jewellery and other valuable gifts to bribe the I’m Khan, carry forward the spirit of the spirit of the death of a friend and not death of a poor man, so that the I’m Khan to change the land attack.
I am also a person of good faith, received the money, but also really changed a place, leading the army turned around and went to the east.
This time, the east side of the border towns to harm.
Originally, I’m Khan is rushing to Datong, Xuanfu, the east of the Gubeikou and other border towns are not ready, the results of I’m Khan’s army suddenly appeared. It should be that the soldiers of the sentence surprise attack, the result can be imagined, the Gubeikou and other border towns of the Ming army a touch collapse, was killed by the I’m afraid the Khan threw helmets and armour, military and civilian deaths and injuries.
Then I’m the Khan from the Gubeikou long drive, killing, all the way to the capital.
In fact, if I’d like to visit the capital, I’d have to pass through Huairou, Shunyi, and Tongzhou, three important military towns, in order to reach the capital. However, huairou, shunyi, tongzhou these three military towns of military defence are rotten to the bone to go, armament flaccid, worse than the gubeikou. The three military towns were just like bean curd, which I-Ta Khan chiselled through without much effort.
The Khan basically did not meet any decent resistance, and then the soldiers came to the capital.
The capital was shaken.
At that time, the capital guard force was said to be three hundred and fifty thousand, but in fact, a count, only forty-five thousand troops. Emperor Jiajing urgently ordered the town soldiers from all over the world to rush to help the king, and at the same time assembled the militia as well as the martial arts students from all over the world who participated in the martial arts examination in the capital to defend the city. Well, by the way, the future great glory of Qi Jiguang was participating in the examination, on the defensive strategy, temporarily as a general flag, supervise the defence of the capital nine gates, emerging.
Responsible for the defence of the capital is the former Secretary of the Ministry of War Ding Rukui.
Ding Rukui in danger, quickly deployed troops to resist the army of the Khan. However, Ding Rukui did not get along with Yan’s party. Yan party’s close generals naturally will not cooperate with Ding Rukui, either grinding work or give Ding Rukui false information, a said on the front line on the legs.
Yan Song also want to take this opportunity to get rid of the “thorn in the side” Ding Rukui.
When Ding Rukui came to ask Yan Song how to battle guard, Yan Song analysed the enemy and our strength situation, and then very emotional to Ding Rukui said, “this war survival, I will be full support Ding adults.”
This makes Ding Rukui somewhat touched.
“But the pros and cons of war defence I have to give Ding adults to make it clear, if the war in the Seychelles, defeat can be covered up, but if then the suburbs of the capital to fight, defeat can not cover up. The strength of our army lies in defending the city, not in fighting in the field. So, Lord Ding should consider this clearly.”Yan Song put himself in Ding Rukui’s shoes and analysed for him, implying that he should not go to war.
“Nowadays, the situation is urgent, I-Ta Khan is burning, killing and looting outside the city, I, Ding Mou, should repay the country with my body by receiving the imperial grace, I dare not be alone, so I request to go out of the city to fight against the enemy. I Ding Mou also not greedy for credit, and diligent border troops inside and outside, before and after the attack, when the enemy can be retreated.”Ding Rukui shook his head, requesting to go to war.
“Lord Ding, now that His Holiness is resting in the Western Garden, your insistence on going out to battle is bound to alarm His Holiness, and this is not a self-inflicted offence. Moreover, we are waiting in a tight formation, coupled with the King of Qin’s watchful eye, I-Ta Khan will not dare to attack the city rashly. If Lord Ding is rash to go to war, victory is good, if the battle is lost it, the capital can be no soldiers to defend, if the capital city how to do? Is Lord Ding sure of victory? The capital is an important place, the lifeblood of the country, Lord Ding should be careful. I’ve robbed enough, will naturally retreat, I will report the details to the saint, to ensure that Lord Ding is unharmed.”Yan Song know to love, move to reason, persuade Ding Rukui.
So
The Ming army sat back and watched as I-Ta Khan burned and looted the
Royal mausoleum, ministers in the city outside the manor were burned and looted by the I-Ta Khan.
Now the basket is big.
So fear of not fighting, poorly guarded Ding Rukui became a scapegoat, ordered by the Jiajing Emperor click.
Anyway.
Last year, since I’d Khan troops invaded the Ming, Datong town guard Qiu Luan bribe Tartar, naturally, there will be no Tartar head chopped; North Gukou, Huairou, Shunyi, Tongzhou and other places of the border army a touch of rout, can keep their lives is not bad, and even more will not have Tartar head chopped.
The capital, needless to say, did not go to war, sit back and watch the I-Ta Khan burned and looted and returned, certainly will not have a Tartar head chopped.
In other words, no Tartar head was captured in the whole Ming Dynasty last year.
Therefore, even if Zhao Dajing’s uncle and nephew dropped the head, as long as the head can be identified as last year’s, Zhu Pingan is not worried. No matter how Zhao Dajing’s uncle and nephew tossed it, it was all useless. Fake is fake after all.
The most powerful way to kill Liang is the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The means of identifying a fake is also the most abundant and standard in the late Ming Dynasty. Zhu Pingan today’s several methods are borrowed from the identification methods of the late Ming Dynasty. Of course for the people in the public hall, these methods are a bit of an eye opener.
