On this day, 568 years ago, on February 16, 1457 (January 22, 1457, the lunar calendar), Yu Qian was killed. Yu Qian (1398--1457), also known as Tingyi, was born in Qiantang, Zhejiang (now Hangzhou). Ming Yongle Jinshi. He once served as a supervisory censor and served as governor in Henan and Shanxi to rehabilitate unjust imprisonment and relieve famine in the local area. In 1449 (the 14th year of Zhengtong of the Ming Dynasty), after Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty was captured by the army of Yexian, the aristocrat of Wassi, in Tumu Castle (now east of Huailai, Hebei Province), he supported and established Emperor Jing Zhu Qiyu and was promoted from Minister of War to Minister of History. Actively mobilize heavy troops to repel the Wassi Army outside Beijing. In 1450 (the first year of Jingtai), Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty was first forced to release. In 1457 (the eighth year of Jingtai), Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the illness of Emperor Jing and launched the "rebellion to seize the door" to regain the throne. After Zhu Qizhen, Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, became emperor again, he killed Yu Qian on February 16, 1457 (the 22nd day of the first month of the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty) on charges of "usurping the throne for easy repossession, disrupting the court program, and seizing military power without authorization."