Soon after the ancient emperors ascended the throne, one of the first major things to do was to build a "mausoleum", that is, a place of eternal rest after a hundred years. Ancient emperor mausoleums generally have two major characteristics, the first is the scale is huge, the emperor's mausoleum is generally composed of underground palaces and ground cemetery buildings, a large area of the underground palace for parking the coffin of the empress, the ground cemetery for daily sacrifice ceremonies, by the hall of enjoyment, the hall, the treasure city, the Ming Tower and other parts of the organic combination, far away like a magnificent palace community.
The second feature of the emperor's mausoleum is that it pays special attention to the so-called "feng shui" in terms of site selection. In order to choose a treasure land, emperors often sent their loyal ministers to travel thousands of miles, taking months or even years to finalize the site of the mausoleum. The emperors hoped to rely on the good "feng shui" of the mausoleum to ensure that future generations would always sit in the country. In the eyes of modern people, the ancient emperors are only deceiving themselves, and they are completely nonsense without any scientific basis. But in ancient times, people were convinced of this, and they did not do less absurd things for this reason.
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens outside Guanwai rose strongly under the leadership of a generation of tyrants Nurhaci, and quickly became a powerful armed group, attacking the city in Liaodong outside Guanwai, posing a great threat to the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the Ming Dynasty, regardless of the population, number of troops, and economic strength, was several times or even more than ten times that of the Qing Dynasty, and the strength on paper alone was enough to crush the Qing Dynasty.
However, after more than two hundred years of rule, the Ming Dynasty has entered the end of the world when the oil is exhausted, the government is corrupt and the armaments are in ruins, the officials are keen to enrich themselves and pull gangs and factions, and it is difficult to return to the multiplication of all kinds of evils, and they have completely become a paper tiger in the middle of the strong outside. Under the impact of the ferocious eight flags iron horse, the Ming Dynasty army, which was once invincible in Asia, suffered defeats and lost land.
By the time of emperor Ming Xizong's reign, the ming dynasty's land outside Guanwai had been almost lost, leaving only a few isolated cities such as Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Dalinghe, and Shanhaiguan had been completely exposed to the Qing army, and the situation was extremely critical. If the battlefield situation against the Qing Dynasty is not reversed in time, the Ming Dynasty is likely to fall under the iron heel of the Qing Dynasty.
In the first year of the Apocalypse, a minister presented a plan to Emperor Mingxi, claiming that the tombs of the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty were in the area of Jiulong Mountain in Fangshan, not far from the capital. More than a dozen tombs of the Jin Emperor as cultural relics and monuments were also protected by the Ming Dynasty, and people would be sent to pay tribute every New Year's Festival.
The Qing Dynasty outside Guanwai, like the Jin Dynasty, was founded by the Jurchens, and the name of the country at the beginning of the Founding of the Qing Dynasty was also "Dajin", so the Ming Dynasty monarchs deduced that the Tombs of the Jin Emperors in Fangshan should be the ancestral tombs of the Qing Emperors. Therefore, the minister suggested that the Ming Dynasty should send people to dig up these ancient tombs of the Jin Dynasty in order to destroy the "royal spirit" of the Qing Dynasty.
Historians have confirmed that the Jurchens who founded the Jin Dynasty are the same as the Jurchens who founded the Qing Dynasty, and do not belong to the same ethnic group. But people at the time didn't think so. After Ming Xizong listened, he felt that it was very reasonable. In the first year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty stopped the sacrifice of the Jinguo Mausoleum. In the second year of the Apocalypse and 1622, the Ming Xi Sect organized manpower to dig up the tomb of Jin Taizu, the ancestor of the Jin Kingdom, in Jiulong Mountain, and all the stone tablets on the ground and Weng Zhong were destroyed and buried deeply. In the third year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Xi Sect sent people to build a Guandi Temple on the site of the Jinguo Mausoleum Group, hoping to "suppress" the "wang qi" of the Qing Dynasty.
Facts proved the absurdity of the Ming Dynasty. His method did not work at all, and the Qing Dynasty eventually entered the Central Plains and replaced the Ming Dynasty. However, in the history books of the Ming and Qing dynasties, they did not dare to record this incident. It is not difficult to understand that the history books of the Ming Dynasty do not record this incident, but the great power of the Tang Dynasty and the Great Dynasty has resorted to the three indiscriminate means of digging up the graves of people and ancestors, and it is really harmful to the national body to be made public. The Qing Dynasty history books do not record this incident, it should be that the Qing Emperor felt that the ancestral tomb was not a glorious thing, and he was reluctant to speak out for the sake of face.
Fortunately, the Kangxi Emperor carried out a repair to the site of the Jinguo Mausoleum and erected a stele at the scene, "The Inscription of the Imperial Tomb of Emperor Shengzuren of Jin Taizu Shizong", which mentioned this matter, and only later generations could know the origin and end of the matter. The Kangxi Emperor wrote in the inscription: "Those who have virtue are prosperous, and those who have no virtue die, and they have nothing to do with the feng shui of the mountains", which is a true insightful sentence.
Reference: "Inscription of the Mausoleum of Emperor Shengzuren of Jin Taizu Sejong"