When it comes to the ancient masters of xiangshu, people's thoughts often flash through those few, Xu Negative, Guo Pu, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng... In particular, Yuan Tiangang is known as the integrator of this industry for thousands of years. If nothing else, a single "Push Back Map" has made it difficult for posterity to look back, and under this influence, even "Journey to the West" has to occupy his fame.
In fact, in addition to the above few people in history, there are many very cattle Xiangshi, although some of them rarely appear in the historical data, but in some fields, they are actually more powerful than Yuan Tiangang. For example, Yuan Jue in the Ming Dynasty, Yao Guangxiao evaluated him: Yuan Jue in eastern Zhejiang, the first in the world. The means to make a figure like Yao Guangxiao say such a thing can be seen. Historical records record that when he first saw Zhu Di, Yuan Jue issued such a preview: the dragon walked in the tiger step, the sun angle inserted the sky, and the Taiping Tianzi also. Forty years old, must cross the navel, that is, ascend to the great treasure. This sentence is similar to the prediction that Yuan Tiangang made when he first met Wu Zetian that year.
Yuan Jue's son, Yuan Zhongche, was very popular from a very young age, and later inherited his father's mantle, and was also an extraordinary figure. The "History of Ming" records that when Yuan Zhongche was young, he once followed his father to meet Zhu Di, who was still the King of Yan at the time. I heard that the father and son were good at meeting each other, so Zhu Di called out several undercover agents that Zhu Yunzhuo had installed next to Zhu Di at that time, Zhang Fu, Xie Gui and others, after Yuan Zhongche read it, he did not name the evaluation by name, but simply said 6 words in general: Yu Fa should be tortured to death.
The parties were confused, but Zhu Di's heart was pounding. You must know that at that time, Zhu Di had already begun to prepare for the matter of the JingNan Change, but for various reasons, he could not make up his mind for a long time. Now Yuan Zhongche's words undoubtedly gave him a reassuring pill. After this incident, Zhu Di began to be prepared and put the great cause of rebellion on the table.
After ascending the throne, Zhu Di, when encountering things that are difficult to decide, out of habit and uncertainty about unknown things, often consulted Yuan Zhongche, hoping that he could give hints. Throughout the Yongle years, the fate of many ministers was changed because of Yuan Zhongche's words.
But as the saying goes: always walk by the river, which can not get wet shoes. Yuan Zhongche's methods are extraordinary, but there have also been mistakes, especially as Zhu Di has become more and more serious about Yuan Zhongche, Yuan Zhongche can't help but be a little fluttery in ordinary times. It is recorded in the "Collection of Jade Light Sword Qi" that even when he saw Zhu Gaozi once, Yuan Zhongche said bluntly, "No Heavenly Son Blessing", a sentence that brewed a curse for the future. At the time of saying this, Zhu Gaoxu had already become the crown prince, and there was a younger brother named Zhu Gaoxu who made trouble from time to time.
Later, after Zhu Gaozi ascended the throne, he recalled this sentence and was still very angry, so he decided to send someone to arrest Yuan Zhongche and wanted to kill him. The men sent searched around, and finally arrested Yuan Zhongche a few months later. Surprisingly, Yuan Zhongche did not seem to be in any hurry about his arrest and the dangers ahead. The first thing he did was to bribe the steward in charge of his detention with all his money, asking him to drag him into Beijing after 20 days. The steward thought about it, the person in front of him was going to die sooner or later, and there was no big trouble in the morning and night, so on the way back to Beijing, he stopped and walked, grinding and chirping.
It was not until later that Yuan Zhongche revealed his original intention at that time. It turned out that before he was arrested, Yuan Zhongche had calculated a gua for himself, and the gua xiang showed that although his life was in danger this time, there was also another sign, that is, the person who killed him would die first and walk ahead of him. It is precisely because of this that Yuan Zhongche will find ways to delay time. Later events once again confirmed that Yuan Zhongche was extraordinary after all, and the day before the group arrived in the capital, the news suddenly came out that Zhu Gaochi had died. At this point, less than ten months after he ascended the throne, he became one of the shortest reigning emperors in history. Immediately after Emperor Xuanzong ascended the throne, he granted amnesty to the world, and Yuan Zhongche was also embarrassed not to die and escaped a disaster.
![This person's phasing skills are comparable to Yuan Tiangang's, and he calculates the monk Chengguoshi and the time when Zhu Di will become emperor[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)