In 1982, the Nakagawa Troupe, which starred in Bazhong County, may never have imagined that the Tulou platform built by the drama team for acting was actually photographed by the "emperor" and became the "imperial palace". And this "very discerning" "emperor", his real identity is a Sichuan farmer.
Zhang Qing'an's state and county seal of "Central Plains Emperor Qingguo"
This bold peasant unilaterally called himself empress dowager, and the state name was set as "Emperor Qingguo of the Central Plains", "Wenwu Hundred Officials" was enfeoffed, his wife was named "Empress", his righteous brother was named "Deputy Emperor", and Chiang Kai-shek was absurdly canonized as king. Subsequently, believers sacrificed their daughters, who were canonized as "concubines."
Finally, the peasant took dozens of believers, an army of 400,000 people, on a bus to "march in person." Could it be that this peasant was zhu Yuanzhang's reincarnation and self-made? What happened to him in the end?
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Zhang Qing'an
This farmer was named Zhang Qing'an, a native of Bazhong, Sichuan, who had attended private schools and received some education when he was young. Because he was literate and knew some medical skills, he was also appointed by his superiors to practice medicine in the health center of Zaolin Township. In addition, in private, he often publicized that he knew some yin and yang gossip and could tell fortunes for people.
For a long time, there has been an endless stream of people looking for him to do things, and he has also accumulated some prestige in the local ten miles and eight townships. Zhang Qing'an also relies on doing these things without worrying about food and clothing, and his little life is very moist. However, the good times did not last long, and the country began to implement a policy of anti-feudal superstition, and Zhang Qing'an's daily fortune-telling was exposed, and his life fell sharply.
Yin Ling Mountain
Although he was arrested, with Zhang Qing'an's skill, Nu tried to eat enough for most of the time, and he did not have the courage to be an "emperor" at this time. But the blame lies in the fact that he met a key person.
In February 1981, when the wind was cold, Zhang Qing'an ran to the Buddhist temple on Yinling Mountain to worship the Buddha, and at this time there was a person in the Buddhist temple who came to worship the Buddha at the same time, named Liao Guitang. After the two looked at each other, they chatted. After some conversation, Zhang Qing'an learned that Liao Guitang was also a native of Bazhong, Sichuan, and that he was originally a factory worker, who had lost his job because he had offended people and was retaliated against, and now he was idle and had nothing to do, and he came up to the mountain to worship the Buddha and ask for a good fortune.
The image comes from the Internet
Zhang Qing sighed in his heart: "The same is the fallen people of the end of the world, why should they have known each other when they met?" In the face of people who talked so speculatively, Zhang Qing'an opened the conversation box, took out his old saying of fortune telling, and frightened Liao Guitang into speaking with a grimace of "doomsday saying", and hurriedly asked Zhang Qing'an how to avoid this disaster.
After this came and went, Liao Guitang was convinced of Zhang Qing'an's fortune-telling heresy, and after separating from Zhang Qing'an in the Buddhist temple, he felt very unfinished, and even visited Zhang Qing'an a few days later and had an in-depth conversation with Zhang Qing'an at Zhang Qing'an's home. Zhang Qing'an explained to Liao Guitang the doctrines of yin and yang gossip one by one on some feudal superstitious books in his hand.
Liao Guitang suddenly felt that he had gained a lot, and his admiration was gushing like the Yangtze River, and he only hated that he had not met Zhang Qing'an earlier. The two took advantage of their interest to worship as righteous brothers. Liao Guitang asked Zhang Qing'an that he had any workers' friends he knew before, and wanted to ask Zhang Qing'an if he could also tell these people about the meaning of the book. Zhang Qing'an was idle, and he naturally agreed to give people fortune telling.
Within a few days, Liao Guitang had brought a few apprentices to Zhang Qing'an, and Zhang Qing'an had not been idle for a few days, so he found some villagers who had previously asked him to do things, gathered the people together, and named the lecture "Freedom from Robbery.". He combined the scriptures he had previously told Liao Guitang with some appalling speculations, and they would scare everyone present into applause.
Seeing the look of deep conviction of the people in the audience, Zhang Qing'an did not stop for a second, and immediately asked Liao Guitang to bring a bowl of water and held a rather ceremonial drama of blood-for-ally, and the crowd believed in Zhang Qing'an's "miraculous power", scrambling to prick his finger into the bowl and then drink it in a big mouthful. Zhang Qing'an also took advantage of the free time of the ceremony to go to the house and get a hundred paintings, declaring that the paintings could avoid robbery and let everyone distribute them.
After the end of this conference, Zhang Qing'an felt more and more that this matter was opportunistic, and the feudal superstition part of his heart became more and more inflated in the eyes of the fanatical ignorance of everyone, and he felt that his time was coming. The countryside was too small, and he set his sights on the bustling county town.
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Old photo of bazhongchuan troupe
Zhang Qing's heart gradually had a clear plan. On May 20, 1982, he drove to Liao Guitang's house and invited the righteous brother to visit Bazhong County to explore the foundation for their grand cause. The two of them first carefully strolled around the city and saw the tile floor stage used by the Nakagawa Theater troupe in the county town to perform, and the two commented and decided to make this place the imperial palace after that.
The two swam to the south niche slope again, Zhang Qingan saw the tonghua on the side, and said to Liao Guitang, this flower usually only blooms in February, and now in May, this flower blooms again, indicating that Qiankun is reversed and the dynasty is changed. Then Zhang Qingan said that he had already thought of the future name of the country and named it "Central Plains Emperor Qingguo".
Zhang Qing'an's privately engraved seal
Liao Guitang was very excited after hearing this, and felt that the opportunity to change his face was coming, and he couldn't wait to continue to develop believers for Zhang Qing'an. After saying goodbye to Zhang Qing'an, he searched for dozens of people in a month's time. And Zhang Qing'an will not be idle, he preached this set of "doomsday theory" door to door, and panicked people have become his followers, thinking that at the end of the day, who is still considering the harvest of the coming year, for a time even did not do agricultural work. What's more, he also wanted to sacrifice his daughter to Zhang Qing'an in exchange for Zhang Qing'an's protection.
Zhang Qing'an's plan went well, and he saw that the number of followers had become a climate and could proceed to the next step. From June 22 to 28, after Zhang Qing'an had finished explaining that the followers would continue to develop more people, he returned to his home and closed the door, and compiled the basic manuscript of the legal document he called the empress, named "Tianlu Sen Order", which was written with a brush and a total of more than 40,000 words, and wrote in detail his comprehensive vision of all aspects of the emperor. Meticulously, he also prepared a series of necessary tools such as jade seals and official seals in case of emergency.
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. Zhang Qing'an had already completed eighty percent of his plan to become emperor, and the last step was to ascend the throne. Because he had read books before, Zhang Qing'an especially understood the importance of ritual, and he would inevitably do a very grand step when he ascended the throne. He let the backbone believers make a tall earthen platform for him to ascend the throne in advance, and also found someone to rehearse a drama of "imperial power and heavenly authorization" in advance.
In the early morning of July 2, 1982, the ceremony officially began, Zhang Qing'an walked slowly to the throne, and everyone in the audience prostrated their heads and shouted long live, and the momentum was very huge. Subsequently, in the eyes of all the people, Zhang Qing began to appoint various official titles in a mock way, Liao Guitang was unsurprisingly named "deputy emperor", Zhang Qing'an's own wife became "empress", and his "concubine" was the 6 daughters offered among the believers.
Zhang Qing'an's "Edict" to Chiang Kai-shek
In total, more than 50 people present were "enfeoffed and added to their posts," and if it were not for the fact that more official titles could not be thought of, everyone present would have been able to "enter the DPRK as an official." After that, Zhang Qing'an distributed the prepared "Heavenly Law Sen Order" and the letter of appointment to the ministers, and the sense of ceremony was full.
Zhang Qing'an felt that it was not enough to show his majesty by canonizing these earthly believers, and he had already claimed the title of emperor, so he must appoint a celebrity to show his magnate. Therefore, he personally wrote a letter of appointment and appointed Chiang Kai-shek as king. Unbeknownst to everyone, Chiang Kai-shek had died, and because the "deputy emperor" Liao Guitang was worried about the letter being exposed, the letter of appointment was not sent out of the county seat. After that, in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, Zhang Qing'an handed over the "royal army" composed of more than 70 people to Liao Guitang, which also made Liao Guitang very happy.
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Due to the blockage of the news and the faithfulness of the believers forced by the "doomsday theory", Zhang Qing'an, the "emperor", enjoyed it very much, and the entire imperial dynasty also operated according to the laws he wrote every day. But the paper could not contain the fire after all, Zhang Qing'an's previous "apocalyptic" moment for everyone to preach, that is, July of the same year, had arrived, but there was no disaster or any omen that Zhang Qing'an said, and a large number of believers gradually became suspicious, and at the beginning Zhang Qing'an's cronies could continue to be alarmist, or threaten everyone with force, but the disintegration of grass-roots forces was difficult to stop.
At this moment, only the "end" in Zhang Qing'an's mouth, or other things that convince them, can keep Zhang Qing'an's "throne". In order not to disperse people's hearts, Zhang Qing'an asked Liao Guitang to reorganize the "army" and prepare to take the bus "Royal Driving And Personal March" to bazhong county, and promised the people to give it more benefits after the county seat was conquered.
Zhang Qing'an was arrested by the armed police
Such a huge and very abnormal mass action soon attracted the attention of the local government, and after a simple investigation, the government immediately dispatched the local armed police and police to strangle such a ridiculous thing on the spot. In the face of heavily armed government forces, Zhang Qing'an and his party were quickly subdued, and all the relevant groups were arrested on the spot. At this time, everyone who remained in the "Imperial Palace" rushed to run away after receiving the news, and the so-called "Central Plains Emperor Qingguo" was dissolved, which lasted less than a month. Zhang Qing'an was sentenced to life imprisonment and Liao Guitang was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
In the end, Zhang Qing'an and others were convicted and imprisoned accordingly, and this somewhat comical "peasant claiming the emperor" incident came to an end. But what is worth thinking about is that in this matter, in addition to Zhang Qing'an and others who committed the most heinous crimes, people's ignorance and residual feudal consciousness are even more of an original sin. In fact, until now, in the era of full universal nine-year compulsory education, such scams of changing soups without changing medicines are also emerging in an endless stream, and all kinds of people who think they are smart are not fooled.
Compared with that era, the complexity of society, the deviation of cognition will only be greater, we cannot be the fools who sacrificed their daughters when they heard the "doomsday theory", but the "Zhang Qing'an" who is also walking in the crooked door and heresy is no longer the Zhang Qing'an who is half inky. Everything in the world is insightful and learned, and the cultivation of human feelings is the article, opening your eyes to see the world, discerning the good and evil in the world, in order to walk more freely in the rolling red dust.