In the middle of the mufu mountain range in Wuning, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, where the mountains are undulating, the peaks are towering, the hills are covered, the villages are full of mountains, there is a magical cave on a big mountain, the stalactites in the cave are strange and varied, but the only thing is wonderful, the length of the cave is more than ten miles, and the spring water in the cave is continuous; giving people a sense of wonder and wonderland. Legend has it that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, and the Duke of Lu took refuge with three hundred subjects and lived in this cave for three years. To this day, the stone wall in the cave is still faintly recognizable in the oracle bone-like stone carvings. However, due to the long days, there are springs in the cave that flow continuously all year round, so people have been said to be: "Luxi Cave". Next to the cave, the place originally named Shengren Township was later renamed Luxi Township.
In the village of Dongkou in Luxi, there are some people surnamed Liu, who claim to be descendants of the late Ming Dynasty Emperor Li Zicheng and the cattle Venus, according to their ancestors, after Li Zicheng was killed, the Dashun Dynasty fell, niu Jinxing was hidden, first as a Taoist priest, and later to see the fortune telling for a living, in order to escape the pursuit and suppression of the Qing army, his descendants changed the niu surname to Liu surname. First, Niu and Liu Yun have the same feet, which is easy to confuse; second, most of the local people are surnamed Liu, which is convenient for concealment. Therefore, for a long time, the Liu surname in the area of Kengbei and Xiliu Port was mostly rejected by the Liu surname of Xiadongkou, and there was very little contact and mutual non-marriage. There is also a legend that the tomb of the cow Venus is near the mouth of the lower cave of Luxi (that is, not far from the present-day Luxi police station).
Although the descendants of these cattle Venus are only word of mouth, some of them have written by Venus bull as reliable historical evidence, so why did Venus, as a generation of cattle venus, fall into such a small mountain village?
According to the "Chronicle of Wuning County", "In 1644 (the first year of Shunzhi), Li Zicheng led tens of thousands of cavalry from Xingguo (Yangxin, Hubei), occupied the county seat on the sixth day of the first month of May, and retreated west from Taiping Mountain on the eleventh day. The chronicle also reads: "Li Zicheng's rebel army turned to Wuning, and in May 1644 (the first year of Shunzhi), tens of thousands of Li Zicheng's subordinates retreated from Huguang Xingguo (present-day Yangxin County, Hubei) to Wuning, and on the sixth day they captured the county seat of Wuning and garrisoned it for five days. Due to the rise of the Xiu River, the south crossing could not be achieved, so it took the west of Taiping Mountain. In June, the rear team left Niutou Gorge from Luxi, crossed the river from Jiankou into Guayuan, and moved to Shangnan Township (present-day Shimen and Luoxi) in July. ”
It turned out that in this year, after Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, was defeated by Azig, the Prince of the Qing Dynasty, the "Jiashen Shiyi Chuangzhi" contained: The Qing division pursued in a longitudinal pursuit, (The Great Shun Army) hastily withdrew from Wuchang. There were not many southbound, the flow occupied the Jiujiang, and the Tujinling did not succeed. Folding Dongting (Hunan), Beidaoning Prefecture (Jiangxi Xiushui), through the crossing of the road, and some soldiers led a force, plotted to occupy the Ninth Palace. This Jiugong Mountain is the junction of Hubei Tongshan and Jiangxi Wuning, the south belongs to Wuning, and the north belongs to Tongshan, commonly known as "Tiger Fu Tianmen".
At this time, Li Zicheng, the king of the Chuang Dynasty, was forced into the Nine Palaces Mountain with only eighteen horses. He ordered his soldiers to divide into two teams and go north and south to survey the terrain and explore the road, leaving only himself and his personal bodyguards to rest at the Tianmen Gate. Although this Tiger Futian Gate is not so majestic and tall, it also has a desolate majesty, and there are couplets carved on both sides of the arch: "Halfway up and down the mountain, the rain is divided, and a ridge is judged by Chu Wu." "The local area has always been said to have Wu Zixu escaped from this place to the Chu State during the Warring States period, so it is also called Wu ChuxiongGuan. What people did not expect was that a generation of heroic heroes Li Zicheng went up the mountain this time, but he was attacked by local armed forces, and finally he was "beheaded (Li Zicheng) to get a sword, a horse, a helmet, a dragon robe, and a jade, and dedicated to the end of the Gate of the Governor Xian Army." ”
After Li Zicheng was killed, the army had no head, for a while the birds and beasts scattered, naturally there was no combat effectiveness, and the important generals under him also looked for a place to live in seclusion nearby, because the means of transportation at that time were basically by horseback riding and walking, and riding horses was naturally extremely risky, easy to be hunted by the Qing army, so they moved to mountain villages. It is in this context that The cow Venus is hidden in the deep mountains of Luxi Township.
Niu Jinxing, late Ming and early Qing Dynasty Henan Baofeng people, tomorrow Qi Nian people, his father's name is Niu Yuan, in the Ming Dynasty as an official, the official BaiLu Fu Jishan, this official name is not common, "Lu Fu" refers to the Ming Dynasty Lu Wangfu, in Shandong Yanzhou, "Ji Shan" is the Ming Dynasty royal palace in the subordinate officials, responsible for teaching courses, to put it bluntly is the Wang Ye family tutor. Wu Chengen, the author of "Journey to the West", has also been this official, and he is also a tangtang Zhengbapin cadre, who can compete with the county prince.
Niu Jinxing, who came from a cadre family, received a very good education from an early age, won the Xiucai at the age of twenty, seven years of the Apocalypse, and was raised in high school, with this academic qualification, he could become an official in Daming. More importantly, he was talented and talented since he was a child, full of literary talent, and often held the aspiration of the State of the World, he did not like to read the Four Books and Five Classics, nor did he want his son to inherit his father's business and serve the prince. He didn't like to be an official, and the books he liked to read could be summarized in eight words: "Heavenly Official, Wind Horn, Sun, Wu Art of War." This does not need to be explained much, not only can see the sky, feng shui, but also understand the art of war, talent.
However, Niu Jinxing's true talent and practical learning had not yet been brought into play, and because he was "a giant gentleman of Tongyi with a matter of affairs", he was sued, saying that he was "unjustly punished" for "resisting tax arrears and forcibly occupying 18 women", and was dismissed and removed from his post, and served as an errand boy in the Lu clan. This is what he thinks is a great shame, so he has a grudge against the Ming Dynasty, just at this time Li Zicheng's army killed his hometown, because the peasant army wants to increase the intensity of development, but considering that there are very few people in the army, I want to recruit some learned people, at this time, under the recommendation of fellow villager Li Yan, Li Zicheng heard about the name of Niu Venus, went to see him, and the scene was similar to liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's encounter.
As soon as Niu Jinxing saw the mighty Li Zicheng, he said nine words to him in a mysterious way: "Less punishment and killing, relief for the hungry, and collection of people's hearts." He also explained that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Gao of the Ming Dynasty, only followed the nine words of "building a high wall, accumulating grain widely, and slowly claiming the title of king", expelling the Yuan Dynasty and pacifying the world. And today, in the face of the chaotic world, if the king can carry forward the above nine words, he will certainly be able to do a greater cause. After listening to it, Li Zicheng pondered that this was indeed the case, and he greatly appreciated it and sincerely praised it: He is really worthy of being a reader, and his head is easy to use.
After Niu Jinxing joined Li Zicheng's team, Li Zicheng began to restrain his subordinates, opened warehouses and released grain in accordance with Niu Jinxing's "nine-character" policy, and even shouted out: open the city gate to welcome the king, and the slogan of not paying grain when the king comes, from Henan to Shaanxi to Shanxi, all the way invincible, Niu Jinxing has naturally become a core team member and a hero of the founding of Dashun. Since he was not an ordinary intellectual, and also knew the way of Tianguan and Fengjiao (star divination), he was respected by Li Zicheng. In addition, he is quite good at observing the color of speech, sneaking and patting horses, and also has some insights, so he is quite valued. In particular, when the Dashun regime was established in Xi'an, Niu Jinxing was appointed as a scholar of the Tianyoudian University.
After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Niu Jinxing, who was keen on meritorious fame, was addicted to the crime, and repeatedly persuaded Li Zicheng to ascend the throne as emperor, and finally, on April 29, under the planning of Niu Jinxing and others, Li Zicheng took the throne as emperor at the Wuying Hall of the Ming Palace, and Niu Venus represented Li Zicheng at the Temple of Heaven. However, he fled Beijing only a day later, because in the previous Battle of Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng's army had been defeated by Wu Sangui and the Qing army.
Under the attack of the Qing army Azig and Duoduo, Li Zicheng was first defeated at Dingzhou and then defeated by Zhending, losing his troops and breaking his generals. Later, after being defeated again and again, it was already impossible to control, and was forced to abandon the base camp xi'an, parting ways and going south, and then, chasing all the way to Hubei, and finally being defeated. Niu Jinxing can be described as an infinite scenery, but his dream of being a minister is very short, some people say that after Li Zicheng was killed, Niu Jinxing and his son Niu Yu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became a "second minister", and his son became the prefect of Huangzhou, niu Jinxing lived for 8 years in fear, at the age of 57. Of course, some historians have questioned this, arguing that Venus has not been cleared. And it is the deep mountains of WuningLuxi, the place where he died in seclusion.
In any case, in 1652, Venus the Cow died, and before dying, he told his descendants: "Do not be ashamed of others, and do not come out behind closed doors." "Educate future generations to be a good person, I think he is the big truth he told after a big ups and downs." Niu Jinxing, as the head of the civil officials of the Great Shun Dynasty, was above ten thousand people under one person, and the dancing text was still acceptable, but there was no strategy to coordinate the overall situation, but a small victory was arrogant, narrow-minded, jealous of the virtuous and capable, and the history books said that he only had "the wisdom of the well." "There are historical records that one of the reasons for the defeat of the Dashun army was internal inversion and infighting, which shows that Li Zicheng's demise is inseparable from niu Jinxing. The failure of Niu Jinxing to be a man actually tossed this vigorous cause into obscurity may be the fundamental reason why he warned future generations to behave well and stop tossing and turning the fundamentals blindly, thus harming others and harming themselves.