In the history of China, there are many magical fables and legends about the fact that when a dynasty was just established, the founder of the dynasty would often ask a high-ranking person from the world to speculate on the future fate of his new dynasty. And these masters also lived up to their name, and they summed up the beginning, prosperity, decline, and demise of this dynasty in a rather mysterious sentence.
For example, there is a very famous legend, at the beginning of the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the first emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the Shunzhi Emperor, he once asked a senior monk what the fate of the Qing Dynasty was, this senior monk left fourteen words, and these dozen words, which completely explained the fate of the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years.
So what exactly is the word left by this high monk? Is there really such a wonderful person in history?
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Some people may ask why the Shunzhi Emperor would ask an old monk about the rise and fall of the world, and whether he could not grasp this kind of thing as an emperor.
In fact, the Shunzhi Emperor asked this question, there is a background belonging to his times, we all know that when the Qing Dynasty was just established, the total population of the Eight Banners was only a mere little more than 100,000, while the Ming Dynasty, which ruled Jiuzhou in China at that time, had a population of more than 100 million. So when the rulers of the Qing Dynasty began to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, many people thought that it was a pebble that hit the stone and killed themselves.
But who knows in the next few decades, it seems that God is on the side of the Qing Dynasty, giving them too much good luck, whenever the Ming Dynasty sends heavy troops to defeat the Qing Dynasty, there will always be all kinds of civil unrest, sometimes the emperor is suspicious of the unification generals in the front, sending people to kill him, sometimes Ming defeated the Qing Dynasty, at this time there are suddenly rebels within the Ming Dynasty jumping out to rebel, causing the Ming Dynasty to transfer the front-line army troops back to that area to suppress the uprising.
This made the Ming Dynasty lose sight of one or the other, and it could not spare its energy to deal with the Qing Dynasty at all, so the Qing Dynasty took the opportunity to grow stronger, and finally killed Shanhaiguan in one fell swoop and seized the world of the Ming Dynasty.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, their situation was also the smoothest in the past dynasties, at this time the Ming Dynasty was south of the Yangtze River, and there were 200,000 or 300,000 troops, which could be like the Eastern Jin Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty, a corner of peace, resulting in a pattern of confrontation between the North and the South Dynasties.
But the luck of the Qing Dynasty was also too good, just when they were in trouble and struggling with how to survive the Yangtze River Graben, the Ming Dynasty had a general who felt that he had been treated unfairly, and actually led the army to the city of Nanjing, hoping to establish a new emperor.
But the result of this civil unrest is very ridiculous, this general led the army to the halfway point, he suddenly died of a heart attack, this man's son did not want to risk attacking the central Ming Dynasty, but led the 100,000 troops who were originally used to defend Changliang to defect to the Qing Dynasty, and also sent out the most important passes along the Yangtze River, so that the Ming Dynasty's Yangtze River defense line, the Qing Dynasty did not cost a single soldier to get.
In this way, the Qing Dynasty easily crossed the Yangtze River, and in a few years, it unified the whole country.
This was almost the fastest speed of the founding of the country, which made many people at that time think that I was afraid that the Mandate of Heaven was on the side of the Qing Dynasty, and it was a matter of course for the Qing Dynasty to rule the Central Plains.
However, the Shunzhi Emperor, who was the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty at that time, was not so optimistic, and he understood a truth very well, called the dependence of misfortune and happiness, and the extreme of things must be reversed.
To speak of population, the Manchu population of the Qing Dynasty was only about 100,000, and the Han population ruled by them was close to 100 million.
When it comes to the means of rule, they were still barbaric northern tribes decades ago, while the Han people in the Central Plains have a history of civilization for thousands of years.
Moreover, in order to rule the world, the Qing Dynasty created many massacres in the south, which led to one uprising after another in the world against the Qing Dynasty.
The Shunzhi Emperor was also worried that the Qing Dynasty's rule would not end one day, so he specially found a particularly famous monk near the capital and invited him to the palace.
The Shunzhi Emperor asked reverently what their fortunes would be like in the future.
The senior monk pondered for a while, and then said lightly, "Your Majesty, this matter cannot be leaked, but Your Majesty is a true Dragon Heavenly Son, and the poor monk can only say fourteen words to His Majesty and let His Majesty speculate for himself." ”
The Shunzhi Emperor hurriedly said, "The master is willing to tell me one or two, and I am very grateful, please ask the master to make it clear." The old monk nodded, then summoned his apprentice and brought him a piece of rice paper, and the old monk took up a brush and wrote fourteen large characters on the rice paper." Ten emperors reigned and nine emperors were imprisoned, and one emperor was in Youzhou. ”
After writing these fourteen big characters, the old monk sat aside and said lightly, "Your Majesty, these fourteen characters have fulfilled the national fortunes of the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years, and if you ask me more, I have nothing to say." ”
When the Shunzhi Emperor looked at these fourteen big characters, he couldn't understand it, but he couldn't force the monk anymore, so he could only say thank you and leave.
Then the Shunzhi Emperor found his close ministers, as well as several of his young children, and solemnly showed these fourteen words to these imperial relatives and relatives, and then left an oral edict, asking people to frame these fourteen words and put them in the plaque of the Qianqing Palace.
But this matter also ended here, the future emperors no one is concerned about this matter, the next few hundred years have passed, and the Great Qing Kingdom is summer to autumn, unconsciously more than two hundred and sixty years have passed, and finally in 1912 AD, the last Qing Emperor Xuantong Emperor announced his abdication, the Great Qing Kingdom perished.
In the next few decades, although there were beam-jumping clowns Puyi, who tried in vain to rebuild the Qing Dynasty, that is, the puppet state of Manchukuo in the northeast, in the end no one recognized it, which made the world laugh in vain.
At this time, the story of the fourteen words left by the Shunzhi Emperor was also widely circulated in the folk, and some knowledgeable people saw these fourteen words and immediately reacted to what he said.
The so-called ten emperors reigned, saying that there were ten emperors in the Qing Dynasty, and the so-called nine emperors were imprisoned, saying that the ninth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Guangxu, was imprisoned by Empress Dowager Cixi for the rest of his life.
As for the fact that there was also an emperor in Youzhou, it is said that Puyi recognized the thief as his father, and under the hostage of the Japanese, established a pseudo-Manchukuo in the northeast, because the ancient Youzhou mainly referred to the northern part of the Central Plains, which is today's northeast region.
In this way, these fourteen words have their corresponding archetypes, which really makes people can't help but be surprised, can anyone in this world really speculate about the past and the present?
summary
Whether anyone can speculate about the future of ancient and modern times, including the truth or falsity of this story, is not clear today, because if the world really has a so-called destiny, it is not something we can change, and we can only do what we can do.
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