When Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he asked Liu Bowen to tell him a fortune and see the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty. As the founding emperor, what he is most worried about is not his own throne, but the inheritance of dynasties and countries.
The Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was no exception, although he was not the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he wasThe first emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs.
In essence, it is the same as Zhu YuanzhangTherefore, Shunzhi was also worried about the national fortunes of the Qing Dynasty. He once asked a monk who had attained enlightenment:How many generations can the Qing Dynasty be passed on?
The monk replied:"Ten emperors are on the throne, nine emperors are prisoners, and one emperor is in Youzhou".
Portrait of Emperor Shunzhi.
Literally, the monk meant that there were only ten emperors in the Qing Dynasty, nine of whom would be imprisoned or become puppets of others because of certain restrictions, and one emperor lived in YouzhouIt is now the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Liaoning area.
Shunzhi didn't seem to understand it when he heard it, and immediately summoned the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty to **, trying to find out the true meaning of the monk's words.
After taking over power from Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing wanted to dominate the world, not only the Mongols and Han people, but all foreign races were to be included in the territory of the Qing Dynasty.
Before Shunzhi ascended the throne, the Manchu Qing went through two Great Khans: Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, plus a regent Dorgon, and the efforts of the three kings to win the world.
As the saying goes, it is easy to fight the country and it is difficult to defend the country, and when it came to Shunzhi, he succeeded to the throne at a young age, and the pressure doubled.
There was the suppression of the regent Dolgon inside, and the rebels who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty outside; There is the expectation of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, and there is the suspicion of the Han people who have no confidence in the Qing Dynasty, and the heart of Shunzhi is exhausted, and at a young age, he drove the crane west.
Lord Regent Dorgon.
In Shunzhi's short life, he was diligent in government and loved the people, reduced taxes many times, and worked hard to be a good emperor. Shunzhi likes to worship Buddha, perhaps because he wants to relieve pressure through Buddhist theory, or maybe he is really superstitious, he often invites Buddhist monks to come to the palace to teach Buddhism, and also talk with the masters.
Shunzhi has a special worship of the monk calledYulinxiu, the question of the inheritance of the Qing Dynasty, Shunzhi is a question to him Yulin Xiu.
And Yu Linxiu's answer,Until the moment when the Qing Dynasty ended, no one dared to say whether it was certain or not。It wasn't until the fall of the Qing Dynasty that I looked back at Yu Linxiu's words and understood what they meant.
Qing Dynasty,From the establishment of Nurhachi Houjin, a total of 296 years, passed on the twelve emperors, but this is not accurate, Huang Taiji isIt was only in 1636 that the name of the country was changed to QingTarget.
But at that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had not yet ruled China, so it had to be counted from the entry of the Qing army to take over the power of the Ming Dynasty, that isFrom the succession of Shunzhi to the abdication of Puyi, a total of ten emperors have been in place, and the country has been in power for 268 years.
So what does it mean that the Nine Emperors are imprisoned? The emperors of the Qing Dynasty, except for Guangxu who was the puppet of Cixi and Pu Yi who was the puppet of the Japanese, the other emperors were free. Hence this"Prisoner".Words cannot be narrowly understood.
Pu Yi. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the national strength was indeed strong for a period of time. Since Emperor Kangxi, the Qing court has fought for many years and recovered Mongolia, Xinjiang, and **, which are difficult to gnaw on in all dynasties.
And the implementation of the direct management of the imperial court, by no means like the previous dynasties with the fetters system management, those foreign emperors have always refused to submit to the Central Plains, at the first opportunity to make independence.
But it is because the beginning is a good card, and the emperor behind is onlyMore and more complacent, refusing to look far ahead and look at the development of the whole world.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army could still fight Japan and the Netherlands, but in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army was backward, but the Qing Emperor didn't know it.
Even ifEmperor Kangxi through the ages,Also proud and complacent, among the successive emperors of the Qing Dynasty, heHe was the emperor who worked hardest to learn foreign culturesThe Qing Dynasty still lagged behind the Western world by a large margin.
Kangxi's energy is almost all on the issue of Mongolia and **When Tsarist Russia invaded the Qing Dynasty, it was found that the Qing army could not compete with Tsarist Russia at all。The only one who can compete with Tsarist Russia in history isThe Temujin family
By the time of Qianlong, in fact, the Qing Dynasty had gone downhill, the so-calledThe prosperous era of Kangqian, when it came to Emperor Qianlong, was already a false prosperous era.
The British Magalny delegation to China, after coming to the Qing Dynasty, foundThe people of the Qing Dynasty did not live as happy as the legendOn the contrary, they lived under the high pressure of the imperial court for a long time, did not resist when they encountered injustice, knelt down when they saw people, and carefully served the members of the visiting delegation like slaves.
The gift given to Qianlong by the visiting delegation was not worth mentioningIt is believed that the artillery of the Qing Dynasty was more advanced than that of the British.
This self-righteousness untilEmperor Guangxu ascended the throne and reused the ministers of the Westernization faction, after traveling abroad and seeing the actual development of Western countries,only then did I realize how backward I was
The last sentence, "An Emperor is in Youzhou" is better understood, Pu Yi did not rest on his laurels, he learned English when he was in the Forbidden City, and after leaving the Forbidden City, he actively befriended various forces to help him restore the country, and learned the trend of Westerners with Wanrong.
But in the end, Pu Yi is the real prisoner and puppet. After the surrender of Japan, Pu Yi was captured by Soviet troops, and laterHe was sent back to Fushun Prison in Liaoning Province for detention, just in response to Yulin Xiu's words,The first emperor is in Youzhou
Therefore, Yulinxiu was accurate back then.