Shunzhi asked: How long did the Qing last? Monkwords, Pu Yi understands.
In China's long history, there are countless mysterious fables that tell the story of every time a new dynasty rises, the founding monarch often looks for a master from outside the world to divinate and predict the future fate of his new dynasty.
And these masters did live up to their name, and they summed up the rise and fall of the dynasty and the eventual fall of the dynasty in a mysterious word. For example, in the early days of the Qing Dynasty, the first emperor Shunzhi Emperor once asked a monk about the fate of the Qing Dynasty, and the monk left a sentence that explained the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years.
So what are the mysterious words left by this eminent monk? Is there really such a magical figure in history?
Some people may be confused that Emperor Shunzhi asked the old monk about the rise and fall of the world, why can't the emperor master these things himself? In fact, there is the background of the Shunzhi Emperor behind this.
When the Qing Dynasty was first established, the total population of the Eight Banners was just over 100,000, while the population of the Ming Dynasty exceeded 100 million. Therefore, when the Qing Dynasty began to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, many people thought that it was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg and bringing about its own destruction.
In the following decades, the Qing Dynasty seemed to be favored by God, and it turned danger into disaster again and again. Whenever the Ming Dynasty tried its best to win with one blow, the Qing Dynasty always encountered civil strife at critical moments.
Sometimes it was the emperor who became suspicious of the commander-in-chief and killed him; Sometimes it was after the Ming Dynasty defeated the Qing Dynasty that a rebel army suddenly appeared from within, forcing the Ming Dynasty to bring back the front-line troops to suppress it.
This situation left the Ming Dynasty exhausted and had no time to concentrate on dealing with the threat of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty took advantage of this opportunity to increase its strength, and finally succeeded in killing the Shanhaiguan Pass and replacing the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
The situation after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs was very favorable for them, because the Ming Dynasty still stationed two or three hundred thousand troops south of the Yangtze River. They could follow the example of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty and choose a corner of peace to form a situation of confrontation between the North and the South.
However, the good fortune of the Qing Dynasty struck again, and just as they were struggling with how to cross the Yangtze River moat, a Ming Dynasty commander was dissatisfied with his treatment and led his army into the city of Nanjing, trying to proclaim a new emperor.
The outcome of this civil unrest is laughable. It turned out that the general led the army to the middle of the march when he suddenly suffered a heart attack and died. His son was unwilling to take the risk of attacking the Ming Dynasty**, but chose to lead his 100,000 men and horses to withdraw from the Yangtze River defense line to the Qing Dynasty, and surrendered several important passes along the Yangtze River.
In this way, the Qing Dynasty obtained the Ming Dynasty's Yangtze River defense line without a single soldier. The Qing Dynasty easily crossed the Yangtze River and unified the country in a few years, probably the fastest founding in history.
This made people at the time think that perhaps the Mandate of Heaven was helping the Qing Dynasty, so it was a matter of course for the Qing Dynasty to rule the Central Plains.
As the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Shunzhi was worried about the situation in front of him. He understood the truth that "fortune and misfortune depend on each other, and the extremes of things must be opposed", and he knew that the Manchu population was only about 100,000, but they had to rule over a Han population of nearly 100 million, which was a huge challenge for the Qing Dynasty.
A few decades ago, the Eight Banners were still barbarian tribes in the north, while the Han people in the Central Plains have a history of civilization of thousands of years, and their means of rule are far from those of the Han people in the Central Plains.
The Shunzhi Emperor had doubts about the Qing Dynasty's rule, so he asked a well-known monk near the capital to seek answers. In order to stabilize the rule of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty once carried out large-scale killing operations in the south, which triggered a revolt in the world.
Emperor Shunzhi was deeply worried about this and wanted to know the luck and future of the Qing Dynasty.
The Nine Emperors were imprisoned, and the First Emperor was in Youzhou. ”
The old monk sat calmly, completed the writing of these fourteen words in an indifferent tone, and then looked at Emperor Shunzhi and said: "Your Majesty, these fourteen words have included the national fortune of the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years, if Your Majesty has other questions to ask, I will not be able to answer." ”
Emperor Shunzhi looked at these fourteen words, his heart was full of doubts, but he knew that forcing the monk would only make it more difficult for him, so he politely thanked the monk and left.
Emperor Shunzhi summoned his close ministers and young children and showed them the fourteen words in a serious manner. Then, he left an edict asking for these fourteen characters to be framed and hung on the plaque of the Qianqing Palace.
He told them that the first thing the emperor of later generations would do after ascending the throne was to glance at these fourteen characters and remember the future national fortunes of the Qing Dynasty. However, this matter was not taken seriously by later emperors until more than 260 years later, when the Great Qing Kingdom was declared extinct in 1912 AD, and the last emperor, Emperor Xuantong, announced his abdication.
Even in the following decades, Pu Yi, a clown who jumped off the beam, tried to rebuild the puppet Manchukuo in the northeast, but in the end no one recognized it, and only ended up with the shame of the world. At this time, the story of the fourteen words left by Emperor Shunzhi has been widely circulated among the people, and knowledgeable people can immediately understand his meaning as soon as they see these fourteen words.
The Ten Emperors reigned, and the Nine Emperors were imprisoned"This is a microcosm of the history of the Qing Dynasty, revealing the tragic fate of Guangxu, the ninth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who was imprisoned by the Empress Dowager Cixi. And that"The first emperor is in Youzhou", refers to the humiliating history of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who was held hostage by the Japanese in the northeast region and established the puppet state of Manchukuo.
There are archetypes behind these words, and people can't help but wonder, can anyone really predict the past and the present? So, whether anyone can foresee the future, including the truth or falsehood of this story, is now inconclusive, because if fate really exists, we can't change it, all we can do is do our best.
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