Lao Jiang met a Taoist priest, gave eight characters, and counted his life
During a chance encounter in Luofu Mountain, the Night Talk editor said that he met a Taoist priest. The Taoist priest said eight words to him, and these words shocked Lao Jiang when he heard them, and his face instantly turned pale.
Lao Jiang's Journey of Faith: Diversification of the Path of Faith In 1925, Lao Jiang met a priest in Luofu Mountain, and the Taoist priest gave him eight words, which surprised Lao Jiang.
What are these eight words? It turned out that Lao Jiang's path of faith was very diverse. In his early years, he followed his mother to Buddhism; Later, for the sake of his relationship with Soong Meiling, he converted to Catholicism.
However, he practiced various faiths in his life, including visiting "high monks" and believing in Taoist priests. This trait made him popular with many people at the time, because people always liked to do what they liked.
Old Chiang had a keen interest in divination, and it is said that there was a temple near their home dedicated to the Jiang family's rituals. The fortune-telling of this temple is very accurate, and every time Lao Jiang encounters an unsolvable problem, he will go to this temple to seek a hexagram.
However, not in all cases, Lao Jiang had the opportunity to return home for divination. During the crusade against Chen Jiongming, Lao Jiang was unable to return home to perform divination. Chen Jiongming was a special figure, he was even older than Chiang Kai-shek in his early years, and led the rebel army to participate in the Xinhai Revolution, at the same time as Sun Yat-sen.
His rapid rise made him a powerful force in Guangdong in the later years of Sun Yat-sen, with whom he often clashed with him.
At the beginning, in order to arrest Sun Yat-sen, they even launched a military mutiny, apparently having completely broken with Sun Yat-sen. This incident made Sun Yat-sen see through the unreliability of the warlords, so he began to gather his military forces, so there was the Whampoa Military Academy.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek, as the principal of Whampoa, naturally regarded the crusade against Chen Jiongming as a top priority. However, Chen Jiongming occupied Guangdong for many years and was cunning and spicy, so he encountered many difficulties at first in Chiang Kai-shek's crusade.
Especially in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek was in trouble for a while, and Sun Yat-sen died in the same year, and he felt confused about his future. How to rise to prominence among the many warlords and become an important figure or even a leader?
How to defeat Chen Jiongming in front of him and pave the way for inheriting Sun Yat-sen's power? These became questions in his mind. Unable to figure it out, he began to seek the help of the gods and Buddhas.
In order to find a way to solve military problems, although Commander-in-Chief Chiang was the commander of the three armed forces, he did not return to his hometown in Zhejiang openly to go to the temple to tell fortunes. After all, at that time they preached the rejection of superstition.
So, he wandered around the local area and stumbled upon a place where a "master" might be hidden - nearby Luofu Mountain is a Taoist holy site. Although Taoism is not very famous, in the eyes of the ancients, it is no less than Confucianism.
The Taoist priests knew a little about many fields, not only good at divination and healing, but also good at governing the country, military art of war, and even some were astronomical calendars and inventors.
Therefore, many ancient emperors liked to find Taoist priests to discuss the way of governing the country, such as Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan, who particularly believed in Taoism. Therefore, Commander-in-Chief Chiang decided to go to Luofu Mountain to look for possible "masters", hoping that they would give a good solution to the military problem.
The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were deeply influenced by Taoism, and the Jiajing Emperor was particularly keen on alchemy and health preservation, and even often asked Taoist priests for advice on how to govern the country. For example, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, an emperor sought advice from a Taoist priest when he was in trouble.
Chiang Kai-shek was deeply affected by this, knowing that Luofu Mountain was a sacred place of Taoism, so he brought his entourage here to find hermits and masters to ask for advice on his future. His entourage, seeing his interest, encouraged him to go to Luofu Mountain.
In Luofu Mountain, a Taoist holy place, Lao Jiang, as a high-ranking official, although the mountain is rugged, but in order to see the master, he still wanders around the mountain with great interest.
Eventually, he found an old way in a small temple. Lao Jiang wanted to communicate with this old Taoist, but he was worried that his subordinates would disturb Lao Dao's practice, so he arranged his subordinates aside and went to chat with Lao Dao alone.
Lao Dao saw Lao Jiang's extraordinary identity and began to talk along the topic of Lao Jiang.
Chiang Kai-shek originally just wanted to try the Taoism of a Taoist priest, but found that the Taoist priest knew everything and met the standard of a superior person in his mind. And after talking to Chiang Kai-shek, the Taoist priest quickly realized his extraordinary identity.
The two began to chat. Although Chiang Kai-shek felt unsatisfied, he also knew that he couldn't stay here forever, after all, this was the place where Taoist priests cultivated, and as a ** general, if he left his army because of chatting with Taoist priests, it would be regarded as inappropriate.
So, he prepared to leave the Taoist temple. Seeing this, the Taoist priest knew that Chiang Kai-shek still had something to ask for. If he is not satisfied, he may come to the Taoist priest again. So, the Taoist priest quietly calculated a hexagram for Chiang Kai-shek, and gave him eight words when Chiang Kai-shek left: "Victory will not leave Sichuan, defeat will not leave the bay." ”
Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to ask the Taoist priest for advice, but he was shocked when he heard the prophecy of these eight words. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was not the first president, but only one of the influential warlords.
But this Taoist priest's prophecy made Chiang Kai-shek seem to understand, but he could not grasp the meaning.
It is difficult to understand what this "bay" means, as a geographical location, Lao Jiang naturally thought that this was the Sichuan region. However, at this time, Lao Jiang was fighting against Chen Jiongming in Guangdong, and his hometown and basic market were in the southeast coastal areas of Zhejiang and Shanghai, so it can be said that he had no connection with Sichuan.
So this prophecy surprised and doubted him. However, Lao Jiang often turned to soothsayers for help, and he knew that these Taoist priests would only say eight words instead of explaining in detail, because they were unwilling to divulge the secrets of the heavens.
Lao Jiang could only leave with eight words. Although Lao Chiang didn't understand it at that time, with the development of his career, he realized more and more that these eight words were simply gods, and Chiang Kai-shek's life was almost included in these eight words!
4, God**: Eight words reveal that Lao Jiang was prosperous and sensible and defeated Chen Jiongming soon after returning to his hometown, and was recognized by many Kuomintang bigwigs because of his exploits in the process of conquering Chen Jiongming; And he is good at tricks, and after some operations, Lao Jiang directly became the supreme ruler at that time as a rising star.
When Chiang had not yet fully secured his throne, the Japanese invaded Northeast China and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out. Lao Chiang originally planned to use the geographical advantage to buy time, but the Japanese attack was too fast, and soon reached Shanghai.
Next, Lao Chiang's main base areas fell one after another, and many provinces along the southeast coast were occupied by the Japanese army. At this time, Lao Jiang remembered the first words of the Taoist priest: "Victory will not leave Sichuan." ”
Surrounded by mountains, the Sichuan region was landlocked and supported by several provinces, so Chiang decided to move the capital to Chongqing, even though Chongqing was still part of Sichuan Province at that time.
After Lao Chiang set Chongqing as the accompanying capital, the war situation gradually stabilized. After a brutal battle in the early stage, ** gradually grew. At the same time, the United States and Britain and other countries also began to realize that Japan's expansion threatened their interests in Southeast Asia, and began to provide assistance to the United States, improving the equipment of Lao Chiang, so that the combat effectiveness of the United States was improved.
Defeat will not leave the bay". At this time, the treasure island became the choice of Lao Chiang, because I did not have enough planes and warships, as long as I escaped to the island, I could guarantee safety.
Therefore, he eventually moved to the treasure island and had to admire the wisdom of that Taoist priest.