Chapter 342: Twelve Paintings
In front of Qin Yu, the temple is full of goose soft stone night pearls, the walls are carved with some gilded paintings, and the murals shine with golden light under the light of the night pearls, making the whole temple become brilliant.
And the reason why Qin Yu was stunned was because in the middle of the temple was not the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Buddhist family, but a person.
It was already a surprise that there was a statue of Buddha in a temple, and the person who was enshrined in this temple also gave Qin Yu a familiar feeling, when Qin Yu saw the statue of the person enshrined on this altar, he immediately thought of the drought.
In addition to the height, the temperament of this statue and the drought is almost identical, although Qin Yu could not see the face of the drought fish, but Qin Yu can be sure in his heart that this statue is definitely the appearance of the drought fish before his death, and this temple is used to worship him.
"There is a statue of a drought in the temple, and there are soldiers waiting outside the temple gate. "Qin Yu is now more and more curious about the identity of the drought fish, if he was still reluctant to be coerced before, but at this point, he also wants to know the identity of the drought fish.
It's a pity that although there is a statue of the drought in the middle of this temple, there is no identity mark, Qin Yu circled around the statue of the drought fish, and after not finding anything, he walked towards the wall again.
In Qin Yu's desire to come to the four walls of this temple, since there are murals painted on the four walls, there are a total of twelve murals on the four walls, Qin Yu started to look from the left side of the door, this first painting made Qin Yu's heart shocked, it was an emperor, wearing a dragon robe and sitting on a high platform. Below is the civil and military officials kneeling down, from the movements and demeanor of these hundred officials, Qin Yu can see that these hundred officials are shouting long live in the mountains.
From some scenes in the picture, Qin Yu can't tell which dynasty it is, and the official uniforms of the hundred officials are only very vaguely represented by black gauze hats, which means that these are civil and military officials.
The second scene is also the emperor leading the civil and military officials, but the scene has changed, this time the emperor and the civil and military officials are standing together, holding some kind of ceremony. Qin Yu guessed that it was very likely to be a ceremony to sacrifice to the heavens.
The third mural is very different from the previous two. This is a painting of the battlefield, the whole picture of countless soldiers charging into battle, and one of the generals is extremely brave, one gun and one horse in and out of thousands of troops.
I don't know what Lu Dao is for, Qin Yu saw the back of this general. Inexplicably remembered the drought. Could it be that this general is the one who was alive?
Qin Yu looked back at the statue in the middle of his eyes again. I compared it with the general in the painting, and found that the two were really similar.
The fourth painting is a painting that Qin Yu can't understand at first, and there are only three people in this painting. That emperor and general also had an old Tao, and the reason why Qin Yu couldn't understand it was because of the movements of these three people.
From the portrait, Lao Dao turned his back to the emperor and the general, the floating dust in his hand pointed to the sky, and the emperor and the general knelt on the ground, with angry expressions on their faces.
In ancient times, the emperor was the ninety-five, and it was almost impossible to kneel, except for some ancestor worship and heaven worship ceremonies, but the situation in front of him was obviously not a ceremony for the ceremony, what would make the emperor and the general willing to kneel?
With this doubt, Qin Yu looked at the fifth painting again, this time, he was stunned again, on the fifth painting, the general knelt on the ground, but the head rolled to the ground, and the machete in the hand of a nephew was still dripping with bloody blood from the tip of the knife, while His Majesty the Emperor stood on the high platform without saying a word.
"Drought is dead? impossible, if this general is the identity of Drought Fish, then he should not be beheaded, did he guess wrong before, this Drought Fish is not the general in the words?"
Qin Yu had no choice but to suppress his doubts and continued to look at the sixth painting, but the sixth painting immediately solved the doubts caused by the fifth painting.
On the sixth painting, the general appeared again, and this time the general was training the soldiers, in addition to the general, the old way appeared again, but I don't know if the painter who painted the mural was intentional or what, this old way is always on his back, and he can only see his long white hair and back.
The seventh painting is still training soldiers, but this time Qin Yu saw some eyebrows, the armor and weapons of these soldiers are covered with talismans, exuding a cold light, and there is also a scene of a soldier stabbing a boulder with one shot.
"This is training Taoist soldiers, what a big stroke. Qin Yu muttered softly, it was once recorded in the Zhuge Neijing that Mr. Wolong once wanted to train a group of Taoist soldiers in order to defeat Wei, and the so-called Taoist soldiers refer to soldiers who know Xuanmen Taoism.
It's just that Taoist soldiers are not so easy to train, to become Taoist soldiers, you must first have talent, be able to cultivate mental power, and Taoist soldiers are above the realm of the four grades, even if Mr. Wolong has the talent of the heavens and latitudes, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and it is difficult to train a group of soldiers who have reached the realm of the four grades in a short period of time.
And as far as Qin Yu saw in the painting, this Taoist army has a scale of five hundred people, five hundred soldiers equivalent to the realm of the fourth-grade phase master, this force Qin Yu is terrifying when he thinks about it, he doesn't know what this general wants to do when he trains such an army, such an army of five hundred people can resist millions of ordinary soldiers, of course, this refers to the era of cold weapons.
The power of five hundred fourth-grade physiognomy masters is definitely not as simple as one plus one, if it is combined with some formations, in a sentence that is not excessive, it is possible to kill gods and Buddhas.
The eighth and ninth paintings are both training Taoist soldiers, Qin Yu then looked at the tenth painting, this painting has two people, a person who looks like a eunuch, and the other is the emperor, the eunuch put on a dragon robe and hung on a tree, and the emperor looked at the eunuch under the tree and didn't know what Lu Dao was thinking?
The meaning of this painting is that an emperor asked a eunuch to pretend to be himself and hang himself on a tree, but the emperor himself ran away. ”
Qin Yu's mind flashed with inspiration, there was only one emperor who hanged in history, and that was the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty: Chongzhen.
Li Zicheng broke through the capital, Chongzhen led some concubines to commit suicide and hang themselves in Meishan, and if according to the message expressed in this painting, Emperor Chongzhen did not hang himself, but used an old eunuch to carry a bag for himself, and he himself fled.
Qin Yu stopped in front of the tenth mural, he began to sort out the information transmitted by the first ten paintings in his mind, the emperor in the painting is Chongzhen, and the general is the identity of the drought Qin Yu also has a bottom in his heart, Emperor Chongzhen asked the drought to help him train Taoist soldiers for some reason, and in order not to reveal this secret, Emperor Chongzhen pretended to execute the drought fish, and Qin Yu had a bottom on the identity of the drought fish in his heart, and it was also for this reason.
According to the information on the mural, Emperor Drought and Emperor Chongzhen are both suspended from death, but the secret of Drought Duck's fake death is to train Taoist soldiers not to be exposed, but Emperor Chongzhen chose to fake his death for Lu?
Knowing that Emperor Chongzhen had five hundred soldiers in his hands, Qin Yu didn't think that he could really break through the capital with those peasant soldiers of King Li Zicheng, thinking of this, Qin Yu had a doubt in his mind: Why would Emperor Chongzhen, who has five hundred soldiers, prefer to watch the country be taken away by others, and even pretend to be dead and disappear in front of the world, rather than expose those five hundred soldiers.
Qin Yu recalled the record of Emperor Chongzhen in the history books, Emperor Chongzhen was a frugal life, diligent in political affairs, young and promising emperor, as soon as he succeeded to the throne, he eradicated the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, and then issued an edict against himself, it can be said that among the wonderful emperors of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of the qualification of the emperor, Emperor Chongzhen can definitely be ranked in the top five.
Many historians study the reasons for the demise of the Min Dynasty, and one reason is universally recognized, that is, Emperor Chongzhen's luck is too bad, and since he succeeded to the throne, the people have been plagued by natural disasters.
It is recorded in the "Hannan Continuation County Chronicles": "In the first year of Chongzhen, the whole Shaanxi sky was as red as blood. Five years of great famine, six years of great floods, seven years of autumn locusts and great famine, eight years of drought in Xixiang in September, slightly sunny and waterlogged, all the houses are gone. Nine years of drought locusts, ten years of autumn crops are completely gone, and eleven years of summer locusts cover the sky...... Thirteen years of drought...... Fourteen years of drought"
Fourteen consecutive years of drought made the people miserable, so they revolted, and after the drought was a plague, the dead abandoned their children, the Yinghe blocked the road, and there were dead people everywhere, it can be said that half of the fall of the Ming Dynasty was caused by these natural disasters.
"Wait!" Qin Yu suddenly interrupted his thoughts and said to himself, "Drought, drought, is there some kind of connection between the two?"
"As soon as the drought came out, the red land was thousands of miles, and it was such a coincidence that during the reign of Emperor Chongzhen, there was a great drought for 14 consecutive years. ”
This made him have to wonder if there was any relationship between the two, Qin Yu's pupils suddenly contracted sharply: "If there is really a connection, then Emperor Chongzhen's plot ......"
Qin Yu believes in a sentence, ambitious people will give up all their net worth, that is to win a bigger net worth, as an emperor, especially a diligent emperor like Chongzhen, it is impossible to say that there is no ambition, then Chongzhen created a great drought, regardless of the life and death of the people, and is willing to throw away the foundation of the ancestors, then what he is trying to do must be more important in his own eyes than the country.
In the eyes of the emperor, what is more important than the country, Qin Yu found the answer in the eleventh painting, in fact, thinking of this, Qin Yu already had a rough guess in his heart.
Qin Shi Huang's merits are six he, an emperor through the ages, collecting the world's soldiers, casting twelve golden people, but the most unwilling, what he is asking for, immortality, and Emperor Chongzhen, like Qin Shi Huang, embarked on the road of seeking immortality.
In the eleventh painting, the cyan stone gate appeared, and Qin Yu had seen this cyan stone door for the third time, in the memory of the mountain god, the picture of the underworld, plus the current eleventh painting.
The cyan stone gate opened, and the old road reappeared, with his back to Emperor Chongzhen, standing in front of the stone gate, and Emperor Chongzhen walked into the cyan stone gate with five hundred soldiers, it can be seen from the expression in the painting, Emperor Chongzhen's face has an excited and resolute look, obviously, in order to seek immortality, he has no way out, the country is dead, only these five hundred soldiers are left, and it is necessary to find the way to live forever. (To be continued......)