John Tong was greatly respected by the Qing rulers, and was the only missionary in China to receive such courtesy. Dolgon respected his opinion, and Shunzhi's biological mother was grateful that John Tang had cured her niece, the future empress of Emperor Shunzhi, of her illness. The young Emperor Shunzhi listened to the praise of the Empress Dowager and the ministers of the court for this Western priest, and naturally developed a sense of trust, and because of the Shunzhi Emperor's strong desire for knowledge, he repeatedly summoned John Tang into the palace to explain astronomy and other natural science knowledge, and the relationship between the two established a relationship beyond that of ordinary monarchs and ministers. Emperor Shunzhi called Tang Ruowang "Marfa" that is, Manchu grandfather, Shunzhi eight years a year, Tang Ruowang was promoted three times, from the general doctor, Taifu Siqing to Taichang Siqing, the official rank from the fifth grade to the third grade. In the tenth year of Shunzhi (, the honorific title given to Tang Ruowang Tongwei teacher, the status is equivalent to that of a national teacher. In the fifteenth year of Shunzhi, John Tang was awarded the honorary title of Guanglu doctor, and his official position was promoted to Zhengyipin. Not only that, Emperor Shunzhi also often drove the Tang John Mansion and talked for a long time. This practice was considered to be indiscriminate between the inferior and contrary to etiquette, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the ministers of the DPRK and China. Despite this, John Tang still gained a high status and freedom of action by virtue of his close relationship with the Shunzhi Emperor.

As early as when John Tang first took up the post of Qintian supervisor, he built a majestic church in the European style in the Xuanwu Gate in Beijing, and there was an endless stream of visitors. In the fourteenth year of Shunzhi, the Shunzhi Emperor wrote the book "Tongwei Jiajing", made a plaque and hung in the Catholic Church of Xuanwumen, and Tang Ruowang also carved the imperial inscription of the Shunzhi Emperor into a stone tablet and erected it in front of the church. This move was tantamount to acquiescing to John Tong's right to preach freely. In fact, John Tang often took advantage of his proximity to the emperor to instill Christianity in the emperor, and the Shunzhi Emperor also read relevant books. Because of John Tong's popularity, the missionaries in China were protected, and the number of converts reached tens of thousands.

In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, the emperor who was only twenty-four years old died of illness, and his heir was the eight-year-old little emperor Kangxi, who was taken care of by his grandmother, the Empress Dowager. The DPRK and China are jointly governed by four obedient ministers, Sony, Sukh Saha, Kupilong, and Aobai, and only Aobai is the most powerful person. With the death of Emperor Shunzhi, John Tang's status deteriorated. First of all, in the last years of the Shunzhi Dynasty, Yang Guangxian, a slightly nicknamed literati, wrote "Excerpts from Fallacies" and "Treatise on Warding Off Evil Spirits", and threw himself into the Ministry of Rites, attacking the new Western law and Christianity respectively. Since Emperor Shunzhi is still alive. Ministry officials rejected Mr. Yang's petition for impeachment.

In the third year of the reign of the Kangxi Dynasty, the missionaries wrote the "Compendium of the Heavenly Studies", which introduced the history of the emergence and spread of Catholicism in China and refuted Yang Guangxian's accusations. The article exaggerates the sanctity of Christian doctrine and exacerbates the contradictions. At this time, John Tang suffered a stroke and fell ill, and Nan Huairen performed official duties on his behalf. Yang Guangxian represented a group of anti-Western missionaries, including Confucians, Muslims, and others, who actively supported Yang Guangxian and made the case more and more complicated.

Kangxi from the autumn of the third year to the spring of the following year. The court tried the case publicly, and Yang Guangxian accused Tang Ruowang and others of three major crimes: conspiracy and rebellion, propagating a cult, and spreading erroneous astronomical arithmetic. As a result of the long trial, seven officials from John Tang and Qin Tianjian were sentenced to death, and missionaries from all over the country were brought to Beijing for trial. Demolition of churches across the country. However, at the last minute of the trial, a strong earthquake struck Beijing, and Emperor Shunzhi's mother, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, directly intervened in the case, and John Tang and his servants were released. Five Chinese officials were still executed, and John Tong died soon after and was buried next to Matteo Ricci's tomb. Twenty-five missionaries who had been concentrated in Beijing were deported.

Yang Guangxian was appointed as the supervisor of Qintian. After taking office, he encountered technical problems in the calculation of the calendar, and Yang Guang first restored the Great Unification Calendar and the Hijri Calendar, but the result was of course full of errors. Kangxi was a little older, dissatisfied with the dictatorship of Aobai, and tracked down from the hands of Qin Tianjian. In the spring of the eighth year of Kangxi, Kangxi imitated his father Shunzhi's assistants Nan Huairen and Yang Guangxian to test on the spot to distinguish the good from the bad. After several investigations, Yang Guang was defeated first, was dismissed, and died of illness on the way back to his hometown in Anhui.

Emperor Kangxi restored John Tang's honorific title and affirmed his contributions. Nan Huairen took over as the supervisor of the Qintianjian Prison, and after this major twist and turn, Chinese astronomy regained the opportunity to develop, and the main officials of the Qintianjian were all Western missionaries. The missionaries won the victory in astronomy, but the resistance to the mission became greater and greater, and the Qing government's control over the missionary activities became tighter and tighter after the middle and late Kangxi period, and finally entered the stage of a complete ban on Christianity.

Tang Ruowang and Emperor Shunzhi had such a close relationship, why did they end up like this?

Kangxi was able to ascend to the throne, and it was precisely because of the words of this old Western man that Shunzhi was prompted to establish Kangxi as his successor.

Regarding the decision of who will inherit the throne, the minister Feng Xiaozhuang asked Tang Gong which of the second son Fuquan and the third son Xuanye was more suitable to succeed to the throne. John Tang liked the third son of the emperor because he had smallpox. This Xuan Ye is the later Qing Shengzu Kangxi.

From this point of view, John Tang was kind to Kangxi, but what was the reason that prompted Kangxi to issue Ling Chi to John Tang? If it were not for the urging of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, in the eighth year of Kangxi, John Tang's unjust case would not have been rehabilitated.

In fact, Tang Ruowang's fall from grace and the final execution of Ling Chi had nothing to do with Yang Guangxian, this matter was just a reason, or an explanation on the surface. The real reason has something to do with Feng Shui.

The emperors of the Qing Dynasty paid great attention to the choice of feng shui for mausoleums. They believe that a good mausoleum feng shui can bring good luck to the country and enable children and grandchildren to reproduce and prosper. Therefore, without good feng shui, they would rather not build a mausoleum. Emperor Daoguang said: "Always take the beauty of the land as the key, not the magnificence of the palace to look at it extravagantly." That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Emperor Shunzhi was the first emperor of the Qing Dynasty after entering the customs, so where should his mausoleum be chosen? Xiao Fulin was pondering this question. After he became a politician, he began to read a lot of materials, including feng shui books.

Emperor Shunzhi is very smart, he has to read more than ten books every day, and he has the ability to never forget. However, due to overwork, he vomited blood.

After Emperor Shunzhi learned a lot of book knowledge, he wanted to practice it and test what he had learned by the way. Therefore, he had to choose an auspicious land for himself.

In December of the eighth year of Shunzhi, the 14-year-old boy Son of Heaven Fulin, the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang Wen, led the queen, concubines, ministers of the kings, and feng shui masters, and set off to Zunhua in a mighty way.

After walking for 4 days, they came to Fengtai Ridge in Zunzihua. It turned out that he got a message in the palace that the Zunhua Fengtailing place, which is nearly 300 miles away from the Forbidden City, is a good feng shui. The classic book Zha Jizuo's "Record of Sins" records the feng shui of Fengtai Ridge.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, because there was no good feng shui in Tianshou Mountain, Emperor Chongzhen sent Liu Kongzhao and Zhang Zhenren to choose feng shui in Zunhua. After calculation, the auspicious time for the start of construction is the year of Jiashen, that is, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and this year is the year of the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the 14-year-old Emperor Shunzhi came prepared. He climbed to the top of Fengtai Ridge and looked far away, but saw the flat river in the south like a blanket, and he had a panoramic view; Looking to the north, the mountains are stacked on top of each other, and the greenery is endless, which is really a good feng shui made in heaven. Emperor Shunzhi recalled the feng shui books he read on weekdays, and sat down with those feng shui elements such as Longsha cave water one by one, and was actually surprised: this is really a perfect feng shui treasure land! So, Emperor Shunzhi reverently took off the jade wrench on his big finger and threw it to the south, saying: "The place where the wrench falls is the acupuncture point in the future." ”

The prince and minister immediately found the wrench thrown by Emperor Shunzhi, and immediately inserted a golden hairpin into the jade wrench. The golden hairpin and wrench were inserted into the dirt together, and then they were covered with a mat tent, so that the daylight, moonlight, and starlight were no longer visible.

Emperor Shunzhi's feng shui activities, laid the Qing Dynasty after the first feng shui base, in the next few hundred years, built here 5 imperial tombs, 4 queen mausoleums, concubine garden bed, before and after the burial of 157 people.

There is a classic called "Xiaoting Miscellaneous Records", in which he praises Emperor Shunzhi's wisdom in Feng Shui: "Although I have ordered my generation to go all over the sea to seek it, I can't get this auspicious land." In other words, even those Feng Shui gentlemen may not be able to find such a Feng Shui treasure.

It can be seen from this that Emperor Shunzhi believed in feng shui and had a deep knowledge of feng shui, but why did he live so shortly? It is recorded in the history books that he died because of smallpox, and the wild history records that Emperor Shunzhi became a monk because of love.

But no matter what kind of record it is, it is inseparable from a woman, Concubine Dong E!

Filial piety to the queen, Dong E, Shunzhi Emperor's concubine, known as Dong Efei. Manchuria is a native of the White Banner, the daughter of the Minister of the Interior, the sister of the general Feiyangu, and the sister of the concubine clan.

In the thirteenth year of Shunzhi, Dong E's family entered the palace and was deeply favored by Emperor Shunzhi. On August 25 of the same year, she was named a virtuous concubine. Only for more than a month, Shunzhi named her the imperial concubine on the grounds of "being sensitive, wise and good, and not above Dong E's family". The speed of promotion is rare in Chinese history.

On August 19, the 17th year of Shunzhi, Dong Eshi died of illness in Chengqian Palace at the age of 22. Dong Eshi was the favorite woman of Emperor Shunzhi's life, and was posthumously crowned as the queen after his death and buried in the Qing Tomb of filial piety. The nickname is Xiaoxian Zhuang and Zhide Xuanren Wen Hui Duanjing Empress (not attached to the emperor, is the last queen of China with an independent title).

The relationship between Tang Ruowang and Emperor Shunzhi and even Emperor Kangxi took a sharp turn for the worse, and it was directly related to this woman, as well as his child who died in 100 days and Prince Shuorong. (To be continued.) )