Chapter 242: Taimiao
Everyone knows that this is a deliberately exaggerated expression to reflect the dignity and extraordinaryness of Zhang Xianzhong's statue. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After looking around, everyone didn't find any special clues for the time being, so they turned their flashlights around the cave, and immediately, a soldier shouted: "Ah, there are still a few holes over there, and there are words on the holes, and there is fire in the cave." ”
Everyone looked at it, and sure enough, they saw that there were three holes on the right side of this group of statues, and there was a faint candlelight flickering in the middle of the hole.
It's just that everyone's bright flashlight is bright, so this candlelight doesn't look very obvious.
Jiang Qi looked at the top of the cave with a strong flashlight, carefully identified it, and read softly: "Taimiao, East Side Hall, West Side Hall, what does this mean?"
"Taimiao?" Xue Qizhen couldn't help but cry out, "Taimiao is a place to worship the emperor's ancestors, and outside this cave is a sculpture of Zhang Xianzhong, is this a place where the descendants of the Daxi Dynasty worship their ancestors?"
Wang Ruyi said: "But, didn't you just say that the Great Western Dynasty only existed for a few years, and after Zhang Xianzhong died, wouldn't there be no successor?"
"How do I know what's going on? Go, go in and see. Xue Qizhen took the lead, and the group followed into the cave of "Taimiao".
Walking into the cave, everyone found that this cave is really not small, but it is a dead hole, and it does not lead to other places, about two hundred square meters, there are rows of shelves around the cave wall, on each shelf, there are shrines, there are tablets in the shrines, and there are jade books on the side of the tablets.
The candle flame in front of the shelf in the center is bright, and the largest shrine is placed on the shelf, and the tablet inside is impressively written: "The position of Zhang Xianzhong, the Taizu Emperor of the Great Western Dynasty" and other big characters.
On one side of the tablet, there is also his nickname, what "Wen Chengwu is diligent and frugal...... Emperor", the font of the name is relatively small, about seventeen or eighteen characters, and it is not very clear.
The temple number and the nickname are all available.
Everyone was dumbfounded, didn't they say that there was no successor to the Great West Dynasty?
Since there is no successor, where did the temple come from, where did it come from to worship, and where did it come from the descendants to give the nickname?
But looking back, everyone continued to be stunned.
I saw that there were seventeen or eighteen different shrines on the other shelves, and there were also tablets in the shrines.
"The position of Emperor Zhang Jingye of the Great Western Pilgrimage".
"The throne of Zhang Hao, the British Emperor of the Great Western Dynasty".
"Emperor Hongdi of the Great Western Dynasty ......"
“……”
The tablets of seventeen or eighteen emperors also have nicknames on the side.
Everything looked decent, but everyone was chilled when they saw it.
The Great Western Dynasty actually produced nineteen sons of heaven before and after?
But wasn't it a short-lived dynasty that would fall in a few years?
Where did all these days come from?
In an instant, everyone had a sense of unreality from the previous history, as if even the world had become illusory.
Xu Qianyun looked around, only to feel that although the surroundings were brightly lit, it was still difficult to hide an eerie and terrifying feeling, and she was so frightened that she leaned towards Li Xun's side.
Li Xun's face was also a little solemn, he took a few steps forward, came to Zhang Xianzhong's shrine, and glanced at the jade book, but then his eyes were locked on Zhang Xianzhong's tablet.
"Emperor Taizu Gao was born in the twelfth year of Daxi Dashun. ”
Seeing this year, Li Xun glanced back at Xue Qizhen in surprise and asked, "Old Xue, when did Zhang Xianzhong die?"
"The Great Western Dynasty existed for a total of three years, and Zhang Xianzhong died in Dashun for three years, which should be 1646 according to the modern calendar. ”
Xue Qizhen replied without hesitation, he was very proficient in these historical issues.
"But what's going on?" Li Xun asked, pointing to these small words.
Xue Qizhen took a few steps forward and couldn't help but be surprised when he saw it clearly.
"Twelve years of Dashun? Zhang Xianzhong didn't die in Dashun for three years, and then lived for nine more years? This is impossible, historical records, in the third year of Dashun, Zhang Xianzhong went north to resist the Qing Dynasty, and was shot to death by the Qing generals on the battlefield with arrows, the Great Western Army was suddenly defeated, Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates buried Zhang Xianzhong hastily, but later the body was dug up by the Qing army, and the head was killed in Chengdu. ”
As he spoke, Xue Qizhen shook his head again.
Although history is recorded like this, what is going on in front of us?
Li Xun groaned, and suddenly asked: "Is it possible that Zhang Xianzhong was not dead at the beginning, or pretended to be dead, and then went into hiding?"
Xue Qizhen thought for a while, and then said: "What you say, it's not impossible, the history books of the Qing Dynasty have always recorded that Zhang Xianzhong died in Xichong Phoenix Mountain and was shot to death by a stray arrow, but think about it carefully, as the commander of an army and the emperor of a country, how could he be easily shot by a stray arrow and die."
Moreover, there were literati in later generations who believed that Zhang Xianzhong was shot to death at that time, but there was no evidence to pass it on. ”
Li Xun took the opportunity to say: "As for the matter of digging up the corpse's head, it is even more unbelievable, as long as a person is buried in the soil for a few days, the corpse will slowly decay, who can tell if it is Zhang Xianzhong's corpse?"
When everyone heard Li Xun and Xue Qizhen's analysis, they all felt that there was some truth.
Wang Ru pondered for a moment, and suddenly exclaimed: "I know, why did I feel that the name of the village Dazhongba was so strange, Dazhongba...... Dazhong Dam ...... Although the pronunciation of dam and embarrassment is different, but the font is similar, I originally thought that this would not be the meaning of Dazhongba villagers taking the opportunity to show loyalty to Lao Miao.
But look at it now, Dazhong is the abbreviation of Emperor Zhang Xianzhong of Daxi, and it is also the name of Zhang Xianzhong himself.
Old man Xue, didn't you say that the four of you joined forces to strangle Lao Jiao, just because Lao Jiao hid in Zhang Xianzhong's army and bewitched the righteous army to eat people?
Zhang Xianzhong may have colluded with Lao Xianzhong a long time ago, but after Zhang Xianzhong pretended to be dead and escaped, he hid in this deep mountain and old forest, and with the help of Lao Xianzhong, he relied on the Eight Formations to continue the Great Western Dynasty from generation to generation. ”
Wang Ruyi's brain hole is really big.
But if you think about it, it's not impossible.
This brain hole actually makes sense.
If you are another emperor, you will definitely not name the place name with your own name, but Zhang Xianzhong is a reckless emperor and doesn't care about these details at all, so the origin of the name of this Dazhongba village may really have something to do with Zhang Xianzhong.
But this is all speculation, and no one can say for sure whether this is the case.
Everyone did not deny Wang Ruyi's inference, and he suddenly became more energetic.
He walked around all the shelves dedicated to the shrines around him, and said: "From here, the most recent emperor of the Great Western Dynasty is Zhang Jiuping, who died in the three hundred and fifty-first years of the Great Western Dynasty, Old Man Xue, you can calculate, how many years has it been?" )