Chapter 458: The Secret of History
Prince Yixun is the seventh son of Emperor Daoguang and the half-brother of Emperor Xianfeng.
After the death of Emperor Xianfeng, Prince Alcohol cooperated with Cixi to launch the Xinyou Coup, allowing Cixi to control the government and assist the crown prince at that time, who was later Emperor Tongzhi, to listen to the government.
It is a pity that the Tongzhi Emperor died of smallpox within two years of his own administration, so Cixi made Prince Chu's son Zai Xiang the emperor, that is, the Guangxu Emperor.
Different from Emperor Tongzhi, Emperor Guangxu was dissatisfied with the current situation of the country being invaded and oppressed by foreign powers on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was dissatisfied with the conservative government of the Empress Dowager Cixi, so he wanted to regain power from the Empress Dowager Cixi, so the two began a fierce competition for power.
In fact, just before Emperor Guangxu was getting older and the power competition between him and the Empress Dowager Cixi was becoming increasingly fierce, Emperor Guangxu's father, Prince Alcohol, had already seen this sign, and he also knew that this day would come sooner or later, and there was no way to avoid it.
In order to prevent his son from suffering the same fate as the Tongzhi Emperor, Prince Alcohol has already secretly laid out various means, and one of the means is to find the famous feng shui master Mr. Li Tang at that time, and Mr. Li Tang personally chose a cemetery for him, that is, the Ming Fayun Temple at that time. (There are typos, deliberately, please forgive me, some place names can not be typed)
Because Yiyun is the seventh son of Emperor Daoguang, it is also called the Tomb of the Seven Kings here.
In fact, the tomb of the Seven Kings began to be built as early as when Guangxu ascended the throne as emperor. At that time, Prince Alcohol hid from the Empress Dowager Cixi and asked the famous Master Li Tang to choose the address of the cemetery for him, and then arrange the "Imperial Dragon Qi" feng shui situation here. I hope to bless my son, Emperor Guangxu, who will not be poisoned by the Empress Dowager Cixi in the future, and can successfully regain the power of the court from the hands of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Although Master Li Tang is well versed in the art of Kanyu, he does not have a full grasp of the overall situation of feng shui, and at the beginning, he did not dare to agree to Prince Alcohol to arrange such a feng shui situation as "Emperor Dragon Qi", but fortunately, Master Li Tang found the tomb of the seven kings here. There is a ginkgo tree that requires eight or nine people to hug and is dozens of feet high, so I agreed to Prince Alcohol's request.
This ginkgo tree is not an ordinary ginkgo tree, Master Li Tang concluded that it is at least a hundred years old, which is just right for the formation of "Emperor Dragon Qi".
About this ginkgo tree, there are records in the history books: "The old pine is six zhang high, and the ginkgo tree is one, with a circumference of three zhang and five feet, clear and yin, and heavy and fruitful." All hundreds of years of things, the water source out of the stone, the surrounding stone masonry, more than 1,000 swimming fish, Kanyuyun is angry. ”
Therefore, Master Li Tang not only selected this place as the tomb for Prince Alcohol, but also used this ginkgo tree as an eye to arrange the overall feng shui situation of "Imperial Dragon Qi". In order to facilitate the prosperity of the royal family of Emperor Guangxu's lineage after the death of Prince Alcohol.
When Prince Alcohol died, Emperor Guangxu did grow up unharmed. However, the contradictions between Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager Cixi became more and more out of control, until after the First Sino-Japanese War, the gap between Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager Cixi can be said to be clear, and the gap is deepening, to the point that no one can tolerate anyone.
This time. It is not so easy for the Empress Dowager Cixi to deal with Guangxu again, after all, Guangxu has also been the emperor for so long, and in the hearts of the people, the emperor is the real master of the country.
That's at this time. In the early years, he got the young age of Master Liao Yu's six-style plate, and under such a background, he stood out.
With the help of the Liuren Plate, Yingnian successfully selected the auspicious day for the construction of the hill gate barrel for the Summer Palace, and it was because of these two events that he was named the royal feng shui master.
But he was not reconciled at all, in order to win Cixi's favor, he worked tirelessly to use the six-style plate to discover the overall situation of the "Emperor Dragon Qi" feng shui arranged by Master Li Tang for Prince Yixun.
After getting this letter, Yingnian was overjoyed, he thought that he had seized the great opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune, so he bribed Li Lianying, the chief eunuch next to the Empress Dowager Cixi, and made a statement to the Empress Dowager Cixi, saying that the reason why Emperor Guangxu is like this is because of the blessing of his ancestors in heaven and the protection of the overall feng shui situation, and this feng shui situation is in the tomb of the seven kings.
The Empress Dowager Cixi was suspicious and took Yingnian to visit the tomb of the Seven Kings. On the tomb of the Seven Kings, Yingnian found the eye of the "Imperial Dragon Qi" feng shui situation according to the six-style plate, that is, where the ginkgo tree is located.
Pointing to the ginkgo tree, Yingnian made a statement to the Empress Dowager Cixi, saying that the ginkgo tree is a white fruit tree, and there is a king buried under the tree, that is, the prince of alcohol, and the word "king" is buried under the word "white", which is the word "emperor". This is the reason why the genealogy of the Seven Princes of Alcohol is one of the royal spirits.
When the Empress Dowager Cixi heard this, she could still stand it, it turned out that the root of Emperor Guangxu's disobedience was here, and she immediately asked Yingnian what to do.
The method given by Yingnian is also very simple, the overall feng shui situation of "Imperial Dragon Qi" arranged by Master Li Tang is exquisite, but the eyes of the array are exposed, as long as this ginkgo tree is cut down, it will naturally break the overall feng shui situation of "Imperial Dragon Qi", and Emperor Guangxu will no longer have feng shui protection.
It's just that when Yingnian told Cixi about this, he still kept an eye on it, he only told Cixi about Emperor Guangxu's feng shui shelter, but did not say how to solve this feng shui situation.
The Empress Dowager Cixi, who found the root cause, was excited, and she didn't think too much about it, and immediately asked the ginkgo tree to be cut down.
It's just strange to say that as soon as the eunuchs who were ordered to cut down the white fruit tree arrived at the cemetery, they raised their big axes and cut them on the white fruit tree, and when they cut an axe, a white pulp flowed out from the axe of the tree, and the axe was just pulled out, and the mouth grew again, and so on many times, and it was still the same, and no one could hurt a piece of the bark of the white fruit tree after cutting it for several days.
For this reason, Cixi was annoyed and angry, thinking that these eunuchs were all people of Emperor Guangxu, so she refused to deal with them, and cut off the heads of several people, but later she recruited many carpenters, and those carpenters could not do anything, so they still cut long and long.
When there was nothing else to do, Cixi once again thought of the royal feng shui master Yingnian who first discovered this matter and told her about it, and after rediscovering Yingnian, Cixi not only promised countless monetary rewards, but also gave Yingnian several official titles in a row.
Seeing that his cemetery had been reached, Yingnian told Cixi how to crack the overall situation of "imperial dragon qi" feng shui.
"Hey, if it weren't for this young flattering lord who cracked the overall feng shui situation of Prince Alcohol's 'Imperial Dragon Qi', maybe Emperor Guangxu's Wuxu Reform would not have failed, and there would be no word for the Hundred Days Restoration in history."
Hearing Wang Yang come here, Sun He couldn't help but shake his head and sighed.
In any case, at that time, the Guangxu Emperor was still bent on making China rise again, but the Empress Dowager Cixi was stubborn and conservative, and she still chose to retreat under the current situation of the great powers eyeing and carving up China, and only kept the supreme power in her own hands.
"If the feudal system is not broken, what is the use of the Restoration, the purpose of the Restoration itself is to fight for power and profit, even if Guangxu can really succeed, it will not change the final fate!"
Wang Yang sighed heavily, Sun He was slightly stunned, and then nodded, Wang Yang was right, the Manchu Qing at that time was rotten to the bones, and it could not be changed by the Restoration alone, just look at the end of the Ming Dynasty, weapons and equipment and even technology were stronger than the Manchu Qing, but they never used it, and they still lost in the end. (To be continued.) )