Fengshui of Ancestral Tomb and National Destiny of Ming Dynasty

Taking the Ming Dynasty as an example, the key to the destruction of the Ming Dynasty was the 7th year of Chongzhen, when the tombs of Zhu Yuanzhang's parents were destroyed, and from then on, the Ming Dynasty collapsed. After the death of Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng should sit on the throne of the king of God. Why did the army fail? The reason is the ancestral grave. Please see the analysis below for specific content.

According to the "History of the Ming-Ben Ji Twenty-Three": "In the first month of the eighth year in Yimao, the thief trapped Shangcai, and successively trapped Poishui, Xingyang, and Gushi. At the end of the day, Hong Chengchou went out to discuss the thief. Xinyou and Zhang Xianzhong trapped Yingzhou. Bingyin, trapped Fengyang, burned the imperial mausoleum, stayed behind in the country of Zhu, and died in battle.” In the eighth year of Chongzhen, a group of peasant rebels including Zhang Xianzhong captured the hometown of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty and dug out Zhu Yuanzhang’s father. Ma’s grave, it can be said that the feng shui of Zhu’s family was broken, and the Ming Dynasty completely lost the relative advantage of suppressing the insurgents and resisting the Qing army from this day on.

After comparing the military situation of the two sides before and after eight years in Chongzhen, an interesting phenomenon can be found: "In Chongzhen seven years, the commander Zhang Yingchang defeated the thief in Lingbao, and in May, He Renlong and others defeated the thief in Lantian; in June, Governor-general Chen Qiyu and Yunyang Fuzhi Capital Yushi Lu Xiangsheng joined together in Shangjin and suppressed the thieves in Huguang; it was Xia, the Guanjun encircled Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng and the thieves in Xing'an Che Box Gorge for two months."

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, especially after the Fengyang Mausoleum was destroyed, the entire Ming Dynasty government had no control over the peasant army, "Zhang Xianzhong invaded Luzhou, found the Lujiang River, and did nothing. Li Zicheng returned to Germany and returned to Shaanxi with Luo Rucai; In February, Zhang Xianzhong was trapped in Qianshan, Luotian, Taihu, and Xincai; in Xia April, Zhang Xianzhong went back to Hanzhong, violating Pingliang and Fengxiang; Sichuan mutiny in Fancheng. In June, the officer and army encountered a thief in Luanmachuan and lost. Ai Wannian and Liu Guozhen defeated Li Zicheng in Xiangle of Ningzhou, and failed. Cao Wenzhao chased the thief to Qiutou Town of Zhenning, where he was defeated and fought to the death. Zhang Xianzhong rushed to Zhuyangguan, the commander-in-chief Youyou Shiwei was defeated and the thief returned to Henan. In August, Li Zicheng fell into Xianyang."

On March 20 of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, one of the tombs of Fengyang who destroyed one of the tombs, invaded Beijing. The fifteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, hanged himself on the Meishan Mountain. The Ming Dynasty began on this day. Officially perished.

But why Li Zicheng captured Beijing but did not finally unify the whole of China, and this historical task was completed by a minority with a population of less than one million? This is also related to the argument I made this time.

The "History of the Ming Dynasty-Biographies One Hundred and Fifty" records: "Wang Qiaonian's care of Shaanxi was issued by Cheng Xianzhong. Mizhi made Bian suffer, Hejian Jinghaijuren, Jianling also praised the people of his tribe. County officials, plunder it. Say: "Go to the county for two hundred miles to call Li's village, and be buried in the chaotic mountains, sixteen tombs, and its ancestors. According to legend, the cave is determined by the immortals, and the iron lantern in the pit, the iron lantern is not Extinguish, Li Shixing. "The ants count stones as they say, and the fire is shining. The coffin is opened, the bones are black and the quilt is yellow, the back of the head is as big as money, the red snake plate, three or four inches, flying with horns, Gao Zhangxu, the one who swallows the sun is six or seven, but falls down. Qiao Nian writes his skull and wax snake to smell, burns the rest, mixes it with filth, and discards it."

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the governor of Shaanxi Wang Qiaonian ordered to go to Mizhi, the hometown of Li Zicheng, to excavate the tomb of Li Jiazu. After opening the coffin, he found a red snake inside. The local people said that Li Jiazu’s tomb had excellent feng shui and there were snakes in the coffin . The saying in feng shui geomancy means that the descendants can be emperors. This Lord Wang destroyed the tomb of Li's family ancestor and cut the red snake to damage Li Zicheng's feng shui.

In any case, Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor in Xi’an in January in the 17th year of Chongzhen. However, after occupying Beijing, his subordinates robbed Wu Sangui’s little wife and arrested Sangui’s father Wu Xiang, so that Xiao Wu The comrades rushed to the crown and turned into confidantes, leading the ethnic minorities into the pass.

After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he had repeatedly recruited Wu Sangui. From the perspective of the overall situation, Wu Sangui is a very important military force. The Shanhaiguan he defends is an important channel for the Qing army to enter the customs. Shanhaiguan is also a strategic fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. , But why for such an important military figure, Li Zicheng can’t treat Xiao Wu’s family well? Isn’t he too lazy to use the simplest means of entanglement, and Wu Sangui was in a two-sided situation at the time. Li Zicheng undoubtedly did so. It was to push Wu Sangui to the Qing army severely. The result of this is also very obvious. There is a vast plain to the south of Shanhaiguan. There is no danger to defend. It is conducive to the cavalry operations of the Qing army. As far as the combat capability of the military group is concerned, The regular field army of the Ming Empire is obviously stronger than the peasant army. If the Qing army and the Ming army were not fighting vigorously on the border, the peasant uprising might have been suppressed long ago, especially the group army represented by Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui at that time. Concentrating the elites of the Ming Dynasty, and such elites have repeatedly lost in the competition with the Qing army. The strength of the Qing army can be imagined. At this time, the peasant army was much stronger than before, and the number was two or three times that of the Qing army. , But in front of the powerful cavalry of the Qing army, there is no strategic advantage at all. The only chance to remain undefeated is also lost while sleeping with Wu Sangui's little wife.

So Li Zicheng's failure can be foreseen. Perhaps in the dark, when Li Zicheng's ancestral tomb was dug, his fate was changed. Originally, he was only one step away from victory, and therefore thousands of miles away.