Chapter 54 Chapter Fifty-Four Prophecy Prophecy

All that needs to be said has been said. Let's start the story below. In the first year of Zhenguan (627), there was a great abnormality in the Turks, and five suns appeared in the sky.Later, Hou Yi didn't come, and the other four suns thought it was not fun for anyone to shoot them, so they all disappeared.In March of the twenty-third year of Zhenguan (649), the whole world saw a scene, that is, it was broad daylight, and the sun became a red round cake without a trace of light. So capable people analyzed: the five suns are shining in the sky, and the flowers may not smile at me. It means that there is an emergency military situation, which means that the Turkic country is going to be chaotic.

Later, Comrade Xieli was really tragic. After more than 20 years, the man made another analysis on the red sun: a red sun in the sky means that someone on the ground is about to mourn.The red sun is not bright, it is in a dying state, which means that the most important person in the world will die because of illness... Later, Li Shimin really died. This story is recorded in the "New Tang Book", which is official history. That guy who is very analytical and has a crow's mouth, has the same surname as Li Shimin, and his name is "Chunfeng". He is a very magical figure.

Later, his legend became more and more evil, and even now, some people enshrine him as a god.Like the legend, this man was full of legend from the beginning. Li Chunfeng was born in Yongxian County, Qizhou (Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province). His father, Li Bo, was once a seven-rank sesame official in the Sui Dynasty.Li Bo was well-read and proficient in Taoism, probably because he felt that something big was going to happen in the Sui Dynasty, so he resigned early, hid in the deep mountains and old forests, and became a Taoist priest named "Huang Guanzi".Li Chunfeng was brought up by Li Bo, and he was influenced by Li Bo's behavior when he was a child. He read all kinds of books, loved to read astronomy works, and especially understood them.

Of course, Qimen Dunjia, Yin-Yang and Five Elements are Li Chunfeng's favorite, and he can play them to perfection. During the period of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, the young Li Chunfeng became a supervisor in the imperial court. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Chunfeng made a smooth transition, but his job did not change, and he still worked in the Taishi Bureau. In the first year of Zhenguan, Li Chunfeng fought with his colleagues.Probably because it was the reign of Wude, a dear friend often made mistakes in the calculation of "Wuyin Yuanli", which caused the sundial and calendar to be incompatible, which made everyone doubt the calendar.The young and handsome Li Chunfeng analyzed rationally and put forward 18 different opinions, asking for revision.Li Shimin felt that the calendar was a major event, so he presided over it himself, and let the two sides have a heated debate.In the end, everyone stood by Li Chunfeng's side in line with the principle of Brother Xinchun's failure to pass the exam.

Li Shimin decided to adopt everyone's opinions, revised the calendar, and promoted Li Chunfeng. According to the young and promising Li Chunfeng himself, in order to change the current situation that the calendar is unreliable, he will spend decades to calculate a better calendar.Later, he really figured it out, because the year name of that year was Linde, so he named it "Linde Calendar". According to Li Chunfeng, "Linde Calendar" can last for 800 years without errors.As soon as this remark came out, it caused a great sensation at the time, and everyone looked forward to it, waiting for the emergence of the new calendar.

This is the magical Li Chunfeng, the handsome Li Chunfeng. Let time go back to the middle period of Zhenguan... One day, Li Shimin called him suddenly and asked him something mysteriously: "Recently there is a secret prophecy 'Tang Zhongruo, there is a female Wu Daiwang', what does it mean?" Li Chunfeng replied: "In the future, there will be an empress surnamed Wu who will replace Li Tang." Li Shimin couldn't calm down: "what happened?!" Li Chunfeng said: "The signs have been formed, and she is in the palace. Forty years later, she will become the emperor, and she will kill almost all of your majesty's descendants!"

Li Shimin asked: "I killed her, how?" Li Chunfeng explained: "This is destiny, and there is no way to avoid it, because the king never dies. If His Majesty wants to kill people, he will only let innocent people lose their lives in vain. Besides, after forty years, this person is already old, and old people have kind thoughts , although it is said that the descendants of the Li family will be killed, but the Tang Dynasty will not be destroyed. If Your Majesty insists on killing her, the heavens will give birth to a more cruel person, who will kill all the descendants of Your Majesty, leaving no one behind!"

Li Shimin almost collapsed. In fact, not only Li Shimin, everyone believed in this prophecy.The secret prophecy that Li Shimin held in his hand was calculated as early as the early years of Zhenguan, and it was passed on by word of mouth among the people. Everyone believed that there would be a queen who would rule the world in the future. Forty years later, a woman would actually become the emperor... People at that time became more and more evil, but in fact it was nothing. What made Li Shimin most uneasy was, why did she kill all the descendants of Li Tang? "Aiqing, is there really nothing you can do?"

"Let it be, Your Majesty!" Li Shimin adopted Li Chunfeng's suggestion, and promoted him to Taishi Ling because his predictions often came true.Of course, Li Shimin couldn't interfere with Wu's becoming emperor, but if he said he wouldn't interfere, did he really want to interfere? Just at this time, God arranged for a scapegoat to hit Li Shimin's gun.The appearance of this scapegoat made Li Shimin believe in the prophecy.The man who was walking slowly towards the gun was named Li Junxian, and he had nothing to do with the prophecy.But this person was actually attracted by Li Shimin, who has a strong association ability-it doesn't matter if he thinks about it.

Li Junxian, a native of Wu'an, Mingzhou. He was originally Li Mi's subordinate, but was later captured by Wang Shichong and became a general of Zheng State.It's actually quite good to be with Wang Shichong, but because he thinks that Wang Shichong loves meetings, works as a mother-in-law, and is cunning, he defected to Li Yuan in a rage.Li Yuan arranged for him to be Qin Wang Li Shimin. In the subsequent battles, Li Junxian's ability was quickly recognized by Li Shimin. When Comrade Jieli made troubles at the Weishui River Bridge, he was the vanguard of Da Laohei and Li Junxian, and they fought very bravely.

Among all people, Li Junxian is more trustworthy. Therefore, Li Junxian became the garrison of Xuanwumen, responsible for the most critical gate of the palace.At this time, the prophecy hadn't reached Li Shimin's ears, so of course he didn't care. Not only did he not care, but he was also named the Duke of Wulian County.In this way, everyone should pay attention. In history, Comrade Li Junxian is probably the only person who can have the names of "Wu'an People", "Xuanwu Gate Garrison", and "Wulian County Lord".Now the fate can be regarded as all together, there is only one "female" that cannot be resolved. Li Junxian also deserved to suffer. It's not good for his mother to give him a nickname, but she gave him the nickname "Five Lady".This is not too bad, the bad thing is that if you say it with your mouth, others can't tell the difference between "five" and "wu".Thus, Lady Wu became Wu Meiniang's scapegoat. The worst situation finally appeared. At that banquet, Li Shimin had already heard the story of prophecy from Li Chunfeng. At the banquet, in order to enliven the atmosphere, Li Shimin asked everyone to report their own nicknames for joy.At this time, "dogs", "three fat men", "bean worms"... everything.It was Li Junxian's turn, and he announced his nickname: "Mrs. Wu!" Everyone laughed, only Li Shimin was stunned.He sneered, "How can there be such a fierce woman? (What kind of woman is Naier Yongjian.)" Everyone laughed even more happily. Li Shimin began to think about this Li Junxian. Soon after, Li Junxian was transferred from Xuanwumen to serve as the governor of Huazhou. In the 22nd year of Zhenguan (648), Yushi impeached Li Junxian for colluding with demons and plotting against others, and Li Shimin immediately ordered him to be killed. The poor ghost Li Junxian did not have a chance to stand up until more than forty years later. That was after Empress Wu Zetian ascended the throne.Speaking of this, I have to talk about "Tui Bei Tu". The creators of "Tui Bei Tu" are Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng.Comrade Li Chunfeng has already shown his face, so let's put him aside and let him go and see Yuan Tiangang first. Official history records that Yuan Tiangang once looked after Empress Wu Zetian.That day, just in time for Yuan Tiangang to go to the warrior Xun, he took a look at the children of the Wu family. The first to appear were two boys, Yuan Tiangang was very surprised, "Your noble son, third grade!" Wu Zetian's mother, Yang Shi, was very happy. After the son's meeting, it was the turn of the less important daughter.Yuan Tiangang glanced at the eldest daughter of the Yang family, "My lord, it's just a little cocky." Finally, the servant girl showed Wu Zetian, who was the least important, to Yuan Tiangang. Yuan Tiangang glanced at Wu Zetian in boy's clothes, Pointing at her in shock, he said: "Longan phoenix neck, extremely noble!" Then he shook his head: "It's a pity that it's a boy. If it was a girl, it would be the emperor..." These few inexplicable words were heard by others, and it was fine to talk casually as a fortune teller, but she was a girl.All the stories are to be told later.In short, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, two great fairies, are quite legendary both at that time and now. It is said that the two students jointly completed "Tui Bei Tu", a prophecy book that has been banned for more than a thousand years. According to legend, since Li Chunfeng said about Emperor Wu, Li Shimin was very worried, so he asked the two brothers to continue to speculate on the fate of the Tang Dynasty.The two dear friends were ordered to start planning, from the heroine to the Anshi Rebellion; from the Tubo invasion to the Huangchao uprising... At the age of sixty elephants, teacher Yuan Tiangang suddenly pushed Li Chunfeng on the back and said, "The secret must not be leaked anymore, let's go back and rest!" For this reason, the last image of "Tui Bei Tu" says this of: Seek in the boundless days, The rise and fall of the world is not free. I can't say enough, It's better to push back and go back to rest. This is the origin of "Tui Bei Tu". There are manuscripts that have been handed down to this day to show that Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng were indeed ordered by Li Shimin on October 3rd in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan (643) to inquire into what happened later.In the above memorial, Yuan Tiangang said: "The "Tui Bei Tu" written by me is composed of more than 60 pictures, which is about a thousand years old." However, in the entire Tang Dynasty, people did not see "Tui Bei Tu". It was not until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms that it was shown to everyone.So some people think that the reason why this book didn't appear until the Five Dynasties is because it was a forgery at all.But in fact, this book was hidden in the court of the Tang Dynasty, and it may not be spread outside during the turbulent era. The authentic version of "Tui Bei Tu" has already begun to flood in the Northern Song Dynasty. People scrambled to collect it, which made Comrade Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin lose face.Because the above is obviously saying that the Song Dynasty will encounter many things and die miserably. This was very unlucky for Song Taizu, so the officials began to list "Tui Bei Tu" as a banned book, but this broken book has magical powers. The more banned you are, the more curious people will be, and everyone has invested in collections. In the end, the officials were at a loss. Song Taizu was smart, and he came up with a way, "No need to ban it, ask Taishi to make more fake books, and let them confuse themselves!" Really cruel. In this way, "Tui Bei Tu" has lost its true colors due to the mixed prophecy. What we see today has also been tampered with.When I took a closer look at Comrade Zhao Kuangyin and Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang, the prophecy changed its tone of never flattering, and photographed them as Yaotian Shunri.From this we can see that they are also afraid of the destiny.Therefore, after the "Tui Bei Tu" was passed down in the Five Dynasties, it is no longer so convincing that the emperor has a destiny. No one can stop it. It should be noted that most of the versions from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty to the present are the commentary editions of Jin Shengtan (a native of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties) that have not been changed.If you are interested, you can look it up, read it as a comic, there are pictures and truth in it, and you can get some insights. Well, the story is here, and it should come to an end. But I have to tell you one thing, that is what happened to Li Chunfeng later. Many years later, the "Linde Calendar" he launched was officially promulgated. At this time, it was the moment when Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and his wife Wu Zetian fell in love with each other.But this calendar, which has been calculated for many years, has only been implemented for more than 40 years, and a serious problem has been discovered-the latitude and the sundial have serious deviations! Those who don't understand can understand it like this: In the "Linde Calendar", a solar eclipse occurs on the 30th or the second day of the lunar calendar (only the first day of the lunar calendar has a solar eclipse). The problem is very complicated, and any more explanations will risk being beaten by the crowd. In short, during the Kaiyuan period, Li Chunfeng's calendar could no longer be used. The self-proclaimed 800-year error-free calendar was declared bankrupt after 40 years, which made Master Li Chunfeng, who was wearing a mysterious cloak, very distressed.However, it is precisely because of this error that the new calendar was created.There was an error in the calendar made by the most famous prophet in the Tang Dynasty, which dealt a huge blow to everyone.Li Chunfeng back then was too young after all. He was barely twenty-five when he raised his objection. The three-star instrument he invented at the age of twenty was the most advanced observation instrument in the world at that time.From then on, whenever an instrument is made, it must refer to his creation.Today's ancient armillary sphere at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing is also an imitation of his invention.People in the Ming Dynasty once lamented that Li Chunfeng was the best astronomer and calendar scientist in ancient China. After an unknown period of time, Li Chunfeng resigned and went to live in seclusion. He installed a weather scale in his yard and set the wind force at level eight.He was the first person in the world to do this. In 1805, 1,200 years later, the European scientist Buffalo invented the thirteen-level wind classification method, known as the "Puelot scale". History is always forgotten. The last record in the official history of the Tang Dynasty said that Li Chunfeng liked to prophesy, and he was often hit by his prophecy, which made the capital famous for a while.The currently popular "Tui Bei Tu" is full of confusion and deletions, but the first few and the last two are the most reliable. The second image of "Tui Bei Tu" shows a plate with twenty-one plums on it, and the fate of Tang Dynasty is inside.The prophecy says: The fruitful results are indescribable. One fruit and one kernel are new and old. Song said: All things are born in the soil, and they come true on the 29th. Once the Central Plains are unified, the yin will flourish and the yang will be exhausted first. There were twenty-one emperors in the Tang Dynasty, and Guozuo was two hundred and ninety years old.Since Li Shimin unified the Central Plains, Yin flourished and Yang declined.After Li Shimin's death, a woman began her long journey of struggle.Decades later, when she became the emperor, she first thanked Li Junxian. What should come will always come.
A 300-year history of Tang Dynasty, Wang Shi has never been calm. After the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Shimin made great efforts to govern, reused the admonishers who dared to slap him, and began a period of "Regulation of Zhenguan" that could not calm down. Turkic Jieli Khan rushed into the Central Plains without preparation and approached Chang'an. He was the only one who was calm, while the others seemed to be calm. Tang Xuanzang traveled hundreds of thousands of miles to the west to worship Buddha and seek scriptures. He did not have the legendary visa, but he had the legendary apprentice and white dragon horse. What kind of relationship does he have with Tang Taizong? Prophecy masters Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang wrote the prophecy "Tui Bei Tu", which has been handed down from generation to generation. In history, how have these prophecies been fulfilled? The Silk Road in the Western Regions was re-opened, and business travelers passed through; the doors were not closed at night, and twenty-nine people were sentenced to death at the age of 29;How did such a prosperous world be created? The rule of Zhenguan is to show people the right way, without bias, nonsense, and nonsense.After the war, the people were safe and healthy, but the Tang Dynasty was still not calm.