Why is it said that once the dragon vein is cut off, the Qing Dynasty will perish?
Anyone who has read Jin Yong's novel "The Deer and the Cauldron" will remember a plot in the novel: Wei Xiaobao and Shuang'er came to the Luding Mountain outside the customs (north of Shanhaiguan, today's Northeastern region) and opened up the whole world. The treasure house of the Qing Dynasty, in which "gold is used as mountains, silver is used as water, and there are countless rare and rare treasures"...
Anyone who knows a little bit about history will understand that the character Wei Xiaobao is not real in reality. It exists, so it is even more impossible to open the treasure house of the Qing Dynasty, but this treasure of the Qing Dynasty is by no means groundless.
According to the unofficial records of the Qing Dynasty, the Great Jin Kingdom, known as Houjin in history, that is, when Nurhaci, the founder of the Qing Dynasty, unified all the Jurchen tribes and invaded the Central Plains, he plundered tens of millions of gold, Silver and a large number of treasures. Since the Manchus were nomadic at the time and had a strong sense of reserve of food and property, this huge amount of treasure was secretly transported to Hetuala, the capital of the Jin Dynasty at that time...
Outside Longxing Pass - Hetuala carries the dream of an eternal empire
About 100 kilometers east of Fushun City, Liaoning Province today, the city of Hetuala stands there, like an old man who has experienced many vicissitudes, enduring Rolling along the wheel of history and facing the baptism of wind and rain.
The Changbai Mountains wind up here, concentrating on Hetuala, turning into a giant dragon, supporting this former holy land; the trickle of the Suzi River stops here, forming a glance Wells nourish a generation of dynasties.
Hetuala, known as "Xingjing" in history, was the capital of the Jin Dynasty and the hometown of the Manchu Qing Dynasty around 380. Although this small town built on Henggang (halfway up the mountain, "Hetuala" in Manchu language means halfway up the mountain) is not grand, it contains a long history of Manchu culture. This place not only gave birth to the children of this nation, but also created the Qing Dynasty. It was recognized by successive Qing emperors as a treasure land of Longxing.
In 1438, Li Manzhu, leader of the Jurchens (predecessor of the Manchus), led his troops to move here. Two years later, Fancha, the sixth ancestor of Nurhachi, and Dong Shan, the fifth ancestor of Nurhachi, also moved here with their troops. Later, this became the village of Chang'an, Nurhachi's grandfather.
Nurhachi was born in Hetuala in 1559. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Nurhaci raised troops to unify the Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou. On the first day of the first lunar month in 1616, he ascended the throne in Hetuala and proclaimed himself khan. He founded the Great Jin Kingdom, which was known as the Later Jin Dynasty in history, and began his grand cause of marching into the Central Plains and unifying the world. .
Although it has gone through more than 380 years of vicissitudes, the entire city of Hetuala still maintains its former grandeur, telling the story of an era when heroes emerged in large numbers, and also hiding a mysterious legend about the treasures of the Qing Dynasty.
There are countless treasures - almost as much as the treasury of the Ming Dynasty
According to legend, when Nurhachi unified the Jurchen tribes, he relied on his tiger and wolf divisions to plunder countless gold and silver from various tribes. Treasures, and most of these treasures were trophies snatched back from the Central Plains by various tribes when they invaded the Central Plains.
In 1616, the year when Nurhaci proclaimed himself Khan, another happy event happened. He married the granddaughter of a prince in Horqin, Mongolia. She was the concubine who later followed Nurhachi throughout his life as a soldier. Abahai.
This concubine from Mongolia was talented and intelligent since she was a child, and was good at riding and shooting. Due to the influence of her father who respected Sinology, she was very familiar with the Chinese characters, language, and living customs, and could even recite them. The works of representatives of the mainstream culture of the Han nation such as Confucianism and Taoism were deeply favored by his father and grandfather. If Nurhaci's cavalry had not approached Horqin Grassland, I am afraid that the prince would not have married off his beloved granddaughter anyway.
After Abahai came to Nurhachi, he was favored and appointed as a concubine. Abahai was a politically minded woman. In her spare time, she explained the history, culture, and political structure of the Central Plains to Nurhachi, and strongly encouraged Nurhaci to promote Chinese and Confucianism in the Kingdom of Jin, and carried out preliminary cultural preparations for the future of the Central Plains. Prepare. At the same time, Abahai also stopped Nurhaci from distributing the looted treasures to his subordinates, and tactfully criticized his wrong idea of "distributing gold on a large scale and uniting the eight banners".
At Abahai's suggestion, Nurhachi added the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the institutional structure of the Kingdom of Jin, and handed over the looted treasures to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which would uniformly spend and keep them, and then, He also brought the taxes and other revenues under his own control into the unified management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Abahai was in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Many of Nurhaci’s ancestors were killed by the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Jurchen tribes had been under the suppression of the Ming Dynasty for a long time. Therefore, after establishing the Jin Kingdom, Nurhachi promulgated the famous The "Edict of Seven Hatreds" enumerated the faults of the Ming Dynasty, openly became enemies of the Ming government, and then invaded the Ming Dynasty's land, plundering the gold, silver, property, and population of the Han people in the pass, and constantly accumulating its own military and material strength