The Mingzu Mausoleum has been silent for three hundred years at the bottom of the lake.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, competed with the heroes for decades as a common man.

Finally created his own Zhu family world. It was also because of Zhu Yuanzhang

that the Mingzu Mausoleum was built. I originally wanted to let my ancestors have a luxurious residence in another world

But never thought that they would lie dormant at the bottom of the lake for three hundred years?

As the first person in Chinese history, The only imperial mausoleum located near a lake and water

Why is it located in such a low-lying place? Is it just because it is a geomantic treasure? Even so

The ancestral mausoleum has been submerged in the lake for three hundred years

This is also an anecdote through the ages. If Zhu Yuanzhang knew something secretly

wouldn't he regret his actions?

True Dragon's Cave

In today's west of Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, on the south bank of Hongze Lake Where the Huaihe River enters the lake, there is a mausoleum of emperors.

This is the mausoleum built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, for his four previous generations.

It is called the Ming Zu Mausoleum. The mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty is located near a lake and water.

Its momentum is really extraordinary

What is even more extraordinary is its three hundred years of history at the bottom of the lake.

From the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty

The Ming Zu Mausoleum was flooded

and sank to the bottom of the lake

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More than three hundred years passed in between. Why did Zhu Yuanzhang build the mausoleum of his ancestors in such a low-lying place? He should know

Emperors of all dynasties had the traditional system of building imperial mausoleums on mountains

Doesn’t Zhu Yuanzhang know this truth? He chose such a low-lying place to bury his ancestors

Is there any mystery?

Many people think that Zhu Yuanzhang is from Fengyang

In fact, he was not. That night, when Emperor Qianlong was dining, he discovered that the table in front of him was "full of green": wild vegetables on the table. At this time, Ji Xiaolan knelt down in fear and said to Emperor Qianlong: "I deserve to die for my crime. I really can't find better food, so I can only let the emperor eat some wild vegetables reluctantly." Emperor Qianlong asked in surprise: " Why is there no other food?" Ji Xiaolan was deliberately vague: "I don't know very well, but even these wild vegetables were found with great effort." After hearing this, Emperor Qianlong felt that the place was peaceful and peaceful under the surface. There was something fishy, ​​so people were sent to investigate overnight. He is a true Fengyang person

He can only be regarded as half Fengyang person. His hometown was originally Jurong County, Jiangsu Province

He is a native of Zhujia Lane, Jurong, Zhenjiang today

His ancestors have been farming for generations. Later, his ancestors saw how to make money by mining gold, so they also started this business. Unexpectedly

Although he was a ***

he was still classified as a "gold digger" by the Yuan government. At that time, the taxes on "gold diggers" were very heavy

Because they could not bear the exploitation by landlords and Mongolian rulers

Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather Zhu Chuyi took a family of more than a dozen people People moved to the Yangjiadun area of ​​​​Xuyi.

Legend has it that during the escape process

Zhu Chuyi’s family was often so poor that they had no meal at all. One day

Zhu Chuyi was lying on the back of Yangjiadun's house, and the pretentious look of a local boy made Lu Jiaming even more aware. In order to expose his lies, Lu Jiaming came to the street to look for Xiao. Great whereabouts this morning. A man selling breakfast told Lu Jiaming that this morning, Xiao Da stayed at his breakfast stall eating fried dough sticks and chatting with people all morning. Sleeping in the pit

Two Taoists, an old man and a young man, a master and a disciple, came over in a daze. The old Taoist may know something about Kanyu Feng Shui

When he saw Zhu Chuyi lying there, he was very surprised and said to Xiaodao: "The place where the old man is lying is the real dragon's knot hole"

If you die and are buried here, the emperor will be born within three generations. "Xiao Dao didn't believe it.

He thought the master was exaggerating

The old Tao said

The earth energy here is strong.

If you don’t believe it

You can try inserting a dead branch in the hole

It will sprout and grow leaves within ten days.

Of course Xiaodao didn't believe it

But in order to verify the master's words

he found a tree branch and inserted it into a hole next to Zhu Chuyi's sleep. Ten days later

They came back to check again

Sure enough, the branches sprouted? Zhu Chuyi heard the words of the old Taoist master and apprentice clearly

Although he appeared to be Pretending to be completely unaware

He did not tell his family that Ma Yuanwai had a sudden realization. He immediately took out the box of copper plates and said that as long as Liu You could be cured, he could pay more for Liu You. You can think of a solution quickly. Liu Youneng didn't ask for much, just took what he deserved, and then hammered on each piece of furniture, and that was it. Before leaving, Ma Yuanwai said angrily and funny: "Well, you Liu Youneng actually kept this hand, you might as well let Liu Shou get it." But in his case, In his heart

He has made a promise nine hundred and ninety-nine times: After his death

he will be buried here no matter what.

This is such a family

Zhu Yuanzhang was so poor that he worked as a monk in the temple

In the end, he actually became the emperor

Could it be that There is really a mystery in the ancestral tomb of their old Zhu family

What made Zhu Yuanzhang successful?

Looking for the ancestral tomb

Before Zhu Yuanzhang became famous

Zhu Yuanzhang’s The family members are still somewhat skeptical about the claim that Zhu Chuyi’s burial place is a geomantic treasure land

So they do not take the ancestral grave seriously

At the same time, they are also forced by financial pressure

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It has not been managed well. After Zhu Yuanzhang became the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty

, he searched for the address of his ancestral tomb

and prepared to build a large-scale imperial mausoleum for his ancestors. So

Zhu Yuanzhang began to search for his ancestral graves.

But

Before Zhu Yuanzhang

Zhu Yuanzhang’s family members were all ordinary people

There were generally no marks at that time

It would be a bit difficult for ordinary people to find their own ancestral graves

What’s more, the Zhu family has moved several times in succession.

But

You cannot disobey your orders

Even if this job is very difficult for the officials who take the orders

But for the sake of yourself For the sake of heads, they can only work hard. So

an official thought of a clever way

to hold a "Wang Festival" at the Chaohe Dam in the west of Sizhou City. After many discussions and verifications

In the fourth year of Hongwu (1371 AD)

Zhu Yuanzhang finally built the Ancestral Tomb Temple there

to enshrine the tablets of the four generations above his grandfather.

In order to commemorate his ancestors, he found such a prosperous Feng Shui land for himself

Zhu Yuanzhang always wanted to express this. According to historical records

The nineteenth year of Hongwu (beginning in 1386

also known as the eighteenth year of Hongwu

i.e. 1385)

Zhu Yuanzhang began to repair the Xuyi ancestral mausoleum. The person specifically responsible for this matter

Zhu Yuanzhang did not arrange for the officials and ministers

Instead, he sent a policeman to run back in a panic and said out of breath: "Master "There is a swamp inside the reeds." Zi Zhu Biao went there in person.

In the "History of Ming Dynasty? Shanling" compiled by Zhang Tingyu, there is a record of this incident: "The crown prince was ordered to go to Sizhou to repair the ancestral mausoleum

for burial The imperial robes of the three ancestors and queens "The regulations of the ancestral mausoleum are modeled on the imperial palace at that time.

There are three layers of walls inside and outside the imperial city, brick city, and earth city.

Lingxing Gate, Xiangdian, and Grand Palace. Kinmen, Jinshui, Children's Applause Bridge, left and right verandas, stele pavilions, stone statues, shrines, Xuan Palace, etc.

They are all available. At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that as the ancestral mausoleum

its scale was the largest among the Ming Dynasty mausoleums

In the future, every emperor's mausoleum in the Ming Dynasty could not exceed it.

Later generations called it "the first mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty".

The ancestral mausoleum was built for 30 years

After completion

Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Zhu Gui. At this time, a monk named Duxiu from the Bodhi Temple in the neighboring village happened to pass by with his friend Ma. Crying, he came up to ask. Song Ying told her story and aroused their sympathy. The monk Duxiu took the lantern photo and saw that Song Ying was young and quite pretty, very lovable, so he planned to take her back to the temple first. Ma Guan was greedy, and when he saw this woman, he was not willing to let her go, so he lied to her and said, "The village where you live is on the way to where we are going. How about we take you back?" When Song Ying heard this, he believed it and immediately fell to the ground and kept kowtowing. He was responsible for the care of the first ancestral mausoleum department

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Zuling Han Xiangzi was very surprised. Out of curiosity, he played the jade screen Xiao again. Unexpectedly, the silver eel has a deep understanding of human nature and actually dances a magical dance under the bright moonlight. The graceful dance and the strange expression are rare in the world. Even Han Xiangzi, who traveled all over the country and famous mountains, was stunned. A coincidence of fate

As his ancestral mausoleum

Of course, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty would carefully take care of it

to ensure that this geomantic treasure land would not be destroyed. However, the Ming Zu Mausoleum is located in northern Jiangsu

It is basically a plain landform

and it is close to the Huaihe River

Especially when it is built in the "Nine Gangs and Eighteen Depressions" Known as the hilly land

it is often plagued by floods during the flood season. But since this place is related to future generations, Lu Yunshan was very excited when he heard it: Old man Huang's pot of magenta is exactly like this. He remembered that Old Man Huang wanted to give him a treasure before leaving, and it must be that pot of magenta! He saw that the deadline on the notice was imminent, and he couldn't help but feel embarrassed. Seeing that the exam period was approaching, how could he have time to go back and get the magenta? But then he thought about it, wasn't he studying hard just to get promoted and make a fortune? So he made a decision immediately, saluting, hitting the horse, saluting again, and hitting the horse again, which lasted for most of the day. He hired a carriage and rushed back to Taiwu in just one day and night. Feng Shui treasure land

When it suffered from frequent floods

Did it also affect the rule of the Ming Dynasty?

During the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty

The Yellow River overflows

The surrounding people are constantly plagued by floods. To save eggs and boil red rice to fight floods

Eat white instead of yellow; chickens lay eggs

Each egg is worth two taels; boil egg rice with chicken

Remove the meat Drink soup; do not leave the hospital when eating

Do not leave the village when buying; semi-disaster

Ming Xiaozong Zhu Tang ordered officials at all levels to do everything possible to stop the harm of floods to the people. In the seventh year of Hongzhi

In order to block the northern branch of the Yellow River

Liu Daxia led his people to build a large embankment - Taihang Embankment. Unexpectedly, although the levee blocked the tributaries of the Yellow River

, it caused the southern branch to divert the Huai River and flow into the sea

The river course began to become disordered

This led to the formation of Hongze Lake near the Zuling Mausoleum. The water level rose rapidly

The water surface expanded rapidly

causing floods to pour back into the ancestor's mausoleum

causing the ancestor's mausoleum to suffer losses. Fortunately, as soon as the flood season was over

the water level dropped

After the joint efforts of the local government and mausoleum guards, the rich man looked in the direction of his family's fingers and saw Ma Wenrong and the woman. Holding an umbrella together, we walked over talking and laughing. Upon seeing this, the rich man Xu immediately said to his family: "Go and call over and ask who dared to be so affectionate in broad daylight."

The ancestral mausoleum was quickly restored to its original appearance.

The Twenty-First Year of Jiajing

The Yellow River flooded again

Watching the water level of Hongze Lake continue to rise. In order to protect the ancestral mausoleum

Local officials kept building embankments to the east of the mausoleum

But the water level rose much faster than the embankment

Finally the ancestral mausoleum It was hit again by floods.

With the continuous invasion of floods

In the 19th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1680), the Yellow River took over the Huaihe River

Both the Yellow River and the Huaihe River rose simultaneously

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Various protective measures for the Ming Zu Tomb failed

Therefore, it was completely submerged.

What was submerged at that time was not only the Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty

but also the entire Sizhou City

They disappeared together under the vast water

This is the famous "Water-filled Sizhou City" in history.

Next to today's Xuyi Ming Dynasty Mausoleum

there is a large embankment made of strips of stone

called Gaojiayan. Gaojiayan is 67 kilometers long

It is the "Great Wall on the Water" built by the governments of past dynasties to prevent floods

However,

this long Gaojiayan seems It did not fulfill the important task of protecting the ancestral mausoleum, ensuring water transportation, and protecting people's livelihood. "Gaojiayan was destroyed

The two governments of Huaiyang and Huaiyang did not meet each other"

Such a thing eventually happened

Although the rulers spared no expense and exhausted the people's resources

But in the end, it failed to save the Mingzu Mausoleum from being flooded.

From then on

The Ming Zu Mausoleum was in people’s sight. Fan Dan put down the fish basket, washed the fish and prepared to cook porridge. Miss Shi said, "Brother! This is silver, you Use it to buy more food and wine at the fair and come back! "Disappeared

It's like the Ming Dynasty has disappeared

Lying quietly in a place that no one else can see. The blacksmiths who worked at Zhang Ji's blacksmith shop learned that Zhang Puquan had taken over Zong's big business, and they all gathered in the blacksmith shop to dig earth and build stoves to prepare for the big work. Zhang Puquan advanced the wages to the craftsmen, and then went out to buy raw materials with silver coins. One day later, ten thousand kilograms of high-quality iron and steel arrived. Blacksmith No. 10 started hammering the iron, and Zhang Ji's blacksmith shop recreated the spectacular scene of the year. place. Who knew

I would stay here for three hundred years. It was not until the severe drought in China in 1963

After the water level of Hongze Lake dropped significantly

that some of the buildings of the Zuling Mausoleum were slightly revealed

So

people discovered this underground royal tomb that had been silent for three hundred years.

The Ming Zuling Mausoleum was originally a geomantic treasure land

Why is it still suffering from floods? The constant invasion of floods

Is it related to the rule of the Ming Dynasty? Are they inextricably linked? After research and analysis by experts

Although Zhu Yuanzhang’s ancestral mausoleum did not withstand the attack of the flood

But the ancestral mausoleum is inextricably linked to the Ming Dynasty. Threads of connection: Every time the ancestral mausoleum is attacked by floods

The Ming Dynasty will enter a troubled period. From the tense war on the northern border

to Wala always coming to harass

Later, it developed to Li Zicheng's uprising and the Qing army's entry into the customs. The time when the ancestral mausoleum was flooded

and the time when the Ming Dynasty fell

are like two curves

which have always been parallel. The wife turned around with a straight face. Body, ignore Amu. potential development. This may be just a coincidence

But this coincidence turned out to be a few days later. A policeman who was in charge of watching outside the watch came into the watch and shouted: "Master, I saw the Yellow Crane." People can't help but think that the fate of the Ming Zu Mausoleum seems to be related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty.

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