I have passed by that place many times, which is very close to Hongze Lake. Everything is water, and the terrain is extremely low. It has the reputation of "nine posts and eighteen depressions". If it rained before, mud could stick off your shoes and you couldn't walk. Not only is it not like a land of feng shui, but even residents feel inconvenient to travel. The land is barren and the population is sparse. It's a place where rabbits don't shit, and people often move away. It is for this reason that Zhu took his wife Chen Yi's family to Zhongli Township in Fengyang to make a living. However, in Jiang De's eyes, the location of Zuling is just a treasure trove of geomantic omen. In fact, this is a pack of lies. I think Jiang De cheated Zhu Youjian. Photo: The performance of "Sacrificing to the Imperial Tomb" in Ming Zuling Scenic Area.
In fact, Liu Ji, the master of Kanyu at that time, knew for a long time that the location of Ming Zuling was not a perfect land for thousands of years. According to the definition of ancient geomantic theory, the landform of geomantic treasure-house should be that there is a hall in front of the cave, and three wonders and four responses are regarded, that is, mountain, water, case, front, back, left, right and four responses; There are sand guards around, and the so-called "sand" is the earth and stone in the mountain; There must be Los Angeles, which is composed of mountains or water and surrounds it. There is a mountain facing the mountain in the distance, and there is a mountain nearby. Taking the mountain as Luocheng, it is better to form four situations: Zuo Qinglong, You Baihu, Qian Suzaku and Hou Xuanwu. If there are no mountains around, but there is Ma Pingchuan, then you can make a fortune by borrowing water, and take Zeguo as the priority. Ming Zuling is located in northern Jiangsu, which is basically a plain landform. Surrounded by a water town, there is not much beauty. Therefore, when the mausoleum was built, a large-scale geographical transformation was carried out, the depressions were buried, the repairs were insufficient, rivers were dug and mountains were piled up, and the landscapes necessary for feng shui elements such as sand, water, recent cases and Ming halls were artificially created, forming a standard feng shui treasure house. In fact, the so-called Feng Shui of Ming Zuling was influenced by the natural environment, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Zuling was troubled by floods. During the reign of Zhu Qizhen, Ming Yingzong (A.D. 1435- 1449), when Vara invaded the south, Zhu Qizhen was captured in Tubao, and his younger brother Zhu Qiyu proclaimed himself emperor. In the eighth year of Jingtai, it was restored in A.D. 1457, and then it was in power until A.D. 1464), and the Ming Zuling began to be threatened by floods. By the late Ming Dynasty, the flood was more serious. In the eighth year of Wanli, when Zhu Yijun was in power (see "The Big Secret Discovered after the Coffin of Ming Shenzong and Zhu Yijun" above), the Huaihe River flooded again and the Zuling was flooded. In the Ming Dynasty, The Emperor's Hometown compiled by Zeng Weicheng and others recorded the situation of that year. "Maxia Bridge is eight inches deep, and Laolingkou (the legend is that Zhu Chu was buried in a real place, that is, a treasure trove of geomantic omen) is more than ten feet deep, and more than 600 pines and cypresses were flooded." Although there are high dams and drains, due to the natural defects in the low-lying land near the Huaihe River where the ancestral tomb is located, the flood cannot be cured at all. Finally, in the 19th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (A.D. 1680), the Yellow River seized the Huai River, and the two waters rose together, causing great disaster. Not only did the Ming Zuling disappear, but the whole city of Sizhou was also submerged. This is the famous "Water-filled Sizhou City" in history. Since then, the Ming Zuling has been sleeping underwater for nearly 300 years. It was not until the Cultural Revolution 1963 drought that some buildings surfaced and the Ming Zuling was rediscovered. 1976, the local cultural management department repaired it, and now it has become a scene in northern Jiangsu! This place was originally called Renheji, which is famous for Ming Zuling, but now it is simply renamed Ming Zuling Town. In today's view, it is undoubtedly nonsense that Zhu Chu buried a treasure trove of geomantic omen and supernatural legends. However, there is a phenomenon, or mystery, which should also be noted: after the Ming Zuling began to be flooded, the Ming Dynasty really entered an eventful autumn. Especially in the northern border, the war was tight, and Walla was always harassing. Later, Li Zicheng uprising and the Qing army entered the customs. It seems that the time when the Zuling was flooded was parallel to the time when the Ming Dynasty perished, and the national situation was as shaky as the Zuling in the storm. This may be just a coincidence, but people can't help but think about it. In the past, people thought that even ministers at the level of Shangshu were worried that the obstruction of Daming National Games was related to the flood of Ming Zuling. It seems that this is not nonsense, nor is it nonsense with ulterior motives. In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy (A.D. 1449), Zhu Qizhen, who was on a personal expedition to the Northern Expedition, was captured alive by the same Wala soldiers in the Civil Fort, becoming the most shameful person among Chinese emperors. The myth of the invincible dragon emperor was punctured and the national luck was reversed. The Ming History before Yingzong is described as follows: "The assistant ministers Ding Xuan, Wang Yonghe, and the deputy imperial adviser Deng Wei all died, and the emperor went hunting in the north." "Hunting in the north", that is, hunting in the north, is a way that literati give Zhu Qizhen pride. But "hunting" not only refers to hunting, but also includes "catching". Historians regard this word as a pun, which is not bad. It is not shameful for a generation of emperors to "take office". At that time, courtiers talked about it in succession, which may be related to the flood threat in Zuling Long Mai and the interference of local people from time to time to open mountains to take graves. To this end, the Ming Dynasty issued several decrees to strengthen the defense and repair of ancestral graves and increase relevant bans. In fact, the care of ancestral graves in the Ming Dynasty has always been very strict, with a very strict and strict protection system. There are soldiers guarding all the year round, reaching 200 people for a long time. There are also ancestral households such as sacrifice households, shop households, kitchen households, butchers, wine households and kiln workers. The purpose is to protect the geomantic omen of Zuling from being destroyed, so that Long Mai can live forever and the country can prosper. This system has been implemented since Zhu Yuanzhang was alive. However, due to the decline of the prestige of the dynasty and natural and man-made disasters, Zuling Long Mai was seriously threatened. From time to time, villagers go to nearby places to cut mountains and quarry stones. They break ground on the "traditional head". Some people even want to touch the king and bury their ancestral graves in Zhu Jialong's Long Mai. "Records of Yingzong" records: "In June of the third year of Tianshun (A.D. 1459), the priest of Nanjingzu paid homage to Zhu Yong's Ci: The first mountain of Xuyi, though across the Huaihe River, is facing the ancestral tomb. People can't bury mountains if they cut stones and set up kilns for fear of destroying the ground. In the last attack, I stayed to investigate it, and I have moved the grave; Filling in the place where he chiseled stones and erected kilns still made the Ducha Institute reveal the list and ban the contract. " From Zhu Yong's words, we can know that the guardian of Zuling was in trouble at that time. In the end, the post-Jin regime established by Nuzhen (post-Manchu Qing Dynasty) rose in the northeast, posing a direct threat to the Ming Dynasty, and the situation was very bad. On the one hand, the Ming court sent people to destroy the Jin Zuling at the foot of Beijing Jiulong Mountain and dug up its Long Mai, hoping to prevent the development of the late Jin Dynasty (Qing Dynasty) through geomantic omen (see the above-mentioned secret that Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants dug up Long Mai); On the other hand, we should strengthen the protection of ancestral graves in the south, such as Xiaoling Mausoleum, Huangling Mausoleum and Zuling Mausoleum, so as to prevent the royal spirit from leaking out and Long Mai from being damaged. According to Sun Chengze's Epitaph, on April 25th, the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (A.D. 164 1), Zhu, Hou, Liu Wenbing, Xu, Gong, Xuan Pingbo, Wei Shichun, and the ministers of rites were summoned in Zhongji Temple. Zhu Youjian was particularly concerned about the protection of the ancestral tombs in Xuyi County, and asked whether Long Mai was damaged. Under this background, Jiang De, assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, visited ancestral graves and imperial tombs in Xuyi and Fengyang, and wrote a book "The Story of the Phoenix". But all Zhu Youjian's efforts failed. Finally, he hanged himself under the crooked-necked pagoda tree in the forbidden area of Jingshan Park in Hougong. The Ming Dynasty is like a dead oil lamp. The country dried up and changed hands. Finally, it is a miracle that the land of Ming Zuling failed to grow branches and leaves! !