On the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of Taichu, as the New Year was approaching, all combat operations of the Qi army north of the Huaihe River were suspended. The "Northern Expedition Army" that the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty had reluctantly assembled stopped at Hefei.
Zuo Liangyu, who was stationed in the Huaihe River, was immediately frightened when he heard that Kaiyuan soldiers were marching south. The Ming army looted Hefei and Anqing and fled south in a hurry.
Unexpectedly, the Qi army drank the Huaihe River and hurriedly retreated north. The people in the Jianghuai area who suffered military disasters composed a folk song to ridicule the Ming army:
"If you want to indulge in adultery, you must cultivate the land; if you want to make mistakes, don't ask left."
In the third year of Hongguang's reign, the traitor Zuo Liangyu and the eunuch Tian Cheng colluded with each other to gain power and harm the country.
"To indulge in adultery, one must cultivate the fields", which means who indulged the traitor? It was Tian Cheng; why did Tian Cheng protect the traitor because he accepted a bribe. "Indulge in rape" is a joke of "cultivate rape", and the "field" in "farm" is a pun - the field where crops are grown and the people named Tian. Those who "seed" will benefit from it. Because the traitor gave Tian Cheng "gold coins", he was protected.
"If you want to make a mistake, don't ask Zuo", which means that the imperial envoy does not need to correct the court's gains and losses, especially not to hold Zuo Liangyu accountable. "Don't question the left" means don't question or pursue the various crimes of the left's autocratic power that harms the country. The reason why Zuo was able to run rampant in the court was because he colluded with Tian Cheng, the eunuch in the palace. Tian and Zuo are like a pair of pests, causing harm to the country and the people.
During the Hongguang period, there were many songs in Jiangnan criticizing the traitor Zuo Liangyu, such as "Sweep all the money in Jiangnan and fill up Zuojiakou";
"If you ask for land, you will get a salary; if you buy a left, you will become an official";
"In Hongguang Nian, if you want to be an official, you have to go to the left or farm."
The sudden retreat of the Qi army to the north was regarded by Zuo Liangyu as his major achievement in defeating Liu Zhaosun and defending the Southern Ming Dynasty. He used this to claim credit from the Hongguang Dynasty. With the assistance of the internal official Tian Cheng, in December of the third year of Hongguang, the imperial court issued an edict. Zuo Liangyu, who was Ning Nanbo, gave his second son Zuo Mengshou the seal of the thief general, and promised that after defeating the Qi army, they would let their father and son guard Hefei for generations. Zhu Changhuan ordered Zuo Liangyu to immediately send troops to fight against the thieves. Zuo Liangyu delayed the time many times and refused until the end of the year.
When Zuo Liangyu's men learned that the Qi army was returning to the north, they felt a little more at ease, but they did not dare to cross the Huaihe River to pursue them. They only set up cannons on the south bank of the Huaihe River to cut off the shipping of the Huaihe River, and issued a message to attack Qi. However, they did not move and continued to loot around Hefei. Burn and kill.
Emperor Wu Ding didn't pay much attention to this old enemy. After all, in Liu Zhaosun's eyes, Zuo Liangyu and Emperor Hongguang in Nanjing were already dead. He didn't kill them now, but just left their heads temporarily.
On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of Taichu, the Emperor's Xingluan was moved from Luoyang, Henan to Jingle Palace in Junzhou.
After the "Battle of Jingnan" in the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongle obtained the throne and claimed that his victory in the world was the result of the blessing of the "True Martial God".
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty worshiped Zhenwu God even more than the previous dynasty, and built the Wudang Mountain Taoist Temple as a royal family temple.
In the eleven years from the tenth year of Yongle to the twenty-first year of Yongle (1412-1423), the Ming Dynasty spent 100,000 soldiers and civilians to build a 140-mile ancient road from Jingle Palace to the Tianzhu Peak of Wudang Mountain. The Eight Palaces and Two Temples are huge Taoist architectural complexes.
This was the famous "Southern Jianwudang" during the Yongle period.
Jingle Palace is the first of the nine palaces in Wudang Mountain, occupying almost half of Junzhou City.
There are archways, main palace gates, second palace gates, main hall, second temple, Zhengong Temple, abbot hall, dining hall, bathrooms, divine kitchen, divine treasury, side rooms, etc. in the palace. It is surrounded by red walls and green tiles, and there are many palaces. , towering, with layers of courtyards, wide and deep, and an elegant environment, just like a fairy palace.
Junzhou is the hometown of Liu Zhaosun, and it is also his base camp for pacifying the Jingxiang refugees this time.
On the day before New Year's Eve, Emperor Wu Ding moved into the main hall of Jingle Palace with his empress dowager Jin Yuji, nun Daphne and other retinues.
On the day when the Supreme Emperor arrived at Jingle Palace, the former Ming Dynasty governor of Yunyang, the prefect of Junzhou, and the eunuch of Wudang all rushed to pay homage to him and offered him auspicious gifts. Wudang Taoist priest Li Hunxi personally sent "Plum Plum Fairy Fruit" to the Supreme Emperor to wish good luck to the world.
The Qi army was stretched thin, and it was impossible to fully occupy the Huguang area. Therefore, in order to win people's hearts and save troops, Emperor Wu Ding never killed these old ministers of the previous dynasty.
These former Ming governors and eunuchs knew that their time was coming, and they all tried their best to please the Emperor of Qi in order to save their lives.
In the Ming Dynasty, Wudang Mountain was the richest in the world, and the extra incense money every year was needed to fill the financial gaps in Huguang and other places. Therefore, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty paid great attention to Wudang and sent his confidants to supervise eunuchs to guard it.
The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were no longer just vassals of the royal family. They were part of the state organization and another political team for the emperor to control the world.
The Wudang eunuch system belongs to the Outer Imperial Envoy Yamen, and is an institution for the imperial power to monitor and manage Wudang Mountains openly.
The emperor established admirals and gave them military and religious powers. Perhaps there were many purposes, but the most prominent purpose was to check and balance the power of the admirals and governors of Yunyang, and to create a place where internal and external officials could restrict each other and cooperate. authority to maintain the long-term development of Wudang Mountain.
Liu Zhaosun grew up at the foot of Wudang Mountain and was quite aware of these things, so he did not attack these Taoist priests and eunuchs before entering Junzhou City. Not only did he not take action, but in his busy schedule, he also specially summoned Taoist priest Fan Zhongyang to inquire in detail about Emperor Zhenwu's ascension to immortality. Fan Zhongyang thought that the Supreme Emperor was obsessed with seeking immortality, so he spoke freely and told Emperor Wuding:
Before Zhenwu Shen ascended to the throne, he once told the world: "When the saint comes out, the betel plum blossoms will fall." When His Majesty first came to Taihe (Wudang Mountain), the betel plum blossoms matured and fell. It can be seen that God bless Daqi...
Emperor Wuding was overjoyed when he heard this and ordered Zhang Dong:
The fake Taoist priests who did not set up fasting rituals properly but went around cheating and abducting people were punished by burning faucet incense, and those who could not survive were shot on the spot.
The so-called dragon head incense is a famous scenic spot in Wudang.
There is a cliff outside a stone palace in Nanyan of Wudang Mountain. There is a stone beam carved with dragons on the side of the cliff. The stone beam extends outward from the cliff, hanging in the air for a full 2.9 meters, and its width is about 30 centimeters.
There is a dragon carved on the stone beam, and the incense burner is carved on the top of the faucet. This is what people refer to as faucet incense.
As long as believers devoutly go to the dragon head incense to offer incense, their visions can reach heaven and understand the gods.
The location of the dragon head incense is steep, it is nearly three meters away from the cliff, and it is very narrow. Therefore, if you want to offer incense, you must risk your way to climb. And under the dragon head incense is an abyss. If you lose your footing and fall, If so, it will definitely be shattered to pieces.
These Taoist priests and monsters with evil intentions, holding incense in their hands and trembling in their steps, were shot to death by a burst of arrows as soon as they climbed onto the Longshi Liang. They fell into the cliff and turned into flesh.
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