Chapter 177: This year China is rich in three emperors March of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Beizhili, near modern Tangshan in Luanzhou, Shifokou Although according to the official establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Shifokou was not even a county seat.
It was just a spontaneously formed township or a private estate of a large landowner.
But in fact, the splendor and exquisiteness of Shifokou far exceeds that of most ordinary counties on the North China Plain.
As the holy city of the Wenxiang Sect, the city of Shifokou itself is not large, with a circumference of only four miles, but its architectural planning is particularly particular.
The building area of Shifokou more than 300 years ago was not large, with a circumference of only four miles.
But the scale of the building is particularly particular.
First of all, "front pavilions and Zhangtingzi, back shops and back shops, Donggu Leiguzhuang, later renamed Leizhuang, and west building Xujialou" were set up in the surrounding suburbs to be responsible for receiving "tribute" believers from all directions.
In addition, there are also a huge group of temples: at the foot of the mountain in the northeast of the city is the "Shenzhu Temple", which is often called the "Hail Temple" by later generations.
In the temple, a two-meter-high red granite Maitreya Buddha statue is enshrined.
The stone Buddha's mouth is made of Hence its name.
Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, there is a grand temple fair here that lasts for a month.
There are several cauldrons of sesame oil that monks in the temple receive from incense donors.
Xiguan is the Laoye Temple, Niangniang Temple, Tutu Temple, and Sanguan Temple; Nanguan is the Bodhi Temple, Eight Immortals Temple, and City God Temple.
Among them, the "Shenzhu Temple" and the Bodhi Temple are the most spectacular, covering an area of 100 acres.
These temples are all decorated with carved beams and painted roofs and covered with yellow glazed tiles, presenting a luxurious atmosphere of splendor and wealth.
The "Holy City" stone Buddha mouth itself is naturally rigorous in structure and full of grandeur.
The surrounding city walls are strong and the city gates are majestic, no different from any city built by the imperial court.
There is only one east-west street in the city, and two large archways are built at both ends of the street, with the inscriptions "Master of Qingshan" and "Reincarnation of Maitreya" respectively.
In the center is the leader's residence, which covers an area of more than a hundred acres.
The inner courtyard has a living room and garden, and the side courtyard has a guard hall and a martial arts field.
In addition, there is an area of 100 acres, with 24 open-carved steles of turtles, dragons, and turtles.
The size is similar to the tombs of the previous leaders of the imperial tombs, which also shows the extraordinary magnificence of the stone Buddha's mouth.
Since Wang Sen, the first leader of the sect, founded the Wenxiang Sect during the Wanli period, the Wang family has worked hard for decades in the base camp of Shifokou for the sake of the illusory dream of an emperor.
Its influence is comparable to It is said to be deep-rooted.
Even after the failure of Xu Hongru's uprising during the Tianqi period and the setback of the Wenxiang Sect's army in Lianghuai in the past two years, when leader Wang Ke successfully escaped back to Shifokou with the holy objects, he relied on the huge amount of money and food accumulated in the city.
Hundreds of thousands of fanatical believers regained considerable strength within just a few months.
At this moment, in the main hall of the Wenxiang Sect at Shifokou, there was a cloud of cigarette smoke.
Dozens of men wearing various colorful clothes, serving as immortal masters, incense masters, and protectors in the Wenxiang Sect, They all knelt down and kowtowed in front of the "holy object" hanging on the incense table in the lobby, a long fox tail.
Wang Ke, the leader of the Wenxiang Sect, straightened his waist, which was slightly stooped recently, and wore a bright yellow dragon robe.
He sat at the top of the table and stared at the dozens of people from the northern Zhili government with his piercing eyes.
The immortal master, incense owner, and protector who came from the county waited until they had finished the ceremony before they shouted loudly: : "Since our ancestors founded the religion, we have been on a treacherous path for decades.
Although Emperor Fulie Xu Hongru of Zhongxing failed in his uprising in Shandong, and our leader also failed in Lianghuai and transferred to China last year, this is just a temporary hibernation.
There are still followers of this religion.
Thousands of people, the foundation of the stone Buddha mouth is still there, this is the foundation of the emperor Today, the Ming Dynasty is falling apart, the Qing Dynasty is flourishing and declining, wars are raging in the world, and the people are suffering unspeakably.
It is the time for our holy religion to develop and prosper.
Therefore, the leader of this religion summons you to come to the main altar to discuss the important matter of raising troops to restore the country again."
When dozens of immortal masters, incense owners, and protectors heard the leader's ambition, they all said: "The leader is blessed with great blessings, and the Ming King of the Guangda Holy Sect is reborn."
"Very good, then my leader will obey the people and raise troops to rebuild the world of China and empty his hometown."
Seeing everyone agreeing, leader Wang Ke laughed loudly and then stood up, "From now on, my leader will ascend the throne again.
As for the Each of you will also receive a reward from the Duke."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the generous reward.
Your Majesty is the Ming King who has come to this world.
He obeys the heavens and responds to people.
He will surely rebuild the Chinese universe and unify the world."
Therefore, in early March of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Wang Ke, the leader of Wenxiang Cult, escaped from the house arrest of the Qing government in the south and fled all the way back to the main altar of Shifokou in Luanzhou.
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After waiting in hibernation for several months, he once again raised his troops at Shifokou.
The emperor announced the establishment of the "Mahayana Kingdom" and quickly awarded official positions such as prime minister, three provinces and six ministries, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as well as a large number of duke, marquis and earl titles to "reward" the many chaotic followers.
Immediately after learning that the cult leader Wang Ke was revolting, hundreds of thousands of Wenxiang cult members all over the North immediately rose up to respond.
Zu Dashou, who was in Beijing, was shocked when he heard the news.
He quickly sent troops to suppress the Wenxiang Sect rebellion in the Gyeonggi area, and then assembled 10,000 Guanning troops and rushed towards the stone Buddha mouth in Luanzhou.
It has to be admitted that although Shifokou in Luanzhou is the foundation of Wenxiang Sect's operations for generations, Luanzhou is surrounded by the Great Wall to the north, the sea to the south, Shanhaiguan to the east, and Beijing to the west, so there is very little room for maneuver.
If you can't take Beijing in one fell swoop after raising troops, you will be in trouble.
But after so many previous battles, His Majesty Wang Ke, as the leader of Wenxiang Cult and the "Mahayana Emperor", also understands this truth.
Therefore, after proclaiming himself emperor, Wang Ke swept away the goods and grain that Shifokou had hoarded, and took hundreds of thousands of die-hard believers with him.
He abandoned Shifokou and moved westward before Zu Dashou sent troops to suppress it.
Jinan jumped out of the encirclement of Guan Ning's army and solved the deadlock in one fell swoop.
After the collapse of the Qing court, Guan Ning's army was confined to the Gyeonggi area for a long time due to internal divisions and constraints, and was unable to expand rapidly.
Marshal Chen Xin of Dengzhou Town only reached Jinan as far west as possible, and even failed to secure the entire territory of Shandong.
Therefore, after the Qing government withdrew from the north, hundreds of counties in southern Hebei and northern Hebei fell into a state of anarchy.
The Wenxiang Sect forces immediately took advantage of the situation and established "secret governments" in many counties.
As soon as the leader of the church arrived, these "underground parties" immediately turned from darkness to light, and in the blink of an eye they established an "Eight Hundred Mile Mahayana Kingdom" stretching from Baoding in the north to Kaifeng in the south.
Discovering that these demons from the Wenxiang Cult actually went to southern Hebei to resurrect themselves, Prince Dashou of the Jin Dynasty, who had failed in Luanzhou, naturally wanted to go south to conquer them.
However, at this time, Guan Ning's army had just split.
Not only was Wu Xiang taken away a considerable number of his troops, but many of Zu Dashou's direct line elites also confronted the Wu family soldiers and horses in Luoyang in southern Shanxi, and then deducted the front lines from Beijing and Shanhaiguan.
After the left-behind troops, Zu Dashou had very limited mobile troops at hand, and was forced to improvise some miscellaneous recruits for the southern expedition.
In the end, he only reached the front lines of Zhending and Baoding.
He could no longer push forward and had to withdraw his troops.
After repelling Zu Dashou's attack, and seeing that the Mahayana Kingdom had temporarily gained a firm foothold, Wang Ke announced that the capital would be Damingfu in Hebei, renamed "Shenjing", and sent envoys to contact Wu Xiang's "Da Zhou" in Luoyang.
"Guo" contact, trying to imitate the alliance of Shu and Wu to resist Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, and form an alliance to resist the Jin State of the ancestor Dashou.
Wu Xiang, the king of Zhou who had just escaped from the defeat in Beijing, naturally happily agreed and formed a blood alliance with Wang Kehan.
Therefore, just when Southern Zhili fell into the coexistence of five emperors, the "Northern Three Kingdoms" in which Zhou and Jin took advantage of the three emperors to compete for hegemony also appeared in the Central Plains.
But the problem is that among the three families, Wang Ke, the weakest leader of the Wenxiang Cult, has already proclaimed himself emperor, while Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang are still just the kings of Jin and Zhou.
There seems to be a problem of status imbalance.
Therefore, before signing an alliance with Wang Ke, based on the opinions of a group of civil and military officials under his command, King Wu Xiang of Zhou quickly set up an altar to worship heaven, made his capital Luoyang, and called himself the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The Prince of Jin, Zu Dashou, who was entrenched in Beijing, suddenly heard that his two rivals had become emperors, but he was still just the Prince of Jin.
He felt that he was really worth a loss.
So after sending an envoy to communicate with Marshal Huangshi who was guarding Liaodong, and found that the "Ausong Song" side did not mind having more emperors in the Central Plains, he was very happy to upgrade his title to Emperor of the Jin Dynasty and make his capital Beijing.
Next, it seems that God still thinks that the current "Northern Three Kingdoms" is not exciting enough, so he just added a new player.
A direct descendant of the Mongolian Golden Family who had been forgotten by everyone for a long time, Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar tribe who was entrenched in the Hetao, in the summer of the seventh year of Chongzhen, also announced that he had inherited the position of Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and was qualified to participate in this competition in the Central Plains. games As the last Mongolian Khan in official history, Lin Dan Khan is also a tragic figure similar to Emperor Chongzhen, and he also has an amazing talent for committing suicide.
The Mongol Khanate, which was originally handed over to him by his fathers, was somewhat similar to the early Holy Roman Empire.
Although the princes were divided into separate systems and the authority of the Khanate was limited, it relied on the beliefs of Tibetan Buddhism and the ancestral legal traditions inherited from the Genghis Khan era.
Still barely maintaining a uniform appearance.
However, under Lin Dan Khan's "religious reform", the Mongol Khanate, which had been able to make do before, was soon completely divided and collapsed by his tricks.
In Tibetan Buddhism, there are many schools such as yellow, red, white, and flower.
When Lin Dan Khan first came to the throne, the Yellow Sect was prevalent on the Mongolian grasslands, and Lin Dan Khan was also a follower of the Yellow Sect at first.
But when he was twenty-six years old, a living Buddha from the Red Sect came up from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
After meeting Lin Dan Khan, he cast a spell that impressed the young Lin Dan Khan deeply.
He named him a national teacher and received initiation. , and then converted to the Red Sect.
Next, Lin Danhan spent huge sums of money to overhaul the Red Religion temples in an attempt to turn the Red Religion into the state religion of the entire Mongolian grassland.
As we all know, the Reformation was all about bloodshed.
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The result was the same as the Thirty Years' War in Europe during the same period.
Fierce religious wars also broke out on the Mongolian grasslands.
The Khanate that believed in the Red Sect and the tribes that believed in the Yellow Sect were completely torn apart.
Nurhaci, who emerged in Liaodong, took the opportunity to intervene, and soon Soon, the Horqin and Khalkha tribes turned against each other one after another, and even the Chahar tribe, which directly belonged to Lindan Khan, broke out in rebellion.
For a while, it seemed that defeat was imminent.
After being defeated again and again, the frightened Lin Danhan no longer dared to compete with the Jurchens.
He ordered the abandonment of his ancestral homeland and led his troops to move west to the Hetao area to avoid the invasion of the Jurchen cavalry.
The various Mongolian tribes were very disappointed with this and rebelled one after another, unwilling to continue to follow this useless Khan.
According to the original history, Huang Taiji, a generation of genius, would lead the Jurchen Eight Banners to march westward to Hetao after winning the Battle of Dalinghe, and launch a final blow against the lingering Lin Dan Khan, completely annihilating the hegemony of Genghis Khan's descendants.
But in this time and space, after the Qing army won the Battle of Daling River, they found the opportunity to enter the Pass and conquer the Central Plains in a large scale, and no longer cared about the barren Saibei, so Lin Danhan escaped invisibly. .
Therefore, after retreating to Hetao and lingering for a few years, Lin Danhan gradually established a foothold here because he had not been attacked by military attacks.
But his situation is still very difficult, because the continuous disasters of the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty also affected the Mongolian grasslands, causing heavy snow disasters in the Hetao area that was once known as "Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall" for many years.
Crops were harvested, and livestock froze to death in large numbers.
There was even an outbreak of a plague.
At the lowest point, the number of men, women and children under Lin Dan Khan's tent was once reduced to 40,000.
They were extremely poor, hungry and embarrassed, and it was almost impossible to survive.
For this reason, Lin Danhan had no choice but to bite the bullet and go south to plunder the Han Dynasty in an attempt to solve the Chahar tribe's food problem.
Unexpectedly, the Central Plains fell apart at this time, and the strong frontiers attacked each other.
Facing the Mongols' southward invasion, the resistance that could be organized was extremely weak.
Lin Dan Khan's Chahar Mongolian cavalry easily invaded Ningxia and northern Shaanxi and occupied a large area south of the Great Wall, and he couldn't help but be very happy.
Later, Lin Danhan heard that the Ming Dynasty was dead, and that the Jurchen Eight Banners, which he feared so much, was almost finished.
The Central Plains had no master, and he was immediately overjoyed, thinking that he was destined to return.
Therefore, Lin Danhan tied up a few trembling Han Confucian scholars and asked them to persuade him to enter the court.
Then he enthroned the emperor in Ningxia Mansion, proclaimed himself Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, settled his capital in Guihua City in Hetao, and announced that he would restore the Kublai Khan's empire and so on.
Although Lin Dan Khan's actual military strength is very weak, Zhou and Jin, who are entangled in the Central Plains, cannot care about the northwest corner, and there are no strong enemies around the Hetao that can threaten the Chahar tribe for the time being, so this nondescript Yuan Dynasty The empire actually survived for the time being.
At this point, with the separatist forces of the Qing Dynasty and Jin Dorgon, a series of new countries such as the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Great Jin Dynasty, Mahayana, and the Great Yuan were successively established on the old territory of the Ming Empire.
The unification era belonging to the Ming Dynasty was officially The war ended, and the Warring States Period began where heroes competed for hegemony.
At the same time, as if the remaining territory of the Ming Dynasty was too large, a bunch of emerging countries suddenly emerged in the provinces of South China under various banners, and they were unscrupulously eating the remnants of the Ming Dynasty.
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