Little Shenyang left a poem before his death. Four words in the poem predicted the demise of the Qing Dynasty.

Xiao Shenyang was the most corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty and the largest corrupt official in Chinese history. Xiao Shenyang not only left posterity with the reputation of being the most greedy for money, but also left countless mysteries, such as how much gold, silver and land he owned, how he paid bribes and so on. History does not give clear answers to these questions. The poem he left behind is the biggest mystery.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, and the sixth day after the death of Emperor Qianlong, Xiao Shenyang, who was under house arrest in the funeral parlor, was imprisoned in the Ministry of Punishment Prison. In prison, Xiao Shenyang wrote many poems with the prepared paper and pen, most of which were about his own grievances and seeking leniency. In fact, the trial of Xiao Shenyang's crimes did not go so smoothly. Fu Chang'an, the military minister who was captured together with Xiao Shenyang, would rather die than avenge Xiao Shenyang's crime. Several princes on trial also took care of Xiao Shenyang.

But even so, Emperor Jiaqing could not change his determination to kill Xiao Shenyang. On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Jiaqing adopted the suggestion of Wu, the special envoy from Zhili, and cut the knot with a sharp knife. He wanted to die and issued an edict to execute him. At that time, Xiao Shenyang was convicted of the "Twenty Major Crimes" and the punishment was "murder", that is, he was executed during the Lunar New Year. Since Xiao Shenyang once served as Kuaiji and it happened to be the mourning period of Qianlong, it was changed to "Kill himself with a gift"

On the evening of the 18th of the first lunar month, Xiao Shenyang got a gift to practice spiritual practice, and then hanged himself. After Xiao Shenyang's death, the poems he wrote in prison were collected by Yu Rui, a member of the Qing Dynasty clan, and compiled into a book called "Jia Le Tang Poetry Collection". Although his desperate poems were not recorded in the Jialetang Poetry Collection year, they had already passed the jailer and were finally recorded in the Qingtongjian year. This poem is written like this:

For 50 years, my dream came true, but today I gave up, thanks to the world of mortals.

The dragon sun is full of water and recognizes the smoke as its back.

This explanation comes from the allusion of "Xia Jie Long Sui", which is recorded in the ancient books "Guoyu Zhengyu" and Sima Qian's "Historical Records". At the end of the Xia Dynasty, two dragons ended up in the royal court. After the Xia Dynasty, they obtained the dragon's mouth and kept it secretly. Hundreds of years later, when King Zhou Li opened the box to watch, he accidentally spilled the dragon and turned into Tan Xuan. It ran around in the palace and finally got into the belly of a palace maid. The palace maid became pregnant and gave birth to a baby. praise. Later, in order to praise the princes, King You of Zhou led to the destruction of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, this is what Xiao Shenyang means when he says there is a dragon in the water. Later, Empress Dowager Cixi's troubles and troubles led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

This is a widely circulated statement, and there is another statement that has been recognized by later generations. That is to say, the true meaning of "flood of dragons" refers to the great breach of the Yellow River one year before Xiao Shenyang was killed, which is the explanation of the term "flood of dragons", and "flood of dragons" refers to the birth of Empress Dowager Cixi more than 30 years after the great flood. And her mistress finally destroyed the Qing Dynasty with the help of floods.

These two statements are not random speculations by modern people. In the book "The Witnesses of Inner Zen of the Qing Gaozong", they are explained: Writing poems at the end of life is like a rumor, which is not very clear. Or "Shui Man Long Yin" seems to use the story of Long Bei after Xia, which is a sign of Xiao Qin's disaster. When this poem was included, the meaning of the four words "water filled with dragons" was not specified, but it was stated that these four words came from the May Day in the Korean history book "Cheongtongjian". At that time, North Korean envoys were sent to China and recorded the spread of this poem at that time, so they used this as an example to earn the "Authentic Records of the King of the Ri Dynasty" Yuan Dynasty.

So, is this prophecy that has been circulating for hundreds of years really the curse of Xiao Shenyang before his death? Maybe the fact is this:

In the eighth year of Jiaqing, Xiao Shenyang hanged himself to death. Xiao Shenyang wrote this death poem before his death, which is also known as Xiao Shenyang's last poem. After Xiao Shenyang's death, his desperate poem was circulated among the people. Although it is widely known, no scholar-officials dared to include it because Xiao Shenyang was executed. But at this time, the north

As time went by, the storm of Xiao Shenyang's death gradually subsided, and this poem was brought back from North Korea in the year of "Qing Tongjian". In the "Authentic Records of the King of the Ri Dynasty", the key word "水毇Hanlong" is written similarly to "flood" and "flood", so the word "水行" is written as "水行". Perhaps Xu Youwen misunderstood the word "Sui" as "water", so he wrote the original "Sui Xun" as "Sui Xun".

So the true writing of these four characters should be "Sui Xun He Long". Why does it have to be these four words? Based on what? It is necessary to take a look at the biggest event that happened when Xiao Shenyang was executed: According to records in the "Qing Tongjian" year, when the Yellow River overflowed, there were frequent dangers in Suizhou during the flood season.

On the night of August 29, floods surged during the flood season in Suizhou and broke out of the embankment, causing a large breach in the famous Suikou. The river staff responsible for river management at that time reported many times and called this major flood "Suifeng". This was the biggest event at that time, and everyone in the court knew about it.

In order to fight against floods, an eighteen-foot-wide gap was left in Suikou. It is expected that the gap will be closed before the end of the year and the water in the Yellow River will be dredged. However, due to the sudden drop in temperature that year, a large amount of ice accumulated in the river, so we had to request a temporary closure of the river. At that time, sealing the dragon was a big event. As usual, officials from the capital sent 20 sticks of Tibetan incense to offer solemn sacrifices to the river god.

The last two sentences of Xiao Shenyang's last poem are, "When encountering a dragon, recognize the smoke as your back." This poem can be interpreted from this perspective. We can imagine that Xiao Shenyang was still loyal before his death. Although I am dead, you will see my loyal soul appear in the cigarette smoke on the day of Suixun Helong.

This is a reasonable explanation of Xiao Shenyang’s despair poem. When he was about to die, Xiao Shenyang had no despair, no collapse, and no curse. He continued to demonstrate his loyalty in the hope that the emperor would change his mind. This is Xiaoshenyang, and this is the meaning of Xiaoshenyang’s poem of despair. The various explanations of later generations are just misunderstandings caused by Xu Youwen's use of the wrong words. The truth is that simple.