Detailed explanation of Tuibei 60: The 19th image of Tuibei Tu: Renwu

Curiosity about the future has always existed in every era. After all, if you can predict the future, you would be like a god. Since ancient times, there have been many works predicting the future. The Tuibei Tu we are going to talk about today is the most accurate book of prophecy. So, according to physiognomy, what period of history does the 19th image of Tuibei Tu, Renwu, predict? Let’s take a look together!

【Prophecy】

Everyone rushed into the room

A stone on the head of a million strong troops

【Song said】

The morning was full of ingenuity, the evening was full of loss of troops, the people in the northwest were all displaced

Although the youth is beautiful, I regret not staying at home and sitting on the steps of the palace

1. Explain the prophecy

[Everyone enters the room with a hum]

"嚚": pronounced as yin, means stupid and stubborn.

"His room": corresponds to the "stone" in the following text, referring to Wang Anshi's party. Refers to the group of people led by Wang Anshi in the Northern Song Dynasty who were responsible for the reform, most of whom were notorious villains.

[A Stone on the Head of a Million-Man Army]

Under the "Wang Anshi model", the expedition against Western Xia resulted in the loss of one million soldiers. "Shi": Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi strongly recommended Wang Shao's "Plan to Pacify the Rong" to Emperor Shenzong of Song. When Emperor Shenzong later pacified the Rong (destroyed Western Xia), the so-called "million-strong army" was almost wiped out. Without knowing the truth of this history, it is difficult for readers to understand the meaning of the prophecies and odes. The following will reveal the facts that have been covered up by the "political platform".

2. Explanation of the Song

[A brilliant plan in the morning leads to the loss of troops in the evening]

"Strange Strategies": refers to Wang Shao's three "Strategies for Pacifying the Enemy", which were called "strange strategies" by Wang Anshi.

"The army was lost at dusk": refers to the attack by Emperor Shenzong of Song Dynasty on Western Xia, in which a total of more than 500,000 soldiers were lost.

In 1068, the scholar Wang Shao presented the imperial court with three articles entitled "Strategies for Subduing the Rong", in an effort to gradually conquer the Western Xia. Shenzong employed Wang Shao from 1071 to 1073. Wang Shao implemented the early strategy of "pacifying the barbarians" in the northwest with remarkable results, but was later demoted. From 1081 to 1082, Emperor Shenzong launched an attack on Western Xia according to the "Plan for Subduing the Rong" and suffered a great defeat.

[People in the northwest are displaced]

The Northern Song Dynasty conquered Western Xia, and the people in the northwest were displaced due to the war.

[Although the youth is good, the spring has faded] (Chen Xi's interpretation)

"Shao": refers to Wang Shao. "Shaohua": good times, mostly refers to the beautiful spring.

"Spring is fading": a double entendre. First of all, there is a riddle: "Spring is fading" - spring is about to end - summer is approaching - Linxia, ​​which refers to the army approaching Western Xia; at the same time, "Spring is fading" corresponds to "Shaohua", referring to Wang Shao's "Plan to Pacify the Rong", which is flashy and impractical.

[I regret not sitting in the palace]

"Chi": sound pool, painted ground, stepped area, also refers to steps.

This sentence means that he regrets sending troops to the northwest, if only he could stay in the country to guard the palace.

3. Chen Xi’s interpretation of the diagram

The pavilion in the picture is a metaphor for the Chinese character "Song". The pavilion cover represents the roof of the Chinese character "宀", and the wooden pillars below represent "木". "宀" and "木" together form "Song".

The fence in the picture refers to the border.

Direction: "Song" became an empty pavilion outside the northwest border, which refers to the fact that the Song army attacked Western Xia and was completely wiped out.

In 1081, Shenzong took advantage of the coup d'état and civil strife in Western Xia to mobilize five armies from the northwest to attack Lingzhou of Western Xia: the eunuch Wang Zhongzheng led 60,000 soldiers and more than 60,000 civilians from Hedong out of Linzhou (now north of Shenmu County, Shaanxi); Zhong Yan led more than 90,000 soldiers out of Fuyan; the eunuch Li Xian led the 7 armies of Xiqin with a total of 39,000 soldiers out of Xihe; Shenzong's great-uncle Gao Zunyu led 87,000 Tibetan and Han infantry and cavalry, and 95,000 civilians out of Huanzhou; Liu Changzuo led 50,000 soldiers out of Jingyuan Road; and ordered another 30,000 Tibetan soldiers to attack Liangzhou (now Wuwei, Gansu). The 5 armies did not have a chief commander, but were actually remotely controlled by the emperor who served as the overall commander. Shenzong wanted to rely on these more than 500,000 soldiers and civilians to wipe out Western Xia in one fell swoop.

At that time, Empress Dowager Liang, who was ruling the country from behind the scenes, adopted a strategy of an old general: fortify the walls and clear the fields, allow the enemy to penetrate deep into the country, gather elite troops to guard key locations, send light cavalry to cut off their food supply, and wait until their food and grass run out and they are defeated without attacking. The Song army advanced at a rapid pace, but within less than a month its food supply was cut off by the Western Xia. On November 19th, the Xia army opened the seven-level canal of the Yellow River to flood the Song army camps in Jingyuan and Huanqing. Many Song soldiers froze, drowned or starved to death. After the imperial court ordered the troops to withdraw, they were attacked by the Western Xia army on the way and were defeated, with a total of about 400,000 people killed.

Song Shenzong refused to admit defeat. In 1082, Emperor Shenzong sent Xu Xi to build a city in the Hengshan area - this was also the strategic plan in "The Plan to Pacify the Rong", the method of "advance construction" as a bridgehead to erode the Western Xia. Xu Xi selected Yongle (now northwest of Mizhi, Shaanxi). Shen Kuo[1] and others believed that Yongle was easy to attack but difficult to defend and was not suitable for building a city. Xu Xi refused to listen, and after the city was built, Emperor Shenzong named it "Yinchuan Village".

More than ten days later, Western Xia sent 300,000 troops to attack Yongle. The battle strategies of Shen Kuo and others were all rejected. As a result, the city was besieged, the water source was cut off, "no springs could be found when digging wells, and most of the people died of thirst." Shen Kuo and others' "reinforcements and supplies were cut off by the Xia army." On September 20th, Yongle City was captured. In this battle, about 200,000 Song army officers, soldiers, and laborers, as well as foreign soldiers fighting alongside the Song, were killed. After two major defeats, the Northern Song Dynasty suffered heavy losses.

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