7: Chapter 7: Li Chunfeng Foresaw the Qing Dynasty

After dinner, Xiaoyu helped Jiang Zhe clean up the dishes and then turned to enter the small room.

Inside the small room.

To be safer, Xiaoyu chose not to show her face to avoid being recognized.

Instead, she quietly turned on her phone's livestream beforehand, placed it under a teddy bear, and pointed the camera at the doorway.

A moment later, Jiang Zhe walked in and sat on a fluffy rabbit chair.

Seeing Xiaoyu's well-behaved manner as she took out paper and pen, Jiang Zhe nodded with satisfaction. "Knowing to take notes, not bad."

Then, he pulled out a yellowed, ancient-looking copy of the tui bei tu from behind him.

"What's this?" Xiaoyu looked at the book in her brother's hand.

"Since I'm going to talk about it, I naturally have to do my homework!" Jiang Zhe shook the book. "I found this at a nearby second-hand book market during the day. It's a replica from decades ago."

What he didn't know was—

At this moment, a large number of viewers were flooding into the livestream, gifts flying like they cost nothing.

If last night was just a small affair, after a day of the video fermenting, the livestream had already reached 30,000 people!

"I've been waiting all day, finally the livestream is back on!"

"I was attracted by the prophecy of China's end. I want to see if this brother is just being mysterious for the sake of it!"

"Mysterious my ass, the brother doesn't even know he's being livestreamed!"

"..."

Jiang Zhe looked at his sister and began tonight's theme:

"Having finished the prophecies of the late Ming, next is naturally the Great Qing that replaced the Great Ming."

"In the 33rd hexagram of the tui bei tu, it precisely describes the national fortune of the Great Qing!"

He unhurriedly turned to the 33rd hexagram of the tui bei tu.

...

At this time, 8:00 PM.

In the teachers' office, Old Wang and eight other teachers were working overtime.

Old Wang's phone was on the livestream, and the "Da Yu Da Rou" livestream was being projected onto the wall.

"It's starting, it's starting! Everyone put down what's unimportant and come watch!"

The other teachers gathered around, watching the projection on the wall and the massive amount of bullet chat.

With Jiang Zhe's next sentence, "Xiaoyu, look at the 33rd hexagram..."

At these words, the corner of Old Wang's mouth couldn't stop twitching. So this livestream really belonged to Jiang Xiaoyu.

He should have realized it sooner. His student was actually livestreaming dancing on the Dougou Platform?

Could there be some unspeakable hardship?

A Chinese teacher couldn't help but ask, "Old Wang, is that Xiaoyu from your class? Why was this a dancing livestream before?"

Old Wang quickly shook his head. "No, you saw wrong. Just the same name."

"Oh!"

...

Inside the cozy little house.

Jiang Zhe turned the tui bei tu to the 33rd hexagram.

"Xiaoyu, look at this hexagram. This is a surging river with a small boat in the middle. Above the boat, eight flags are fluttering in the wind, and inside the boat's canopy, there are ten little people."

"Brother, what does this mean?" Jiang Xiaoyu leaned in to look. The picture did indeed show a river, a boat, eight flags, and ten people.

Jiang Zhe scrutinized Xiaoyu. "Use your brain, think carefully. What exactly is this?"

Xiaoyu turned her head away, her brow furrowing. Even using her brain, she couldn't figure it out.

At this moment, the viewers in the livestream were already dying of anxiety for Xiaoyu.

"Holy shit, your brother already made it obvious, how do you still not know?"

"Eight Banners, ten emperors... wait, it seems it should be twelve emperors!"

"Yeah, the tui bei tu must be wrong. There were clearly 12 emperors, not 10!"

"Haha, he's failing, her brother is going to fail!"

On the video screen.

Xiaoyu racked her brains and finally asked back:

"That's not right, brother. Even if I'm stupid, the Great Qing had twelve emperors, not ten!"

"Brother, the era names of the twelve emperors are Nurhaci's Tianming, Hong Taiji's Chongde, Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng... all the way to Puyi's Xuantong."

"Why are there only 10 emperors in this picture? There were actually 12. Is the tui bei tu prophecy wrong?"

Xiaoyu's doubt was exactly the same as the viewers in the livestream.

Many viewers who came for the fame thought Jiang Zhe had failed, and they were happy to see it!

...

Meanwhile, in the school office.

The teachers watching the projected livestream also nodded one after another.

The math teacher breathed a sigh of relief. "See, I told you. How could Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng be great prophets? The Qing had 12 emperors, not 10. Her brother's video almost made me lose confidence in materialism."

The Chinese teacher beside him chimed in, "I knew it. How could the tui bei tu be so magical? This is a fatal flaw!"

The teachers in the office instinctively looked toward Old Wang.

Although Old Wang was a bit nervous, he still said calmly, "Why don't we watch a bit more first!"

In the livestream.

Seeing his sister's doubt, Jiang Zhe not only didn't refute her but instead showed an appreciative smile.

"Not bad! It seems Xiaoyu, you've really thought about it!"

He affirmed Xiaoyu for a moment, then his tone suddenly shifted.

"The mystery of the prophecy lies in the [essence] of Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng's prediction, not the [titles]!"

Jiang Zhe looked at Xiaoyu's curious expression and pointed to the 33rd hexagram to explain in detail:

"The tui bei tu was written in the early Tang, and it has its own set of algorithms."

"In the algorithms of those two masters—only emperors who truly stepped onto the land of China are counted."

"It's true the Qing Dynasty had twelve emperors, but when did Nurhaci establish the Great Qing—or rather, where did the Jurchen tribes come from?"

"I remember it was the Northern Song..."

Without waiting for Xiaoyu to continue reminiscing, Jiang Zhe knew she wouldn't be able to answer, so he explained directly:

"Yes, the Jurchen tribes in the Northeast rose during the Northern Song period, led by Wanyan Aguda, and established the Jin Dynasty!"

"Later, the Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongol cavalry at Caizhou—which is today's Runan."

"In the late Ming period I talked about last time—the Jurchen tribes rose again under the leadership of Nurhaci and established the Later Jin!"

"Afterwards, Hong Taiji changed the state name from Jin to [Qing], preparing for the future entry into the Central Plains!"

Having reached this point, Jiang Zhe looked at Xiaoyu. "Let me ask you, was the founding emperor of the Qing, Nurhaci, in the Central Plains?"

Xiaoyu was stunned by her brother's narrative, as if she had realized something.

"No, he wasn't in the Central Plains!"

"And so?"

"Nurhaci wasn't counted in the tui bei tu!"

"Did Hong Taiji enter the Central Plains?"

"No!!!"

After saying that, Xiaoyu couldn't help but swallow. A trace of fear appeared in her eyes, shocked to the point of goosebumps by the answer of the tui bei tu!

Nurhaci's era name was "Tianming".

Hong Taiji's era name was "Chongde"!

They were the first and second of the Great Qing.

Only starting from the third, Shunzhi, did they completely settle in the Central Plains!

From Shunzhi to Puyi's Xuantong, it's exactly 10 emperors!!!

Hearing this, the viewers in the livestream all felt their scalps go numb.

"I... I... even my bones are numb!"

"Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang from the early Tang actually calculated all the way to Puyi!"

"My god, I admit I've got goosebumps!"

"If we go by this, excluding Nurhaci who didn't found the state in the Central Plains, and the second Qing emperor Hong Taiji who never entered the Central Plains, it corresponds exactly to the ten people entering the Central Plains on the small boat in the 33rd hexagram. Holy shit, it's divine! Her brother is so awesome!"

As Jiang Zhe's analysis concluded, the livestream was silent for a moment, then the bullet chat surged like a tide. Gifts flew by frantically as if they were free, along with comments.

[God-tier!]

[Kneeling before the god!]

[This explanation is unique. I admit you have my style from back then. Here's a hundred yuan!]

So far, this was the first time they had heard such an explanation on the internet.

On the screen, Jiang Xiaoyu also suddenly realized. "So Nurhaci and Hong Taiji weren't even counted by Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang. That's why the 33rd hexagram in the tui bei tu shows ten emperors!"

"Exactly!"

Jiang Zhe nodded with satisfaction.

At this moment, in the brightly lit office.

The math, Chinese, and other teachers all gasped, their scalps tingling.

"Ah? It can be explained like that?"

"The key is that I can't even refute this explanation!"

"I originally came to see if anyone would debunk him. Man, this brother is really something!"

Only Old Wang's eyes flickered.

"So that's how it is!"

"This angle of Jiang Zhe's explanation is truly terrifying!"

On the screen.

Jiang Zhe seeining that the atmosphere was about right, finally revealed the essence of the 33rd hexagram:

"Now let's look at the prophecy and the ode of the 33rd hexagram. You will discover the terrifying nature of Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang!!!"

Xiaoyu looked distressed at this moment.

She really wanted to say—

Brother, let's not be modest. Clearly, you're the one who's awesome, okay?

Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang's prophecies are vague. In this world, only your interpretation, brother, is the best, okay?

He looked at his sister and began to explain:

"The Prophecy says: The Yellow River's water is clear, when the Qi is smooth, there is order; Host and guest are not distinguished, the Earthly Branch has no Zi."