During the late
Ming dynasty, natural disasters continued to occur, and the heroes everywhere
raised an army to revolt to the authorities. Among all the rebel army, Li
Zicheng was the most powerful, because there was a very smart man who works for
him. His name is Song Xiance. Song Xiance was a really different person.
He was only90cm -tall
lame, so everyone called him the LameSong. But he was really clever; he once pushed
the fame of Li Zicheng to the top by on sentence “ten eight son control the god
throne.” By this sentence, many patriots, like Li Yan, came to work for Li
Zicheng. This sentence had same function as the “eight thousands witch revolt
the Ming” which was said by the Liu Bowen in the beginning of the Min. In Chinese,
the three letters “ten eight son” combined into a word, “Li”. That was the last
name of Li Zicheng, so everyone believed that the next emperor must be Li
Zicheng. And it made all of the force came to help Li Zicheng.Chongzhen 16th,
Li Zicheng had occupied most of the Territory, and leading an army came to Beijing , where the capital
of Ming. Regardless of Li Zicheng tried how hard, he couldn’t conquer the
capital, because the Ming force defended really well. And this made Li Zicheng
really impatient. Unfortunately, the charge grain officer came to reply that
there were only 6 months more rations, and if they couldn’t conquer the capital
in two months, the soldiers may revolt. This information forced Li Zicheng to
consider whether he had to make an agreement with Chongzhen that Chongzhen dominated
the north of the Yellow River . And Li Zicheng dominated
the south of the Yellow River . As he was cudgel
his brains, the guards came and said that Song Xiance wanted to give him some
advice. Song Xiance said he had a mean that could conquer the capital. Li
Zicheng was really happy, and he asked him for the advice. Song Xiance said “If
you give me lots of money, and help enter the capital, I promise that I can
conquer the capital in two months.” Li Zicheng said “we have no more money
left, and you are one of my important courtiers, I can’t allow you to make a
risk.” But Song Xiance had already made up his mind. So Li Zicheng finally
allowed him to enter the capital.
He was only
The next day, Song
Xiance brought up with lots of money and entered into the capital. He disguised
as a Taoist priest, and setted up a fortune-telling stall beside the road. There
was pen, ink and paper on the table. And he erected a flag which said “the
teacher of Gui, the friend of Kwanro, the greatest fortune teller.” Song Xiance
wore like an immortal. Finally, he waited on the road for the chance that he
could put his strategy into action……