China's traditional culture has profoundly influenced neighboring countries. Historically, the regions where the two koreas were located used "Goguryeo", "Silla", "Baekje" and so on as foreign names. But regardless of the name and dynastic changes, the North Korean regime often exists as a vassal state of China, but many South Korean scholars do not recognize this.
There was a flood in South Korea that year, and a stone stele Chinese rushed out, and those who did not recognize history on it were bound to blush when they saw it. What's going on? It turned out that the flood occurred in 1963, because the water was very urgent, rolling up countless things buried deep underground, including a "Monument to the Merits of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty" written in Manchu, Chinese, and Mongolian.
The Emperor of the Great Qing Mentioned on this stele refers to the Emperor Taiji of that year. As early as 300 years ago, Emperor Taiji decided to conquer Korea in order to relieve the worries of entering the customs and to turn the Ming Dynasty's vassal state into a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. The arrival of the Emperor Taiji's army and horses caught lee by surprise, the 16th monarch of the Joseon Dynasty at the time, and the capital seoul was occupied, and Li Had to surrender to emperor Taiji.
Emperor Taiji, intent on winning the hearts and minds of the people, set up a special altar outside Seoul to accept surrender, and as long as he promised to submit to the Qing, the Qing army would withdraw from the territory. But Li Qiang needed to do one thing to prove that it was also to show the emperor's taiji deeds: to erect a monument and engrave the inscription, and erect a "Monument of Merit and Virtue of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty" outside Seoul as a proof of the emperor's taiji conquest, and from then on they recognized the Qing Dynasty as the suzerainty.
After the Qing Dynasty withdrew to the Central Plains, Li Qiang also began construction work. However, the courtiers in the court all regarded this matter as a disgrace and were unwilling to write articles for this monument, and Li Qiang ordered Zhang Wei, Li Qingquan, Zhao Xiyi, and Li Jingyi to write one article each, and then sent the text to the Qing Dynasty, and Fan Wencheng, under the Emperor Taiji, made slight modifications and sent it back, and Li Qiang rebuilt the altar and erected this monument.
In this process, in order to check the dynamics, the Qing court sent people to inspect the process of erecting the monument many times, after the completion, the Qing Emperors sent emissaries into the DPRK, the emissaries will go to the place where the monument was erected to see the situation, and later, The DPRK even set up a group of military horses to guard this meritorious monument, but this situation changed many years later.
The reason is that in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court faced a crisis and could not take care of itself. In 1894, the Qing army was defeated in a naval battle, the Japanese army controlled the Korean Peninsula, the Qing Dynasty could no longer influence the whereabouts of this monument, and Japan did not want to retain the Qing Dynasty's power in Korea, so from 1895 onwards, not only this monument was torn down, but the remaining clan forces of the Qing Dynasty were also cut off one by one.
From then on, the stele was gradually covered up, and in 1913, it was re-excavated and erected again. 43 years later, a South Korean minister of culture and education at the time considered this monument a symbol of shame, and seeing it reminds people of the history of the ancestors who paid tribute to the Qing Dynasty, and it should disappear like "Ying'en Gate" (the place where the Korean monarch greeted the ming and Qing envoys).
As a result, the monument was buried deep in the ground again. What everyone did not expect was that in the 1963 flood, it was washed up on the ground again, and Koreans only saw it on the spot and decided to leave it as a symbol of cultural heritage and national shame. So now this monument is erected behind the Lotte World Building, which has been destroyed many times in the past few decades, but it is still a witness of history.