The Nine Dragon Sword is a funerary item in the Qianlong Mausoleum, which was revived in 1928 by the warlord Sun Dianying who stole qianlong's Yuling Tomb, but since it reappeared in the human world, the four masters who have owned it have either died of death or had a miserable ending, so it is rumored that the Nine Dragon Sword is the most yin thing in the world, and only an extraordinary person like Qianlong who is blessed and noble can have it, otherwise the master will be killed by it.
In the Republic of China period, the Nine Dragon Sword and the Sword of the Four Lords were indeed all realized, so the people all believed that it was the yin thing of the Lord of the Nine Dragons, so was the Nine Dragon Sword really the Lord of the Nine Dragons, like the folk rumors, it was a yin thing?
How Qianlong got the Nine Dragon Sword
According to rumors, the Kowloon Sword is about 5 feet long (about 1.5 meters to about 1.55 meters), is the shape of a Mongolian curved sword, the hilt is very long, there are nine golden dragons wrapped around the sheath, its meaning is nine nine to one, the sheath material is extremely precious, made of shark skin, inlaid with red sapphires and diamonds, the Nine Dragon Sword can be described as luxurious.
There are also two versions of the saying about how Qianlong obtained the Nine Dragon Sword, one is that Qianlong got it by accident while traveling in Jiangnan, and the other is that the leader of the Huijiang tribe paid tribute.
First of all, talk about the version of you Jiangnan, we all know that Qianlong once went to Jiangnan six times, and when he went down to Jiangnan to Suzhou, Qianlong rose up and took a group of guards to visit the beautiful scenery privately in private.
At that time, there was a temple somewhere on the outskirts of Suzhou, and it was said that a sharp and matchless sword was enshrined in the temple, and because this sword was extremely sharp and murderous, the monks in the temple offered it in front of the Buddha statue, hoping to use Buddhism to dissolve the anger on the sword.
Qianlong Micro Service private visit learned of this news, he came to this temple to visit this sword, Qianlong saw the sword and found that it was indeed sharp and matchless, it was a good sword, Qianlong loved this sword, so he wanted to spend money to buy this sword.
But the monks in the temple refused to sell it, and the monks thought that this sword was too heavy, and if the master's blessing and nobility were not enough, it would be difficult to suppress it, but it would be easy to be killed by it, so the monks were worried that Qianlong's blessing and nobleness were not enough, they could not stop this sword, and then they were killed by it, and buying it would harm Qianlong, so they refused to sell the sword to Qianlong.
After Qianlong listened to the monk's explanation, he laughed on the spot, and Qianlong thought to himself that he was the Supreme Being of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and that if he went down to find someone who was more blessed and noble than him, if he could not hold down this sword, then it was absolutely extraordinary.
Qianlong immediately revealed his identity to the monks, and as soon as the monks heard that he was the current emperor, they dared to say that his blessings and nobility were not enough, and they quickly did not even want money and directly offered the sword to Qianlong.
Qianlong later brought the sword back to the palace, handed it over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for reconstruction, and specially ordered the craftsmen to lengthen the hilt of the sword and re-create the scabbard, so that the luxurious sword scabbard embedded in the Nine Dragons and studded with gems appeared, and the name of the Nine Dragon Sword was derived from this.
Another version is the theory of returning to Xinjiang to pay tribute, which originated from Qianlong's ten complete martial arts, Qianlong actively expanded the territory during his reign, and the territory of the Qing Dynasty was also maximized during the Qianlong period.
In the twenty-second year of Qianlong (1757), the Ili Rebellion in Xinjiang, the homeland of the Dzungar Khanate that had previously been destroyed by Qianlong, led to the rebellion of Dahe Zhuo, so Qianlong sent troops to quell the rebellion, and during the quelling of the Rebellion, the Qing army received the help of the local Xinjiang noble leaders E se Yin and Tu Erdu's uncle and nephew.
The Qing army later quickly quelled the rebellion with the help of Ese Yin and Tu Erdu's uncles and nephews, and Qianlong also set up the Ili general in Xinjiang to administer the rule, and rewarded Ese Yin and Tu Erdu's uncles and nephews with rich knighthoods.
In order to show their loyalty and gratitude to Qianlong, Turdu took the initiative to offer his sister Iprahhan to Qianlong as a concubine, which also represented their uncles and nephews' willingness to marry Daqing in order to be loyal to Daqing. Later, Iprahhan was crowned as Concubine Rong by Qianlong and was very popular with Qianlong, but her other name was more familiar to later generations, that is, Xiangfei.
Turdu not only presented his sister Xiangfei to Qianlong, but also the Nine Dragon Sword that accompanied Xiangfei to Qianlong. However, at that time, it was not called the Nine Dragon Sword but the Sword of Kaldan, which was a Mongolian curved sword, which was cast by kaldan, the leader of the Mongolian Dzungar tribe who ruled Xinjiang at that time, and the Kaldan was the reincarnation of the Tibetan Buddhist living Buddha, who was a Tibetan Buddhist living Buddha before inheriting the leader of the Dzungar tribe, and the Nine Dragon Sword had been opened by many Tibetan Buddhist living Buddhas, so it was extremely precious.
Kaldan's brother the monk Huntaiji died in the civil strife of the Dzungars, so Kaldan took over his brother's position as the leader with the Nine Dragon Sword, after which Kaldan took the nine dragon sword to open the road to the hegemony of the steppe, and Gardan established the Dzungar Khanate that could compete with the Qing Dynasty through endless killing in the steppe area.
Gardan's killing of the steppe also made the Nine Dragon Sword more and more angry, and later Kaldan was finally defeated by Kangxi, and he himself committed suicide in the rebellion. Therefore, at that time, it was rumored that only the real king deserved to have the Nine Dragon Sword, and Gardan died in Kangxi's three imperial conquests, which proved that he was the deceased and not the king, so people at that time believed that Kaldan was not worthy of the Nine Dragon Sword, and was killed by it.
After Kaldan's death, the sword fell into the hands of his nephew Ceyu Alabutan, after which Cedu Alabutan and his son Gardan Cezhi became troublesome opponents that plagued the northwestern border of the Qing Dynasty.
Until the twentieth year of Qianlong (1755), when civil unrest and plague broke out in the Dzungar Khanate, Qianlong took the opportunity to send his brother-in-law Fu Heng to lead a large army to destroy the Dzungar Khanate, and after the demise of the Dzungar Khanate, the Nine Dragon Sword fell into the hands of Turdu.
Later, Yamato Zhuo Polonidu, Xiaohe Zhuohuo Jizhan supported the restoration of the Dzungar Khanate and launched the Great and Small And Zhuo Rebellion, and Qianlong once again sent troops to suppress the Great and Small Zhuo Rebellion, and only then completely eliminated the Dzungar Khanate. Turdu heard that Qianlong liked to collect, so he took advantage of Qianlong's reward and in order to thank Qianlong for his reward, he presented his sister Xiangfei and the Nine Dragon Sword to Qianlong together.
In these two versions, in fact, turdu into the xiangfei and the legend of the Nine Dragon Sword is more reliable, but also in line with the folk has been circulating the Nine Dragon Sword for the Mongolian curved sword shape, and Suzhou is the Central Plains region, the monk has little chance of getting the Mongolian curved sword.
Regardless of which version of the legend is credible, in short, Qianlong was very fond of this Nine Dragon Sword before his death, and he loved this sword very much, and often had nothing to play with.
Therefore, before his death, Qianlong told his son Jiaqing Jiulong Sword to accompany him to the underground, so the Jiulong Sword became one of the funerary items in the tomb of the Qianlong Emperor, and since then the Jiulong Sword has been accompanying Qianlong underground for more than 100 years.
After the reappearance of the Nine Dragon Sword, whoever gets it will not die well
The Nine Dragon Sword was buried underground with Qianlong for more than 100 years, and the time was shifted to July 2, 1928, when the warlord Sun Dianying led his troops into Zunhua Malanyu, Hebei Province, where the Qing Tombs were located, in the name of military exercises, and then Sun Dianying excavated Qianlong's Yuling Tomb and Empress Dowager Cixi's Dingdongling Tomb.
The funerary treasures in the tombs of Qianlong and Cixi were basically stolen by Sun Dianying, and sun Dianying pulled more than 30 carts of treasures alone, and later the robbery of the tomb was exposed, but Sun Dianying did not think so, and he also made an excuse for himself in a grandiose manner, claiming that he was fighting the lives of the dead and avenging the Han compatriots.
However, Sun Dianying said that he would avenge his compatriots in the Han Dynasty, but in practical action, he sold the treasures obtained from the tomb robbery into his own private property, which also led to the loss of many cultural relics overseas, so although Sun Dianying used nationalist sentiments to cover up his tomb robbery, he was soon exposed, and he was also criticized by all walks of life at that time.
Later, Nanjing's "Central Daily" made a front-page headline to severely condemn Sun Dianying's tomb robbery, which further aroused the antipathy and accusations of Sun Dianying's tomb robbery by all walks of life throughout the country, and the former Qing imperial family and all sectors of society demanded that the Republic of China government impose severe sanctions on Sun Dianying.
Therefore, Sun Dianying was also afraid, and he also realized the seriousness of the matter, and he could no longer rely on rhetoric to confuse the past, so Sun Dianying had to take out the treasure obtained from the tomb robbery to bribe the dignitaries of the Republic of China government.
Sun Dianying first sent a golden Lotus Leaf, a ruby Buddha, and a package of pearls to the emerald lotus leaf on Cixi's head, Xu Yuanquan, commander of the Group Army; he also sent a green-skinned yellow-saced emerald melon to Shang Zhen, the military judge who presided over him; and presented Cixi's pure golden birthday Buddha, jade peach, and Qianlong's jade wrench, ivory, and coral text to play with, and under the protection of these people, Sun Dianying was able to get away with it.
Although he gave away many treasures, Sun Dianying was most pleased that the most precious treasure in the Qianlong coffin, the Nine Dragon Sword, was still in his hands, and as a soldier, he also loved this Nine Dragon Sword very much.
However, after the outbreak of the Central Plains War, Sun Dianying betrayed Chiang Kai-shek and defected to Feng Yuxiang, and as a result, the Central Plains War ended in Chiang Kai-shek's victory, Sun Dianying's troops were almost completely destroyed, and Sun Dianying was forced to go to the wilderness. However, Sun Dianying was not reconciled after he went down, and he still wanted to plot a comeback, but he had to find a strong backer to make a comeback, so Sun Dianying decided to turn to Chiang Kai-shek again.
Since Sun Dianying had betrayed Chiang Kai-shek once, he did not dare to go directly to Chiang Kai-shek, so he had to unblock relations through Chiang Kai-shek's close associate Dai Kasa, and he first gave 108 imperial pearls from Qianlong to Dai Kasa as a greeting gift, and then entrusted Dai Kasa to give Cixi's jade watermelon to Song Ziwen; the night pearl in Cixi's mouth was given to Song Meiling, and finally of course he had to give Chiang Kai-shek a big gift, so Sun Dianying bit his teeth and stomped his feet, and then he gave the Nine Dragon Sword to Dai Kasa and entrusted him to hand it over to Chiang Kai-shek.
Since Dai Kasa was still going to the Central Plains to inspect the troops, Dai Kasa handed over the Nine Dragon Sword to his confidant Ma Hansan, who sent Ma Hansan back with the Kowloon Sword and handed it to Chiang Kai-shek.
However, in the face of such a luxurious Nine Dragon Sword, Ma Hansan also became greedy, and he thought of a way to delay time in an attempt to confuse the sword into his hands, so Ma Hansan delayed the time to hand the sword over to Chiang Kai-shek on the grounds that the situation was complicated or he first returned the sword to Sun Dianying for safekeeping. Of course, Ma Hansan would not really return the sword to Sun Dianying, he just used Sun Dianying as an excuse, but secretly left the sword himself.
Later, the Japanese army captured Beijing, and many agents of the intelligence department of the Republic of China government in Beijing at that time were captured by the Japanese army, including Ma Hansan, the head of northern intelligence.
Responsible for the arrest of Ma Hansan is the famous female secret agent Kawashima Yoshiko, Ma Hansan took the initiative to confess to Kawashima Yoshiko that she held Qianlong's funerary Nine Dragon Sword, hoping to exchange the Nine Dragon Sword for her freedom, the Nine Dragon Sword is extremely important to Kawashima Yoshiko, so she privately released Ma Hansan and got the Nine Dragon Sword.
Why does the female secret agent Yoshiko Kawashima value the Nine Dragon Sword so much? Because Yoshiko Kawashima' real name is Aisin Kyora Xianxuan, she is the daughter of Prince Shanqi of the last Iron Hat King of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Su, who organized the Sectarian Socialist Party before and after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in an attempt to prevent the fall of the Qing Dynasty and restore the Qing Dynasty.
In order to restore the Qing Dynasty, Zenqi later befriended the Japanese ronin Kawashima Langsu, hoping to restore the Qing Dynasty with the help of the Japanese, and In order to win over Kawashima Langsu, Zenqi even became a brother with him, and passed on the young daughter Xianxu to Kawashima Langsu as a daughter, so Xianjue later changed her name to Kawashima Yoshiko.
As a descendant of the Aisin Kyaw Roshi clan, Yoshiko Kawashima of course attached great importance to the ancestral relic, the Nine Dragon Sword, and Ma Hansan knew Yoshiko Kawashima's origin very well, so he seized this point to negotiate with Kawashima Yoshiko and was released.
After Ma Hansan was released, the fact that he had been captured by the Japanese army was also hidden, and after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Dai Kasa ordered Ma Hansan to return to Beijing to take over the northern intelligence agency, and Ma Hansan was also anxious to retrieve the Nine Dragon Sword, otherwise his deception of Dai Kasa would have to be exposed.
So Ma Hansan took advantage of his position to go all out to arrest Kawashima Yoshiko, and soon Ma Hansan captured Kawashima Yoshiko, and under Ma Hansan's coercion, Kawashima Yoshiko had to return the Nine Dragon Sword to Ma Hansan.
Dai Kasa heard that the famous Kawashima Yoshiko had been captured, so he personally went to Beijing to interrogate Kawashima Yoshiko, and when Kawashima Yoshiko was interrogated, Dai Kasa finally learned that Ma Hansan had been captured by the Japanese army, and in order to survive, he handed over the Nine Dragon Sword to Kawashima Yoshiko before being released.
Therefore, Dai Kasa was very dissatisfied with Ma Hansan's deception of himself, and after learning that Kawashima Yoshiko had confessed himself, Ma Hansan immediately handed over the Nine Dragon Sword to Dai Kasa and spent a large amount of money to bribe Dai Kasa and beg for his forgiveness, and Dai Kasa also saw that Ma Hansan was strong in business and finally forgave him.
In the end, when Dai Kasa took the Kowloon Sword and flew back to Nanjing to send an errand to Chiang Kai-shek, he was destroyed and killed due to a plane crash on the way, and the Kowloon Sword was completely destroyed with the plane crash of Dai Kasa.
Later, according to the book "I Know Dai Kasa" written by Dai Kasa's right-hand man Shen Drunk, it was disclosed that on March 17, 1946, Dai Kasa's plane crashed into the mountain due to bad weather, and eventually the plane caught fire and crashed, and all the people on board were killed.
Shen Drunk was grateful for Dai Kasa's kindness to his promotion, he personally went to collect The body of Dai Kasa, he found the Kowloon Sword that Dai Kasa had taken away and prepared to hand over to Chiang Kai-shek in the hands of the local farmers, but due to the fire on the plane, the scabbard and handle of the Kowloon Sword had long been burned to the ground, and Shen Drunk had to put the remains of the sword body and the remains of Dai Kasa into the coffin together.
Later, Chiang Kai-shek personally chose a slope with a small pond in front of the west side of the Wuliang Hall in Nanjing as a cemetery, and the Nine Dragon Sword was also buried here with Dai Kasa.
After the founding of New China, because people from all walks of life in Nanjing hated dai Kasa, the head of the secret service, in 1951, at the strong request of all sectors of society, Dai Kasa's grave was completely destroyed.
According to the memories of the staff who participated in the demolition of Dai Kasa's tomb, a broken iron piece similar to the body of the sword was found in the tomb of Dai Kasa, but the Nine Dragon Sword at that time had been burned by fire, it had long been broken, and there was no sword style at all, and no one at that time thought that this time it was the Nine Dragon Sword that was circulated in folklore, so the Nine Dragon Sword was thrown into the pond by the excited masses as a broken iron piece, and the Nine Dragon Sword completely disappeared from the world.
And back to the fate of these people who once possessed the Nine Dragon Sword, first of all, Sun Dianying, who was captured by the People's Liberation Army in the battle to liberate Tangyin during the Liberation War, and then was imprisoned for reform, and in 1947 Sun Dianying fell ill and died in prison, with a very tragic ending.
Yoshiko Kawashima was publicly executed in 1948 for adultery; after Dai's death, Ma Hansan was at odds with Dai's successor, Mao Renfeng, and the two had great conflicts, and finally in 1948 Ma Hansan was secretly executed by Mao Renfeng.
Coupled with the plane crash of Dai Kasa, the four masters who successively owned the Nine Dragon Sword, Sun Dianying, Dai Kasa, Kawashima Yoshiko, and Ma Hansan, were all unable to die well, which confirmed the fact that the Nine Dragon Sword killed the master, and also added a legendary color to the Nine Dragon Sword.
Write at the end
If the Nine Dragon Sword is a yin thing that can kill the master, in fact, it is purely coincidental, look at the lives of Sun Dianying, Kawashima Yoshiko, Dai Kasa, and Ma Hansan, the four of them are doomed to be difficult to get a good death, even if there is no Nine Dragon Sword, they may not be able to die well.
Therefore, it is only the coincidence that the Nine Dragon Sword and the four of them have a common intersection, which is why the rumors of the Nine Dragon Sword are so magical.
As one of qianlong's favorite treasures before his death, the Nine Dragon Sword should have been to accompany Qianlong to sleep underground, but a tomb robbery accident made it reappear in the human world, after adding its mysterious color to the human world, it eventually sank to the bottom of the lake, and the long-sleeping underground was its fate.