Did any prophet predict the future of China in the middle of Qing Dynasty?

Zhao Liewen, Zeng Guofan's aide, predicted the demise of the Qing Dynasty.

1867, Zeng Guofan talked with Zhao Liewen, a confidant staff.

He once said: "Beijing people say that the weather in the capital is very bad, and there are often cases of open fires. In the shops, beggars are in droves, and even women are naked and have no pants to wear. I'm afraid there will be changes. What can you do? "

Zhao said: "The public safety in the world has been unified for a long time, and it will inevitably split. But the main morality is heavy, and the atmosphere is not open. Without heart, it will not collapse. I estimate that in the future, the servants will be overthrown first, and the rear States will have no owners and the people will be the masters. Almost fifty years! "

Zeng Guofan frowned for a long time and said, "Will it move south?" Zhao said: "I'm afraid it's over directly, and it may not be as south as the Eastern Jin and Southern Song Dynasties." He once said: "The monarch's morality in this dynasty was relatively positive, otherwise it would not have reached this level."

Zhao said, "Junde. However, when the country was prosperous, the literati ate your wealth and were grateful to you. This dynasty was too easy to start a business, too heavy to kill, and too clever to seize the world. Heaven is hard to know, good and evil do not hide from each other, and the virtue of the first monarch is insufficient. "

He once said: "I look forward to death every day, and I am worried that the ancestral temple will fall. You are not a playwright, are you? "

Zhao said, "In front of the teacher, although I am easy to tease, why should I be a child's play?"

Zhao Liewen made these remarks less than 50 years after the demise of the Qing Dynasty.