At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of capable people and strangers emerged from the people, who had talent, means, and strategies, but in the end they failed to become kings in a chaotic world like Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed the best in the chaotic world, he worked hard all his life, just to be able to protect future generations, but he did not expect that his careful arrangements were finally destroyed in the hands of a monk!
After the death of Crown Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang had high hopes for his grandson Zhu Yunjiao, and he worked hard to pave the way forward for him. In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang selected ten monks from the people and distributed them to the kings of the clan to preach the scriptures and recommend blessings. What Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect was that these monks, who should have been pure in heart and widowhood, actually harbored evil intentions and eventually forced Zhu Yunjiao to a dead end!
This person who changed the lives of Zhu Di and Zhu Yunjiao, the legal name Daoyan, commonly known as Yao Guangxiao.
Yao Guangxiao, a native of Changzhou, was seven years younger than Zhu Yuanzhang. Born in a chaotic world, he was studious since childhood, good at poetry and painting, and became a monk at the age of fourteen, taking the name Daoyan. Although he became a monk, he never studied the Dharma, but instead turned to a Taoist priest as a teacher.
Dao Yan's master's name was Xi Yingzhen, and he could be regarded as a strange person, as a Taoist monk, he had never practiced Dan cultivation, but instead immersed himself in the study of yin and yang techniques, and Dao Yan worshipped him as a teacher in order to learn these things.
It was in this environment that Dao Yan grew up step by step, he read a lot of books, saw the ugliness of the human heart, he understood that only power can make him have the supreme glory, so he has always wanted to achieve a great cause.
Unfortunately, although he read ten thousand books, he had no way to enter the world, because the imperial examination did not test the Yin and Yang Technique at all, so he could only wait. The long wait made Dao Yan gradually lose patience, and he became more and more passive.
Dao Yan began to travel through the beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers, when he traveled to Song Mountain, he met a Xiangshi, who calculated for him and said: How can there be someone like you in the world! A pair of triangular eyes, living like a sick tiger, people like you, born to kill, will definitely become people like Liu Bingzhong in the future!
According to the Biography of Ming Shi Yao Guangxiao:
What a monk! Eye triangle, shaped like a sick tiger, sex will kill, Liu Bingzhongliu also!
If this were said to others, this Xiangshi would have been severely beaten, because liu Bingzhong was originally a monk, and he had made great contributions to Kublai Khan's ascension to the throne, but it should be clear that Liu Bingzhong was a Han Chinese. This Liu Bingzhong is Dao Yan's idol, and Dao Yan also thinks that one day, he will be able to do the same thing as Liu Bingzhong.
So when this Xiangshi said that he would become a person like Liu Bingzhong, Dao Yan's heart was actually very happy.
In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, the opportunity that Dao Yan had waited for finally came, and he used the ruse to successfully attract Zhu Di's attention, and finally, as he wished, he followed Zhu Di to Beiping, and this year, he was fifty years old. In the days that followed, Dao Yan whispered rebellion in Zhu Di's ear every day, and at first Zhu Di would reprimand him, but then he gradually got used to it and stopped caring about him.
Although Zhu Di was still a loyal courtier at this time, under daoyan's daily and nightly brainwashing persuasion, his heart finally began to shake.
Zhu Yuanzhang died, Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne, the first thing he did after he ascended the throne was to immediately start cutting the domain, Zhu Di, as the strongest of the clan kings, naturally became the number one target in Zhu Yunjiao's eyes, and it was under such persecution that Zhu Di decided to make a desperate bet - rebellion.
In the Battle of Jing, there were countless casualties inside the imperial city, Zhu Yunjiao also hanged himself, Zhu Di became the final winner, Dao Yan naturally became a great hero around Zhu Di, and he indeed became a person like Liu Bingzhong. Dao Yan yijie was a commoner, who had endured for more than fifty years, and finally fulfilled his lifelong wish in his twilight years. Although Zhu Di's rebellion was caused by many factors, Dao Yan definitely played a key role in it, and Zhu Yuanzhang should have never imagined that he had inadvertently planted a big thunder for Zhu Yunjiao!