Zhu Yuanzhang's number one think tank, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Bowen, is known as the "living immortal" in the folk, he is proficient in easy reason, cave xiao metaphysics, can pinch and calculate, coupled with the dragon vein, burn cake song and other bizarre legends to help, gradually deified by posterity, Liu Bowen from a strategist to a "half immortal" like existence, today we will talk about, ming Dynasty god Liu Bowen.
Liu Bowen, also known as Liu Ji, was intelligent and studious since childhood, learned to be rich in five cars, had a subset of history, knew everything, and had been an official in the Yuan Dynasty, because he had not been reused, he resigned his official position and returned to the hidden mountain forest.
In 1360, the 33-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang heard that Liu Bowen had the talent of heaven and earth, so he invited Liu Bowen, who had been hidden in the mountains for many years, to come out of the mountains again in the way of "Three Gu Maolu", and when Liu Bowen was 50 years old, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Liu Bowen as a military master.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's army was stationed in Yingtian, which is now Nanjing, and many of Chen Youyi's army had a strong momentum, and they successively attacked a number of cities, and zhu Yuanzhang was even more pressing step by step, because of the disparity in strength between the two sides, many generals persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang to adopt the strategy of fraudulent surrender, first avoid Chen Youyi's sharp spirit, and then find an opportunity to make a comeback in the future.
Zhu Yuanzhang forcefully rejected Liu Bowen's strategy and won a great victory, claiming to be the King of Wu. In 1367, Liu Bowen participated in the formulation of Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy to destroy the Yuan, dispatching Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to raise troops for the Northern Expedition, and in 1368, the Yuan Dynasty fell, and Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor at Yingtianfu, with the name Daming and the era name Hongwu. It can be said that Liu Bowen played a pivotal role in the process of Zhu Yuanzhang's unification of the whole country.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded the founding fathers of the ming dynasty for their meritorious deeds, and Li Shanchang, Xu Da, and other generals who followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the early days were all made dukes one by one, while Liu Bowen did not seek fame and fortune, did not regard himself as a meritorious person, and repeatedly humbled himself, so the official title was lower than other meritorious men, and was awarded the imperial history of Zhongzhong and Taishi Ling.
However, it was such a ming dynasty minister who was like a god, had no quarrel with the world, was strategized, and was full of economics, but was eventually framed and killed by Hu Weiyong, the first traitor of the Ming Dynasty, and clearly said that he was poisoned by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the ending was very bleak.
It is rumored that Liu Bowen expected things to be like gods, so why did he not calculate that he would encounter such an ending many years later?
It is undeniable that Liu Bowen must be a talented, intelligent figure, looking at the depth of the problem, the insight and judgment of the situation, many times higher than ordinary people, he can not only go to the root of the problem, but also put forward the corresponding solution, which is a unique problem-solving ability produced by the combination of our human deep thinking and personal INTELLIGENCE.
Liu Bowen and Zhuge Liang have brought this ability to the extreme, but it does not mean that they have the ability to predict the prophet and throw beans into soldiers.
The ability they showed at that time was the ability to completely analyze problems and solve problems.
Whether it is Zhuge Liang or Liu Bowen or Yuan Tiangang or Li Chunfeng, the so-called divine tricks and magic calculations of these gods and men all originate from the interpretation and fabrication of later generations.
Liu Bowen is mythologized, mainly derived from a folk tale called the Song of Burnt Cakes.
The general meaning is that one day Zhu Yuanzhang was eating burnt cakes, Liu Bowen happened to ask to see, Zhu Yuanzhang hid the bite of the burnt cake under a bowl, let Liu Bowen guess, Liu Bowen replied: Half like the sun and half like the moon, once bitten by the golden dragon, this is also a cake.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the calculation was quite accurate, and then asked Liu Bowen about the follow-up development of the Ming Dynasty, and the two people asked and answered, and achieved a strange talk of prophecy through the ages.
Some people say that the song of burning cakes predicts the development trend of the world for hundreds of years after the Ming Dynasty, but I personally hold a negative attitude toward this, personally believing that the song of burning cakes is purely a fabrication made up by later generations under the guise of Liu Bowen.
First, Zhu Yuanzhang is different from Liu Bowen's profound knowledge, he is an out-and-out illiterate emperor, Liu Bowen reports to such an emperor, it is impossible to use these crepe crepe people, it is definitely based on the vernacular. The song of burning bread is a sentence and sentence, and the battle is neat, and various metaphors are mapped, and the number of layers is endless.
Leaving aside whether Zhu Yuanzhang can understand it, if no one translates it into the vernacular for a comprehensive, far-fetched interpretation, it is estimated that few people in the whole world can really understand the mystery. The song of burning cakes, I personally believe that it can be basically concluded that it is done by modern people, and the age of creation may be between the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
Second, the story of the song of burning cakes originated from a dialogue between Liu Bowen and Zhu Yuanzhang, so the question is, is zhu Yuanzhang's every sentence recorded? Even if it is a baked cake, an ordinary conversation with a courtier, should it be recorded? This is really true, in ancient times, the emperor generally had a special record of the emperor's words and deeds, called Qi Julang, what the emperor said, they all had to record into a book, these people generally have the ability to shorthand, and will be the vernacular condensed into words to record.
But a long talk like the burnt cake song can be shorthanded word for word, and it is estimated that this living man is also a genius. But then again, did Liu Bowen say it to Zhu Yuanzhang in chinese at that time, or did Qi Julang translate the vernacular into wenyan himself for the sake of making it easier to record?
Third, was the original burnt bread song a literary or vernacular? Normal people should be able to understand that Liu Bowen could not have spewed words at the illiterate emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, because Zhu could not understand it at all. Therefore, if there is really such a dialogue, Liu Bowen is definitely speaking in the vernacular, but if it is the vernacular, there is a problem again.
For example, many of the burnt bread songs are seven-word short sentences, the reason why short sentences are used is because short sentences are easier to make metaphors, and if Liu Bowen was speaking in the vernacular at that time, how did Qi Julang accurately know what Liu Bowen was referring to in the open and in the dark? And how to accurately translate a large vernacular into a short sentence? Like what:
Rain and grass Allah, and the red-headed children were bleeding;
Inverted Sanyuan Zongcai said that it must be a Chuanshui page Tai Que;
In the past eighteen years, water and fire have been seized, and the mediocre people do not use water and fire;
In this, he uses Han Chinese, and the number of gua qi is three less;
Some people say that there will be emperors in Manchuria, indicating the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, "half of the monks on the road" refers to the Shaving Order of the Qing Dynasty, "Must be the Chuanshui Page Tai Que" has a metaphor for the word "Shun", it is said that the Shunzhi Emperor, reigned for a total of eighteen years, so it is said that "eighteen years of water and fire". This almost ridiculous explanation has become evidence that many people believe that Liu Bowen can predict the course of hundreds of years of history. Haha, ridiculous!
According to the explanation of the Song of Burning Cakes, since Liu Bowen can deduce the eighteen years of the reign of the Shunzhi Emperor, such an accurate historical event can be calculated, then he is fully capable of deducing his own death date and death method, and in fact, Liu Bowen is worried about the future of himself and his descendants day and night until his death, and he is walking on thin ice.
Although Liu Bowen is a military master with excellent intelligence, he is by no means a politician with superb skills. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the overall situation was initially decided, Zhu Yuanzhang was first a great meritorious man, and soon for various reasons to purge the meritorious and high-ranking lords, Liu Bowen was not able to escape this disaster, coupled with his just and righteous, jealousy and hatred, and Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong and other currents of the same water and fire, all day into the dilemma of open strife and secret struggle, Liu Bowen tired to deal with, not long after resigned and returned to the field.
Despite this, Hu Weiyong still did not give up the persecution of Liu Bowen, manipulated right and wrong in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, and slandered Liu Bowen several times for having rebellious ambitions, and Liu Bowen eventually died of illness at the age of 65 in depression. Some people say that it was Zhu Yuanzhang who ordered Hu Weiyong to poison Liu Bowen, but this is all speculation and there is no tangible evidence. But no matter what, a generation of gods and men Liu Bowen came to an end.
Therefore, Liu Bowen is a rare wisdom man, a wise man, but he definitely cannot reach the level of uncertain prophet and prediction of the future, and no one can accurately predict the future, because there are infinite possibilities in the future.