Zhu Yuanzhang was a rare cloth tianzi in history, who was born lower than Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and was a destitute family with no tiles on the top and no cone on the bottom, so that after his parents and brothers starved to death, there was no place to bury them, which was really unbearable to see!
Zhu Yuanzhang was the youngest son in the family, with three older brothers and two older sisters, and his father Zhu Wusi and his mother, Chen Shi, were honest tenants who barely made ends meet by renting the land of the landlord Liu De. In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1344), drought in the Huai River Basin caused a plague of locusts, followed by famine and plague. Zhu Yuanzhang's family in Zhongli, Haozhou, suffered this great disaster, and within a month, his parents and eldest brother starved to death, leaving only 17-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang and his second brother Zhu Xingsheng in the family.
After death, people pay attention to burial, but the Zhu brothers simply do not have the ability to prepare a decent coffin, let alone buy a cemetery. The father and son of the Zhu family have been working in the landlord Liu De's house, Zhu Yuanzhang has been herding cattle for the Liu family since he was a child, and the two brothers have a total, and can only ask Liu De to look at the past love and ask him to give away a cemetery. However, Liu De did not care about the past affection, and directly refused the zhu brothers' request, saying that the Zhu family father and son were not fake in the Liu family, but he did not owe a penny of money, and he was already counted as benevolent and righteous, and he also wanted a place to bury the dead, and there was no door, so he drove the Zhu brothers out of the house.
While crying and walking, the Zhu brothers thought that their parents had worked in the land all their lives, and there was no place to bury them after death, Zhu Yuanzhang had a fire of revenge in his heart, and he couldn't understand why the landlord did not do farm work but had no worries about food and clothing, and his family worked hard but was starved to death. Back at home, the cold and stiff corpse of the parents and eldest brother deeply stung the teenager who came from the cow herding baby, no matter what, he could not let the family expose the corpse to the wilderness, the coffin was horizontal and vertical, and the two brothers found the rags in the family, wrapped the body with a straw mat, carried out of the house with a door panel, and wanted to find a place to bury it hastily. But the world is big, but none of it belongs to his family.
Fortunately, there were still kind people in the township, Liu De's distant relative Liu Jizu saw that they were really pitiful, and gave them a small piece of land of his own, and the Zhu brothers hastily buried their families, and then left their hometown and fled for their lives. Zhu Yuanzhang ran to the Huangjue Temple to become a monk, and later joined Guo Zixing's rebel army at the invitation of Fa Xiaotanghe. More than ten years passed, Zhu Yuanzhang grew from a small soldier to the king of Wu who commanded thousands of troops and horses, and then overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, established Daming, and ascended to the throne of the founding emperor.
As the saying goes, "the grace of dripping water, the spring repays each other", Zhu Yuanzhang, who returned to his hometown, remembered liu Jizu, the benefactor who gave him land to bury his family, so he sent people to visit, but unfortunately Liu Jizu had died of illness in the thirteenth year of Zhizheng (1353), and only invited his son Liu Xiu. In the eleventh year of Hongwu (1378), Zhu Yuanzhang made Liu Jizu the Marquis of Yihui, hereditary and consistent with the Ming Dynasty, that is, his descendants could inherit this title.
When he was a widow, it was difficult to be a house sign, and he had a benevolent heart, and he saw hui with his own fertile soil. Ancuo Emperor Kao Concubine, Dahuiyun He can forget! Because he gave it to Hou and gave his wife Lou Shi as Lady Hou, he was still sacrificed to Wen. - "Wan LiYe Won"
Liu Jizu died, but the landlord Liu De was still alive, and Zhu Yuanzhang said to him: "What Er did is also a constant ear, there is no need to ask." When I was poor, did you know that today is the Son of Heaven?" This means that you were justified in doing that, and I won't pursue it. When I was poor and lowly, how did you know that I could become emperor and be the son of heaven?
Zhu Yuanzhang not only forgave Liu De's thin affection, but also ordered a reward for 30 tian and a 10-year exemption from military service. Of course, these rewards are nothing compared to the title of Marquis of Yihui. It is estimated that at that time, Liu De's intestines were going to be repentant, but it was difficult to buy regret medicine, and I could only blame myself for not having the heart to do good deeds and accumulate virtue!