Zhu Yuanzhang anecdotes two

Zhu Yuanzhang is one of the famous emperors in history, and his life is legendary enough, from beggar to emperor, which is a unique exception in history. Zhu Yuanzhang reigned for thirty years, not only have great achievements recorded in the annals of history, but also in the folk, but also left a lot of popular anecdotes, today the author will share with you two anecdotes about Zhu Yuanzhang, as everyone's talking points after tea and dinner.

The first one: Zhu Yuanzhang said to the statue of Liu Bang: You can drink two more drinks

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he built a temple of emperors in Nanjing, which enshrined statues of emperors of previous dynasties. Zhu Yuanzhang would personally sacrifice these emperors every year. Generally, when Zhu Yuanzhang sacrificed the emperors of previous dynasties, only a glass of fine wine was placed in front of the statues of each emperor. However, there was an emperor who received exceptional treatment, and in front of his portrait, there were actually three glasses of wine, and this emperor was the famous Han Gaozu Liu Bang.

There were so many emperors in ancient times, why did Zhu Yuanzhang look at Liu Bang, who was known as a rogue and rogue, look at him differently? Zhu Yuanzhang himself gave the explanation.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "There are countless emperors in the world, but the reason why they can gain the world is either because they are from noble families or because they have a wealth of money, they all have something to rely on, so I don't look up to them." But Liu Bang is different, Liu Bang, like me, is a civilian by birth and does not have any backing. We ourselves are our own backers, and we have used our three-foot sword to lay down this splendid country. The process of the two of us winning the world was more difficult than all the other emperors, so I wanted Liu Bang to drink two more drinks. ”

Second: Zhu Yuanzhang and Kublai Khan

When the temple of the emperors in Nanjing had just been built, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the craftsmen to create statues of the emperors from Fuxi to Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty. The statues of other emperors were easily molded, and only the statues of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, were always reworked with problems. What went wrong? According to historical records, after the completion of Kublai Khan's statue, it always shed tears, and the face of the statue was stained with tears, which looked very ugly. The workers who remade the statue of Kublai Khan many times, but no matter how many times they were redone, the statue of Kublai Khan would still cry.

In desperation, the workers told Zhu Yuanzhang about this matter. After Zhu Yuanzhang heard about it, he felt very curious, so he personally came to the temple of the emperors of the past to see the statue of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, and found that the face of the statue of Kublai Khan was indeed covered with tear marks, as if he had cried many times.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw the situation, laughed and scolded the statue of Kublai Khan, saying: "Silly boy, you and your descendants have been emperors in the Central Plains from the grassland for nearly a hundred years, and it can be said that you are very lucky." Now that the Destiny of Heaven has returned, he has unified the world and become the Great Tomorrow's Son. After becoming emperor, you only drove your descendants out of the capital, and did not kill them all, you should be glad. Yuan Dynasty is also a great favor to your Yuan Dynasty, you don't want to return it, even if you don't want to return it, what dissatisfaction and tears are not stopped! ”