Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was poor since childhood, herded cattle for the landlord, worked as a monk at the Huangjue Temple, joined the Red Turban Army led by Guo Zixing to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty at the age of 25, and was later enshrined by his subordinates as the Duke of Wu, in 1356, Zhu Yuanzhang led the generals to fight together on Jiqing Road, and renamed it Ying Tianfu, in 1368, after Zhu Yuanzhang broke through various peasant rebel armies, he was called emperor in Yingtianfu, the national name was Daming, and the year name was Hongwu. Later, it ended the Rule of the Mongol Yuan in the Central Plains, pacified Sichuan, Guangxi, Gansu, Yunnan and other places, and finally unified China.
Official portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang
Judging from Zhu Yuanzhang's resume, it is necessary to know that Zhu Yuanzhang was also an emperor for 31 years after unifying the Central Plains, and during these 31 years, he was also pro-government and loved the people, worked diligently, and devoted himself to the Ming Dynasty; during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he ordered the peasants to return to farming and rewarded the reclamation of the land; he vigorously engaged in resettlement of tuntian and military tun; organized peasants in various places to build water conservancy projects; vigorously advocated the cultivation of mulberry, hemp, cotton, and other cash crops and fruit and wood crops, and he also enriched the people in vain, suppressed the mighty and strong; ordered the liberation of slaves and wives, and so on. It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang, the "dick silk", is still a "dick silk" with considerable political achievements.
Folk portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang
However, Zhu Yuanzhang's 31-year time limit for emperor has a legend, saying that after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he said to Liu Bowen: "Bowen, I heard that you are a divine operator, to calculate for You, how many years can You be an emperor?" ”
When Liu Bowen listened, how could he not understand Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions, which was obviously the emperor asking himself, how many years can Zhu Yuanzhang live, Liu Bowen immediately knelt down and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Long live Zhu Yuanzhang!" ”
Although Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't use this horse ass, he was obviously not satisfied with this answer, so he said to Liu Bowen, who was kneeling down: "Tell me the truth, otherwise I won't pay you a salary this month!" ”
Liu Bowen listened, this is repaid, he has eighty old mothers, wives and children, this month's salary is not paid, what should he do with his monthly mortgage payment in Jinling, and what should he do with the family's monthly expenses this month? Hurriedly and truthfully replied: "According to numerology and celestial phenomena, the emperor has no boundaries, and if you really want to say a specific number of years at that time, it should be 35 years, but 4 of them are illusory." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang thought carefully, he could almost live to be more than seventy years old, just so-called, people to seventy years old, he felt that he was still a long-lived person, so he was very satisfied with Liu Bowen's answer. Just don't understand why 4 years of his 35 years of emperorhood are false, he kept chanting thirty-five and four, and suddenly thought of a past event in his early years.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was a child, his family was poor, and he didn't have enough to eat every day, but fortunately, there were fish in the river and fruits on the trees, although there was no rice in the pot, but he would not starve to death. On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang came to the river and caught thirty-five carp in a row, which made him happy and bad, and Chen Laosi of the same village looked at it, and his eyes were hungry, so he put the fishing net on Zhu Yuanzhang's head and jokingly said: "You boy can ah, so many carp, you can see that you can give a few to your brothers." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally not happy, ripped open the fishing net on his head, and went home. After arriving home, Zhu Yuanzhang poured out the fish and counted them carefully, only to find that there were four less, only thirty-one were left, and he immediately thought of Chen Laosi, and scolded in his heart: "Good you Chen Laosi, you turtle grandson." Must have stolen my fish while I was pulling the net. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang lifted the forty-meter knife and was about to cut Chen Laosi, who saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was threatening, confessed on the spot, and returned the four fish to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang remembered this and immediately sent someone to arrest Chen Laosi in front of him.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked Chen Laosi if he remembered the fish stealing in those years, and this Chen Laosi thought that he had to answer truthfully, absolutely burping, and now Zhu Zhongba was the emperor, and the spirit machine lied, saying that he saw an oolong at that time, because he was afraid, he used a fishing net to hold the oolong.
Horse ass, from ancient times to the present, lick the dog lick the dog, lick to the end.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Chen Laosi say this, he immediately lost his anger, but instead thought of the hard days he had spent with Chen Laosi, so he immediately released Chen Laosi and gave him an official to sit down. The matter of "detaining Oolong" is naturally Chen Laosi's nonsense, but the place where Oolong is detained has been renamed "OolongTan".
This Chen Laosi was comfortable for three or four years, so he let Zhu Yuanzhang find a reason to do it, and the door was full of cuts. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang's reason for killing Chen Si at that time was very sufficient, saying that he had made a big mistake, which is recorded in history, but the real reason is probably only clear in Zhu Yuanzhang's own heart.
It's called: lick the dog, lick the dog, lick to the end of nothing.
Of course, these are all folklore, as for Zhu Yuanzhang, who was supposed to be emperor for thirty-five years, but for no reason, he lost four years, and I think from a certain point of view, he is inextricably linked to Ming Chengzu Zhu Di.
Portrait of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di
Zhu Yuanzhang, one of the few "workaholics" among Chinese emperors, has spent his whole life for the Jiangshan and the society, and he has also boasted to himself: "Worry about dangers and accumulate hearts, and be diligent every day." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that the emperor was not "long live" and was also an ordinary person, so before he died, he had already killed the ministers who might bring hidden dangers to the Zhu family.
In the year before zhu Yuanzhang's death, he had a serious illness, and in his hospital bed, he also dreamed that Empress Ma gave him a dream, and he had a premonition that he might not have much time, so he prepared Zhu Yunjiao's secret edict to register in the future. According to historical records, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that his sons who were divided in various places might rebel at this time, after all, Zhu Yunjiao was still smelly, so he ordered the kings not to return to Beijing to mourn.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was most worried about Zhu Di, the fourth son of the Yan King, because Zhu Di's ability was stronger than Zhu Yunjiao's and he was extremely ambitious. Once Zhu Yuanzhang saw the horse's tail fluttering with the wind, and the spirit machine moved a pair: "The wind blows a thousand lines of the horse's tail." Zhu Yunjiao responded: "Rain big wool a piece of felt", and Zhu Di's response was: "Sunshine dragon scales ten thousand points of gold." ”
The two pairs are put together for a comparison, even the illiterate can feel that although Zhu Yunjiao's is neat, it is too ordinary, there are no bright spots, there is no imperial style, but Zhu Di's pair is magnificent, and it is a good pair.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's fears are justified, after all, history is indeed just like Zhu Yuanzhang feared, not long after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, there was the Battle of Jingnan, and Zhu Di finally drove Zhu Yunjiao from the throne.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was ill this year, did not die, but survived, Hongwu thirty-one leap May seventeen, Zhu Yuanzhang and the minister after discussing politics, felt very tired, just lay down on the bed to rest, who knows this feeling Zhu Yuanzhang never woke up again. According to the records, after Zhu Yuanzhang recovered from his illness, he still ruled the Shang Dynasty, and as before, he read the recital and estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang was tired and tired.
In the film and television drama, Zhu Yunjiao
Now carefully calculate, Zhu Yuanzhang reigned for thirty-one years, so where did the next four years go from? After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, his grandson Zhu Yunjiao also happened to be emperor for four years, is it really his own fixed number in the underworld? Looking back and thinking about it now, it is very likely that Zhu Di made a mistake in order to cover up the truth of usurpation. During the four years of Zhu Yunjiao's reign, Zhu Di did not admit it, and still called these four years the xx years of Hongwu, as if Zhu Yuanzhang was on the throne, so folklore says that Zhu Yuanzhang was emperor for thirty-five years, but there are four years that are false.
But history is like this, there is a necessity in chance, and coincidence implies a kind of chance.