There are really too many folk tales about Zhu Yuanzhang, but most of them are just beautiful legends, and the authenticity needs to be verified. Including today Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da playing chess, halfway down the chess suddenly appeared two words, "long live", this is too difficult to be. However, let's talk about the story of Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang.
Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang are small and at the same time a lifelong friendship. Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang often played together from the time when Zhu Yuanzhang herded cattle for the landlord's family. Play the game of being an emperor together, kill the landlord's cattle together, insert the cow's tail into the crack of the stone, and say that the cow has burrowed into it. More often, Xu Da accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world, defeat Chen Youyu together, and eliminate Zhang Shicheng together.
In the first year of Hongwu (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang and his brothers invaded Dadu and destroyed the Yuan Dynasty. Xu Da later sent troops to attack the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty for many years, and the officials were taifu (太傅), Zhongshu Right Chancellor (中書右丞相), joined the army and state affairs and were crown princely young fu, and were made the Duke of Wei. Xu Da was cautious, good at governing the army, and spent his life fighting horses, establishing immortal merits for the Ming Dynasty.
Folk legend once said that after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne, he began to be jealous of the heroes, and once burned the Qinggong Building, fortunately, Xu Da listened to Liu Bowen's advice and did not leave Zhu Yuanzhang's side to escape the disaster of killing. But then Xu Da fell ill and died, it is said that because Xu Da had sores on his back, he could not eat hairy things, but Zhu Yuanzhang gave him steamed geese to eat, and finally led to the aggravation of his illness and died.
These are all put down, let's just look at the story of Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang playing chess.
It is said that both Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da like to play Go, but the chess skills are different, Xu Da is superb, and Zhu Yuanzhang is a stinky chess basket. Xu Da was low-key and knew that he could not win the emperor, so he tried every time to let Zhu Yuanzhang win the chess.
Slowly Zhu Yuanzhang also saw the doorway and wanted to play a game of chess with Xu Da.
So one day, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Xu Da to play chess, and the address was on the shore of Mochou Lake in Nanjing today, which is now named "Victory Chess Building".
Before playing chess, Zhu Yuanzhang made three chapters of the Law, each of them came up with his own true skills, and as the emperor, he won or lost without any concern.
That being said, Xu Da understood that the emperor said that he would turn his face when he turned his face, and now that his jealousy was so heavy, how should he be good?
Taking one step at a time, Xu Da played chess with his heart while thinking about countermeasures. If you don't play chess with your real ability, you are committing the crime of deceiving the king. If you play chess with your true ability, then you will win the emperor and show that you are standing on the head of the emperor, which is even more a crime of deception.
Because Xu Da was very worried, he played chess very slowly. But Zhu Yuanzhang could see that this time Xu Da was playing chess with his heart, and there was no half-step virtual concession.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da, the soldiers will come to block, the water will come to Tutun, you will drop a son, I will drop a son. The sky of direct killing was dark, and from morning to noon, there was no victory or defeat.
It seems that this chess game is only half played, and it will take some time to determine the victory or defeat. Zhu Yuanzhang was already obviously a little tired, and Xu Da could see it.
Suddenly, Xu Da knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Yuanzhang, saying that he had lost and that the emperor had won.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very surprised, and the victory or defeat was obviously not out. But Xu Da said that the emperor looked at the words on the chessboard, and Zhu Yuanzhang fixed his eyes on it, and it turned out to be the two words "long live".
"Ai Qing, please get up quickly." Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, lifted Xu Da up, and passed the meal to have lunch with Xu Da.
After reading this story, how do you feel? Anyway, I have a doubtful attitude, if it is a person holding a black and white chess piece, it is very easy to put these two words. But two people play chess, and it is even more difficult to put out these two words. Therefore, this story may be invented by later generations, just to add a touch of interest to history.
What do you think about that? There are countless folk stories about Zhu Yuanzhang, do you know which ones? Everyone is welcome to share.
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