In 1368, after decades of hard struggle, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a beggar, finally established the Ming Dynasty in Yingtian, and the reason why he was able to stand out in the chaotic world and defeat Chen Youyu and Zhang Shicheng was the result of his painstaking efforts, appreciation of ability, and good use of people. From Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen and others, everyone made full use of their talents and used xian for their purposes.
Among them, Liu Bowen's appointment is also quite "three Gu Maolu" color. Liu Bowen, who had long served in the Yuan Dynasty, saw the darkness of the official field and his career ups and downs, and finally made up his mind not to make a career again. At this time, after Zhu Yuanzhang captured Wuzhou and Chuzhou, although his advisers were like clouds, he admired Liu Ji's name and still went to invite Liu Ji out of the mountain, and after hitting the wall twice, Liu Ji gladly went out of the mountain.
After leaving the mountain, Liu Bowen showed full resourcefulness. Many victories, such as the Longwan Victory, also laid the foundation for his position in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind. Along with his resourcefulness, his "ability to be able to speak" is revealed.
During the Battle of Poyang Lake, he suddenly saw the "difficult star" crossing, a sentence "difficult star passed, anxious to change the boat." Quickly ordered the replacement of Zhu Yuanzhang's ships, and Zhu Yuanzhang dodged the fatal blow in this way, even the difficult star was able to predict and quickly make a method of cracking, which showed Liu Bowen's powerful "ability to public opinion". Subsequently, Liu Bowen was even more of a god, counting several disasters in succession, and reasonably found a way to crack it. The world then calls him a reincarnation, "five hundred years of knowledge from above and five hundred years of knowledge from below."
This person has curiosity, including the emperor, even Zhu Yuanzhang, who relied on his own efforts to work hard to build the Ming Dynasty, was naturally no exception. So at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he asked Liu Bowen about an issue that he was most concerned about--Daming Guozuo.
Zhu Yuanzhang, as a Ming Jun, naturally knows that the rise and fall of this world is a fixed number, and this world is naturally not a world of one person and one family, and those who have virtue can enjoy it, but after all, it is their own family, who can escape selfishness, naturally it is hoped that the Zhu family can be forever solidified.
Under the inquiry, Liu Bowen was naturally panicked and asked for forgiveness, which was a natural opportunity and did not dare to say more. Under Zhu Yuanzhang's repeated questioning, Liu Bowen had to write down the number of the demises of this Great Ming Dynasty in the words of Wei Wei: "Hanging a curved ruler on the tree, it will stop when it is smooth." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang naturally did not understand the meaning of "yu shun (順) and stopped", split the words and deciphered the words, and then said something with Liu Bowen, and then said that "transported to six hundred and a half, Mengqi had a word to be frightened." However, seeing that Daming Guozuo had "six hundred and a half" Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally overjoyed, he agreed with Liu Bowen to put this dialogue into a bag for future generations to see.
And also after the death of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty was passed down from generation to generation, 15 emperors, and finally finally passed on to the 16th Emperor Chongzhen Emperor period. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty during the Xiaoice River period, the world was hungry. There were tens of millions of displaced people, drought and locust plagues followed, Yizi couldnibalism, the people did not have a good life, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rose up. Above the court, there were also the dictatorship of the castration party and the disaster of the Donglin party; in western Liaoning, there were slave chiefs Taiji who attacked and harassed, and the Chongzhen Emperor was not unimpressive, but the situation was fleeting.
In 1638, when he sent Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengzu to suppress Li Zicheng to only 18 people, Xiong Wencan again summoned Zhang Xianzhong, saying that "in another ten years, the society will prosper and the world will be peaceful" is still in his ears, and the fourth southern invasion of Emperor Taiji killed Jinan Province, capturing hundreds of thousands of people and having no money. In a state of disarray, sun Chuanting and Hong Chengzu had to be mobilized to the north.
But one after another, Li Zicheng rekindled, and Zhang Xianzhong rebelled. Li Zicheng, on the other hand, raised the banner of "King Dashun"; Zhang Xianzhong, after capturing Sichuan, established the Daxi regime, which was called "Dashun". Under the combination of soldiers and disasters, the Ming Dynasty was already in turmoil, and Hong Chengyu, who he transferred to Liaodong, did not achieve the results he wanted for him, the Battle of Songjin, and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops. In 1643, Emperor Taiji died, but within the Qing Dynasty, in the mutual compromise between Dorgon and Hauge, the six-year-old Fu lin was finally chosen, the Shunzhi Emperor.
It seems that there are definite numbers, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng's Dashun army attacked Beijing all the way to Kai, the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty enjoyed 276 years. And this seems to be the secret combination of "death in the face of obedience". And this also makes us have to admire Liu Bowen's clever calculations.
References: 1 "History of Ming" 2 "Song of Burning Cakes" 3 "Allusions to the National Dynasty"