When it comes to ancient divine operators, everyone may first think of some capable people such as Ghost Guzi, Sun Zhen, yuan Tiangang and so on. In fact, in China's long history and culture, there is such a ''divine operator'' that has been ignored, and this person is Liu Bowen, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, who is equally famous as Zhuge Liang of the former dynasty.
Readers who have seen such film and television works as "Daming Dynasty" and "Divine Calculation liu Bowen" may think that this person is only quite successful in politics. In fact, this is not the case, according to historical documents and some folk history records, this person also has a very huge magical power, it is said that he has the ability to predict the future, which will be explained in detail later.
Looking at Liu Bowen's life's career, it can be said that he has been working for Zhu Yuanzhang's life, from entering the political service to giving advice and suggestions, to the joint consultation of the country, the Ming Dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang, he is indispensable. However, when the cattle herder became the True Dragon Heavenly Son, his heart also changed, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not choose to "release the military power with a cup of wine" like Zhao Kuangyin, but directly staged a 30-year-long "Four Great Unjust Cases in the Early Ming Dynasty" to consolidate the Zhu family's power.
Regarding Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior, the Qing Dynasty scholar Zhao Yi once commented:
The cruelty of the Ming Ancestors, who took over the world through all the heroes, and the world was established, that is, to kill those who took the world, was unprecedented in history. Gai Xiong guessed well to kill, it was his nature.
However, no matter how murderous Zhu Yuanzhang is, there are always some people who can survive this bloodless political struggle to the end, and Liu Bowen is one of them.
Although Liu Bowen was able to die well, he left behind a mysterious thing before he died: Why did Liu Bowen have to hang his breath and say that he wanted to eat burnt bread before he died?
There is actually a small story about this issue. This should start from the encounter between Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang knew Liu Bowen through his own subordinate Hu Dahai, as mentioned earlier, Liu Bowen has the ability to predict the future, so when he met Zhu Yuanzhang, he immediately felt good, he felt that the two were related. But at first Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe in Liu Bowen, he felt that Liu Bowen was just an ordinary person, how could he have the ability to predict the future, but Liu Bowen did not look like a charlatan, so Zhu Yuanzhang set up a small plan to try this Liu Banxian.
One day Zhu Yuanzhang quietly ate a bite of the burnt cake in the middle of the banquet, because no one noticed his behavior at that time, and he just took a bite of the burnt cake and put it aside, and then he found a bowl and buckled the burnt cake to cover it. Then he summoned Liu Bowen in and asked Liu Bowen what was under this bowl. Only to see Liu Bowen unhurriedly pinch his fingers slightly, his brow frowned and he understood, and the contents of the bowl already had a bottom in his heart.
But Liu Bowen did not explain it directly, but pretended to be profound and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "The shape of this thing under this is like the sun and like the moon." Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang had a little eyebrow, Liu Bowen continued to explain: "In fact, this thing is a round thing that the dragon has bitten." Zhu Yuanzhang listened and smiled heartily.
Liu Bowen saw that the opportunity had come, so he said to Zhu Yuanzhang, in fact, this thing is that you have bitten a burnt cake. Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Liu Bowen had already guessed the answer, and did not continue to hide. When I opened the bowl, it was exactly as Liu Bowen expected. Although this small burnt cake is relatively easy to calculate, Liu Bowen said that this is a burnt cake that the dragon has bitten, and his words are also recognized by this true dragon tianzi. In the first contact between the two, Liu Bowen not only showed his ability, but also patted Zhu Yuanzhang's ass, which can really be described as killing two birds with one stone. And Zhu Yuanzhang was also very happy, and began to recognize and accept this Liu Banxian in his heart.
As the exchanges between the two deepened, Zhu Yuanzhang's requirements became higher and higher, and he began to let Liu Bowen be the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Bu Gua Xiang, asking whether the Ming Dynasty could continue to prosper?
Liu Bowen this person is also very refined, he first asked Zhu Yuanzhang for a gold medal to avoid death, people who have learned about history know that Zhu Yuanzhang is very suspicious, and the next prophecy he made, I am afraid that it is not the emperor's appetite, Liu Bowen's move is also reasonable, after the gold medal of death is in hand, Liu Bowen made a "Song of Burning Cakes", such as "The sword is sharpened and re-ground, and the family is exterminated; the eunuch society hides evil ghosts, and the filial piety is loyal and treacherous and kills more" Are all excerpted from this poem.
Liu Bowen's words predicted the major events that would occur in the next eight hundred years, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not say anything after reading it. The emperor was suspicious by nature, lest someone covet his position above the ten thousand people. And Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicious personality is also one of the best among the historical emperors, so he also put aside the attitude of believing or not believing in this prophecy.
Later, with the help of Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang consolidated military power, strengthened his control over the army, and successfully consolidated his rule, and Liu Bowen's idea of "applying it to the world" also played a foundation for the prosperity of a new generation of literary styles in the early Ming Dynasty. Liu Bowen later felt that he was old, wanted to tell the old man to return to his hometown to retire, and spent his old age in peace, he told Zhu Yuanzhang about this matter, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not want him to go, so Zhu Yuanzhang has been keeping Liu Bowen, but he is sick and dead, and no one can escape.
In the end, Liu Bowen drove the crane to the west, and when he returned to the light before dying, Liu Bowen suddenly and resolutely asked to eat burnt cakes, what does this mean?
It was the prophecy he made for Zhu Yuanzhang, "The Song of Burning Cakes", he wanted to let everyone know that the prophecies he made were not wrong, and looking at the literature, it can be found that the "Song of Burning Cakes" predicted a series of major events in the Ming Dynasty, such as the Battle of Jingnan, the change of civil engineering, the restoration of Emperor Yingzong, the disaster of eunuchs, the rise of Li Zicheng, Chongzhen's departure from The Coal Mountain, and Wu Sangui's exit from customs and the qing. Some verses refer to names and surnames, such as "Eight Thousand Female Ghosts" and "Wei", which refers to Wei Zhongxian's framing of Zhongliang and causing great chaos in the government; "Muxia is a head, and there is a knife and a pentadine in the eyes", "can be made into", "Li Zicheng", "three characters; "Ping'an Town guards the osmanthus flower", "Wu Sangui's "Gui" character. Some verses refer to the era name of the emperor or the title of the prince, such as Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was originally crowned as the King of Yan, and the army was difficult, so there is a saying of ''Swallow Flying''", and ''Yiyuan Mountain and River YonglePing'" probably refers to Chengzu's 'Yongle'' era name, "Ancestor Mountain Beiyixing" may be the word ''Chongzhen'.
There are also some poems that allude to the end of time, such as "'Legend of Kunyu Jilongtang'", "Referring to the restoration of Emperor Yingzong," "Running to the plum blossoms on the nine weights," "Chongzhen hanging on the coal mountain," "Hanging a curved ruler on a tree, and stopping when it meets Shunzhi'", I am afraid that it is said that the Zhu regime was finally concluded when it came to the Shunzhi Emperor. Don't look at it, I don't know, the second half of the original "Song of Burning Cakes" is also in the form of dialogue, predicting the history of the Qing Dynasty for more than two hundred years.
Liu Bowen spent his life for Zhu Yuanzhang to go to the tang dynasty, and it can be said that he bowed down for his Great Ming Dynasty. Before he died, he also guessed this "most familiar stranger", so he would choose to eat the matter of burnt bread to remind his beloved Majesty to believe his prophecy, in addition to the attachment to this friend who had fought together in the country and the mountains.
Burnt bread is not just burnt bread, but more is the emotion of being incomprehensible and inexhaustible. Unfortunately, in the end, his prophecy was not adopted, and at the age of sixty-five, Emperor Wuzong posthumously honored him as a master, which can be regarded as remembering his exploits for the Ming Dynasty.