There is such a person, he came from a humble background, his family was poor, he had never read a book since he was a child, in order to be able to eat a full meal, he worked as a monk and a beggar, but in the end he still faced the tragic dilemma of nowhere to bury after his father's death. Therefore, he personally threw the body of his father and mother in a wasteland on the slope of the mountain, but unexpectedly became the founding emperor.
Yes, this person is the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a peasant and had no ink in his chest.
It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang was able to become an emperor for thousands of years because he buried his parents in the land of the dragon vein by mistake, and only after being blessed by the dragon vein could he be invincible, conquer the north and conquer the north, and finally successfully ascended to the throne and became a famous grassroots emperor in history.
But what exactly is the truth?
Forced into a desperate situation by poverty, he met a good person and buried his father and mother
Zhu Yuanzhang, formerly known as Zhu Zhongba. Those who know something about Zhu Yuanzhang know that this founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, was originally a poor country boy, only because he was the eighth oldest in his family, named Zhu Zhongba. Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood was almost always spent in poverty and hunger, he was originally a cattle herder in the landlord's family, and the small family that could barely survive became dilapidated under the iron hooves of the Yuan army.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was 15 years old, that is, in the third year of Zhizheng, his hometown of Haozhou (present-day Fengyang, Anhui) encountered a year of great drought, the crops were not harvested, and the following spring, the locusts that flew in the sky, covered the sky, and the plague that followed, let the people of Haozhou die and escape, and the whole haozhou was like a hell on earth, the cracked land, the villages were hungry and dead, and the villagers were sad except for crying. This catastrophe took care of every family, and Zhu Yuanzhang's father, mother and eldest brother all died one after another. The originally dilapidated home has also become scattered.
15-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang, under the torture and destruction of suffering, has begun to think like an adult in his heart, and his parents who have died one after another have only one thought at that time: no matter what, they must let their father and mother be buried for safety. But Zhu Yuanzhang's family is from a sharecropper background, to put it bluntly, there is no land of their own, which means that there is no land that can be used to bury their father.
Zhu Yuanzhang remembered his bold words when he herded cattle, remembered that he slaughtered the cattle of the landlord Liu De's family in order not to let his friends starve to death, and finally he gave up everything, perhaps as a child's ambition, or perhaps the stubbornness of a man. He came to Liu De and knelt down to plead with him, pleading that he would be allowed to bury his father and mother in a corner of Liu De's many lands.
Unfortunately, Liu De did not have the heart of a bodhisattva, and he did not know how to tolerate mercy, he laughed at Zhu Yuanzhang's humility, bullied him poor, and finally humiliated him or refused to let his parents be buried. Zhu Yuanzhang returned home, looking at the body of his parents who were gradually decaying, looking at the dilapidated home, looking at his brother and himself who did not know when he would die, he was sad from it, and the pain made him unable to breathe, only loud wailing and indulgent mourning could keep him from suffocation and death.
Xu was also infected by his mournful voice, and a man named Liu Jizu knocked on the dilapidated door of the Zhu family. Liu Jizu is a neighbor of the Zhu family, and although he has no employment relationship with the Zhu family, he feels the sadness of this helplessness and despair. Therefore, he gave Zhu Yuanzhang a piece of wasteland on the slope of the mountain and told him that he could bury his father and mother there.
Regarding the history of Zhu Yuanzhang's burial of his parents, there is also an allusion - "flat ground to raise a grave".
According to Ming Xu Zhenqing's "Zhai Sheng Ye Wen" written by Ming Xu Zhenqing, "The emperor's parents and brothers died one after another, and the poor could not have a coffin, and they plotted with brother Zhong to bury him in the mountains, and the way was broken, and Zhong returned to the count, leaving the emperor to see the corpse." Suddenly the wind and rain, the sky is obscure, than the light of day, then the soil is cracked and the corpse has become a grave. ”
This means that when Zhu Yuanzhang buried his father and mother with the second brother, due to the poor family, there was no money to buy a coffin for his parents, so the two brothers carried the remains of their parents up the mountain, but unfortunately, the road up the mountain was broken, and the second brother decided to go home to get it, leaving Zhu Yuanzhang alone to guard the body of his father. Who knew that the sudden wind on the hillside, the sudden rain hit, the rain slapped the thin Zhu Yuanzhang, but also slapped the dry land, suddenly the land where the body was placed suddenly collapsed, the father just fell into the pit, since it became a natural cemetery, Zhu Yuanzhang buried the father here.
In order to rebuild the mausoleum for daddy, the wasteland turned into a place of dragon veins
After burying his parents and brothers, Zhu Yuanzhang fled with his second brother and sister-in-law. He didn't know where he was going to flee, much less how long he would have to live, but before he could encounter these difficulties, he and his brother were scattered by the fleeing displaced people. In order to survive, Zhu Yuanzhang shaved his hair and became a monk.
To say that he is a monk is actually just a child, to put it bluntly, he is a servant who sweeps the temple and serves the temple, but he must shave his head. In order to have a mouthful of food to eat, Zhu Yuanzhang resolutely shaved off his hair. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and when the wind and waves of famine swept to the temple, Zhu Yuanzhang could not eat again, so he wore a bucket hat and carried a bamboo stick, and began a three-year wandering career.
In the past three years, he has been to Hefei, to Henan, north to Ruzhou, Chenzhou and other places, and east to Luyi and Haozhou. The three-year wandering career is said to be bitter, but it is also sweet, while traveling to the famous capital of Huaixi Dayi, Zhu Yuanzhang saw a broader world, saw a variety of customs and customs, and in the process of dealing with different people, he increased his own insight and changed his thinking. At that time, the peasant uprising was like a spark, burning in various places, big or small, long or short, so that Zhu Yuanzhang, who returned to the Huangjue Temple, began to think, thinking about what the future of the people would be and what the fate of the country would be. It was also at this time that a letter from a friend completely changed Zhu Yuanzhang's fate.
Perhaps it was the heavens who saw that this person had an indomitable will, or perhaps it was this person's tenacity that touched the heavens, no matter what, Zhu Yuanzhang, who joined Guo Zixing's Red Turban Army, was like a dragon entering the sea, and it was even more spread than Dapeng. His bravery and resourcefulness have enabled him to win great victories in one battle after another, and his wisdom and thinking have made him stand out among many military generals, and also made him completely grow from Zhu Zhongba to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Speaking of this, we have to mention the most important person in Zhu Yuanzhang's life, Empress Ma. Empress Ma, whose original name is unknown, her father and Guo Zixing were close friends, and after her father was killed, Ma was adopted by Guo Zixing as a righteous daughter. If Tang He and Xu Da let Zhu Yuanzhang add wings on the battlefield, then Empress Ma was the vane that opened Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial hegemony.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was appreciated by Guo Zixing and married the obedient Ma clan, Guo Zixing was jealous of people, his temper was short-tempered and suspicious, and he always listened to rumors, so it was inevitable that he would be wary of Zhu Yuanzhang, and when he was serious, he imprisoned Zhu Yuanzhang. Ma Shi was worried that she would not have enough to eat, so he took the steamed bun that had just come out of the cage into his arms and secretly brought it to him, for which he also took himself, and later exchanged all his family property for the trust of Guo Zixing's family, so that he could rescue Zhu Yuanzhang from prison. The deep affection between husband and wife can be seen.
In the planning again and again, in one battle after another, Zhu Yuanzhang finally raised his own banner, he supported 100,000 troops, captured Yingtian, and then defeated the enemy on all four sides, and finally unified the country and mountains, and established the historical Ming Dynasty. And the first thing he did when he became emperor was to move the grave to his father and mother.
At that time, the father and the mother were buried with clothes, there was no coffin, and there was no tombstone, which may have always been deeply rooted in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart like a thorn. He was an emperor from a poor peasant background, and perhaps in the southern conquest of the northern war and in the mighty four directions, the concern and bondage in his bones for his parents and brothers could never be dissipated, and this was his precious point.
Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Liu Ji, who was proficient in feng shui, to find a feng shui treasure land for his parents, because he wanted to move the graves of his parents, but he never thought that the wasteland where his parents were buried was the land of the dragon vein. Liu Ji said that this place is where the mountain and river aura is located, and if the tomb is moved at will, it will hurt the dragon vein, which is not conducive to the stability and longevity of the Zhu family dynasty.
In this way, there are later generations that Zhu Yuanzhang said that he was able to become the founding emperor of this ancient emperor because he buried his father in the land of the dragon vein and was protected by the dragon vein qi. However, he forgot that at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang knew where the dragon vein was, and even the feng shui treasure land had nothing to do with his poor boy.
I have to admit that Zhu Yuanzhang's personal luck is really very good, and the military generals who fight with him on the battlefield are all brave and good at war, all of them are his childhood playmates, and Empress Ma, who has a deep affection for him to the death, is so intelligent and virtuous, brave and strategic. But because of these alone, it did not erase Zhu Yuanzhang's personal talents.
As a child, he was willing to slaughter the landlord's cattle for the sake of his partner's life, and when he was young, he did not hesitate to lay down his dignity and plead for his parents to find a place to live. Traveling around made him understand that the suffering of the people stemmed from the melee, and joining the Red Turban Army let him know that he had the ability to end the melee. He was originally a poor boy with no ink in his chest, but he gradually grew into a leader with both wisdom and courage by his own will.
Later generations of writers and historians may have mixed evaluations of Zhu Yuanzhang, and even worse than they were praised, but in my opinion, his righteousness to his brothers, his filial piety to his parents, his respect for his wife, and his love for his children are all engraved in his bones, and he is the true dragon vein of a grassroots emperor.