Prophesiing that his grave was chiseled open by the Qing army after his death, pointing out the identity of the main messenger, frightening the Qing army's face to change greatly, how accurate was the prediction of Liu Bowen, the founding father of the early Ming Dynasty?
In 1644, Wu Sangui, the leading party, opened the gate of Shanhaiguan, and the Qing army went all the way south, burning and plundering the land they went, establishing the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing Dynasty.
Under the leadership of a Prince of the Qing Army, the Qing soldiers fought in the Jiangnan region, and they came to Liu Bowen's hometown of Qingtian County, where it was rumored that Liu Bowen was like a god, and that he had many divine prophecies in his life, so he was full of curiosity about him.
In order to find out, the Qing army dug up Liu Bowen's grave, and this kind of digging up the grave of people's ancestors seems to have aroused the anger and resentment of the heavens. After opening the tomb, a stone stele was found with the words "Shunzhi three years spring, how to open my grave".
The time coincided with the spring of the three years of the reign of the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and Liu Bowen's prophecy spanning a hundred years accurately hit the current events, which greatly shocked the Qing army, and lamented that behind his predictions like gods, there was also a fear of Liu Bowen.
However, the more jaw-dropping prophecy is still behind the stone stele, and after the Qing army turned the stone stele over, they saw a line of oil poems: "Belle Belle, invincible under the world, born in the north, died in Zhejiang Zhi."
What does this mean? In the era of widespread feudal superstition, the Qing army saw the prophecy in front of the stone stele as if it had encountered a god who knew everything, and when it saw the words on the back of the stone stele, it was Liu Bowen, the "true god" who was dissatisfied with their digging up their own graves, and was about to send bad luck, and the people present, especially its leading prince, were going to die here.
Coincidentally, the prince of the Qing army fell ill afterwards and died soon after, which further confirmed the story of Liu Bowen's prophecy.
In our current view, this is a struggle plan carried out by posterity under the guise of Liu Bowen, the purpose of which may be to appeal to the people to resist the Qing soldiers, or perhaps the political struggle of the political enemies within the Qing army, but the truth is now unknown, and Liu Bowen is therefore considered by the people to have the ability to "prophesy god".
However, Liu Bowen's ability is not only reflected in god's prophecy, what kind of contribution did he have to the Ming Dynasty if he could be as famous as Zhuge Liang?
Zhuge Liang, who is divided into three parts of the world, unifies Liu Bowen of the Jiangshan Mountains. Zhuge Liang's great name is well-known in the Chinese nation and even the whole world, and his military ability of "lupine scarf, talking and laughing and destroying the tree", the loyal quality of "bowing down to exhaustion, after death", and the literary level of "a true name for the world, who can be a bo zhongjian in the ages", etc., have all been highly recognized by the literati and scholars of the past and the present.
And why can Liu Bowen be on a par with Zhuge Liang? Next, let's understand the life of Liu Bowen.
Liu Ji (劉基), also spelled Bowen, was a famous politician and writer in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and his greatest contribution in life was also the most famous deed, that is, he assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in founding the Ming Dynasty.
Liu Bowen was an unpredictable and ingenious person, and was evaluated by Zhu Yuanzhang as his "sub-room", comparing Zhang Liang, the founding father of the Western Han Dynasty, with Liu Bowen, which shows the recognition of his status and ability.
Liu Bowen was young and in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty's rule, Liu Bowen went to Beijing to take the high school entrance examination, which shows that his talent and talent are not cheap. However, at that time, China was full of wolf smoke and turmoil, and Liu Bowen stayed at home and did not serve as a stable official for a few days.
Because Liu Bowen was a just and talented person, Liu Bowen, who had recently lived in seclusion, was invited by Zhu Yuanzhang to be a courtier, and Liu Bowen also realized that Zhu Yuanzhang had the ability to pass through heaven and earth, so he began to serve Zhu Yuanzhang.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was still in the position of sending people under the fence, asked Liu Bowen for advice. Liu Bowen suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang break away from Han Lin'er's power and then set up a portal on his own, after all, working for people did not make money as a boss.
In addition, Liu Bowen also suggested making peace with the Yuan Dynasty forces and pretending to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty, so as to avoid the pressure of two-front warfare and focus on dealing with Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youyu and other separatist forces.
Facts have proved that Liu Bowen's strategy is very politically far-sighted, and it can be called Zhu Liu's version of "Longzhong Pair", which naturally has the same reason as Zhuge Liang. At this time, the Mongol Empire, which was invincible in the world and invincible, had long been transformed into the dust of history, and the Yuan Dynasty, which was split from it, was also the end of the crossbow at this time, which was not enough at all.
Since the fate of the Yuan Dynasty was already doomed, it was of little significance for Zhu Yuanzhang to continue to fight against the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, and what should be done was to raise obscurity in Taoguang and prepare to compete with Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youyu and others in the Central Plains, which was a wise move, and finally history proved Liu Bowen's foresight.
Does Liu Bowen really have a special ability to prophesy? Why would the people deify Liu Bowen?
During his work for Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen was strict with the law and did not favor personal feelings, which laid a solid foundation for the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Bowen received a large number of awards as a meritorious service and was named Sincere Bo.
However, it is easy to fight in the country and sit in the country, whether it is the fierce and vicious arrogant generals, or the undercurrent of the civilian officials, all of which threaten the newly born regime of Daming.
In order to remove the chancellor, which had been practiced in China for a thousand years, Zhu Yuanzhang took over the power of the six ministries to the emperor, strengthened the monarchy's centralization to ensure the stability of the country, deliberately indulged the chancellor Hu Weiyong's misdeeds, and finally raided his home, and Liu Bowen was also involved.
Although At this time, Liu Bowen had already smelled the smell of political changes and had already returned to his hometown in the second year of being rewarded, Zhu Yuanzhang often sent people to send condolences and gifts, and Liu Bowen also understood that he was monitoring his every move.
After the Hu Weiyong case, Liu Bowen went to Beijing to apologize, Zhu Yuanzhang also generously pardoned him, and soon after Liu Bowen died, ending his legendary life, but what he did not expect was that after his death, he continued to write a legend.
For example, the "Song of Burning Cakes", which is widely circulated in the folk, predicts the true fate of the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and people say that this is Liu Bowen's work, in order to mythologize Liu Bowen.
However, historians have examined that no relevant matters are recorded in any historical materials related to the Ming Dynasty, and the earliest related things can be found in the last years of the Qing Dynasty.
That is to say, perhaps out of rebellion against the rule of the Qing Dynasty, people fabricated the "Song of Burning Cakes" to impose on Liu Bowen, in order to use his celebrity effect to achieve a certain purpose.
Predicting the future has always been a topic of great interest. It is still reasonable to predict the events of the Qing Dynasty hundreds of years later, but if you want to predict the late Qing Dynasty being bullied by the great powers and the prosperity of New China hundreds of years later, I am afraid that it is not only necessary to anticipate things like Gods, but also to need imagination.
Whether it is Liu Bowen or Zhuge Liang, or other historical celebrities, people like to make up some divine things on them in order to achieve the purpose of mythology, which we need to look at objectively.