As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was a grassroots emperor, and before his development, he was an out-and-out poor peasant. In the early years, due to the poverty of his family, Zhu Yuanzhang often ate the last meal without eating. In addition, his parents died later, and in order to survive, Zhu Yuanzhang even let the landlord's family herd cattle.
This landlord's name was Liu De, and he was a well-known vitriol and mean landlord in the local area, and Zhu Yuanzhang really had no way to do so before he surrendered to his door. Liu De treated the servants in his house extremely harshly, often squeezing mercilessly.
Zhu Yuanzhang's father died of exhaustion in the field, in the spirit of work injury should be the landlord's family responsible for taking care of the aftermath, Zhu Yuanzhang moved his father's body to the door of Liu De's house, but Liu De was suspicious of the cost and obscurity, and did not pay attention to Zhu Yuanzhang, and also let him use a stick to drive him away.
This matter was later known to Liu De's eldest brother Liu Jizu, who was a reasonable person, and when he learned that Zhu Yuanzhang's family was really hard and pitiful, he helped Zhu Yuanzhang take care of his father's affairs at his own expense.
During the cattle herding for Liu De, he faced Liu De's harsh and harsh requirements, coupled with his attitude towards his father. Zhu Yuanzhang did not retaliate against Liu De, once, when Zhu Yuanzhang went out with his friends to herd cattle, because his stomach was so hungry that he could not do it, several people decided to kill a calf and eat it.
But every time he went back, Liu De would count the number of cattle, how did Zhu Yuanzhang hide the sky and cross the sea? He stuck the tail of the calf on the cliff wall, and when Liu De questioned him, he said that the cow had fallen into the mountain stream and actually deceived Liu De. Despite this, Liu De still beat Zhu Yuanzhang on the grounds that the cattle were not attentive.
The more he fought, the more Zhu Yuanzhang developed a rebellious mentality, and after eating several cows of Liu De's family in succession, he was finally swept out by Liu De. Zhu Yuanzhang, who left Liu Province, later participated in Guo Zixing's peasant uprising, after which it was smooth sailing and anti-guest-oriented. Finally, in 1368, the Ming Dynasty was established.
From the cattle herding baby in that year to the king of a country, Liu De and Zhu Yuanzhang themselves would not have dreamed that fate would have such a reversal. Remembering that he had also mistreated Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu De couldn't help but tremble, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang was notoriously cruel, and he had created countless tortures to deal with those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and had also killed so many founding heroes, Liu De felt that it was only a matter of time before he was killed.
Sure enough, it was time to come. After the throne was firmly seated and the domestic situation was stable, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to put aside the work at hand and return to his hometown of Fengyang, Anhui. Knowing that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to return to his hometown, Liu De was frightened and did not sleep well for several days. However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not look for him at the first time, but found his brother Liu Jizu, in order to repay his kindness of burying his father that year, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately rewarded Liu Jizu with 100 hectares of land.
After that, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Liu De again, and after seeing Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu De pounced and fell to his knees, pleading with Zhu Yuanzhang to let him have a way to live. In the face of the landlord in front of him who was full of sarcasm towards him, Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry at all, although he usually hated this kind of landlord who was rich and unkind. But Zhu Yuanzhang did not blame Liu De in the end, on the contrary, he also rewarded him with 40 hectares of land.
Here, the author believes that the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang let Liu De go is mainly because he is the king of a country, and it is obvious that he has lost his identity by settling old accounts with a small landlord who was sad about him. Moreover, the reason why he was driven away by Liu De was also because he stole his family's cattle, from another point of view, it was also Zhu Yuanzhang's fault first, and if it were not for these cattle, Zhu Yuanzhang might have starved to death that year.
Therefore, in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang not only did not retaliate against Liu De, but repaid qiong yao, showing his imperial style. After Liu De's death, he changed his previous harsh and harsh conduct, helped the township, gave back to the people, and changed from a landlord to a highly respected benevolent person.
It can be seen from this that repaying grievances with virtue can make virtue blossom everywhere. Zhu Yuanzhang's move can be described as a win-win situation.