Zhu Yuanzhang was the lowest starting emperor in history, and he eventually became a monarch from a beggar monk, during which he also suffered a lot. Many founding emperors in history may have had a bad life at that time, but their ancestors also had some noble blood, but Zhu Yuanzhang was different from these people, not only did he start lower than these people, but there was nothing special about his ancestors.
Zhu Yuanzhang and his ancestors were honest farmers, how could they not find a celebrity, and later he himself felt that some of his ancestors were too disgraceful, so he forcibly recognized Zhu Xi as his ancestor, and it was really not easy for such a person with no blood and no starting point to succeed.
In fact, he was not a beggar at the beginning, his family was based on farming for a living, and there were many children, but at that time, natural disasters in various places at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, coupled with the yuan government's tyranny, many peasants really could not survive, the taxes were strict, Zhu Yuanzhang and his family could not afford to pay taxes, and soon the family was cut off from cooking, and his brother and others starved to death. Zhu Yuanzhang also went to the landlord to herd cattle in order to survive, and with him there were also Tang and these small friends, who later became the founding fathers of the Ming Dynasty, but at that time, these children were ordinary cattle herders.
They were for a landlord named Liu De to herd cattle, Zhu Yuanzhang they herd cattle can not fill their stomachs, Liu De is still very stingy, will not give them anything to eat, the result of these children in the cattle are hungry can not be, Zhu Yuanzhang directly killed the cattle, everyone some share to eat. This matter is a major crime, cattle are the main means of production at that time, in ancient times cattle were protected by law, not only privately killing other people's cattle is a major crime, even cutting cattle tongues these are also crimes, the landlord's cattle are even more different, kill cattle at will, these cattle babies may be killed by the landlord.
Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that this matter was very serious, so he had a clever move, put the tail of the ox into the crack of the stone, and then went to report to Liu De, saying that the ox had drilled into the crack of the stone.
As soon as Liu De heard about this matter, he hurried over and saw the tail of the cow in the crack of the stone, but he was not a fool, Zhu Yuanzhang, although they handled it very well, but the fishy gas and oil stains on their bodies betrayed them, Liu De of course knew that these guys were eating their own cattle. He certainly wouldn't give up, so he beat Zhu Yuanzhang badly, but then strange things happened, Liu De went to drag the ox's tail inside the stone crack, but he couldn't move it.
Inside, instead, there was the sound of cattle, which frightened him into thinking that there were some gods and immortals doing something strange, so he spared Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Yuanzhang could not continue to herd cattle for Liu De.
This may sound very strange, why is this happening?
It may be that they used some other means to fix the ox's tail in the crack of the stone, and it was not so easy to pull out. There is also a saying that Zhu Yuanzhang is a true son of heaven, there must be a lot of gods and immortals around him to protect him, in order to prevent him from being killed by the landlord, these immortals came out and really turned the cattle into the cracks in the stone, which obviously beautified Zhu Yuanzhang.
After all, he killed someone else's cow, but fortunately, Liu De did not kill him because of this incident, otherwise the whole history would have changed because of this. But Zhu Yuanzhang can not continue to stay in their home, Liu De obviously does not look at people, he also missed an opportunity to make himself rich and noble, Zhu Yuanzhang hated him very much, after he claimed to be emperor, he almost liquidated the Liu De family, fortunately, Liu De's brother gave him a piece of land to let him bury his father after Zhu Yuanzhang's father starved to death, this kindness also allowed the Liu family to escape a disaster, Zhu Yuanzhang also gave them a hundred acres of good land.
However, Liu De's can not be regarded as a lack of vision, he was really more real at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang estimated that it was difficult to survive, but he did not have too much accountability for this matter, could he not know that this cow was eaten by these children? It's just that he is pretending to be confused, although Zhu Yuanzhang does not like him, he did not do anything to himself after all, and later spared Liu De, and was able to die well under Zhu Yuanzhang, this Liu De can not be said to be too bad, he is also a very smart guy.