Ancient grassroots emperors, once on the throne, would suppress some of the powerful ministers. For example, the Song Dynasty Song Taizu "drank wine to release military power" in order to strengthen totalitarian rule. And today we want to talk about the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is also such a suppressed hero. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was even more vicious, and he created the "Four Great Cases of Hongwu" and killed countless ministers and their families on the charge of "false accusations". Only a few of the founding heroes who attacked the world and founded the Ming Dynasty with him survived.
Among them is Liu Bowen. So, how could Liu Bowen survive the four major cases of this bloodbathed imperial court? The reason is that he wrote a poem that made Zhu Yuanzhang show mercy to his subordinates. As for what kind of poem this is, please read on.
When the county order, dissatisfied with the official retirement official
Liu Bowen, named Liu Ji, Berwyn is his word. In the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, he was born in Qingtian County, Zhejiang. He was gifted and precocious and was known as a "child prodigy". At the age of twelve, he was admitted to the Middle School Talent Examination. Later, he began to systematically study the "Cheng Zhu Lixue" of the Southern Song Dynasty and prepared to take the test. At the age of twenty-three, he went to the capital to participate in the examination, and suddenly won the exam and became a jinshi.
Later, he was sent to Gao'an County, Jiangxi as a county commander. When he was in office, he worked diligently and down-to-earth for the county people, but after only one year of work, he was ostracized and suppressed by his colleagues because of reporting corrupt officials, so he resigned from the government in anger and went into seclusion.
A few years later, he went out again to help The Yuan Dynasty Zhao'an Fang Guozhen, who was rebelling in the local area. He believed that Fang Guozhen and his brother had committed a heinous crime and should be punished for the consequences, who knew that Fang Guozhen and his brother had bribed the official government, and had been recruited and had the position of an official, and continued to do wrongdoing. Faced with the corruption and mediocrity of the Yuan Dynasty officialdom, he felt very disappointed, so he withdrew from the official field and lived in seclusion for the second time.
However, perhaps he is too smart, able to write and martial arts, and has a reputation, so even if he has lived in seclusion for many years, there are still people who want to ask him to help with his career. And this person is Zhu Yuanzhang.
Help work hard and establish the Ming Dynasty as a high official
Zhu Yuanzhang had long heard that Liu Bowen was very wise, almost like Zhuge Liang, so in 1360, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in Yingtianfu, entrusted Liu Bowen to be his adviser and help him plan his battle plan. And Liu Bowen saw that Zhu Yuanzhang's aura was strong and had the "appearance of an emperor", and he would certainly be able to create a great cause in the future, so he did not refuse.
In this way, Liu Bowen helped Zhu Yuanzhang for eight years, gave him some strategies to buy people's hearts, helped him defeat Chen Youyu, Zhang Shicheng and other forces, and even destroyed the Yuan Dynasty. Eight years later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally founded the Ming Dynasty in Yingtianfu, despite all difficulties.
From this point of view, Liu Bowen can be said to be the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty. Without him, Zhu Yuanzhang would not even be able to defeat Chen Youyu, let alone secretly expand his power.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang assigned official positions according to merit, and made Liu Bowen the Imperial Historian and Taishi Ling. Moreover, when he set up the tax system, he only exempted Liu Bowen's hometown of Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province, from taxation. It can be seen that in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, Liu Bowen is a hero of very high status.
Therefore, at the beginning of the founding of the Country, in the face of a series of systems that need to be reorganized, such as military discipline and law, Zhu Yuanzhang did not hesitate to choose Liu Bowen to help. In this process, Zhu Yuanzhang's trust in him rose another level, even to the point of obedience.
Later, Liu Bowen was impeached by everyone for killing the corrupt official Li Bin under the altar. In particular, Li Shanchang, the left minister. Li Bin was Li Shanchang's subordinate. The reason why Li Bin was able to covet selfish interests was because Li Shanchang was extremely conniving with him. Therefore, Li Shanchang was very angry about Liu Bowen's behavior and wrote to impeach him. Other ministers were also dissatisfied with Liu Bowen, so they participated.
Coupled with the fact that during the drought season, Liu Bowen failed to pray for rain, and there was no rain for ten days, zhu Yuanzhang was even more angry with him. At this time, Liu Bowen's wife died, and in the face of such chaos in the official field, he simply asked to return to his hometown and leave the official field, which was a place of right and wrong.
After returning home, "suspended death" due to suspicion
Liu Bowen's three resignations were agreed by Zhu Yuanzhang, who rewarded him with his return home. Taking this as an opportunity, Liu Bowen also decided to completely stay away from the officialdom. Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to come out of the mountain again, he did not accept it.
However, although he has already returned to his hometown, he still goes to the capital to participate in the New Year's Day, which is a kind of etiquette. After a few years, his legs and feet began to have problems, making it difficult to walk. Even so, he still went to the capital on New Year's Day.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards him had changed from admiration and reuse to indifference and suspicion. Zhu Yuanzhang believes that Liu Bowen is a man with a brain after all, and since he can help himself to establish the Ming Dynasty, he may also help others to make a trip for his Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to visit Liu Bowen many times, seemingly booing and asking for warmth, but in fact inquiring about Liu Bowen's intelligence, worried that Liu Bowen was plotting rebellion.
In Liu Bowen's view, how chilling this is. His own health was not good, his legs and feet were inconvenient, and the emperor not only did not actually take care of himself, but even doubted and suspected himself. Besides, he had fought a war with the emperor for eight years, and the establishment of the Ming Dynasty also had his own merits, so how could he not think of anything and do something rebellious? Don't you want this head?
Therefore, in order to cut off all these troubles, Liu Bowen simply declared that he was "dead". When Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to inquire again, he did not expect that as soon as he arrived at the village gate, he saw that the village was doing white things. As soon as the spies inquired, they learned that Liu Bowen had died.
The spies then immediately returned to Beijing to inform Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang believes that Liu Bowen is also a brother who works hard together, and he can't say it without seeing him for the last time.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately got up and went to Liu Bowen's hometown. When he came to the village, he saw a ruined temple. Between the ghosts and the gods, he entered the temple.
As soon as he entered, Zhu Yuanzhang saw a poem written on the wall: "The world is vast, why pack a bag to hide?" How many heroes have come in ancient times, and how many people have gained the way to help the lost and die! ”
He immediately understood that this was Liu Bowen's poem! Zhu Yuanzhang read it carefully several times, understood the meaning, understood Liu Bowen's advice to himself, sighed, and turned away.
What Liu Bowen wants to express in this poem is that he hopes that Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion of the group of ministers will not be so heavy, and he should pay more attention to other affairs. If he maintains a skeptical attitude towards everyone, no one will end up willing to help him.
epilogue
In ancient times, it was really not easy to be a minister, and if he did things faithfully to the emperor, he would be suspected. In life, we should not be too suspicious of others, so as not to be disgusted by others and lose our friendship with others.
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