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Caption: Where did sir go from here? Towards the green mountains twilight lake. This is a poem that Zhu Yuanzhang personally gave to Liu Bowen, hoping that he can live such a wonderful life.
In the first year of Hongwu, when the Ming Empire, which had only been born for eight months, was waiting for everything to be taken care of, Zhu Yuanzhang had just been crowned a meritorious hero, and soon after, he received Liu Ji's request to "return".
Portrait of Liu Bowen
Before leaving, Liu Ji solemnly put forward two suggestions to Zhu Yuanzhang in writing, which counted as a parting gift. The first is not to suggest that Zhu Yuanzhang set the capital at his hometown of Fengyang. The second thing is that we should strike iron while it is hot, and concentrate our forces on eliminating the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty with the last drum. After Zhu Yuanzhang saw it, he felt that the first thing Liu Bowen said was very correct, but he felt that it was not necessary to pursue the remnants of the forces, and the so-called poor Komo chased, leaving them a way to live was not a kind of arrogance. However, within a few months, the Mongol army fled back into the desert, posing a serious threat to the border. Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly realized that he could not do without Liu Ji, so he personally wrote a letter to ask him to come back.
In fact, at the time of the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Ji had already resigned once. He did not enter the school until he was fourteen years old, and because his family had been poor, he had not had the opportunity to learn. For the scriptures, Liu Ji has a talent that he has never forgotten, and his classmates have admired them. "Shaoying is enlightened, has read and recited, is good at scriptures, works in the literature, and bypasses the Heavenly Officials' Yin Fu Family Dialect."
Liu Bowen calligraphy
Therefore, his outstanding talent and extraordinary efforts have made Liu Ji "have a strange temperament for the text, and he is full of doubts and righteousness." All the books of astronomy and the art of war have a clear understanding of their points. ”
In the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Ji was a jinshi and sent out a small official from Gao'an County, Ruizhou. At that time, a man named Bi Si was very surprised to see Liu Ji and said, "This person is Wei Zheng and the like, and Ying Mai is even more so, and he is a talent of Kuang Shi Ji." However, Liu Ji's first appearance was not successful, and he was ostracized by his colleagues and dismissed from his official position. Later, he served as the deputy director of Confucianism in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and was again discussed and dismissed from office, after which Liu Ji was discouraged and drank and enjoyed himself with his friends all day in the West Lake.
Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance seemed to make Liu Ji meet spring, but it was too short.
Liu Bowen's former residence
After the capture of Eastern Zhejiang, Zhu Yuanzhang gathered him together with Zhang Yi and Ye Chen and Song Lian, and honored him as "Mr. Four Of Eastern Zhejiang".
Before Liu Ji left the mountain, he was not sure of his future, when Zhu Yuanzhang was only divided and the weakest, so once he made the wrong choice, he would be doomed. Only this "basic decision is towards jiankang, and the doubts are still pending." "Instead, his mother hoped that he would not go out of the mountains and study at home honestly." He even said a final and accurate prediction: "The world of decay and chaos since ancient times is not supplemented by Allah, and it is perfect?" In my mother's view, this world is too chaotic, and she should not go out to assist anyone, because it is difficult to have a perfect end.
Unfortunately, however, he did not listen to the big proposal that affected Liu Ji's ultimate fate.
After that, Liu Ji became the greatest soft power beside Zhu Yuanzhang, and for a while, the cloud from the dragon and the wind from the tiger, in the scattered world of the world wrestled in the Central Plains. When Zhu Yuanzhang needed advice on how to seize the world, many strategists said nothing more than some ambiguous nonsense of "not killing, winning the hearts and minds of the people", while Liu Ji put forward specific targeted suggestions, called "Eighteen Strategies", which are obvious, clear and clear eighteen specific methods. For example, "Chen Youyu lives in the west, Zhang Shicheng lives in the east... Today's plan, mo ruo first cut down the Han, the Han land is vast, the Han is obtained, and the journey of the world is completed. "The Chronicle of the Famous Mountain Tibetan Chenlin"
Zhu Yuanzhang and his staff
Therefore, when discussing the strategy of Liu Ji first, as Zhu Yuanzhang said when asking Langzhong Tao'an: "How do these four people compare with you?" Tao An said: "The strategy of the minister is not as good as That of Liu Ji, and the learning is not as good as that of Song Lian..."
Indeed, Liu Ji's strategy was more than superior, in the Southern Expedition and the Northern War, the most strategic achievements, the situation at that time, Chen Youyu occupied Huguang. Zhang Shicheng occupied western Zhejiang, and it was indecisive which one to deal with first. Most of the generals thought that the rich people of Suzhou and Huzhou should first take Zhang Tucheng. Zhu Yuanzhang consulted Liu Ji's opinion, and he vigorously defied the public opinion, advocating that Chen Youyi be forgiven first, saying: Chen Youyu kidnapped the lord and threatened his subordinates, his name was not right, and he occupied the upper reaches of our side, so we should first get rid of him. Zhang Shicheng is a scrooge who will not break the wealth to help Chen; After the Chen clan was destroyed, the Zhang clan was isolated, and taking him was like probing for things; The south is determined, and then the north is to the central plains, and the inheritance of the emperor can be determined. Zhu Yuanzhang adopted this strategic decision. Historian Fei Yang said, "Chen Shiping decided to plan and cut down (Zhang) Tucheng, and most of the strategists in the Central Plains (Liu) were planning: The strategist Zhu Sheng commented on him: "Only by studying through heaven and man can he also be a man of letters and martial arts." It can be said that the theory of knowing people.
Therefore, in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang chose the most correct strategy, and thus won the world.
So why did Liu Ji resign in the more than two hundred days that he had just pacified the world? It is said that because of a small matter, only because the weather was dry and rainy, Liu Ji was responsible for asking for rain and was impeached without success, so yushi, who had only been doing it for a few months, had to fade out of the stage of Daming.
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If this goes, perhaps Liu Ji will enjoy the happiness of Lin Quan safely, but Liu Ji has not forgotten his feelings for Jiangshan Sheji in his heart, and he cannot reach such a good view as Fan Li and Zhang Liang. Therefore, as mentioned earlier, Zhu Yuanzhang regretted that he did not listen to Liu Jiqing to suppress the remnants of Dayuan, so he returned him as a secret staff member. This was the most frequent interaction between the two junchen and the courtiers, and every time Liu Ji was summoned, Zhu Yuanzhang would retreat left and right and have a long secret conversation. In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Liu Ji as "the founding minister of yiyun shouzheng, the zishan doctor, and the general", and feng Yibo.
Sincerity, originally the meaning of sincerity and righteousness, the former dynasty's Gong Da used the first fold of "Fan Zhang Ji Huang": "The Emperor Intends to be Swen, teaching people to cultivate the fundamentals from sincerity and righteousness, so that the Qi family governs the country as the standard." Presumably Zhu Yuanzhang was inspired by this, hoping that Liu Ji could realize such a vision as the most civilized symbol of the Ming Empire.
Perhaps, Liu Ji died in his own duties.
Because he is a "sincere bo", so he must know everything and say everything, so that Liu Ji will eventually die in the performance of his duties, and his seeming "unconcealed mouth" is based on his duties.
Basically, Zhu Yuanzhang was consulting Liu Ji on the choice of the prime minister, and he wanted to remove Li Shanchang and consult Liu Ji whether there was a more suitable candidate. However, as soon as Liu Ji heard that he wanted to replace Shan Chang, he immediately expressed his opposition, believing that he was the founding father of the country and that his strength was to reconcile various generals. Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said: He wants to harm you many times, and you still speak well for him, so high and bright, I want to appoint you as the prime minister. Liu Ji resolutely refused, and said something quite meaningful: "If a house wants to change its beams and pillars, it must look for a big tree, and if you use a bunch of small trees as the top beams and pillars, the house will definitely collapse."
Next, Zhu Yuanzhang asked him how Yang Xian was? Liu Ji said that he had the talent of a beggar and did not have the temperament of a beggar. And asked Wang Guangyang how? Liu Ji replied that this person was too shallow and inferior to Yang Xian.
Finally, how about Hu Weiyong? Liu Ji listened with great contempt and said negatively, "This little calf, I am worried that something bad will happen."
Zhu Yuanzhang reiterated once again: It is true that there is no one who has surpassed Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang. The implication is to ask Liu Ji to take up this position.
Liu Ji had already resigned once, and when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang mention it again, he immediately resigned in a resolute and euphemistic tone: "The subject is not unaware of himself, but the subject is too sick and evil, and he is impatient with the brush, so he is grateful for it." If there is no talent in the world, may the Lord seek it carefully, as the present people are, the courtiers have not seen what they can do. ”
That is to say, I definitely can't do it, and neither can anyone else, so I still have to use Li Shanchang.
Zhu Yuanzhang Danshu iron coupon
The three who were denied by Liu Ji were obviously zhu Yuanzhang's favorite candidates, and they also failed to apply according to Liu Ji's suggestions, on the contrary, the three were reused successively, but they were executed one after another.
In the fourth year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang officially told the old man to return to his hometown, and then Liu Ji also offered to return to his hometown. The reason is that Liu Ji saw that Li Shanchang was replaced by Wang Guangyang and Hu Weiyong, so his previous remarks made him feel embarrassed.
Before Liu Ji left, Junchen exchanged opinions with letters, and Liu Ji replied, "After the frost and snow, there will be Yangchun, and now that the country's prestige has been established, it is advisable to be lenient." Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang personally wrote a poem to him, counting it as a farewell, and gave a high summary of its deeds: Miaozhi Liangcai Jianyuan Capital, The Death of Wu Tianhan Xianying Mo. He did not live in the Fengge Pavilion to adjust the golden ding, but entered the Yunshan refining jade furnace. The cause is comparable to the four elders of the business, and the merit is humble and the management of Yiwu. Where is the gentleman going? Towards the green mountain base pan lake. So can Liu Ji really "go into the Twilight Lake of Qingshan"? Not only could not, but soon after, Liu Ji mysteriously died after Hu Weiyong took power, because Liu Ji's evaluation of him made him very angry, so Hu Weiyong instructed people to be poisoned, which eventually led to Liu Ji "having things in his stomach like rolling stones", and Zhu Yuanzhang asked Wang Guangyang, and the news he got was that "Hu Weiyong, the minister of state, threatened to heal Hou Hou and drank poison." So Zhu Yuanzhang reprimanded Wang Guangyang for not being loyal to the country, knowing that Hu Weiyong had poisoned and killed Liu Ji and "sat back and watched the ruin." Obviously, although Liu Bowen, who "expected things like gods", finally failed to control his own life, perhaps his duty of "knowing everything" eventually pushed him to a sad ending.