Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to believe in the street selling art and fortune, just as the so-called "people have bad luck and bad luck, the moon has clouds and sunshine", no one can deduce their future fate, at least today's scientific means have not yet reached such a level, and it is even more impossible to predict their future fate only through "divination". But in the early chinese civilization era, witchcraft and mathematics were an important part of social life. Many people are convinced of the method of "divination".
Among them, the most superstitious "divination" is the ancient emperor, such as the Eastern Han Guangwu Emperor, who paid great attention to cultivating talents who could predict during his reign. Even raising their status to the point of being comparable to Confucianism, no matter what major decisions are made, they must first use divination to calculate a trigram and then make a decision, so divination also greatly affects political decision-making.
Not only the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, but also the emperors of successive dynasties were more or less affected by divination, after all, this is a commonality of feudal society, and it is also a means of seeking self-comfort for the fear of unknown events that human beings share. But there are exceptions to everything, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, who has never "believed in evil", as an exception.
Zhu Yuanzhang is a famous "beggar emperor" in history, and this title is not a whim. Zhu Yuanzhang was born in the first year of the Yuan Wenzong Calendar (1328), and he lived in extremely poor conditions since childhood, and from an early age he herded cattle for the landlord's family to make ends meet.
In the third year of Zhengzheng (1343), Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown of Haozhou suffered from drought, locust plague and plague, and zhu Yuanzhang's parents died in less than half a month. Zhu Yuanzhang was forced to defect to the Huangjue Temple, and his daily task situation was to change the edge (begging) along the street.
Several times Zhu Yuanzhang had to starve to death on the street, but fortunately, he persisted in surviving, he was accustomed to seeing the life and death of the world, and his soul was also tempered most thoroughly.
In 1351, rebel armies rose up everywhere, and since the imperial court would not give the people a way to live, the people naturally had to fight with the fainting court. Zhu Yuanzhang also received a letter from his childhood friend Tang He, who joined Guo Zixing's rebel army. Zhu Yuanzhang was only 25 years old this year.
After enlisting in the army, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was brave in battle and resourceful and agile, quickly found Guo Zixing's reuse. He even married his adopted daughter Ma Shi to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang also saved Guo Zixing from water and fire several times, so he formed a relationship with several enemies of Guo Zixing. In the thirteenth year of Zhizheng (1353), in order to protect himself and to create a new situation, he began to return to his hometown to recruit troops.
Zhu Yuanzhang's power was getting bigger and bigger like a snowball, and the number of people in the second year was already nearly 10,000, and after successively attacking Jiqing, Changxing, Changzhou, Yangzhou and other places, it became a hard bone that no one dared to easily provoke, and when Zhu Yuanzhang led his troops to Wuzhou, he had heard that there was a divine operator named Liu Richin in the local area. Zhu Yuanzhang rose on a whim, so his relatives summoned him to calculate a gua. Liu Rixin trembled and was "invited" into Zhu Yuanzhang's tent.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Rixin to calculate how long his life span would be? Originally, Liu Rixin only needed to pat himself on the back and say that it would be good to live a long life of a hundred years, but he was afraid of his life, so he also made himself smart and said: "Only one day longer than me", Liu Rixin thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would not dare to kill himself. Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious as soon as he heard this flicker, and immediately ordered people to pull out and cut down the sacrificial flag. And the next day, the third day, Zhu Yuanzhang was still alive and well.