In "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty", Zhu Yuanzhang once sighed: "I am the right cloth of Huaihuai, and the world is under me He Jiayan!" "He went from a poor man who had been a monk and a beggar all the way up to ten thousand people, and unfolded a dynasty with his own hands, and this style of sacrificing himself was revered.
To say that the emperors of the past were from the most humble origins and experienced the most bumpy experiences must be Zhu Yuanzhang. His parents were farmers, and when he was young, he experienced various natural disasters, so he could only go to the Huangjue Temple to become a small monk. In the temple, Zhu Yuanzhang also did some chores of sweeping the floor and cooking, and was often reprimanded, but even so, it was not that he experienced the worst days, and then the 3 years of being a beggar was the most difficult time in the emperor's life.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was tenacious, these sufferings were just stepping stones in his eyes, through begging, he understood the various phenomena in society at that time, and also accumulated rich social experience, laying a certain foundation for him to revolt and become king. Liu Yuxi wrote in "Wave Taosha": "Although it is hard work, blowing out the wild sand begins to reach gold. Undoubtedly, it is a portrayal of Zhu Yuanzhang's rebound from the bottom of the valley.
In 1368 AD, the former beggar was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing, and the picture scroll of the Ming Dynasty slowly unfolded, writing one legend after another. However, in history, there will be Ming Jun, Zhu Yuanzhang from humble to ninety-five, and some emperors have lived completely opposite lives, such as Gao Wei, the lord of Qi Hou.
The Northern Qi regime failed to produce several Ming emperors, each with its own shortcomings, so Guozuo only had a short period of 28 years, of which the later lord Gao Wei was particularly absurd. Gao Wei's father, Gao Zhan, was a tyrant who had committed many unscrupulous and unscrupulous deeds, and even wantonly killed his own relatives, and the modern scholar Cai Dongfan commented that he had "reigned for five years and lost many moral deeds." Gao Wei was also faint and incompetent under the influence of the ear, which eventually led to the demise of Northern Qi.
Gao Wei is most famous for two things, the first is to kill the Lanling King, and the second is to spoil Feng Xiaopi. At that time, King Lanling was the most famous general of the Northern Qi Sect, and he was not only handsome in appearance, but also had a high character and was brave and good at war. However, such an excellent general, Gao Wei was afraid of his meritorious service to the Lord, and in 573 AD he gave him wine and poisoned him. This move was tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall, causing Northern Qi to be distracted and losing a major general.
And from the body of Gao Wei's favorite concubine Feng Xiaopi, we can also see his absurdity and fainting. The Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin once wrote in the "Second Song of Northern Qi": "Xiao Pi Yu body crossed chen night, and has reported to Zhou Shi to enter Jinyang. That is to say, the allusion of the "jade body horizontal Chen" recorded in the history of the wild, saying that Gao Wei let Feng Xiaopi show his manners naked and collected thousands of gold "viewing fees" from his courtiers.
The demise of such a country was only a matter of time, and soon Emperor Wu of Zhou had set foot on Northern Qi, and Gao Wei could only flee the palace in a daze. During more than a year of exile, the former emperor, who was extremely poor and extravagant, almost lived a beggar-like life, and finally was captured and killed by the Zhou Wu Emperor Yuwen Yong the following year, and Northern Qi was destroyed from then on.
From the completely different fates of Zhu Yuanzhang and Gao Wei, it can be seen that birth does not actually determine the ending, the key depends on what kind of deeds life has, choosing to change your life against the sky or playing good cards is between a thought, but what cause and effect.