"The house of good will have a remnant of celebration; and if it is not a good house, there will be a remnant." Sometimes, a small act of kindness may be a good thought that you inadvertently have, not only changing yourself, but even changing the fate of your family.
And the Ming Dynasty had such a person, because of a small act of kindness in his early years, so that his descendants enjoyed three hundred years of wealth like the Ming Dynasty Guozuo. This person is Liu Jizu.
Liu Jizu was a local landlord with Zhu Yuanzhang, and At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang could be said to be a family disciple, living in poverty by renting the land of Liu Jizu's younger brother Liu De.
In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1344 AD), Zhu Yuanzhang was 17 years old. At that time, haozhou had a severe drought and locust plague, which made Zhu Yuanzhang's family, who had been barely surviving, suddenly fall into a desperate situation, without a single grain to eat. In this great famine, Zhu Yuanzhang's parents and eldest brother did not survive, and they starved to death one after another, and the eldest sister-in-law also returned to her mother's house with her nephew.
What made Zhu Yuanzhang even worse was the lack of land to bury his parents and eldest brother. Zhu Yuanzhang then asked for his master, Liu De, hoping that Liu De would send a kind heart and give himself a piece of land to bury his parents and brothers, but Liu De's stern words refused.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was discouraged and desperate, Liu De's brother Liu Jizu heard about this, and he was a neighbor and moved his heart of compassion, so he took the initiative to find Zhu Yuanzhang, not only gave Zhu Yuanzhang a piece of land, but also gave a little money, so that Zhu Yuanzhang could bury his parents and brother.
In the first four years, there is a drought of locusts and a great famine. When Taizu was seventeen years old, his parents and brothers were killed one after another, and they were buried poorly. The land where Liu Jizu and the Li people were buried, naik was buried, that is, Fengyang Lingye.
However, Liu Jizu did not expect that because of his small act of kindness, many years later, he would not only be crowned as a marquis, but also hereditary replacement by his descendants. Of course, this is the last word, Liu Jizu did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang would later become the founding emperor of Daming.
After Zhu Yuanzhang buried his parents, he went to Huangjue Temple to become a monk. In the days of wandering and begging, Zhu Yuanzhang traveled all over the states and had a basic understanding of the general trend of the world. "After three years of the states of Liguang, Gu, Ru, and Ying, the temple will be restored."
In the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the crowd rose up, and Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood friend Tang He invited him to join Guo Zixing's rebel army. Zhu Yuanzhang is a very cautious person, although the world is in chaos, he does not want to be easily involved in it.
However, the tree wanted to be quiet and the wind was not stopping, and Zhu Yuanzhang learned that someone wanted to inform the Yuan court that he wanted to rebel. This moment forced Zhu Yuanzhang to a dead end. Whether to run away or rebel, Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated, so he divination in front of the statue. As a result, The Elephant was auspicious, and Zhu Yuanzhang defected to Guo Zixing. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was just 24 years old.
Taizu was twenty-four years old, plotting to avoid soldiers, and it was not auspicious to stay with the gods. Nai: "Do you have to do something big?" "Bu Zhi Ji, Daxi, so he entered hao to see Zi Xing with a leap March Jia Shuo.
After Zhu Yuanzhang joined the army, he quickly emerged in the army, and got The weight of Guo Zixing, not only promoting him to his own soldier, but also marrying his adopted daughter to Zhu Yuanzhang as his wife. "The wife took care of the Princess Ma, that is, Empress Gao."
Because of Guo Zixing's trust, Zhu Yuanzhang soon led the army independently, became a new star in the army, gathered a group of civilian generals of his own, and after Guo Zixing's death, became the actual commander of this rebel army.
After 16 years of hard work, Zhu Yuanzhang gradually unified the south and actively prepared for the Northern Expedition, eventually unifying the world. In 1368, under the persuasion of the Qunchen, the 40-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing, with the name daming and the era name Hongwu, and Zhu Yuanzhang became the founding emperor of Daming.
In the eleventh year of Hongwu, the Ming Empire had stabilized at this time, and Zhu Yuanzhang also raised his hands and began to build the ancestral mausoleum, that is, the Fengyang Mausoleum, where his parents were buried. Zhu Yuanzhang naturally did not forget his great benefactor Liu Jizu. At this time, although Liu Jizu was long gone, his descendants were still there, and Zhu Yuanzhang not only rewarded Liu Jizu's descendants with a large amount of land and property, but also permanently exempted him from taxation and servitude, and posthumously named Liu Jizu the Marquis of Yihui and his wife Lou Shi as Lady Hou. "(Hongwu 11th year) In September, he posthumously honored Liu Jizu as the Marquis of Yihui."
Bing Shen posthumously honored Liu Jizu as the Marquis of Yihui. The saying: When the past was in a microcosm, it was difficult to mourn relatives and betrothed to the house. Erjizu developed a benevolent heart, and with his own fertile soil, he was indignant. Emperor Ancuo Examination Emperor Concubine, Emperor Zi Zi Dahui, Yun He can forget. And the years are easy to flow, thick and unrequited, and the thoughts are deep. Zteger is the Marquis of Righteousness, and Ron is in the underworld. Erqi knows and obeys his favor.
His wife, Lady Yihui, was posthumously honored as Lady Yihuihou. The truth: The prosperity of a family will be its people. It is not the sole nature of the way of the husband, but also by the union of women's virtue. Marquis Yihui's wife, Marquis Ofe, and Rou Cihui, Kecheng Jiajia. It is the Fang family that suffered from the epidemic, the two relatives died, and they asked for land and were buried. Er and his wife Le HuiSi Tu, to the Emperor Kao Emperor Concubine Yin Residence in Yusi, is still unforgettable. Special gift Erlou clan in the underworld, as lady of the Marquis of Yihui. Erqi knows and obeys his destiny. The dispatch of officials to the commandments is still a text, and sacrifices are made with animals.
Moreover, Liu Jizu's title of Marquis of Yihui could also be hereditary, inherited from generation to generation by Liu Jizu's descendants, and consistent with the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang also set up an imperial tomb shrine in Fengyang, with Liu Jizu's descendants serving as the imperial tomb sacrifice officials for generations, "descendants of the generations to keep it", responsible for the sacrifice of the ancestral tomb. "Ritual Ceremonies".
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, Imperial Tomb Stele, Records of the Ming Dynasty