Full of emperors and generals, several lines of people's blood and tears, constitute a volume of feudal dynasty history books. Since the emperor is the main general, there must be many interesting stories about the emperor or his courtiers. For example, Liu Bowen, a model of a good minister, has several lines of chen in the history books about him.
In the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had a fierce man named Liu Bowen. Liu Bowen was intelligent and studious from an early age, and later he was admitted to the Jinshi at a young age. After meeting the Ming lord Zhu Yuanzhang, he gave full play to his military and internal political talents, assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in restoring the Central Plains in the north and Dingyun Dian in the south, and made an immortal contribution, which was one of the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty and a model of good ministers in ancient times. Liu Bowen's birth was not very rich, the family is not rich merchants nor clans, but he is a genius, and he works harder than ordinary people.
Hard-working genius
Liu Bowen was a prodigy who was rare in a hundred years when he was a child, and ordinary people could only be admitted to xiucai when they were twenty or thirty years old, and he was admitted in his early ten years old. But his genius was not limited to his intelligence being higher than ordinary people, but also his mind.
Liu Bowen's mind was born more mature, he listened to his father's teachings, was meticulous on the road to study, did not disturb his mind for foreign affairs and foreign matters, and later he was admitted to the jinshi at a young age to enter the career, and he could not be arrogant, you can see how unusual his mind is.
Such a person, with talent and hard work to defeat countless children of the powerful and thus enter the career, should be in the official field smooth sailing, and finally return to his hometown, leaving a good story. However, what happened later everyone knows that Liu Bowen's life was not like this, but more wonderful and legendary than this. After Liu Bowen was promoted to the rank of soldier, he was arranged to serve as a small county official in Jiangxi.
Liu Bowen was a straight official in Jiangxi, with a high IQ and first-class ability to do things, but also very fair, and he was jealous and hateful, and he did not care about any unspoken rules of the officialdom, which made some colleagues jealous and hostile to him. However, Liu Bowen was born into an ordinary family, he did not have the relationship and access to heaven, naturally he was ostracized everywhere, even if he worked hard during his political period to do many meritorious deeds, but he was still suppressed everywhere, with full ambition to enter the official field, he was constrained everywhere, Liu Bowen later indignantly intolerable and abandoned the official.
Although the official was improper, Liu Bowen's Qingming justice during his official period established a good reputation for him, coupled with his profound knowledge and profound talent, he also won the admiration of many people. In the province where Liu Bowen was an official, his prestige was very high. This laid the groundwork for him to be invited several times by Zhu Yuanzhang later.
Wang Zuo's courtier
After Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Bowen to assist Him, relying on Liu Bowen's strategic foresight and tactical ingenuity, he defeated Chen Youyi and Zhang Shicheng and then completely pacified the south, and then regrouped and relied on the south as the foundation of the Northern Expedition Yuanting, and finally expelled the Northern Yuan from the Central Plains after several battles with Wang Baobao. Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne in Nanjing, and Liu Bowen did not comment on the position of extremely popular subject. However, things must be reversed, and Liu Bowen's fate has slowly begun to change.
In the years and months of the conquest, due to the large number of external enemies, internal contradictions can still be covered up and ignored, and everyone can also put aside the prejudices and grudges between private individuals, and temporarily have a heart for the sake of unifying the world. But after the world is calmed, Liu Bowen will become the target of the public as he did when he first entered the official field. From this point, it can be seen that Liu Bowen has never changed his original intention from beginning to end, and in the position of Tai Shi Ling, he is still as honest and upright as he was a local official before, and he is not nepotistic, but this also makes him tremble and tremble like walking on thin ice all the time.
Liu Bowen's life is not good, on the one hand, his fortitude and honesty have offended too many people, on the other hand, his companions such as companions must always be vigilant and careful, otherwise their families may be destroyed at any time. Probably because his moral character is too good, Zhu Yuanzhang is also difficult to kill such a model bureaucrat, so he has not been liquidated. After more than ten years of diligent and earnest work, Liu Bowen finally ushered in the day when he stayed up to the end, and when he was fifty-nine years old, Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded him with a return to his hometown for the elderly.
Water quest legend
When Liu Bowen returned to his hometown, it is said that he saw a magnificent landlord's manor, he went to visit the door, the hostess came out to greet, Liu Bowen recognized that this is the big lady who gave him water to drink.
When Liu Bowen entered Beijing to take the exam, he was thirsty on the road, so he found a family to beg for a bowl of water to drink. The eldest lady of the family was kind and gave him a bowl of water to relieve the heat, and when Liu Bowen was preparing to drink, the eldest lady sprinkled a handful of chaff in the bowl. Liu Bowen was greatly puzzled, and could only drink water while blowing the chaff away, and did not ask about this matter.
Then, in the chat between the two, the eldest lady learned that Liu Bowen understood feng shui, so she asked him to build a new house for his family to see a feng shui treasure, Liu Bowen was unhappy because of what had just happened, so he randomly pointed to a place, and then resigned.
Now that the two have met again, the eldest lady thanks Liu Bowen for pointing out feng shui to let his home run, and the family has been slowly consolidated since then. Liu Bowen did not know how to answer, and remembered that the eldest bride had sprinkled chaff in the bowl, so he asked about the eldest bride and wanted to solve his doubts for many years. Who knew that the lady in front of her said that she was afraid that he would drink too quickly, because the water was too cold, and drinking too fast might cause him to get sick. Liu Bowen was stunned, felt very ashamed, and lamented in his heart that the old woman was a person of great wisdom.
Liu Bowen once again bid farewell to the old woman, the last time he bid farewell was to go to school and Youzeshi, this time it was to return to his hometown. After Liu Bowen returned to his hometown, he lived a stable life for a few years, and then he was framed by Hu Weiyong and had a rebellious heart, and when he was old, he had to drag the old bones to Nanjing to find Zhu Yuanzhang to apologize, and he lived in Nanjing for a long time and finally returned to his hometown and died of illness.
summary
In his lifetime, Liu Bowen met an old woman who gave himself water to drink twice, and for the first time, he was less proud and went to the official field with a heart of helping the people through the world. The second time was when he was in a bad year, and he returned to his hometown with the joy of retiring with his whole body. But the result did not make him get what he wanted, and he died in helplessness and pain.
Liu Bowen's life is extremely wonderful, a young genius, excellent in learning, and a stable side for the officials. Assisted Zhu Yuanzhang to end the chaotic world, open the dynasty again, and leave a good name for future generations. Although he was framed by Hu Weiyong during the Hongwu Dynasty, the old Zhu family rehabilitated him in later generations. A courtier like Liu Bowen, who was honest and upright to the common people and loyal to the emperor, was a bureaucratic image in line with Confucian morality, and was given the title of Taishi, wencheng, and worthy of the Taimiao Temple, which was the greatest affirmation for him.
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