Liu Bowen, a scholar of Botong, was good at scheming and clever calculations, and was known as the head of Jiang Zuo's talents by the people of the time, Zhuge Kongming was alive, and it was with the assistance of Liu Bowen that Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world. According to the "Ming Shi Liu Ji Zhuan" record, Liu Bowen and Zhu Yuanzhang had a conversation about the position of chancellor, Zhu Yuanzhang asked, among Yang Xian, Wang Guangyang, Hu Weiyong, who would be the most appropriate minister, Liu Bowen replied very pertinently, not only skillfully coped with Zhu Yuanzhang's test, but also made an accurate evaluation of the three people. Liu Bowen first persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang to stay with Li Shancai, and then said that Yang Xian "had the talent of the phase and did not have a phase instrument", said that Wang Guangyang was less temperament than Yang Xian, and said that Hu Weiyong was "afraid of his servants" alluding to the possibility that he might cause trouble to Daming. Interestingly, after Liu Bowen said this, the three people's final fate was a tragic death, and Liu Bowen was also poisoned, so what is the complicated situation behind this, and what does Zhu Yuanzhang think?
After all, it was just a power struggle between the emperor and the ministers
Speaking of those things in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty at that time was divided into two major factions, one was the Huaixi Clique, headed by Li Shancai, the backbone included Hu Weiyong, whose members were zhu Yuanzhang's compatriots, and the other was the Zhejiang Eastern Clique, with Liu Ji and Liu Bowen as the mainstay. Zhu Yuanzhang first promoted Yang Xian, arranged Yang Xian into Zhongshu Province, and made him the right hand man of Zhongshu Province, hoping that he would work hard to investigate, as a nail for Lao Zhu to break into Zhongshu Province, but unfortunately Yang Xian was not good at intelligence, but he began to engage in party struggle and defected to the Zhejiang Eastern Clique. Yang Xian had nothing to do with Li Shancai's small report, but before he could arrive, Li Shancai himself was ill. This led to a dialogue recorded in the Ming Dynasty. Li Shancai is quite good at long life, don't look at him now a small illness, live better than Yang Xian Liu Bo Wang Guangyang Wen they have been much longer.
Li Shancai, who was Zuo Cheng here, fell ill, and Zhu Yuanzhang arranged for Wang Guangyang to enter Zhongshu Province and promote Wang Guangyang to succeed Zuo Cheng. This Wang Guangyang is also a person who does not have much talent, he is neither a member of the Huaixi Group nor a member of the Zhejiang East Group, that is to say, he is selling his life for the emperor, when he is a thorn in the eye of the emperor, but he is low-key, greeting people frequently in Zhongshu Province, talking less, and the efficiency of work is not high. He didn't want to make a splash, and he was targeted by Yang Xian. Therefore, Yang Xian launched a moral attack on Wang Guangyang, and on the grounds of disobedience to his mother, he was successfully demoted from Zhongshu Province by Zhu Yuanzhang. But Yang Xian did not give up, but deceived people too much to write a letter to suggest that Wang Guangyang be exiled to the South China Sea, and the good guy Wang Guangyang said that I recruited who provoked whom I. As Liu Ji said, Yang Xian was too narrow-minded, and all his colleagues who were dissatisfied with him were overthrown, and most of them were ministers of the Huaixi clique. Hu Weiyong, who was a member of the Huaixi clique here, couldn't look at it anymore, and how good it was to let Yang Xian go down like this, so he joined Yang Xian and approved it as soon as he told him. The reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang has long looked at Yang Xian unfavorably, even if he makes a small report every day, he is not doing things for the emperor, sending you to Zhongshu Province to be an undercover agent, and as a result, he actually dares to secretly jump ship?! Old Zhu was furious, and Liu Shancai denounced Yang Xian for "wantonly committing adultery", and Yang Xian was executed.
And who is behind Yang Xian? It's Liu Bowen. After Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Liu Bowen's evaluation of Yang Xian's three people, he said, "My face is sincere. That is to say, only Liu Bowen can be the prime minister. However, Liu Bowen suddenly became impulsive, saying that he was "too sick and evil" and "impatient with complicated dramas", and also said that "there is no talent in the world, but the Lord is careful to ask for it" What does it mean? That is, only you Liu Bowen can be the prime minister in the world, but gao arrogantly said that he had a bad temper and was too lazy to take care of this stall, and the current people are afraid that they are not competent, so take it slowly. In this way, Old Zhu is not happy again, to the face of the face? But Lao Zhu suppressed the anger, and Liu Bowen could not be overthrown, Liu Bowen was a wise man, very good at strategizing, very high than Lao Zhu, leaving him to help Old Zhu shao take some detours, but also could not let him develop his own henchmen. Old Zhu listened to Liu Bowen's self-effacing words, something was wrong, this is a vague guess of what he was thinking? Zhu Yuanzhang was not very happy in his heart, saying that it was estranged or anti-chaos, and as soon as the Ming Dynasty was on the right track, Liu Bowen was sent back to his hometown.
Liu Bowen retired from the court, but his heart did not retreat, arranged for Yang Xian to work well in Zhongshu Province, and from time to time sent his son to the capital to do things and convey his ideas. Old Zhu looked at this person, yo still thinking about other things, then it can only hit. After Hu Weiyong denounced Yang Xian, he attacked Liu Bowen while the iron was hot. So Hu Weiyong said that Liu Bowen occupied the land of wang qi in his hometown, and Liu Bowen changed Nanjing feng shui before, and he had knowledge of feng shui, in case he really had a mind, Old Zhu thought about it. Here Liu Bowen also knew that he had something to do and could not sit still, so he ran to Nanjing. Eh, under your eyes, Emperor, you can't help but believe that I'm doing something else. Coincidentally, just arrived in Nanjing, he was infected with wind chill, that is, a common cold, but Hu Weiyong came and brought a doctor personally assigned by Zhu Yuanzhang. For Zhu Yuanzhang, only the dead are the safest, so out, I don't know if there is an ulterior motive, we don't know, the history books do not record, only know that Liu Bowen died. Old Zhu said that Hu Weiyong poisoned Liu Bowen, but the truth is not, anyway, Old Zhu removed a nail in the eye.
Here Liu Bowen died, the Zhejiang East Group he was in naturally did not have much ability, but then, another thorn came out, Hu Weiyong became the Huaixi Group, and even the biggest target in the court, after Li Shancai was dismissed due to illness, Hu Weiyong could be described as a spring breeze, no opponent, and transformed into Zuo Cheng. Zhu Yuanzhang naturally would not sit idly by, but he was too calm, so Wang Guangyang was recalled from the South China Sea. Old Zhu still had expectations for Wang Guangyang and wanted him to be his own eyeliner, so Wang Guangyang became the right man. But I don't know whether Wang Guangyang has endured the wind and waves or how, doing things more low-key, drinking and chanting all day, and also doing Hu Weiyong's small follow-up. Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice, he couldn't use the small means of the past to deal with him anymore, so Jin Yiwei appeared. Jin Yiwei was not only responsible for the safety of the emperor, but also for the movements of every courtier and the people, especially Hu Weiyong, but at this time Hu Weiyong did not restrain and still went his own way, so some minor crimes of Hu Weiyong were reported.
Hu Weiyong's son accidentally fell on horseback on the street and was crushed to death by a pony riding car, and Hu Weiyong directly skipped the process and executed the groom. Another time, when envoys from other countries came to the capital to pay tribute, Hu Weiyong sent away after seeing the emperor privately. Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't stand Hu Weiyong's attitude, so he shot at Wang Guangyang, and since Wang Guangyang couldn't do anything, let's get rid of it together, which is called killing chickens and making monkeys. As a result, I did not know what evidence was found, saying that Wang Guangyang was related to Liu Bowen's death, so he was naturally given death. After all, Liu Bowen's death was related to Wang Guangyang, so the ministers began to point the spearhead at Hu Weiyong again, to tell the truth, the rats crossed the street and everyone shouted and beat, and really found out that one of Wang Guangyang's concubines was the daughter of a criminal minister, and it was also given by Hu Weiyong. What kind of private killing of grooms, interception of tribute, and division of state-owned assets and women should be enough to kill the head, but Zhu Yuanzhang still wanted a more conclusive reason. Thus the famous Hu Weiyong case appeared. Regardless of whether Hu Weiyong wanted to assassinate the emperor or not, whether the story of the thrilling Hongmen feast recorded in history was reliable or not, zhu Yuanzhang accused Hu Weiyong of rebellion anyway. Hu Weiyong had no place to turn around.
Zhu Yuanzhang also relied on the Hu Weiyong case to wantonly massacre officials at all levels of Wen wugong ministers, and abolished the posts of Zhongshu Province and Chancellor, which directly strengthened the centralization of power, which was just right for Zhu Yuanzhang's appetite. In the early days, listening to Liu Bowen's words, he first deliberately promoted three people to be prime ministers, and then monitored them in real time, and then executed them according to the charges when they made mistakes, not only eliminating those who might endanger their imperial thrones, but also establishing the posts of Zhongshu Province and Xiang Xiang, and setting up the Jinyi Guard, which really achieved a high degree of concentration of imperial power. From this point of view, why Yang Xian, Wang Guangyang, Hu Weiyong and Liu Bowen died tragically was actually paving the way for Old Zhu, which shows the depth of Zhu Yuanzhang's city government, the distance of the plot, and the fierceness of the heart. In the end, the emperor's mind is unguessable, the emperor's mind technique is the most difficult to see, and all of this is just a power struggle between the emperor and the ministers.