Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to be a very legendary figure, born of poor peasants, a cloth cloth, but through the rebellion and uprising all the way to the throne, the creation of the Ming Dynasty, very admirable.
Shave ordained
However, if the world is at peace, the people are rich, and everyone is happy and healthy, presumably no one will be willing to rebel and revolt. After all, there is still a certain risk in the matter of rebellion, and it is also a matter of putting the life of the family on it.
Because of the drought in Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, all the grain crops died of drought and there was no harvest. Then came the plague, which caused many innocent people to die in plague and starvation.
Among them are Zhu Yuanzhang's father, mother and eldest brother, and in just half a month, Zhu Yuanzhang has lost three relatives in succession.
Originally, the Zhu family was born as a peasant and relied on the sky to eat, but this time the drought and man-made disasters added to the disaster, where can there be a penny. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang and his second brother had neither land to bury their relatives nor a penny to buy a coffin.
In the end, fortunately, a well-wisher gave the brothers a graveyard for burial. Zhu Yuanzhang and his second brother buried the body with a few torn pieces of clothing. The dead have gone to rest in the earth, but the living cannot live well in the face of this calamity.
Zhu Yuanzhang was forced to separate from his second brother and go their separate ways to make a living.
If you can survive in this chaotic world, it is also your own skill.
But Zhu Yuanzhang was still young, and there were hungry people everywhere, so how could someone take him in or give him a bite to eat? Therefore, in desperation, Zhu Yuanzhang had to go to the monastery to beg for a living.
After all, even in a chaotic world, the Buddhist holy places can still give them a bite to eat.
With this thought, Zhu Yuanzhang went to the Huangjue Temple, shaved his head, and became a small monk in the temple. The little monk's job was also extremely simple: to clean the monastery every day, to incense the Buddha, to beat the bell and drum on time, and to help cook in the fire house.
Although there are many tasks, it is a stable refuge, and three meals a day can also fill the stomach. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang is very satisfied with the status quo, and it is also a good choice to stay in the temple without worry for a lifetime.
However, how can anyone be safe in this chaotic world, even when the temple is in a famine in the world. After all, everyone is in a state of starvation and dying of struggle.
Who still has the money and food to come to the temple to worship? Moreover, the temple has taken in many desperate people to shave their homes, and so many mouths are not enough to be filled with a little grain.
Huangjue Temple could not survive, so the abbot decided to let these monks travel all over the world and go everywhere in order to starve and not die. Zhu Yuanzhang once again lost his stable life and began to beg around.
However, it was also these days that allowed Zhu Yuanzhang to travel the world, broaden his horizons, and see all kinds of society, but there was a lot of growth and change in thinking.
It was also during this time that Zhu Yuanzhang and the temple formed an indissoluble relationship.
Incivility nuns
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the capital was set in Nanjing, a city with great historical heritage. After the Ming Dynasty gradually stabilized and the people's lives gradually stabilized, Zhu Yuanzhang remembered those days of wandering the world.
He did not want to stay in the palatial palace, like a trapped bird, and like other emperors, he did not listen to the outside of the window. How the country has developed and how the people have lived can only be known from the words of the book and the minister.
If he encounters a good official who speaks out in righteousness, if he encounters a corrupt official who deliberately conceals it, he cannot distinguish between true and false when he encounters a corrupt official and deliberately conceals the life of the American and Chinese people.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang began to micro-service private visits again. One day, Zhu Yuanzhang took the minister Liu Bowen and his personal bodyguards to a private visit in plain clothes, saying that his fate with this temple was really quite deep, and he happened to encounter a dispute case.
To say that a monk had insulted a nun was unbelievable. Even ordinary men understand etiquette and morality, and will not do things that exceed the rules, let alone buddhist holy places, self-cultivation monks?
Therefore, this incident attracted hundreds of people to watch, wanting to see what kind of monk this monk was, and what kind of flower and moon appearance the nun was. The most important thing is whether what the nun said was true or false. Therefore, everyone gathered around the county court to watch the county lord judge the case, and there was a lot of discussion.
The monk of the county master was also confused and had no clue. The nun wanted to insist that the monk had insulted her, but she said that it was in a place where there was no one, so there was no human witness, let alone physical evidence.
This monk even hurriedly defended himself that he had never insulted this nun, that he had cultivated himself, and that he was a Buddhist monk, how could he do such an unashamed thing.
The people followed the arguments of the two men and watched with relish, and one moment some people said that the monk was lying, and the next some people said that the nun did not look like a good person.
True and false nuns
Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen also walked through the crowd and stood outside the county gate to look out. The two men observed the nun's posture, eyebrows flirtatious, and a posture of various styles. Every move has a hooky fox charm, and the earlobes have visible ear holes.
Monks eat and pray to the Buddha every day, cultivate themselves, how can they have such a temperament. This nun not only did not look like a monk, but also did not look like a girl from an ordinary family.
On the other hand, the monk, with a handsome appearance and incomparable coldness, had a cold temperament that no one could approach, and his eyes were also very resolute. It's not like a disciple.
The county grand master also found Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen, and this excitement stood up from the county grandfather's chair, his legs were weak, and he almost prostrated his head in salute. But the two of them signaled to the county grandfather not to be silent, and the county grandfather wiped the sweat that came out of his forehead, and his heart was even more panicked.
This case would have been clueless, and this is good. Even the emperor and Lord Liu also came to observe, if they did not judge one, two or three, wouldn't they be unable to eat and walk.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not embarrass the county grandfather, walked into the nun, and even smelled the heavy smell of fat powder on her body, which determined his guess.
He asked Liu Bowen to tell the speculation. The nun denied it and cried, pretending to be a weak woman being bullied.
At this time, someone found the body of an adult man in the nunnery temple and happened to report the crime. When the nun saw the corpse transported to the gate, her face was instantly pale, and for a moment she stopped crying and looked panicked.
Under Zhu Yuanzhang's interrogation, he explained the incident in a fragmented manner. It turned out that when the nun temple received pilgrims, it would use drugs to confuse the pilgrims, and after looting the money, kill the pilgrims and throw the corpses into the wilderness.
It happened that the monk had discovered the clue, and the nun originally wanted to kill the monk. But the nun saw that this monk was handsome, and she was reluctant to do it, so she wanted to lure the monk into the bait.
I didn't expect that the monk was a righteous gentleman and was not moved. In order not to be accused of killing people by the monk, he would make this decision to slander the monk.
The reason why the monks did not talk about the murder of nuns was precisely for the dignity of the Buddhists, and they did not want to make the people criticize because of this matter.
However, it was precisely because of his poor thoughts that he almost caused a catastrophe, not only allowing the murderer to escape, but also putting his own life and reputation into it. Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen passed through this place, otherwise this case would have a different ending.