On New Year's Day 1375, the 64-year-old Liu Bowen, like other Ming courtiers, gathered in the Golden Ruan Hall. The new year should have a new atmosphere, and when the courtiers should take out some dry goods, they should celebrate the Ming Dynasty - in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang, and the new year has a new beginning.
Liu Bowen did not count the gua, nor did he always look at the heavens at night and look for what the "Mandate of Heaven" was, but as a literati, he wrote a poem that sang praises and praises, called "The Early Dynasty of the Year of Yi Di", which was regarded as the completion of this New Year's errand. I am afraid that at that time, even Liu Bowen himself did not calculate it, and he would die this year in an unknown way.
During the first month, Liu Bowen fell ill, and then Zhu Yuanzhang sent the chancellor Hu Weiyong to represent himself, came to visit, and sent medicine and so on. Just after Liu Bowen finished eating, he obviously felt more and more discomfort (
But the mediocre come with a healer, drink its medicine, and there is something in the stomach like a fist stone
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Later, Liu Bowen came to see Zhu Yuanzhang with an illness and asked euphemistically: You always let Hu Weiyong send me what kind of medicine is it? Why did I get sicker after I ate it?
No answers! Less than four months later, Liu Bowen fell ill and died. It was not until Hu Weiyong's downfall that his son presented Zhu Yuanzhang with Liu Bowen's "secret music" before his death. But whether Liu Bowen was killed or died of illness, there is no way to trace, anyway, the death is not clear!
So why did Liu Bowen end up like this? First of all, to clarify a point, Liu Bowen is not as folklore says, five hundred years ago, five hundred years later, is a half-immortal figure like Zhuge Liang. His status and role in Zhu Yuanzhang's team could not be compared with Li Shanchang, or even as good as Wang Guangyang.
Everyone knows that Zhu Yuanzhang once praised Liu Bowen."
Zhuge Liang and Wang Meng alone can deserve it
”。 But it can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang's sentence is purely polite. Because Zhu Yuanzhang also praised another person with almost the same words, even more than Liu Bowen's sentence."
Zhang Zifang and Zhuge Liang of Han can deserve it alone
Zhu Yuanzhang praised this sentence to whom? It is Wang Guangyang, more than Liu Bowen's sentence."
Han's Zhang Liang
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This is the ruthlessness of history. Folk can be sentimental, after all, it represents the warmth of people's feelings. But history must be ruthless, otherwise how can it be "dressed up" to enlighten or think about the gains and losses of life for those who come after it?
Therefore, why did Liu Bowen in history die unclear? The author believes that it is because Liu Bowen is too smart. The smarter the person, the less he can do these two smart things.
One is to make Zhu Yuanzhang a transparent person
First, let's talk about something that happened in reality, and what I saw. There was a graduate in the unit who had just passed the assessment period, and he was suddenly carried up to a batch. After coming down, he was very confused: he had always praised me before, liked me, I didn't do anything, why did he suddenly get criticized?
An old jianghu in the neighboring seat laughed and said, "You are now a regular employee, how can you work well if you are not approved?" From now on, you don't want to leave work on time. Sure enough, everything was as the old jianghu said.
But soon after, the old jianghu was transferred away. Because the graduate who had just passed the assessment period was very smart, a little thorough, not only did not have any positive changes, but inadvertently sold the old jianghu, and said "leaders play people, there is no future here" and other words.
In fact, Liu Bowen has done this kind of thing. At that time, although Zhu Yuanzhang was already a prince of the party, he still belonged to the hands of Han Lin'er, the King of Xiaoming, at least Zhu Yuanzhang shouted like this every day. During a New Year's Day, Zhu Yuanzhang put up a chair and said: Although the boss is not here with us, we must not forget. This chair is the dragon chair, which represents our boss Han Lin'er, and I will go to the boss to pay homage to the boss.
Many people are confused, because they only recognize Zhu Yuanzhang, what Han Lin'er, which onion does he have? But zhu Yuanzhang spoke, and if he didn't listen, he had to listen. So one by one they bowed down to the chair. Only Liu Bowen stood proudly, that is, did not kneel.
Soon Zhu Yuanzhang knew and called out to Liu Bowen for criticism. Liu Bowen said: Don't play, your old Zhu is far more than that little hairy child Han Lin'er cow, I don't kneel to worship him, that chair, you should go to sit.
General analysis
: Zhu Yuanzhang respects Han Lin'er as the boss, is it sincere or has another purpose? Not to mention Liu Bowen, from the performance of his subordinates, you can see clearly, if you really respect, how can your subordinates not be angry?
It's just that some people, the brain melon is not bright, is really unable to understand. But for smart people, it is just a glance to understand.
For those who do not have the light of the brain, Zhu Yuanzhang does not care about it, but also takes the opportunity to publicize it, to be loyal and righteous, in short, this is the kind of it.
For those who are smart but do not say broken, but also cooperate, Zhu Yuanzhang also knows that he will give trust. For example, Li Shanchang, people cooperated with Zhu Yuanzhang and tried to sing this play beautifully.
Liu Bowen is known for his intelligence and is known as the first smart person. Now that he has stirred up this matter, although this matter has become a clever thing for him, it is enough to brag about it, and it has also been written into the "History of Ming". But in fact, it suddenly made Zhu Yuanzhang a transparent person - the drama could not be performed anymore. At this moment, if you are Zhu Yuanzhang, are you happy or annoyed?
In fact, similar to Liu Bowen's situation, there is Yang Xiu in the Three Kingdoms period, who often made Cao Cao a transparent person, and was eventually killed by Cao Cao. Looking at Liu Bowen's case now, is it equivalent to the "old jianghu" mentioned in the opening paragraph?
Therefore, whoever makes the boss a transparent person cannot deny that he is smart, but he will eventually suffer various blows. The smarter the person, the harder the blow! Understand that sometimes the boss is not born a bad guy, but a matter of authority. Without authority, is it still the boss of a transparent person- when smart people do things, they must not be unaware of this.
Second: if you don't take a step back, you are often a dead end
The smarter the person, the more they understand the importance of "buffer space". Once the buffer space is lost, it will soon develop into a dead end. When two people die, it is often a third party who ends up picking peaches. This has little to do with "thick black", but a phenomenon.
Therefore, smart people understand the importance and key of taking a step back. The so-called not to take a step back is a dead end! Unfortunately, Liu Bowen once again forced himself to a dead end because he did a "smart thing".
After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he had great respect for Liu Bowen. For example, all parts of Daming have increased their tax burdens, but Liu Bowen's hometown of Qingtian County has not been added, and Zhu Yuanzhang's explanation for this is: I just want Liu Bowen to be passed down from generation to generation in my hometown.
Soon after, Zhu Yuanzhang went on an inspection tour and ordered Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen to handle the affairs of the dynasty with full authority. Just at this moment, Li Shanchang's younger brother Li Bin committed an accident. Li Shanchang hurriedly found Liu Bowen and said: "Let's wait for the boss to come back and deal with this matter."
Fairly speaking, there is nothing wrong with Li Shanchang's suggestion, after all, the matter has already involved him. And there is also a precedent, when Li Shimin conquered Liaodong, some people accused Fang Xuanling, who remained behind, of rebellion. Fang Xuanling didn't ask anything, so he gave this person to Li Shimin in front of him, and as a result, Li Shimin immediately killed the person. This matter has become a historical beauty.
Unexpectedly, Liu Bowen did not retreat one step at a time, and immediately gave Zhu Yuanzhang a recital alone, and after getting the approval of "can be cut", he killed Li Bin despite the avoidance of asking for rain now.
Liu Bowen did this very smartly. Because Liu Bowen had already seen through it, Li Shanchang wanted to save Li Bin, so he asked for the Holy Will, so that Li Shanchang had nothing to say.
But at the same time, this incident also made Li Shanchang extremely embarrassed, believing that Liu Bowen had "started a war" with himself. Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang returned, Li Shanchang said in a different way: Liu Bowen was executed during the rain season, resulting in a situation where it has not rained so far.
What happened to Liu Bowen immediately followed up: The real reason why it doesn't rain now is that when we fight the world, we kill too much and lose the heavens and the earth."
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", so we should be kind to the families of the dead, so that it can rain." Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Liu Bowen's suggestion, but more than ten days had passed, and it still did not rain.
Zhu Yuanzhang was angry at this time: Good you Liu Bowen, is this playing me? Liu Bowen had nowhere to go, so he had to use his wife's illness to tell the old man to return to his hometown.
: It was a serious thing, but it evolved very unorthodox. The reason for this is that Liu Bowen did not retreat in the whole incident, causing him to follow Li Shanchang's pace and also "jump up the big god". In the end, he lost all the buffer space and started a ring with Zhu Yuanzhang.
This is also a problem that smart people are prone to. It is also right to be proud of one's talents, and it is also okay to look at everything. In short, because he is smart and can see through everything, he knows that it is a "set" and wants to have a "perfect solution", but he forgets the existence of a key third party. Therefore, smart people must not be unaware when doing things, otherwise no matter how smart things are, they will become unremarkable!