Speaking of the Ming Dynasty, I believe that many people will admire Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in the grassroots, and all the emperors of all dynasties are almost all people who stand on the shoulders of their ancestors to fight the world, and those who start from scratch to win the world are only Zhu Yuanzhang. Speaking of Liu Bowen, he was called "my son's room" by Zhu Yuanzhang, and posterity even compared him with Zhuge Liang, which shows that he really has unique features. The great thinker Wang Yangming, on the other hand, is a master of the study of the mind, and his ideological theories have spread far and wide abroad, and japan and Korea have his loyal followers.
However, the first strange man of the Ming Dynasty was not any of the three of them, but Yao Guangxiao, the black-robed prime minister.
Yao Guangxiao, born in 1335 in Changzhou (present-day Suzhou), at the age of 14, he was ordained as a monk, and learned the yin and yang techniques under the taoist priest Xi Yingzhen. In 1375 (the eighth year of Hongwu), he went to the Ceremonial Department to take the exam according to Zhu Yuanzhang's orders. After some investigation, he was entered into the palace as a Confucian monk and found a position at the Celestial Temple. In 1382, Yao Guangxiao met Zhu Di, the King of Yan, and unexpectedly, he and Zhu Di were extremely close, so he decisively came to Beiping.
In 1398, after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Emperor Jianwen took the throne and implemented the strategy of cutting the domain, Zhu Xu, Zhu Bai, Zhu Gui and others were successively convicted, and Zhu Di's position was also precarious. At this time, Yao Guangxiao suggested that Zhu Di raise an army and rebel against Emperor Jianwen. However, Zhu Di was very worried in his heart, saying that the people supported the imperial court, and he was unknown and might be unpopular. However, Yao Guangxiao said, "The subject only knows the Heavenly Dao, and does not care about the people's hearts." It can be seen that Yao Guangxiao has an iron heart to do what no one can stop.
Later, while Zhu Di co-opted the gang and colluded with the army, Yao Guangxiao also trained soldiers and horses in the houyuan of the Yan King's Mansion. In order to build weapons, he also dug a crypt, coupled with a thick wall protection, and used the cries of domestic chickens and ducks to cover up the sound of iron. It was precisely because of his series of means that the matter of raising an army could proceed smoothly, and Zhu Di was able to rise up on the day when the rebellion was discovered.
In fact, Yao Guangxiao's future direction has already been signed in the early years. At that time, Yao Guangxiao was visiting Songshan Temple, and when the Xiangshi Yuan Jue saw his face, he couldn't help but say, "What a monk!" Eye triangle, shaped like a sick tiger, sex will be murderous, Liu Bingzhongliu also. Liu Bingzhong was the founding father of the Yuan Dynasty, the architect of the Great Yuan Empire, and planned the city of Beijing. Coincidentally, after Zhu Di became emperor, Yao Guangxiao was also responsible for moving the capital to Beijing, and single-handedly planned the layout of today's Beijing city.
During the Hongwu period, Yao Guangxiao was still a monk, and when he passed through Beigu Mountain, he once wrote a poem full of killing: "The blood of the war has dried up over the years, and the fireworks are still half withered." The Wuzhou Mountains are near the clouds and chaos, and the night and moon are cold in the sky. The river has no tide through the iron urn, and Noda has a road to the golden altar. Where is the Xiao Liang Emperor now? Beigu Qingqing guest tired of watching. At the time of the peace in the world, he had already foreseen that there would be another sword soldier in the future, and at that time, he would dance the wind and clouds, show his talents, and eventually leave his name in history.
Yao Guangxiao dared to raise an army, and was able to save the defeat, so that Zhu Di was desperate to survive and take Jiangshan in one fell swoop, which was not inferior to Zhu Yuanzhang's courage and strategy to defeat Liu Bowen. The History of Ming records that "Yao Guangxiao was not a military minister, and as the head of the Yongle heroes, he was in the same volume as Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng." The Yongle Canon is known as "the largest encyclopedia ever made in the world", and Yao Guangxiao can achieve such an achievement, presumably in terms of talent, he is also comparable to Wang Yangming, who is the first strange man of the Ming Dynasty.