Since ancient times, there have been stories of "cunning rabbits die, lackeys cook", those who followed the founding emperor to the southern conquest of the northern war, born into death, often fell into a miserable end, the main reason is that the merit is high shock lord, provoking the new emperor is very suspicious.
In history, there are many emperors who are very suspicious, and Zhu Yuanzhang is definitely one of them. We all know that Zhu Yuanzhang, from a poor peasant Zhu Zhongba, worked hard all the way to overthrow the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and establish the Ming Dynasty regime, although it is said that the times created heroes, but Zhu Yuanzhang alone naturally could not accomplish such a great cause, in this process, it is inseparable from the help of many capable people, the most famous of which is Liu Bowen.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was very defensive about Liu Bowen, but unlike ordinary soldiers, Zhu Yuanzhang only used three dishes, which was enough to make this extraordinary Liu Bowen frightened into a cold sweat, and even said: "We will undoubtedly die." "What kind of dish is this?" To make Liu Bowen so frightened, this matter still needs to start from the beginning.
Liu Ji, the character Bowen, is the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, there is a folk saying called: "Three points of the world Zhuge Liang, one unification of the country and mountains Liu Bowen", Liu Bowen is indeed a clever calculation, he made a great contribution to assistIng Zhu Yuanzhang in eliminating the crowd and establishing a new dynasty.
Liu Bowen was talented and studious as a child, and was a well-known "prodigy" in the local area. Soon after the initiation of learning, Liu Bowen could quickly read various books, which is said to be seven elements. He passed the Xiucai examination at the age of 12, entered the government school at the age of 14, obscure classics, other children holding books and reciting are somewhat difficult, and Liu Bowen not only read twice to recite backwards like a stream, and even according to the meaning of the text, put forward a new point of view, I have to say that Liu Bowen is indeed a rare wizard.
In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, the twenty-three-year-old Liu Bowen went to high school in one fell swoop, and became a sesame petty official in the Yuan Dynasty, but at that time, the Yuan Dynasty was corrupt and dirty from top to bottom, and the officials did not think about how to benefit one side, but instead acted as a villain and lawless. Liu Bowen, who was just and upright, did not want to collude with them, so he suffered many malicious slanders and frames, and Liu Bowen, who was unbearable, finally chose to resign and go into hiding.
Later, Liu Bowen joined Zhu Yuanzhang's banner, and he offered advice to Zhu Yuanzhang, put forward the "Eighteen Strategies for Current Affairs", and analyzed the general trend of the world, relying on his wisdom and talent, he became Zhu Yuanzhang's most powerful strategist.
In view of the current situation, Liu Bowen also took the lead in proposing that two-front operations should be avoided, and that each point should be broken, and at the same time assist Zhu Yuanzhang in concentrating firepower against Chen Youyu, Zhang Shicheng, and other powerful groups; it can be said that if Zhu Yuanzhang did not have Liu Bowen, it would be tantamount to Liu Bang not having Zhang Liang, and Liu Bei without Zhuge Liang, and in the end Zhu Yuanzhang would be able to break through Yuan Liming, absolutely inseparable from Liu Bowen's assistance.
After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he also entrusted Liu Bowen with heavy responsibilities, but since ancient times, the emperors who were born in the grass have had a very serious suspicious disease, and the older Zhu Yuanzhang got, the more suspicious these heroes would be. After the death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang was even more worried about the future of Daming Jiangshan, after all, Zhu Biao had followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the southern expedition to the northern war since he was a child, and he also had great prestige among these old ministers, and the newly crowned prince was Zhu Biao's son Zhu Yunjiao, who was kind and kind, but inevitably lacked majesty.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to suppress these old ministers in plain sight, fearing that he would be accused of harshly condemning the meritorious ministers, so he thought of a good way to vaguely deter them and establish a will for his grandson.
That day happened to be Empress Ma's birthday, so Zhu Yuanzhang feasted on the heroes to eat, and after these people sat down, they found that there was no mountain treasure and seafood on the table, only leeks, tofu carrots and other vegetarian dishes, these heroes were very surprised, and even doubted whether it was the wrong dish, and Zhu Yuanzhang saw that everyone refused to move chopsticks, he directly said that these dishes were hoped that everyone could be clean and honest for the officials, and then ordered people to serve three other dishes, namely steamed bird's nest, braised rabbit meat and shrew sauce dog meat.
The others did not know, they were happy to eat, only Liu Bowen cold sweat, two battles, Xu Da saw Liu Bowen look different, secretly asked him the reason, and Liu Bowen sighed: "These three dishes are to put us to death, you must remember to be loyal to the emperor after you go back, it is best to resign and retire." ”
Of course, there was certainly no poison in the dishes that Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded, but the meaning contained in them was sharper than any sharp blade, and the clever Liu Bowen naturally saw that the meaning of these three dishes was: "The birds are hidden with bows, and the rabbits are dead and the dogs are cooked", and after understanding that Zhu Yuanzhang wants to do something to these heroes, how can Liu Bowen not be terrified?
After that, Liu Bowen proposed to Zhu Yuanzhang to resign, and sure enough, a few years later, Zhu Yuanzhang began to massacre the heroes, and Liu Bowen had already slipped away at this time, but in the end, although Liu Bowen was not directly killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, his cause of death was also full of fog.
And Xu Da is one of the few founding stars in the early Ming Dynasty who has a good ending, and may also have something to do with Liu Bowen's reminder. However, the cause of Xu Da's death, like Liu Bowen, is also full of doubts, in the wild history, he was given by Zhu Yuanzhang to burn the goose and died of illness, and in the main history, Xu Da died of normal illness, and how he died is now unknown.