"The Son of Heaven guards the gates of the kingdom, and the king dies." This is the ancestral precept that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty pursued with their own lives. It was zhu Yuanzhang, the famous Ming Taizu, who established this ancestral precept, and it was Zhu Yuanzhang who created the prosperous scene of the people of the Ming Dynasty living and working in peace and contentment.
Zhu Yuanzhang was born into poverty, and when he was a child, he herded cattle for people, worked as a farmer in a landlord's family, and worked as a monk in a temple. But this did not prevent him from becoming a mingjun. It is precisely because he came from a poor background that Zhu Yuanzhang understood the life of the People of Li even more.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in poverty, knew the importance of studying, so he vigorously advocated the imperial examination system, and even if he was born in a cold family, he could find an official and a half position in the Ming Dynasty.
Once Zhu Yuanzhang invited a teacher to the prince, and the teacher asked Zhu Yuanzhang if he could fight if he was disobedient, and Zhu Yuanzhang silently said: "If you don't die, you can do it!"
The importance of reading
Zhu Yuanzhang had not read books since he was a poor family, and no teacher was willing to teach him to read. Therefore, he clearly knew the importance of reading, so Zhu Yuanzhang gave special preferential treatment to readers, even if he was publicly criticized in the court, Zhu Yuanzhang would not punish him for it.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang paid special attention to reading because he found that good readers were hard to find, and during the Red Turban Army, Zhu Yuanzhang had many generals and many talents. However, there was no strategist who could get his hands on it, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very anxious.
In the chaotic world, many people are not willing to read, "rather be a centurion than a book student", because in the chaotic world, readers have no other way out but to rely on warlords. The reason is that very few people read books with their hearts.
At this time, Li Shanchang, one of Zhu Yuanzhang's only two advisers, recommended Liu Bowen to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Liu Bowen to Zhu Yuanzhang was equivalent to Zhuge Liang to Liu Bei. It can be said that without Liu Bowen's advice, Zhu Yuanzhang may not have become emperor until his death.
In order to invite Liu Bowen out of the mountain, Zhu Yuanzhang went to great lengths to invite Liu Bowen, but Liu Bowen was not moved, but returned these gifts in the same way. Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't do anything about it.
Until one day Zhu Yuanzhang came to invite Liu Bowen again, this was the fifth time Zhu Yuanzhang had seen Liu Bowen. Maybe Liu Bowen was really annoyed, so he had to see Zhu Yuanzhang. In front of Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang did not say that he was ambitious, but on the contrary, Zhu Yuanzhang talked about the life of the people now.
And this is also the reason why Liu Bowen looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with disdain, only a king with a heart for the world can establish a country with political peace. Therefore, Liu Bowen agreed to Zhu Yuanzhang's plea to come out of the mountain, and Zhu Yuanzhang also ascended the throne.
The balance of culture and the military is balanced, and the examination is perfect
It is easy to fight the world, it is difficult to defend the world, no matter how prosperous the dynasty is, as long as it is the situation of the family world, this kind of problem will inevitably occur. Zhu Yuanzhang was also well aware of the difficulties of governing the country, so Zhu Yuanzhang thought of a countermeasure.
That is, the flourishing imperial examination system, the military attaches fighting wars, and the scholars ruling the country, this is an eternal truth. However, if you want to be like the early Ming Dynasty, it is not simple to have brave and unparalleled warriors on the outside and civilian subjects who are loyal to the king and love the people inside.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who knew that reading was important, had an oversight in the Imperial Examination. None of the northern scholars were on the list, and all the readers in the entire northern region were named Sun Shan. This annoyed the Northern Scholars.
They blocked the examination room and scolded, which alarmed Zhu Yuanzhang, and the officials thought that these scholars did not know what to do. However, after hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and scolded the chief examiner of this scientific expedition for bending the law for personal gain, and even more angrily dismissed him.
In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang held two scientific expeditions, and the northern scholars finally made the list. This is zhu Yuanzhang's method of attaching importance to readers, whether it is a prince or a nobleman or a disciple of the cold door, he must be fair in front of the scientific examination.
In addition, in terms of military attaches, Zhu Yuanzhang not only rewarded the major military generals in a big way, but also summoned talents from all over the world to the palace. Slowly, people who learn martial arts and those who read books gradually compete with each other, forming a rare balance between culture and martial arts.
Just don't kill
The prince's teacher was the famous Ming Dynasty literary scholar Song Lian, who was easy to read and knowledgeable since childhood, honest and honest, and was known as the first of the four major literary ministers in the early Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang therefore asked Song Lian to be the teacher of The Crown Prince Zhu Biao and teach the Prince the knowledge of governing the country through the ages.
But Zhu Biao was the prince after all, even if Zhu Yuanzhang asked Song Lian to teach Zhu Biao to read, he was afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would feel sorry for the child. So Song Lian asked Zhu Yuanzhang, "Can you train?" Zhu Yuanzhang replied stunnedly and sullenly, "Just don't die."
Song Lian heard this and put his mind at ease, he asked Zhu Yuanzhang "can be trained" not only to explore the emperor's tone, on the other hand, he also wanted to see if Zhu Yuanzhang was really a monarch who could be entrusted with his life.
If the emperor of a country does not allow the teacher to correct the child's mistakes because of his doting on the child, then the country will inevitably gradually collapse in the doting. Hu Hai of Qin II is the best example.
Song Lian was also very strict with the crown prince Zhu Biao, and he taught Zhu Biao to rule the country, but told Zhu Biao that his wrists should not be too iron-blooded. Be kind to the people and ministers, and not to mutilate officials because of their own preferences, so that everyone will endanger themselves.
Later, under the teaching of Song Lian, Zhu Biao gradually grew into a generation of kings, he had an iron wrist and a benevolent character, and even if he was the younger brother of the emperor, Zhu Di, who later became the emperor, he still did not dare to breathe in front of Zhu Biao, and could only return to his fiefdom in ashes.
Later, Song Lian was convicted of his son, and Zhu Biao also desperately saved Song Lian's life, and returned Song Lian to a stable old age, achieving a good story. It's just a pity that Zhu Biao's good life does not live long, and people die in middle age, and these are all afterwords.
epilogue
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was decisive in killing in history, both ministers and brothers could extend a butcher's knife to him. But we cannot deny that Zhu Yuanzhang can indeed be called a Ming Jun and a Neng Jun. It is precisely because of Zhu Yuanzhang, an emperor, that the Ming Dynasty can continue, and the people ruled by the Ming Dynasty can live and work in peace and contentment.
Even in the Qing Dynasty, the people in many places would still spontaneously promote the spirit of anti-Qing and restoration. In addition to the fact that the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were not Han Chinese people, there were also the people's loyalty and longing for the Ming Emperor, etc., and a dynasty could do so, very few.