Ancient times was a hierarchical society, people's origins often determine the fate of a lifetime, especially those born at the bottom of society, want to get rid of their own fate, it is simply a difficult thing to ascend to the heavens. However, in ancient times, there were still some people who could be called anti-heaven, they were born at the bottom of society, but they achieved a great cause through their own efforts, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was one of the representative figures.
Among the founding emperors of ancient times, Zhu Yuanzhang was the most legendary figure, and he grew from a small cattle herding baby to the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, which was almost impossible to complete in ancient times. Many people may not understand how difficult it is, so to speak, in ancient times, a total of more than 400 emperors were born in thousands of years, and the real founding emperor of the country was only Zhu Yuanzhang.
Although Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, was also considered to be the Buyi Emperor, after all, he also served as the chief of the Qin Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang, before joining the rebel army, herded cattle as a child, grew up to be a monk, and later traveled around begging for a period of time as a beggar. In terms of origin alone, Zhu Yuanzhang's origin was absolutely the lowest in ancient times, but he finally changed his life against the sky and became the supreme emperor, which has to be said to be a miracle.
It is reasonable to say that a figure like Zhu Yuanzhang should not believe in fate, and he has been in the battlefield for a long time to achieve great things by relying on his own efforts. But in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang once had the experience of fortune telling, and his purpose of fortune telling was not the same as that of ordinary people.
Most of the ancients were more superstitious, and they were also full of worries about the future, and when they encountered major events in life or hesitant things, they always liked to find a fortune teller to calculate. But predicting fate is itself an unscientific thing, and the ancients did so only to seek a comfort in their hearts. Therefore, in ancient times, many people learned a little bit of the skin of the "I Ching", and they claimed to be mai gods, and they were deceived in the name of fortune telling. Moreover, many fortune tellers also like to disguise themselves as Taoist priests to appear more professional.
After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he was very protective of the people, attached great importance to the development of people's livelihood, gently levied taxes, and opened the imperial examination. Because Zhu Yuanzhang suffered a lot when he was a child, he almost tasted all the tastes in the world, and he understood very well the hardships of the life of the people at the bottom. Once, Zhu Yuanzhang heard that a divine operator had come from the capital, and the fortune teller was very spiritual, so he amassed a lot of money. Zhu Yuanzhang had been in the battlefield for a long time, and of course he did not believe in the fate of ghosts and gods, but when he heard that this divine operator made a lot of money by fortune telling, he planned to know this divine operator for a while.
On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang paid a private visit and came to the place where the divine operator was telling fortunes, and asked the divine operator to calculate his life expectancy. Let's not say whether this divine operator is accurate or not, at least his shape is indeed like a worldly high-ranking person, wearing a Taoist costume, giving people a feeling of immortality. Zhu Yuanzhang came up and asked the Daoist what his own life expectancy was, which made the Daoist priest suddenly feel embarrassed, thinking that he had not yet had a chance to get some necessary information from Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth.
However, after all, this Daoist priest had the name of a divine operator, and in the blink of an eye, he thought of countermeasures. He saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was extraordinary, and there were several guards with tigers on their backs and bears' waists, so he pretended to pinch his fingers and calculated, and replied to Zhu Yuanzhang: "One more day than me." Just when the divine operator was secretly proud of his own quick wit, he heard Zhu Yuanzhang order the guards to drag him out and behead him.
The divine operator cried out and asked why the good one was hurting his own life? Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and said, "Shuo is the True Dragon Heavenly Son, how can the number of life expectancy be er and other nonsense?" I see that you are clearly pretending to be a ghost. ”
As soon as the divine operator saw that he had mentioned the iron plate and counted it on the head of the current emperor, he suddenly rolled his eyes and fainted. At this time, the onlookers were still convinced of the divine operator and were very worried that His Majesty the Emperor would die violently tomorrow, so they interceded with the divine operator one after another, but Zhu Yuanzhang resolutely refused to allow it, and must kill the divine operator and expose his lies. On the second day, after the news of Zhu Yuanzhang's normal ascension to the dynasty came out, the people knew that they had been deceived by this divine operator, and that he was simply a big liar who took advantage of the opportunity to accumulate wealth.
Then, Zhu Yuanzhang is the emperor, why would a good person not be able to live with a fortune teller? This is, of course, not because Zhu Yuanzhang is narrow-minded, but because he can't bear to see the people waste their money on such a meaningless thing. From this point, it can also be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed sincerely for the people, which is obviously different from his killing of the founding heroes. Maybe it's because he came from the bottom, so he never forgot his roots, and he is a sentient and righteous emperor.