Liu Bowen, a strategist during the Ming Dynasty, was called Zhuge Liang, the name of the Shu state in later generations, and was a talent who knew the heavens and the earth, and they were good at observing astronomy, investigating geography, and knowing strategies. Liu Bowen did not love power all his life, so why did Zhu Yuanzhang still refuse to let him go? Liu Bowen made three mistakes.
Liu Bowen
Liu Bowen, during the Yuan Dynasty, passed the Jinshi examination, but seeing the brutality of the Yuan rulers, he finally decided to resign and return to his hometown. During the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Bowen did not ask about the world, immersed himself in research and learning, and became very famous among Zhejiang scholars, known as the "Four Talents of Zhejiang".
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the masses rose up, Zhu Yuanzhang led the rebel army to occupy Zhejiang. Zhu Yuanzhang had already heard of Liu Ji's name and sent someone to invite him, but Liu Ji refused to go out of the mountain. Zhu Yuanzhang personally went to invite Liu Ji, and Liu Ji agreed to go out of the mountain and serve Zhu Yuanzhang. Liu Bowen offered eighteen strategies for current affairs and solved Zhu Yuanzhang's difficulties at that time, so he was highly valued.
Liu Bowen played for Zhu Yuanzhang
Under the advice of Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang defeated forces such as Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youyi, and the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty. When Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne as empress, he hated corrupt officials and set strict punishments. The founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty, with their own great merits and many evil deeds, attracted the attention of Zhu Yuanzhang.
After Yang Xian was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, on the recommendation of Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong served as the right chancellor and held a high position of authority. Hu Weiyong was good at speculating on the Holy Will, and was very able to please Zhu Yuanzhang, and was highly valued by Zhu Yuanzhang. After Hu Weiyong held great power, he fluttered, pampered and arrogant, and gradually did a lot of bad things.
Hu Weiyong once wanted to win Liu Bowen over and use it for himself, but Liu Bowen was arrogant and arrogant, and categorically rejected Hu Weiyong. Hu Weiyong could not hang on to his face, and secretly fiercely in his heart, he wanted to kill Liu Bowen. Liu Bowen was a clean and honest official, and Hu Weiyong could not find Liu Bowen's crimes and began to fabricate them out of thin air.
In his impeachment recital, Hu Weiyong mentioned:
"If the official Ji Ji is said to have a royal spirit in the foreign land, the base map is a tomb, and the people are all and the people, please set up an inspection to drive out the people."
Hu Weiyong
Hu Weiyong framed Liu Bowen's ancestral tomb and occupied the land of wang qi, so as to frame Liu Bowen for plotting rebellion. Liu Bowen thought he knew Zhu Yuanzhang and did not explain. Zhu Yuanzhang was originally just a pleasure, but later the development of things surprised everyone.
The first mistake Liu made was not to explain the problem, and eventually killed himself. The second mistake Liu Ji made was to be too honest and upright. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang began to reward meritorious men, and Zhu Yuanzhang also gave great rewards to Liu Bowen, the military master who made the greatest contributions.
Zhu Yuanzhang not only crowned Liu Bowen, but also Liu Bowen's father, but Liu Bowen did not show great pleasure, but expressed his refusal, in the record:
"Tired of entering the Kijue, Kiku is not affected."
Liu Bowen's incorruptibility, Zhu Yuanzhang liked at the time, but later wanted Liu Bowen's life. Liu Bowen's refusal to deserve the title was the second mistake he made. After Zhu Yuanzhang dealt with some of the founding exploits of the crime, the empire fell into panic. Liu Bowen prepared to retreat in a rapids and resigned his official position to return to his hometown.
Liu Bowen was known for his strategy, and was preached by the low-level people at that time, and some people thought that Liu Bowen could predict the rise and fall of the dynasty. When Liu Bowen was in a bloody storm in the dynasty, he resigned his official post and returned to his hometown, killing the red-eyed Zhu Yuanzhang, and immediately suspected that Liu Bowen had a ghost.
Zhu Yuanzhang sent a large number of spies to lurk in Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, and Liu Bowen was under constant surveillance. Under tremendous pressure, Liu Bowen became ill and terminally ill. Liu Bowen was seriously ill and bedridden, leaving a relic for his son Liu Lian in advance, in the records:
"Arrive at home, hurry up, and teach Zi Lian with the Heavenly Book."
This was the third mistake made by Liu Bowen, the book that eventually killed Liu Berwen, and the folklore "Heavenly Book" was able to predict the rise and fall of the dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang was even more jealous of Liu Bowen, Hu Weiyong had been framed, and Liu Bowen's ancestral tomb had royal qi. Liu Bowen doesn't want money or a knighthood, so what does he want? The more Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it, the more afraid he became, worried that Liu Bowen wanted the throne.
Liu Bowen left the "Heavenly Book" to his son
Liu Bowen became seriously ill and left the Heavenly Book to his son, making Zhu Yuanzhang crazy. Qingtian's spies reported that Liu Bowen had not lived for more than a year, and Zhu Yuanzhang was not even willing to give Liu Bowen this year. He dispatched Hu Weiyong to take the poisoned wine and let Liu Bowen commit suicide by drinking the poisonous wine.
Liu Bowen made three mistakes, which were originally small problems, but the layers were superimposed on top of each other, making Zhu Yuanzhang suspicious. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Hu Weiyong to poison Liu Bowen, and later put the blame on Hu Weiyong. After Hu Weiyong went to prison and beheaded, everyone in the world believed that Hu Weiyong had killed Liu Bowen, and Zhu Yuanzhang had thrown away the responsibility completely, and he was once again the good emperor of the wise and wise.