Shi Zai: The strange man Zhou Qianzi had foresight predicting that the Ming Dynasty Allah, and the emperor personally wrote a biography for him

During the Yuan Dynasty, on Nanchang Avenue in China, there was a Zhou Qian, who behaved upside down and spoke irrationally, saying "Say goodbye to Taiping", when the world was stable, everyone should be crazy and crazy. When Zhu Yuanzhang's march passed through the street, he prostrated his head at Zhu Yuanzhang. Who expected, some years later, Zhu Yuanzhang opened the Ming Dynasty, and Zhou Qian turned out to be a high-ranking person with "foresight" ability.

Zhou Qian was a Ming Dynasty Jianchang (present-day Yongxiu, Jiangxi), whose name is unknown. When he was fourteen years old, he seemed to be mad and ran to the Nanchang street market to beg for food, and his language was confused, and people called him upside down. When he was about thirty years old, he behaved strangely, and whenever a new chief took office, he would go to the court and say "sue the peace." At that time, although the world was about to be in danger, there was no big chaos, and everyone did not understand what he was talking about, and they all talked nonsense.

In less than a few years, the world was in chaos. When Chen Youyu claimed that the emperor occupied Nanchang, Zhou Qian went into hiding and did not say anything to Chen Youyu. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Nanchang, and Zhou Qian bowed to the left side of the Donghua Gate. This was the first time Zhu Yuanzhang had seen Zhou Qianzi. Zhu Yuanzhang returned to Jinling, and Zhou Qian subsequently arrived at Jinling.

When Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the troops on the expedition, Zhou Qian came to see him. Ask him, "What are you here for?" He said, "Say goodbye to taiping." Every time Zhu Yuanzhang went out, he followed, back and forth, left and right, saying these words. Sometimes Zhu Yuanzhang saw him from a distance put his hand into his arms and pull something out, and then put his hand in his mouth, asked him what he was doing, and he said, "Lice." Then he asked, "How many?" He said, "Two or three buckets." ”

Zhou Qian's strange actions and words disturbed Zhu Yuanzhang with unrest. One day I poured him wine and made him drink heavily, but he was never drunk. The next day he appeared in front of Zhu Yuanzhang again, and said that there were many lice. So he was given new clothes and replaced with old ones, and a calamus more than three inches long hidden in the waistband of his old pants was revealed.

"What's the use of this stuff?" Zhu asked.

Zhou Qian said: "Chew carefully, drink water again, and your stomach will not hurt." ”

Later, zhou qian became more and more turbulent, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered someone to ask Zhou Qian to stay in a large vat and use a bundle or two bundles of five-foot-high reeds to ignite him. The fire went out, and when he opened it, he was only slightly sweating. After that, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to send food to the Jiang Shan Buddhist Temple to avoid his harassment.

One day a monk came to the temple and reported that Zhou Qian and the people grabbed food to eat, and it had been half a month since they were angry and had not eaten. The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang personally went to see Zhou Qian, arrived at Jiang Shan Temple, and saw Zhou Qian coming to greet him from a distance, it was not difficult to walk at all, and there was no hunger on his face. Zhu Yuanzhang felt really strange, so he set up a banquet to entertain him, and then ordered someone to let him stay in the house for a month, not to provide food, to see his reaction. As a result, Zhou Qian can really go a month without eating or drinking, beyond ordinary people. When the generals saw that Zhou Qian seemed to have divine powers, they rushed into the wine and food for him to eat and drink, and when he ate it, he spit it out, but when Zhu Yuanzhang ate with him, he did not spit it out.

In 1359, Chen Youyi took Xu Shouhui, the leader of the Red Army who claimed the title of emperor, moved the capital to Jiangzhou (江州, in modern Jiujiang, Jiangxi) and established himself as the King of Han.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was preparing to ask Chen Youyou for forgiveness and asked Zhou Qian: "Is this time to send troops?" ”

Zhou replied, "Yes." ”

Then ask, "He has been proclaimed emperor, is it not difficult to defeat him?" ”

Zhou Qian looked up at the sky and said solemnly, "There is no seat for him in heaven." ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang decided to go on the expedition, he asked Zhou Qian: "Is this trip to take you there, is it feasible?" ”

Zhou Qian replied, "Yes! ”

He picked up his cane and hurried to Zhu Yuanzhang's horse, as if the mighty man waved it, revealing signs of victory.

The army's ships marched to Anqing (Anhui City), anhui, and there was no wind, and they sent people to ask Zhou Qian.

Zhou Qian said, "Just do it!" If you just do it, there is wind, and if you don't have the courage, you can't do it. ”

Just go ahead! There is a gall to pass through.

Zhu Yuanzhang then ordered someone to tug the boat to march forward. After a while, a small wind blew, and after ten miles of walking, a strong wind blew, and the boat smoothly went straight into the ditch.

During the conquest, Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that his nonsense would disturb the hearts of the army, so he sent people to guard him. Boat to Madang, some porpoises playing in the water, Zhou Qian sighed: "Water monsters appear, hurt people will be more." The people accompanying him reported this to Zhu Yuanzhang, who did not think so, and indeed some soldiers drowned in the river.

Seventeen or eight soldiers led Zhou Qian to the river at the mouth of the lake and tried to drown him. After half a day, Zhou Qian didn't have anything to do. When the boat reached the mouth of the lake, he came back to see Zhu Yuanzhang and asked for food. Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to give him food, and after eating, Zhou Qian packed up his clothes, as if preparing for a long trip.

He first performed a salute in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, stretched out his neck and said, "You kill." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "I am annoyed enough by you, I don't dare to kill you, let you go far and fly high." So I gave him some dry food. They watched Zhou Qian walk in the direction of Lushan Mountain, and after leaving, they did not know where to go.

After the Battle of Peng Li, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the river, deployed sailors, and consolidated his position. In his spare time, he sent someone to Lushan to inquire about Zhou Qian's whereabouts. People say they haven't seen it. A family in a grove of grass said, "Once upon a time, a tall, thin man came to me and said, 'Well, I'm coming to peace.' Be your people, and cultivate the land with your heart. He said he lived in my house for half a month and didn't eat. Later, he went up lushan and didn't know where to go. ”

(In the 23rd year of Zhizheng, Zhu Yuanzhang besieged Wuchang, the next year he pacified Hubei, and in the 25th year of Zhizheng pacified Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he marched into the Central Plains, Liangguang, and Fujian, and unified the world and ascended the throne, for the sake of Ming Taizu.) ）

In August of the sixteenth year of Hongwu, suddenly a barefoot monk came to Jinling, found the ceremonial department in the middle of the court, and told the official that he saw an old man in a cave deep in the Lushan Mountains, and the old man sent him to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and gave him a few words. The Ceremonial Division asked him what he was talking about, and he said, "The fortunes of the nation and the number of qi (the time the dynasty lasts." ”

When the Ceremonial Department reported this matter, Taizu thought to himself after hearing this, there are many people who have false rumors, and if the emperor mishears and believes, I am afraid that I will be laughed at by the people, and I will not see this monk. The barefoot monk stayed in the capital for four years before returning to Lushan, during which he waited to see Ming Taizu. Taizu only sent him two poems. Two years later, Taizu sent someone to inquire, and there was no news of Zhou Qian.

After another four years, Ming Taizu fell ill with fever and almost died. Suddenly, the barefoot monk came to see him and said, "His Holiness the Heavenly Eye and the Zhou Immortals sent me medicine." ”

Taizu didn't want to see him at first, and then he thought, "I'm sick, people send medicine, whether it's true or not, I should meet him." So he was summoned.

The barefoot monk sent two medicines, one called Wen Liang Yao, a total of two tablets, and the other called Wen Liang Shi, which had only one piece. Taizu was almost on the verge of death at that time, so he took medicine. After two hours, he felt that all the muscles in his body were twitching, and that night, the illness was better, and his spirit was getting better and better every day. After he had taken the medicine twice, he could smell the aroma of calamus, and there was a bright red cinnabar precipitation at the bottom of the cup, which was different from the cinnabar in the world.

Taizu asked the barefoot monk about Zhou Qian.

The barefoot monk spoke of the encounter: "I live in Tianchi Temple, five miles from the cave. Suddenly, one day a man named Xu Daoshi came and said that Zhulin Temple invited me to go, and I went with him. When I arrived at the Zhulin Temple, I saw His Holiness the Heavenly Eye, and after a while, a man dressed in grass came, and I asked His Holiness the Heavenly Eye what kind of person this was, and His Holiness the Heavenly Eye said that this was Zhou Qian, and now the Emperor was inquiring about this person. Now that the emperor has a fever, you should send medicine to the emperor to eat. ”

The barefoot monk added, "His Holiness the Heavenly Eye and Zhou Qian and the emperor's poems were written on stone. ”

Taizu asked the barefoot monk, "Can you remember that poem?" The barefoot monk said, "Yes! So he wrote the poem down to Taizu.

When Taizu first read the poem, there was no rhyme, no confrontation, and the writing was very vulgar and did not look like a poem. Therefore, Taizu sent someone to Lushan to summon Zhou Qian, and when the messenger arrived, no one saw him. Taizu took out the poem again and looked at it carefully, and only then did he feel that the words and sentences were unusual, and in the simple and unpretentious sentences, the truth of the survival of the country's blessings and disasters was hidden in it. Therefore, Taizu wrote the "Biography of Zhou Qianxian" to record his deeds as a sign of posterity.

Source: "Ming Shi Liechuan 187th Fang Technique Biography", "Imperial Zhou Dynasty Immortal Biography"