Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was the only peasant class besides Liu Bang to turn himself into an emperor, and the most legendary emperor in ancient Chinese history.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born poor, his relatives died one after another in the great famine, he was lonely and lonely, he worked as a beggar, worked as a monk, and entered Guo Zixing's uprising team by chance, and then fought in the north and south, experienced wind and frost, and finally completed the miraculous counterattack of life, turned gorgeously, became the unified emperor of China, created the Ming Dynasty, and the prince xiangning had a kind of hu? Magnificent!
In fact, when Zhu Yuanzhang was still more than 10 years old, he let go of cattle for the landlord Liu De's family, but Liu De drove Zhu Yuanzhang away on the grounds that zhu yuanzhang was too thin and weak, and Zhu Yuanzhang became a beggar and almost starved to death on the street, so with Zhu Yuanzhang's character, after he became emperor, what would happen to Liu De?
After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he never forgot the hard days of the past, in order to warn future generations, in April of the eleventh year of Hongwu (1378), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Wu Liang, the Marquis of Jiangyin, to supervise the construction of a new imperial mausoleum, he changed the form of inscriptions of successive dynasties, personally grabbed the knife, and carved the "Imperial Tomb Stele", which told the hardships of his own entrepreneurship and the hard-won success of Daming Jiangshan.
The inscription begins with what happened as a child:
My father worked as a farmer, and he got up early and greedy, but he wandered day and night, and he didn't have enough to eat. Natural disasters in Russia are popular, and relatives are killed. The father died in four out of sixty, the mother died nine times out of fifty, the eldest brother died again, and the family guarded the funeral...
This was followed by a bloody and tearful complaint against the landlord Liu De:
The landlord does not care for me, hu lingang, neither with the earth, the neighbors are worried...
Between the lines of the inscription, it can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang is very resentful of Liu De, and the inscription says: "The landlord Liu De, regardless of our lives or deaths, shouts and scolds, and is arrogant and vicious. Our family planted all his life, and when he died, he refused to give a piece of wasteland for my relatives to bury, and even the neighbors were sad for us. ”
However, Zhu Yuanzhang later mentioned:
Brother Kuyi's generosity benefited from this yellow soil.
This means that although Liu De is neither sympathetic nor human, his brother is very generous and gave me this land so that my relatives can be buried.
In fact, there is a reason for everything, the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang can get this land is still due to his childhood playmate, Liu Jizu is Liu De's brother, and Liu Jizu's son is about the same age as Zhu Yuanzhang, the two are very good playmates, this little friend learned of the dilemma of Zhu Yuanzhang's family, he went home to tell his father, so there was a good deed of Liu Jizu generously donating land.
Even if Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he was still very grateful to Liu Jizu's family, so the imperial tomb built by Zhu Yuanzhang in April of the eleventh year of Hongwu is still on the original site of the burial place given by Liu Jizu.
It is reasonable to say that Zhu Yuanzhang had time to return to his hometown during the war, but because his hometown of Haozhou was always occupied by Zhang Shicheng, Zhu Yuanzhang was never able to return to his hometown to incense his relatives. In March 1366, Zhu Yuanzhang was in Pingding Huaidong, and on the ninth day of April, Zhu Yuanzhang recaptured Haozhou from Zhang Shicheng.
Coincidentally, this day happened to be the death day of Zhu Yuanzhang's fourth brother Zhu Chongsi, and just three days after his father's death day, and thirteen days before his mother's death day, so Zhu Yuanzhang had the idea of returning to the provincial tomb, and finally Zhu Yuanzhang decided to leave for his hometown on April 13, and after three days of travel, Zhu Yuanzhang finally returned to his hometown after twelve years of absence.
By the time Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his hometown, his beloved benefactor Liu Jizu had already died, and after meeting his childhood playmate, he felt a lot of emotions in his heart for a while, and then Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to strengthen the graves of his relatives.
Zhu Yuanzhang also gave Liu Jizu the name "Ying" and promised him that he would "repay the virtue of remembering each other in the past" one day.
Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood playmate befriended him, so he gave Wang Wen and Liu Yingqi rice millet and other things, and asked them to find someone to guard the tomb for his relatives, and gave the tomb keeper Zhu Hu to exempt him from military service.
"Wang Wen and Liu Ying, residents of the mausoleum, were summoned to comfort them"; "Ordered twenty neighboring parties to guard the mausoleum, and ordered the priest to restore his home."
After everything was done, Zhu Yuanzhang, whose identity had changed greatly, invited his father and fellow villagers in his hometown, and when he saw the villagers, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were misty with tears, and everything yesterday seemed to be still in front of him, and he said to the thinkers:
"I have not seen my fathers for a long time. Now that I am still in my hometown, it is difficult for my father and fellow villagers to come to the army, and I have no regrets. ”
When Zhu Yuanzhang spoke to the depths of his speech, he swore an oath to the villagers: "The rent of townships and counties should be ordered not to be requisitioned." In two or three years, when I came back to see you. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang is in this background, of course, it is impossible to do anything to Liu De, who was vicious at that time, after all, the human design has been established in the hearts of the villagers, if he really kills Liu De, it is undoubtedly his own "Ming Jun" persona to break, for a Liu De, it is not worth him to do so.
Only two years later, in 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, and at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was already the son of a country, had a completely different pattern from Zhu Yuanzhang, who was a commoner, and now he would not blame Liu De for the past, because he was not worthy.
Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his hometown as the son of the Great Tomorrow, he said meaningfully to Liu De, who was scared to death: "What Er did is also a constant affection, and there is no need to ask." When I was poor, did you know that today is the Son of Heaven? ”
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's sarcastic and slightly threatening words, I think Liu De was already scared silly.