In 1644, the Chongzhen Emperor, accompanied by the eunuch Wang Chengen, hanged himself in Coal Mountain, and on the 300th anniversary of the Chongzhen Emperor's hanging, that is, in 1944, a monument was erected in Jingshan Park -- the "Monument to the Martyrdom of Ming Sizong." The inscription reads
There is no one who has achieved the righteousness of the world in three generations than Youming. Gai Taizu raised troops in cloth, drove the blinds, swept away the heroes, and restored Shenzhou, and started a business with Henkel;
To translate simply: Since ancient times, no dynasty has been the most justified in the world than the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Taizu was born in mud, expelled the Tatars, swept away the heroes, recovered the 16 states of the clouds that had been lost for 400 years, and regained the prestige of the Han family, and his business was comparable to that of the Han Dynasty. Who is Emperor Taizu? It is Comrade Hong Wuye Zhu Yuanzhang.
Shigehachi was born
But whenever an emperor is born, there will be a different phase. The ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, was born, claiming that his mother was haunted by large snakes. Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was born, the red light spared room, the foreign land is not dispersed, and the body has golden three days unchanged. Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang is no exception. On the 18th day of September (October 29, 1328), in Dongxiang, Zhongli County, Haozhou (present-day Randengsi Village, Xiaoxihe Township, Fengyang County, Anhui Province), Zhu Yuanzhang was born into a family of destitute peasants at the bottom of ancient Chinese society. According to Ming Shi's words, when Chongba's mother Chen Shi, that is, Aunt Chen, was born in Chongba, she dreamed of an old immortal and gave him a shiny immortal medicine, and Aunt Chen really didn't care if this medicine was harmful or not, so she swallowed it, and when she woke up, she found that there was still a lingering fragrance in her mouth. When Aunt Chen gave birth to Zhu Yuanzhang, red light filled the room, and since then, there have been many lights at night. When the neighbors saw it, they were shocked and ran to Zhu Yuanzhang's house to put out the fire. But when I arrived at Lao Zhu's house, I found that nothing had happened. These were nothing more than tricks by the feudal rulers to prove the legitimacy of their rule. To put it bluntly, just to say that Zhu Yuanzhang is not ordinary.
Everyone knows that the name Zhu Yuanzhang is not his real name that he has just born, this name is the name that Zhu Yuanzhang gave himself after participating in the rebellion of the Red Turban Army. His original name was Zhu Chongba. As for why is it called Zhu Zhongba? In the old society of all evils at that time, human rights? You don't even have a name. If ordinary people cannot go to school and become officials, they do not have names, but only the names are based on the age of their parents or the date of birth. Because the family brothers are the eighth oldest, they are called heavy eight. The name is similar to Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Wu and Wu Laoer, who trembled at the sight of Song Dandan.
However, the birth of this child is very unusual, and for Zhu Wusi, the father of Zhongba, who did not open the perspective of God, his arrival did not bring much joy. Because Shigehachi's family lineage is relatively miserable, if it comes to family, he may be the worst one since ancient times. He did not live in the normal environment of the stable agricultural society of ancient China. For example, Liu Bang was also the captain of the security brigade of the street neighborhood committee of the former dynasty, and he could lead a group of younger brothers to check a nucleic acid report and check the code.
Because the old Zhu family fled the desert and took refuge here. They don't even have their own land, to be precise, they are not even farmers as bonded workers. Chongba's father, Zhu Wusi, worked for the landlord Liu De's family. The old Zhu family, whose ancestral poor peasants, may not have the productivity to feed such a mouthful. His arrival made the family, which was not rich, even worse. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang was weak and sick when he was a child, so Zhu Wusi wanted to send him to the Huangjue Temple near the village to become a monk, and Aunt Chen did not do it. Live live, be born, live. You have to eat with one more mouth and one less mouth, make ends meet. The children of poor families are already in charge, and since they have no money to study, they always have to find something to do, and the heavy and small job is to herd cattle for the landlord. It's okay to get by, but you must not invite disaster.
Natural disasters abound
Time flies, the sun and the moon falter. In the fourth year of Zhizheng, it is time to come. At this time, Shigehachi grew to 15 years old, and there was a severe drought in Haozhou, and there was no rain for several months, which caused a very serious famine. The house leak coincided with the overnight rain, the blessing was not double, the disaster was not alone, and the next year there was a very serious locust plague, and after the catastrophe, there would be a great epidemic. For a time, there was no filial piety, there were cries everywhere, and the wandering and hungry people fell one after another. The old Zhu family is naturally no exception. This set of God's serial little combo is really for the old Zhu family. On the sixth day of the first month of April, Zhu Wusi, the father of the eighth elder of the first year, passed away, and the eldest brother of the ninth of the first year passed away, and on the twenty-second day, Aunt Chen also went with the old Zhu.
I don't know how Zhu Yuanzhang, who was only a teenager at the time, survived. It is estimated that he has long been numb to this succession of life and death partings. The once harmonious and warm home no longer exists, and the love of his parents and relatives has left him. However, he probably has no heart to think about this, and his heart may only be alive. The departure of these people may be a relief for themselves, because they no longer have to think about what they will eat tomorrow. But they left a problem for the living, at this time, the old Zhu family was no longer the old Zhu family that was prosperous back then, and Chongba's sister-in-law, who was the daughter-in-law of the eldest brother, led Xiao Xiaozhu (Zhu Wenzheng) to flee.
Only Xiao Zhu (heavy eight) and Zhu Lao Er (heavy six) remained in the family. The two brothers were so poor that they were all pants, and the family did not even have consistent money and a single silver ingot. The brothers could not afford to buy a coffin, let alone a cemetery. Reluctantly, they went to their employer, Liu De's house, to see if Nian had worked for your family for so many years and put cattle for so many years, and begged them to see if they could give them some money or land to bury Zhu Yuanzhang's relatives. This matter was rightfully rejected by their employers, for the simple reason that you work for me and I will feed you. It doesn't matter to me, the death of these people is a famine, and I have nothing to do with it. In the end, their neighbor Liu Jizu couldn't stand it anymore and gave them a land. Let Zhu Yuanzhang go and bury his relatives.
After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he recalled his life at that time and said: "It is a pity that the cold and the living suffer for food and clothing, and the dead have no difficulty in the yin house." Sigh! Hard. Er Liu succeeded the ancestor of benevolence and favor, with his own fertile soil, and he was able to benefit the land. The funeral of the emperor Kaoya is still unforgettable. It is worth mentioning that later, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he was very grateful to Liu Jizu and gave Liu Jizu the title of Marquis of Yihui. And this is a long-term meal ticket, as long as you can have a son, as long as the Daming company does not fail, it will be good. This wave of angel round investment is really specialized. In Zhu Yuanzhang's own words: "Do not hide the affairs of the dragon, do not forget the grace of the horse, save the old, repay the virtue, and the great filial piety, it is really only eternal!" "Don't do evil for the small, don't do the good for the small", it is possible that a good deed you do with your hands may really affect yourself for the rest of your life. The place of burial is today's Fengyang Ming Imperial Mausoleum in Anhui, which can also be said to be the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty. "The living suffer from food and clothing, but the dead have no hardship in the house." It may be the epitome of the lowest level of society at that time. The realistic version of the Water Margin that officials forced the people to oppose the proper ones.
You Fang Monk
To get back to business, although the parents have a big thing, their own life still has to live. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang can really say that he has nothing and a rotten life. In order to have food, he had nowhere to go but to go to the nearby Huangjue Temple to become a small shami. Gao Bin, a senior monk of Huangjue Temple, saw that he was young and strong, so he took him in. Zhu Yuanzhang, who has just joined, is definitely not doing such a decent job as knocking wood fish and worshipping Buddha. Zhu Yuanzhang, a junior intern, is engaged in a job similar to a long-term worker in the temple, the so-called miscellaneous work, and does not want to pray the scriptures. It is enough to have food to eat and porridge to drink. However, this kind of days of doing rough work and mixed food did not take long, and Huangjue Temple originally lived by collecting rent and rice, but this year's famine was more ferocious than the previous year.
The monastery was not spared. This little grain in the Huangjue Temple is not enough for the old monks to share. Even if the company is not your problem, you run the risk of being laid off. Huangjue Temple was on the verge of bankruptcy due to environmental reasons. However, Huangjuesi Enterprise Co., Ltd. is still conscientious, and they provide the laid off monks with an opportunity to be laid off and re-employed - to become beggars. Huangjue Temple changed into the Gang Haozhou Branch Rudder in seconds. To put it bluntly, you are still part of our company. In order to facilitate your money (this money will be hung up if you don't earn it anymore), you can continue to use the identity provided by the company to decently cheat some money. (No matter when, the social status of monks in our country is still quite good, and the monks of Hua Yuan are basically liars in China) Zhu Yuanzhang, who only worked for the monastery for more than 50 days and did not even know what the Buddhist scriptures were, had no choice but to take the broken stick and broken bowl issued by the abbot and go out to make a fortune. How can a monk who does not understand the Buddhist scriptures be regarded as a karma? To put it mildly, it is to escape the famine and ask for food.
After becoming emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang recalled those three years as follows: "Suddenly the sun was rising and radical, throwing into the ancient temple at dusk to rob, looking up on the cliff and leaning on the bi, listening to the ape crying the night and the moon and desolation." Just as the so-called good mix is called a bastard, and a bad mix is called a gangster, not so much an ascetic as a gangster Zhu Yuanzhang. But he really didn't have a fool in this mixed society, he broadened his horizons, enriched his knowledge, and met a lot of friends in the rivers and lakes (comrades who asked for food, peers of the gang). That's three years. Zhu Yuanzhang begged as he walked, he went south from Haozhou to Hefei, then turned west into Henan, reached Gushi and Xinyang, and then went north to Ruzhou, Chenzhou and other places, and east through Luyi and Bozhou.
The moon is hidden and the sun is shining, where to look, leaving home, and not knowing the date of return. It is difficult to settle down, and the flowers and nights meet the old knowledge.
During these three years of wandering, he traveled all over the famous capital of Huaixi Dayi, came into contact with the customs and customs of various places, and accumulated social life experience, which had a profound impact on Zhu Yuanzhang's life. The three years of Waiyun Tour were also the period of the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Society is the best university, and at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang is no longer the ignorant teenager. Mencius has clouds, so the heavens will descend on the great task, and people will first work hard for their minds, work their bones, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and mess up their deeds, so they will be patient and have benefited what they cannot. Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been successfully upgraded, returned to the Huangjue Temple and only waited for the call of the god of history.