In 1271, a monk took a copy of the I Ching to Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, and told him that if he were today, he should "attach the Han Law" in order to win over the hearts of the people of the four directions and establish a foundation of thousands of autumns, and the first step was to change the name of the country. Kublai Khan was deeply impressed, listened to the monk's advice, took the meaning of "Dazha Qianyuan" in the I Ching, and changed the name of the country to "Dayuan". At this point, China's first unified dynasty established by ethnic minorities began its own historical mission. The monk who named the dynasty was Liu Bingzhong, Kublai Khan's "number one think tank."
<h1>When you retire, you have to meet the monk</h1>
Liu Bingzhong's family lineage is relatively special, the Liu family was originally a Han chinese whose ancestors were from Ruizhou, Jiangxi, but they served as officials in the Liao Dynasty for generations and became an official eunuch family. Later, Liu Bingzhong's great-grandfather served as the deputy envoy of Xingzhou Jiedu in the Jin Dynasty, and the family moved to Hebei, and the Liu family took root in Xingzhou. The Liu family has served two dynasties, the family is prominent, Liu Bingzhong has also been placed high hopes by the family since childhood, and he is young and intelligent, full of scripture history, so he is famous for shaking the place.
However, the Liu family was after all Han Chinese and held local power, so when Liu Bingzhong was 13 years old, he was asked by the Jin Dynasty to go to the Marshal's Mansion as a hostage. The Capital Marshal's Office was the highest military institution of the Jin Dynasty, and although Liu Bingzhong was a "proton", he was blessed by misfortune and had access to some senior military officials and dignitaries of the Jin court. The guidance of the imperial court members also shocked the young man's heart to a certain extent, and Liu Bingzhong's ambition was also planted at this time.
At the age of 17, Liu Bingzhong relied on his family connections to serve as the lingshi of the Xingtai Jiedu envoy. However, this work of "more money and less proximity to home" made Liu Bingzhong depressed, lamenting that "my family has been an official for generations, how can my generation be willing to be a small official." Liu Bingzhong, who hated himself for not being born at the right time, simply sealed the gold and hung up the seal, abandoned the official, and ran to the Wu'an Mountains to wait for the situation to change. It was also at this time that Liu Bingzhong met the Zen master Who was known as the "Reincarnation Huineng". The Zen master deeply loved Liu Bingzhong's talents, recruited him as a monk, and gave him the title of "Zi Cong".
Called out of the mountain, cloth counselor
Liu Bingzhong studied with senior monks, was proficient in Confucian interpretation, was familiar with astronomical geography, and also had a deep understanding of the "genus of three styles and six nongs". The Zen master knew that Liu Bingzhong was not a thing in the pool, and let him go out of the temple to travel and explore the world. Kublai Khan had long heard of Liu Bing's name and invited him to the palace to meet him. Liu Bingzhong was "born with a beautiful wind and bones, and his ambition is heroic and uninhibited", and he knows the general trend of the world very well. Kublai Khan was overjoyed, believing that he had finally found a great sage, so he let Liu Bingzhong always accompany him.
Facts have proved that Kublai Khan did not lack of people with literary and martial abilities around him, but liu Bingzhong was the only one who could look at the world and plan the pattern of a thousand autumns. The Mongols were born nomadic, although they were brave and good at war, they had a tyrannical temperament, and wherever the army passed, the slaughter of the city was often done, and the whole world complained. When Liu Bingzhong followed Kublai Khan on his expeditions to Dali and the Southern Song Dynasty, he said to Kublai Khan that "the heavens and the earth are good to live, and the god of kings is not to be killed." Liu Bingzhong advised Kublai Khan that it was easy to conquer the world, but it was difficult to win the hearts and minds of the people of the world, and Kublai Khan listened to Liu Bingzhong's words and strictly ordered the whole army to "kill a single person on the day of the city of Kecheng."
In the process of Kublai Khan's unification of the world, Liu Bingzhong participated in the planning of military and political affairs as a cloth cloth and was known as "Secretary Cong". The appearance of Liu Bingzhong made up for the weakness of the Mongols who were militaristic and less strategic, and Kublai Khan obeyed his words, "writing thousands of hundreds of words, Shizu Jianayan."
<h1>Layout of the world, the merit of a thousand autumns</h1>
After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Bingzhong became a pillar of the imperial court. To the people, he was concerned about the heavens of the world, and he was well aware of the sufferings of the people, and every time there was a system promulgated, he must consider the needs of the people; to the king, he presented Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, "the great scripture for ruling the world and the good law of raising the people", and formulated a perfect political system for the Yuan Dynasty; for the officials, he recommended the former sages and old ministers of the former dynasty and selected the remnants of the mountains.
However, at this time, Liu Bingzhong "although he was an extremely popular subject, and he lived in vegetables and food, he was indifferent all day long, not different from the past", he maintained his monk style, alone, did not seek fame and fortune, and only took pleasure in gossiping and poetry on weekdays. However, the ministers of the Yuan court could not bear to see it, and wrote to Kublai Khan, saying that Liu Bingzhong was virtuous and meritorious, but he was still wearing a cloth coat, which made the ministers ashamed and embarrassed, and asked to "correct his clothes and crown and give him a thick knighthood." Kublai Khan also deeply believed this, and crowned Liu Bingzhong as the Grand Master of Guanglu and taibao, and personally gave him a marriage and a mansion.
Later, Liu Bingzhong not only formulated the system of imperial court etiquette, hundred official costumes, and official officials that affected the Yuan Dynasty and later dynasties for a hundred years, but also presided over the construction of the Yuan Capital, which was also the prototype of the later Ming and Qing Dynasties and the current Beijing Municipality. In 1274, at the age of 59, Liu Bingzhong died without illness, and Kublai Khan heard the news of great compassion and posthumously named Liu Bingzhong the Duke of Zhao. Liu Bingzhong was the first Han courtier of the Yuan Dynasty, and also the first civil servant, during the 97 years of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people ranked among the three dukes, and only Liu Bingzhong was the only one.
<h1>Indifferent to fame and fortune, where is the ambition</h1>
The evaluation of Liu Bingzhong by "Once the dynasty will be in the clouds, the monarch will be his confidant; the grand plan has been accomplished, and the honor will be as simple as the name" This sentence on Liu Bingzhong's evaluation is what Yao Guangxiao said. As a monk and a prodigy who stirred up the world, Yao Guangxiao regarded Liu Bingzhong as his life mentor throughout his life, followed Liu Bingzhong's path step by step, and eventually became the first meritorious servant of Jingnan and a famous minister of Yongle.
However, Liu Bingzhong and Yao Guangxiao were fundamentally different, Yao Guangxiao refused Zhu Di's reward, and also refused to return the imperial gifts to the world, willing to be a lone monk, and what he wanted was to prove himself to himself. Compared with Yao Guangxiao, Liu Bingzhong appeared to be "six roots impure", he did not refuse the reward of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, and the gold and silver mansion was collected, so that he could return the customs to the customs, and the marriage was also happy.
Is Liu Bingzhong's pattern lower than Yao Guangxiao's? In fact, what Liu Bingzhong wanted was something that Yao Guangxiao could not reach. From a teenager who initially aspired to fame and fortune to dissuade Kublai Khan from slaughtering the city, Liu Bingzhong's ideals changed at this moment. Whenever Liu Bingzhong made a decision and considered the people first, his heart was thinking of the world's Cangsheng, but Yao Guangxiao was the only one who let the world's Cangsheng fall into war. Yao Guangxiao is a poisoner, while Liu Bingzhong is a true sage.