Zhu Yuanzhang's advisers are the most powerful? Most people will say Liu Bowen, and some people will say Li Shanchang. However, in fact, what played a decisive role in Zhu Yuanzhang's great cause was to build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly call Wang's "nine-character plan for fixing the country", which is comparable to sprinkling the "Longzhong Pair" with foreign languages.
Li Shanchang is too fake, Liu Bowen is too wise, and Zhu Sheng is good at politics, after all, Zhu Sheng is learning this.
Zhu Sheng always stood five meters away from Zhu Yuanzhang. The five meters here do not refer to geographical distances, but to stand far: five meters away is a relationship of immediate separation.
Zhu Sheng (1299-1370), courtesy name Yunsheng, was a native of Taizishang Village, Xiuxi Township, Huizhou (formerly known as Xin'an), Anhui (present-day Huixi Village, Chenxia Township, Huangshan). The meaning of "rising" is that at the beginning of the morning sun, the sun rises in the east, and some people say that he was born at the time when the sun rose in the east.
It was Zhu Sheng who was recommended by the township to be the Chizhou Xuezheng at the end of the Yuan Dynasty (1367). Avoiding the official Hidden Stone Gate, scholars call mr. Fenglin. Later, he was famous for proposing to Zhu Yuanzhang that "build a high wall, accumulate grain in a wide area, and slowly claim the title of king". Representative work "Zhu Fenglin Collection".
When Zhu Sheng was 8 years old, he asked Jiang Min to be his teacher. After the age of 12, he also took Jin Zhaizhi, who opened a lecture in Haiyang, Xiuning, as his teacher. At the age of 17, He took Chen Que, who opened a lecture at Xiuning Xiaying, as his teacher. At the age of 44, the theorist Huang Chuwang became a teacher.
At the age of 19, Zhu Sheng was admitted to the Middle School Talent. Then he opened the museum to give lectures, and when there was nothing to do, he worked as a farmer for a living, which was similar to his father and grandfather. After completing his studies from Huang Chuwang, he lectured at the Ziyang Ancestral Hall. At the age of 42, he became a township tribute jinshi, and at the age of 46, he was appointed by the Yuan Dynasty as Chizhou Lu Xuezheng. At the age of 52, he went to work. At the age of 55, he returned to his hometown and moved to Shimen in Shexian County to give lectures because of the war.
Zhu Yuanzhang's contact with Zhu Sheng came in the seventeenth year of Zhizheng (1357), when he was 58 years old, when Zhu Yuanzhang's army surrounded the city of Huizhou. In order to avoid the destruction of the lives of the common people, Zhu Sheng came to the city alone and persuaded the shoucheng Yuan to surrender Futong Kaesong.
Presumably, Zhu Yuanzhang also knew about this action, but at that time, Zhu Shenggui's hidden heart was still very heavy, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the psychology of urgently seeking meritocracy and did not follow up. In November of the following year, when the attack on Wuyuan was "unable to resist for a long time", Deng Yu introduced the hermit Zhu Sheng to Zhu Yuanzhang, who obeyed Lianling and planned to invite Zhu Sheng out of the mountain with the gift of "Three Gu Maolu".
However, Zhu Sheng did not give Zhu Yuanzhang an excuse to Corporal Lixian as in the novel. It may be that he has clearly seen Zhu Yuanzhang's desire to become a big thing. Perhaps, as long as the rebel commander came to see him, he would say. After all, his nine words are more difficult to do. He said nine words with great pleasure -- build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become king.
Because of his high approval of Zhu Sheng's suggestion, Zhu Yuanzhang rejected his subordinates' suggestion to be crowned king, and did not call himself King Wu until he defeated his greatest and most dangerous enemy, Chen Youyu. This year is the tenth year of the Dragon and Phoenix, that is, 1364.
In the twenty-seventh year of Zhizheng (1367), Zhu Sheng was awarded the Title of Attendant and Zhongshun Daifu. On the fourth day of the first lunar month of the twenty-eighth year of the reign (1368), The Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne as emperor and Jianyuan Hongwu. He was promoted to the rank of Bachelor of Hanlin Academy and Bachelor of Dongge, Jiayi Dafu, and Zhizhi, and studied the history of the country.
In the second year of Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu (1369, 70 years old), Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his hometown on the grounds that he was too old (71 years old) and sacrificed to sweep the ancestors. According to legend, in order to save his life before leaving, he asked Zhu Yuanzhang to give the "Danshu Iron Coupon" gold medal to avoid death.
Zhu Yuanzhang gave, but Zhu Sheng was not for himself but for his son. Who knows, with the "death-free gold medal" and no use of Hongwu for three years, Zhu Sheng died of illness. His second son, Zhu Tong, was still killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the 11 years of cooperation between Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Sheng, Zhu Sheng was very low-key, neither wanting Li Shanchang to put on old qualifications, nor being as wise as Liu Bowen. He seemed to be doing something insignificant—the ritual system, and his work was mostly about learning.
However, the liturgical system was the cornerstone of feudal society, and it stipulated the specific rules for what each person should do under the general principle that the king is the king and the subject is the subject.
In this regard, Li Shanchang did not understand, nor did Liu Bowen. The makers of the liturgical system must first be erudite and learned, and second, they must serve the imperial power everywhere. In the process of formulation, it is also necessary to have frequent discussions with the emperor, and the implication is nothing more than: how to be a king, how to be a subject, and how to serve the people. Under this kind of pure conspiracy (this kind of consultation is under the guise of Li Le), Zhu Sheng will have a profound understanding of the essence of Zhu Yuanzhang. To this end, the cooperation between the two has changed from strange to pleasant cooperation.
As a historian and political worker (Zhu Sheng's identity is similar to today's political propaganda personnel), Zhu Sheng understood the way of the monarch very well, so the two cooperated well, and Cheng Haoli said during the Ming Dynasty: His trust and care of the long, from Korea (Li Shanchang) and sincerity (Liu Bowen), for a while the civilian courtiers could not reach it.
Zhu Sheng's heart is actually very big, he just wants his own knowledge to be put into the world, as for whether his name can be remembered or not, he doesn't care, people like him are actually extremely realistic, and they value this life more.
However, Zhu Sheng absolutely could not have imagined that after hundreds of years, a big figure had changed his nine characters to make them a household name of that era.
- Digging deep holes, accumulating grain, not seeking hegemony (Mao Zedong)
However, more than a decade later, Zhu Sheng was once again forgotten.