In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a woodcutter named Zhu Maichen, although he was over half a hundred years old, he was deeply impoverished and his family was shabby. His wife, Choi, could not bear such a poor life and finally chose to leave and marry someone else. However, Zhu Maichen later became an official, and after returning to his hometown, he took Cui's family to the Taishou Mansion and gave him preferential treatment.
Zhu Maichen is a native of Wu County, Huiji County, and now corresponds to the area of Suzhou, Jiangsu. Despite his poor family, he loved to read. He lived by chopping wood for a living, and in his forties he still had nothing to do. Cui Shi silently supported him and spent more than 20 years of hardship together. Zhu Maichen likes to sing while carrying weights, and on the way home, he will always recite poems and have a high-pitched voice. His wife often advised him to be quieter, but he was more open-minded and chanted loudly. Passers-by gave him strange glances and ridiculed him for being a madman. This embarrassed Choi and eventually couldn't bear it anymore and left him.
Zhu Maichen once said: "I started my luck at the age of 50, and now I am more than 40 years old, you have accompanied me through so many years of hardship, and I will soon repay you." However, Choi was unmoved, and laughed at him, saying that by the time he succeeded, she would have starved to death. So, Cui forced Zhu Maichen to write a letter of resignation, and then left, and found another good lottery as a daughter-in-law.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhu Maichen emerged and became a high-profile figure. However, the legends that have been handed down through his history have more to do with his entanglement with Choi. Opera stories such as "Splashing Water in Front of the Horse" and "Difficult to Collect in the Water" have written the touching stories of Zhu Maichen and Cui's.
Zhu Maichen was not ungrateful, and after he won the office, he rewarded those who had helped him. In his long life, his wife Cui also played an important role. once left because of a momentary anger, but a few years later, when he was paying homage to Taishou, Cui's reappeared in his life. However, fate made people, and Cui Shi only enjoyed a short month of happiness before passing away due to force majeure.
Zhu Maichen was grateful for his kindness in the past and treated his former colleagues generously. He established immortal feats in the campaign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the eastern expedition of Yushan, and was named the lord and the captain, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition. However, Zhu Maichen's official career was not all smooth sailing, and many promotions were accompanied by twists and turns. In the case of Zhang Tang's accusation of Yan Zhu rebellion, Zhu Maichen had a grudge against Zhang Tang and was finally executed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty on the charge of participating in the framing of Zhang Tang.
In the third year of Yuan Shuo, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened up the territory, and Zhu Maichen debated with Gongsun Hong on the construction of Shuofang County in the court, and won the trust of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty with his intelligence. However, his life was destined to be magnificent, honorable and humiliating.
This legendary life story makes us think deeply and encourage. Zhu Maichen's life was like walking with a negative salary, working hard, and finally achieved a lot of achievements. He proved with his practical actions that although he has a humble starting point, as long as he has enough perseverance and wisdom, he can create his own legend.