Yao Guangxiao image).
In the eighth year of Zhizheng, 1348 A.D.
This year, Yao Guangxiao was fourteen years old.
He is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu, and his family has practiced medicine for generations, and he is also a small medical family.
The healer, with a benevolent heart, practices the art of benevolence with noble sentiments.
However, it is obvious that Comrade Yao Guangxiao did not have much interest in curing diseases and saving people, and his father taught him medical skills, but he did not learn anything, and when he was young, he developed an extremely strong interest in Chinese religion.
So, our 14-year-old Yao Guangxiao became a monk and became a monk.
Friends, when it comes to being a monk, people's circumstances are also different.
Four years ago, that is, in 1344 AD, Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang, who had not yet participated in the uprising, and became the emperor, also entered the Huangjue Temple in Chuzhou, Anhui Province and became a monk.
Zhu Yuanzhang is a monk, there is really no way.
At that time, the Yellow River was overflowing, Chongtian destroyed houses, people on both sides of the river were displaced, and countless people died of disease and starvation, Zhu Yuanzhang's parents and relatives died in this natural disaster, and Comrade Xiao Zhu became an orphan and had nowhere to devote himself but to become a monk in the temple.
Temple) poor and honest Zhu Yuanzhang chopped wood and washed the floor in the temple, brushed the dishes and clothes, swept the leaves in autumn and snow in winter, and finally mixed a mouthful of food, but our Comrade Yao Guangxiao was a monk with capital, before becoming a monk, the Yao family had given a hundred taels to the local temple, so Yao Guangxiao's days in the temple were not the treatment of coolie monks, but the VIP level.
Yao Guangxiao's Dharma name is called Daoyan, so everyone often calls him Daoyan monk.
In Suzhou, a temple that is not big or small, but does not leave a name in the history books, Yao Guangxiao stayed for a full twenty-seven years.
In the eighth year of Hongwu, in 1375 AD, the grassroots born, who had been a beggar to eat, and a monk who had hit the bell, had become the Taizu Gao Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and our Comrade Yao Guangxiao had been studying Buddhism in the temple for many years, planning to say goodbye to the evening drum and morning bell, and go outside to see the world.
In the spring of this year, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, held an examination, calling on the monks and Confucian monks with knowledge and culture all over the country to take the exam, and the emperor wanted to select some talents to supplement the ranks of royal education.
In the process of the examination, Comrade Yao Guangxiao, who was extraordinary, quickly attracted Zhu Yuanzhang's attention, but Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang not only found that Yao Guangxiao was extraordinary, but also found that this comrade was a little thief-eyed.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang portrait).
"History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Yao Guangxiao": The eyes are triangular, shaped like a sick tiger, and the sex will be murderous.According to historical records, Yao Guangxiao's eye sockets were like triangles, and his demeanor was like that of a sick tiger, and it was rumored that such a face was usually a murderous and warlike person.
Because Yao Guangxiao didn't look like a good person, even though he performed very well in the exam, Zhu Yuanzhang still didn't hire him.
Learn to become a literary and martial artist, goods and the emperor's family, since you have learned the ability, there must always be a place to show it.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang looked down on Yao Guangxiao, Zhu Yuanzhang's fourth son, Yan Wang Zhu Di, favored Yao Guangxiao.
The acquaintance of Yao Guangxiao and Zhu Di was actually an accident.
In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, 1382 A.D.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very sad and wanted to give his wife a beautiful funeral, so he found famous monks from all over the country to chant and pray for Queen Gao, and Yao Guangxiao was also among them.
At this grand royal funeral, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who wore filial piety for his mother, just glanced at Yao Guangxiao, who was meditating and chanting, in the crowd, and never forgot his face.
This year, Zhu Di was only twenty-two years old.
Although people are young, their ambitions are not small.
The two ambitious and ambitious careerists hit it off at first sight, had a good conversation, and soon came together.
Zhu Di was a vassal king, and his fief was in Beiping, so Yao Guangxiao left his hometown in Suzhou and went to Qingshou Temple in Beiping to become an abbot.
Beiping City) arrived in Beiping, Yao Guangxiao and Zhu Di were completely put on a pair of pants.
Yao Guangxiao often went in and out of the Yanwang Mansion and had a good conversation with Zhu Di, who valued him very much and regarded him as a teacher.
The so-called teacher actually refers to a teacher who teaches culture and morality, so in a sense, although Zhu Di values Yao Guangxiao, he simply regards him as a cultural person.
Zhu Di regards Yao Guangxiao as a cultural person, but Yao Guangxiao regards Zhu Di as his own person, and makes bad remarks about Zhu Di when he has nothing to do.
These words sounded like some slanderous rumors to ordinary people, but when Zhu Di heard it, he just smiled and didn't speak.
This seemingly inconspicuous Yan King's eyes were sharp and cunning, and he often stood with his head bowed and looked silently to the north.
The thirty-first year of Hongwu, 1398 AD, was an unusual year for the Ming Dynasty.
In this year, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the legendary generation of heroes, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the High Emperor rode the dragon to the guests, went away, completed his life journey, and died.
Huaixi cloth, fighting with swords to fight chaos, fifteen years of horses, and then became the emperor's business.
Zhu Yuanzhang was famous, but before he died, he did a foolish thing, that is, he bypassed his sons and passed the throne to his eldest grandson, Zhu Yunwen.
Portrait of Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen).
At the beginning of Emperor Jianwen's ascension to the throne, Emperor Zhu Yunwen began to care about family affection and vigorously cut down the domain.
The young little emperor thinks that his grandfather's sons and his uncles are divided all over the country, with mansions, forces, and guards, which is really a threat to the ** regime.
Since the imperial grandfather passed on the throne to himself, then he has the obligation to pass on this vein forever, and these uncles and these vassal kings of his own are even more obliged to make sacrifices for the eternal stability of my Zhu Yunwen's country.
Thus, a murderous campaign began.
Zhu Hu, King of Zhou, Zhu Bai, King of Xiang, Zhu Gui, Zhu Gui, King of Qi, and Zhu Yang, King of Min, were cut one after another, some of them were in different places, some were imprisoned for life, some were abolished as concubines, and some were unbearable and committed suicide.
For Zhu Yunwen, the five uncles of Zhou Xiang and Qi Min are just hors d'oeuvres, and his real threat is Zhu Di, the king of Yan who became a vassal in Beiping.
However, what Zhu Yunwen didn't expect was that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, actually didn't think about posing a threat to the Jianwen regime, nor did he think about rebelling.
Yes, Zhu Di really wanted to be emperor, but he didn't really want to rebel.
This may sound problematic at first, but it actually makes perfect sense.
It is the ideal to want to be an emperor, and it is a reality not to want to rebel.
Anyone may covet the position of the Ninety-Five, so there is a high probability that everyone has the idea of becoming an emperor.
There is nothing wrong with imagining, because imagining does not violate the Law of the Great Ming.
But just because you want to be an emperor doesn't mean you have to achieve it.
Rebellion is not eating and drinking, it is not ordinary like brushing your teeth and washing your face, rebellion is a big crime of killing your head, and looking through the history books of the past and present, the probability of success of rebellion is extremely low, so Zhu Di did not have the courage to rebel.
Portrait of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di).
He is the blood of Emperor Taizu Gao, is a descendant of the royal family, is the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, he has a spacious and bright house in Beiping, there are groups of slaves for his servants, there is an inexhaustible court lu, his small life is not as good as the emperor, but it is not much worse than the emperor.
Therefore, Zhu Di does not want to rebel, if it is possible, he is willing to be a rich second generation in Beiping for the rest of his life, see all the romance in the world, and enjoy the wealth of the world.
But it's a pity that Zhu Yunwen didn't give him this opportunity.
The successive falls of several brothers sounded the alarm bell for Zhu Di, which made Zhu Di's heart faintly begin to feel uneasy.
But until this time, Zhu Di still did not have any signs of wanting to rebel, until Yao Guangxiao stood up.
When this strange monk, who usually has a lot of reactionary remarks, heard that Emperor Jianwen had begun to cut down the feudal domain, and it would not be long before it would be the turn of King Yan, his eyes began to become warm, and his emotions began to become high-pitched.
He was looking forward to it!
It's unbelievable.
He visited King Yan dozens of times a day, and almost shattered the threshold of King Yan's mansion.
Yan Wangfu) But no matter how many times Yao Guangxiao went, he only had one sentence to say to Zhu Di back and forth, that is:
Judy, time is running out, you should raise an army to rebel.
Yao Guangxiao just encouraged Zhu Di to rebel in Zhu Di's ear again and again, but Zhu Di just asked him coldly:
"History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Yao Guangxiao": "The people's hearts are to them, what can I do? ”What should I do if I raise an army to rebel, but the people of the world are attached to the Jianwen court?
Unexpectedly, Yao Guangxiao's answer was even colder than Zhu Di's, he just told Zhu Di lightly:
"History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Yao Guangxiao": "The minister knows the way of heaven, what about the people's heart." ”I only know that heaven is impermanent, and I never care what the people's feelings are.
This is an understatement, but it is like a spring breeze blowing through Lugu Lake, and the autumn rain infiltrates Jiuzhaigou, which completely ignites the passion in Zhu Di's heart.
Yes, I, Zhu Di, don't lack arms and legs, why should I let Zhu Yunwen clean up that stinky boy who has not dried up? Why should I accept my fate? Why can't I change my fate?
Thus, the vigorous "Battle of Jingjing" began.
It is difficult to understand the appeasement, everyone has heard a lot and seen a lot, so the author will not repeat it here.
What we only need to know is that Comrade Zhu Di, under the instigation of Yao Guangxiao's almost harassment, pulled the pole and pulled the banner, with a mere tens of thousands of troops, in the land of Beiping and a city, under the condition of absolute weakness, struggled for four years, and finally succeeded in turning the tables, overthrowing the Jianwen court, and becoming the new emperor of the dynasty.
Zhu Di, the king of Yan, became Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and the strange monk Yao Guangxiao naturally became the first hero of the founding of the country.
This resourceful and decisive old monk continued to give advice in the process of Zhu Di's army, analyzing the situation and pointing out the way for Zhu Di.
When Zhu Di raised troops, what he wanted was the throne, the world, and power, so Zhu Di understood that Yao Guangxiao, who actively encouraged himself to rebel back then, only wanted the glory and wealth that he would give him after he became the emperor.
In life, no matter how you behave or do things, you always have to ask for something.
You, Yao Guangxiao, persuaded me to rebel, probably because I wanted to become a hero, become a hero, and gain fame and fortune, which is naturally much better than meditating in the temple all day long, chanting scriptures, and eating nests.
Zhu Di has a murderous attitude towards Jianwen's former ministers, but he treats those who have helped him very favorably, and even rewards Yao Guangxiao.
But the strange thing is that since Zhu Di became the emperor, Yao Guangxiao has lost his enthusiasm for himself, he is unwilling to go to the court, unwilling to be an official, he gives gifts back, he gives money to the poor, the emperor gave him a magnificent mansion, Yao Guangxiao resolutely does not want to, and still lives in his temple meditation room that is cool in winter and warm in summer.
Chengzu Zhu Di understood this time, Comrade Yao accompanied him to risk his life to rebel and rebel, and he didn't want anything.
Before the rebellion, he was a bitter monk, blame the monk, but now that the rebellion is successful, he still goes to be his bitter monk, blame the monk.
Throughout Comrade Yao Guangxiao's life, there really is not much legend.
He spent half of his life in the beating of the twilight drums and morning bells, living in a square inch every day, except for boredom, or boredom.
In the other half of his life, Yao Guangxiao was a careerist, anxiously instigated Zhu Di to rebel, and spared no effort to help Zhu Di rebel, but Zhu Di's rebellion was successful, but he didn't want any fame and fortune, and then went back to be a monk.
This is really a bit funny, because in this way, Comrade Yao Guangxiao has basically lived in vain in this life, except for earning the notoriety and notoriety of being a chaotic minister and thief and aiding in abuse.
Therefore, the only thing that can explain Yao Guangxiao's bewildering behavior in this life is probably only one, that is, Yao Guangxiao is just a pure idealist.
He doesn't love fame, he doesn't worship money, and he doesn't have any dreams of being crowned a king.
For most of his life, he spent most of his life studying poetry and books in the temple, reading Qimen Dunjia, astronomy and geography, and reading subsets of scriptures and history, so he was actually an intellectual.
He has no deep hatred with the Jianwen regime, and he has no *** against Zhu Di The reason why he rebelled is actually very simple, as simple as only twelve words, that is:
Show your ambitions and live up to what you have learned in your life.