Drought, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Bowen for help, what was the result
In the 5,000-year long history of the Chinese nation, although many politicians, thinkers and writers have emerged, there is one type of person who is not common, and people call them "divine men".
In the hearts of the people, Liu Bowen is such a god man, and the folk spread the reputation of "Zhuge Liang in three parts of the world, and Liu Bowen in the whole country". He is a "thousand-year-old hero", and he is also a great man who has established morality, meritorious service, and "three immortals".
Cai Yuanpei once commented on him: "The times create heroes, the curtains are intriguing, and the Ming Dynasty is crowned." ”
Liu Bowen, known as Qingtian, was a famous politician and military strategist in Chinese history. Born in the late Yuan Dynasty, he has shown extraordinary talent since he was a child, and he can read all seven lines, and extensively dabbles in the knowledge of the hundred schools of thought, the art of war, strategy, astronomy and geography, yin and yang gossip, etc.
In the third year of Taiding (1326), Liu Bowen, who was only 16 years old, was admitted to Xiucai and was known as a "prodigy". In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1333), the 23-year-old Liu Bowen won the twenty-sixth Jinshi with a majestic "Dragon and Tiger Taifu".
In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, Jinshi was an important force supporting the imperial court. Liu Bowen, as a member of the "Jinhua Scholars Group" and a Jinshi at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, once devoted himself to the imperial court and was full of pride in making meritorious contributions.
However, due to the "racial discrimination" in the imperial court, he was demoted to the rank of county magistrate of Gao'an County, and the officialdom was corrupt, and the civil and military generals only sought to be promoted.
Liu Bowen upholds impartiality, is not afraid of the powerful, and resolutely enforces the law, so he has won praise from the people. However, his impartial enforcement of the law violated the powerful interests of the local gentry, who constantly slandered and framed him.
Although Liu Bowen was treated unfairly, he did not change his original intention and remained determined to serve the country. He is not afraid of any difficulties, whether it is a Mongolian official or a Han magnat, as long as he finds that there is a violation of the law, he will expose it and fight for it.
Liu Bowen, who had been excluded and attacked in the officialdom of the Yuan Dynasty for a long time, gradually lost confidence in officialdom. He decided to return to his hometown to do his filial piety, and although his footprints were all over the place, he was still an idle crane.
However, all this changed after the visit of Youchengpu Kesu in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Pu Kesu took the initiative to invite him to a banquet with the position of deputy promotion of Confucianism in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province granted by the emperor, but Liu Bowen had no hope of resigning, so he could only agree.
After taking over the official uniform, Liu Bowen immediately took office, began to implement his educational philosophy, vigorously advocated the establishment of righteous schools, and made friends with a large number of famous Confucians and monks, and his prestige was extremely high among the people.
However, the injustice of officialdom still bothered him.
Liu Bowen cracked down with an iron fist on the behavior of raising funds to enrich oneself by running schools, which led to the dissatisfaction of some people. Then, he is determined to severely punish the overseer who killed people for no reason, but he is attacked by a group of people who are obsessed with the sound of dogs and horses.
For these, Liu Bowen angrily wrote the famous saying "The gold and jade are outside, and the defeat is in it", and resolutely resigned from his official position and returned to his hometown. After his resignation, unfortunate events followed, which made him, an expert in divination, shudder.
Natural and man-made disasters struck at the same time, rebellions broke out everywhere, and society was in chaos. At this time, Liu Bowen was studying the thirteen chapters of "Sun Tzu" at home, when he suddenly heard the news that the family children's newspaper had sent an edict from the province.
He hurriedly went out to greet him, only to find that the people who came turned out to be two confidants - Ye Chen and Zhang Yi.
Liu Bowen was entrusted by Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to serve as the capital of the Marshal Mansion in eastern Zhejiang. In the face of Fang Guozhen's troubles, he proposed a strategy of recruiting militia at the expense of local wealthy families, and organized more than 3,000 military horses in just one month.
Under Liu Bowen's leadership, Fang Guozhen was unable to capture Taizhou and Wenzhou, so he planned to pretend to submit to the imperial court to tide over the difficulties. However, Timur Timur and Liu Bowen of Zhejiang Province did not agree to surrender, so Brother Fang lobbied the official with a box full of gold, silver and jewelry.
Liu Bowen was disappointed with the imperial court because the imperial court accepted Fang Guozhen's surrender and gave him an official position, and finally chose to give up his official position and return to his hometown. With the 195 texts of the eighteen chapters of "Yu Ion", he prepared to embark on the "anti-yuan road".
His actions show his loyalty and determination to stand up for what he believes even in the face of adversity.
Liu Bowen, who was in retirement, had insight into the rebel army and firmly believed that Zhu Yuanzhang had the assets of an emperor, and strongly advocated that Zhu Yuanzhang overthrow the Yuan Dynasty and establish a new regime. In 1360 AD, Liu Bowen was 50 years old, and Zhu Yuanzhang invited him to assist him many times.
After careful consideration, Liu Bowen thought that the time had come and decided to go out of the mountain"Lord"Zhu Yuanzhang assisted him to help him dominate the world and realize his grand cause. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed after seeing Liu Bowen in Yingtian, and when he asked about the strategy of pacifying the world, Liu Bowen presented "Eighteen Strategies for Current Affairs", and analyzed the current situation in detail and put forward ways to deal with it.
Zhu Yuanzhang's gratitude to Liu Bowen was beyond words, and he praised Liu Bowen as "my son Fang Ye", and regarded him as a confidant and strategist, and discussed important military and political matters with him.
With his outstanding talent, Liu Bowen formulated a strategic policy for Zhu Yuanzhang to "destroy Chen Youliang first, then destroy Zhang Shicheng, and then go north to the Central Plains and dominate the world". Under the leadership of Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen successfully lured the enemy into the depths, defeated Chen Youliang, and completely eliminated Zhang Shicheng's forces the following year.
At the suggestion of Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to the north, and eventually established the Ming Dynasty in the south. Liu Bowen made outstanding contributions to the process of Zhu Yuanzhang's founding of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, won the respect of his colleagues and subordinates, and also won Zhu Yuanzhang's trust.
Zhu Yuanzhang once publicly praised him as "my son Fang Ye". As one of the founding fathers of the People's Republic of China, Liu Bowen was appointed as the Imperial Historian and Taishi Ling, and was rewarded by Zhu Yuanzhang for exempting Liu Bowen's hometown of Qingtian County from taxation.
Liu Bowen's career and the Liu family also reached their peak at this time.
Zhu Yuanzhang was deeply disturbed and immediately ordered his subordinates to summon Liu Bowen. He told Liu Bowen that he had frequent nightmares recently, dreaming that the capital was captured, and hoped that Liu Bowen could interpret the dream.
Liu Bowen pinched his fingers and seemed to notice some signs, but he knew that leaking the sky would bring danger, so he only suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang strengthen the defense of the city. Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled by this, believing that the city of Nanjing was impregnable and there was no need to strengthen its defenses.
Liu Bowen saw the doubts in the emperor's heart and continued to explain: "Although the capital is strong, it still needs to be vigilant. Unless the swallows fly into the capital, there is no need to worry too much.
Your Majesty personally conquered, and this city will enjoy peace forever. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang knew that some things should not be delved too into, so he did not ask any further. In fact, "Swallow Flying to Beijing" alludes to the capture of Nanjing by Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and "Yongle" is the name of the era of Zhu Di's reign.
Liu Bowen had expected that Zhu Di would rebel, so he made such a hint. However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand the mystery, which became his destined tragedy.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Bowen to calculate how long he could be the emperor, and Liu Bowen told him that he had thirty-five years of emperor life, but four of them were stolen. Later, as Liu Bowen said, Zhu Yuanzhang died after being emperor for thirty-one years.
After his death, he passed the throne to his grandson Zhu Yunwen. And Zhu Yunwen happened to be the emperor for four years, so Zhu Di launched the "Battle of Jingjing" and attacked the city of Nanjing.
Pray for rain from heaven"In the middle of June, the heat in Bianliang City was unbearable, and it lasted for more than 20 days without rain, and the water in some sections of the Yellow River had dried up, and when the wind blew, the wind and sand inside and outside the city flew all over the sky.
Zhu Yuanzhang read at night, sweating like rain, and the eunuchs in the palace brought well water for him to wipe many times. Yang Xian came to Bianliang from Yingtiancheng to take up his post, and first came to meet the emperor. He knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about the long drought and no rain, so he advised that he could set up an altar to ask for rain and move the heavens with sincerity.
Zhu Yuanzhang listened to his suggestion and ordered Yang Xian to find a few Taoist priests in Kaifeng City to set up altars to pray for rain, and asked Liu Bowen to arrange Si Tianjian to calculate the date of rain.
The Taoist priests begged for rain for several days, but there was not even a single dark cloud in the sky. Yang Xian once again admonished, suggesting that Liu Bowen be consulted on how to pray for rain, and let him set up an altar in Yingtian City to pray for rain.
Twelve days later, the envoy brought back Liu Bowen's letter from Yingtiancheng. Liu Bowen Yuming has set up an altar in the sun of Zhongshan to pray for rain. However, the immorality of the DPRK and China has led to a long period of no rain in the sky.
Liu Bowen wrote in the recital that when Li Bin was transferred to the Criminal Department, he accepted 60 taels of silver from a certain defendant, revised his testimony without authorization, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang to execute him. Li Bin was recommended to Zhu Yuanzhang by Prime Minister Li Shanchang, and the charges mentioned in the chapter were not big or small, but Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the Great Seal of the Imperial Historical Observatory and the 'Treasure of the Prince' on the concert, and said to himself: "Presumably the prince also agreed to kill." So he picked up the cinnabar pen and wrote down six words: "Quasi-beheading Li Bin, admiring this".
Li Bin is a close confidant of Li Shanchang, after Li Bin was reported, Li Shanchang once asked Liu Bowen to intercede, and even sent two ancient paintings, in order to postpone the report to Bianliang, do not beg for rain to kill Li Bin, and wait for the emperor to return to the palace.
Liu Bowen insisted on refusing, and Li Shanchang said coldly: "If you are determined to kill Li Bin, it's okay to say if it's raining, if it's not raining, see how you can prevaricate the emperor, don't say that I didn't remind you!" ”
A few days later, Liu Bowen ordered someone to take the emperor's edict and the prince's edict and extract Li Bin from the prison. I heard that Liu Yushi was going to be beheaded from Sanpin**, and he was still a relative of the prime minister, so they came to see the beheading.
At this point, the first major corruption case of the founding of the Ming Dynasty was finally closed. From Yingtian to Bianliang, every day is the scorching sun, there is no sign of rain, and there are countless pieces of disaster reports in various places.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that it still didn't rain after beheading Li Bin, and gradually began to complain about Liu Bowen. When the rice fields cracked and the ponds dried up, Zhu Yuanzhang asked people to draft an edict to seek good strategies for drought control. Liu Bowen immediately played three things, one was to compensate the wives of the deceased soldiers, the second was to bury craftsmen from all over the country, and the third was to send Zhang Shicheng's subordinates to return to their hometowns for the old and weak and those who did not want to serve as officials and soldiers.
With his trust in Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to take his suggestion and patiently waited for the rain to fall from the sky. However, nine days passed, and not a drop of rain was seen.
In the early morning of the tenth day, Dali Siqing accused Liu Bowen of making Li Bin's decision to kill Li Bin, and he was responsible for this. This made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry, and scolded Liu Bowen loudly in Bianliang City, saying that he had failed his expectations, which was really stupid!
Although Liu Bowen played three things, and Zhu Yuanzhang agreed, but by now, it has been almost twenty or thirty days without seeing a little rain, is Liu Bowen really teasing himself?
At this moment, Liu Bowen was reviewing the documents at the Yushi Observatory when he suddenly sneezed. He realized that it hadn't rained for a month, and this time it really might have been a miscalculation.
Liu Bowen stopped writing, walked out of the study and rode directly to the Taishi Prison. At this time, the officials were calculating the weather in front of the table, and after Liu Bowen joined, he began to look at the calculation manuscript page by page.
However, when he saw the next few pages, his face became terrified: "Sorry, Emperor, according to these calculations, it will not rain for the last few days, and it may not rain until eleven or twelve days later." ”
Liu Bowen was upset, and suddenly felt some swelling in his back, and there was also some dull pain in his left ribs. Soon, Zhu Yuanzhang toured Beijing in the north, and Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen took hundreds of officials to bow down.
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Liu Bowen coldly, and said in a low voice: "Liu Bowen, you said before that if you kill Li Bin, it will rain in God." But now it's not raining at all.
I have believed you, and what responsibility should you bear? ”
When Liu Bowen heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly knelt down, bowed his head to the ground, and said again and again: "The minister is guilty of capital crimes." Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and followed Liu Bowen's words and said, "Capital crime?
How can I be willing to let you die of old age? With that, the emperor brushed his sleeves and left, returning to the palace. Liu Bowen knelt there for a long time, his heart full of guilt. Li Shanchang came to Liu Bowen, bowed his head and said, "Why didn't you listen to my advice at the beginning?" ”
After Liu Bowen's second wife, Chen, died of illness, he wrote "Seeking to Shishu" and asked to return to his hometown. Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Liu Bowen had already been upset, and this incident had happened, and he could no longer stop him, so he allowed him to resign and return to his hometown.
Liu Bowen chose to return to his hometown in the fourth year of Hongwu (1371) and had no quarrel with the world. His life has become simpler, only drinking and playing chess, not talking about ** performance. Although he tried to avoid the distractions of politics, he could not completely escape it.
In the fifth year of Hongwu (1372), he was placed under house arrest by Zhu Yuanzhang in Nanjing because he was framed by Hu Weiyong, but Hu Weiyong was appointed as the prime minister of Zuo. This made Liu Bowen feel very disappointed.
From then on, his illness worsened day by day, until in April of the eighth year of Hongwu, he died of illness at home, leaving behind his last words that he did not want his children and grandchildren to study astronomy.
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