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"Godman" Liu Bowen can predict the major events a thousand years from now but cannot predict himself

There is always a type of person in history who is a rare breed. The probability of their appearance is extremely low, and it may even take hundreds of years for them to appear. They are the ones we often say are magical, astronomical, and geographical, and have no one of the three religions or nine streams. If you are not good at it, everyone in the Five Elements and Eight Zodiacs knows such a person. Such representative figures include Zhuge Liang, Jiang Ziya who lived in the 800th year of the Zhou Dynasty, Zhang Liang and Zhang Zifang who lived in the 400th year of the Han Dynasty, plus later generations like Xu Maogong, Liu Bowen, etc. What we are going to talk about in this section is Liu Ji and Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen, whose nickname is Liu Ji and whose courtesy name is Bowen - we collectively call people like him "gods". The word "god-man" is very particular. No matter how god he is, he is still a human being, not a real god. But even though he is a human being, he needs to be deified at a certain point. Therefore, when we come into contact with the deeds of these so-called "gods", we will find that there are many legends surrounding them.

For example, "Zhuge Liang borrowed the east wind." It seems that Zhuge Liang really borrowed the east wind. In fact, he just knew astronomy. Therefore, in addition to being able to predict with miraculous calculations, the most important basic skill of a god is Understand astronomy. We all know that in the past, the Chinese were very familiar with things on the land - farming civilization, but things in the sky are very mysterious, so these mysterious and mysterious things are often combined with people who have clever calculations.

Liu Bowen is no exception. His experience has not escaped our regular summary of this type of god-man. Many people say that Liu Bowen is from Wenzhou, which is not accurate. He is from Nanshan Township, Qingtian County, Wenzhou. At that time, Liu Bowen became a hermit with a few good friends around him. Why did he become a hermit? Hermits are often very lonely. When these few people are together, four of them can play mahjong, and if one person is missing, they can fight landlords - of course, this is a joke. He found a few friends to live in seclusion together.

Among these friends were one named Ye Chen, one named Song Lian, and one named Zhang Yi. Together with Liu Bowen, they were called the "Four Hermits of Eastern Zhejiang", also known as "The Four Hermits of Eastern Zhejiang". "Four Scholars in Eastern Zhejiang". Later, Song Lian first sought refuge with Zhu Yuanzhang. By 1360 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang's general Hu Dahai attacked the city and reached Chuzhou, not far from where Liu Bowen lived in seclusion. He heard that the "Four Hermits in Eastern Zhejiang" were famous, and that Song Lian had already taken refuge with Zhu Yuanzhang at that time, so please invite the remaining three.

For this invitation, Ye Chen and Zhang Yi came, but Liu Bowen didn’t come. Why? Big spectrum. Hu Dahai told Zhu Yuanzhang about this. Zhu Yuanzhang actually didn't take Liu Bowen seriously, but he didn't come back several times after hearing the invitation, which was a bit interesting! Whether he is capable or not, Hu Dahai is a military general and I can’t tell. I’ll send a civil servant to talk to Liu Bowen! It doesn’t work! Liu Bowen then failed to show off.

In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang sent one of his military attaches named Sun Yan to invite him. Liu Bowen was still there, saying that he was not in good health recently. At this time, Sun Yan pulled out the sword, which shocked Liu Bowen. Sun Yan said: "This sword should be offered to the emperor to kill those who disobey." This was so powerful. He said that this sword of mine is ready to be dedicated to the emperor at any time, specifically to kill those who disobey. Liu Bowen thought about it, if a good man doesn't suffer the immediate loss, let's go and have a look first! Just like that, he followed Sun Yan obediently and came to Zhu Yuanzhang's army.

Zhu Yuanzhang regarded him as a fortune teller at first, and invited him here just like a comparison - catch a rabbit on the 30th night, and celebrate the New Year with or without it - he did not take him too seriously. thing. But in the subsequent war, he gradually discovered that Liu Bowen was a great person! At the time, he was said to have a miraculous calculation, but in fact, he analyzed and predicted the battle situation very accurately. By 1363 AD, the situation of the entire peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty became obvious, and the most powerful forces in the world were none other than Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shicheng, and Chen Youliang. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was nominally under the management of the Red Scarf Army of Xiao Ming Wang Han Lin'er, and Han Lin'er was regarded as king. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's power far exceeded Han Lin'er.

At this time, Zhang Shicheng bypassed Zhu Yuanzhang and fought north, reaching what is now Anfeng. Anfeng City is controlled by Han Lin'er and Liu Futong. If the city is to be captured, Han Lin'er and Liu Futong will both be defeated.

Therefore, Han Lin'er gave orders to Zhu Yuanzhang and ordered him to save her. Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Bowen to discuss whether he should go or not. Liu Bowen shook his head and said don't go.

But Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe him and went to lead his troops. As a result, Anfeng was not saved and was captured by Zhang Shicheng. Anfeng was lost, but he still rescued Han Lin'er. How to arrange for him? He has to be the emperor in name only. Later, as Zhu Yuanzhang's power grew day by day, Han Lin'er drowned in the water at the right time. Almost everyone believed that Zhu Yuanzhang had killed him. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang became notorious as a "regicide" in this incident. If you listen to Liu Bowen and let Zhang Shicheng kill Han Lin'er directly, wouldn't this be clean? So Zhu Yuanzhang regretted it very much. Thinking of Liu Bowen's greatness, he thought that I must reuse this character. From then on, he would definitely discuss any major military and state affairs with Liu Bowen.

Zhu Yuanzhang once commented on Liu Bowen:

(Liu Ji) learned a lot about heaven and man, and had both civil and military talents; his spirit was upright and his talent was vast. In the moment of discussion, one can gallop through the ages; in the moment of turmoil, one can control one side. Seeing Yu generously, the first person is Chen Yuanluo; the outline of the state is followed by the use of troops. If you can say something, I can review it and use it, and the style will be restrained to this day. All the efforts made are effective.

It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang relied heavily on Liu Bowen.

Later, Liu Bowen became more and more famous. He not only understands military and national affairs - legend says that Liu Bowen's prediction ability far exceeds this, and he can predict everything. Liu Bowen has a book called "Song of Shaobing", which is written in rhyme and has about 1912 words. So what did Liu Bowen predict in it? It is what happened in the 500 years after Zhu Yuanzhang, such as the Tumu Fortress Change, Wei Zhongxian's dictatorship, Chongzhen was hanged at Meishan, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties entered the customs, the prosperous ages of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, the Communist Party shaved its hair, the Daxing Literary Prison, etc. To put it bluntly, just kidding, Emperor Qianlong could have predicted when he met Xia Yuhe at the Daming Lake in Jinan a few years ago - he knew everything in "Huanzhugege".

What's going on? There are records in history that when Liu Bowen entered the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned him to see him. Zhu Yuanzhang said, I heard that you have wonderful plans and know what will happen in the next 500 years. How many years can our Ming Dynasty and the Zhu family dominate the world? Liu Bowen said, Emperor, you are thousands of sons and grandsons, why do you need to ask me? Of course, these words sound like flattery to Zhu Yuanzhang, and they mean to be passed down to generations, from one generation, two generations, three generations to more than 10,000 generations! What did people think of it later? It is said that this is Liu Bowen's prediction that when Emperor Chongzhen comes, your Zhu family's world will be over!

What does "ten thousand sons and ten thousand grandchildren" mean? Emperor Chongzhen's grandfather was Emperor Wanli of Ming Shenzong, which means that Emperor Chongzhen is the grandson of Emperor Wanli. This means that your position will end when it reaches Emperor Wanli's grandson. When I said it, everyone thought it was far-fetched - this legend was nothing more than saying that Liu Bowen's predictions were amazing. Therefore, you don’t need to take these things seriously.

However, Liu Bowen encountered a big trouble at that time. We all know that Zhu Yuanzhang likes to kill heroes. The world has been settled, and Liu Bowen also knows that when the cunning rabbit dies, the running dogs will be cooked; when the birds are gone, the good bows will be hidden; when the enemy's country is destroyed, the advisers will perish. If you continue to follow a suspicious and jealous master like Zhu Yuanzhang, you will definitely end badly. Therefore, Liu Bowen requested to retire and return to his hometown, to return to Qingtian for retirement.

Zhu Yuanzhang disagreed because the civil servants in the dynasty were engaged in party disputes at that time. China's feudal society has always had a tradition of party struggle. Look at the fierce fight between the Mingzhu and Suo'etu parties in "Kangxi Dynasty". At that time, the civil servant who served as prime minister was Li Shanchang. Elder Li Shan's family was in Huaixi, so the faction with him was called the "Huaixi faction". Among the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty, this group was the most powerful. If Liu Bowen goes back, no one can restrain Li Shanchang. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang hoped that Liu Bowen would stay and restrain Li Shanchang. Liu Bowen had no choice but to stay - he really didn't want to stay, because he knew that sooner or later there would be no good results.

It is said that one day Zhu Yuanzhang called Liu Bowen in and said that although Li Shanchang was a senior official with outstanding achievements, as the right prime minister of Zhongshu Province, he was a bit cowardly and ignorant. He was now thinking about reorganizing Zhongshu Province. Province.

When Liu Bowen heard this, he broke into a cold sweat. The emperor said he didn't like Li Shanchang and wanted to replace him. Liu Bowen couldn't give the right answer no matter what. Liu Bowen was very clever. He immediately stood up and said respectfully, "How dare we speak nonsense about such a major world matter?" Or the Emperor's Holy Judgment. I think I've dealt with it. As a result, the emperor named several more candidates and asked him to see who was suitable to be the prime minister. The first one is Yang Xian, the second one is Wang Guangyang, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and the third one is Hu Weiyong, the counselor of Zhongshu Province.

In fact, don't underestimate Zhu Yuanzhang's words - this is the leader's inspection of you to see your grasp of the situation. At that time, Liu Bowen replied that these three ministers were not worthy of the important task of prime minister. Although Yang Xian was talented as a prime minister, he did not have the magnanimity of a prime minister; Wang Guangyang was narrow-minded and shallow, not as good as Yang Xian; as for Hu Weiyong, he was talented and magnanimous enough, but had a bad temper and bad temper. He acts staunchly and repays grudges - he is good as an auxiliary minister. If he is placed in the prime minister's position, he will probably be driven by a fierce buffalo, which will be difficult to control and will overturn sooner or later.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he felt that his answer was quite appropriate. Then he asked again: I am going to take down Li Shanchang and make you the prime minister. At that time, Liu Bowen was stupid again. He said that he was weak and sick and incompetent for complicated government affairs. Secondly, he was straightforward and outspoken. If he were to be the prime minister, his temper would sooner or later offend the emperor, and the emperor would have to kill me. ——Even for the sake of your own wealth and life, you would never dare to assume the position of prime minister.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a look and realized that it was broken. If you want to use Liu Bowen, he will cause trouble - he is capable and refuses to stay mediocre. At this time, the world has been settled, and Zhu Yuanzhang no longer wants to use capable people - he himself is the most capable person - you just need to be mediocre and do the things I tell you, and just be a bitch. Therefore, in this temptation, Zhu Yuanzhang thought, I can't use Liu Bowen, but I have to let him go. What if someone wants to rebel and asks him to deal with me? At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had revealed his murderous intention. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Hu Weiyong to visit Liu Bowen. At that time, Liu Bowen said he was ill at home, and Hu Weiyong took the imperial doctor there - and Zhu Yuanzhang also gave him medicine. Unexpectedly, after Liu Bowen took this medicine, not only did he not recover, but his condition worsened day by day, and he died soon after.

Many people know this history. Hu Weiyong did not dare to do anything to Liu Bowen. The reason why he dared to bring the imperial doctor there to tamper with the medicine was because Zhu Yuanzhang allowed it. Therefore, Liu Bowen, against all odds, did not escape Zhu Yuanzhang's grasp - this is also an inevitability of Chinese history. Cai Yuanpei once commented on Liu Bowen:

The times create heroes, the strategy is brilliant, and the merits are as high as those of the Ming Dynasty.

This can be said to be the high praise of Liu Bowen by later generations.

Feudal emperors in the past dynasties would kill heroes whenever they came up. Why? He originally reused these capable people because he had powerful enemies to deal with. Now that the world has been settled and the powerful enemies are gone, the biggest enemies become the heroes around us - because they are the most capable! What about the loyal ministers here? There is no way, the cost of identifying whether this person is a loyal minister or a treacherous minister is too high, and it will take time to test. The easiest thing is to kill all the loyal ministers and treacherous ministers to avoid future troubles. This is the lowest cost and most efficient way to make the world permanent. way. Therefore, no matter how miraculous and clever Liu Bowen is, he cannot escape the law of historical change.