1375, Liu Bowen is coming to the end of his life. Before he died, he did a suspicious thing, that is, he sent a basket of fish to the then emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. Is it because Zhu Yuanzhang wants to eat fish? Yes, Zhu Yuanzhang wants to eat fish, and someone around him will let him eat. Why let Liu Bowen give him fish to eat?
What does Liu Bowen mean by sending fish to Zhu Yuanzhang? And did Zhu Yuanzhang really understand Zhu Yuanzhang's profound meaning after 17 years, as history said? This is about the importance of Liu Bowen to Zhu Yuanzhang.
1360, Liu Bowen was invited by Zhu Yuanzhang to Yingtian, today's Nanjing, and became Zhu Yuanzhang's counselor. According to the situation at that time, Liu Bowen suggested to Zhu Yuanzhang to avoid fighting on two fronts and divide-and-conquer strategy for Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng.
Under the planning of Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang really became the biggest winner, bringing Chen Youliang to the top and then destroying Zhang Shicheng. 1367, Zhu Yuanzhang officially proclaimed himself in Yingtian and changed his name to Daming. Since then, the Ming Dynasty has ruled for 276 years. Subsequently, Xu Da sent troops to the Northern Expedition, expelling the Mongolian Yuan regime that occupied China for nearly 100 years.
Moreover, after the founding of Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen also played an important role in the formulation of laws, thoughts of governing the country and military system in the Ming Dynasty. It is precisely because Liu Bowen's contribution is not comparable to that of other founding ministers that he came later? Three points of the world, Zhuge Liang, unified Liu Bowen? Statement.
Calm down the invasion of foreign enemies. Guilt? It's starting.
In his later years, Zhu Yuanzhang worried that Prince Zhu Biao was too kind. After he succeeded to the throne, these founding ministers, who cultivated the country with themselves, were proud of themselves and would not really surrender to the new king. In order to clear the way for Prince Zhu Biao to be in power in the future, Zhu Yuanzhang began to punish the heroes, but many heroes such as Li Shanchang, Shengfeng and Aquamarine failed to get a good end.
Liu Bowen, one of the founding heroes, is one of the few people who can get a good death, which has a certain relationship with his wisdom. Because he is good at reading Zhu Yuanzhang's mind and can predict what will happen next, especially seeing the trend of birds doing their best, he asked to resign and go home early to save his life.
With Liu Bowen's wisdom, it is reasonable to say that he won't interfere with anything in the imperial court, but just before he died, he brushed a little sense of existence again.
1375, Liu Bowen died at the age of 65. Before he died, he asked his son to send a basket of fish to Zhu Yuanzhang. And why did Zhu Yuanzhang understand Liu Bowen's intention to send this basket of fish after 17 years?
It's not because Zhu Yuanzhang is stupid, but because he thinks that these fish are just special products given to him by Liu Bowen, so he doesn't care too much in his heart. Watching the fish in the basket alive and kicking? Fighting each other? Zhu Yuanzhang thought it was very interesting and asked people to raise these fish.
Time flies, and it's almost time 1392. A very sad thing happened to Zhu Yuanzhang this year, that is, Prince Zhu Biao died of illness.
Zhu Biao was smart and kind since he was a child, and he was also very friendly to his younger brothers. Whenever his younger brothers make mistakes, Zhu Biao intercedes for them to avoid punishment, so he has the highest prestige among his brothers. When Zhu Biao was alive, the governors listened to him very much, and they didn't mean to compete for the throne.
However, after Zhu Biao's death, other governors felt that they had a chance to compete for the throne, and they were all working hard for the throne, so they began to fight among governors. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the basket of fish that Liu Bowen gave himself before he died.
In fact, Liu Bowen wanted to tell Zhu Yuanzhang that when the princes were together, they would fight for the position of the prince. Just like the fish in the basket, in order to gain more space, they began to fight with each other, and once Zhu Yunwen, the great grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, who wanted to stand in his heart, was announced by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yunwen was bound to be opposed by his uncles, causing an uncontrollable situation.
So Zhu Yuanzhang ordered other governors to return to their fiefs immediately after attending the funeral of the prince, and they were not allowed to stay in Beijing, and they were not allowed to return to Beijing without the order of their father Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang's order is also because he realized the profound meaning of a basket of fish in Liu Bowen, so he put the governors in their respective fiefs, each with this vast world, which greatly avoided fighting with each other.
But Zhu Yuanzhang can manage the living, not the dead. This basket of fish? Still fighting, son Judy and grandson Zhu Yunwen compete for the throne, just like fish in the basket.
After Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne, his fourth uncle Judy was completely angered by the wanton reduction of governors. Judy launched the battle of Jingnan, and the two sides fought fiercely. After four years of bloody fighting, Judy finally occupied Nanjing, the capital of Nanjing. Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts in the palace fire became an unsolved case in history.
Then Judy proclaimed herself emperor and finally won this time? Fish? Zhu Yuanzhang's chosen heir is his fourth son Judy.