Liu Bowen left a plan before his death, suffered Zhu Yuanzhang, laughed at Li Zicheng

Are you familiar with Liu Bowen ? Like Zhuge Liang, he is a symbol of ancient wisdom in our country, and the two have made the same contribution in different times.

It is known as "Three points of the world Zhuge Liang, dominate the country Liu Bowen" said, meaning that Liu Bowen's contribution is not under Zhuge Liang.


Liu Bowen

In real history, the two are not so good at all. Take Zhuge Liang for example. His military capabilities are ordinary. Zhuge Liang’s main contribution is to develop production and ensure supply. He Han The prime minister Xiao He is almost the same.

Liu Bowen is not a godly person either, saying that he helped Zhu Yuanzhang to unify the world is a bit exaggerated. When Zhu Yuanzhang was the Marshal of the Red Scarf Army , Bowen Liu still lived in seclusion and played with the small vegetable garden. When Zhu Yuanzhang started him, Bowen Liu was already 50 years old.

Let alone his age, I checked " Ming History " and I didn't find that Liu Bowen was very good in military affairs. After all, he is a literate man, he reads a lot of books and writes good articles. This kind of person casually grabbed a lot of them in ancient times.

Even though this is the case, it did not prevent the folks from blowing Liu Bowen into the air. For example, when Liu Bowen was young, he received a wonderful book dedicated to him by the White Ape in a cave near his hometown. This book is the strategy of war " " written by the Han Dynasty military commander Zhang Liang . Liu Bowen was a treasure, and then he used the knowledge in the book to help Zhu Yuanzhang unify the world.


In this article, let’s follow the legend and talk about how Liu Bowen protected this book before he died. Who got this book afterwards? What's the result? With these questions,Let's start with Liu Bowen's illness in his later years.

Before entering the topic, I still have to talk about Liu Bowen in real history.

Liu Bowen, whose real name is Liu Ji, whose name is Bowen, was born in Nantian Township, Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province, and now belongs to Wencheng County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province.

Liu Bowen was born in the mid-Yuan Dynasty in 1311. His father was a private school, named Liu Hui (Yin Yue). In his spare time, he likes to read books such as the Book of Changes Qimen Dunjia.

Influenced by his father, Liu Bowen often turned over these books from his father after finishing his homework when he was young. After a long time, I became interested in these books. This may be the basis for the folklore Liu Bowen to be able to count.

I have to say that Bowen Liu is very smart. He was a talented student at the age of 12 and was called a child prodigy.


At the age of 22, he carried his bags and traveled to Yuandadu , which is now Beijing, to participate in the scientific examination, and he became a high school scholar in one fell swoop. However, at this time the Yuan Dynasty had reached a time of precariousness, and capable people were useless.

is not bad. Three years later, Liu Bowen was appointed by the court as the prime minister of Gao'an County, Jiangxi.

Even so, he didn't spend long in the county, and was eventually run away by the local ruffians.

It turns out that Liu Bowen is too upright and doesn't understand the smooth way of being an official. Let's put it this way, since Liu Bowen entered official career, he has not been smoothly. He served in the local government, usually within a year, he would be dismissed from office and dismissed.

Even Liu Bowen was puzzled. He opened the Book of Changes and made a calculation. He showed that his career was bumpy before the age of 50. Liu Bowen was very trustworthy, so he gave up being an official, and simply retired in the mountains to study the Book of Changes and Qimen Dunjia. Waiting for ancient books.


Years are long, and many years have passed in a blink of an eye. In 1360, Zhu Yuanzhang occupied Nanjing. At this time, he was in desperate need of a talented person to come out of the mountain for assistance. Under the suggestion of the Prince's teacher Song Lian ,Liu Bowen was born.

It is worth mentioning that Liu Bowen, Song Lian, Ye Chen Zhang Yi were called the Four Sages of West Zhejiang, and later Liu Bowen became the most famous.

Zhu Yuanzhang was thirsty for talents and hurriedly sent someone to invite Bowen Liu. Old Liu was tired of staying at home, so he became Zhu Yuanzhang's counselor. This year, Liu was 50 years old.

Zhu Yuanzhang's occupation of Nanjing does not mean that he already has the world. He wants to eradicate the armed forces from all over the world. Among them, Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng are the most powerful. At this time, Liu Bowen offered a plan to remind Lao Zhu to avoid two-line battles. He meant that he would defeat Zhang Shicheng first and destroy Chen Youliang. When Chen Youliang died, Zhang Shicheng would not be far away.

Old Zhu was overjoyed when he heard: "Just listen to what the military commander said." After a deadly death, Zhu Yuanzhang won the final victory without any risk.


In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor and the country was named Daming. Regarding the merits and deeds, Liu Bowen was awarded the title of Yushi Zhongcheng Jiantai Shiling, which belonged to a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty , which is equivalent to the current vice-president of the Supreme Procuratorate.

Let me summarize. Old Liu assisted Zhu Yuanzhang for a total of 14 years. In the first 8 years, he followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight in the South and North, and made suggestions. In the next 6 years, when there was peace, Liu Bowen's energy was mainly used to guard against Zhu Yuanzhang's black hands against him.

Especially in his old age, Zhu Yuanzhang is deliberately planning to kill him, why did Lao Zhu want to kill Lao Liu?

It turned out that after Zhu Yuanzhang sat in the world, he was afraid that the heroes would rebel and kill him. 9 of the 10 heroes were killed by him. If it weren't for Old Liu Neng's pinch, he would have counted.

Hongwu 8 years,In the latter part of the first month of 1375, Bowen Liu accidentally contracted a wind chill. Old Liu is very acquainted. Since the emperor is not at ease with himself, why don't I ask to retire and go home to recuperate. After Old Liu's request, Zhu Yuanzhang is eager for him to leave, so Liu Bowen returned to his hometown.


After leaving, Lao Zhu was still uneasy. He was afraid that Lao Liu would help to rebel at home. Then, under the guise of Lao Liu, Lao Zhu announced that he had entered Beijing, which meant to listen to his voice from the side.

No matter how Lao Zhu acted, Lao Liu could see through his mind. Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Liu Bowen's illness was indeed not mild, and wondered if Liu Bowen was so awkward, didn't he rely on this book?

After Liu Bowen's death, if this book flows into the people and will be a disaster for thousands of years, anyone can overthrow my world with this book. For the sake of future generations, I must get this book in hand, and then Zhu Yuanzhang began to act.

What Zhu Yuanzhang thought of, Liu Bowen had already thought of him. Lao Liu knows the importance of this book, and he usually doesn’t let people get involved. Even his two sons Liu Lian and Liu Jing haven’t read it. According to Lao Liu, these two sons have little qualifications and are fundamentally less senior. Can't learn.

Except for Liu Bowen, no other person in the Ming Dynasty has read this book, which aroused Zhu Yuanzhang's interest, and he vowed to get this book.


Liu Bowen knows this well. Just before Lao Liu died, he called his two sons to the bed and said weakly: "The emperor has always wanted my "Hundred Wars". This book cannot be read by him. The emperor's nature is vicious and not tolerant enough. The book is harmful to him. It is a curse to keep this book. I burned it on fire a few days ago."

After finishing this, Lao Liu looked at his two sons with kind eyes, and said with all his strength: "After I die, the emperor will definitely flip over our house. Don’t stop the two of you. I have nothing to leave for you two. There is only a book by Yu Ion. This is a novel of monsters and monsters that I have written all my life.

If The emperor asked you both for "A Hundred Battles",You should give this copy of "Yu Ion" to the emperor. "After talking about Liu Bowen, he was breathless.

Old Liu really expected things like a god. Zhu Yuanzhang took the opportunity of condolence and asked his two sons, Liu Lian and Liu Jing, for "A Hundred Battles". The two sons said that their father had already given the book. It burned, and he said that he transferred his father’s "Yu Ion" to the emperor.


What Zhu Yuanzhang wants is a hundred wars, he is not interested in Yu Ion, so I took it back to the palace and didn’t see it. He threw it into the pile of ancient books at a glance.

Old Zhu was not good-hearted, he didn't believe that Liu Bowen would burn his beloved book, borrowing the name of Liu Bowen to renovate the house, he still couldn't find the book after digging three feet in the ground.

It turned out that Bowen Liu had expected that Zhu Yuanzhang would demolish his house to find the book, so before he died, he told his son that the emperor would rebuild the house for our family and don’t block it.

Time passed in a hurry, Zhu Yuanzhang could not find it This book has trouble sleeping and eating. He is afraid that it will fall into the hands of the people, and even more that it will fall into the hands of the ministers of the Central Government. He is afraid that these people will use the knowledge in the book to seize the country.

I was troubled, and finally died of depression.

Someone might ask, Liu Bowen really burned the book? Ion’s book was hollowed out, and the "Hundred Wars and Mistakes" were sandwiched in the book "Yu Ion".


If Zhu Yuanzhang flipped through "Yu Ion", he would definitely see " "A Hundred Battles".

Liu Bowen decided that Zhu Yuanzhang would not do this, so he took a dangerous move and asked him to take the book to the palace. Old Zhu accidentally protected the book. Think about it, everyone. Dare to steal books from the palace?

So, the book "Hundred Wars", lying quietly in the corner of the palace for 270 years.

In 1644 AD, led by Li Zicheng The peasant rebel army occupied and the Forbidden City,The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Youjian hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty perished.

One day, Li Zicheng strolled in the palace and saw the book Yu Ion. He was a big fan of Bowen Liu, so he picked up the book and started studying. He found that the cover of the book was "Yu Ion", but inside it was "A Hundred Wars and Mistakes". Li Zicheng was overjoyed. He did not expect to have obtained the book by chance. Li Zicheng immediately knelt on the ground and bowed to Nanyao, muttering to himself: "Thank you. Old Master Bowen".


Actually, Li Zicheng should be most grateful to Zhu Yuanzhang. After that, Li Zicheng successfully hid it with this book. Until now, no one knows where Li Zicheng fled after his failure. In general, Liu Bowen’s legacy before his death caused Zhu Yuanzhang’s sleep and food troubles, but Li Zicheng after 270 years of cheapness, who is this going to tell?

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