Chapter 48 Liu Ji, Liu Bowen
After Chen Youliang ascended the throne and became emperor, the Han emperor Chen Youliang, who had completely controlled the country and the army and was unwilling to be lonely, took advantage of the hot stall of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng's secret love, and caught Zhu Yuanzhang, a wild donkey who was regarded as a thorn in his eye and was eager to pull out the flesh, and unintentionally cared about the gaps in other places, and launched his first war since the founding of the People's Republic of China towards Taiping not far away.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who didn't care about his face and didn't care about his face, was deep in the quagmire of war with Zhang Shicheng and couldn't pull out his legs, and when he heard that the current war was tightening this burning monkey's buttocks, another terrible team stole his Longxing land.
And this terrible team was the Chen Youliang who had no trade and military friendly exchanges with him, his hairs stood on end and his back was cold.
Hearing the news, Zhu Yuanzhang, whose head was dazed and anxious, suddenly panicked.
You beast, beast!
Thou slayer of power.
Master, I didn't recruit you and didn't provoke you, you just caused disaster to the emperor of your family, and the emperor of the country has not worked for a few days, now what are you doing behind my base, is it possible to think about coming to trouble me again?
You're a true animal, beast.
Knowing that Uncle I am very busy now, and I don't have time to deal with you and don't have the strength to provoke you, you will take the opportunity to copy Uncle and my back road.
You can't do that, right?
You're a beast in the truest sense of the word.
Your attack on Taiping's poison, not far from Taiping is the master's nest, if you are allowed to take a step forward, then my years of hard work will be completely in vain.
Your move is high, and you can choke my seven inches with one move.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who has just developed and is far inferior to others in terms of comprehensive strength, was in a very passive situation when he was harassed by Zhang Shicheng in front of him and then pressed forward by Chen Youliang step by step, and when he was almost faced with a two-sided war, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in a dilemma with strong troops in front and back, really had a big head and was in a dilemma.
It was at this time that a decisive figure came to his army, which could be said to influence the development of his future career.
After the arrival of this figure, as an absolute think tank and a senior intellectual who called for rain in his belly, he quickly assessed the comprehensive strength of these two opponents, and assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in making the next military focus.
His specific strategy was to avoid fighting on two fronts and adopt the strategy of breaking through each other.
hit Chen Youliang first, and then Ping Zhang Shicheng.
This person's name is simple but simple, simple and extraordinary.
The specific name is: Liu Ji.
Some people may think that the name Liu Ji is a little unfamiliar, okay, then let's get acquainted with another terrible name for him.
This is called: Liu Bowen.
After his death, in order to commemorate this great founding hero and praise his extraordinary life experience, the descendants specially classified Liu Ji and Zhuge Liang, the former sage of the Three Kingdoms period, as the same figures, and even many people evaluated his merits more than Zhuge Liang.
In order to commemorate this great man, after Liu Ji's death, the world attributed his life to a proverb.
The proverb is as follows:
Zhuge Liang is divided into three parts of the world, and Liu Bowen dominates the country.
In order to plan more clearly Liu Ji's extraordinary and great strategic exploits in his life, many ordinary people commented on him as:
Zhuge Liang, the former military division of the DPRK, and Liu Bowen, the military division of the later dynasty.
As for this figure that Zhu Yuanzhang worked hard to invite, but did not give him a clear official title, it can be said that in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, Liu Ji has become his absolute military advisor, Liu Ji made an unmistakable and accurate division of Zhu Yuanzhang's strategic line and offensive goals, and Zhu Yuanzhang, as the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, also made a high evaluation of him.
Zhu Yuanzhang has called Liu Ji many times: My son Fang (Zhang Liang) also.
Personally, I think that Liu Ji's existence plays a crucial role in Zhu Yuanzhang, although in the real military offensive, in the battlefield and life-and-death struggle, Liu Ji did not appear, as a literati, he is not suitable to appear on this kind of life-and-death battlefield.
However, as a literati who can strategize, hold a pen but can easily kill tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and can deploy thousands of miles away but can deploy a way to win a thousand miles, his identity is not only a weak scholar, but more precisely, he is an absolute strategist and military coordinator.
Or rather, he is a typical military theorist.
When many major battles came, many military problems that Zhu Yuanzhang could not solve and could not deal with were solved by this great man who was weak on the surface, but straight and strong in his bones.
The reason why I call Liu Ji a terrible person is mainly because of the following points.
First, in my personal opinion, Liu Ji should not have the ambition to dominate and dominate, if he really has this political ambition, with his absolutely outstanding personal ruling ability and military wisdom, there will definitely be no later Zhu Yuanzhang Ming Dynasty.
I think this is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang needs to use him everywhere after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but he is also wary of him everywhere.
Second, many people say that Liu Ji himself only has military wisdom and no political wisdom, and I absolutely disagree with this point. Because in the handling of many crises later, his political wisdom was clearly demonstrated.
If I had to comment on Liu Ji's political talents, I could only evaluate him as: He was a good writer and military theorist, but he was not a good politician.
In the face of political competition, the slightly shady means and methods of being good at playing politics and being good at political struggles and intrigue are not suitable for him.
He is weak on the surface, but he is upright in his bones, and he is not suitable for living in officialdom for a long time.
This is also the fundamental reason why he will be in power during the Yuan Dynasty.
As for some other Liu Ji's life experiences, we will also talk about them one by one later.
Let's get to know this great and terrible person - Liu Ji, Liu Bowen.
Name: Ji Liu;
Alias: Berwyn;
Ethnicity: Han Chinese;
Ancestral hometown: Nantian Township, Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province (now Wencheng County, Wenzhou City);
Title: Sincerity Earl;
Main works: "Sincerity Bowen Collection";
Date of birth: July 1, 1311;
Time of death: May 16, 8th year of Hongwu (1375);
Posthumously posthumously: Taishi;
Life achievements: Assisted Zhu Yuanzhang to overthrow the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty and help him lay down the Ming Dynasty.
Political identity: A famous military strategist, politician, writer, astronomer, military theorist in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and a famous founding father of the Ming Dynasty.
The details of his life experience are as follows:
In the first year of Yuan Taiding (1324), the fourteen-year-old Liu Ji entered the Yuan Dynasty to study, because of his outstanding memory ability and learning ability, he was familiar with Daniel and memorized it by simply reading the "Spring and Autumn Period" twice, and was praised by the students who were jealous of the teacher, and was honored to be called the genius of the world by the academy.
In the fourth year of Taiding (1327), Liu Ji, who had nothing to learn and stayed here, wasted food, polluted the air, and wasted his youth, decided to leave the academy and study Cheng Zhu Lixue under the famous scholar Zheng Fuchu, receive orthodox Confucian education, and read the world's books here.
The history books record that Liu Ji is: he is all-encompassing in learning, from astronomy and history to the words of the nine streams and hundreds of schools, and he does not hunt.
Roughly speaking, from the hundred schools of Confucius to the yellow gold bottle, no matter what the books are, he has read all the books, from astronomy to the hundred schools, he has read and studied.
What's more important is that after reading a wide range of books, Liu Ji did not show off his knowledge at all, he was still modest and cautious, open-minded and studious, and had a high reputation and evaluation among teachers and elders.
In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1333), Liu Ji, who had already read a wide range of books, went to Beijing to take the examination, and won the name in one fell swoop, and was happy to get the Jinshi degree.
But unfortunately, after taking the Jinshi examination, because of the corruption and political mediocrity within the Yuan Dynasty, under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, he, a high-ranking intellectual, was idle at home for three years.
Where are you going to stay where you are cool, and it's not too late to take care of you when you're done with things here.
In the second year of Yuantong (1336), Liu Ji, who had already obtained his graduation certificate, finally waited for a long-overdue position and obtained the first official position in his life: Cheng (Zheng Bapin) in Gao'an County, Jiangxi, and his main job was to assist the county commander in handling daily government affairs.
In the face of the first political identity in his life, Liu Ji, who has always been upright, found that his immediate boss was a scumbag who looked benevolent and moral on the surface, but behind the scenes, he did some scum who stole chickens and dogs, paid bribes, and had been cooperating for four years, but he could no longer sleep with his boss and pee in a pot Liu Ji, after reluctantly taking office, finally resigned and went home one day with Liu Ji, who had a falling out with his boss.
In the third year of Zhizheng (1343), an emperor has been changed, but the Yuan Dynasty government has been corrupted to the root pedantic to the bones The government of the Yuan Dynasty felt that Liu Ji was still a rare talent, in order to carry forward the grand slogan of recruiting talents for our court, the officials of the Yuan Dynasty decided to re-recruit Liu Ji into the court, and serve as the deputy promotion of Confucianism in Jiangsu and Zhejiang (should be equivalent to the current deputy * position in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces), and concurrently serve as the provincial examiner (director of the Provincial Department of Education), but the ridiculous thing is that even in the current position of deputy *, Its official rank is pitifully low, and the actual official rank is: Zhengqipin.
In the case of a rocket-like promotion from the eighth grade to the seventh grade, Liu Ji, who has been stuck at home for several years, decided to make a comeback, accept the position, and prepare to do a great job in this position under the huge political and status attraction.
But when no one expected it, Liu Ji, who had been cold enough for three years and should have understood some officialdom routines and political rules, had been in this position for less than a year, and was collectively impeached by everyone for reporting and exposing a nest of corruption cases such as his immediate boss and supervising the imperial history.
Under the anger, in addition to the anger, the evil was angry from the heart to the guts, and Liu Ji, who had already been dismissed once, re-showed his killer stunt.
A letter of resignation, resignation and going home.
You embezzlers, you corrupt officials who cover each other, you scum and scum who only know how to deceive and deceive from top to bottom, and even dare to make money in the oil pot but don't care about the lives of the people, play as you like.
Grandpa withdrew first and won't play with you.
In the sixth year of Zheng, Liu Ji, who was at home again, accepted the invitation of his friend Ouyang Su and went to Dantu to spend a period of public welfare activities of caring teachers volunteering to fund rural education, and at the same time lived a leisure life of half entering the city and half seclusion.
In the following two years, Liu Ji, who was happy with his son Liu Lian, ended his secluded life and re-entered the market, and echoed the poetry and writings of contemporary celebrities such as Liu Xianren, Zheng Shiting, Xiong Wenyan, and Yue Huan, and talked with pen and ink for six years.
In July of the twelfth year of Zhizheng (1352), the bandit Xu Shouhui, who had been in chaos in the world at this time, captured Hangzhou.
At this time, Liu Ji, who had just returned to Hangzhou, had not yet sat on the hot buttocks, and received an urgent official document from the Yuan Dynasty court. Liu Ji was reinstated, and he was asked to assist the local government in suppressing the rebellion, especially dealing with the rebel leaders led by Fang Guozhen at that time.
In dealing with the case of Fang Guozhen, a rioter, Timur, the absolute leader of the Yuan Dynasty, proposed a political edict to peacefully recruit Fang Guozhen's rebellious party by means of Kuangfu and money.
But Liu Ji, who has been three times up and down, is resolutely opposed, he believes that the reason why the world is so chaotic today is because of the existence of scum such as Fang Guozhen, if the imperial court wants to completely solve these problems of chaotic parties, it must make an example, send a large army to suppress and exterminate Fang Guozhen's chaotic party by force, come up with a killer weapon, violently suppress Fang Guozhen, and make a high-pressure situation of killing chickens and setting an example.
If the other side is not suppressed by force, it will not be enough to form a sufficient strategic deterrent.
In the future, there will inevitably be more characters similar to Fang Guozhen, and it will inevitably cause a big trouble.
And Fang Guozhen, as the leader of the main culprit, also seems to have gotten the news, when he has been at large for a while, and when he is a smash hit, he has become an absolute Internet celebrity figure when he has money in his hands and lets me go free, Fang Guozhen, who is afraid of being suppressed, is very interested in bribing the officials of the Yuan Dynasty at that time with huge sums of money, and the final result is that the proposal of Liu Ji and other officials was vetoed and approved of Zhao'an.
and the other bandits such as Fang Guozhen were given officials and knights.
In this way, Fang Guozhen, who had just dispersed a lot of money because of bribery, and because of this Zhao'an, he made a lot of money from his already empty pocket.
After Fang Guozhen, who had already accepted Zhao'an and his official robes, entered the court, he carried out political attacks and power suppression on Liu Ji and others who demanded to sanction him by force in the early stage, and united with other bureaucrats in the imperial court to suppress and politically persecute them in the imperial court.
In the face of the Yuan Dynasty government, which was already deeply disappointed and all the admonitions were blocked, and a group of corrupt officials and bullies were in power, Liu Ji, who was full of enthusiasm but suffered one frustration after another, once again made his indomitable revolutionary spirit as a senior intellectual at the present stage, resigned and went home again.
A bunch of scum scum with blind eyes and lard and a heart, you can play as much as you like, the guys are angry and won't serve you anymore!
Two years after Fang Guozhen's case had just been settled, Liu Ji, who was idle at home, received a letter of appointment from the imperial court again, and Liu Ji and Liu Bowen were reinstated because of their outstanding official attack, and immediately began to appease a group of bandits headed by Wu Qi. Faced with this letter of appointment, which no longer had any weight, the last bit of hard work hidden in his heart allowed him to take over this position.
After fully understanding and knowing all the information of the other party, Liu Ji, as a high-level intellectual, gave full play to his superb ability of a three-inch tongue, and subdued Wu Qi and others who were born bandits in one fell swoop with his upper and lower mouths. After hearing about Liu Ji's merits in persuading Wu Qi, the local officials who had long been troubled by Wu Qi and other bandits jointly signed a letter requesting that Liu Ji be added to the rank of knight.
At this time, the Yuan Dynasty was indeed deeply impressed by Liu Ji's ability and was ready to be promoted, and before the administrative order to promote Liu Ji himself to four levels in a row could be implemented, he was stopped by Fang Guozhen, who was already in a high position in the Yuan Dynasty.
The final result was that Liu Ji, who had just been promoted to the fourth level of political sealing and had not yet been hot on Liu Ji's head, received an administrative order to be demoted to five levels in a row again, and the hat of the sixth grade that was buckled on his head was taken off before it was hot, and even his original hat from the seventh rank was also pulled off.
In the face of such absolute injustice, which is definitely the result of political persecution, Liu Ji, who had disappeared the only remaining wishes, was completely disheartened, and left a sentence: The minister did not dare to lose the country, and after the official eunuch was powerless, he completely resigned from the official, and studied behind closed doors, and began to compile his book "Yu Ion", in order to express the depression and unhappiness in his heart, write the political revenge and ruling concept in his heart, and make political criticism of the ruling dynasty.
Since then, he has never received or permanently refused the summons of the Yuan Dynasty, and wandered the world alone.