Liu Bowen fell into the hands of Chen Youliang, a native of Hubei, in the sixteenth year of Taizheng, and at that time he was already famous all over the world, and many of the Han king's subordinates persuaded him to take this for Mr. Qingtian for his own use. But Chen Youliang was stubborn and didn't take Liu Ji too seriously.

Liu Ji prided himself as a loyal minister of the Great Song Dynasty, and secondly, he also saw that this person did not seem to be the material of the world, and deliberately pretended to be a scholar who had nothing to do and could only talk, and sure enough, it didn't take long to make Chen Youliang upset that he didn't pay attention to him, and fewer and fewer people were sent to "serve" him. Success allowed him to run away.

However, Chen Youliang's words made Liu Ji feel that he was still a little level, "If Lone meets Song Shizu, he should naturally defect and unload his armor in order to seek the merits of Han and Yue; If the sky is fortunate to meet Song Taizu, when the plan is based on the river, enter the Central Plains, and retreat, the world will be divided into two. ”

His Majesty Shizu was of course unique and invincible, even Liu Ji, who had become disillusioned with the Song Dynasty authorities, thought so.

However, at that time, the imperial court was unable to control the south, Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang were in full swing, he took a long detour to the west of Zhejiang, and he didn't even dare to go back to his home, and went directly to his good friend Song Lian's house.

The teacher came from an extraordinary background, and was the ninth grandson of Huang Fang, the uncle of the great writer Huang Tingjian of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the fifteenth grandson of the Shuangjing Huang family. He is also a well-known original scholar, writer and historian.

Liu Ji is gifted and intelligent, eager to learn, and was enlightened by his father to read and write. The reading speed is extremely fast, and it is said that it is a complete seven-line line. At the age of 12, he was admitted to the show, and his parents in the countryside called him a "prodigy". At the age of twenty-three, Liu Ji went to Yanjing, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, to participate in the examination, and was admitted to the Jinshi in one fell swoop, and the main examination at that time was Huang Wei, so although he was different from Song Lian and Gao Zecheng was worshipping under Huang Wei, he could still be said to be a disciple of Mr. Wenqian. At that time, Huang Wei attached great importance to this young man, and repeatedly recommended to the then emperor Song Xianzong and the prime minister Zhang Yanghao, saying that this person was "a man of learning, both civil and military; Its spirit is upright, and its talent is magnificent. "I think this is an unborn talent who must be put to good use.

But Liu Ji's misfortune lies in the fact that Zhang Yanghao, a generation of Zaifu, died because of old age, and then Emperor Xianzong, who was known as "Little Shizu", also controlled Bintian, and his teacher Huang Wei was excluded, so he resigned and returned to his hometown.

Ten years of "Taiding rule" disappeared like a floating cloud with the Ming monarch and virtuous ministers, and the world, which was already in serious trouble, became more and more chaotic, with land annexation, displaced people, and maritime merchants amassing wealth even more than the national treasury. But Liu Ji was still young at that time, and he was far from being disappointed in the Great Song Dynasty that gave birth to him and raised him, and a year later he was awarded the official county order of Gao'an County, Jiangxi. During his tenure, he was diligent in his duties, strict in enforcing the law, and quickly made achievements.

Because he studied the original school in his early years, he was convinced that "practice brings true knowledge", and he often went in and out of the countryside in micro-clothes, and found that some gentry and landlords in Gao'an County colluded with corrupt officials and corrupt officials, lawlessly, cheated people out of money, robbed people's wives and daughters, and killed people and killed people and did all kinds of evil. There is such lawlessness in a county, and it would be strange if the world could be good. Liu Ji was filled with indignation and was determined to eliminate harm for the people. After conducting open and secret investigations and grasping the real evidence, several heroic and powerful bullies with notorious deeds were summoned to the imperial court to ask for severe punishment, and the corrupt officials in the county government were also rectified, and the social atmosphere in Gao'an County soon improved. Liu Jigang is upright, and his righteousness has won the praise of the people.

But the so-called rot is definitely not only local, and today's imperial court no longer has an imperial history like Zhang Jun and Hu Yin, even if it is an imperial history like Li Guang. The people who came to transfer the errand first heard that Liu Ji was a son of a famous family and wanted to pull him into the water, but Liu Ji would not be in the same stream, and in the end it turned out to be his "bullying and oppression of good people", if it wasn't for the teacher running for him, he would have to be dismissed and exiled.

Where could the young Liu Ji stand such anger, he immediately resigned and went home to study. However, later due to livelihood problems, Liu Ji accepted the invitation of his friend Ouyang Su, came to Dantu with Ouyang Su, and lived in Jiaoxi Bookstore near Ouyang Su's house, and lived a semi-secluded life. To teach the children in the village to read to make a living, and occasionally with friends such as Yue Yuyan and Tao Kai.

In the twelfth year of the Great Shozen Dynasty, Emperor Song and Zhang Qiyan, the vice minister of the province, used him as the envoy of the Liangzhejiang Road, and the main task was to help the local government pacify the thieves in the eastern part of Zhejiang, especially Fang Guozhen. The Mongolian-born privy deputy envoy Tie Tuo wanted to recruit An Fang Guozhen, and Liu Ji thought that the Fang brothers were the first offenders, and they could not be punished. But in this world, money is more important than knowledge, and in the end, Fang Guozhen bribed the government, was successfully recruited, and was given an official position, but instead condemned Liu Ji for being good at prestige. Liu Ji resigned for the second time in a fit of rage to show his dissatisfaction with the corruption and stupidity of the imperial court.

For this reason, he also wrote in a correspondence with his friend Song Lian: "The holy monarch is out, the famous ministers are now, Jingkang and Jianyan are separated by a line, and the monarchs and ministers of the two dynasties are thousands of miles apart? "I almost scolded a group of faint monarchs and ministers in Yanjing City.

But so far, he only plans to return to the countryside, just like his teacher Zheng Fuchu, a famous scholar in the state, to teach and write for a living, looking forward to the future generations Maybe there will be another Shizu emperor?

Until he met the man in his life: Zhu Yuanzhang.

It was the autumn of the eighteenth year of Taizheng, this monk from Fengyang had already occupied his hometown, heard about the reputation of Liu Ji and Song Lian, and came to invite him overnight.

As the saying goes, Xiucai knows the affairs of the world without going out, Liu Ji also knows that this Zhu Yuanzhang really can't survive to rebel, and since the head of the matter, he is really a bodhisattva among the people who oppose the king, so he also looked down on him, gave him ideas, and proposed to Zhu Yuanzhang to avoid two-front battles and break through each in view of the situation at the time. But if you want to accept his official position and officially break with the Great Song Dynasty, I'm sorry, I, Liu Jinai, am the king of Liaoyang County, after Liu Yan, Shi Mu Guoen, it is impossible to do this.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, he was still very polite and virtuous, and said curiously: "Song Shizu is indeed worthy of loyalty, but only twenty years after his death, the Great Song Dynasty was in chaos, is his unworthy descendants worthy of your death?" ”

If it hadn't happened just now, he wouldn't have been so shocked, he sent people to Qufu to recruit the Holy Duke of Yan had already succeeded, but the descendants of Han Shizhong, the king of Qin, were the general soldiers of Shandong (later restructuring), and after hearing about it, he actually killed more than 20 people from the Confucian family, and then the Ming army, who was defeated by him, took the whole family to self-immolation.

Liu Ji was not polite and said: "The ancestor drove out the Tartars, restored China, exempted the land from taxation, and the history of his life's merits is difficult to measure." And then Xuanzong and Wuzong are all Mingjun, since the king has come to this point, it is inevitable to pass on the position to his son and grandson, can you guarantee that the descendants are all Mingjun, once the descendants are immoral, the hearts of the people in the world turn against your family, it doesn't matter? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said categorically: "No, we are from a hard background, and our children and grandchildren must know how to cherish the people's power, and there will be no such thing." Seeing that Liu Ji looked like "just deceiving himself", he was angry, and said: "Even if the descendants are not good, we will formulate the ancestral precepts in all aspects and tell them what to do, Song Shizu just doesn't believe in the law of eternity, so it will be like this." ”

Then he said: "We are only in our thirties this year, and the standard is not bad, in short, we can give the people a good life." I think that Song Shizu is a person who regards the common people more heavily than his own country, we don't believe that he is willing to look at people like you who are starving all over the place and people like you have been living in seclusion. ”

Liu Ji was silent, and then Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more courteous, and even Mrs. Ma often took her maidservant to give him some clothes, pen and ink, and finally after a year and a half, Liu Ji said: "Now Chen Youliang has captured Taiping (now AH Dangtu County), intending to go east, and the momentum is very arrogant. Will the king listen to my advice? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed. In the first year of Wu (1367), Zhu Yuanzhang took Liu Ji as the Taishi Ling.

Since then, another meeting of monarchs and ministers has begun.

I still think that Liu Guangshi's reputation is too bad, and Liu Ji is written as a descendant of Liu Yan, this is a small section, please don't care.

Huang Wei and Zong Ze are related

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