Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

[Perhaps because of this past history, Zhu Yuanzhang also directly invited Liu Bowen into the shogunate to discuss strategies without setting up a position. The first official position of Liu Bowen in the history books was the Grand Historian in 1367, which was the seventh year that Liu Bowen had been in Zhu Yuanzhang's account.

As for the final deviation of Liu Bowen's image, it was indeed Zhu Yuanzhang's fault. After all, the well-known "Emperor Fengtian Chengyun" came from Zhu Yuanzhang, and the capital was renamed Yingtian Prefecture. Whenever he talked with ministers and offered sacrifices, he would emphasize that he became the emperor of "Yingtian", which was evidence of Zhu Yuanzhang's superstition.

And after being superstitious for a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang himself might have been addicted to it, and finally gave Hu Weiyong a chance.

After Liu Ji retired, he saw that the rebellion in Tanyang was serious, so he wrote a letter to Zhu Yuanzhang to reflect it and asked him to set up a patrol inspection department to pacify the people. Hu Weiyong pretended to be angry at first: How can the memorial go directly to Your Majesty without going through the Secretariat? What if I get tired?

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care, he changed his strategy and started to play the "puffer wind".

The rumor that Tan Yangdi had the aura of a king gradually reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, so Liu Ji, who was not in good health, was recalled to the capital and died soon after.

Hu Weiyong was certainly responsible for Liu Ji's death, but it is not clear how much responsibility he had, because there are probably three popular sayings now, namely:

Hu Weiyong poisoned; Zhu Yuanzhang instructed Hu Weiyong to poison; Liu Ji died of illness.

However, the saying that Zhu Yuanzhang secretly ordered Hu Weiyong to poison is probably a bit nonsense. Regardless of whether it is believed or not, one is that the voice of the Zhejiang East School was not loud at that time, and the other is because as we said before, Zhu Yuanzhang happily went to Fengyang, the capital city, to inspect the scheduled time this year, and he had not returned when Liu Ji died.

As for whether it was Hu Weiyong who poisoned, there is still no conclusion.

But one of the parties involved, Zhu Yuanzhang, insisted that Hu Weiyong poisoned him, and told Liu Ji's descendants more than once that "your father was poisoned by Hu Weiyong." Let's just assume that this is true for now.

But if you want to be an illiterate, you should take a closer look at the level of your broken imperial physician.

Just like the death of Xu Da, it is more likely that the imperial physician was too incompetent. As a result, during the Chenghua period, someone wrote a wild history based on this, "The emperor suddenly gave a meal, and Duke Wei ate it with tears in front of the envoy, and secretly ordered the doctor to escape. Soon, he died." In the end, it was said that Zhu Yuanzhang forced roast goose to kill Xu Da.

Looking back at the story of Liu Bowen, we are very inspired to see Zhu Yuanzhang become an emperor with a broken bowl in modern times, but Zhu Yuanzhang, the party involved, was probably all nervous in that era of being appointed by heaven.

So the Confucian scholars under Zhu Yuanzhang had to sing the destiny for Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was inevitable that the image was shifted in the end. At that time, there were many people under Zhu Yuanzhang who had similar experiences, and Liu Ji was not an isolated case.

As for the literary officials among the same list of meritorious officials, why Liu Ji's reputation in later generations completely overwhelmed Li Shanchang and Wang Guangyang, this has little to do with being able to tell fortunes, it is purely because Liu Ji's death from illness in the Hongwu Dynasty can definitely be considered a good end.

After all, Li Shanchang and Wang Guangyang did not die of illness or old age, but were both pursued and killed by Zhu Yuan. How dare the descendants of these two play like the Liu family? 】

Li Wenzhong has never been too fond of this Liu Bowen.

In my memory, after my uncle invited him back, he was always by his side for a long time, but he didn't say anything easily. Later, I learned that he had served Hu Yuan and had written a bunch of articles to praise Hu Yuan's king and prime minister.

The uncle went to great lengths to invite him back, perhaps because he was indeed capable. However, since they had no interactions in normal times, at most, after they returned victorious from the invasion of Yuan Dadu, Li Wenzhong paid special attention to Mr. Liu's expression during the banquet, but this was just a teasing thought, and there was no deep friendship.

So when he finally heard that Liu Bowen had this name, Li Wenzhong was still a little surprised. Out of boredom, he simply pulled Li Shanchang beside him:

"Grand Censor, is this man really so powerful? Does he really have the talent to unify the world?"

Li Wenzhong might have been seriously seeking confirmation, but Li Shanchang was a little unimpressed by these words:

If this is the talent to unify the world, then what is the point of me, Li Shanchang, running around since Chuzhou?

So the one who finally responded to Li Wenzhong was Li Shanchang's back of the head.

This made Li Wenzhong a little confused for a while, so he went to talk to his uncle beside him:

"I just said that the Grand Censor is not a good person..."

Xu Da was also quick-witted and patted Li Wenzhong lightly before he uttered the word "jealous".

It was at this time that Li Wenzhong felt that the atmosphere in the hall was a little serious, and the reason was clear - future generations were commenting on the superstition of the current emperor.

Although it was difficult to understand the meaning at first, it was not a good word after all, because he heard his uncle gritting his teeth to refute:

"How can we not follow the will of heaven when we sweep all directions to restore China?"

"God's will is that Hu Yuan should be destroyed, and we follow heaven to make China prosperous. Is there anything wrong with that?"

But before Li Wenzhong could hear his uncle's questioning, he heard the voice become more intense:

"How could I instruct Hu Weiyong, a traitor, to poison old ministers? How can a monarch act like this?"

"Liu Ji died because of Hu Weiyong. What do you mean by 'just treat this as true'? This is beyond doubt!"

But fortunately, the queen was by his side, so he didn't end up with the Huaixi swearing show that Li Wenzhong was worried about, but was persuaded to go back.

Then Li Wenzhong turned his head and watched the three people around him change their expressions.

The imperial physician Dai Sigong still had a bit of fatigue on his face. He politely bowed to the words of the future generations. Although his voice was not loud, he had his own bearing when reporting:

"As for the imperial physician, I have followed the imperial edict of Your Majesty and have prepared a file to check his medical skills. Later, I will ask those who are sick to have the imperial physician re-examine them."

"Those who are swindling will naturally be removed from the list. They must not be allowed to misdiagnose and harm people."

Uncle Xu Da's face was more mixed with tears and laughter, but if he spoke seriously, , Li Wenzhong also felt that what Guangmu said was too ridiculous:

The defense of Beiping was all in the hands of my uncle, and my uncle and my uncle both came from the grassroots, and their relationship was better than that of a relative like him, so why would they be so jealous?

As expected, my uncle's words were mostly comforting:

"Brother, don't be bothered by this unofficial history. The mediocre people's comments on politics are shallow and worth a laugh."

In comparison, the face of the Grand Censor, who was just despised by him, was wonderful.

Although he didn't say a word, for some reason Li Wenzhong suddenly remembered the old story of the Three Kingdoms - it's not his fault, because my uncle really likes the history of the Han Dynasty.

As far as he remembers, my uncle used famous officials of the Han Dynasty to praise his close ministers more than once, and Zhang Liang and Xiao He were compared several times.

And Wang Guangyang and Liu Bowen were also compared to Zhuge Liang by his uncle.

Then the Grand Censor... Sima Yi?