How much hatred does Hu Weiyong have for Liu Bowen?

Speaking of Liu Bowen, this talent, everyone must be familiar with it. Liu Bowen was very knowledgeable and proficient in astronomy, Feng Shui, art of war and other aspects. Liu Bowen began to assist Zhu Yuanzhang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and helped Zhu Yuanzhang successfully establish the Ming Dynasty. He can be regarded as the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty. However, Liu Bowen was eventually jealous of Zhu Yuanzhang, and even after his death, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered his coffin to be sawed open. Why is this? Let’s find out together.

The change in Liu Bowen's fate is closely related to Hu Weiyong, another founding minister. Although Hu Weiyong also made a considerable contribution to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he had a fatal flaw: narrow-mindedness. Hu Weiyong was very jealous of Liu Bowen and jealous that he was more talented than him, so he said bad things about Liu Bowen to Zhu Yuanzhang many times.

At first, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't take Hu Weiyong's vicious evaluation of Liu Bowen seriously. He only felt that Hu Weiyong's jealousy was too strong.

But as time went by, and Hu Weiyong united with several ministers in the court to slander Liu Bowen in front of him, Zhu Yuanzhang became afraid of Liu Bowen. After all, Liu Bowen is indeed talented and somewhat threatening to himself.

Later, Hu Weiyong made a fuss about Liu Bowen's search for the grave. In fact, Liu Bowen just found a geomantic treasure land for himself and wanted to be buried here after his death. But Hu Weiyong said that the cemetery Liu Bowen chose was not an ordinary Feng Shui treasure place, but one with the aura of an emperor. The meaning of this is that although Liu Bowen is old, he really wants his descendants to become emperors, that is, to compete for the world of the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was extremely angry, and he did not want the country he had worked hard to build to fall into the hands of others. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang found a reason to occupy the cemetery chosen by Liu Bowen, and also asked Liu Bowen to resign and go home. Liu Bowen naturally knew what Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking, so he returned home happily. After all, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger.

Later, Liu Bowen died of illness. Zhu Yuanzhang must have been a little sad when he heard the news of Liu Bowen's death. After all, Liu Bowen and he had conquered the Ming Dynasty together. But at this time, Hu Weiyong still did not give up slandering Liu Bowen, and suggested to Zhu Yuanzhang that Liu Bowen's grave might still have the spirit of the emperor.

So, in order to prevent trouble before it happened, Zhu Yuanzhang had the head of Liu Bowen's coffin sawed off to release the emperor's anger. But when the soldiers opened Liu Bowen's coffin, they found that there was no body in it, but only a copy of "The Law of the Ming Dynasty", and this law happened to be on the side "Whoever opens the coffin and sees the corpse will die".

When the soldiers reported the matter to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely ashamed. He had violated the law he had set, and Liu Bowen had calculated what happened after his death. He really couldn't hold his head high.