How did Liu Bowen cast a spell to help Zhu Yuanzhang secure the world?
It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Great Ming Dynasty, the world decided first. Suddenly one day, Zhu Yuanzhang had a dream. In the dream, he said that the Dragon King told him to take away all the water in Beijing because years of war made God angry. So Zhu Yuanzhang consulted Liu Bowen, a strategist at that time, and Liu Bowen suffered from waterproofing. He found Yao, who had become a monk at that time, and found that there were several sea eyes in Beijing that led to the sea. One is under the temple in Yuquanshan Town, west of Beijing, one is in Baita Town, Beihai, and the other is in Beixinqiao, Dongzhimen. Designed with Liu Bowen Yao, the Dragon King was locked in the sea eye of the North New Bridge, and promised to let the old dragon out when the bridge was old, the wings of the bridge were built and the street lights were not up. But instead of repairing the bridge, people built a Wang Yue Temple on it and called this place Beixinqiao, so the old dragon was buried in the well forever. This is a legend that Liu Bowen, who is proficient in the Book of Changes, cast the spell of "eighteen palms of dragon".
In folklore, the image of Liu Bowen is a divine man, a prophet, and a prophet who predicts things like God's help. As the saying goes, "five hundred years ago, five hundred years later". According to legend, Liu Bowen was a god before the Jade Emperor. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, there was chaos, wars and famines everywhere. Liu Bowen is the reincarnated monarch of the Jade Emperor, in order to rule the world and benefit the people. He also gave the fairy sword and ordered the Dragon King of the Four Seas. But the dragon king was old and weak, and had many affairs, so he sent his nine sons. All nine sons are very good, very good. They followed Liu Bowen for many years, laid Daming Mountain for Zhu Yuanzhang and helped Zhu Di win the throne.
When they successfully prepared to return to heaven to resurrect their lives, Zhu Di, the Ming emperor with great ambitions, wanted to keep them with him forever and bring peace and stability to the country that ruled the world. So, in the name of building the Forbidden City, with Liu Bowen's orders, he cut the fairy sword into nine sons. But Jiuzi was still a god beast, and suddenly it rained heavily and he was furious. When Zhu Di saw that the sword could not shake his ninth son, he decided to use a trick. He said to Jiuzi's eldest son, "Your strength is endless, and you can carry ten thousand Jin. If you can take this sacred stone tablet of our ancestors away, I will let you go. " When she saw that it was a small stone tablet, she did not hesitate to carry it on her back, but she could not move it with all her magic. It turns out that the Shengde Monument in Shen Gong is used to record the merits made by the "True Dragon Emperor" before his death, with the seals of two emperors on it, which can fill the town with ghosts and gods. Seeing that his eldest brother was crushed under the monument, Ba Zi could not bear to leave and decided to stay in the world together, but vowed never to be himself. Although Zhu Di left her nine sons, all she got was nine statue-like beasts. After learning this, Liu Bowen abandoned Zhu Di and left the body to return to heaven. Zhu Di regretted it. In order to warn future generations not to repeat the same mistakes, he asked his nine sons to perform their respective duties and spread them through the ages.
So, why is Liu Bowen so legendary? When Zhu Yuanzhang started his army, he made up many personal fables to cover up his humble origins, claiming that his grandfather was a follower of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and practiced witchcraft to highlight that he was an authentic anti-Yuan. In order to claim to be the emperor, he claimed that he had been instructed by Taoist gods the year before and was given sacred objects such as "crimson clothes, crown shoes and swords", which deserved his name. In order to enrich these myths, Zhu Yuanzhang further moved the story of "Liu Bang and Sean", and Liu Bowen worked for the Yuan Dynasty and was quite famous in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. At that time, divination was
but in fact, Liu Bowen's contribution to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty was not "top-notch". In the third year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang made great contributions, including 6 public officials and 28 Hou officials, among whom Liu Bowen was not. Later, he was only rated as a "sincere person".
There are thousands of words that say "a high crown accompanies a chariot", which is literally translated as "a high official accompanies the emperor". When he dominated the world, he was set as a model, but when he dominated the world, he stood aside, because Zhu Yuanzhang was quite afraid of Liu Bowen's prestige for fear of threatening the imperial power. Liu Bowen suffered many setbacks in his later years, but died of depression. However, he was not discredited, so he got away with it. On the contrary, many very popular celebrities ended up miserable. Zhu Yuanzhang's administration was too strict, and his ministers dared not tell anyone. He often turned to praise famous ministers who had passed away without being stigmatized, such as Xu Da and Chang Yuchun. Liu Bowen also "benefited" from this. In addition, Liu Bowen's descendants compiled a collection of essays, which made Liu Bowen's reputation bigger and bigger.