Liu Bowen said to his family before he died: Put this book in my coffin, and the emperor will not dare to touch my grave.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court was corrupt, natural disasters were frequent, people's lives were in dire straits, and peasant uprisings broke out everywhere. Zhu Yuanzhang used to be a cowherd. Encouraged by his good friend Tang He, he joined the rebel army led by Guo Zixing. Because of his strong personal charm, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly stood out and became the supreme leader of the rebel army, taking Chang Yuchun, Xu Da and other valiant soldiers to the world.
In A.D. 1360, Zhu Yuanzhang heard about Liu Bowen's talent for a long time, so he invited him to help himself and do something important together. Liu Bowen thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would be the future emperor, so he decisively agreed to his invitation and came to Yingtian (now Nanjing) with his luggage to become Zhu Yuanzhang's counselor. With the help of Liu Bowen and others, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born at the grassroots level, not only drove the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty back to the grassland, but also wiped out Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and other forces and established the Ming Dynasty.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang began to reward those who made meritorious deeds. As his confidant counselor, Liu Bowen naturally contributed a lot, and was sealed as a success in the empire. Soon after, Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang revised the Daming Law, and when they visited the capital of song dynasty in Ming Taizu, they were ordered to stay in Beijing with Li Shanchang, the left prime minister, which showed Zhu Yuanzhang's trust in him. But as the first emperor of Daming, Zhu Yuanzhang gradually became afraid of Liu Bowen. After all, he is so capable that he can even understand the secrets.
On one occasion, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Bowen to calculate Daming's national fortune in order to test him. At first, Liu Bowen didn't want to die, saying it was an apocalypse, probably a scourge. However, Ming Taizu didn't care so much, but persisted and said to Liu Bowen, "No matter what the result of your calculation is, I won't blame you, although I can make a bold calculation. Dare to disobey orders, is the crime of deceiving the monarch. Don't blame me for not thinking about old feelings. " In desperation, Liu Bowen had to obey, so there was the wonderful book "The Book of Prophecy-Pancake Song".
As the saying goes: "The wood in the forest is beautiful, and the wind will destroy it." Liu Bowen was so talented that he won the favor of the emperor. Many ministers were jealous of him, and Hu was one of them. Hu often told the emperor that Liu Bowen's attainments in geomantic omen are very high, almost unmatched in the world, and even can change the national fortune. At first, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't believe Hu's words, but after a long time, he gradually became suspicious of Liu Bowen and even felt scared from the bottom of his heart.
As he grew older, Liu Bowen felt that his time was running out, so he found a place near the capital as a graveyard for his death. After this incident was known by Hu, he told in a chat that the cemetery chosen by Liu Bowen often had the spirit of the son of heaven and had to be guarded. Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry and expropriated land on the grounds of imperial land. Liu Bowen is very helpless. Knowing that the emperor had begun to doubt himself, he resigned and returned to his hometown.
In A.D. 1375, Liu Bowen was terminally ill, and he planned to drive a crane westward soon. At the same time, he realized that the emperor would not let himself go easily after his death, so he said to his family before he died: "After my death, put this great law in front of my grave so that the emperor would not dare to touch my grave." Although the family didn't understand the reason, they did as he said.
After Liu Bowen's death, Zhu Yuanzhang heard that his graveyard was the so-called "Dragon Cave" and immediately sent someone to his hometown in Liu Bowen to carry his coffin out, which destroyed the geomantic omen. When the soldiers dug up Liu Bowen's graveyard, the first thing they saw was a book called Daming Law. What is even more incredible is that it also says "whoever opens the coffin to see the body will die". It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang hated grave robbery, and this law was added by himself.
At that time, the soldiers had no idea, so they rushed 800 miles and reported the matter to the emperor. When Zhu Yuanzhang learned about this, his face was * * * hot. Now he has made his own laws, but he has taken the initiative to violate them. How can we convince him? So, immediately ordered the soldiers to stop digging, Liu Bowen will be buried again. Liu Bowen is really unpredictable. No wonder later generations have such praise for him: "There are three points of wisdom in the world, and Liu Bowen is unified in the world."