Liu Bowen and Zhuge Liang who were better

In Chinese folklore, there is a saying that "Zhuge Liang, who is divided into three parts of the world, unifies the Jiangshan Liu Bowen; zhuge liang, the former military division of the dynasty, and Liu Bowen, the military division of the later dynasty".

Liu Ji (劉基), courtesy name 1 July 1311 – 16 May 1375), courtesy name Bowen, was a native of Qingtian, Zhejiang (present-day Wencheng, Zhejiang). Politician and writer of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, founding father of the Ming Dynasty.

Chinese has greatly respected wisdom since ancient times, and in the long history of more than 5,000 years, there have also been many historical figures known for wisdom, from Jiang Ziya in the Western Zhou Dynasty to Ghost Guzi in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Zhang Liang in the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bowen in the Ming Dynasty, etc., which can be described as endless, and in folklore, they also produced many interesting stories, such as Liu Bowen and Zhuge Liang once had a wonderful confrontation.

According to folklore, this sentence was said by Liu Bowen himself, and when he was passing through Sichuan, he specially went to visit Zhuge Wuhou Temple, and after Bi Gongbi respectfully laid the three-pillar incense, he looked at Zhuge Liang's solemn statue, and suddenly burst into ten thousand kinds of ghosts.

Thinking of Zhuge Liang's hard work after bowing to death all his life, thinking of the situation in which he had laid the three points of the world when he lived in seclusion in Longzhong, he was both leisurely fascinated and sighed for a while; and he also remembered that he was also like Zhuge Liang, who had studied military books from a young age, assisted the male lord who had nothing at all, and helped him to truly become the emperor, but he helped the emperor to successfully unify the world, and although Zhuge Liang exhausted his efforts, he only helped the emperor to divide the world, so it was natural to chant "Zhuge Liang of the three points of the world." , unify the world Liu Bowen", arrogant and self-congratulatory meaning overflowing into words.

Just when Liu Bowen was overjoyed, a small note suddenly fell from the plaque of zhuge Wuhou Temple, which directly floated to the palm of Liu Bowen's hand, and when he unfolded, he saw a small poem written on it: "Zhuge Liang under three points, unify the world Liu Bowen." I know that there is Liu Bowen after you, who do you know after you? "Although the things you have done are indeed different, I know the end of my life, and I even know that you will come here, and you know how your end is?"

Liu Bowen immediately broke out in a cold sweat after seeing this small poem, he remembered that when Fan Li helped Gou Jian to destroy Wu, he drifted away to die, and the Wen Sect that remained next to Gou Jian was given to death by Gou Jian, was he going to be Fan Li or Wen Shu? Obviously, this was Zhuge Liang reminding him how to choose his own ending, and After Liu Bowen understood it, he immediately knelt down and vigorously gave Zhuge Liang three kowtows.

After stepping out of the threshold of zhuge Wuhou Temple, Liu Bowen wrote to the imperial court to resign and return to Qingtian, and eventually died of illness at home. Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious in his later years, and in order to give the future emperors a safe and stable imperial court, he "cleaned up" many of the Huaixi meritorious deeds that fought with him, and compared with those heroes who were killed on charges and even exterminated in the same period, the end was already a good ending, and I had to sigh at his wisdom.