Time came to 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ying Tianfu emperor, the history called Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, this grassroots emperor, as a monk, also herd cattle, beggars and scenery, it is precisely because he is the emperor from the bottom, life is naturally a lot simpler, in general, his breakfast is burnt cakes with thin porridge and vegetables. One day when Zhu Yuanzhang was eating, he had just eaten a bite of burnt cake, and he heard a eunuch outside report that Liu Bowen had seen him. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang just had a plan, he wanted to test Liu Bowen.
Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang
Zhu Yuanzhang put the bite of the burnt cake back into the bowl, and then covered it with a bowl lid, and when it was ready, he asked the eunuch to call Liu Bowen in, and after Liu Bowen saw Zhu Yuanzhang, he first performed a salute, and Zhu Yuanzhang asked him: Mr. Know the theory, do you know what is in the bowl? Liu Bowen pinched his fingers and said the classic saying: Half like the sun and half like the moon, once bitten by a golden dragon, this is a burnt cake. I have to say that Liu Bowen's horse ass shot is really just right, praising Zhu Yuanzhang as a golden dragon, after Zhu Yuanzhang opened the bowl lid, it was indeed a bite of the burnt cake, Zhu Yuanzhang was even amazed, so he took the opportunity to ask about the future of Daming, that is, this beginning had the back of the forehead "Burning Cake Song".
Film and television drama Zhu Yuanzhang image
Liu Bowen did not answer positively, but only said: "The number of days, my Lord has ten thousand sons and ten thousand grandchildren, why should I ask?" It's just that this sentence did not attract Zhu Yuanzhang's attention, but it came true. There is a saying that the ten thousand sons and ten thousand grandchildren in this sentence refer to the descendants of the Wanli Emperor, that is to say, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed in the hands of the descendants of the Wanli Emperor, and in fact, this is indeed the case. But this statement is a bit too far-fetched, a bit of a jerky feeling, more like a coincidence.
So what does it mean to have thousands of children and grandchildren? In fact, there is a certain scientific basis, Liu Bowen is proficient in arithmetic, it is impossible not to know the truth, in fact, in many ancient dynasties, did not escape this spell. In ancient times, there were many royal heirs, except for some special dynasties, people who died in the middle of the way and did not leave offspring, we calculated according to the fact that each generation of princes had two descendants, and the sixteenth generation of the earth was more than sixteen thousand descendants, which was exactly ten thousand children and grandchildren.
Portrait of Liu Bowen
If a generation is twenty years, the Ming Dynasty existed for two hundred and seventy-six years, counting down to fourteen generations, the Ming Dynasty has sixteen emperors, but four people belong to different two identical eras, calculated to be exactly fourteen generations. Not only that, in fact, in each dynasty, it has not escaped the fate of three hundred years, which is the reason for the ten thousand sons and ten thousand grandchildren, so why will it perish at this time? After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne during the Ming Dynasty, he wantonly fiefdoms, if there are more descendants, how should ten thousand descendants be fiefdoms?
Film and television drama Liu Bowen image
In the middle, in fact, when it comes to ten thousand descendants, naturally some people have become commoners, but as commoners, they still enjoy the state's offerings, so the most important reason is that more and more people eat idle meals, and they still occupy land, Liu Bowen can be counted here, but Zhu Yuanzhang is not.