The death of a fortune teller

Liu Bowen, with extraordinary skill, was Zhu Yuanzhang's right-hand man who won the world and established the Ming Dynasty. He made great contributions to this, then retired and lived in seclusion in the countryside. However, he was finally suspected and poisoned by Zhu Yuanzhang or Hu. Is Liu Bowen really that magical in history? Why is it so hard for him to die after he retires?

Zhu Yuanzhang personally advocated Tao Hongjing in the Southern and Northern Dynasties in Liu Bowen and Liu Bowen in the early Ming Dynasty. Both of them used to be the man of the hour, and both of them were tired of officialdom. They took the initiative to retire and chose to live in the mountains, but the outcome was very different. One is a veritable "prime minister in the mountains", and the other is cautious but died of injustice.

In the eyes of the world, Zhu Yuanzhang, a civilian, was able to annihilate many competitors one by one in the competition at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and Liu Bowen played a vital role in the northern expedition to the Central Plains, the overthrow of the Yuan Dynasty and the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, people often compare him with Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period, Sean and Xiao He in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and put forward that "Zhuge Liang is three points in the world, and Liu Bowen dominates the whole country"!

Such praise certainly illustrates Liu Bowen's lofty position in the eyes of Chinese people, but in fact, Liu Bowen's position and official position under Zhu Yuanzhang is far less prominent than that of Sean, Xiao He and Zhuge Liang. Li Shanchang took a back seat, and his clique Hu He remained neutral in the previous wave of party struggle, serving as the left and right prime ministers respectively. At this time, Liu Bowen chose to retire and retire to the countryside.

After years of illness and death, Liu Bowen became a political tool. After retiring for two years, he was demoted, and Hu's main rivals in North Korea all disappeared. He can avenge himself. Hu's accusation quickly led to Liu Bowen's loss, while Liu Bowen crustily skin of head went back to Nanking to apologize.

By the beginning of 1375, Liu Bowen had caught a cold and was getting worse and worse. Zhu Yuanzhang entrusted Hu to take the doctor to see a doctor and prescribed some prescriptions. However, Liu Bowen's health became worse and worse, and Zhu Yuanzhang paid little attention to his illness. Liu Bowen, who felt that his time was coming, returned to his hometown and died soon. When Liu Bowen entered the palace, he mentioned to Zhu Yuanzhang that the doctor's prescription was useless, but his condition worsened. Liu Bowen means that he is extremely distrustful of Hu and suspects that Hu colludes with the physician, and there is something fishy in the prescription.

Five years after Liu Bowen's death, Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion that Hu poisoned him before returning to China was taken out by Zhu Yuanzhang as a tool to deal with Huaixi Group, which became one of Hu's evidences, and the cause of Liu Bowen's death was gradually distorted beyond recognition. Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang launched a major case of Hu, and Huaixi Group also fell.