Zhu Yuanzhang asked the landlord to eat the cow and put its tail in a crack in the stone. Why can't the landlord pull his tail?

It is said that naughty children will achieve great success when they grow up. This is called crying children have milk to eat. As we all know, Wei Xiaobao, the Duke of Lushan, is a first-class naughty boy, but he can become sworn brothers with the emperor. Chen Jinnan, the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, took him as an apprentice and married seven beautiful women. Everyone wants to have such an open life. Wei Xiaobao is a novel character, but there is such a person in history, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang's life is an endless legend in several novels. He was born in poverty, but eventually he became emperor. He has countless talents such as Xu Da and Aquamarine, and his reputation is n times that of Wei Xiaobao.

Why Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded can be seen from the background he made up for himself.

Once upon a time, there was a fortune teller who was proficient in Feng Shui. He can point out the fate of others and do anything, but he never tells fortune for his family.

The fortune teller's son complained that he didn't do the math himself. The fortune teller said that it was a secret. If you count, you won't be lucky. Man proposes, God disposes. Let me give you a divination.

The fortune teller calculated a divination and told his son: Tomorrow, you will go to the farm to cover fish with baskets. If you catch a carp for your daughter-in-law, you will get pregnant after eating it, and the child born will become an emperor.

The next day it rained heavily, and the son of the fortune teller caught carp in a basket in the field. After taking it home and cooking it, he let his two daughters-in-law eat it. The first daughter-in-law ate the fish belly, and the second daughter-in-law ate the fish tail. The two daughters-in-law kindly thought that the fish could not be eaten anyway, so they threw away the fish head and gave it to the beggar woman, which was a pity.

The fortune teller came back and asked, have you eaten fish? What did you eat? Tell me about it. The first daughter-in-law said that she ate fish belly, the second daughter-in-law said that she ate fish tail, and the fortune teller asked about fish head. The daughter-in-law said that the fish head was given to an old beggar. The fortune teller sighed: I'm telling you, you're not lucky. The dragon is in the fish head.

The astrologers in the imperial court looked at the astronomical phenomena at night and found that the emperor who changed the dynasty was about to be born. They worked out the time and place and reported the astronomical phenomena to the emperor, so the emperor sent someone to arrest all the pregnant women in the area, including the beggar old lady who ate fish heads.

When the soldiers saw the old lady begging, they all smiled and said that a beggar can also give birth to an emperor. Go away.

So the old lady escaped and gave birth to a child, Zhu Yuanzhang.

From the perspective of modern genetics, of course, we know that this is actually such a story about the life of the son of heaven that Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately made up in order to raise his status, with the aim of convincing the people that he is the son of heaven.

Let's start with the story of why Zhu Yuanzhang stole the cow and stuffed its tail into a crack in the stone when he released the cow to the landlord's house. The landlord can't pull the ox tail.

This story is recorded in many books about Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, which shows that Zhu Yuanzhang killed the cattle of the landlord Liu De, and it is true. As for how to deal with the aftermath, it is a bit bizarre.

Reading other friends' answers made me think about a question. Doesn't anyone doubt such an obvious lie?

Zhu Yuanzhang drove the cow to the landlord's house, envious that the landlord's children had meat to eat every day, but he and his friends didn't even have enough porridge, so they killed and roasted the cow in partnership.

The front is very logical, but then I hid the cow's tail underground and told the landlord that the cow had gone underground and the landlord couldn't pull it out, and Niu Jiao, the cow didn't seem to want to come out.

When I saw this passage, I kind of wanted to laugh. This fake can't even fool a 3-year-old child. Why is it recorded as a true story by so many scholars? There is only one truth, that is, after killing cattle, there was no deception at all. The landlord Liu De exposed them, but there was nothing the landlord could do about them, because it was illegal to kill cattle in the farming era. Liu De, as a landlord, no matter whether he knows it or not, as long as he sees an official, he can only take full responsibility for this matter, so he can only eat coptis silently and swallow it.

Zhu Yuanzhang had two experiences when he was a child. The first is to herd cattle for the landlord, and the second is to be a monk in the ancestral temple. Let's think about it. Although herding cattle doesn't make money, it's easy to catch a meal and spend time with his father. Why do you want to become a monk? Is it really because his parents are too poor to support him that they sent him away?

He has a brother on his head. Why not let my brother go out? It is said that the emperor loves his eldest son and the people love him. At this time, it makes sense to kill the landlord's cow. Zhu Yuanzhang was forced to become a monk because he was poor, but because he killed the landlord's cow, he was afraid of being implicated and lost his job for the second time, so his family could not afford it.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born in poverty, so when he became emperor, his political opinions were more beneficial to farmers, and he made up so many stories about his fate, which made him different from others since he was a child, because his humble origin was known to his friends who worked together in the farmland.