When there was a rare drought in the Ming Dynasty, how did Liu Bowen deal with it?

There was a great drought in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Bowen put forward three opinions to Zhu Yuanzhang, pointing out the causes of the drought, the first one was killed in battle, and tens of thousands of military wives died of illness. The second is that if a worker dies, the exposed remains will not be collected. Article 3: Zhang Shicheng surrendered, and the leaders were discordant and confiscated.

When there was a great drought in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Bowen told Zhu Yuanzhang to kill a person named Li Bin who had committed an accident. When Liu Bowen begged for rain, Zhu Yuanzhang executed Li Bin. At that time, Liu Bowen did not ask for rain.

Liu Bowen chose to ask for rain from the heavens to open the altar at that time. In fact, he understood the right time and place and calculated that it would rain in the local area at that time.

Liu Bowen changed the way of conscription, and at the beginning, there were only two ways to conscript, the first was the traditional conscription system. That is, they have to pay for their own food to train soldiers for a long time, and then let them become their own army. The advantage of this is that their scheduling and enthusiasm will be relatively high, and at the same time, their combat effectiveness will be maintained at a relatively high level with bright segments.

It is also possible to practice some more complex formations, which is better in wartime. <>

The other is the so-called conscription, which does not maintain its armament strength for a long time, but registers it from the idle people of society when needed. To put it bluntly, it is a temporary collection of stragglers, and then after a short training, they are thrown into battle. This is somewhat similar to the current mercenaries, so their mobilization is not very high.

And Liu Bowen was able to change this status quo, so he adopted a more compromise approach. He divided the source of soldiers into four levels, and the first level was to take the initiative to follow Zhu Yuanzhang. They belong to Zhu Yuanzhang's guards, and they have been following him to fight the world, and they can also get relatively high treatment after the end of the war.

The second ones recovered on their own initiative, and these people could be defeated captives or surrender on their own initiative. The third is some criminals and deserters found in the course of the war. In some cases, some people were selected directly from the prison to be used as soldiers.

However, this method will not be used as a last resort. Because such people are not easy to control, and will always choose to run away. <>

The fourth option is the last choice, which is to recruit from the people, because this means that the whole country has reached the point of fighting against the water, otherwise it will not choose from among the peasants. Because once this is the case, then the folk will lack labor, in ancient times want to plant the land key high is not as simple as now, as long as it can be through machinery, in the past, the folk man was a very important labor force, to complete the vast majority of planting. It was through these four methods that Liu Bowen finally solved the problem of insufficient troops in the early Ming Dynasty.

Liu Ji came up with a compromised method for the previous two military systems, which can not only keep combat effectiveness and productivity consistent, but also not have too many banquet and match mistakes, this system is called the guard system. The source of soldiers under the Wei system is mainly obtained from four aspects: the first batch is called Congzheng, which refers to those soldiers who have followed Zhu Yuanzhang since he started to fight the world; The second group is called annexation, which refers to those soldiers who surrendered from the Qunxiong and Yuan Dynasty forces; The third group is called the Grace Army, and this group of people is in military operations, because the battle urgently needs manpower to be released from the prison to help the prisoners in the war; The last group was called the Stacks, that is, the soldiers who were conscripted, and many of these soldiers were recruited from each household to serve and sell for promotions according to the proportion of the population at that time.

He innovated a conscription system called the guard system. Different from the previous conscription and conscription system, these soldiers can get married, destroy hunger and have children, and the surplus is high, but the offspring must be soldiers, which effectively solves this problem.

Liu Bowen thought of a way, he issued an announcement, anyone who took the initiative to join the army would be envious of the family to issue some preferential policies, and would also be exempted from errand service for the family. Random pinning.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Bowen gave people the feeling that he was becoming more and more cold, and Liu Bowen's story can be said to be the same as Zhuge Liang, who everyone knows very well, and has become a very powerful person. At that time, Liu Bowen made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, if it were not for Liu Bowen, then the Ming Dynasty would not have been able to move towards Ansheng so quickly, and after he was established in the Ming Dynasty, he was more and more neglected. This is because Liu Bowen followed Zhu Yuanzhang halfway, Liu Bowen is not good at military affairs, he will not choose to be like others, in order to be able to move himself to a higher position, he will be desperate and do his best to harm others.

The main reason for Liu Bowen's neglect was that he himself was unwilling to participate in some things in the imperial court, and not long after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he resigned and returned to his hometown. <>

When Liu Bowen was not established in the Ming Dynasty, he stared at the first strategist hat of the Ming Dynasty, which can be said to have contributed to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and Liu Bowen also became a strange person at that time. When Zhu Yuanzhang came to power, he heard about Liu Bowen's prestige, so he invited Liu Bowen to be his right-hand man. But in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, he felt that Liu Bowen was a not very obedient orange, so he no longer used Liu Bowen in the Zen model.

Later, Liu Bowen also returned to his hometown alone, Liu Bowen was seriously ill in his later years, and Zhu Yuanzhang also took people to see Liu Bowen at that time, but the more he was treated, the worse it became.

In fact, Liu Bowen is relatively smart, he is unwilling to follow the crowd, and he is not willing to follow the emperor unconditionally and without a bottom line like another person. It may be precisely because he has a unique idea that the emperor is reluctant to reuse it, because most people want others to praise him. <>

At that time, if Zhu Yuanzhang could reuse Liu Bowen, the Ming Dynasty would definitely develop in a more prosperous and prosperous way. Because Liu Bowen has no selfish intentions, he will not be like other oranges, in order to please the emperor, he will be desperate.

Liu Bowen followed Zhu Yuan Gao Chazhang halfway, and Zhu Yuanzhang also has many people who have always been loyal to him and are very talented, Liu Bowen will definitely be weaker in comparison with these stuffy people.

The Ming Dynasty is no stranger to people, Zhu Yuanzhang's vigorous and resolute action, from the servants of the landlord's family to the peasant uprising, and then to the defeat of the Yuan army to establish the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible not to sigh, he knows the suffering of others, and he is also one of the few grassroots emperors in Chinese history, which is very admirable.

However, by Zhu Yuanzhang's side, there are always many experts, and when it comes to Liu Bowen, people have to admire his wisdom and future ability. Liu Bowen can be regarded as a person who can be on an equal footing with Zhuge Liang, not only his wisdom was quietly enlightened, but he also helped Zhu Yuanzhang strategically plan and made a lot of contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.

Because Liu Bowen's words are often so accurate that people have to be convinced, even the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang is also polite to Liu Bowen, and he is even more convinced of his words. One day, Zhu Yuanzhang was eating baked cakes, and just took a bite, Liu Bowen begged to see him outside the door, so Zhu Yuanzhang turned the bowl with the baked cakes upside down.

Zhu Yuanzhang tentatively asked Liu Bowen to see what was in the bowl. Liu Bowen pinched his fingers and said: "Back to the emperor, there is a piece of baked cake in the bowl, but it is not complete, it has been bitten by the dragon just now!"

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be overjoyed, it was really like a folk legend, so magical that he couldn't speak.

Zhu Yuanzhang admired Liu Bowen more and more, not only would he discuss any major matter, but also let him be his military advisor, of course, Liu Bowen was also promoted. With the establishment and gradual stability of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang also had new problems, of course he wanted to know how long the Ming Dynasty founded by himself could last.

So Zhu Yuanzhang found Liu Bowen and asked him: "How many generations can the Zhu family's country be passed on, and how many years can the Ming Dynasty last?" "Although this kind of problem is not difficult for Liu Bowen, but for such a thing, if the words are not good, then he will be killed!

Liu Bowen thought for a while and said four words: "Ten thousand sons and ten thousand grandchildren." Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be overjoyed, if the Ming Dynasty that he had worked so hard to establish could be passed on to his children and grandchildren for generations, it would be really amazing.

So Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded Liu Bowen heavily, but he didn't hear the meaning.

This prophecy was fulfilled many years later. More than two hundred years later, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty also changed many terms, and after the Wanli Emperor ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty gradually went into decline and destruction. When the Ming Dynasty reached the hands of Wanli's son Mingguangzong and two grandsons, the Pai faction perished.

With the invasion of Li Zicheng's army and the advance of the Qing army, the Ming Dynasty fell and fell with one blow, and the Ming Dynasty fell with it, and the Qing Dynasty was established. It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't seem to be able to understand the meaning back then, and Zhu Yuanzhang never thought that thousands of sons and grandchildren would be destroyed in the hands of his children and grandchildren after all!

All in all, we can see that Liu Bowen was indeed a man of God at that time, but people overestimated his ability. Liu Bowen died at the age of 64, and he didn't get much reuse during his lifetime, what a pity!

It is precisely because Liu Bowen's talent is so outstanding that after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was very jealous of Liu Bowen's talent, worried that he would turn against the water, so he would not reuse Liu Bowen.

That's because Liu Bowen's merits are very high, which is very fatal to the emperor.