After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards heroes around him also changed. He began to doubt these heroes, and Liu Bowen was also suspected by him. After all, his ability is very strong. If Zhu Yuanzhang can't understand him, he will inevitably have doubts about him.
Liu Bowen had to leave the imperial court and return to his hometown. He died a few years later. His death is also a mystery. But before he died, he did a strange thing. Before he died, he wrote a letter about his views on the imperial court and prepared to give it to Zhu Yuanzhang after his death. He also deliberately dropped a jar of fish and asked his family to send the fish and the letter to the palace after his death.
After his death, his family did as he said and gave it to Zhu Yuanzhang. His memorial was clearly written, but Zhu Yuanzhang never understood what this basket of fish meant.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Liu Bowen wouldn't send fish to himself casually. He must mean something. Why did he do it? Zhu Yuanzhang didn't understand this until after 17. At that time, Prince Zhu Biao died, and he was also worried about who should pass the throne to. Then he thought of the fish in Liu Bowen, which was originally packed in a basket. Because the net in the basket was too narrow, the fish crowded together and died in Nanjing in a few days.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought of these fish, then remembered what Liu Bowen said in the article, and was suddenly enlightened, so he changed his mind, let Zhu Yunwen inherit the throne, and changed the way of governing the country.
The world is like this basket of fish. If the net is too tight, the fish in it will only die prematurely. At that time, after Zhu Yuanzhang came to power, he continued to take wars abroad and imposed too strict restrictions on the people at home, making it difficult for the domestic people to live under a high-pressure policy.
His son Judy is just like him. He is both strong and cautious. They came to power to govern the country, so it must be. However, the Ming dynasty at that time should not go on like this. They needed a relatively loose ruler to help the country develop better, so he chose Zhu Yunwen as his successor.
Another function of Liu Bowen's suggestion is to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang to change his thinking of governing the country. Let's see.
In the early days of Zhu Yuanzhang's rule, in order to get the country back on track, he also chose the strategy of power oppression.
He is a very strong monarch and does everything as he says.
Under his rule, the Ming dynasty was able to get on the right track quickly, but the domestic people also had some resistance. After all, they just came out of the chaotic politics of the Yuan Dynasty, and they don't want the new government to be as chaotic as the previous Yuan Dynasty. I think there is nothing wrong with Zhu Yuanzhang's original policy.
At the beginning, the Yuan Dynasty was incompetent and ineffective in governing the country, which made the country lack effective management and became chaotic. Zhu Yuanzhang learned from the lessons of the Yuan Dynasty and understood that strict management was necessary to get the country back on track quickly. Therefore, during the Hongwu period, the state controlled the society very strictly, and Zhu Yuanzhang adopted the strategy of legalism, which gradually put the country on the right track and changed the scattered ethnic policies of the Yuan government.
But no policy can last. With the development of the country, these policies were no longer applicable to the situation at that time in the Ming Dynasty. It is very necessary to adjust the national policy in time. For the Ming dynasty, they needed a relaxed environment, which has appeared many times in history.
For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, after a long period of melee, the state adopted a strategy of recuperation, which created a relaxed environment for the people and gradually restored the country's vitality. At that time, the Ming dynasty also needed such changes. Liu Bowen's move is to remind Zhu Yuanzhang to change the strategy of governing the country in time. There was no problem with his practice, and it really met the needs of the Ming government at that time.