Liu Bowen is a famous counselor in the history of China, who made great contributions to Zhu Yuanzhang's founding of the Ming Dynasty. Ma Huanghou is a married couple of Zhu Yuanzhang, who is a famous virtuous queen in the history of China. Ma Huanghou of Zhu Yuanzhang, like the eldest grandson of Emperor Taizong, once saved some ministers. Today I want to tell a story about Ma Huanghou saving Liu Bowen.

Zhu Yuanzhang killed Liu Bowen. Zhu Yuanzhang is an outstanding and legendary emperor in the history of China. He was born in the poor peasant class, and later, with his own efforts, he created a brilliant dynasty and became the founding emperor. However, no one is perfect, and an outstanding historical figure like Zhu Yuanzhang also has some shortcomings. Zhu Yuanzhang is a suspicious and murderous emperor. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he killed many founding heroes. These include the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, Lan Yu, the last prime minister in China history, Hu and other generals, and other civil servants. And Liu Bowen finally failed to escape from Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher's knife.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang made great contributions to the establishment of the country. Many people who contributed to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty were created as dukes or marquis. And an important person like Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang just gave him a sincere title. This is obviously Zhu Yuanzhang's intention for some reason. However, at that time, some students worshipped Liu Bowen and privately called Liu the Lord protector. The matter reached Zhu Yuanzhang, who thought that Liu Bowen was not satisfied with his title, so he was disgusted with Liu Bowen.

In addition, Liu Bowen was later involved in the party struggle between the East Zhejiang Party and the West Huai Party in the early Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang actually killed Liu Bowen. On the other hand, Ma Huanghou knew that Liu Bowen was innocent, so she felt pity and wanted to save Liu Bowen. But since ancient times, it is not a good thing for women to go into politics. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang also clearly stipulated that the harem should not participate in politics. Therefore, when facing Liu Bowen, Ma Huanghou can't talk about Zhu Yuanzhang's prejudice against him. Therefore, Ma Huanghou thought of a way to tell Liu Bowen indirectly.

Ma Huanghou rescued Liu Bowen, and Ma Huanghou specially sent someone to bring a basket of pears and a basket of dates to Liu Bowen's house and give them to Liu Bowen. How smart Liu Bowen is, he naturally knows that these two fruits sent by Ma Huanghou will not be idle. At the sight of these two fruits, Liu Bowen immediately understood Ma Huanghou's meaning. Jujube and pear are homophones, aren't they? Good morning. And then what? Leave? Really? Liu Bowen understood that Ma Huanghou told him to leave the court as soon as possible. Ma Huanghou's implication is that it will be dangerous to stay in the imperial court.

In fact, Liu Bowen smelled something ominous himself, and he also had the idea of retiring. Soon after, Liu Bowen once met Zhu Yuanzhang and asked Zhu Yuanzhang to abdicate. Zhu Yuanzhang first pretended not to let Liu Bowen retire, hoping that Liu Bowen would stay in the imperial court and serve the country. Liu Bowen once again put forward the idea of abdication to Zhu Yuanzhang. Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang approved Liu Bowen's request, and Liu Bowen dodged a bullet temporarily.