Zhu Yuanzhang was very poor when he was a child. He used to herd cattle for the landlord. He used to be a farmer, but Zhu Yuanzhang changed from a poor farmer to a generation of founding emperors. Nature has countless hardships. Participated in the Red Scarf Army Uprising led by Guo Zixing against the Yuan Dynasty. In the 16th year of Zheng Zheng (1356), Qing Ji Road was captured and renamed Yingtian. Later, he sent troops to the Northern Expedition and overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty. At the beginning of 1368, Yingtianfu proclaimed himself emperor, and captured Dadu in the autumn of the same year, ending the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in the whole country.
Zhu Yuanzhang's success is, of course, inseparable from his brothers who have been with him. Finally, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, these people became founding heroes, but none of them came to a good end because Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious by nature. When he became emperor, he wanted to consolidate his imperial power and eradicate the forces that might threaten him. The story of a dead rabbit cooking a dog must be very common in every dynasty.
As Zhu Yuanzhang's ideas began to be put into action. After a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't sleep well. He purged these powerful founding ministers and rushed to Ma Huanghou to celebrate his birthday. As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the time was up, he called all the ministers to have dinner together and congratulated him. Who dares not to attend the emperor's dinner? Among them was Liu Bowen, but when the vegetarian dishes filled the table, some ministers knew that this was the emperor's warning to them. Don't get carried away. Some ministers are used to eating vegetarian dishes at home, but they finally get them, only to get rabbit meat, dog meat and bird's nest.
Liu Bowen changed his face, not only refused to move chopsticks by himself, but the ministers who finally ate these three meat dishes were all guillotined by Zhu Yuanzhang, while Liu Bowen ran away.