Zhu Yuanzhang Prophecy

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu De, one is the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty's opening siege, one is the new Chinese with the Grand Marshal, these two hundreds of years of difference between the Zhu surname, there is a mysterious prophecy.

Zhu De was born in Lijiawan under Linlangzhai, Ma'anchang, Yilong County, Sichuan Province. But his ancestral home is Guangdong Hakka, the early Qing Dynasty "Huguang fill Sichuan" from Guangdong Shaoguan migrated to Sichuan Yilong County Linlang Zhaixia, to Zhu De is the seventh generation.

Zhu's family has always lived by farming and maintained Hakka customs, even speaking Cantonese. Zhu De's grandfather was still farming in his 80s and 90s, and his father, Zhu Shilin, also worked all year round. Zhu De was passed on to his childless uncle in childhood.

Many locals in Lijiawan believe that Zhu De's later fortune was related to a prophecy Zhu Yuanzhang left in the area back then.

It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he took his strategist Liu Bowen and other people on a private visit to the people. One day, when they passed by the Lijiawan hamlet on the west side of the palanquin top mountain, they stopped the palanquin at the pass store to take a rest. After eating the meal, Zhu Yuanzhang then played chess with Liu Bowen, agreeing that whoever lost would give ten taels of silver to his opponent. As a result, Liu Bowen lost. Zhu Yuanzhang shouted, "Take the silver!"

Liu Bo Wen fumbled for a long time in the silver bag at his waist but did not take out the money, so he smiled and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "As the son of heaven, you still value my ten taels of silver?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said, "I grew up poor, while you come from a wealthy family, have plenty of silver."

Liu Bo Wen smiled and said, "I am rich is richer, but with you, I always lose out."

"For the rich is not benevolent to be rewarded." Zhu Yuanzhang did not relent and said, "You must know that the rich are rich by the blood and sweat of the poor. However, you can not be too rich. Too rich is too much, the poor will have to fix you."

Liu Bowen had to touch the ten taels of silver in the money bag and gave it to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang received the silver, looked up at the distant car top mountain, pointed to the front, and said, "Here is the east side of the expensive, the west side of the rich." After saying that, he laughed out loud.

After Zhu Yuanzhang and the others left, the store's resting customer saw them talking remarkably, so he asked the shopkeeper: "What did they say in the store?" The shopkeeper said, "He pointed to the mountain in front of him and said that the east side is expensive and the west side is rich." Afterward, the people realized that the line of people just now was the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and his ministers. So, there is a legend in this area, that the sedan chair mountain not only produced rich people but also produced noble people.

However, hundreds of years have passed, and there is no movement here.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, after the "Huguang fills and in Sichuan" immigration began, Guangdong Shaoguan Zhu, Ding, and several other surnames moved in succession, settled in the sedan chair mountain area, and Ding's family lived in the west after several years became a rich man with dry acres of good land; Zhu's family in the east, is still renting the Ding's field. After a few more years, Zhu De became a brigadier of the Yunnan Army. After a few more years, the Ding family, who was rich and unkind, was again dismissed by the poor. So the locals brought up Zhu Yuanzhang's prophecy of "the east is expensive, the west is rich".

After Zhu De joined the revolution and became the commander-in-chief of the Red Army, he was hated by the warlords of the same Democratic Party. Yang Sen, a Sichuan warlord, thought that if he destroyed the Zhu family's yang house and then destroyed its yin house, Zhu De and his revolutionary cause would collapse, and sent his general Li Jiayu to dig up the Zhu family's nine ancestral graves three times.

In 1935, on the eighth day of the lunar month, accompanied by Yilong County Governor Le Jincheng, the Kuomintang Sichuan Provincial Party Department and the provincial government sent two inspectors to inspect the ancestral graves of the Zhu family, and then falsely claimed to move and bury the bones of Zhu Shilin, Zhu De's biological father.

But the fellow Yin-Yang gentleman looked at the terrain and said, "This is a crouching tiger terrain, digging it up would be like releasing a tiger to the mountain, and Zhu De would have to make a great fortune." This scared the inspector immediately retracted his head, and therefore did not dare to move burial. In this way, the Zhu family's grave was spared a disaster and preserved intact, becoming the only well-preserved grave in the Zhu family's ancestral graves.