Liu Bowen's extensive knowledge of Confucian classics, especially the study of latitude, can be grasped and calculated, and he has reached the level of understanding and using nature and Taoism freely. He can "know 500 years before, then 500 years later", "know half the sky above, and know the whole land below", and the world is called "Liu". However, such an immortal who made great contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty was finally forced to death by Zhu Yuanzhang.
First of all, Zhu Yuanzhang can change from a cowherd to the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, which shows that he is definitely a dragon among the people. He is not only brilliant, but also far-sighted and knows how to use people. However, no matter how capable he is, he can never create such great achievements on his own. Daming Jiangshan was created by Zhu Yuanzhang, his civil servant and military commander, Qi Xin, with his left arm and right arm. Although they all played together, in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, Daming Jiangshan belongs to the Zhujiajian family and belongs to the descendants of the Zhujiajian family passed down from generation to generation. There is no room for mistakes, nor can outsiders take advantage of them. Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that his descendants would not be able to control those outstanding heroes after his death, so he tried every means to eradicate dissidents and slaughter the founding heroes. So, Liu Bowen, an able man, is obviously on his blacklist.
Secondly, Liu Bowen is too smart, too capable, too much credit and too high prestige. Anyone who knows how to use people will only use their talents for people like Liu Bowen, and will never give them high-ranking officials a generous salary, lest they develop their own power and raise tigers as a menace. Therefore, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang gave Liu Bowen a very low reward for his hard work. Zhu Yuanzhang often praised Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen as his right-hand men, sealing the Duke of Li Shanchang with a salary of 4,000 stones (Dan), while Liu Bowen only sealed an earl with a salary of 240 stones. This huge disparity is Zhu Yuanzhang's intention to suppress and crowd out Liu Bowen. Sure enough, in the second year, Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed Liu Bowen and drove Liu Bowen back to his hometown.
Furthermore, Liu Bowen's character is upright and upright. Although he knows Zhu Yuanzhang's character very well, he can't help but express his views in many cases. In the third year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang went home to recuperate due to illness. Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to take this opportunity to remove him from his post as prime minister and consult with Liu Bowen. In this conversation, Liu Bowen was played by Zhu Yuanzhang. It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to replace Li Shanchang's position as prime minister and consult with Liu Bowen to test Liu Bowen. But Liu Bowen rejected all the candidates proposed by Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry and thought that Liu Bowen was born a traitor. He soon found an excuse to dismiss him.
Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to kill Liu Bowen, so he was dismissed and returned to his hometown. Who knows, in the eighth year of Hongwu, Hu, who had a holiday with Liu Bowen, instigated others to falsely accuse Liu Bowen, saying that he would occupy a piece of land called "Yang Ming", which is a land of geomantic omen and is known as "the king's way", and Liu Bowen wanted to use it as his own cemetery and plot to be famous. Zhu Yuanzhang, who had long been uneasy about Liu Bowen, believed in Feng Shui in Liu Bowen. After hearing this false accusation, he was on pins and needles and immediately deprived Liu Bowen of his salary. Liu Bowen was frightened and went to Nanjing to explain the reason to Zhu Yuanzhang himself, so as not to harm his children. But after arriving in Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't see him, so he had to stay in Nanjing and didn't dare to come back. I thought that as long as I didn't go back, under the surveillance of Zhu Yuanzhang, the rumors would be broken for a long time.
Soon, Liu Bowen caught a cold and reported to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately called Liu Bowen's enemy Hu to discuss, and then Hu took the doctor too much to see Liu Bowen. Liu Bowen's illness worsened after taking too much medicine prescribed by the doctor, and he died soon. Liu Bowen left his last words before he died, giving Zhu Yuanzhang the gobbledygook, and forbidding the descendants of Liu to know it.
Five years later, it was reported that Hu poisoned Liu Bowen with drugs, and Zhu Yuanzhang finally killed him with a rebellion case, involving more than 30,000 people.