Why didn't Liu Bowen get a duke and only an earl?

1, Liu Bowen and Zhu Yuanzhang are neither villagers, nor old friends, nor Zhu Yuanzhang's clique. When you fight, you are a strategist. If you don't fight, you can't live without it. Besides, in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, Li Shanchang is comparable to Xiao He's governing talent.

2. At first, Liu Bowen didn't want to go out to help Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Yuanzhang invited him out many times. Zhu Yuanzhang could not forget it, so he gave him a sincere letter.

3. After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, doubt ceased to exist, and it was even worse after he became emperor. Liu Bowen was jealous of Zhu Yuanzhang. Then, Zhu Yuanzhang took this opportunity to knock on the door and clean up if he was not satisfied.

Liu Bowen certainly knew Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, so he didn't care at all, so he refused to resign as prime minister and retired a year later.

Even so, it has not escaped the factional struggle and conspiracy of ministers. In the eighth year of Hongwu (1375), Liu Bowen caught a cold. When Zhu Yuanzhang knew about it, he sent Hu to visit with the physician.

When he took the medicine according to the doctor's prescription, he felt that his stomach seemed to get worse. Liu Bowen had an audience with Zhu Yuanzhang and told him diplomatically. After listening to Zhu Yuanzhang, he just comforted him lightly, let him rest at ease and let him down.

In late March, Liu Bowen was seriously ill, and Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to take him home. After returning home, he refused to take the medicine that his family and villagers found for him, and just tried to keep a normal diet. After he fell ill, he died a month later.

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Liu Ji (131-1375), a native of Nantian, qingtian county (now wencheng county, Wenzhou, Zhejiang), was a strategist, politician and writer in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. He is proficient in history, astronomy, and the way to choose soldiers, and he is also known as the four masters of eastern Zhejiang with Song Lian, Ye Chen and Zhang Yi.

In the 19th year of Zheng Zheng (1359), Hu Dahai visited Liu Bowen and reported it to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang sent messengers, Sun Yan and Tao An to invite him out of the mountain.

After he followed Zhu Yuanzhang, he made suggestions for Zhu Yuanzhang, suggesting that Zhu Yuanzhang avoid fighting on two fronts and carry out divide-and-conquer, first hitting Chen Youliang and then Zhang Shicheng. It was suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang get rid of "Wang Xiaoming" Han Liner and establish the title of "Daming" to win the hearts and minds of the people.

Participated in the formulation of the northern expedition strategy and successfully overthrew the Mongolian and Yuan regimes. In many battles, Liu Bowen had clever plans and defeated the enemy one after another. Folk flow often says, "landlite is divided into three parts and Liu Bowen is unified;" Zhuge Liang, a former strategist, and Liu Bowen, a later strategist ".

In the third year of Hongwu, when Zhu Yuanzhang made a big seal of his ministers, he only made six dukes, namely Li Shanchang, Xu Da, Chang Mao (son of Chang Yuchun), Sheng Feng and Deng Yu, with Li Shanchang as the first. The other five are all military commanders who are fighting to the death on the battlefield. He is the duke's only civil servant, with an annual salary of 4000 stone.

Male Hou Bozi, fifth-class title, Liu Bowen was only given an earl, two levels behind Li Shanchang, with an annual salary of 240 stone.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu Bowen (politician and writer in Ming Dynasty)