Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress
Empress Ma
Xu Yanzhong was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he wanted to issue banknotes at
the beginning of his founding, he tried many times, but failed.
One night, he made a dream, in the dream, someone told him,
if you want to issue banknotes successfully, you must use the hearts and livers of the scholars.
Xu Yanzhong woke up, he thought about the dream and wondered,
does it mean to kill the scholars and take their hearts and livers?
Empress Ma immediately reminded Xu Yanzhong, according to my understanding,
the articles written by the scholars are the hearts and livers of them.
Xu Yanzhong was very grateful to what she said. He immediately ordered the submissions of the
scholars, seriously studied and adopted reasonable suggestions, finally the banknotes were issued
smoothly. The seemingly simple reminder from Empress Ma promoted the successful issuance of
Let's imagine if there was no Empress Ma, Xu Yanzhong was confused, and if he really killed
the scholars, the issuance of banknotes will be more difficult, and even lead to a series of
vicious incidents due to indiscriminate killing. In ancient China, the order of the emperor was
supreme, if the officials advised, they would take great risk, but the empress was most trusted by
the emperor, a wise empress was very important. Xu Yanzhong not only shared the difficulties
with Empress Ma, but also respected and loved Empress Ma.
In this situation, Empress Ma would stand on Xu Yanzhong's stand.