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Most people know that Jiang Ziya also told the story of Jiang Ziya leading the gods to help King Wen of Zhou to obtain Jiangshan through the step of the "List of Conferred Gods". In the novel and film and television drama, Jiang Ziya was a disciple of Yuan Shi Tianzun of the Kunlun Mountain Yuxu Palace, and was later ordered to go down the mountain to help Zhou destroy the Shang, during which he experienced various tribulations, and finally eliminated Yin Shang and achieved the great cause of being a god. But after all, this is a literary and artistic work, so what kind of person is Jiang Ziya in the historical truth?
In fact, the historical Jiang Ziya is not a disciple of the Kunlun Mountain Yuxu Palace Yuan Shi Tianzun, but an ordinary old man, Jiang Ziya Jiang surname, Lü Shi, Ming Shang, Yi Wang, Zi Zi Ya, or Shan Hu Ya, also known as Lü Shang, nicknamed Flying Bear. A military warrior at the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the founding monarch of the State of Qi, in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, he was given the title of "Taishi" (military attaché name) by King Wen of Zhou, and was honored as "Shi Shang father". Then everyone has to ask, is it true that King Wen pulled the car eight hundred steps, and the Zhou Dynasty was eight hundred years old? Xiaobian can tell you very responsibly, of course not, it is just the need for literary and artistic works, which deified Jiang Ziya.
In fact, Jiang Ziya's ancestors had helped Da Yu to control the water, and had achieved the officialship of the Four Yues, and Shun and Yu Shi were sealed in Lü Di (present-day NanyangXi, Henan), so they were also called Lü Shang. Lü Shang's original surname was Jiang, and because he was surnamed after his fiefdom, he was called Lü Shang. When Jiang Ziya was born, his family was in decline, so when he was young, Jiang Ziya worked as a butcher, opened a hotel to sell wine, and talked about cooking without rice, but Jiang Ziya was poor, whether he was a butcher or a businessman, he always studied astronomical geography and military strategy diligently, studied the way to govern the country, and hoped to one day show his talents for the country, but until he was 70 years old, he was still useless and idle at home.
Legend has it that when Jiang Ziya was 72 years old, he fished in The Rock Creek (present-day Baoji City), the shore of the Weishui River, and met Ji Chang, the Marquis of Jichang (later King Wen of Zhou), who was thirsty for talents at that time, and after a period of conversation, Wang Daxi said: Since the ancestors of our country, Taigong, said: There will be saints coming to Zhou, and Zhou will prosper. That's you, right? We have been looking forward to you for a long time. Therefore, jiang ziya was called Taigong Wang, and the two returned by car together, and Jiang Ziya was honored as a teacher. After that, with the assistance and planning of Jiang Ziya, two-thirds of the princes of the world returned to Zhou. After the death of King Wen, his son Ji Fa the Prince of Wu succeeded to the throne, and Jiang Ziya was also revered as the father of Shi Shang, and began to assist King Wu of Zhou, and nine years later, Ji Fa wanted to complete his father Ji Chang's great ambition to destroy the Shang, and the princes everywhere responded, holding Huang Yu in his left hand and Holding The Oath Master of Bingbai in his right hand, saying: "Cang Fei Cang, command heavy troops, assemble ships, and behead those who are late." So the soldiers went to Mengjin, but Ji Fa said that he was waiting, so Banshi returned to the dynasty and wrote the "Tai Oath" together with Jiang Ziya.
Two years later, Shang Yi killed prince Bigan and imprisoned Mizi. At this time, the absurdity and tyranny of the King of Lu reached the extreme, and Jiang Ziya saw that the time was ripe, so he proposed to Ji Fa to cut the silk. Ji Fa then informed the princes to jointly conquest, on the first day of the eleventh month, the Zhou army arrived at Makino, 70 miles outside the outskirts of the Shang capital Chaoge, and the King of Lu also gathered 700,000 troops and launched a great war, known in history as the Battle of Makino, the King of Lu was defeated, and fled back to Chaoge in a hurry, boarded Lutai, and set himself on fire. Jiang Ziya led Ji to the Yin capital chao song, telling the world that the Shang Dynasty would perish and the Zhou Dynasty would be born.
After King Wu destroyed the Shang, he consulted with Jiang Ziya, Zhou Gongdan, and others to divide the country into several princely states, and because of Jiang Ziya's outstanding merits in the Xingzhou Dynasty, he was first enfeoffed to establish the State of Qi at Yingqiu (present-day Linzi District, Zibo City) to stabilize the East. Politically, Jiang Ziya pursued a policy of honoring the wise and meritorious service, and culturally pursued an enlightened policy of "simplifying his manners because of his customs." In the early days of the State of Qi, Jiang Ziya took advantage of the rich minerals of the State of Qi and vigorously developed handicraft industries such as alchemy, cotton and linen manufacturing, and fish and salt industry, and under the governance of Jiang Ziya, the State of Qi changed from a remote and poor small country to a big country that was proud of the East. This also laid a strong economic foundation for the State of Qi, which it called the first hegemon of the Spring and Autumn Period.
With the death of King Wu and King Cheng, Jiang Ziya accepted King Cheng's entrustment and took on the heavy responsibility of assisting the crown prince, and later together with his courtiers, he supported the crown prince Ji Zhao to ascend the throne, and was known as King Kang of Zhou.
Throughout Jiang Ziya's life, the ups and downs, the poverty of his youth, the responsibilities of the elderly, leaving for posterity "Liutao" and other books are a collection of pre-Qin military thought, which has a great influence on the military thinking of future generations, known as the ancestor of the military family power plot, called the ancestor of the hundred families by the Spring and Autumn Period, "Liutao" Sun Wu, Ghost Guzi, Huang Shigong, Zhuge Liang and other military experts have absorbed the essence of "Liutao", this is Jiang Ziya, the real Jiang Ziya in history.
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