In TV dramas or novels, there are often such plots: two or more people who were originally allies, because of the uneven sharing of the loot, end up killing each other.
The so-called "man dies for money, birds die for food."
However, in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a disaster caused by the uneven distribution of "mutton".
In this story,
The marshal, who did not give the coachman mutton, was dragged to the enemy camp by the coachman, became a prisoner, and left an idiom.
This unfortunate marshal was named Hua Yuan, and was a minister of the Song Dynasty.
He was born into a royal family and was the fifth grandson of song daigong, the eleventh monarch of the Song dynasty, and although they later lost the succession to the throne, their family still had a pivotal position in the Song kingdom.
His great-grandfather, Hua Du (華督), was a great official to Dazai, and in the Song Dynasty he was one man above ten thousand people.
In Hua Yuan's generation, the hua family's position in the Song Dynasty was still as stable as Mount Tai.
At that time, the Song state had six secretaries, the right division, the left division, the Sima Division, the Situ, the Sicheng, and the Sikou.
His brother Hua Coupling was Sima And himself was the right division of the head of the Liuqing, and the Liuqing took up two at once, which showed how powerful the Hua family was in the Song Kingdom.
In 606, Gongzi Guisheng, the ruling minister of the State of Zheng, was ordered by the monarch of the State of Chu to send troops to attack the State of Song.
At that time, the monarch of the Song State was Song Wengong, a fairly wise monarch.
He was originally a brother-in-law of Duke Zhaogong of Song, and it is reasonable to say that he was not qualified to inherit the throne.
But there was no way, Song Zhaogong himself died, first offending his grandmother Wang Ji, and then tyrannical, so the Song people were very dissatisfied with this monarch from top to bottom.
However, his brother-in-law Bao was exactly the opposite of him, not only quite popular with his grandmother, but also courteous to the chinese.
When there was a famine in the Song Dynasty, he took out all the grain in the palace and gave it away.
He is also very respectful to talented people in the country.
Therefore, the people of the country were very supportive of Gongzi Bao, and later, with the support of his grandmother Wang Ji, he killed Song Zhaogong in one fell swoop and ascended the throne for Song Wengong.
Although his throne was not very honorable, he was indeed a bright lord compared to Song Zhaogong.
When he learned that Zheng Guo was going to attack the Song State, he sent Hua Yuan and Le Lu to lead troops to resist.
And the bloody case caused by the "mutton" occurred in this war.
At that time, in order to boost morale, Hua Yuan cooked a large pot of mutton before the expedition to reward the three armies.
But I don't know if it was because he was too busy to forget, or because he didn't pay attention to it, Hua Yuan actually forgot to let people give his coachman a share of the sheep.
Don't underestimate this coachman, you must know that the spring and autumn period of war is basically sitting in the chariot, how to drive, that is the coachman's decision.
In such a situation, the role of the coachman is very critical.
However, Hua Yuan actually forgot to give meat to such a key person, which stabbed the honeycomb.
It should be known that during the Spring and Autumn Period, most people's minds were still relatively open-minded, not like the foolish loyal people who were deeply poisoned by Confucian culture later.
They don't care what "rain and dew are all wet, it is a blessing of heaven", "the king wants the subject to die, the subject has to die"...
If you don't give me lamb, I want you to look good.
Therefore, when the war began, the sheep who held their breath directly drove the carriage into the enemy camp and said a word
"The sheep of the past, the son for the government, today's affairs, I am the government"
This is what we later call the idiom
"Fragmentation"
。
Probably the meaning is that you have the final say in the matter of dividing the lamb, and now I have the final say in the matter of driving.
Hua Yuan, who was inexplicably taken to the enemy's military camp, was captured by Zheng Jun before he could react.
The commander was captured, and there was no suspense that Song Guo would lose this war.
What is even more repressive is that as we said earlier, the status of this Huayuan in the Song Kingdom is not low, so even the Song State, which lost the war because of Huayuan, still has to spend money to redeem him.
At that time, Song Wengong was ready to exchange a hundred chariots and four hundred beautiful horses for Hua Yuan, and before these things reached Zheng Guo, Hua Yuan sneaked back by himself.
Later, Hua Yuan also assisted the gonggong and the pinggong two monarchs successively, and the final outcome of the coachman Yang Zhuo is unknown.
However, he is also a betrayer, and the end should not be much better.
This is a bloody case caused by "lamb", and there is still an idiom left.
What other interesting historical stories do you know? Welcome to share together.
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