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576 Situation Map
The original author | Jiang Nan
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In 576, Northern Zhou broke through Qi, captured the capital cities of Yecheng and Jinzhou, and surrendered Northern Qi's Eastern Yong Prefecture to assassinate Shi Fufu.
At that time, the Northern Zhou Dynasty consumed a lot in the alignment battle, and there was also Chen Chao in the south.
Fu Fu's Eastern Yong Prefecture was only two or three days away from Jinzhou, and at that time Emperor Wu of Zhou was fighting in Yicheng, and entrusted the important minister Wei Xiaokuan to persuade Fu Fu to surrender.
Unexpectedly, this rumor is not very famous, but it is a loyal subject. He refused the price given by Emperor Wu of Zhou as a deputy chancellor (the right servant of xingtai) and refused the precious gift of agate jug.
Fu Fu also said to Wei Xiaokuan, who had been persuaded to surrender: "There is no difference between death and death."
With such a fierceness, Fu Fu obviously repaid the ambition to die in the country, which made Emperor Wu of Zhou very unhappy.
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Later, Emperor Wu of Zhou broke Qi, captured Emperor Qi, and sent his subordinates to surrender Fu Fu again.
Fu Fu asked his subordinates across Fenshui, "Where is the Emperor of (Northern Qi) now?"
The courtier replied, "It has been captured."
Chuanfu then "cried in the sky" and was forced to surrender in desperation.
Emperor Wu of Zhou looked at Fu Fu, who had surrendered, and asked, "Why didn't you surrender earlier?" ”
A sentence made Fu Fu cry, and he said while crying:
"The third emperor is a Qi Chen, eats Qi Lu, cannot kill himself, and is ashamed to see the heavens and the earth."
Emperor Wu of Zhou felt like he was riding a roller coaster, and whether this man killed or not was uncertain. However, there were many subordinates and soldiers around, which made Emperor Wu of Zhou instantly make up his mind:
This Fu Fu was loyal to the former dynasty, safe, and could not set off the storm.
Emperor Wu of Zhou personally stepped forward and took Fu Fu's hand and said, "As a human subject, you should be like you." ”
(If you see this scene, the loyal minister Xian Yu Shirong, who was killed in Yecheng a few days ago, will jump up and scold his mother)
Then Emperor Wu of Zhou distributed the ribs of the sheep he ate to Fu Fu and said to him:
"The flesh and bones are thin, so they pay each other."
You are a man who deserves my flesh and blood and my heart.
He also entrusted Fu Fu with the task of guarding the palace and defending his personal safety.
Before this was over, Emperor Wu of Zhou also specially ran to fu fu and told him: "If you are used as a high-ranking official immediately, I am afraid that the subordinates will be jealous, and you will try to serve the emperor, and don't worry about the future of wealth." There is no joke, which is equivalent to giving the appointment of the organization department in advance.
The soldier died for the confidant, and this Fu Fu was already grateful to Zero, and even had the heart to die for the new dynasty.
The Emperor's Mind Technique was not enough, and he turned back to ask the captured Emperor Qi, that is, Fu Fu's old superior, Fu Fu had made great contributions to Northern Qi that year, and you rewarded Him with a lot of rewards, so sorry for others.
It is estimated that after Emperor Qi listened, he scolded the letters beginning with f ten thousand times in his heart.
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Even more wonderful was Emperor Wu of Zhou's younger brother Yuwen Xian the Prince of Qi, who personally wiped the wounds of king Guangning of Guangning and applied ointment to the king of Guangning when he caught the defeated King of Northern Qi.
In the inheritance of excellent genes, Yuwen Tai of Western Wei was obviously better than Gao Huan in the east, and the two old guys fought and fought for a lifetime, and after all, Yuwen Tai won, and won in the generation of his descendants.
Machiavelli said in The Monarch: "The monarch must know how to conceal this beastliness, and must be a great pretender and a false good man." ”
He also said: "The monarch must be a fox in order to recognize the trap, and a lion in order to frighten the jackal." ”
Before Emperor Wu of Zhou came to power, the three emperors in front of him all died at the hands of the powerful minister Yuwen Hu, and only he could not bear it, hiding under Yuwen Hu's eyes for nine years, and finally being able to suddenly attack and kill Yu Wen Hu when Yuwen Hu was caught off guard.
Later, he failed to besiege Northern Qi's Jinzhou, and the wolf who was pursued and killed by northern Qi troops escaped from Jinzhou City. Being able to reorganize the army in one day, turn around and fight northern Qi to the death, this fierce side that belongs to the lion monarch can make the jackal frightened.
Was it that all the subordinates of Northern Qi had the treatment of Fu Fu, not really?
The nobles who really held power in Northern Qi, such as Gao Anaqiu and Mutiba, had lost their use value after a year of surrender, and were killed by Yuwen Yong on charges.
This is what Machiari said about monarchs as cunning and fickle as foxes.
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To some extent, not understanding the Imperial Mind Technique shows that we are lucky.
At least not shrouded in the shadow of death, not tormented by the ambition of the end, nor drunk by fate when he was proud.
Yuwen Yong had a nine-year dormancy period, passing through the thorns of death several times, his feet full of mud.
His strong desire for success allowed him to suppress his emotions, intellectually terrible.
His routine of winning people's hearts and minds was not because he was rational, but because of his obsession with revitalizing northern Zhou.
Of course
Yuwen Yong is naturally recognized by the history books as Ming Jun, if it were not for the untimely death of 36 years old, history would rewrite it for him, it is beyond doubt.
But don't you easily judge whether he is a good person or not?
The inextricable greed of the frontier is overcome only by the highest desires, and the means by which the monarch manipulates the human heart come from the desires of the heart.
Behind all the almost cruel insistences is the ghost of desire.