This is the real Spring and Autumn Of Qin Mu Gong (4)
Chief Writer: Idle Student
There are many thousand horses in this world, but there are very few Bole, and the Spring and Autumn Overlord Qin Mugong is the biggest Bole in the early Spring and Autumn Period, and the Guan Zhong used by the Duke of Qi Huan is still a scholar, and the Baili Xi found by Qin Mugong is actually a slave who raises horses.
In 654 BC, Duke Mu of Qin finally got his wish and married Bo Ji, the daughter of Duke Xian of Jin. And in this list of dowry slaves, there is a doctor Baili Xi who was captured by the Jin state from the Yu state. Bai Lixi was also really unlucky, his life was bumpy, he had to become an official in the Yu Kingdom in his old age, but he was not safe when he was old, and finally he had to die as a slave without dignity, which really made him unacceptable. Therefore, Bai Lixi went to the halfway point to find an opportunity to sneak around, he wanted to go to the Minglu Village of the Song Kingdom to find his old brother Uncle Jian, but when he reached the halfway point, he actually got lost, and in a confused way, he actually ran to the Song-Chu border Wancheng (Chudi, present-day Nanyang, Henan), and was arrested by the wildlings there as traitors of the Song Kingdom.
The savage here does not mean tarzan the ape, but the meaning of the countryman. During the Zhou Dynasty, those who lived in the city were called the countrymen, those who lived in the suburbs were called contemptible people, and those who lived in the countryside were called wild people.
The kidnapped Bai Lixi loudly argued: "I am not a traitor of the Song Kingdom, I am a Yu Guo, and I have fled to this place because of the death of the country!" I am a genuine political refugee, and you must issue me a green card! ”
The wild man said, "I don't care if you're a traitor or a refugee, but if it comes to us, you don't want to run." It just so happens that we lack a cattle breeder here, so you should become a cattle slave. ”
Bai Li Xi had no choice, had to help the wildlings raise cattle, temporarily as a place to stay, cattle breeding is Bai Li Xi's old business when he was young, naturally handy, the cattle he fed are particularly fat, the wildlings are very happy, they sold him to King Chu Cheng, King Chu Cheng asked: "You are very good at raising cattle, but I don't know what tricks you have, tell the widows to listen to." ”
Bai Lixi thought that it was not easy to see such a big figure as the King of Chu, or should seize the opportunity to show himself well, so he said in the name of raising cattle: We must feed the cattle on time, be sympathetic to their strength, and unite our hearts with the cattle. Unexpectedly, the king of Chu did not understand Bai Lixi's cattle breeding and way of governing the country, and thought that he was very clever and said: Well, your words are very reasonable, not only raising cattle, but also raising horses, right? Then go and raise horses for the widows!
As a result, King Cheng of Chu missed Bai Lixi's great ability to govern the country perfectly, and sent him to the South China Sea to herd horses and be a real bow horse Wen.
However, it was said that Qin Mugong saw that there was a person named Baili Xi in the list of dowry slaves in the Jin Kingdom, but there was no such person among the people who came, and he hurriedly summoned the person in charge, Gongzi Zi, to question him. Gongzi Said disapprovingly, "Isn't it just a slave who ran away to marry?" There's no need to be so serious! ”
Qin Mugong said angrily, "Don't you know that I am now recruiting talents?" This Hundred Mile Xi used to be a good villain and a doctor of Yu Guo, it should be a little level, how can it be easily let go? He then turned around and asked Gongsun Zhi, the Shangqing of the Qin Kingdom, who was this Baili Xi, because Gongsun Zhi was from the Fallen Duke clan of the Jin Dynasty and was very familiar with the personnel affairs around the Jin State.
Gongsun Zhi laughed and replied, "Haha, Lord, you are asking the right person, there are only three people in the world who know the talent of Baili Xi, one is uncle of the Hermit of the Song Kingdom, one is Baili Xi himself, and the other is me!" This person has the greatness of the world, the talent of the subject, not more than one-tenth of it, the lord should quickly find him, the Qin Kingdom's Zhongxing, fell on this person! ”
Qin Mugong heard that this dowry slave was actually ten times more powerful than his right-hand man Gongsun Zhi, and even Gongsun Zhi was a thousand-mile horse, and that Hundred Mile Xi was not a thousand-mile horse! Mu Gong couldn't help but be ecstatic, and he quickly dispatched all his intelligence departments, and was bound to find this great talent.
The news soon reached: Bai Lixi was helping the King of Chu herd horses on the coast of the East China Sea in the Chu Kingdom.
Mu Gong was overjoyed: "Great, fortunately, the Chu King Boy did not find the high talent of Baili Xi, and the widow had a chance!" Gongsun Zhi, you see how much money I have paid, the King of Chu is willing to give us baili xi to the qin state, five million is enough? ”
Gongsun Zhi shook his head: "Five million? I'm afraid the King of Chu won't agree..."
Mu Gong cried and said with a sad face: "Five million is not too little, you know that although I am a leader, in fact, I am very tight on hand, and I am the poorest among the princes of all countries..."
Gongsun Zhi cried and laughed: "You listen to me, ah, I am not too little, but too much, you think about it, the reason why the King of Chu let BaiLi Xi go to herd horses is that he has not yet realized his wizards in governing the country, if we give him so much money, the King of Chu is not a fool, he will definitely realize the mystery of it, and when the strange goods can be lived, the King of Chu will definitely not let people go." We might as well correct his sin of escaping and redeem him, so that the King of Chu thinks that Baili Xi is worthless, and will sell his personal feelings back to us! ”
Mu Gong suddenly realized, patted his head and said, "This is really a concern for chaos, and the widow wants to be bad." Zi Sang, or are you smart! Wasn't that how Qi Hou got Guan Zhong in the past, how did I not expect it? ”
When he said that, Duke Mu of Qin immediately sent someone to bring five black sheepskins to King Chu Cheng to redeem BaiLi Xi, saying: "Bai Li Xi is our dowry servant of the Qin Kingdom, and somehow ran to the king, and the widow wants to extradite him back to be punished, and these five broken sheepskins will be regarded as compensation!" ”
King Cheng of Chu thought to himself, This old man of the Qin Kingdom is also stingy, I am a big treasure in the Chu Kingdom, what skins are not, only five sheepskins? Five hundred sheepskins are not rare, even if you don't count, I don't lack one or two horse breeders in chu country, sell personal feelings to you, go and go, go and find Baili Xi to come over.
Bai Lixi was raising horses in the South China Sea, when suddenly a news came that the Duke of Qin had heard that he had fled to the Chu Kingdom, and Long Yan was furious and sent an envoy to send five sheepskins to the King of Chu, saying that he would exchange him for punishment, and King Cheng of Chu agreed, and had already sent someone to arrest him.
The slaves who raised horses with Baili Xi were very sad when they heard about it, thinking that Bai Lixi would undoubtedly die when he went, and ran to comfort them, Bai Lixi was unlucky, but he was also very calm, so he took a prison cart all the way west and left the Chu country, until the border of the Qin state, Bai Li Xi suddenly smiled.
Because he saw an old friend, Gongsun Zhi, a poor brother when he was begging for food in the country of Qi.
Gongsun Zhi released him from the prison cart and said with a smile: "I haven't seen him for a long time, Qi Di has been separated for thirty years, Brother Baili will not come unharmed?" ”
Bai Lixi smiled and patted his shoulder: "Oh, it turned out to be your boy, when we went to the Country of Qi to beg for a living together, I stayed at Uncle Jian's house, but you slipped away alone, it turned out that you ran to the Qin Kingdom to escape." ”
Gongsun Zhi said, "Well, let's talk about the old things later, Qin Zhengyi is waiting to see you!" ”
Qin Mugong paced impatiently in the palace, looking very anxious: Gongsun Zhi and Baili Xi had not come yet, and the flowers of the widows and others were thanked.
Just at this moment, someone flew in: "Report, Doctor Gongsun, they are back and are waiting to see them outside the palace!" ”
Qin Mugong quickly ran out: "Don't wait to see them, the widows will go to see them in person, I can't wait for a moment!" ”
Qin Mugong had just run out of the palace, but he was suddenly stunned, and his disappointment overflowed into words: No, how can this Wanli horse be an old horse, so old that he can work for a few years, no wonder the King of Chu let people go so easily!
Baili Xi saw that The Duke of Qin had personally come to greet him, and his heart was very excited, and he knelt down in a trembling manner and said, "Xi Xi heard that the Lord Gong had the ambition of an uncle king earlier, and when he saw it today, it was indeed worthy of the name." ”
Mu Gong looked at Bai Li Xi's trembling appearance, and his heart became more and more unpleasant, he lifted up Bai Li Xi and asked, "Old man, are you living a long life this year?" ”
Bai Lixi said, "Not high, not high, buddy, I am seventy years old, ten years younger than Jiang Ziya." ”
Mu Gong sighed and said, "Please forgive me for speaking bluntly." Seventy years of life is rare, although Mr. Is highly talented, but he is older, but unfortunately, it is a pity, if he can be born twenty years early, it will be perfect, and he will be able to help me dominate the world in the Qin Kingdom. ”
Bai Li xi smiled, his life was turbulent and displaced, through ups and downs, footprints all over the Qi, Chengzhou, Yu, Chu, almost all over most of the Central Plains. This experience made him know a lot about the customs and people's feelings and the geography of mountains and rivers in various places, and if the Qin State wanted to dominate, it was right to find himself, so he said with confidence: "Let the subject go to chase the birds and fight the beasts, then the subject is indeed old." However, if you want to sit and ask about state affairs, compared to Jiang Ziya's eighty-year-old can help the King of Wu to determine the world, then I am still very young! ”
Qin Mugong was suddenly calmed by this bold remark, and his view of Bai Lixi immediately changed, so he changed his attitude and respectfully consulted him: "Our Qin state is located in the land of Rong Zhai, and all the countries in the Central Plains are snobbish, look down on us, treat us as uncivilized barbarians, and what alliance will never let us participate, sir, what clever trick can we let the Qin state realize the four modernizations as soon as possible, catch up with the Qi Jin and Song dynasties, and join the United Nations?" ”
In fact, China has always had a tradition of discriminating against remote and weak areas. What a badger, a fox, a ghost, a rongdi... The names of these weak descendants are either beasts or wild ghosts, and they are not human beings anyway. The Classic of Mountains and Seas, which describes the origins of China, also says: "The body of a human-faced beast is called inuyasha." "A sense of superiority of the higher civilizations of the Central Plains is revealed on the paper. Therefore, when Xia was the Central Plains, they regarded Yin Shang as Dongyi; and when Yin Shang entered the Central Plains, they regarded Qi Zhou as Qiang Rong; now the Qin people living in the land of Xi Rong are naturally despised as barbarians. The so-called contempt and contempt, probably this is how it comes from. In this sense, nationalism has a long history in China.
Although Bai Lixi was also a native of the Central Plains, he did not seem to have these bad habits, he said: "The lord is in a high position, and he can still ask me, a bad old man who is a prisoner of the country, and he is really very touched by the courtiers, and he does not say anything, and the tears are rushing." Then let me bad old man give you a good analysis: The Qin state is located in the land of Qi and Feng, the mountains are like canine teeth, the original is like a long snake, only one Kunhan Canyon can communicate with the Central Plains, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack, this is the first advantage of the Qin State; the second advantage, the Qin State is surrounded by some Rong, Di and other ethnic minority tribes, there must be a total of more than a dozen small countries, these places have fertile land, the people's customs are fierce, but they are independent, the organization is lax, and it is easy to swallow them. Therefore, the lord should make good use of these two advantages, and conquer the virtues of the countries of Xirong, so as to merge their lands, then he can dominate the western region, and then tighten the dangers of the mountains and rivers, let him compete for hegemony in the Central Plains without endless clams, I will vigorously develop the economy, I must be vigilant and greedy, bear with the word first, and wait until the central plains countries exhaust their national strength due to mutual conquest, and then we will take the opportunity to drive straight in, under this and that, who else in the world is your opponent? ”
Baili Xi's strategy was first west and then east, from the inside and outside, steady and steady, well versed in the essence of geopolitics, it can really be described as the strategy of the world, and later Qin Mugong claimed hegemony over Xi Rong, that is, this road was taken; even hundreds of years later, shang martingale and Zhang Yi's strategy was also developed from the strategic thinking of Baili Xi. It's just a pity that although Qin Mugong quite agreed with the strategy of Baili Xi, he was really stimulated by the situation of "princes and princes and qin", so that later the key moment was still a quick success, ten thousand years was too long, only to fight for the day, the result took a lot of detours, and finally woke up, otherwise the Qin State might have unified the world many years earlier.
But even so, in an era like the early Spring and Autumn Period, Qin Mugong was able to instantly promote a slave to the position of prime minister, which was already a political innovation that transcended the times. And This point of Qin Mugong was also praised by Kong Shengren, according to the "History of Confucius's Family": "Qi Jinggong and Yan Bao came to Shilu, and Jinggong asked Confucius: 'In the past, the Duchy of Qin mu was small, and what was its hegemony?'" "Qin, although the country is small, its ambition is great; although it is open, it is in the right direction." The body lifts the five, the master of the lord, rises and falls, and the language of the three knows the day, and grants him the government. In this way, although the king can also be, its hegemony is small. ’”
And Bai Li Xi forty years of huaicai did not meet and finally got the Lord, this story tells us that we must not lose confidence as a person, as long as you have the ability, opportunities will one day come to your side; just like the song sings: "Indifferent people, thank you for looking down on me, let me not bow my head more wonderful life!" "Only by being able to endure loneliness and neglect can you finally usher in the sunny sunshine that belongs to you."