#冬日生活打卡季 #
There is a mysterious story in the Chronicle of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
In the same year (682 BC) when Nangong Changwan killed Duke Min of Song, the powerful minister who had controlled Zheng guo for nearly twenty years died. Zheng Tu, the Duke of Zheng Li, who wanted to join forces with his son-in-law to murder him, was forced into exile abroad, and now that he is dead, he is overjoyed and ready to return to China to seize power.
At this moment, at the gate of Zheng Guo's city, a strange thing happened:
Inside the door there was a snake, about eight feet long, with a blue head and a yellow tail; outside the door came a large snake, about a foot long, with a red head and a green tail. The two snakes fought viciously in the middle of the gate, for three days and three nights, regardless of victory or defeat.
Zheng Guodu all ran to see the strange, and the spectators were like the city, but no one dared to come closer. On the seventeenth day of the fight, the snake outside the city bit the snake inside the city to death. Then, the outer snake ran straight into the city and burrowed into the Taimiao Temple, and suddenly disappeared.
What does this strange thing portend?
It is a harbinger that Zheng Ligong, who had been exiled abroad earlier, will soon return to China to inherit the unification.
The monarch of the State of Zheng was Zheng Bao, who was the youngest son of Duke Zheng Zhuang after Duke Xiang of Qi killed Zheng Qi and Gao Qumi. Zheng Tu was the second son of Duke Zheng Zhuang, the older brother of Zheng Bao, and the old monarch who had been deposed after escaping.
Therefore, Zheng Bao is the younger brother, symbolizing the eight-foot long small snake; Zheng Tu is the elder brother, symbolizing the big snake that is long.
Zheng Infant was the king in the city, and Zheng Tu attacked from outside the city, so he fought in the gate.
On the seventeenth day of the vicious fight, the inner snake died, and the outer snake entered the city.
Zheng Tu began to flee in the summer of Jiashen's year, and by this year it was the summer of the year of Xin Ugly, and it had been seventeen years. In the seventeenth year, the inner snake Zheng Infant lost his position, and the outer snake Zheng burst into the Taimiao Temple.
All of this is providence!
If this is just a fictional story in the novel, if it is not enough to believe, then, if we open the main history, there is actually the same record in the "History": "In the beginning, the inner snake and the outer snake fought in the Zhengnan Gate, and the inner snake died." After six years of residence, Li Gongguo returned. ”
Fruit, result, the meaning of sure. Zheng Tu did indeed return to China as a monarch again. This shows that the history is consistent with the folk sayings, and they all believe that Zheng Ligong's restoration of the country as a monarch has a destiny!
The difference is that there are three words in the main history: "staying for six years". This shows that the fight between the inner snake and the outer snake is indeed real, but it did not occur in the year of Zheng Tu's restoration, but as early as six years ago.
Even if this legend is taken away from the main history, it will still not affect the integrity of the narrative. But why did the ancients draw snakes like this? Was the ancients very ignorant and superstitious? No, the ancients wrote this to emphasize that this is important.
Zheng Tu's father was a prominent Duke of Zhengzhuang in the early Spring and Autumn Period. Zheng Zhuanggong is the left of the Great Zhou Tianzi
Qing, Zheng Guo was first a barrier to the Zhou royal family, acting as a member of the Tianzi gendarmerie, and his status was higher than that of all other princes.
Later, with the development of the times, the two countries of Qi and Chu gradually became stronger.
The State of Qi in the east conquered various tribal small states along the Dongyi coast; the State of Chu in the south conquered various tribal small countries in the southern barbarian jungle. These Two countries, Qi and Chu, took the lead in becoming superpowers at that time.
The development direction of the State of Qi: from east to west, all the way to expand, gradually annexing the princes of the world, and finally, it reached Luoyang of Tianzi. The development direction of the Chu state: from south to north, all the way to expand, and gradually annex the princes of the world.
In the end, it also arrived at Luoyang, where the Son of Heaven came.
Therefore, in the early stage of development, the State of Qi and the State of Chu were separated by 18,000 miles, and there was no contradiction or conflict between the well water and the river water.
But later, when the power of the Duke of Qi Huan expanded all the way west to the Song Kingdom, the next stop was the Zheng Kingdom, and then the royal family. When King Wen of Chu's power expanded all the way north to the Cai Kingdom, the next stop was also the Zheng Kingdom, and then the royal family.
At this time, contradictions and conflicts will come out. Zheng Guo became an object that both Qi and Chu had to compete for and use.
The strategy of the State of Qi was: to declare itself an ally. The princes were pulled into their own camp in order to defend the Son of Heaven and revive the Great Zhou. The strategy of the Chu state is: self-proclaimed king. The princes were taken under their own banner in order to subvert the Son of Heaven and replace the Great Zhou. This is completely different!
Therefore, the State of Qi is the party that represents justice, because he is defending the great unification, there is only one sovereign state in the world, and all the princes are subordinate units of the Great Zhou: and the State of Chu is the side that represents the evil, because he is splitting the great unification, zhou is zhou, chu is Chu, and it has become two sovereign states.
If the State of Chu wanted to get the State of Zheng, it would win over Zheng Bao, who was reigning at the time: if the State of Qi wanted to get the State of Zheng, it would co-opt zheng Tu, who was in exile.
Therefore, Duke Huan of Qi sent Binsu without troops to secretly support Zheng Tu and seize the throne!
Zheng Tu also successfully seized power with the help of the Qi people, joined the Qi alliance, and became a righteous party.
So, what legitimacy does Zheng Tujun have to seize the throne?
No. This Zheng Baby was the monarch of the Zheng Kingdom who had been officially canonized by Zhou Tianzi, and had reigned for more than ten years, and Zheng Tu had come to kill him without any reason, but he could not give a reasonable explanation, so what to do?
Then move the heavens out, the meaning of heaven, god can be more than the son of heaven!
It can be seen from this that the reason why the ancients were obsessed with some signs of destiny was not because of their simple minds, nor because they were ignorant, but because they were a need for political legitimacy. When no legitimate and suitable reason is found, it is generally prevaricating with destiny.