In the long history of China's five thousand years, countless princes and heroes have emerged, but if we start from the values of modern people, Yi Yin is definitely the most popular, why do you say so?
On the one hand, Yi Yin is talented and capable, and has always been the prime minister above ten thousand people under one person, on the other hand, his cooking skills are very nice, he was the top chef at that time, and was known as the ancestor of Chinese chefs by later generations.
In addition, Yi Yin also understands medical skills, is the inventor of soup medicine, cures diseases is not a problem, and is definitely a perfect and beautiful man in the eyes of women.
A genius from a slave background
Yi Yin was a child with a bitter fate from an early age, and was abandoned by his parents when he was just born, but fortunately he was adopted by a good slave couple in Youxin Kingdom (Youshi Clan).
His adoptive father was a slave cook who could both slaughter and cook, and his adoptive mother was a slave girl who picked mulberries and raised silkworms, and because his adoptive parents lived on the edge of Yishui, they named him Yi zhi, which means born by water, and Yin was the honorific title after the establishment of the Shang Dynasty.
It can be said that Yi Yin is an orphan, and when he was a child, he followed his adoptive parents who were slaves to make a living, but fortunately, his adoptive father had a good cooking skill, and was favored by King Youxin, and became his personal slave cook for his family.
Although Yi Yin's conditions were cold, he was intelligent and intelligent since childhood, diligent and self-motivated, especially interested in the deeds of great figures of the ancient era such as Yao Shun, and deeply studied the way of governance of wise kings such as the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and Dayu.
It may be that Yi Yin was born with leadership and political talents, and over time, he changed from a servant around the nobles to a "master servant" of the nobles' children.
At the same time, Yi Yin was also deeply praised by his father, and was very proficient in cooking, becoming a cook of slave owners and nobles.
For such a genius who has both superb cooking skills and a deep understanding of the way of governing the country, Yi Yin has become a well-known figure in the youxin country and even the surrounding tribes.
Coming from the Shang tribe, Cheng Tang, who was thirsty for talents, repeatedly used jade, drapery, horse, and skin as gifts, and went to youxin to hire him, but yi Yinwan refused.
Of course, such a young talent has also gained his own love, and the girl who falls in love with him is the red face of the last year of the Xia Dynasty - Yu Xi.
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However, the good times were not long, and the tyrannical Xia Jie carried out a conquest of the Youxin Kingdom, and in order to avoid the disaster of annihilation, the Yuxin State had to contribute a large number of beautiful women to the greedy And sexy, including Yu Xi.
Faced with the separation of his lover, Yi Yin finally made up his mind, and when Cheng Tang married the daughter of King Youxin, Yi Yin came to King Tang as a dowry slave.
Tang was very happy and regarded Yi Yin as a national teacher, and Yi Yin also had his own place of use, teaching Tang to imitate Yao Shun's rule of the world with virtue and actively plot against Xia's strategy.
With the assistance and strength of Yi Yin, the strength of the Shang tribe has increased by leaps and bounds, and in order to understand Xia's false reality, the Yi Yin Tuo people pretended to come to Jie's side as counselors.
At the same time, Yi Yin learned that Yu Xi had fallen out of favor and was abandoned in the Luo River Valley, Yi Yin immediately secretly went to the Luo River to have a private meeting with Yu Xi, and learned through Yu Xi that many important information inside Xia Ji had also learned that Ji had lost the hearts of the people.
Ji compares his relationship with the people to the relationship between the sun and the moon, and after Yi Yin leaves Xia, he tells this sentence to Cheng Tang, and Cheng Tang tells this sentence to Xia Min to test Xia Min's attitude towards Xia Min.
As a result, the people of the Xia Dynasty cursed that even the moon would perish with this vicious sun.
Of course, this was not enough, Yi Yin persuaded Shang Tang to stop paying tribute to Xia Jie in order to test the reaction of the princes, and Xia Jie was really angry, and "the Division of the Nine Yi" attacked Shang Tang.
Yi Yin saw that the Princes of Jiuyi were still listening to The Command of Ji, and immediately offered Shang Tang a temporary restoration of the tribute to the Xia Dynasty, continued to cultivate obscurity, waited for the opportunity, and secretly actively prepared to attack Xia.
In 1601 BC, Yi Yin once again stopped paying tribute to Xia Jie, and Ji raised troops again, but the Jiuyi Division was no longer able to command and did not listen to him.
At this time, Ji was already losing the hearts of the people at home, there were no princes outside, and he was completely isolated and helpless politically and militarily, and Yi Yin thought that the time was ripe to destroy Xia, so he assisted Shang Tang to immediately order the cutting of Xia.
However, Yi Yin still did not dare to take it lightly, but adopted a strategy of cutting off the wings and taking it step by step, first destroying the three vassal states of Xia, and then gathering various princes to march westward and concentrate on attacking Xia.
Reluctantly coping with the battle, the result was defeated again and again, and finally the entire army was destroyed at the Battle of Mingtiao, yi yin directly attacked the hinterland of the Xia Dynasty, occupied the capital Yangcheng, and the Xia Dynasty was declared dead.
The origin of the "Iho Affair", the most powerful prime minister in Chinese history
After the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, Tang Fengyi was made Yin, yin means the model of the world, the meaning of teachers in the world, Yi Yin became the first prime minister of the Shang Dynasty and the teacher of Taishang.
In addition to being a minister in the government, Yi Yin has a more important identity, that is, a wizard.
Because the Shang Dynasty was a dynasty that greatly believed in ghosts and gods, the major affairs of the country had to be through divination, the wizards had a lofty status, the wizards represented the heavens, and even the Shang king had to listen to the words of the wizards, which also laid the groundwork for Yi Yin's later dictatorship and the abolition of the Shang king.
And Yi Yin even regarded himself as a prophet, regarded his words as the highest doctrine, and had the arrogance to give up his own, and Yi Yin became the most powerful figure in the country.
Of course, Yi Yin did not take credit for himself, but was diligent and diligent, and with the joint efforts of him and Tang, the Shang Dynasty showed a thriving atmosphere. Yi Yin made great contributions to laying the foundation of the great merchant for 500 years, and also achieved a generation of monarchs.
However, the feast that was indissoluble in the world, perhaps Yi Yin was too good to live, and after Cheng Tang's death, Yi Yin assisted the two kings of Wai Bing and Zhongren in one breath, and watched them drive to the west of the crane.
In 1558 BC, Cheng tang's eldest grandson Taijia succeeded to the throne, and Yi Yin was already the elder of the Four Dynasties and assisted the government as a taishi.
Two years before Taijia ascended the throne, under the guidance and supervision of Yi Yin, he was able to be diligent in government affairs, perhaps Taijia did not change his mind, and from the third year on, he could not sit still.
He began to give arbitrary orders, pursue pleasure, and abuse the people, causing the government to be corrupt and confused, and Yi Yin, as the prime minister and taishi, could only give advice in every way, but Taijia could not listen to it at all.
In Taijia's view, he was the king of a country as he wanted, not only did not take Yi Yin in his eyes, but also tried to revise it into the general policy formulated by Tang.
And it turns out that he, the monarch, really doesn't want to do whatever he wants.
Yi Yin saw that the situation was out of control, so he used his strong influence to mobilize military resources to "force the palace", directly banished him to the Tong Palace near the Shang Tang cemetery, and let him reflect on himself, which is the famous Yi Yin exile Taijia in history.
This incident, together with the later incident in which Huo Guang deposed king Changyi and called yihuo, implied a rebellion, of course, Taijia was unexpected about this, and it seems that the strength of the monarch for three years was not as good as Zaifu's forty years.
The atmosphere of the Tong Palace is solemn and solemn, except for the tomb keeper, no one can enter, in such an environment, Taijia sees his grandfather's mausoleum all day long, and reads the textbooks written by Yi Yin for him, such as "Yi Xun", "Wanton Life", "After the Death" and so on.
Yi Yin, on the other hand, was the regent of the country, ordering the princes, and performing the duties of the monarch on behalf of the monarch, which was three years, and at the same time, in these three years, Taijia faced his grandfather's tomb, on the one hand, he remembered his grandfather's deeds, and on the other hand, he faced his own bad deeds.
While reading, he cleaned the mausoleum, thinking day and night, night and night, and finally realized the root cause of his mistakes and the reasons for his exile, and woke up from the lost way.
During his exile, Yi Yin continued to learn about his situation and took time to visit Tong Palace. In the blink of an eye, over time, Taijia was gradually reborn and became another person: cautious in action, humble in speech, calm in thought, and industrious.
Yi Yin saw that the purpose of exileing Taijia had been achieved, so he personally took the Minister of Culture and Military Affairs to the Tong Palace to take Taijia back to the capital City, restore the throne of Taijia, and retire himself as a vassal.
After Taijia ascended the throne for the second time, with the assistance of Yi Yin, he diligently cultivated the moral government, the princes submitted, the people were at peace, and the Shang Dynasty entered a stable period of development.
Seeing all this, Yi Yin was very satisfied, at this time, Yi Yin was already an old man in his nineties, and the long-term hard work had dragged down his body.
But Yi Yin had no regrets, he could afford to become a soup, as long as it was beneficial to the big businessman, even if he was accused of rebellion, he finally died in the twelfth year of Taijia, Yi Yin, who had been an assistant for more than fifty years, died at the age of 100.
Chinese chef ancestor and Ming medicine sage
In addition to being an outstanding politician, Yi Yin was also a great chef, and Yi Yin's first career was a chef.
As mentioned earlier, Yi Yin was fostered in the slave Kuren's family when he was young, learning the art of cooking with his adoptive father, because Yi Yin was very clever, cooking was not just a craft for him, but raised it to the theoretical level, Yi Yin was the founder of the theory of the harmony of five flavors and the theory of fire.
Yi Yin believes that the seasoning thing is very subtle, and it is necessary to grasp the experience with special care, the seasoning is sequential, and it should be adjusted slowly.
The use of fire for cooking should also be moderate, and the principle of using fire must not be violated, and when to use rapid fire and when to use slow fire are all exquisite.
The whole process of cooking focuses on the changes in Dingzhong, and the changes in Dingzhong are more subtle and subtle, and the language is difficult to express, which needs to be understood with the heart.
Of course, Yi Yin's culinary skills are not limited to theory, the level of practice is also very high, to put it bluntly, the taste of the dishes made is quite ok.
It is said that when he went to ShangTang, he cooked a swan soup, which was very popular with soup, and since then, Yi Yin has made various delicious specialties for Shang Tang.
As the saint of Chinese cuisine, Yi Yin is now regarded as the "Kitchen Saint" by Chinese culinary peers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and other places.
What is even more rare is that cooking is only one of Yi Yin's many skills, as mentioned above, Yi Yin was the first wizard of the Shang Dynasty, and the wizard and the doctor at that time were one, and the wizard himself had the function of practicing medicine.
Yi Yin is no exception, many historical classics are certified, Yi Yin is the creator of soup medicine, the most skilled is to use herbs to treat people's diseases, medicine to get rid of diseases, known as living gods.
The invention of tang medicine improved the efficacy of medicine and became one of the most important features of traditional Chinese medicine, yi Yin, together with the Yellow Emperor and Shennong, was called the "three saints" in the medical field.
brief summary
Yi Yin is an outstanding politician, thinker, and Chinese chef, on the one hand, Yi Yin assisted Cheng Tang to end the tyrannical rule, during his reign, political clarity, economic prosperity, and his ideological ideas brought valuable wealth to future generations, on the other hand, the five flavors harmony theory and fire theory he created also added a strong ink to the Chinese food civilization.
Mao Zedong once gave Yi Yin a high evaluation:
"Yi Yin's morality, learning, economy, and deeds are all complete, and they can be fa (can be imitated). Born in the era of authoritarianism, his heart is taigong (Jiang Taigong) also. With great intellect and great momentum, it can break through the righteousness of five or six hundred years of monarchs and initiate revolution. ”