At the beginning of this year, at home during the holidays, I decided to read a book. A story a day.
1. Summer house feast
Before his death, Zhao Jianzi, a minister of power in the Jin Dynasty, called several of his sons to his side and said, "The Heavenly Emperor entrusted me with a dream last night and asked me to merge the Zhongshan Kingdom and the Daiguo Kingdom." The Emperor of Heaven left a treasure in Changshan (present-day Hengshan), and you should look for it.
Several sons ran to Changshan to see it and came back. A son said that the mountain is too big, it is not easy to find a treasure, it is better to bring more people with you tomorrow. Another son said that after looking for a long time, he found nothing. Only Zhao Wuxi, who finally returned, excitedly told his father that he had found the treasure.
Zhao Jianzi looked up at him and asked what treasure it was. Zhao Wuxi waved his big hand and said, If we attack Dai guo from Changshan, Dai Guo can become our bag!
Zhao Jianzi nodded with satisfaction, and passed the seat to Zhao Wuxi, who was known as Zhao Xiangzi.
Zhao Xiangzi knew very well that if the Zhao state wanted to be strong, it must attack the daiguo and obtain their good horses and important strategic resources. When Zhao Jianzi was alive, he married his daughter and Zhao Xiangzi's sister to the king of daiguo, on the one hand, he could buy cheap horses, on the other hand, he stabilized the daiguo, and waited for the time to be ripe to annihilate it in one fell swoop. As soon as Zhao Xiangzi came to power, he began to plot to attack the daiguo.
He sent an invitation to his brother-in-law, the King, to the effect that your father-in-law had ascended to heaven, and I was very sad. I know you're sad too, but since you're a foreigner and can't worship my dad's grave, you must be disappointed. I want to have a dinner party on the summer house hill on the border between our two countries, and we will miss his old man's home together.
The king quickly replied: Okay, no see, no scattering.
Zhao Xiangzi was very excited and quickly let people prepare the whole meal. The meal is not important, the daikoku can eat anything, what matters is who to send to assassinate the daiwang, how to kill.
It is a difficult task to select assassins, Zhao Xiangzi understands that the brother-in-law's strength is infinite, the assassin must hit a blow, as long as the brother-in-law is given the opportunity to fight back, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Zhao Xiangzi spent several days looking for the Assassins, but none of them were suitable. Just when he was distressed, a cook came to him and said, "I'm willing to try." ”
When Zhao Xiangzi looked, this person was less than three feet tall, his eyes were lightless, his hair was thin, and he was a little hunchbacked. Zhao Xiangzi was very disappointed, but looking at the chef's enthusiasm for taking the initiative to share the worries of the master, he still let him try it on the spot. The cook picked up his own tool—a square copper spoon—and waved it in front of Zhao Xiangzi. Later, the dance was almost like a windmill. Zhao Xiangzi was very satisfied, and deliberately found someone to cast a very heavy copper spoon for him. Zhao Xiangzi made an assassination plan with the cook, just waiting for the arrival of the dinner.
The appointed day came quickly and everything was in order. The Daiwang came with fifty soldiers.
The banquet began with Zhao Xiangzi's slight laughter and music. During the banquet, the guests were overjoyed, and Zhao Xiangzi and the Dai Wang raised a glass to drink together. The wine is still warm and the atmosphere is full.
And the assassin was right between Dai Wang and Zhao Xiangzi, using his copper spoon to serve wine to the two of them.
When Dai Wang was eating very well, he suddenly heard Zhao Xiangzi shouting: Good! Less please
Before the King could understand what was going on, the cook suddenly waved a copper spoon. It is said that the head of the daiwang immediately became a pile of flesh and blood.
As soon as Dai Wang was killed, the fifty soldiers he brought with him were also killed by the people deployed by Zhao Xiangzi, and the ghosts on the entire Xiawu Mountain cried wolf. Zhao Xiangzi watched his brother-in-law's head being smashed into meat paste, slowly stood up, looked at Daidi, and made a beautiful gesture to his subordinates: Start!
The attack begins! The Daiguo people already knew that their king's head had been slapped into meat paste, and the entire Daiguo was plunged into desperate chaos, and the imperial court without a center of power was chaotic and panicked, and some of the ministers advocated fighting to the end, some advocated temporarily forbearing surrender, some wanted to send an envoy to the Jin state to ask for an explanation, some tried to defect to the Yan state in the northeast, and even some shouted the name of Zhao Jianzi and cried, and the curse and rebuke of Zhao Xiangzi were even more endless.
But insults and complaints are not battles, of course, can not solve the crisis, Zhao Xiangzi led the army with lightning speed into the Daiguo, see people killed, every person will be cut, the massacre was carried out for a day, the Daiguo was declared dead
When Zhao Xiangzi killed the DaiWang, his sister was so grief-stricken that she looked up at the sky and sighed: "Brother killed brother-in-law, I don't know who to favor, my motherland's daiguo has perished, what is the meaning of my life!" So she found a hair stick, walked to the Horse Head Mountain, twenty miles southeast of the royal city, found a stone, sharpened the fence, inserted it through her throat, and died.
Zhao Xiangzi did not seem to have any feelings about his sister's death, and after incorporating the Daiguo into his own territory, the Daiguo was renamed Dai County, and it was originally a subordinate of the Zhao Kingdom.
