There is a sentence in "Huainanzi Say Lin Xun": "The cunning rabbit has to be cooked by the hound, and the high bird is strong and hidden", which means that after the hounds help the owner capture the rabbit, they are killed by the owner to eat it. The same is true for bows and arrows, which are useless after killing birds.
Later, this situation was also recorded in the "Shiji Yue King Goujian Family", and the ancients also used such examples to warn future generations to recognize their status and not get carried away because they had made great contributions to those in power. Most of them are the hot and cold situation of the world, and only by learning to judge the situation and learn to hide the edge will there be a perfect ending.
As we all know, in addition to his own extraordinary perseverance, his adviser Fan Li was also indispensable, he stood behind Goujian and planned everything, and finally helped Goujian eliminate the Wu state and dominate the Central Plains. But he was smarter, and after everything settled, he chose to change his name and surname, abandon the government and do business, and finally got a good ending.
However, some people are not so lucky, such as Chen De, who was hit by several arrows in order to save Zhu Yuanzhang, and in order to repay him, Zhu Yuanzhang even made a promise to him not to live up to him, but he did not expect to copy his family after 27 years, which is simply staggering.
Nothing in front of interests
"I'd rather I bear the burden of the world, rather than let the people of the world bear me!" This sentence is a classic quote by Cao Cao, and it is also the foundation of his life and career in the world. And the origin of this sentence is also very frightening, when Cao Cao failed to assassinate Dong Zhuo, and after being released by Chen Gong, he went all the way to the place where his father married his brother Lu Boyao, and was warmly received.
However, Cao Cao himself did not take it lightly, because seeing Lü Bofu's servants sharpening their knives and mistakenly thinking that they were going to kill themselves, he suddenly burst into a riot and killed many of Lü Bofu's relatives and servants, and fled in a hurry.
On the way, he met Lu Boyao, who had returned from buying wine, and Cao Cao ruthlessly killed Lu Boyao again in order to avoid future troubles, and then said the words that shocked the world.
In fact, it is not difficult to see from Cao Cao's style of acting how serious a ruler's desire for power was in ancient times. When there is uncertainty that threatens the power of those in power, their first reaction must be to eliminate these threats one by one.
Especially in the treatment of their founding heroes, the ancients had a saying that they can share hardships, but not necessarily wealth.
When we first fought the world together, maybe they said something about sharing the world, but when it really came to sharing the world, everything changed. Liu Bang killed his founding heroes, and Zhu Yuanzhang was no exception.
In order to save Zhu Yuanzhang, he was hit by nine arrows
Zhu Yuanzhang had such a hero by his side, his name was Chen De, who was also born into a farming family and defected to him when Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Dingyuan.
Chen De himself was loyal and honest, and since following Zhu Yuanzhang, he followed him in the southern and northern wars, not only overthrowing the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, but also strangling the rising Ming Xia in the cradle.
In the case of the division of the group, Chen De also made Zhu Yuanzhang stand out among the crowd, laying the foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang to unify the whole country in the future. Especially in the water battle with Chen Youcheng Poyang Lake, he even stood up to save Zhu Yuanzhang's life.
It was in 1363 AD, in order to save Anfeng, Zhu Yuanzhang was attacked by Chen Youcheng with an army of 600,000 to attack Zhu Yuanzhang's base Hongdu, and at a critical moment, Zhu Yuanzhang personally led an army of 200,000 to rush to the aid of Hongdu, and a life-and-death battle was launched at Poyang Lake on the way.
Because the gap in strength with Chen Youcheng was too large, Zhu Yuanzhang's troops had been in a weak position in this battle, and many of Zhu Yuanzhang's capable generals also lost their lives in this battle, and Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to withdraw his troops.
However, on the way to escape, the handsome ship he was on was seen by Chen Youcheng's subordinates, and there was a way to capture the thief first, and Zhu Yuanzhang's handsome ship once fell into a very terrible situation, and Chen Youcheng's subordinates spared no effort to shoot arrows at Zhu Yuanzhang, striving to shoot this fierce enemy on the ship to avoid future troubles.
At such a critical moment of acrobatics, Chen De has been guarding Zhu Yuanzhang's side without leaving an inch, and after a battle, Zhu Yuanzhang escaped, but Chen De was hit by nine arrows because he protected Zhu Yuanzhang. If it weren't for his good physical fitness, he would have died a long time ago, and Zhu Yuanzhang was also very moved when he saw this, and solemnly promised when he visited Chen De's injury: "The general is so righteous, he will never fail you!" ”
The family was raided 27 years later
Zhu Yuanzhang also fulfilled his promise and did not fail Chen De when he was alive, but after Chen De's death it was a different scene, which was actually a creation and trick.
After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Chen De did receive many rewards from Zhu Yuanzhang as a founding hero, and Zhu Yuanzhang, feeling his spirit of loyalty to the monarch and savior, specially named him the Marquis of Linjiang and gave him the honor of hereditary succession.
It's just that in the eleventh year of Hongwu, Chen De died of illness, and the loyal minister died, and Zhu Yuanzhang posthumously gave him the title of Duke of Qiguo in honor. And his title was naturally inherited by his son, originally thought to be a beautiful story of a courtier, the emperor's courtier, but everything came to an abrupt end in 1390 when the Korean Duke Lee Sunchang was reported for rebellion.
At that time, the court was turbulent, and the thunderous anger of the Son of Heaven was not something that could be borne casually, and Chen De's family also suffered a calamity, because some people saw that the forces of their family also took the opportunity to report that he had also participated in the rebellion, Zhu Yuanzhang became angry after hearing this, and did not carefully investigate and exterminated Chen De's descendants, although Chen De's son died in battle at that time, it was really the most ruthless imperial family, and all this has only passed 27 years since Chen De sacrificed his life to save Zhu Yuanzhang.
Brief summary:
This is the art of kingship, this is the power of those in power under feudal rule, no matter how much he was born into death, all feelings in the face of power and interests became so weak.
The cunning rabbit dies, the lackey cooks, the birds die, the good bow hides, the enemy country is broken, and the conspirators die. This bloody reality reminds us that under the rule of the feudal class, in the power above ten thousand people, the cold state of the world is the norm, and the rule is that the rich and the rich will forget each other.