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preface
There is a saying after the break: "Jiang Taigong fishing, willing to take the bait." ”
As we all know, Jiang Ziya's fish hook does not even have bait, and his target is naturally not the fish in the river, but it is actually Ji Chang, King Wen of Zhou.
But after meeting Ji Chang, Jiang Taigong made a strange request to Ji Chang, and he asked Ji Chang to pull the car for himself!
In order to recruit talents, Ji Chang had to agree to come down, and he tried his best to pull 800 steps, at this time, Jiang Ziya spoke:
"Today, the great king carries Jiang Shang 800 steps, and Jiang Shang will protect the 800 years of the Great Zhou."
But did Jiang Ziya's words really agree?
Later, the Western Zhou Dynasty did go through 800 years, but Zhou Tianzi only had real power for 300 years, and for the next 500 years, the dynasty was in turmoil, and the king was already in name.
Why did the Son of Heaven fall from the co-lord of the world to this place? In fact, it was all because of the mistakes made by King Wen of Zhou when he pulled the cart that his descendants were gas bags for 500 years.
First, Fengming Qishan, dreaming of flying bears
As it is called:
"When the kingdom prospers, there will be good luck; When the kingdom will perish, there will be evil. ”
In the novel, at the end of the Shang Dynasty, the Great Shang Dynasty, which was about to end the Mandate of Heaven, appeared a demon who brought calamity to the country and the people.
It was precisely because of Daji's demagoguery that the Shang Shun King, who was originally said to be quite wise, rode all the way on the road of brutal and defeated family, and finally buried Jiangshan for 600 years.
Correspondingly, under the rule of King Wen of Zhou in Qishan, because King Wen of Zhou was generous and virtuous, loving the people like a son, so that the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the auspicious rui of Fengming Qishan appeared.
Along with this auspicious rui, there was also a dream of King Wen, it is said that one night, King Wen dreamed that a tiger with wings on his back rushed towards him, and King Wen immediately woke up.
In the eyes of the ancients, such a strange dream must be a strange omen, a warning from God to himself, should be divined to peek into the sky, see if it is lucky or fierce, and how to deal with it?
As we all know, King Wen performed gossip, deducing the innate gossip left by the human emperor Fuxi to the day after tomorrow 64 trigrams.
King Wen of Zhou himself was the top Yi Xue master at that time, a master of trigrams.
However, because of the ancient precept that the diviner does not possess himself, King Wen of Zhou had to ask his ministers and sons for help.
Fortunately, at that time, Xiqi, in addition to King Wen of Zhou, also had two masters of trivia.
One was the minister Sanyisheng, and the other was King Wen's son Ji Dan, who was later honored as the great sage of the Duke of Zhou!
After Ji Dan learned of his father's strange dream, he learned by divination: the tiger gives birth to wings, it is a flying bear, and the flying bear dreams, which is an auspicious omen for the king to meet a good minister and a fierce general.
Ji Dan also deduced the location of this good minister and fierce general, which should be on the bank of Weishui.
King Wen of Zhou was overjoyed when he heard this, and out of trust in his son's ability to calculate trigrams, he even wanted to personally go to the people to visit the sages.
But Minister Sanyisheng advised:
"Weishui stretches for hundreds of miles, there are countless residents on both sides of the strait, and it is time-consuming and laborious for the king to find alone, it is better to let the domestic people recommend the meritocracy, and at the same time, recruit talented people with high-ranking officials."
I think that with the wisdom of the great king, if there is really a sage, he will definitely come to see him in person.
Although Sanyisheng's words were reasonable, King Wen of Zhou believed that the true great sage could only be sincerely assisted by the king himself. Of course, the trick of recruiting talents may not attract talents, but if you can recruit talents, you can also recruit talents.
To this end, King Wen of Zhou ordered Sanyisheng to be in charge of Zhang Bang's recruitment, and he went to visit the people in micro-service to find the dream flying bear talent on both sides of Weishui.
But it was not unreasonable to worry about Sanyisheng before, and after visiting the people in person for several months, King Wen of Zhou never found the talent of his dreams.
The reason is simple, Weishui has more than 1,600 miles, if this is a visit one by one, I am afraid that you have to find the year of the monkey.
However, King Wen of Zhou firmly believes that as long as he is sincere enough, he will be able to find the true genius of the world.
Fortunately, strange people have their own unusual behavior, which is easy to notice, and when King Wen of Zhou is visiting Xiancai, Jiang Taigong is also fishing in a straight line.
I don't know when it started, there is an old fishing man on the bank of Weishui who has never caught a fish, why can't he catch a fish?
Only because of this, the heart is not in the fish of Weishui, but under the divergent dragon!
So who will be the hidden dragon that this old man is looking forward to?
Second, 800 steps to pull the cart, 800 years for the country
At both ends, when King Wen of Zhou was tirelessly seeking to visit the talents, his general Nangong Guo was shooting and hunting on horses.
One evening, when Nangong Guo was chasing and killing the beast, he encountered an old fishing man on the shore of Weishui, and at first Nangong Guo did not find anything abnormal, but just stepped forward to ask for saliva.
Unexpectedly, Nangong Guo glanced at it and was surprised to find that the fishing basket of this fisherman was empty, and after seeing that the sky was going to get dark, he couldn't help but say:
"Uncle, if you can't fish, I can give you a way, don't waste your efforts here."
But after the old man heard this, he shook his head and smiled, but just put away the fish hook.
At this moment, Nangong Kuo was even more surprised, because the old man's fish hook turned out to be straight? Straight hook fishing, if you can catch a fish, it is really hell.
The old man completely ignored Nangong Guo's surprise, and just said to himself:
"This hook is not fishing for fish in the water, but only for the king and marquis of the world."
This way made Nangong Guo think that the old man did not seem simple, so after returning to the city, he told King Wen of Zhou about the old man's style.
King Wen of Zhou, who was depressed because he couldn't visit the sages, learned that there was such a strange thing, and he made up his mind, thinking that this should be the sage that he had been visiting for a long time.
So, early the next morning, King Wen of Zhou asked Nangong Guo to take him out of the palace to find the fisherman.
The angler is still fishing with a straight hook on the Weishui shore, only this time, his fish is hooked.
When King Wen of Zhou respectfully stepped forward and asked the Diaoyu Weng for his identity, he learned that the Diaoyu Weng was not an ordinary mountain villager, but an ancient Four Mountains, and Jiang's surname was Lü.
Although in later generations, people always used to call him Jiang Ziya, but in fact, Lu Shang was the correct name.
However, none of this is important to King Wen of Zhou, what he cares about is whether this Jiang Taigong in front of him is the talent he needs?
Then, the two began to talk endlessly from governing the country to marching and fighting.
Jiang Ziya fully demonstrated his true character as a great talent with both civility and military skills, and presented King Wen of Zhou with the strategy of strengthening the country and the method of strengthening the army.
After confirming Jiang Ziya's talent, King Wen of Zhou was overjoyed and immediately asked Jiang Ziya to board the car with him and return to the palace.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Ziya, who had just seen Zhou Wenwang, shook his head and pushed away:
"May you allow me three days, and in three days, the king will come here again?"
Although King Wen of Zhou was a little puzzled by this, he did not continue to insist, thinking that he was too cold to come this time? So he went back to the palace first to prepare for his life.
Three days later, King Wen of Zhou dressed up in a car and came here again with a huge ceremonial guard, preparing to welcome Jiang Ziya to Xiqi.
But Jiang Ziya was unwilling to get into the luxury royal car, but asked King Wen of Zhou to prepare an ordinary board car for him.
King Wen thought that he was doing his thing, but he was not impressed, and agreed to him again.
Then after Jiang Ziya got on the scooter, for a while, strange things happened, whether it was a cow or a horse, he couldn't pull him a bit.
Just when everyone was surprised, Jiang Ziya actually said to King Wen of Zhou:
"I don't know if the king is willing to be tired and pull on the next journey."
In the face of such an unreasonable request, Nangong Guo, a fierce general who had long been impatient on the side, immediately jumped and pulled out his knife, intending to teach this old man who did not know the height of the sky and the earth a lesson, but was severely reprimanded by King Wen of Zhou.
King Zhou Wenwang looked at Jiang Ziya, who looked relaxed in the car, and remembered his ambition.
So King Wen of Zhou took off his royal robe and pulled Jiang Ziya to walk.
However, King Wen of Zhou did not see the nearby hydrogeography clearly before pulling the cart, and after walking less than 300 steps to the west, he found that the front had been flooded by Weishui into a small piece of muddy land, and the mud was unbearable, so he only turned around and pulled more than 500 steps to the east.
After pulling these more than 800 steps, King Wen of Zhou had to stop and rest because of lack of energy.
Seeing this, Jiang Ziya also got out of the car, and said after bowing deeply to King Wen of Zhou:
"Today, the great king carries Jiang Shang 800 steps, and Jiang Shang will protect the Great Zhou for 800 years. ＂
Thinking about it, after getting this guarantee at that time, King Wen of Zhou should be remorseful, and he knew that pulling one is a year's national fortune, that is, exhausting himself to death, but also pulling a few more steps!
Of course, what King Wen of Zhou didn't know was that because he first walked less than 300 steps to the west, he took 500 steps to the east? This made his Great Zhou Jiangshan only 300 years in the west and more than 500 years in the east.
However, these are just deductive stories in mythological novels, so what about King Wen and Jiang Ziya in real history?
3. King Wen and Prince Jiang in history
If you have read the "Shiji", or "Spring and Autumn" and other pre-Qin history books, you will notice an alliance that has long disappeared, the "Ji Jiang Alliance".
The princes of the princely states surnamed Ji, who had been in the early Spring and Autumn Period, would marry the daughters of nobles surnamed Jiang.
As early as the Shang Dynasty, in order to defeat the Shang Dynasty, which occupied the Central Plains, the two major forces of the Jiang surname and the Ji surname in the west created a powerful alliance through marriage.
The surname Ji, without a doubt, refers to the Western Zhou royal family represented by King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou.
One of the representative figures of the surname Jiang is Jiang Ziya.
The two forces have a deep relationship, such as the ancestor of the Zhou people, who abandoned the mother, who is the daughter of the surname Jiang.
And in the more than 200 years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, as long as you pay a little attention, you will find that the queens of the Son of Heaven are all surnamed Jiang!
Including one of the direct black hands who destroyed Western Zhou, the father of the original queen of the King of You, and the grandfather of King Ping of Zhou, Shenhou, is also surnamed Jiang!
Therefore, the so-called visit of King Wen to Weishui is just a story made up by later generations.
In history, King Wen of Zhou and Jiang Ziya did exist, and it was indeed a relationship between monarchs and courtiers, but the story between the two was far less beautiful than the myth said.
In addition, the historical ginger teeth may not be the same as the traditional impression of many people.
First of all, Jiang Ziya knew King Wen of Zhou very early, and Jiang Ziya's daughter, married King Wen's heir King Wu of Zhou, gave birth to the later King Cheng of Zhou.
Secondly, Jiang Ziya is not an old man who can only fish, but a fierce general!
In the Battle of Makiye, Jiang Ziya was stubborn and charged ahead, and his heroic posture was praised as an eagle by the Zhou people!
"Poem Daya Daming" has a saying:
"Wei Shi Shang Father (Jiang Ziyang), Shi Wei Ying Yang (like the flying of the eagle)."
After completing the great cause of exterminating commerce, Jiang Ziya led his army all the way to the coast of the East China Sea, broke Laiyi, descended Dongyi, and established the State of Qi in the gathering area of Dongyi.
After the death of King Wu of Zhou, Jiang Ziya joined forces with Zhou Gongdan to quell the rebellion of the Three Prisons, which can be called a burst of martial virtue!
It can be said that Jiang Ziya, who can wear stubbornness and travel thousands of miles in history, is not inferior to Jiang Ziya, who relies on immortal means in "Romance of the Gods".
In addition, there is another point that Jiang Ziya in history hates the so-called hermit very much, and Jiang Ziya thinks:
"The state makes the people fearful through criminal law, and through the high lord Houlu, the virtuous can serve the country."
But what about the hermits? He claims that he is not afraid of the punishment of the state, claims to be talented, and never does anything beneficial to the country and the people. However, it sells its reputation and corrupts the atmosphere of society.
It's simply a giant rat who deceives the world and steals his name!
Be a hermit?
Send all the hermits to Shouyang Mountain, let them fend for themselves, and die from Caiwei, it is estimated that it is Jiang Ziya's attitude!
epilogue
People are indeed more likely to believe in wonderful, engaging mythological novels than boring history.
It's just that when reading mythological novels, you can just have fun and never take it seriously.
If you really want to be interested in history, you still have to take a good look at the official history, and you must not confuse the novel with the official history, so that you can't tell the difference between "Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and other jokes.