Chaoge, in "Romance of the Gods", is the capital of the Shang Dynasty, and it is an ordinary county town today, which is Qi County, Henan.
As the capital of Shang, it was glorious for 600 years, and finally because of the unprincipled rule of the king of Shang, it was served in a pot. Later, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it became the capital of the country.
There are many talents in Weiguo, Zigong, Shang Ying, Lü Buwei, and Jing Ke, all of whom have ancestral homes to defend the country. According to history, although the country was finally destroyed in 209 BC, as early as the previous Spring and Autumn Period, the country experienced countless wars, changes, divisions and reunions, which is not surprising, in that era of historical turmoil, small countries were powerless to protect themselves.
During the tenure of the eighteenth king of Weiguo, Weiguo also experienced a destruction of the country, from the external reasons, of course, the enemy was too strong, but from the internal reasons, the king was responsible, and the people were also responsible.
The eighteenth king was Wei Yigong, who said that he was faint and faint, and his behavior and style were similar to those of Song Huizong. But there are also times when he doesn't faint, although he wakes up late, compared to Song Huizong becoming a prisoner of other countries, Wei Yi swears not to surrender, at least he has a backbone.
Song Huizong had the idea of an artist, he liked to collect some strange stones to study, and he did not hesitate to use the power of the whole world for this purpose, and this is how Hua Shigang came out.
Wei Yigong also has a special habit, he himself is not greedy for alcohol, nor is he lustful, but he especially likes a kind of bird-crane.
To what extent do you love it? Heling in the northwest and Hecheng in the southeast, no matter who owns that place, they will bring me cranes. Those who pay tribute to the cranes will be rewarded heavily; those who pay tribute to the cranes of the precious species will be given official titles and enjoy the high salary of the state, and the highest treatment will go to the food doctor.
Those officials who wanted to be promoted saw that the cranes had such a great use, so they did everything possible to drive the people to hunt cranes, but the court could not let go, so they expanded again, and the burden on the people continued to increase.
When the crane goes out, he can't walk, he has to take a car, and the general car is not good, but it has to be a high-class Xuan car, the same car as the dignitaries at that time.
Cranes are also "people", they also have to give officials and knights, Wei Yigong according to the quality and posture of the cranes to give them official ranks, food and money, just like that, Wei Guo has increased hundreds of "officials" for no reason, and the treatment is quite high.
If such a large number of high-ranking "officials" want to eat and drink, who will support them, and who will bear the expenses, it must be the common people. Wei Yigong continued to forcibly levy from the people, and as for the food and clothing of the people, he completely ignored it.
In this way, a lot of dissatisfaction was aroused, and the officials were angry, and they worked diligently and diligently, so that they could not pay tribute to a famous crane, and the common people were also angry, and the land was taken to raise cranes, so that the people could not do anything.
By 660 B.C., the treasury of the Patriotic Kingdom was empty, and popular resentment finally broke out, but the first to erupt was the invasion of the Di people. Beidi rate 20,000 to attack, what should I do?
Wei Yigong had a clue, recruiting troops, reorganizing the army, preparing for war, and fortifying defense, but no one responded to the monarch's order. The officials said that the treatment of cranes was higher than ours, and let the cranes deal with the Di people, and the common people were also indifferent.
Wei Yi took up the situation during the public trial, and under the persuasion of Shi Qizi, the minister next to him, he immediately carried out crisis public relations, he first made self-criticism, ordered the cranes to be killed and the people drunk, and the cadre establishment was abolished.
The self-criticism was done, and the crane was eaten, and now their anger should have subsided, but they still seemed to be indifferent, what should they do? In order to do the mobilization work, Wei Yigong went from house to house to do the work, and finally reluctantly gathered a group of men and horses, and then set out on the expedition.
As a result, halfway through, some people began to sing: "Crane eats Lu, the people work hard, the crane rides Xuan, the people exercise the soldiers; Di Feng is fierce and unstoppable, and he wants to fight and die for a lifetime! Where is the crane now? And I, Qu Qu, do it!"
This is a team with a disheartened heart, even if King Tota comes, it is not easy to bring it, so Wei Yigong personally brought it.
In the first battle of Xingze, the Di people made a charge, and the guards were scattered, the Di people were the division of tigers and wolves, and the patriotic armaments were slack, there were few chariots, and the army had long forgotten how to fight, and the combat effectiveness was basically nothing.
In the end, Wei Yigong became the commander of the light pole, but even so, he refused to surrender, and was finally killed by the Di people, and the meat on his body was also eaten, leaving only a liver.
Wei Yigong died, not worthy of sympathy, Wei Guo also died because of this, Chaoge became a hell on earth, let the Di people burn and kill, plunder, and finally Wei Guo only escaped 4,000 people, and later although he reluctantly recovered with the help of Qi Huan Gong, but the once powerful Wei Guo no longer exists.
In such a story that has been passed down for thousands of years, if you want to break who is right and who is wrong, there is no doubt that Wei Yigong, as the monarch, bears the brunt, and he has indeed made a big mistake.
He didn't treat his country as a country, let alone his own people, he used both the country and the people as a tool to satisfy his personal preferences, and in the end, he also received the punishment he deserved, and the end was miserable.
For thousands of years, Wei Yigong has been regarded as a negative teaching material, but who is at fault except Wei Yigong? In fact, the common people also have a big problem.
What is the problem of the people?
A king who has no people in his heart is not a good king, and in the same way, a people who have no country in his heart is a good subject?
The ministers and the people complained that the king did not treat them as human beings, but after the country was ruined, the invaders did not treat them as human beings.
Wei Yigong regrets it the most, in order to deal with Di Ren, he is always correcting his mistakes, much stronger than Song Huizong, but history did not give him a chance, maybe he deserved it, but the people turned a blind eye to the call of the monarch and turned a deaf ear, is it the love of their own country?
Maybe in the hearts of the defenders, the country belongs to Wei Yigong, but after losing it, they will find that in fact, the country is also your own, and while you abandon it, you are basically doomed to the fate of the people.
It is conceivable that the Song of the Dynasty in 660 B.C. was like a hell on earth.
In fact, there is a deep understanding that loyalty is not to a person, but to the country, to a system, to a culture, and to a nation.
From Qu Yuan to Han Feizi, to Su Wu, Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, and Deng Shichang, these historical celebrities who are highly respected by the Chinese people are not just loyal to the emperor, they adhere to the dignity of a nation.
Therefore, the problem of the patriotic people is that they have not practiced "the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband", that is, they have not practiced the basic responsibilities that a citizen should bear.
Saving the country is actually saving the husband himself.