Deng Yu Nanyang came, and the battle strategy returned to Guangwu.
Kong Ming Wolong, not the first Lord.
Heroes have their own opinions, so why ask the source.
In ancient China, there were many heroes who originated from the grass, such as Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, who was born in Surabaya Pavilion, Wei Qing, a great general who was born of slaves, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu who was born from a cow herding baby, and so on. In the period of slave society in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there were many historical celebrities who came from more humble origins, and they were originally slaves who were not even free people, such as Qin Mu's five sheepskins in exchange for the doctor Baili Xi, such as the Three Sages of the Shang King Wuding, "Ying Meng Xianchen" Fu said, and the protagonist we want to talk about today, the legendary founding minister of the Shang Dynasty, Yi Yin.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > born with a vision</h1>
Because the "History of Letters" only took shape during the Shang Dynasty, most of the records of people in this period are legendary, and the same is true of Yi Yin. The Water Sutra Commentary, Li Daoyuan, Volume XV, Yi Shui, contains:
There are women of the Nong (通 "Xin") clan who pick mulberries, and give their babies in the empty mulberry, and offer them to their kings, and their kings order the people to raise them. Seeing why he was so, he said: His mother was above the water, pregnant, and the dream had a god to tell him: "Out of the water and go east, do not care." "Mother Ming saw the water coming out of the water, and told her neighbor to go away, looking at her, salty as water. Its motherhood is empty mulberry.
Roughly speaking, a woman from the Xin clan picked up a baby in the mulberry tree cave and dedicated it to the monarch of the Shin clan. The monarch had the cook adopt him and ordered someone to investigate his origins. The result of the investigation was that the mother of the baby lived next to Yi Shui, and after becoming pregnant, she dreamed that the gods told him: If the water comes out of the mortar, run east, and don't look back. The next day, she really saw water coming out of the mortar, hurriedly told the neighbors about the situation, and ran far away in one breath, and couldn't help but look back and see that her village was already a vast ocean. Because she turned her head, her body became a hollow mulberry tree, and Yi Yin was in the middle of the tree hole. This is the story of Yi Yin's birth in Khlong Sang. Other historical sources, such as the Records of History and the Spring and Autumn of the Lü Dynasty, are also more or less like this, although there was already a "history of faith" at that time, but many records are still full of legends.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > sensitive and studious</h1>
Because Yi Yin was raised by a cook, coupled with his own great efforts, he soon became a very powerful chef, and there are many records about Yi Yin's cooking skills in history, and many idioms have been formed, such as "Yi Yin Torment" (from the "Seven Hairs" of The Harvest), "Yi Gong Harmony" (from Prince Liang Zhaoming's "Seven Contracts"), "Yi Yin Negative Ding" (from the "History"), "Yi Yin Shan Cut Cooking" (from the Book of Han) and so on. Mr. Xiong Sizhi, a famous Chinese culinary theorist, also wrote an article entitled "When Yi Yin is the Ancestor of the Kitchen World", which praised Yi Yin's cooking skills.
When Yi Yin was young, he not only practiced cooking asceticism, but also did not fall behind in cultural learning, worked hard to learn the way of governance of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and studied how to govern the country. Soon, Yi Yinxiande's reputation spread throughout the world, becoming the teacher of many noble children, and because he had the status of a slave, he was called a "master servant".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > to the kitchen as a guide, you have to meet the soup</h1>
At first, Shang Tang heard that Yi Yin was very knowledgeable, so he sent someone to youXin to ask for Yi Yin, and the monarch of the Xin clan certainly did not let anyone go. Later, Shang Tang married the Youxin clan and married the daughter of the Xin clan, and only then did Yi Yin move to "亳" as a slave of the dowry. After Yi Yin saw Shang Tang, he used cooking and five tastes as the guide, analyzed the general trend of the world and the way of government, and persuaded Tang to undertake the great task of destroying Xia, so that Shang Tang saw his talent and began to be reused. Shang Tang removed him from slavery and conferred him an official position to assist in the administration of the dynasty. In mencius, there is such a statement: "Tang is to Yi Yin, learn from Yan and then subject to it, so it is not a king." It means that Yi Yin was first Tang's teacher and then a courtier, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Yi Yin was the first imperial teacher in China, which shows that Yi Yin's knowledge is very deep and Shang Tang's trust in him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > hearts and destroy Xia Xingshang</h1>
At this time, the last monarch of the Xia Dynasty, Xia Jie, was very tyrannical, and many people were displaced and miserable, so Yi Yin rushed to the Palace of the Xia King, hoping to persuade the King of Xia to implement benevolent government, but it was not accepted, and Yi Yin advised Xia Jie five times before and after, but they were rejected (see Liu Zongyuan's "Yi Yin Wu Yi Zhi Praise"). After that, Yi Yin no longer had illusions about the Xia Dynasty, returned to Shang Tang, and fully helped Shang Tang to govern the country, develop production, expand the army, and soon befriended the princes to help the Shang Dynasty replace the Xia Dynasty.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23"> for the division is the chief, for the king is the phase</h1>
After the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, Yi Yin, in addition to being the prime minister, was also the chief official responsible for sacrifice and divination. Shang is a very superstitious dynasty, the major affairs of the country must be decided through divination, the so-called "major affairs of the country, in the worship and Rong", so Yi Yin has a lofty status. At that time, the monarchy and the divine power were almost juxtaposed, and at this time Yi Yin became the representative of the theocratic power of the Shang Dynasty, holding the supreme power comparable to the monarch, especially after the death of Cheng Tang, this position was almost to the point that no one could shake it, and even the abolition of the monarch could be decided in one word, and the four kings after the Shang Tang, Wai Bing, Zhongren, Taijia, and Woding, were all on the throne and ruled in the context of Yi Yin's "master for the master".
For example: when Shang Tang's grandson Taijia was emperor, Yi Yin wrote him "Yi Xun", "Wanton Life", "After the Death" and other precepts, telling him how to govern the country, what can be done, what can not be done, and how to inherit the law of chengtang, etc., the result is that Taijia did not do well, "Emperor Taijia has been established for three years, unclear, tyrannical, disobeying the soup law, chaotic morality", Yi Yin said the ancient famous sentence of "heaven is evil, it can be violated, self-inflicted sins, and cannot live", banishing Taijia to the Tong Palace to study well, every day upwards, He himself is in charge of political affairs, comparable to a true king. Until three years later, Taijia thought about it day and night, studied the books written to him by Yi Yin, and gradually acquired the qualities of a good king. Yi Yin saw that he had repented and rehabilitated himself before restoring his throne and returning the government to him. This point in the future, except for the chaotic world of the lord's weak and strong subjects, is almost unimaginable in ordinary times, which shows that Yi Yin's authority at that time was unmatched.
Yi Yin died at the age of 100, which is a very rare longevity in ancient times. Looking back on this life is absolutely wonderful, from cooks to wizards, from concubines to prime ministers, from slaves to "three dukes", he served five kings, saw all the scenery along the way, and did his best in every position, because he was close to the community, loved the people, and was deeply respected by future generations and loved by the people, so that he was praised for thousands of years.