Yi Yin is the first minister and famous politician in ancient China. It has made indelible contributions to the establishment and consolidation and development of the Shang Dynasty in China's history.
Yi Yin, the name of the best, Yin is the official name. According to the "Lü's Spring and Autumn ● Benwei Chapter", Yi Yin was an abandoned baby found by a woman of the Youxin clan when she was picking mulberry, because her adoptive mother lived on Top of Yishui (present-day Yichuan County, Henan), so she took "Yishui" as her clan, and YiYin was intelligent and resourceful since childhood, and had lofty ambitions. He saw that Xia Jie was cruel and the people were not happy, so he decided to turn to the more accomplished Shang Tang, and was appointed as the prime minister by Shang Tang. According to the "History of Yin Benji", yiyin investment merchants have two theories: first, ShangJun married the daughter of the Xin clan, and Yi Yin was married to shang as a "Tengchen", and used his superb cooking skills to take advantage of the opportunity to "say soup with taste and give it to the king's way". The second is that Yi Yin was originally a hermit, and King Tang Wu invited him five times with courtesy before he went out of the mountain to become the prime minister of Shang Tang and help Tang achieve the royal cause. No matter how it was reused by Shang Tang, it fully demonstrated Yi Yin's political ability and excellent skills.
In the battle against Xia Jie, Yi Yin's decision-making and wisdom played a key role. With the assistance of Yi Yin, Tang's power began to grow, with the intention of attacking Xia Jie, while Yi Yin said that the time was not yet ripe, dissuaded Shang Tang, and suggested that he first stop paying tribute to Xia Jie in order to explore his strength. Sure enough, Xia Jie was very angry and recruited Jiuyi's troops to come to cut down the merchants, and Yi Yin immediately advised Shang Tang, saying, "Xia Jie can still mobilize Jiuyi's troops, and the time is not ripe for us to cut him down." So he paid tribute to Xia Jie again. At the same time, Yi Yin also used the story of Shang Tang's "opening up three sides of the net" to spread widely among the princes, "the princes heard it, and said: 'Tang De zhi, and animals'. ("History of Yin Benji"). Everyone thinks that Tang is a virtuous prince who can be trusted, so Shang Tang's power is getting bigger and bigger. In the end, Xia Jie was cruel and unkind, unable to mobilize troops, and at the suggestion of Yi Yin, he defeated Xia Jie's army in one fell swoop and exiled Xia Jie to Nanchao, and the Xia Dynasty was destroyed from then on, and the princes supported the virtuous Shang Tang as the son of heaven and established the Shang Dynasty.
Yi Yin's talents and achievements were loved by the people, and after Tang's death, Yi Yin assisted his descendants, successively experiencing the second king of Wai C and Zhongren, and after Zhongren's death, Taijia took the throne, "Taijia was established for three years, unknown, tyrannical, disobeying the Tang law, and chaotic morality, so Yi Yin put it in tong palace." For three years, Yi Yin regent the government as a prince of the dynasty. Emperor Taijia lived in the Tong Palace for three years, repented of self-blame, and rebelled against goodness, so Yi Yin was granted the government of Emperor Taijia. Emperor Taijia Xiude, the princes Xian Guiyin, the people Toning. This is the only prime minister in The history of our country who "lets the emperor go by his subjects", and Mencius also believes that this is "the world is just", "great benevolence" and "great righteousness". Therefore, he was also revered by posterity as the "Yuan Sheng".
After Taijia's death, Yi Yin also wrote three chapters of the Taijia Training (now lost), recounting that Taijia could listen to the teachings, learned self-correction, inherited the cause of Shang Tang, and honored Taijia as Emperor Taizong. When Wodin was in power, Yi Yin died, "Wodin was buried with the gift of the Son of Heaven, and was buried in a great prison, and personally mourned for three years to repay the great virtue." (Book II of the Book of Beginners, citing The Century of Kings). According to legend, Yi Yin was 100 years old when he died and was buried in Bo.
Yi Yin is not only an outstanding politician, but also a great pharmacist and cooker in the history of Chinese medicine in China. According to some Chinese medicine books, Yi Yin was founded to decoct Chinese herbal medicine with pottery, which not only makes Chinese herbal medicine convenient to take, but also reduces toxic side effects and significantly increases the efficacy. In the "Lü's Spring and Autumn ● Ben Wei Chapter", Yi Yin's cooking is concise and concise, which is actually the most reasonable quote in cooking, and for thousands of years, it has been followed by people engaged in cooking, and has been respected by later generations as the "originator of cooking", which is admired by future generations!
Peng Ge in 2005