<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > song xianggong (5) of the leading big brother in the Spring and Autumn Period</h1>
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > chief writer: Idle Lesheng</h1>
After the weakening of the hegemony of the State of Qi, the second-rate Song State actually broke out of ambition, the Song State Monarch Song Xianggong felt that he was the most honored (duke) among the princes of the Central Plains, and in the Huaxia Alliance organized by the Duke of Qi Huan, he also regarded himself as the second oldest, and now the boss retreated to the second line, and the other younger brothers cowered and cowered, and the second brother did not stand up to represent the boss in inheriting the hegemony.
Of course, it was obviously not enough to want to dominate the princes just to stabilize the name of the Qi state and the sheji, which was obviously not enough, so Song Xianggong decided to inherit and carry forward the fine tradition of the "original boss" Qi Huangong, hold alliance meetings, unite with the country, and continue to vigorously promote benevolence and righteousness, in order to gradually establish the leadership position of the Song state among the princes.
In the post-Qi Huan Era, the princes of the Central Plains lost their main backbone, immediately formed a scattered sand, the order of the world fell into chaos, and the sequelae of the demise of the hegemony of the State of Qi gradually appeared--the Xing State defected to the Di people and jointly invaded the Wei State; Zheng Wengong went to Chu Chaohe and surrendered to Jingman; the Chu State continued to attack the leader of the "Jianghan Zhuji", suiguo, and Huaiyi invaded the State of Qi (present-day East of The City of Shandong) one after another -- the unity that the Duke of Qi Huan had worked hard to manage for forty years had become a trend of collapse, so the Yidi tribes made a comeback, and the atmosphere was even better than the original. The international situation took a sharp turn for the worse, the small countries of Zhuxia were in deep trouble, and the giants were silent but seeking self-preservation; at this moment when ten thousand horses were in unison, Song Xianggong bravely stood up, raised the broken banner that Qi Huangong had left behind, and shouted alone in the desolate and chaotic world, but only heard the silence of the wilderness and no one applauded.
Photo: Statue of Song Xianggong
Song Xianggong and Qi Huangong's hegemonic measures were allies, but the routes were slightly different. The State of Qi is strong and economically developed, and it can take a two-pronged approach to the tao of honoring the king and ruling the world; the State of Song is located in the southeast of the Central Plains, and in order to resist the first line of the Southern Barbarians and Eastern Yi, the national strength is not good, so it can only practice diplomatic means and hope to subdue the barbarians with a sense of benevolence and righteousness, which is of course very unrealistic, but it is also a helpless move, because in addition, Song Xianggong probably has no other capital to compete for hegemony.
Therefore, in the tenth year of Song Xianggong (641 BC), Song Xianggong Guangdong Cao, Teng, Junyi, Yan and other small eastern countries allied with Cao Guonan and conspired to serve The Eastern Yi strategy, but they did not expect that all countries were very faceless, did not come, and were late, and Song Xianggong was angry.
The first is that Cao Gonggong, who was the host of the alliance, refused to give a damn (that is, to provide food for the alliance) and did not have the courtesy of the landlord, which could make Song Xiang's public angry. Although Cao Guo was the sixth son of King Wen of Zhou and the captain of the Honor Guard of King Wu of Zhou, Shu Zhenduo, the root was Miao Hong, but the title was only a count, the territory was very small, he had been mixed with the Duke of Qi Huan and the Duke of Song Xiang for many years, and last year he also followed the Song State to quell the rebellion of the State of Qi, which can be said to be the number one little brother of the State of Song, and now he dared to be so rude, and Song Xianggong was furious about it, but in view of the fact that the alliance was not over, it did not occur for the time being.
Well, I endure!
Song Xianggong recited the true scripture of the word "benevolence" and suppressed the anger in his heart, wanting to wait until the meeting was over, but he did not think that the meeting period had arrived, but among the princes, there was only a small Prince Wen (Viscount) of the State of Qi, and none of the other princes arrived. The state of Qi was in the southeast of present-day Zou County, Shandong, a small tribe after Sun Zhao, who joined Huaxia in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty and became a vassal of the state of Lu, and after the Duke of Qi Huan became hegemonic, the monarch of the state of Qi Huan ran around for the hegemony of the Duke of Qi Huan, and there was no merit and hard work, so the Duke of Qi Huan showed great mercy and asked Zhou Tianzi to make him a viscount, which became an independent state. Such a small person really could not support the scene, and Song Xianggong had no choice but to delay the meeting.
Well, I wait!
It was not until March of that year that Teng Xuangong, the monarch of the Teng Kingdom (present-day southeastern Teng County, Shandong), arrived late, with an apologetic smile on his face, and was about to come forward to say hello, when Song Xianggong suddenly jumped up and loudly ordered: It is good to laugh when it is late, come, tie me up!
can't bear it, tigers don't send cats you still when I'm critically ill! Although Teng Guo was a marquis, uncle Xiu xiu was only the son of King Wen of Zhou and the buzheng of King Wu of Zhou, and the country was weak, and now he dared to be late, and it was not okay not to give some color to see!
Song Xianggong couldn't bear it, but he had to wait, because the protagonist of this alliance meeting, the king of the state of Yan, had not yet come, and Huaiyi had repeatedly invaded the kingdom of Huan, so the duke of Xiang summoned the princes to seek a solution, and how could the prince (also a viscount) not come?
The kingdom of Yan is also a small country, but it has a long history, it is the fiefdom of Qu Lie, the youngest son of Xia Shaokang, and has existed for more than 1,300 years in the Xia, Shang, and Wednesday dynasties, so it should not be so ignorant.
But Song Xianggong waited, waited, waited, waited, waited, waited for the spring and summer to come and go, and the yanzi was still missing.
you can't wait! Waiting any longer, the oranges were red, and Song Xianggong's patience had been exhausted, so he had to make an alliance with Cao Gonggong and Gong wen first, and put a hasty end to Cao Nan's meeting.
This meeting of Cao Nan was even more a failure than the first meeting of The Northern Apricot of Qi Huangong, and a failure in failure.
It was not until June 21 that the delegation of the State of Cao slowly walked to the state of Cao to the south, at this time the meeting of Cao Nan had long been over, and Yu Zi, in order to make up for it, asked to make up for it alone with the Guild of Yi Wen. However, Duke Xiang of Song ordered Duke Wen of Song to tie up the zi (Note 1) and send it to the banks of the Jushui River (an ancient river, southeast of the Song capital) to worship the gods, in order to impress Dongyi with this act of benevolence and righteousness.
Note 1: Duke Wen of Yi was so active in the arrest of Gong Zi that he did not completely obey Song Xianggong's orders, but also because the two had a vendetta. It turned out that Duke Lu had a daughter named Ji Ji, who had already promised to marry Ji Guo, but she ran to The Kingdom herself, and Yu Zi actually accepted it, which can also be regarded as the hatred of taking a wife.
Seeing this, everyone must not understand. What, killing the king of a country to sacrifice to the gods, Song Xianggong still thinks that this is a benevolent act? Such "benevolence" is really unprecedented.
We do not understand Song Xianggong's motives for killing, let alone Song Xianggong's strange "concept of benevolence and righteousness", because the era we are in is too long ago from the era in which Song Xianggong lived, and the thousand-year estrangement is of course very different.
Song Xianggong is just an old antique who lived in a dream in the past, but he is not a perverted demon, and all the historical sinners in this world who claim to be benevolent and righteous have their own high-sounding criminal motives, and Song Xianggong is no exception.
As we have already said, yin people are still ghosts and gods, and they are still to a very outrageous point. According to historical records and archaeological findings, the Yin people sacrificed ghosts and gods, not only with live animals, but also with living people, not only with living people), but also with nobles (Note 2), they believe that the more honorable the human animals, the happier the ghosts and gods, the most solemn sacrifice ceremony, and even the entire army (Note 3). This concept of the supremacy of theocracy is not only contrary to the Zhou people's heavy people's thinking, but is probably also an important reason for the eventual demise of the Rebellion of the Yin Shang Dynasty.
Note 2: In tomb M1001 excavated by the Yin Ruins archaeological excavation, we found more than 164 martyrs, of which a small number were contained in the coffin, which should be close attendants or relatives of the Shang King. The rest of the martyrs were mostly incomplete, their heads were separated, and the Gaiyin people had the custom of sacrificing their heads. They should have been beheaded on the spot in the tomb, the blood seeped into the dirt, the traces can still be recognized, probably the knife and axe hands are not skilled, and some skeletons still have jaws.
Note 3 to entry: This generally occurs during the groundbreaking ceremony of the palace and the Jongmyo temple, and is called the "Dizhen Festival". The ruins of the foundations of more than fifty palaces were found in the Ruins of Yin, and under the building that was determined to be a temple, there was a neatly buried team of a legion, from commanders to soldiers, a total of eight hundred and fifty people. Many of the soldiers who appear to be soldiers do not have heads, and those who have heads should be officers, because their helmets are decorated with brass bells or shells. From this archaeological discovery, it can also be seen that the Yin people attach great importance to the ancestral spirit of the Zongmiao Temple, and in order to avoid its invasion by evil spirits or poisons, they even hesitate to kill and bury the entire armed legion in the ground.
Therefore, the princes of Huaxia generally did not use living sacrifices, and even if they did, they generally used slaves; only the barbarian tribes that were in the same line as the Yin merchants, as well as the Qin and Chu countries with a strong barbarian atmosphere, had the custom of killing nobles as human animals or human martyrdom (the martyrdom of the Qin state was not canceled until the Warring States Qin sacrifice). The state of Yin had been a vassal state of Yin Shang since the Shang Tang period, and Song Xianggong, as the leader of the Yin remnants, believed that he had a natural right to kill and dispose of The Yin people. The water god worshipped by Song Xianggong's killing of Yuzi is an important deity that the Song people and the Dongyi people believe in. Dongyi ben and the Yin people are of the same origin, Song Xianggong returned to tradition, killing the sacrifice of the yinzi, obviously wanting to rebuild the old friendship between their Yin merchant remnants and the Dongyi tribe, in order to seek a great reconciliation of the Chinese barbarians, and the Song state can also use the power of Dongyi to become the hegemon of the Central Plains. This is of course benevolent in the eyes of Song Xianggong, an old antique, but he did not expect that the times had changed, and his actions like this would only be a big disappointment.
In fact, Song Xianggong's perverse behavior was also opposed by the song ruling clique, and the representative figure here was Gongzi Muyi, who said: "The six animals of the ancients are not used for each other, and small things do not need to be sacrificed, but dare to use people?" Sacrifices think that people are also people. The people, lord of God also. Employ people, who is good for them? Qi Huan Gongcun three subjugated kingdoms to belong to the princes, righteous soldiers yu Known as Bo De. Isn't it difficult to abuse the king of the two kingdoms and use all kinds of adulterous ghosts to seek hegemony? Lucky to die! "You see, Muyi's concept is much more advanced than that of Song Xianggong, first of all, the punishment of the princes, this is the power of Zhou Tianzi, no matter how high the position of duke of Song Xiang, can not be usurped; moreover, although we are the remnants of the Yin merchants, we are now considered Zhou people, and in the eyes of the Zhou people, sacrifices are for people to pray for, talents are the masters of ghost gods, and ghost gods have a lower status, so how can they accept the sacrifices of living people, let alone the kings of a country? Song Xianggong wanted to be the overlord in this way, I am afraid it would be difficult. By engaging in such nonsense, it is fortunate that the Song Kingdom will not perish.
It seems that the Song people are not all old-fashioned, and Gongzi Muyi is very easy to accept new ideas, and he knows how to keep pace with the times!
But unfortunately, the stubborn Song Xianggong could not listen to these voices at all, and his ambition to dominate and the benevolent righteousness of his illusions had burned and could not be extinguished, so he decided to go all the way to the black, regardless of the continued benevolence, not knowing that his so-called benevolence had not only been interpreted as hypocrisy by posterity, but had even been rebuked as cruel. There are many cruel people in Chinese history, but it is rare for people like Song Xianggong to be cruel but claim to be benevolent and righteous, so they have been cursing for thousands of years, and there are endless strands of rumors, generally believing that Song Xianggong is Wang Mang, Yue Buqun and the like, and a hypocrite who is fierce on the outside and fierce on the inside.
Generally speaking, tradition is a kind of wealth, which provides future generations with rich experience and lessons in doing things. However, if this burden is too heavy, it will bind people's hands and feet, limit people's progress and development, and Song Xianggong's brutality stems from this. That's why this strange phenomenon occurs in history, sometimes it is obviously wrong to harm nature and reason, but there are still people who think that they are right and benevolent.