Zhu Xi's Notes on mencius: "奄, the country of the East, aided and abetted the abusers." Fei Lian, Yu Xingchen also. Fifty countries, all of them are also abusive to the people. Meaning: The Kingdom of Yan, the eastern vassal state of the Shang Dynasty, Fei Lian was the favorite of the King of Sui, and the Fifty Kingdoms were all aided and abetted. When king Wu was cutting down the law, as long as it was a party that swore to resist the Zhou Dynasty to the death, it was considered to be aiding and abetting.
Who is Fei Lian?
Fei Lian, a general of the Shang Dynasty, the commander of The Eastern Yi, and his son Xie Lai were all ministers whom king Huan relied on. King Wu of Zhou accused the King of Zhou of not having the fathers and brothers of the king, but fleeing from many sins in all directions, revering the chief, believing that he was a secretary of state, and abusing the people with tyranny and adultery with the Shangyi." This means that the king despised and abandoned his brothers without appointing them, but he respected and respected the evil people who had fled from all sides, and trusted and appointed them, and regarded them as doctors and secretaries. These people brutalize the people, violate the law and cause chaos in the shangyi, so that they can harm the people. This was also the only crime that made King Wu very famous, showing how much King Wu hated King Wu for not relying on his clan brothers, but instead reusing the most evil people who had fled from all sides. The most evil and evil people who fled from all sides said by king Wu were Fei Lian and Evil Lai.
The "History of Qin Benji" records: "Evil comes from incorruptibility, evil comes with strength, incorruptibility and goodness go, and father and son do things with their own strength." ”
After Fei Lian was a famous person, his ancestor was Boyi, the hero of Dayu Zhishui (which can be found in the "Xia Benji" and "Qin Benji" of the "Records of History"), who not only invented the technique of sinking wells, but also recorded the geographical mountains, grasses, trees, birds and beasts, strange customs, and anecdotes experienced by Dayu when he ruled the water, and became the material for the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
Later, after their ancestors moved to Xirong, when they arrived at Fei Lian's generation, they had a war with Yin Shang, fei lian and evil lai became prisoners, in ancient times, the captives were either executed or became slaves, but the king of Qiu was still more preferential to the prisoners, and the slave policy during his reign was also relatively tolerant, after learning that Fei Lian and evil lai were famous, and Fei Lian was good and good, and evil came to the end, they were all people with special skills and skills, so they stayed around. In addition, due to the reform system of sacrifice (by reducing the number of sacrifices and replacing human sacrifices with songs and dances) and the tolerant slave policy of the Shang Dynasty nobles, some clan nobles and tribal leaders had different intentions, so Fei Lian's father and son, Fei Zhong and others were highly valued by the King of Shang.
Why did King Wu hate King Wu so much for King Huan's reuse of Fei Lian's father and son? Are they really flattering and evil courtiers of the ages? Obviously not, if this is the case, it will help the Shang Dynasty to perish, and the King of Wu is happy that it is too late. It was precisely because they had the ability, their heartfelt heart for the Shang Dynasty, and their spirit of swearing to die to repay the country, that the King of Wu was jealous and used evil words to satirize them.
The Notes on the Water Classics say that Fei Lian served the King of Lu by being good at walking, king Wu of Zhou defeated the king of Qi, Fei Lian committed suicide, and the Emperor of Heaven was moved by his loyalty, buried him with a sarcophagus, and made him a god of wind. And Cao Cao compared love to the evil of the ancients. Cao Cao cried while paying tribute to Dianwei and said, "I have folded my son and nephew, and I am not so hard-hearted, except that I am sad to lose the general Dianwei!" It shows that Cao Cao's dependence and pity on Dianwei reflect that evil is also a brave and loyal person in Cao Cao's heart.
How did Fei Lian and Evil Lai die?
The Mencius Tengwen Gongxia records: "With the body of The Emperor, the world is in chaos. The Duke of Zhou, the King of Wu, was killed by the Emperor for three years, and he tended to fly in the corner of the sea and kill him. Qinghua Jian "Lineage Year" Yun: "Cheng Wang trampled on Shangyi, killed Yan Zi Geng, Fei Lian fled east to the Shang Gai clan, Cheng Wang cut Down Shang Gai, killed Fei Lian ,......"
According to the historical records, it is basically certain that Fei Lian led a large army to fight against the Zhou Dynasty with the eastern states after the death of King Shang, and after the death of King Wu of Zhou, King Cheng succeeded to the throne, and during the period of Zhou Gong's assistance, he was killed in the east.
The "History of Qin Ben" records Yun: "The king of Zhou Wu cut down the silk and killed the evil." "When the King of Wu was cutting down the City, because the Shang Dynasty army was conquering Dongyi under the command of Fei Lian, and the Chaoge was empty, the King of Wu quickly summoned evil and hastily armed some prisoners, slaves, and soldiers defending the city of Chaoge to fight against the Zhou army, and the result was a big defeat, and the evil lai was also killed.
Descendants of Fei Lian?
The Qin royal family and the Zhao royal family have a common ancestor, that is, Fei Lian. "History of the Zhao Family Thirteenth": "The ancestor of the Zhao clan, and the ancestor of Qin." To Zhongyan, for the Emperor Da Peng. In his later life, Lian Lian had two sons, and ordered one of his sons to be evil and killed by Zhou, followed by Qin. The evil brother ji sheng, followed by Zhao. ”
Before evil lai died in battle, he had sons and daughters, and after evil lai's death, his family was not official, and the female guards were reduced to slavery, and they were exiled to several areas of the King of Zongzhou and were controlled and enslaved, and it was not until the Da Luo period that the situation improved.
"History of Qin Benji": "Tai Ji gave birth to Da Luo, and Da Luo gave birth to non-sons, in order to create the favor of his father, all of whom were under Zhao Cheng, surnamed Zhao." (The Father-making here is the branch of Ji Sheng, the brother of evil.)
FeiZi was the founder of qin, at that time the state of Qin had not yet been established, and strictly speaking, king Xiang of Qin was the official founding monarch. All this is due to the Shen Hou during the Zhou Xiao Wang's period (it is estimated that it should be the grandfather of the Shen Hou during the Zhou Youwang period), the Zhou Xiao King ordered Shen Hou to lead an army to the west to conquer Inuyasha, he was reluctant to go to war, he believed that sending troops to conquest Inuyasha was an unjust war, and could only cause the people and soldiers of the two countries to suffer unnecessary losses and casualties. So he suggested to King Xiao of Zhou: "Once upon a time, my ancestors married the daughter of the LiShan clan, gave birth to a daughter, married Xu Xuan of Xirong, and later gave birth to a son named Zhongzhuo (Fei Lian's father). Zhongzhuo submitted to the Zhou Dynasty because of his mother, leaving the western border of the Zhou Dynasty inviolable. Now I married my daughter to Zhongxiao's descendant, Da Luo (the leader of the Inuyasha fiefdom), and gave birth to a concubine named Cheng. If the Great King can guarantee that my grandson will inherit the throne of Da Luo, I am willing to unite the Shen and Hu clans to ensure that the Xirong people will obey and that the western Zhou border will always be peaceful. ”
The reason why Marquis Shen made this request to King Xiao of Zhou at this time was because Da Luo also had an eldest son named Fei Zi, who was appreciated by King Xiao of Zhou because he was good at raising horses, and Shen Hou was worried that Fei Zi would compete with his grandson for the title. King Xiao, because he relied on The Marquis of Shen, agreed to his request. However, King Xiao said: "In the past, Bo Yi was in charge of livestock for Emperor Shun, and the livestock were well bred, so they sealed the land and gave them the surname of Yin. Now that his descendants are also raising horses for me, I will give him the land and make him a vassal state. He gave Qin Land to FeiZi and asked him to continue the sacrifice of the Yin clan, known as Qin Win. From Qin Feizi through four generations was only the "Bow Ma Wen" of Zhou Tianzi, until the time of Qin Xianggong, because Shen Hou (Shen Hou's father) joined forces with Inu Rong to attack Haojing and attack and kill King Zhou You under Li Mountain, Qin Xianggong saved Zhou with troops, and later helped King Ping of Zhou move east, and was awarded the title of prince for his merits. After moving east, King Ping of Zhou granted the state of Qin the land west of qishan, which the royal family could not control, and from then on the state of Qin began to become a vassal state of Western Zhou. Therefore, the two generations of Shen Hou inadvertently achieved the growth of the Qin royal family.
Another of Fei Lian's sons, Ji Sheng, had a son, Meng Zeng, who was favored by King Cheng of Zhou for his erudition, and was reused and given the land of Gao Wolf as Yi, and his son Heng's father was also appointed as a chancellor. Sun Tzu was a famous benevolent emperor in Chinese history, and legend has it that he received eight horses, which were trained and dedicated to King Mu of Zhou. King Mu of Zhou was equipped with a good carriage, let the father drive for him, went out hunting, play, once heard the news of the rebellion of King Xu Yan of the Xu Kingdom (surnamed After the father of Xu Yi, after the second son of Boyi Ruomu), King Mu of Zhou was very anxious, at this critical moment, the father of Zhou drove thousands of miles, so that King Mu of Zhou quickly returned to Hojing, and sent troops in time to defeat King Xu Yan and quell the rebellion. Because of his great deeds, King Mu of Zhou gave him the city of Zhao (present-day Hongdong, Shanxi), and from then on, the father's family was called the Zhao clan, the ancestor of the Zhao state.
"History of the Zhao Family": "King Mu made his father emperor, hunted in the west, and forgot to return to the music." King Xu Yan rebelled, and King Mu rode a thousand horses to attack King Xu Yan and break it. He gave the father zhao cheng, and thus became the zhao clan. ”
"Surname 纂": "After the surname of Emperor Yiyi, Yi thirteen generations to the father of creation, Shan Yu, King Mu of Zhou, was enfeoffed with Zhao Cheng, because he thought it was a clan." ”
After four generations, the fifth grandson of the founding father, Father Xiang, drove for King Xuan of Zhou when he was crusading against Rong Di. It seems that another branch of Fei Lian is good at driving, and has produced several generations of royal drivers. Zhao Shudai, the son of Emperor You, served as a doctor in the middle of the dynasty during the reign of King You of Zhou, and because of his advice, he was slandered by Father Yu Shi, and was demoted by King You of Zhou, and went to Zhou into Jin, where he served as Marquis Wen of Jin (姬仇), and from then on he founded the Zhao clan in the Jin state. After 9 generations, by the time of Zhao Xiangzi, the three families of Zhao, Han, and Wei destroyed their wisdom and divided up the Jin state, and then after 2 generations, by the time of Marquis Zhao Liehou (403 BC), King Weilie of Zhou recognized the status of princes of the three kingdoms of Zhao, Han, and Wei, and the three kingdoms of Zhao, Han, and Wei officially became princely states.
During the Spring and Autumn Period when the Duke of Qin Xiang assisted King Ping to move east to the three families of Han Zhao and Wei, the Zhou royal family fell from the largest territory of more than a thousand miles to a radius of less than 600 miles. Many vassal states began not to pay tribute or to see Zhou Tianzi on time, and the royal family, which once had supreme power, became a vassal of the princes.
The division of the three families into the Jin Dynasty also marked the entry of the Zhou Dynasty into an era of fierce struggle among the princes, the Warring States.
During the Warring States period, the seven heroes competed for hegemony, Qin and Zhao were among them, lasting more than two hundred years, during this period, the Zhou royal family has been completely reduced to the puppet of the princes, not only has no real power, but also depends on the faces of the princes, and finally the 35th grandson of the evil Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms and established the Qin Dynasty.
At first, king Wu of Zhou killed Fei Lian's father and son, and 800 years later, Fei Lian's descendants destroyed Zhou. It is really a good reincarnation of heaven, and the heavens have spared no one!