"Zhou Gong Tu Feeding, the World Returns to the Heart" comes from Cao Cao's poem "Short Song Line", expressing Cao Cao's mentality of seeking talents and thirsting for talents, hoping that all talented people in the world can submit to Cao Cao, as a politician, military expert, writer, and poet in the Three Kingdoms period, in the era of the Three Kingdoms disputes and talents, Cao Cao also expressed his thirst for talents through "Zhou Gong Tu Feeding, the World Returns to the Heart", in order to achieve great political ambitions.
"Short Song Line" - Cao Cao
Sing to wine, life is geometric! For example, the morning dew, going to the day is more bitter. It is unforgettable to be worried. How to relieve worries? Only Du kang.
Qingqing Zizhen, leisurely my heart. But for the sake of the king, he has been groaning to this day. Yo yo deer singing, eating wild apples. I have guests, drummers and trumpeters.
When will it be as clear as the moon? Sorrow comes from it, and it cannot be broken. The more strange it is, the more useless it is. Talk about the curse, and remember the old grace.
Moon stars are rare, and black magpies fly south. Three turns around the tree, what branches can be relied on? The mountains are not tired of height, and the sea is not tired of being deep. Zhou Gong spits and feeds, and the world returns to its heart.
1. Assist king Wu
Duke Zhou, that is, Zhou Gongdan, the fourth son of King Wen of Zhou, the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, in the war against the King of Shang, the greatest merit, the fiefdom of the division is located in Qufu (present-day Qufu, Shandong), that is, we know the State of Lu, when other princes successively went to the fiefdom, the Duke of Zhou also packed his bags, when preparing to go on the road, suddenly found that King Wu of Zhou looked depressed, felt very surprised, under careful questioning, he learned that King Wu of Zhou was actually unwilling to let his confidants leave, after all, they had shared happiness and hardships, and their feelings were quite deep. Zhou Gongyi thought that in the early days of the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, it was a period of waste and waiting to be revived, and King Wu's side really needed people to assist and share, so he let his son Bo Yan go to the fiefdom of the State of Lu and stay behind to assist King Wu.
In the second year of the destruction of the Shang Dynasty, that is, in 1045 BC, the Wu King Ji Fa fell seriously ill, and the Duke of Zhou prayed to the spirit of the first king of the Zhou Dynasty with his hands holding jade bi, which probably means: My brother Ji Fa, who has accumulated diseases for the cause of the Great Zhou Dynasty, is there anything he has not done in place, so that he is tortured by a serious illness, if the first kings want to blame and punish, let me Zhou Gongdan suffer on his behalf. Nevertheless, King Wu of Zhou died in 1043 BC, and before his death, because the crown prince Ji Shu was still young, King Wu entrusted the prince and the major affairs of the military state to the Duke of Zhou, and the Duke of Zhou supported Ji Shu to the crown prince, which was the later King of Zhou Cheng, and the state affairs were managed by the Duke of Zhou.
2. Corporal Li Xian
In order to govern the country well, Zhou Gong attaches great importance to talents, in order to get talented people, busy sleeping and forgetting to eat, once, Zhou Gong was washing hair, we all know that the ancients body skin, by their parents, a lifetime is not cut hair, so the hair is very long, washing once is very laborious, Zhou Gong just wet the hair, someone outside asked to see, Zhou Gong just held the wet hair in his hand, went out to receive, came back after the end of the work and then washed, and then someone came, and went out with the wet hair, went out several times in a row, and then washed the hair well, We ordinary people may feel that this is nothing, you know, Zhou Gong at this time is in charge of the country's power, many of the descendants of the courtiers, and even some ordinary officials, the etiquette and specifications of the reception are very high, and it is not wanted to see, in contrast, although zhou Gong is in a high position, but it is extremely approachable to people.
Another time, Zhou Gong was eating, just picked up a piece of meat into his mouth, someone came to visit, he immediately spit out the meat to greet the guests, a meal of kung fu, came three times the guests, spit out three meals, the family could not help but say: Can you finish eating and then go to receive guests? Zhou Gong shook his head and said: These distinguished guests have good suggestions when they visit, and I hate that I can't go and listen to them right away, how can I make people wait?" This is the allusion to the idiom "one food, three rises".
For the sake of the Zhou Dynasty, the Duke of Zhou slept and forgot to eat, and he worked hard, but after all, he was a powerful minister, in charge of state affairs, and there were many people behind him, including The third brother of the Duke of Zhou, Uncle Guan and Uncle Cai, as well as the old ministers Jiang Taigong and Zhao Gong, who believed that the Duke of Zhou was in charge of power alone, and if he had a bad heart, forcing the King of Zhou to give way and be the son of heaven himself, he would be in trouble, and after zhou Gong listened, he handled state affairs more diligently, and on the other hand, he sincerely explained to people, and he said to the founding minister Jiang Taigong and Zhao Gong: The former king has long hoped that one day the world will be stable and prosperous. Now that the Zhou Dynasty has just been established, the king is too small, if something goes wrong, how can I be worthy of the kings, I did this entirely for the Sake of the Zhou Dynasty, without a single bit of selfishness. After listening to Zhou Gong's sincere statement, and seeing that Zhou Gong was indeed doing his best for the country, they no longer doubted him.
3. Quell the rebellion of the Three Prisons
Also known as the Rebellion of Guan Cai or the Rebellion of Wu Geng, after King Wu destroyed Shang, he listened to Zhou Gongdan's policy of "ruling Yin with Yin", and sealed Wu Geng, the son of King Shang of Shang, to administer the old land of Yin Shang (present-day Anyang, Henan), while King Wu sent his brothers Guan Shu, Cai Shu, and Huo Shu to establish the three kingdoms of Shao, Yi, and Wei near the capital of Yin to monitor the historical title of Wu Geng' After the regency of the Duke of Zhou, it caused dissatisfaction among the brothers of the King of Wu, Wu Geng thought that the opportunity to restore the country had arrived, and coaxed the Three Prisons to launch a rebellion, the Duke of Zhou decisively ordered the Eastern Expedition, after three years of war, the rebellion was quelled, Wu Geng and Uncle Guan were killed, Uncle Cai was exiled, Uncle Huo was demoted to a commoner, the pacification of this rebellion showed the military talent of the Duke of Zhou, some people suggested that the Duke of Zhou killed or sold the remnants of the Shang Dynasty who participated in the rebellion as slaves, the Duke of Zhou believed that this was what the King of Shang had done, established Luoyi on the north bank of the Luoshui River, as the eastern capital of the Zhou Dynasty, arranged for the remnants of the Shang Dynasty to live, and the glorious history of the famous Chinese city of Luoyang took this as a starting point 。
Fourth, return the government to the king
When Ji Ji grew up, he became the King of Zhou Cheng, and the Duke of Zhou voluntarily returned the power of the state to King Cheng, and he himself returned to the ranks of ministers
V. "No Escape"
From the "Book of Shang", created in the Zhou Gong before the return of the government to the king, no escape is the main point of the whole text, the Duke of Zhou is worried that the king does not know the hardships of his father's entrepreneurship, the creation of an article admonishes the king, can not covet comfort, should take yin shang as a lesson, think of danger in peace: parents start a business, always taste hardships, children and grandchildren squander extravagance, they will kill the country in an instant, as a descendant, need to be cautious, the sage emperor zujia of the Shang Dynasty, in order to promote his brother to succeed to the throne smoothly, automatically away from the court, come to the people, and live with the people day and night, personally experience the suffering of the people, after ascending the throne He was able to save the small people, take care of orphans and widows, and the Shang Dynasty entered prosperity in the thirty years of his reign, which is an example to learn.
During the reign of King Cheng of Zhou and his son King Kang of Zhou, social stability, harmony among the people, and "punishment for more than forty years were not used", known in history as "the rule of Cheng Kang".
Sixth, lay the foundation of the Zhou Dynasty system
After the completion of Chengzhou Luoyi, the Duke of Zhou summoned the princes of the world to hold a grand celebration. Here, the princes of the world were officially canonized, and various canonical systems were announced to plan the long-term peace and stability of the Zhou Dynasty.
1. Formulated the "Zhou Guan" to plan the official system of the Zhou Dynasty;
2, the formulation of liturgy, the creation of the Zhou Dynasty culture, the central problem to be solved by the ceremony is the distinction between the inferior and the noble, that is, the patriarchal system, further said to be the establishment of the inheritance system, the purpose of which is to maintain the patriarchal system, to maintain the rule of Zhou Tianzi, before the Zhou Gong did not establish the system of concubines, the Zhou Gong combined the patriarchal system and the political system, and created a complete set of superstructures serving the slavery system.