Wen | Black Ice
After experiencing the thousand-year evolution of the ancestors sealing the shang and the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty also gradually began to decline, and the historical cycle of the king being dimwitted, the subjects doing nothing, and the suffering of the people appeared.
How to take the road of the Shang Dynasty?
At this time, the heavy responsibility of history fell on the new king "Pan Geng", who was Wu Ding's uncle.
Just as we are familiar with, "trees move to death, people move to live", in the face of this internal and external troubles, Pan Geng thought of a way, "moving". There is a historical "Pan Geng Qianyin".
However, the initiative of "moving" is not the first initiative of Pan Geng, and their Shang tribe has this precedent.
According to incomplete statistics, before Cheng Tang founded the country, they moved eight times. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, until ChengTang moved to Yin, it was their fifth move after the founding of the Country. Moving is really "commonplace" for them.
The reason why Pan Geng had to move. On the one hand, the original place is often invaded by floods, which is not conducive to the development of agriculture, and is not conducive to ensuring the happiness of the people's lives and the stability of society, so it is necessary to find a place with fertile land and shelter from floods;
On the other hand, in the original place, the aristocratic forces did not think of making progress, were entangled, and their lives were extremely corrupt. Moving is an opportunity to start over, equivalent to starting a second business, and there are strict requirements in the legal system.
After moving, in the face of the people's doubts and the non-cooperation of the nobles, Pan Geng is also enwei and charity, not only actively publicizing the benefits of moving, helping the people solve the existing problems, but also severely punishing the law, giving criticism and education to the nobles and the people who do not cooperate, and cracking down extremists.
"Pan Geng Qianyin" revitalized the Shang Dynasty, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the courtiers and nobles also began to restrain their behavior, and the Shang Dynasty had the dawn of revival.
If Pan Geng opened the road to the revival of the Shang Dynasty, then his nephew "Wuding" was undoubtedly the person who led the Shang Dynasty to the peak of rejuvenation.
Wu Ding, a diligent and frugal emperor, was also a militant. And everything he did seemed to be proving to the world that he was a qualified king.
Because, this throne should not belong to Wu Ding.
After Pan Geng's death, the transmission was located in his brother Xiao Xin, and after Xiao Xin's death, it was passed on to his brother Xiao B, who was Wu Ding's father. According to the order of succession to the throne of the Shang Dynasty, the brothers are the last brothers and the brothers, and the brothers are also the sons of the eldest brothers. Xiao B should still be in his eldest nephew after his death. However, Xiao B did not do this.
Xiao B has many sons, one of whom is Wu Ding. Wu Ding ranked eighth, and he also had seven older brothers, namely Brother A, Brother Ding, Brother E, Brother Himself, Brother Geng, Brother Xin, and Brother Yan. Although Wu Ding was dissatisfied with his father's extravagance and absurdity, he was a filial son, and he was not accustomed to his brothers, and often persuaded them to respect his father. Xiao B discovered Wu Ding Xianming and wanted to make Wu Ding the crown prince, and several brothers heard that their father wanted to make Lao Ba the crown prince, so they plotted to kill Wu Ding. Wu Ding got the news, sneaked out of the city overnight, and secretly escaped.
First he fled to Heyi, where he could not survive, and then fled to Shangbo. After Xiao Yi's death, the nobleman Gan Pan and others controlled the situation in the imperial court. The Shang Shu Shu Shu Zhi Xia records that Wu Ding "learned from Ganpan in the old days", that is, Ganpan was Wu Ding's teacher. Gan Pan and others felt that Wu Ding was wiser than his brothers, and his brothers were not suitable to be monarchs, so they decided to set up Wu Ding.
Perhaps Wu Ding felt that his throne name was not justified, so after he took the throne, he was diligent in government and loved the people, practiced frugality, went deep into the people, and observed the suffering, and his series of pro-people and loving behaviors were unanimously praised by the people. It is a good practice of the phrase "from the masses, to the masses".
Although Pan Geng moved to Yin, historically known as "the revival of the Way of Chengtang, the princes came to the dynasty", brought the Shang Dynasty to a peak, but the Shang Dynasty since the migration of Yin, the peak era, but the Wuding period. Of course, there were many reasons for the prosperity of the Shang Dynasty during the Wuding period, among which the close cooperation between Wuding and the chancellor Fu Shuo was an important aspect.
The "History of Yin Benji" records that Wu Ding took the throne and wanted to revive Yin Shang, because he did not get the assistance of a sage, so he handed over political affairs to Tsukasa Ganpan and Zu ji, and he himself did not speak for three years to examine the national style, and he often paid private visits and observed the people's feelings, and really achieved closeness with the masses.
Wu Ding once worked hard in the Mountains of Daxu and lived among the poor. Once, he sneaked to a place called Fu Yan and came across a slave called "Speaking". Just when Wu Ding was tired, he had a chat with him. This chat, it doesn't matter, Wu Ding was secretly happy in his heart: "Talent! ''
I only saw that this "talk" can be talked about on every topic, and when it comes to political and people's livelihood issues, it is a pin-and-a-half, and there are constructive opinions put forward.
Wu Ding couldn't help but be overjoyed, wanted to reveal his identity, and was afraid of "saying" not believing; wanted to take him away directly, and was afraid of "saying" not to go with him; of course, the most important thing was that "saying" was a slave, and Wu Ding was afraid that the ministers would not let him enter the court.
Therefore, Wu Ding had to say goodbye to "say" and go back to find another way.
After this Wu Ding went back, all he thought about was how to invite the "saying" to come over. There is no good way to rack your brains. One day, he went to sleep in his thinking, and dreamed of "speaking", which was really a day of thought, a dream of night! "Say" what he said to him, but he just couldn't hear it, and as soon as he was in a hurry, he hit a nerve and woke up in a dream.
Wu Ding was stunned, he wanted to "say" what would he say to him? Wouldn't it be a good way to govern? Unfortunately I didn't hear it clearly. Thinking about it, Wu Ding smiled. There's a way!
Wu Ding summoned his courtiers and told him that he had received a sage Dream last night and sent him a "Ying Meng Xianchen" to assist him in zhongxing. The merchants of that era were very superstitious, and when they heard that there was a "Ying Meng Xianchen", they all shouted happily and asked Wu Ding, where is the Xianchen?
Wu Ding frowned and said pityingly, "Where is Xianchen, I don't know." But I saw clearly what the sages looked like", so I asked the painter to draw a portrait of the sage, and the hundred officials looked for it according to this portrait.
At first, the hundred officials searched for nobles and found countless noble families, but the mao of the sages did not see it, but there were many indiscriminate people. The courtiers are in a hurry. Why not?
Wu Ding was more anxious, and he could not say that Xianchen was a slave. If you think of a bunch of idiots, can't you expand your search?
At this point, an old minister seemed to have a clue. He said to the other colleagues: "Hey, we are old and confused, and Ying Mengxian did not say that it must be the family of the rich and the noble, the children of officials and eunuchs." It may be ordinary people, slaves! "
This is really "the old dragon is sleeping on the beach, a sentence woke up the dreamer" ah! Saying that it was late and fast, the whole country mobilized in unison and took the portrait of the "virtuous minister" to find it. This time, of course, I found the "say", and it was a high-standard welcome back.
In the courtroom, when Wu Ding and "Say" looked at each other, both of them laughed. "Confirm the look in your eyes, you are the right person"!
Subsequently, Wu Ding sealed "said" as Zaifu. Since it was "said" that Fu found, we have always called him Fu Said.
Fu said that he gave Wu Ding a lot of strategies and suggestions for governing the country and securing the country, and Wu Ding was also obedient to him. Start from the royal family, rectify corruption, and vigorously promote the new policy. The great merchants showed a scene of vitality up and down the country.
While in charge of internal affairs, Fu said that he also actively developed diplomacy. He actively repaired relations with neighboring countries, and for those small countries that did not follow the rules, he was never soft,and he shot when it was time to strike. Tigers are tigers after all, and you can't be seen as sick cats!
With the full cooperation of Wu Ding and Fu Shuo, the Shang Dynasty reached the peak of its rejuvenation and became a great power in the East.
With the strength of the Shang Dynasty, the seeds of war in Wu Ding's heart began to sprout.
In the past years, due to the decline of the Shang Dynasty, the surrounding small countries also began to be arrogant, not to take this big brother in their eyes, to harass it when they had nothing to do, or to attack on time. At that time, the country was still very weak, and Wu Ding endured, but today it is strong. It's time for revenge.
As a result, Wu Ding began to vigorously attack the horses and kill the four sides. At the same time, a female general with a long history also appeared in the records of history. She is China's first female war goddess "Woman Good". Black Ice will not be explained in detail here, and will be described separately in the future.
Wu Ding led his tiger and wolf division of the great merchants to conquer the tribes or countries of the ghost fang, tufang, qiang, jingchu and other tribes or countries that disobeyed or invaded the big merchants. For a time, the sword blade pointed out and was invincible. The military strength of the great merchants reached its peak, and the territory of the great merchants also reached an unprecedentedly large territory with the continuous expansion of the war.