I belong to the kind of people who come to fruition late. In addition to my name Lu Shang, I have many names on my file, such as Jiang Shang, Taigong Wang, Jiang Ziya, Jiang Taigong and so on. Why are there so many names? Because I take Jiang as my surname and Lü as my surname, my name is Shang, and my name is Wang, and I am also called Ziya. My ancestor's surname is Jiang, he is very powerful, I heard that with Dayu to cure the water, because of the merit of getting a fief "Lü", so our family will take "Lü" as the clan.
Unfortunately, by the time I was born, my family had fallen into ruin. When I grew up, I had to work everywhere in order to eat and fill my stomach. I have fished, farmed, and opened a slaughterhouse, a food stall, and a hotel in the capital of the Shang Dynasty, Chaoge (present-day Qi County, Henan). Maybe I wasn't born to be a business material, what to lose. My wife saw that I was a complete, and actually hated me and proposed to divorce me.
Fortunately, I am still a bit ambitious, no matter how difficult life is, I have never given up reading. When I was in my sixties, I got an errand in an institution of the government, but the King of Shang and his officials were so corrupt that I didn't want to go along with them, so I fired their "squid."
I heard that King Wen of Zhou was a very ambitious man who was recruiting talents. I came to the Zhou Kingdom, and after visiting and investigating, I found that King Wen of Zhou was indeed a trustworthy boss. But I don't want to take the initiative to apply, and I am ready to test him again to see if King Zhou Wen really respects talents or sells his reputation. I came to the shore of Weishui and started fishing in a place where King Wen of Zhou often passed. Other people fish with curved hooks, but my fish hooks are straight and more than three feet above the water. When others saw me fishing like this, they said I was mentally retarded. Actually, how could they understand my mind? I didn't catch fish in the water, but King Wen of Zhou.
Kung Fu pays off. Finally, one day, King Wen of Zhou went out hunting and passed by here. He saw me fishing with a straight hook and felt strange and stopped to chat with me. As soon as I saw the opportunity coming, I used the analogy of fishing to talk about my views on governing the country and employing people in a simple and simple way. When King Zhou Wen heard this, he was very happy and said that I was the saint he had been looking for. He didn't go hunting either, so he got me into his car and took me home. I was seventy-two years old.
I was appointed as a state teacher by King Wen of Zhou and helped him complete the great cause of reviving the Zhou Dynasty and destroying the merchants. After years of development, the power of the Zhou Kingdom became stronger. After the death of King Wen of Zhou, his son took the throne as the future King Wu of Zhou. King Wu of Zhou respected me more than his father, calling me "Shi Shang Father", which is the meaning of teacher Jia Gan's father, shouting so that I couldn't think of any effort. When everything was ready, King Wu of Zhou and I led a large army to launch a large-scale attack on the Shang army and destroyed the Shang Dynasty.
Because of my meritorious deeds in destroying the merchants, King Wu of Zhou sealed me in the State of Qi, and the capital was Yingqiu. I think the world is already too peaceful, there is no need to rush to the road, and it is also a pleasure to see the scenery along the way. I walked very slowly along the way, and someone reminded me: "If the time is lost, it is difficult to get again, and you are so covetous of pleasure along the way, it is not like you are going to take office in the fiefdom." "I listened, thought it made sense, and rushed all night. Arriving at the camp hill at dawn, I met the Lai people who came to compete with me for the camp hill. Fortunately, it came in time, so hanging! After defeating the Lai people and stabilizing the political situation in the Country of Qi, I began to carry out political and economic reforms. I conformed to local customs and simplified the red tape of the Zhou Dynasty. Vigorously develop commerce, so that the people can enjoy the benefits of fish and salt. The State of Qi soon became one of the rich countries, laying the foundation for the later Duke Huan of Qi to become the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period.