On that day, the sun was just right, and at the gate of the Chu Kingdom, qi guoshi doctor Yan Bao's heart was cloudy.
Although the Chu officials who greeted him were full of smiles, their eyes could not stop showing the ugliness of watching jokes.
The closed city gate, the newly opened dog hole, the fire in Yan Baby's heart was constantly rising upwards, and the small door looked like a laugh at his short stature, but it was actually a mockery of Qi Guo's weakness.
If Qi Guo is strong enough, he is short, so what? Who dares to underestimate!
But Qi Guo was not strong, he could only endure.
"Those who make the dog country enter through the dog door, and the present minister makes Chu, and it is not appropriate to enter through this door." Yan Bao restrained his emotions and spoke chiseled.
As soon as Chu Ren heard this, he hurried to open the door.
When Yan Bao entered the city, his heart was miserable: the country was poor and weak, and there was no dignity in front of the strong country, just like people are not excellent and cannot be respected by others.
Yan Bao, the son of Qi Guo's Shangqing Shifu Yan, was strange-looking and short in stature.
In the twenty-sixth year of the Duke of Qiling, Yan died of a weak illness, and Yan Baozi inherited his father as an official.
At the beginning of the dynasty, his short stature, not only the courtiers, but also the Linggong secretly ridiculed, Yan Bao was silent, he knew that people were convincing, relying on strength, not on tongue.
At this time, the State of Qi was worried about internal and external troubles, but Yan Baby was full of spirits, and as long as he had the opportunity, he believed that he could make the State of Qi regain hegemony.
The emperor was not anxious for eunuchs, Yan Bao had his ambitions, but Qi Linggong was not only unambitious, but also foolish, in order to please the concubines, he abolished Chang Liyou, removed the position of Prince Jiang Guang, and let the State of Qi fall into a disaster.
The king of the State of Lu was Jiang Guang's uncle, and his nephew was deposed, and in a fit of rage, he sent envoys to Qi to condemn Linggong.
Linggong did not think about himself, and also humiliated the envoys in every way, and then led his troops to attack the state of Lu.
Lu guo was in a hurry, asked for help from the state of Jin, the state of Jin rushed to the aid of the state of Lu, Linggong was defeated, fled back to the state of Qi, after returning to China, he did not think of defending the country, but fled with his favorite concubine, abandoning the subjects of the state of Qi in the water and fire.
When a monarch abandons the country, the people will be scattered, and the destruction of the country will become possible.
At the moment of the thousand guns, Yan Bao pulled the horse's head, and after the horse station was fixed, he made a generous statement to Qi Linggong, knowing the stakes.
Subsequently, he took the initiative to ask for help, hoping to use the strength of the whole country to build a high city wall to resist the enemy's invasion.
As Yan Nian expected, the Qi state was united in determination, the enemy army was powerless for a long time, and all retreated, and the crisis in the state of Qi was lifted.
In ancient times, there were many loyal subjects who advised each other in death. Death is not terrible, what is feared is that the country will not be a country, and the people will be in danger. Yan Baby dared to use his short and thin body to stop the royal driver, and to advise the interests and harms, Yan Baby Yongye.
The brave obstruction of the guogong's horse head showed Yan Bao's courage, and the wisdom of retreating from the Jin army with his own strength made people see his wisdom.
After the Jin army retreated, another catastrophe rushed to the court.
Jiang Guang was angry with Qi Linggong and had been looking for an opportunity to regain the position of prince, while the chancellor Choi Zhu was planning to take the throne, and the two hit it off, and Cui Zhu did the internal response and opened the palace door.
Jiang Guang entered the palace and washed the palace in blood.
Jiang Guang entered the palace, first killed his brother, and then made Linggong whine, and he became the Duke of Qizhuang.
After Jiang Guang ascended the throne, the Jin state united with eleven princely states to wage war against the state of Qi.
The strength of the State of Qi was weak, not an opponent of the coalition army, but Jiang Guang ignored these and shouted for battle, and the courtiers all saw through the situation and knew the decisive battle, which was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, but no one dared to refute it in the face of the monarch who killed his father.
Only Yan Bao, who knew that the war was raging, was the most bitter than the people, and stood up against Jiang Guang.
He objected, also because he knew that since King Wen of Zhou, if one side of the monarch died, the other side would stop the war, which was the morality of the Zhou Dynasty.
He was sure that the combined forces of the princes would retreat without a fight due to the death of Duke Qi Linggong.
With Jiang Guang's consent, he sent Lao Qi and Yan You to appear in the enemy's field of vision as mourners, and the news of Qi Linggong's death soon reached the ears of the monarchs of various princely states.
The coalition forces then retreated, the people of the State of Qi were once again spared from war, and Yan Bao's position in the hearts of the people was further improved.
Because of selfish interests, they regard the lives of others as children's plays, and they cannot win the hearts and minds of the people in the world; it does not cost a single soldier to turn the fire of war into invisibility, save the people from water and fire, and Yan Baby Zhiye.
However, Yan Bao not only had to build prestige in the hearts of the people, but also to be a virtuous courtier and lead the State of Qi to regain the position of overlord.
What is a virtuous man? Just as Yan Baozhi said to the Duke of Jinping after he retired from the coalition army, in order to ally with the Jin state and send an envoy to the Jin state: "Talent is enough to secure the country, virtue is high enough to consolidate the country, and gentle enough to benefit the people, to the monarch, not to seek fame and profit, and his words and deeds must not go against the will of the people. ”
But to be a virtuous subject, there must also be an opportunity to be a virtuous subject, that is, whether the monarch who assists him has the same ambitions as he does.
The reason why Guan Zhong has been famous for thousands of years and has achieved the name of a virtuous minister is also the lofty ambition of Qi Henggong, and Guan Zhong has an opportunity and platform to show his grand plan.
Yan Bao is talented and ambitious, but the monarch he assists is not virtuous, the spirit is unwise, and the Zhuang Gong is arrogant, which makes Yan Baby have no chance to show his talents although he has the heart.
Can That Baby Yan wait until the same Ming Jun as Heng Gong?
Yes.
Cui Zhu is Jiang Guang's benefactor, if it were not for Cui Zhu, he would not have the opportunity to be the monarch, but Jiang Guang was not grateful to Cui Zhu for Dade, and also had a sperm worm on his brain, seducing Cui Zhu's wife Tang Jiang.
Cui Zhu was angry and threatened Tang Jiang to seduce Jiang Guang, and when Jiang Guang entered the Cui Mansion, he cut him to death.
When the monarch died, according to the Zhou Li, the minister of the DPRK and the Central Government should mourn, but Cui Zhu was like a trapped beast, and all those who went to the Cui Mansion to mourn were killed.
The slaughtering spirit of the Cui Mansion is frightening, and it also makes Yan Bao in a dilemma, he does not go to the Cui Mansion, or he can save his life, but he will fall into the reputation of disloyalty, and this deviates from his original intention of being a virtuous subject.
Go, doomed to danger, life and death are unpredictable.
Yan Bao thought about it for a long time and decided to drive alone.
Knowing that it is impossible to do anything, even if it is dangerous, he still rushes forward with his life and risks for the dead king, Yan Baby Zhongye.
But sometimes, letting go, often can turn things upside down, and unexpected things happen.
Yan Bao's arrogance, Cui Zhu's convincing, and Yan Bao's prestige made him dare not be arrogant about it, and Yan Bao retreated from Cui Mansion.
The Ancients: "I want to become an adult beforehand." ”
Escape, or can be exchanged for a moment of ease, but the ambition will be premature; in the face, although the future is uncertain, but life will not be regretted because of no attempt, and may also have unexpected gains.
The Duke of Qi Zhuang died tragically, the Qi state was leaderless, the people's hearts were turbulent, and Cui Zhu was eyeing the throne of the monarch.
Seeing that the State of Qi was about to rise in turmoil, Yan Infant decided to retreat into the future, wanting to suppress it first, obviously pandering to Cui Zhu, and after his carelessness, he proposed the idea of succession by Qi Linggong's youngest son, Qi Linggong.
Brother and brother, Shun Tian's will, Cui Zhu can not oppose.
After The Pestle took the throne, he worshiped Yan Bao as a teacher and learned the way of governing the country.
Yan Bao first educated the pestle with the nine-benefit policy of "old and old, kind and young, compassion for orphans, raising illness, uniting independence, asking for illness, passing through poverty, accounting difficulties, and receiving no", so that he could establish the idea of being a Mingjun from an early age.
Later, with the method of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, he disintegrated the power of the four major families of the State of Qi, and made the political path of the Ming Emperor for the sake of the pestle and the usur; and with the difference between the two eastern regions, the pestle and the usu understood the way of the king, and with the help of Yan Bao, the politics of the State of Qi were clear, and the Jing Gong also had the virtue of the Ming Emperor.
With the ministers of the Tao, the Deming Jun, and the strong joining forces, in time, the prosperity of the country is just around the corner, and dominating the Central Plains is no longer just a dream.
In its position, seek its own government, have moral and ambitious, but there is no corresponding position, and it is obvious that it is insufficient to speak and do things.
Yan Bao has ambitions and prestige, but he has no real power, and he is inevitably constrained at every turn when doing things, which indirectly affects the speed of qi's hegemony.
Thinking of this, Qi Jinggong worshipped Yan Bao as the minister of state.
After Becoming Minister of State, Yan Infant carried out drastic reforms of the State of Qi, and after a few years, it gradually became the leader in various princely states in terms of politics, military, and economy.
However, just as ants can moth a big tree, even the strongest national strength will be destroyed by the traitorous villain, so that the State of Qi will be spared from this difficulty, and in order to dominate the great cause, the Minister of State Yan Baby finally eliminated the immoral people around Jing Gong one by one.
Eventually, the State of Qi returned to the position of hegemony when Qi Jinggong was in power.
In the Spring and Autumn Warring States, the princes competed for hegemony, talents came out, and there were not a few sages and ministers, so Sima Qianwei admired Yan Baowei and even said, "If Yan Zi is here, although Yu is whipping for it, he admires it." ”
Is it because Yan Baby helped Qi Jinggong rebuild his hegemony?
No, it should be that he feels sorry for Yan Bao, because both of them have physical defects, but they are arrogant and unwilling to be mediocre.
Sima Qian used history as a background to revise the "Records of History".
Baby, make history.
Yan Bao, Sima Qian, tens of thousands of people who lack innate advantages do not live in the status quo, no matter how harsh the environment, are strong and upward, only because they know that they are not willing to be mediocre and active, it is possible to succeed.
Seeing this, some people may say that I have been working hard, but it has not been successful.
I study until late at night every day, isn't it hard work? But my grades are still low;
I work overtime every day and absorb new knowledge every day, but I have neither become a mainstay in the company nor a promotion or salary increase;
I work diligently every day, but I have always been shy, I can't give my family a happy life, and my lover also says that I am useless;
……
It sounds very miserable, just like the "Douyin Copywriting" said, "Not willing to be mediocre, but also poor." ”
But what is this? As long as we work hard, even if we don't succeed, at least we will have no regrets.
And as long as you work hard, sooner or later, as Wang Anshi said in "Picking Up the Cold Mountain": "All sentient beings create many karmas, and each has a chance to draw." "The world is difficult, but no matter how lost life is, as long as we usually do our homework, there will always be a glimmer of life."
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