Thick black originator - Emperor Shun
Text/Yu Great Wall
Li Zongwu, the author of the book "Thick Black Studies", believes that the characters of the Three Kingdoms period, the blackest in the heart is Cao Cao, and the thickest in the face is Liu Bei; the hero of the ancients, Hao Jie, is not because of the study of thick black. Going further up, it is thick and black. But in history, the person who can really bear the ancestor of thick black learning is Emperor Shun.
Thick-faced people usually have a hard wound, that is, they are from a low birth. However, if he is from a humble origin, he often has no face, and his face will become thicker over time. Whether the heart is dark or not has nothing to do with birth. Therefore, those who are thick enough to gain the world will turn into a dark heart, and because of their bad reputation, they are afraid of being despised. And people with thick faces have many perverts, and they can not share the rich and noble with the poor; once they win the world, they will slaughter the heroes, and the lowly and Zhu Yuanzhang will be like this. The reason why Liu Bei did not do this is because Liu Bei did not win the world, only one-third of himself.
Although Sima Qian said that he was the seventh grandson of the Emperor and the ninth grandson of the Yellow Emperor, many people in the world did not believe it. Shun, also known as Chonghua, means heavy pupil, the ancients thought that the vision, but it is actually an eye disease. So how did Shun rely on the Thick Black Technique to climb to the throne of power step by step?
The Chronicle of History says: "Shun's twenty years were filial piety. Thirty and Emperor Yao asked those available, and the four Yue Xian recommended Yu Shun, Yue Ke. "The reason why Shun is called filial piety is because his father, stepmother, and brother often want to kill him, but Shun does not lose the way of the son." Shun's father is stubborn, his mother is stubborn, and his brother is proud, and they all want to kill Shun. Shun Shunshi did not lose his son, and his brother was filial piety. If you want to kill, you cannot get it; that is, you ask, taste it on the side. "Shun was known for his filial piety at the age of twenty, and by the age of thirty he was recommended to Emperor Yao, and Shun had been doing so for at least ten years, and his filial piety had spread for at least ten years before it reached Emperor Yao's ears.
Shun is particularly intelligent and scheming, so as not to be victimized by his parents and brothers; secondly, Shun's personal ability is very strong, and he is proficient in farming, fishing, pottery making, and making utensils. And Shun, with his virtuous name, had become a pivotal figure before the age of thirty, and many people attached him to him. "One year and the residence is gathered, two years is Chengyi, and three years is Chengdu." It was a tribal alliance during the Yanhuang period, and if you want to serve in the alliance, you must be a tribal chief. The place where Shun lived had already become a gathering, and Chengyi was already a tribal chief.
After Shun was appointed by Yao, he began to form gangs. Emperor Yao mainly appointed the Xi clan, the He clan, and the Four Yue (it is said that the Four Yues are xi and the four tribes). Emperor Shun recommended to Emperor Yao that Emperor Yao's descendant "Eight Kai" and Emperor Zhao's descendant "Eight Yuan" be made officials. From this, it is inferred that Shun is not a descendant of The Emperor. If Shun is the seventh grandson of Emperor Huan, why is he not under the "Eight Kai"?
After Shun seized real power, he began to crack down on dissidents, and successively exiled hun chao, a descendant of the Former Emperor Hongshi, a descendant of the Shaohao clan, Qianqi, a descendant of the Huan clan, and a descendant of the Jinyun clan. The DiHong clan, the Shao Hao clan, and the Jinyun clan are all declining clans, and the Han Clan may be another clan that is not in harmony with the "Eight Kai". The figure Dahong during the Yellow Emperor's time may be a descendant of the DiHong clan, "the official names are all cloud life", it is likely that the Huang Emperor's Di Hong clan and Jinyun clan were still Wang clans.
Twenty years after Shun's successor, Emperor Yao "made Shun's regent of the Heavenly Son", and Shun further attacked dissidents and consolidated his power. On the side of the foreign enemy, the "three seedlings" were exiled; on the side of the internal enemy, the gonggong and the gonggong who recommended the co-workers were exiled, and Yu's father, Cang, was killed. However, the "Four Peaks" who recommended The Dragon, Shun did not dare to offend. It's strange why you want to kill a carp. Shun exiled seven tribes, but killed one of them alone. Although the carp is said to be ineffective in curing water, there is always hard work without merit. The most likely explanation is that Cangzhishui has offended too many tribes, labored the people and hurt their wealth, and "lost their lives and destroyed the clan", so they have become victims of political struggles. As for how many years the water was cured, the "Records of History" said that "nine years, the function is not successful." It follows from this that Yao used carp to cure water after eleven years after shun. If Shun killed Cang in the year when he was the regent of Tianzi Zheng, then Shun was fifty years old, so how old was Cang? The "Chronicle of History" says that Cang was the son of Huan Huan, and Shun was the seventh grandson of Huan Huan, and Cang was five generations higher than Shun, is it possible? Even Yu was four generations older than Shun, how could Yu be younger than Shun? In the "Records of History" alone, it is mentioned that the descendants of The Emperor were "Eight Kai", Shun, Han Zhuo, Cang, Qin (国), and Chu (国). The claim that the emperor recognized his ancestors and returned to the Yellow Emperor in the "Records of History" has been controversial by posterity, and it is clear that Shun is not a descendant of Huan. The claim that Qin and Chu were "Miao descendants of Emperor Gaoyang" is also not credible.
After the regency of Shun, twenty-two people (clans) were used: Yu, Gao Tao, Qi, Abandoned, Boyi, 夔, Long, 倕 (垂), Yi, Pengzu, and "Twelve Mu". Shun no longer reused "Four Peaks", Zhu Hu, Xiong Yi, "Eight Kai", "Eight Yuan" and so on. The "Records of History" does not say that Shun granted Peng Zu any position, but Peng Zu was obviously a typical figure of Mingzhe to protect himself, so he was able to go through Yao, Shun, and Yu III, and his descendants were more feudal and more Xia and Shang dynasties, so it is rumored that Peng Zu lived for eight hundred years. Since the middle and late period of Emperor Yao, the status of "Four Yue" has been similar to that of an adviser. Zhu Hu and Xiong Yi made great contributions in the era of the Yellow Emperor.
Judging from shun's recommendation of "eight kai" and "eight yuan" when he was elected as his successor, to cracking down on the old clan after he seized real power, and then to the twenty-two people he used after coming to power, there were almost no old clans, and Shun made great personnel adjustments and political innovations after coming to power, and since then the old clan has continued to decline.
After Shun was chosen by Yao as his successor, his father, mother, and brother wanted to kill him twice, but he did not use the power in his hands to kill his younger brother Xiang, and after he took the throne, he instead crowned the elephant as a prince, "carrying the banner of the Son of Heaven, looking at his father, and being prudent and prudent, like a son", it is impossible to say that it is not "thick".
Emperor Shun died in the wilderness of Cangwu and was buried in the Nine Ridges Mountain, the cause of death is unknown. Shun had exiled Shu Du at Chongshan (in present-day southwest of Zhangjiajie, Hunan, there is a mountain named Chongshan, which is rumored to be the place where He Du was exiled), and the "Southern Man" has always been an enemy of the Central Plains. According to the "History", Shun was 100 years old when he died, and Emperor E and Nuying should also be about 90 years old, how can they still look for a husband and shed tears? Therefore, it is impossible for Emperor Yao to live to be 98 years old and Emperor Shun to live to be 100 years old, especially in the primitive social period when material life was extremely poor. Sima Qian did not dare to write about the "Three Emperors" in the "Records of History", and only began with the "Five Emperors", but there are many legends about the "Five Emperors", especially his life span, reign time, and descendants cannot be examined. The Huainan Zi believes: "Shunnan marched on the three seedlings and died in Cangwu. The Century of Emperors holds the same view: "Shun recommended Yu yu to heaven and made Yu regent." There are Miao rebellions, southern expeditions, collapse in Mingtiao, funeral coffins, buried in the sun of Cangwu Nine Doubts Mountain, is for the Lingling Tombs. "Shun was the first person recorded in history to be buried in a pottery coffin. For more than 4,000 years, China has been able to produce such a large pottery, which is really not simple, it is also a luxury. It seems that Dayu was quite good to Emperor Shun, even though Shun killed Yu's father, and Yu still made the largest pottery to bury Emperor Shun.
Li Bai's poems have been passed down through the ages, among which there are clouds: "Yao You prisoner, Shunye died." Although Li Bai is not a historian, he is not a man of nonsense. According to the Bamboo Book Chronicle, "Xi Yao was in decline and was imprisoned by Shun. Or "Shun imprisoned Yao in Pingyang and took the throne", "Shun put Yao in Pingyang", "Shun imprisoned Yao, restored Sedan Zhu, so that he did not see his father". For the ending of Emperor Yao, posterity mostly believed in the "Bamboo Book Chronicle", and did not believe in Sima Qian, why? Because as already said above, there are too many untrustworthy points in the "History of the Five Emperors", one is that Yao and Shun cannot live to be one hundred years old, and the other is that Shun cannot be four generations later than Yu and be older.
Shunye's death is normal, but "Yao Yu Prisoner" is not normal, can this still be said that Shun is a "filial piety"? Yao Ke was Shun's father-in-law, and both daughters were married to Shun, but in order to take the throne, it can only be said that Shun was quite black. On the surface, he "looked up to his father and was only prudent", and he crowned his younger brother as a prince, which was quite thick.