Volume 2 Plane Battle, Chapter 215: The Ancient Book of Heaven (II)
Jizi said, if you are in Yin Shang, your words like this must be a capital crime, and you are a person from Zhongnanshan, not an ordinary person in the world, so I will not punish you for your sin, and you should stop talking nonsense, so that everyone will not be demonized. Ghosts and gods are like parents, we are all their children, as children, how can we talk about our parents like this.
Wen Zhen said with a smile, I heard that there are shrines in various places, and some Fang countries want to invade other Fang countries, and ask for ghosts and gods, and the ghosts and gods say, Ji, I will bless you. If all of us are God's children, how can God encourage a group of children to snatch and kill another?
I have also heard that when a man is sick, his husband prays to God, and God says, "Kneel before me for three days, and your wife will be well." If God were really our Father, He would say that all men will die, but you should take care of her while she is alive, not to kneel before God for three days;
If the world is all children of God, and the world is poor, the God of the Father will say, "What's the use of you not going out to work, and coming to me, because the father wants his children to grow up, and wants them to be able to support themselves, instead of begging the father to give them wealth all day long."
In fact, the demons and gods do not let you work more, but they say, "If you devote more of your time and energy to sacrificing me, you will be rich."
Miko said that ghosts and gods are in the heavens and the earth, and only by taking a longer time to feel God's will will will we not incur disasters. Wen Zhendao: If it doesn't take a longer time to feel God's will, it will cause calamity, who gave this calamity?
Wen Zhendao: In other words, many of our calamities are not there in the first place, but because we do not have enough respect for the ghosts and gods, and we invite them, if our ghosts and gods are our fathers, will they be happy or angry because a child can do good deeds without listening to their teachings?
If a child does the right thing, like he has found a new fruit to eat and feeds himself, the father should be happy, and he will never punish the child for not asking for advice in advance.
And our ghost god, the great God of Haotian, will bring bad luck to the child and punish the child to death because he eats the fruit without asking in advance.
Jizi replied in a panic: If you are in the world, if you don't respect Haotian God, it is a great mistake and should be punished.
Wen Zhendao: The real Haotian God, no one has ever seen it, even the ghosts and gods you worship, they have never seen Haotian God, but they keep saying that they represent Haotian God, a person who has never even seen Haotian God, a ghost god who doesn't even know that Haotian God exists, but they say that they represent Haotian God,
Then tell the world that they are Haotian God, and want the world to obey them unconditionally and worship them, otherwise it will cause disaster.
At that time, everyone was speechless for a while, Ji Dan himself was also present, Ji Dan made up his mind to learn from Wen Zhen, so he pointed to Wen Zhen's picture and said: Why does Mr. draw it through the elephant instead of saying it directly?
Wen Zhen replied that if I said it directly, there might be variables, but this is not the case.
Miko and Ji Dan were shocked when they heard this, and wondered if they had heard it wrong. Wen Zhen said, I live in Zhongnan Mountain, and I have rarely heard of anything about the mandate of heaven, and the qi and spirits are combined with each other, and the fixed number will not change, but many variables will be born. Miko was a little hard to believe for a while.
Ji Dan asked, how do variables come about? Wen Zhen replied that when things are first biochemical, they are the most mysterious when they want to happen but before they happen, you can perceive it, but you can't say it, all things exist in form, and everything has benefits and harms because of a place.
Once it is specifically said, it is often easy to produce variables, and all the benefits and disadvantages are the appearance of the number of all things, and they are easily affected, just like if you take a live fish in your hand and ask me, you know the variables of a thousand years, and you know the mystery of life and death, I am now holding this live fish in my hand, and you tell me how long he can live?
I knew when the fish would die, but I couldn't say it, I said it would live, and you would let it die to prevent that. So when I say it, it will give birth to qi spirits, and once it is clearly perceived, just like I say that fish are alive, when I say it concretely, it will give birth to variables.
Miko said, according to this, the mandate of heaven will be changed because of people's words and deeds, I just heard you say this, I will keep it and confirm it. Wen Zhen smiled and did not answer.
This year, the drought in Weishui was serious, the rice did not grow well, although there were clouds in the sky, it did not rain, and the fruit of divination was unlucky, and everyone felt very lost. Ji Dan asked Na Wenzhen that the drought was so severe, is it the destiny of heaven?
Wen Zhen said, I don't know what the mandate of heaven is, like people are born and die, such things can be regarded as a fixed number, and the laws of the biochemistry of all things can be perceived, and will not change because of people's wishes. But the leylines of the world, we can adjust accordingly.
Later, King Wen of Zhou's father, Ji Li, knew what he said, and although he didn't believe it, there was no other way, so he still asked him for a solution. And he said, Thou hast told as many people as thou hast told as many people as possible that there would be a great drought in this year, and that thou hast pretended to be a nearer period.
Saying that there will be no rain until then, that the sun is shining in the sky, that there will be no rain, let them talk about it more, and wait for this to happen, and then it will be fine.
Ji Li did as he said, more than ten days later, it rained heavily, and it rained lightly for many days, Ji Li and others were very surprised, the Mandate of Heaven had no rain, but now it came, asked the reason, Wen Zhen said, even if there is a Mandate of Heaven, the people's will can be changed, not me.
Later Ji Li left Wen Zhen for three years to teach Ji Dan to learn the method of the Eight Directions and Eight Winds, which is the source of the Book of Changes, and also learned together, as well as Ji Chang, that is, King Wen of Zhou.
King Wen of Zhou also had to study at that time, Wen Zhen said with a smile, Ji Dan is now a small person, it doesn't hurt to learn, you are in a high position, I am afraid that it will be inappropriate to learn, King Wen of Zhou insisted on learning, which later led to imprisonment.
Later, King Wen of Zhou used the method of eight winds and eight directions to determine the good fortune and evil, and was known to Chonghou Hu, and told King Zhou in private, and later generations said that Chonghou Tiger told King Zhou that Ji Chang was imprisoned for seven years?
As soon as it was said that the king of Zhou killed one of the three princes, Xibohou Jichang sighed privately, and Chonghouhu told the king about it, and the king of Xuhou arrested Xibohou Jichang, and the first pass was seven years.
However, this statement was fabricated by later generations, and the main purpose was to add incidents to the sins of the king. How can a self-respecting Politburo member be arrested like this?
The second theory is that Xibohou did good deeds, and Chonghou Hu said to the king of Zhou, this Xibohou has accumulated good and accumulated virtues, and all the princes will go to it, which will not be beneficial to you. Then led to Ji Chang being arrested. But this is the wind released by the Zhou Dynasty in later generations, and it is not true.
Because a person is doing good deeds, the emperor will arrest him, saying that you have done too many good deeds, and your character is too noble, and it is a threat to me, so I want to arrest you. Everyone, is there such a arrest, the crime is that you are a good person, I want to arrest you, and this is still a doctor-level minister!
Even if Emperor Xin wanted to arrest Xibohou, it was definitely not this crime, but it was so big that no one could speak, and they couldn't beg for him, so they could only watch him being locked up. And even his children, knowing that they are wrong, are embarrassed to speak for their father, and they are embarrassed to object.
But the real reason why King Wen of Zhou was arrested was buried in the dust and fog of history forever, and no one knows!
First of all, the family surnamed Ji was reluctant to announce this reason, and Emperor Xin was also unwilling to disclose this reason. It was just a temporary idea, and then it was decided that Xibohou would be arrested, but the real reason could not be told to the world.
But it is said that there is a saying that King Wen of Zhou was really imprisoned, not because of the above reasons, but because of a book ~ "Yi".
It is said that King Wen was the one who developed and created "Yi" after being imprisoned, but the real author of Yi has two people, if you rank them according to the weight of writing. It should be Ji Dan and Ji Chang, because Ji Chang is his father, so his name was ranked first.
In later generations, some people slowly ignored the second name and wrote Ji Chang's name directly, in fact, "Yi", that is, the author of "Zhou Yi", is Ji Dan and Ji Chang. And he was imprisoned precisely because of this book.
At that time, as an emperor, the greatest power, the last symbolic power, was not to rule over the people, nor to be on the highest, but the power to communicate with the demons and gods. But with the power of communication, is unique. Only the emperor can communicate with the gods, and the other princes can only communicate with the ghosts at most.
But the appearance of "Yi", so that the Ji family can not communicate with the ghosts and gods, but also to decide the good and evil, this kind of impact, for people's understanding, is destruction, it subverts people's common sense, people's common sense is that only through the divination of the emperor's temple, can we know the will of heaven.
If people themselves could stop fighting the murderers, then their dependence on the gods would be reduced, and those who did things in the name of the gods would find it difficult to lie, and their authority would also be reduced, which was something that no emperor or ghost god of the time wanted to see.
For Emperor Xin, this is a direct shake to the foundation of his rule! So let Chongbohu make an appointment with Xibohou to discuss state affairs, Ji Chang originally knew that this would be more auspicious, but the people of Beibohou Chonghou Hu are waiting at your door to discuss state affairs with you, how can you find excuses again. So he went head-on!
When discussing state affairs, Di Xin informed Xi Bohou and his son about the development of "Yi", and the crime was disrespecting ghosts and gods, which was the biggest sin at that time, you can kill, burn and loot, you can forgive, only this one cannot be forgiven.