Two years before Wang Meng was born, Qingzhou was attacked by the Later Zhao established by Shile, and 30,000 people died in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. www.biquge.info By the time Wang Meng was born, the Later Zhao had already swept the Central Plains, and the troops were facing south, confronting the Huaishui in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Shi Hu, who succeeded Shi Le as emperor, was a tyrant who was reckless and murderous. The young Wang Meng was displaced with his family and came to live in Wei County.

Shi Hu, the word Jilong, he is also a native of the Western Regions. It's a pity that he, Lao Xi'er, is very unauthentic, and belongs to the Qian people, one of the Hu people in Central China.

Shi Hu's father died young, and he was dependent on his mother and was raised by another eldest brother named Shi Le. Later, Shi Le was abducted and trafficked by traffickers, and the two lost contact with each other, and it was not until Shi Hu was seventeen years old that the two had a chance to see each other again. After that, Shi Hu assisted Shi Le to cut people, and when he cut people to a certain extent, no one could cut them all, and Shi Le became the emperor, and this regime was Hou Zhao.

After Shi Le's death, the unkind Shi Hu snatched the throne that Shi Le left to his son and became the emperor himself. Shi Hu is different from Shi Le, Shi Le is still a benevolent emperor, in addition to reusing his own people, he can also reuse Han people of other races. After his governance, the contradictions between the Hu and Han people gradually eased.

Shi Hu is different, he was born with two hands to pick up a knife and cut people. Whenever he fights, if his enemies are hacked to death before the end of the battle, then he has picked up a big bargain. If he survived and became a prisoner, then he would have died a terrible death, specifically buried alive, and there was no gender discrimination, and men and women were equal in front of the pit.

Shi Hu not only pursued equality between men and women to the captives, but also treated his wife and son, and everyone was equal in front of the butcher's knife. He once pampered a demonic man, and for this man he killed his two wives before and after. A few years later, one of his sons, Shi Xuan, killed another son, Shi Tao, and in a fit of rage, he pierced Shi Xuan's cheeks with an iron ring, and his limbs were shackled.

The executioners were two eunuchs, Hao Zhi and Liu Ba, who first poked a large hole in Shi Xuan's cheeks with a quick knife, and then passed through the rope and hung Shi Xuan on the pyre. Another executioner, Liu Ba, picked up another quick knife and slowly gouged out Shi Xuan's eyes, prolonging his pain as long as possible.

At the same time, Hao Zhi plucked all Shi Xuan's hair one by one and shaved him, and then they cut off Shi Xuan's tongue one by one, and Shi Xuan became a cripple without eyes, hair, and tongue. Liu Ba continued to pull out the steel knife, and once again seriously sawed off Shi Xuan's limbs little by little, and then opened his stomach and took out all Shi Xuan's internal organs. In the end, the two of them set a fire, burned Shi Xuan, who had not yet lost his breath, into ashes, and threw the ashes on the street, saving even the coffin.

During the execution, Shi Hu led thousands of beauties to sit on the Tongque platform opposite, and watched the whole process with interest. As if it was not his own son who was wiped out, but a mosquito, after talking about Shi Hu's first hobby of killing, let's take a look at his second hobby of beauty.

Shi Hu once issued an order that all women under the age of twenty and over thirteen in the country, regardless of whether they are married or not, must be ready to become one of the beauties in his harem at any time. Hearing this order, officials from all over the country immediately began to be busy for the future, and as long as they found a slightly more beautiful woman, they would immediately send it to the palace.

For a time, the whole country was jumping, chickens and dogs jumped, and the people's wives were beautiful, so they were threatened by the pride, and many committed suicide. In this way, in addition to the dead, there were more than 40,000 beautiful women's football teams that were finally sent to the palace. Shi Hu doesn't look at people, but he still has a good set of management for so many beauties. He adopted the method of increasing the number of officials, increasing to the twenty-fourth rank of female officials, and the second rank of ten in the East Palace, so that the official positions of beautiful women are high and low, and their status is clear.

Beautiful women must be raised when they enter the palace, otherwise they will become ugly girls if they don't eat well and live badly. In order to raise his women's army, Shi Hu built palaces in Yecheng, Chang'an, and Luoyang, the largest and most prosperous cities in China at that time, not only to build them quickly, but also to build them well. In Yecheng alone, more than 40 Taiwan temples have been built, and there is also a Hualin Garden with a circumference of dozens of kilometers. With such a huge project, Shihu recruited a total of 400,000 people, almost day and night.

There must be a group of ragged people behind a gorgeous palace, and Shi Hu did not hesitate to raise taxes in order to satisfy himself, squeezing the people clean like toothpaste. At first, many people could sell their children to support themselves for a few days, but when their children were sold and there was nothing to sell, they had to hang their entire families from the ground, so that in many places the trees on both sides of the road were covered with corpses.

Shi Hu finally died peacefully, but the flood behind him submerged his entire family and his entire nation. Just a month after his son Shi ascended the throne, he was killed by another son, Shi Zun, who soon died at the hands of his brother Shi Jian.

Before the throne snatched by Shi Jian was hot, he was killed by the general Ran Min. As a member of the Han people, Ran Min called on all Han people in the north to wage an all-out war against the Hu people, and issued the famous "Hu Eradication Order". As a result, the people who were crushed by Shi Hu began to take revenge frantically, cutting down when they saw the Qianren, and destroying the Qianren when they saw them, and in just a few years, a once powerful Qianren disappeared forever from history.

Wang Meng's family was poor, and in order to make a living, he was young and sold dustpans as a business. Once Wang Meng went to Luoyang to sell goods, and met a person who wanted to buy a dustpan at a high price, and the person said that he had no money with him, and asked Wang Meng to go with him to his home to get the money. Wang Meng followed the man, but walked into the mountains and was brought to an old man with a bright beard and a ring of waiters.

Wang Meng bowed to the old man, and the old man hurriedly said, "Prince, how can you worship me?"

So the old man gave Wang Meng ten times the usual price to buy a dustpan, and sent someone to see him off, Wang Meng went out of the mountain to look back, only to recognize that it was Zhongyue Songshan. Although the young Wang Meng is on the mud road, he has been discovered by a person of insight with a unique vision.

Wang Meng was not swallowed up by the smoke of the beacon fire, nor was he crushed by the burden of life; in the midst of the war and chaos, he observed the changes in the wind and clouds, and in the miserable wind and rain, he did not let go of the papers, studied hard, and extensively absorbed all kinds of knowledge, especially military scientific knowledge. Slowly, Wang Meng grew into a handsome, burly, majestic young man, solemn and solemn, deep and resolute, ambitious, and extraordinary.

He is insulated from trivial matters, and disdains to deal with dirt and chaff, so he is often blinded and ridiculed by those shallow and flashy children, but Wang Meng is leisurely and self-satisfied. He once traveled to Yecheng, the capital of Zhao State, and no one among the dignitaries and nobles could afford him, but Xu Tong, who had a lesson from knowledge, was surprised to see him. Xu Tong was in the Later Zhao Dynasty, and summoned Wang Meng to serve as a meritorious servant, Wang Meng fled without agreeing, and lived in seclusion in Xiyue Huashan, he looked forward to the appearance of the Ming Lord, and waited for the change of the wind and clouds before moving.

In the years after Wang Meng turned 25, the war in the north intensified, and the political situation changed rapidly. The tyrant Shi Hu finally died, and his descendants immediately launched a ferocious fight, killing the corpses and bleeding into a canal, and in a year, the throne changed three times. The general Ran Min took the opportunity to attack Yecheng, slaughtered more than 200,000 people, destroyed Zhao Jianwei, attacked with Qianghu, and fought without a month, and was destroyed by the Xianbei Murong Qianyan who rushed into North China from the northeast in less than two years after the founding of the country. Yecheng fell into the hands of Emperor Murong Jun of Yan, and the powerful people of all ethnic groups in Guanzhong were divided one after another, and there were many people in the north who claimed to be kings and emperors. In the process, Fu Hong, the leader of the Di tribe, came to prominence.

The Di nationality belongs to the Xirong ethnic group, originally lived in the southeast of present-day Gansu, moved to the central area of Guanzhong at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, lived together with the Han people, and gradually became sinicized. The Fu clan was the chief of the Di tribe, and Shi Hu forcibly migrated Fu Hong and his 100,000 men to the south of Yecheng. Soon after Ran Min became emperor, Fu Hong established himself as king, and was later poisoned by his generals.

His son Fu Jian led the people to return to the west, occupied Guanzhong, built the capital Chang'an, called the king of heaven, Da Danyu, the country name Qin, the following year called the emperor, the power gradually became stronger. Jingzhou Town of the Eastern Jin Dynasty will Huan Wen Northern Expedition, defeated Fu Jian, garrisoned on the Ba, Guanzhong fathers and elders compete to welcome labor with cow wine, men and women gather on the road.

When Wang Meng heard the news, he wore a linen short coat and went to the Huan Wen camp to ask to see him. Huan Wen asked Wang Meng to talk about his views on the current situation, and Wang Meng was in the public, catching lice while talking about major events in the world, talking endlessly, as if no one was around.

Seeing this scene, Huan Wen was secretly surprised in his heart, and blurted out: "I was ordered by the Son of Heaven to lead 100,000 elite soldiers to fight against the rebels and eliminate harm for the people, but no one from Guanzhong Haojie came to me to serve, what is the reason for this?"

Wang Meng replied bluntly: "You are not far away to go deep into the Kou Realm, Chang'an City is close at hand, but you don't cross the Bashui to take it down, everyone can't figure out your thoughts, so you don't come." ”

Wang Meng's words touched Huan Wen's heart disease, and he was silent for a long time, speechless, and at the same time realized more and more that the lice in front of him was extraordinary. After a long time, Huan Wen raised his head and said slowly: "There is no one in Jiangdong who can compare to your talent. ”

As soon as Fu Jian and Wang Meng met, they were like lifelong acquaintances, talking about the rise and fall of major events, speculating in every sentence, Fu Jian felt like Liu Bei met Zhuge Liang back then, like a fish in water. So Wang Meng stayed by Fu Jian's side and gave him advice. Wang Meng's achievements were outstanding, and he was soon promoted to Shangshu Zuocheng. Because he did not enforce the law and was shrewd and capable, at the age of thirty-six, he was promoted five times in succession, until he became the left servant of Shangshu, the general of the auxiliary state, and the captain of the school, and his power was tilted inside and outside.

Those imperial relatives and uncles and old ministers were all jealous and gritted their teeth with hatred. Relying on his own efforts to help Fu Jian fight the world, Fan Shi, the marquis of Gu Zang, who was born in the handsome Di clan, was the first to jump out and insult Wang Meng in public, saying: "We have prospered with the first emperor, but we are not allowed to participate in secrets. Why are you in charge of big things? Isn't this what we grow and you pick up grain for nothing?"

Wang Meng sneered: "Not only do you plant and I harvest it, but also make you cook and serve it to me." ”

Fan Shi's lungs exploded, and he stomped his feet and roared: "The surname Wang, sooner or later, you will be asked to hang your head at the gate of Chang'an, otherwise I will not live in the world." ”

When Fu Jian learned of this, he said decisively: "This old man must be killed, and then the ministers can be purged." ”

Soon, Fu Jian summoned Fan Shi to meet and said in front of him that he wanted the princess to marry Yang Bi, who was engaged to Fan Shi's daughter, but Fan Shi objected. Wang Meng borrowed words to point out that Fan Shi openly competed with Fu Jian for marriage, and Fan Shi was so angry that he wanted to attack Wang Meng, but he was stopped by the attendants and scolded with evil words, and Fu Jian ordered Fan Shi to be executed.

After that, the opposition turned from an open attack on Wang Meng to a covert slander, and the court officials Qiu Teng and Xi Bao took advantage of their positions to repeatedly slander Wang Meng, and Fu Jian drove the two out of the court. For the officials of the Di tribe who flew long and short, Fu Jian even whipped and kicked them in the court. So that group of people was afraid, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, and later Wang Meng was promoted to the position of the third duke, and Fu Jian also wanted to add to him the record of the third duke, and Wang Meng was very favored by it.

At that time, there were a number of dignitaries of the Di nationality inside and outside the court, who were of the same clan as the royal family or had contributed to the dynasty, and they were in important positions, acting arbitrarily and lawlessly, and Wang Meng's spearhead was first aimed at them.

As soon as Wang Meng was transferred from Xianyang Neishi to serve as Shizhong, Zhongshuling, and Jing Zhaoyin, he heard that the aristocratic minister Qiangde was drunk and murderous, robbing men and women, but no one dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head, because he was the younger brother of the empress dowager. Wang Meng immediately arrested Qiangde, and before he could wait for the report, he put him to death. By the time Fu Jian sent someone to arrive with a letter of pardon and Pegasus because of the Queen Mother, Qiangde's body had already been displayed in the city.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Meng cooperated with Deng Qiang, the middle of the imperial history, to comprehensively and thoroughly investigate the ministers and doctors who harmed the people and disorderly government. So the hundreds of bureaucrats were shocked, Hao held his breath, the road was not left behind, and the order was forbidden.

Fu Jian sighed: "Until today, I didn't know that there is a law in the world, and the Son of Heaven is honorable. ”

Wang Meng also asked Fu Jian to order the selection of competent officials to inspect the Sifang and Rongyi areas, investigate and deal with the misconduct of local officials in punishment and abuse of the people, and rectify the local ruling institutions at all levels.

While the guilty must be punished, Wang Meng also strives to be able to do what he wants. Before accepting new posts such as the lieutenant of Si Li, he strongly recommended the incumbent bureaucrats Fu Rong, Ren Qun, and Zhu Tong, the sergeant, so that they could each take important posts. After the Yan was destroyed, he quickly recommended a group of famous people from the Kanto region, such as Fang Mo, Fang Kuang, Cui Liang, Han Yin, and Tian Xian, to serve as court officials or county officials.

"If the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it, and if the line is higher than the people, the others will not be it." From his own personal experience, Wang Meng has a deep understanding of the jealousy of talents, so he also protects talents like Fu Jian, and does not doubt the use of talents. Fu Rong is intelligent, discerning, outstanding in civil and military affairs, good at judging doubts, and far-sighted. He was once cramped and uneasy because of his slight mistakes, but Wang Meng pardoned and did not ask, and his credit remained the same as before.

Yanchen Liang Chen was still unyielding after the death of the country, so he was not reused. Wang Meng did not avoid suspicion and recommended him to be his important subordinate. On the contrary, for those who are incompetent to live officials, Wang Meng abandons them like rotten rats.

Under Wang Meng's chairmanship, the innovative measures brought about a new atmosphere. At that time, the Qin realm was stable and peaceful, the family gave people enough, from Chang'an to the states, all sandwiched the road locust willow, twenty miles of a pavilion, forty miles of a post, travelers to take on the way, business and commerce Jia sold in the road.

The people sang: "Chang'an Street, Yang Huai is verdant, get off the Chinese car, go up to the Luan Feng, and gather talents to teach my people." The soldiers are strong and rich, vertical and level, and fierce power. ”

Wang Meng's administration is known as fair, he is decisive in handling things, pays attention to efficiency, and never drags mud and water. Ma Si, a native of Hebei, asked for leave to go back to his hometown to bury his mother, Wang Meng said: "You can pack your luggage and go on the road immediately, and I will notify the counties along the way tonight." As soon as Ma Si came out of Tongguan, he found that the officials along the way had received notices, and checked his road photos according to the rules and arranged food and accommodation.

Wang Meng was in power, and Fu Jian asked him to cut all military and domestic affairs, and he was on top of it. He once said to Wang Meng with great gratitude: "You work hard day and night, worry about every opportunity, I am like King Wen of Zhou got Jiang Taigong, you can enjoy the blessings of leisure." ”

Wang Meng said: "I didn't expect Your Majesty to have such a high evaluation of the ministers, where are the ministers worthy of the ancients?"

Fu Jian said: "According to me, how can Jiang Taigong be stronger than you?"

He often instructed the crown prince and other royal children: "Serve the prince as you serve me." ”