An Xiaoyu said: "I know, Fei Zhong is the number one traitor under you, I wonder why many kings like traitors and stay away from loyal ministers?"

King Su said: "The court is the balance of power, the distribution of interests, loyal ministers are not interested in power and interests, but want the king to give up power and interests, loyal ministers are like a mirror, constantly reflecting the king's greed, tyranny, lust, stupidity, loyal ministers always tell you in your ears that this is not good, that is not right, you are a faint king, you are not merciful, you are not kind, although loyalty is good for the ear, but no one can really do it." ”

An Xiaoyu said: "You're right, my brother is the best at admonishing emperors, but he has also killed that Wei Zheng many times, not to mention other kings." ”

The king continued: "The king is not afraid of his ministers being corrupt and bribed, lustful and domineering, because those power and wealth are given to you by the king, and when you fatten them in the future, you can make you spit them out, that is, you can fill the treasury, and you can also get the title of a Ming monarch, but the loyal ministers have no desires, their only hope is to leave a name in history, you think about it, there is no ** , a minister who can fight with you at any time, can get out of the king's control at any time, this kind of person is a bomb around the king, can explode at any time, not only can blow himself up, but also blow up the king to death, at least blow you up. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "So you wantonly kill loyal ministers?"

The king said: "When I was young, I was fine, I was able to listen to advice, but I was also able to refuse slander, when Fei Zhong said to me: 'Xibochang is virtuous, the people support him, and the princes are attached to him, and he must be killed, otherwise he will definitely become a scourge to Yin Shang.'" I said, 'If you say that he is a virtuous prince, how can you kill him?' and Fei Zhong said, 'Though the hat is worn, it must be worn on the head, and the shoes, though beautiful, must be on the ground.' Now Sibochang is your subordinate, he practices benevolent government, and the people turn to him. Isn't it Xibochang who will eventually become a scourge to the world? If his subordinates do not use his virtuous ability to serve the monarch, such courtiers will have to be killed. Besides, how can the monarch have so many reasons to kill his subordinates?' I said, 'Righteousness is what the king uses to exhort those below.' Now Xi Bochang is a man who is good at doing righteousness, and it is not appropriate to kill him. Fei Zhong persuaded me three times, but I didn't use it, and then Chonghou Hu gave me an idea, so I ordered Xibohou Jichang to be imprisoned. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "I heard that after Ji Chang succeeded to Xibohou, he followed the law left by the ancestral sage, respected the old and the young, and respected the sage, often busy until noon and did not have time to eat a meal, very much loved by the people at the time, as a leader in the new generation, naturally attracted many sages, at that time some people who were dissatisfied with the Shang Dynasty such as Boyi, Shuqi, San Yisheng, etc. went to him. ”

King Xuan said: "Ji Chang is different from those big aristocratic tribal leaders of the Shang Dynasty, other tribal leaders just want to get more benefits, but Ji Chang wants to get my world, my strategic eyes at that time are still on the outside, and I don't regard Ji Chang as an opponent at all, and when I realize this, Ji Chang's Xiqi is already full-fledged." ”

An Xiaoyu said: "I know, you just sent some of your generals to exterminate Xiqi. ”

King Su said: "When I was fighting in the east and Dongyi, Ji Chang secretly developed and strengthened his power in Xiqi. I appointed Xibohou Jichang, Jiuhou, and Ehou as the three dukes of the Shang Dynasty. Jiuhou had a beautiful daughter who was dedicated to me, but she didn't like to welcome me, so I killed her in a fit of rage, and at the same time tortured Jiuhou in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and chopped it into meat sauce. The Hou of Ehou tried his best to persuade me, and argued fiercely with me in the court, and in a fit of anger, I also executed the Hou Hou and made it into jerky. When Xibohou Jichang heard this, he sighed secretly. When Chonghou Hu learned about it and denounced me, I imprisoned Xibohou Jichang in Jinli. Unexpectedly, the minister of Xibohou Jichang was very knowledgeable and contributed a lot of beautiful women and strange things and horses to me, so I released Xibohou Jichang. After Xibo came out of prison, he offered me a piece of land west of Luoshui, and asked for the abolition of the torture of cannon branding, I agreed to him, and gave him a bow and arrow, and a big axe, so that Xibohou Jichang could conquer other princes, and as a result, the tiger returned to the mountain, Xibohou Jichang took advantage of my eyes on Dongyi, but he secretly developed Xiqi's power, and the territory became larger and larger, I abolished the torture of cannon branding, and did not get the favor of the people of the Shang Dynasty, but Xibohou Jichang gained a good reputation. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "I heard that when King Wu was defeated, he once put forward the six major sins of King Wu. ”

King Xuan said: "Of course I remember the charges that the enemy gave me, being close to women, liking lewdness, disrespecting ghosts and gods, being desolate in national politics, being drunk on alcohol, and killing loyal ministers.

An Xiaoyu said: "Could it be that King Wu of Zhou is wrong?"

King Xuan said: "Wine strengthens heroes, that man is not good at drinking two sips, as long as he is a real man, he will like beautiful women, and a man who doesn't like women is not sick." ”

An Xiaoyu said: "The world says that the king obeys Daji's words, and the evil things you do are all done under Daji's prodding, Daji is possessed by a fox spirit, and is a 'red face and trouble' that frames loyalty, disturbs the country, and is absurd and coquettish." ”

King Su said: "I was in my fifties when Daji entered the palace, she was beautiful and enchanting, charming and charming, which made me feel the majesty of a man, my love for her was sincere, I did listen to some of Daji's words, such as when we were playing in the suburbs, we saw that the thunder and lightning had chopped down the center of the tree, and it was still burning, but the strange thing was that there were many ants climbing from one end of the tree to the other, and the ants who couldn't stand the heat fell into the fire from the trunk. I said, 'Ai Fei, you see how stupid these ants are. Daji laughed and said, "O king, those ants are so funny, if we put some oil on the trunk of the tree, they will all slip on the soles of their feet and fall down." I said, 'Ai Concubine, I think of a punishment in the Xia Dynasty called cannon branding, which burned the hollow copper pillars red, tied criminals to the copper pillars, and burned them to death. Daji said: "King, we can smear tung oil on the outside of the copper pillar, put it on the charcoal fire, and let the criminals climb on it, maybe those criminals will fall into the charcoal fire while crawling, the scene must be tragic, seeing the torture of our Shang Dynasty, it is estimated that no one will dare to break the law." I said, 'Okay, let's go back and cast the cannon.' Daji just obeyed me

It's just a faint king, there is no 'red face and trouble' as later generations say, everything is that the Zhou people wrote history books in order to discredit me, and to confirm my crime of 'only listening to the words of women', to flaunt the correctness of King Wu of Zhou's rebellion, and others in the province followed their example and rebelled. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "I heard that in order to enjoy yourself with Daji, you also built a wine pond meat forest. ”

King Xuan said: "Which king in the world does not cook hundreds of dishes at a meal, and the wealth of the world is mine, I just put the wine in the big pool, and the meat slices are hung on the branches, showing the wealth of my Great Shang Dynasty, whether there is any waste." ”

An Xiaoyu said: "Don't say anything else, you can't wash away the crime of killing loyal ministers, right?"

The king was depressed and said: "I admit that I didn't do it right, I won several victories against me at that time, I have been a king for thirty years, I began to swell, no one in my eyes, I can't hear the advice, if I didn't kill too many loyal ministers, I wouldn't have been able to finally betray my relatives and bury the great rivers and mountains of the Shang Dynasty." ”

An Xiaoyu said: "Although you were proud when you were young, you could still control yourself, and when you were old, it was too inflated." ”

King Su said: "I'm sorry for them, after Xibohou Jichang returned to China, he secretly cultivated virtue and implemented good governance, many princes betrayed me and went to submit to Xiqi, Xiqi's power became stronger and stronger, and the Shang Dynasty gradually lost the hearts of the people and the control of many tribes. Bigan persuaded me, but I didn't listen, but Prime Minister Shang Rong was a talented and virtuous man, and the people loved him, and they came to persuade me to do more benevolent government, but I deposed him. When Xibohou Jichang attacked the hungry country and destroyed it, the minister Zu Yi heard that he resented the Zhou country and was very afraid, so he ran to me and said: 'Heaven has cut off the longevity of our Yin country, and there is no good sign for those who can know the good fortune of heaven or the divination with the big turtle. I think it's not that the first kings didn't help our descendants, but that the great king, you were so desolate and tyrannical that you cut yourself off from heaven, so that God forsaken us and deprived us of food, and you did not understand the will of heaven and did not follow the law. Now there is nothing in our country that does not want the kingdom of Yin to perish early, and they say, 'Why hasn't Heaven shown your might, and why hasn't the order to destroy Yin yet come?' What do you want to do now, my king?' I only had the disrespect of his words in my mind at this time, and I didn't feel the deterioration of the situation, and I said disdainfully: 'Didn't I be born to be a king, didn't I just accept the mandate of heaven?'

An Xiaoyu said: "There are too many loyal ministers, so you are impatient and start killing loyal ministers, right?"

"Yes, I have achieved success in both martial arts and martial arts, and I feel that I have achieved great achievements, and I have begun to pursue pleasure, wine, beauty, excitement, and curiosity. Weizi had been advised many times, but I didn't listen, and my two brothers left sadly. But Bigan said, 'To be a courtier to others, you can't help but fight to the death.' And he exhorted him with all his might, and I would stop everything I did. So I was furious and said, 'I have heard that the heart of a saint has seven holes, and you speak as if you were a saint

A saint or a false saint?' I just deliberately squeezed Bigan with words, but I didn't expect Bigan to be angry, take the dagger and cut open his chest, digging out his heart for me to watch. The minister was very frightened when he saw this, so he pretended to be crazy and became a slave to others. When I found out, I was very angry, my uncle was better than Gan, but Miko wanted to pretend to be a saint, so I imprisoned Miko. The Taishi and Young Master of the Yin Kingdom were disappointed, took the sacrificial utensils and musical instruments, and fled to the Zhou State in a hurry, anyway, I don't care about those ghosts and gods, I don't want to assist me, I will kill them, and I will kill those who block me, I don't need others to guide me how to be a king. ”

(End of this chapter) I want to talk about "The Supreme Demon Saint of the Other World" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~