Chapter 4 [Fatal Mistake]
King Xuan fought all his life and reigned in the world with martial arts. If King Xuan set fire to the bow and arrow, it is to deny King Xuan's merits and show that what King Xuan did was wrong. That's why King Xuan said the above words. Otherwise, King Xuan will directly admonish and issue an order.
Zhong Shanfu's answer Xuan Wang was not satisfied. That's where a real master comes in. The reason why a master is called a master is that he can find a way where there is no road.
This master is Taishi Boyang's father.
Speaking of which, it is necessary to talk about the official position of Taishi. As mentioned earlier, Taishi was the official in charge of the astronomical calendar. From the current point of view, it is somewhat similar to the chief of the meteorological department. But in those days, when science was low, survival was difficult, and fear of the future was high, and the rulers wanted to get some revelation from heaven about the future. All kinds of natural signs (celestial phenomena) are regarded as dialogues between heaven and human emperors. However, the emperor is too busy to understand, so someone needs help to interpret it. Therefore, the "Taishi" appeared, specifically responsible for observing the heavens and inferring what was going to happen in the world.
Let's push forward another thousand years, what is this profession called? Yes, priests. The priest is a priest who holds divine power and calls for wind and rain, and is more imperial than the emperor. By the time of the Zhou Dynasty, the priests were gone, and the divine power gradually served the royal power. The priest also changed his name to Taishi. However, those who can take the position of Taishi must be the elite of the elite. Just imagine, King Zhou didn't understand a question, and asked the heavens, Taishi looked up, nonsense, what will happen in the future. At that time, it didn't matter if he was happy for a while, but as soon as the results came out, if Taishi said the opposite, then Taishi would not only have to get out of class, but it was estimated that his head would have to fall to the ground.
Therefore, Taishi must have an extreme sensitivity to politics and be able to deduce what will happen in the future from the subtle changes in things. Even if you make a mistake, you need to leave a perfect backhand to fill the loopholes. Otherwise, you will have to smash your job. What qualities do you need, talent among talents! In later generations, King Wen of Zhou, Zhuge Liang, and Liu Bowen were all masters in this field.
Taishi is an official who masters astronomy and calendars, so he speaks with a bit of immortality. Boyang's father said: "I looked at the celestial phenomena and felt that the matter was not in the outer world, but in the palace. The sun represents the king and the moon represents the queen, which should indicate that there is a female protagonist in the affairs of government. But Your Majesty doesn't need to worry, as long as you are diligent in government and love the people, you will naturally turn evil into good fortune, and there is no need to burn bows and arrows. "It has always been a taboo for the heroine to interfere in politics, and there is no problem at all when Boyang's father says so. Moreover, he also took care of Zhongshan Fu's recuperation and recuperation, and the matter of Xuanwang's martial arts and virtues were all very happy.
King Xuan was still not satisfied. As mentioned earlier, Jiang Hou took off the hairpin to advise King Xuan, and his status in King Xuan's heart was very high. King Xuan said: "Empress Jiang is very good, I am very satisfied, where will there be a heroine to interfere in politics." "If Boyang's father can't do this, saying that Empress Jiang is not good, he will definitely fall to the ground, and at least he will have to dismiss and return to his hometown.
Boyang's father is Boyang's father, he thought of this early and said: "The 'will rise' and 'will not' mentioned in the ballad should be what will happen in the future, and it has nothing to do with Empress Jiang." ”
At this point, Uncle Yang's answer is over, everyone is not wrong, as long as King Zhou Xuan is diligent in government and loves the people, and pays attention to the heroine's interference in politics. Everyone was happy.
King Xuan of Zhou was temporarily fooled by Boyang's father, but when he remembered the hidden danger of the fall of the Zhou Dynasty, he was still unhappy and returned to the palace silently.
Although Uncle Yang fooled King Zhou Xuan for a while, King Zhou Xuan still had a problem in his heart. A few days later, King Zhou Xuan issued an order: prohibit the market from buying and selling "millet arc cells".
After receiving the order, the minister Zuo Ru immediately sent the city officials to carry out the will of King Xuan.
The city officer is similar to today's chengguan captain. Lenovo today, you know the beginning. The city official took Zhou Chaotian's soldiers and walked around the city, smashing the field while publicizing. The pickaxe capital is not big, and in one day, all the small traders know: this thing can't be done. Seeing that the effect was achieved, the city officials collected the troops and returned home.
The problem is that the common people outside the capital of Ho don't know yet.
On the second day of King Xuan's order, a husband and wife entered the city, the man carrying a mulberry bow and the woman carrying a quiver made of grass. The two went to the city to catch the market and do business. What to sell? Mime arc cifer!
As soon as the husband and wife entered the city, they heard a shout from the city official: Take it. The husband and wife were careful and their livers jumped, and they ran away. The man ran fast and didn't catch it, and the woman ran slowly and got caught. The city magistrate took the woman and brought the booty (bow and quiver) to see Zuo Ru. Zuo Ru thought about the lyrics, "The moon will rise" and "Mi arc cells", all of them have been fulfilled, and they are all in one person. Zuo Ru reported to King Xuan. When King Xuan saw it, he was happy in his heart, kill it, and the prophecy was lifted. So the woman was put to death.
King Xuan was comforted in his heart, and the trouble was great.
And again, the husband of the couple. At that time, although the wife was arrested by the city official, the husband did not take it seriously. It's not once or twice, pay some money another day, and let it go. The next day, the husband came to Hokyo to inquire about the news, only to learn that his wife had been executed. The husband stood under the city and gritted his teeth, and all kinds of emotions such as shock, anger, helplessness, and sadness came one after another. But the situation is stronger than people, and the husband can't do anything about it, so he can only flee overnight, otherwise, he may also die at any time. This has been the fate of the disadvantaged for the most part, throughout the ages.
After the husband fled home, he fled with his baby before the age of a month and fled to the country of Bao.
Later, the husband was unable to raise it, so he transferred the baby to the Bao family and named it Bao Xi.
A good end is a family, and it is so fragmented.
You can imagine what happened later: the husband would come to visit Bao Xi every few days, and what the husband said to Bao Xi every time was nothing more than this: "Originally, your mother and I could raise you, but we blamed King Xuan, the faint king, for killing your mother and causing our family to be ruined." The husband should not have the desire for revenge, nor the ability to do so, but only vent the anger in his heart.
Bao Xi grew up under this kind of education, and it was impossible not to hate the Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, when Bao Xi was selected into the palace by chance, he was selected by King You. Bao Xi must be surprised, happy and afraid, surprised that the palace is so luxurious, happy that he can finally find a chance to avenge his parents, and afraid of how to gain a foothold in the palace.
King Xuan also did not expect that the mistakes he made for psychological comfort would have to be repaid by the entire Zhou Dynasty.
The road to the harem
What is the royal palace? The heart of kingship. The closer you are to the royal power, the greater the benefits. Men have worked hard to gain power. But a woman only needs to make the king happy, and she can get it. Interests are always the subtext of the struggle, and the royal palace has become the core of the struggle for women to display their means. The rouge drama in Chinese history is as good as that of Xu Mei. There are even some heroines with sharp means, and they can even empty the royal power, grasp the royal power, or replace it.
However, the struggle begins step by step.
Bao Xi's palace fight
1. The political struggle behind Bao Xi's entry into the palace
Bao Xi was able to enter the palace because of a political struggle, that is, the struggle between Gong Shi's father and Uncle Zhao. Since Shi's father is the image of a traitor, it will be mentioned repeatedly in the following article, so I will briefly introduce this political struggle.
At the beginning, after King Youwang succeeded to the throne, he ignored the state affairs, and Shenhou (that is, the father of Queen Youwang, pay attention to the identity of Shenhou, Shenhou will cause a bigger mess) admonished several times, and King Youwang ignored it, and Shenhou was angry and returned to Shenguo. There is only one Uncle Zhao left in the DPRK to support the situation. But Father Yu Shishi is unwilling, why are you in charge. I want to have the final say, too. But Uncle Zhao is still young and can't retire for a while. Since you can't survive retirement, you will fight directly. led Uncle Zhao to struggle, and Father Shi came up. Therefore, when the Sanchuan earthquake was later, Uncle Zhao took several times to admonish, and Father Shi put a cold gun behind Uncle Zhao's back. Uncle Zhao was shot, laid off directly, and returned to his hometown. Shifu took power.
Father Shi's behavior angered one person, the doctor of Baocheng, Bao Xi.
Bao Sheng is a nerd, and the method of struggle is also very simple, running all the way from Baocheng to Hojing. After entering the palace, he shouted directly to King You: "You can't tell the difference between Yu Xian, depose the virtuous ministers, and the country's demise is not far away." Bao Xi was counting on scolding King You, but King You was not Duke Xiang of Jin, nor King Wen of Chu, he was scolded by someone pointing his nose, but he could still listen to it and accept the advice. King Youwang was furious and directly imprisoned Bao Shu.
As you may see, I used a playful approach to write a compliment. You may wonder: In this incident, Bao Sheng should be a positive character, how can it be described in this way. I want to say: Bao Sheng is a fame and reputation fisherman!
Why do you say that, let me analyze it. The character of the ghost king is relatively stupid, which is obvious to all. If a courtier who is sincere in saving the situation of the country, how will he advise? A more tactful method should be adopted, such as Boyang's father's method of admonishing the king, moisturizing things silently. But Bao Xi came so stunned, and when he entered the door, he was scolded. Is it stupid? No! Bao Sheng has seen that the king of Youyou does not accept advice, so Bao Sheng should give direct advice and leave a name in history.
Whether Bao Xi thinks so is impossible to understand. However, if you look at the results of Youwang's treatment of Bao Chen, you will feel that my evaluation is too gentle. "Since then, the road has been pure, and the virtuous and heroic have disintegrated." Bao Sheng got the opportunity to leave a name in history, but it led to the disintegration of the Zhou Dynasty.
The destructive power of this kind of person is even more terrifying than that of Father Shi! Originally, Xianhao could also fight against Shifu, gain the trust of King You, and try to save the country. And Bao Sheng directly proves that the King of Youwang is a faint and hopeless. So the hearts of the people were scattered, the virtuous man was gone, and the Zhou Dynasty was almost over.
Regardless of praise and loyalty, this is the evaluation of future generations. But at the time, Bao was faced with a major problem: how to get out of prison. The taste of being in prison is not comfortable, and there is no way to praise him, so he can only rely on his son Hongde.
The father is imprisoned, and the son must be saved. Hong De thought about it, and finally came up with a good idea to give a gift. To whom? The Phantom King. Gift-giving is the time-honored solution to the problem, and this can be seen in this way. However, the king of Youwang owns the world and is rich all over the world, so what to send. Hong De remembered that King Youwang likes beauties, so Hong De visited everywhere, and finally found a beautiful woman among the praise families, Bao Xi.
Hong De bought Bao Xi with a lot of money, dressed up carefully, and sent it to the palace. Praise is beauty, when the king of Youwang saw it, he was overjoyed, and he went to the cave room that night. After the cave room, he put it back.
Bao Xi got his wish and left, but left Bao Xi in the palace, and the Zhou Dynasty accelerated towards the road of destruction.
2. The opponent is too simple
After entering the palace, the strongest emotion should be fear. From the courtyard of the farmhouse to the palace, everything is very strange, and everything needs to be careful. Therefore, when Youwang had a fun with Bao Xi, Bao Xi must be very cooperative.
Such a beauty, and so cooperative, King You is very happy, King You likes it very much, and since then he has eaten, drank, lassa, and slept together, and placed Bao Xi in Qiongtai.
King You did not go to court for ten days in a row, and did not go to see the queen - Empress Shen for three months. The ministers didn't dare to point fingers at King You, and Empress Shen was different. The harem is the territory of the Shen Hou, and the Shen Hou has to be in charge. Shen came to Qiongtai later, and happened to meet Youwang and Bao Xi sitting together drinking. Shen Hou was angry, and asked: Who is this? How come I haven't seen it? Empress Shen was so aggressive that she almost threw two slaps to Bao Xi. King Youwang hurriedly stood in front of Bao Xi and said, This is my newly married beauty, and I haven't given a name yet, so I haven't seen you, you don't know you. As he spoke, King You's eyes gave Bao Xi a look, meaning to let Bao Xi get up and salute.
Bao Xi sat on the spot and drank and ignored it.
Empress Shen was furious and wanted to deal with Bao Xi, but she was protected by King You, and she couldn't do anything. Empress Shen scolded hatefully and went back. Empress Shen already felt the threat of Bao Xi from the attitude of King You's treatment of Bao Xi. So after Shen Hou went back, he decided to fight, and he must fight to the end. It's just that the means of fighting after Shen are too clumsy.
Speaking of which, it is necessary to talk about the Shen family. Father Shenhou is the one who admonished King You, but King You didn't listen, and returned to the vassal kingdom in a rage. Daughter Shenhou married King You as queen, but she was angry all her life. His son, Yijiu, began to be the crown prince, but was later deposed, and after the death of King You, he succeeded to the throne as King Ping. The three members of the Shen family, I can only describe them in one sentence: rude and stupid. This can be reflected from the means of struggle of the three members of the Shen family.
Shen Hou returned to the palace and wanted to fight. I thought about it for a long time and cried. Why? There is no means of struggle, no experience of struggle, and my father (Shenhou) has not taught it. In addition, Youwang, who has no conscience, also helped Bao Xi, so he cried, one was angry, and the other was anxious.
It happened that his son Yijiu entered the palace to visit Shenhou, and when he saw that Shenhou was in a bad mood, he asked the reason. After Shen, he told his son the whole story. Yijiu was full of confidence after hearing this, and said: Mother, you wait, I have a way. Empress Shen is happy, the Shen family finally has a person who can fight, what should you do? Yijiu said: Mother, you wait, I'll beat her up and give you anger. Although Empress Shen had no experience and means of struggle, she also knew that her son's method would not work, and said: Forget it, you don't care about this matter, I have my own way.
Every time I see this, I get anxious. The Shen family is also a royal noble, and they don't have any means of struggle. Drag back history by three hundred years, and the same thing happened to Zheng Sleeve, the wife of King Chu Huai.
King Chu Huai favored a beauty, and Zheng Sleeve felt threatened. Zheng Sleeve did not scold, but showed favor to the beauty and won the trust of the beauty. Zheng Sleeve made a move, and Zheng Sleeve told the beauty: The king told me in private, your nose is not good-looking. When you see the king in the future, you have to cover your nose, and the king will favor you even more. The beauty nodded in belief and did so. King Chu Huai felt strange and asked Zheng Sleeve why. Zheng Sleeve replied that the beauty thought that the king had a fox smell, so she covered her nose. King Chu Huai was furious and ordered the beauty to cut off her nose.
This is the means of struggle! With this means after Shen, Bao Xi will not become a term in history.
Shen Hou thought that if he warned Yi Jiu not to interfere, Yi Jiu would listen, but he didn't expect Yi Jiu to take Shen Hou's words to heart.
The next day, Youwang was in the early dynasty. Prince Yijiu came to Qiongtai with a group of palace people. The flowers under the stage are delicate. Yijiu ordered: Demolished. The palace people do it. Gong E, who was praising him, came out to stop it, and two groups of people started fighting. Bao Xi was in Qiongtai and heard a quarrel outside and wanted to see what was going on? As soon as Bao Xi showed up, Yi Jiu rushed up. I was worried that I couldn't find you, so you sent it yourself. It's an old punch when it comes up. Bao Xi was beaten and her nose and face were swollen.
If Yi Jiu kills Bao Xi like this, it is estimated that King Youwang will scold Yi Jiu at most. After all, Bao Xi is just a new concubine and has no emotional foundation. There are too many beauties in the world, and it is not difficult to find a few more. However, after a few punches, Yijiu got scared, put down a few words, and left.
Bao Xi reluctantly returned to Qiongtai, and began to brew a counterattack in her heart. At this time, Bao Xi's heart was no longer afraid, but full of joy, Shen Hou was just like this, and the means of struggle were not as good as isolating the third son and four grandsons of the neighbor's second uncle to fight for the inheritance!
King Youwang retreated back to Qiongtai, and when he saw Bao Xi's face turned blue, he asked the reason. Bao Xi Lihua cried with rain: The prince brought people in the morning, indiscriminately, and beat them when they met. Your Majesty has to call the shots for me.
King Youwang pondered for a while, understood, sighed and said: You didn't meet Empress Shen, and the prince was angry before beating you.
Youwang's answer, Bao Xi was not satisfied, and then cried: The prince vented his anger for his mother, and he will definitely not stop if he doesn't kill me. It doesn't matter if I'm dead, but I'm pregnant, and I'm dead. Therefore, please let me out of the palace and let my mother and son live.
Abandon Bao Xi, Youwang can't do it: Oh, oh, I'm pregnant.
Bao Xi continued to cry, and then made trouble, Youwang couldn't bear it, and said: I know, I have my own measure.
The next day, King You ordered: Let Yijiu go to Shenguo to accept Shenhou's re-education. Yijiu also wanted to find Empress Shen to intercede, and King You ordered: Go directly and don't see Empress Shen. Yijiu had no choice but to pack his luggage and leave. Since then, Shen Hou has been lonely and can no longer compete with Bao Xi. Bao Xi won the favor of the Youwang.
Bao Xi's road to palace fighting is not difficult, and it can only be said that the opponent is too simple.