A serious and nonsensical question that started like this: If the king of a country wants to kill a minister, is it possible to squeeze him to death by lifting a little finger?
Many people think so, because “the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die” well.
In fact, it depends on the period and the kind of king.
For example, as previously written, in the Spring and Autumn period of the state of Jin, the Duke of Jin, Ji Yigao, wanted to kill the powerful minister Zhao Dun, so he had to use charlatan methods: hiring assassins.
Why did the Duke of Jin want to kill Zhao Dun?
The answer is also very familiar: First, Ji Yigao grew up with Zhao Dun, Zhao Dun has always been his guardian, always say something about his ruling policy, including his private life, and even pointed to his nose and said, “You are such a straw man, this is to be in the history books; second, the military and political power of Jin, all in the hands of Zhao Dun, the court only know that there is Zhao, do not know that there is Ji.
Which king could bear it.
However, because of the second reason, it was not so easy for Duke Ling of Jin to kill Zhao Dun, and he might be killed in return.
So, since Zhao Dun was untouchable in both military and political aspects, could he not be destroyed physically by building up a cultural momentum, firstly, by mobilizing the people of Jin to criticize him and characterize him as a traitor and traitor to the state?
First of all, the Duke of Jin was just an adult, still young, no such experience in the struggle, and no such history to learn from; second, he did not have a close comrade like Liu Bang’s wife, Lv Pheasant, around him.
Think about it, you can only hire assassins.
Assassins are one of the oldest professions of mankind, and normally, it is their professional ethics to take money and kill without asking any questions. But after all, the client is the king and the assassin is the minister who holds the actual power, so the assassin can’t help but feel suspicious.
As a precaution, the Duke of Jin, in addition to giving money, must have brainwashed the assassin, saying that Zhao Dun was an ambitious conspirator, trying to usurp power, and that if he came to power, the people of Jin would suffer twice, and suffer twice, blah blah blah.
But he never thought that brainwashing a hundred times is better than seeing for yourself. When the assassin arrived at Zhao’s house, he was not only convinced by Zhao Dun’s good family style of diligence and frugality, but also moved by his persona of loyalty and love for the people, and was so ashamed that he hit a tree and killed himself.
The Duke of Jin could not kill Zhao Dun, and could not bring down the Zhao family, which led to a counter-kill.
Knowing that the king wanted to kill him, Zhao Dun could have moved his little finger to crush the king to death, but he did not do so and chose to flee. Unexpectedly, before he could leave the state of Jin, his cousin Zhao Wear – the brother-in-law of Duke Ling of Jin – finished off Duke Ling of Jin, his brother-in-law, in the Peach Garden, and then sent someone to welcome back Zhao Dun and ask him to continue to preside over the state.
At this point, a historical hiccup came up – Dong Fox, the historian of Jin, recorded this in his book, but he wrote: “Zhao Dun killed his king.” He also read it out in public at the court.
Zhao Dun thought I was too wrong, it was Zhao Jun who killed the king, how could he blame me?
Dong Hu’s reason was: “Zi is the rightful secretary, who is not Zi to die and not to go beyond the kingdom, and who is not Zi to fight against the thief?” You are Jin No. 1, fleeing before the state, the king was killed by your Zhao family, you came back not to kill Zhao wear, the murderer is not you can still be who.
Nothing wrong with that.
So Confucius praised him: “Dong Fox ancient good history also, calligraphy is not hidden.”
So, would Zhao Dun have killed Dong Fox in a fit of rage?
However, he didn’t. At that time, the ruler of the state or the powerful ministers, both respect and respect the historian, kill the historian, that is to be on the history book, they also do not understand that the history book, in fact, can be revised.
Interlude said, back to the subject: after the death of Jin Ling Gong, Zhao Dun how to do, directly to the throne?
Also dare not. The first thing that Zhao Dun did was to send Zhao Jun to welcome back the Duke of Jin’s uncle, Ji Hei Hips (don’t laugh, it’s really called that name), and help him to take the throne, which is the Duke of Jin. Zhao Dun, however, was still in charge of the military and political power of Jin.
So the Zhao family had the last laugh?
Don’t worry, there is still the “Zhao’s orphans” drama to come.
After the death of Duke Cheng of Jin, his son Zhao Shuo took over the throne.
But unfortunately, this is only Sima Qian’s one-sided statement in the “Historical Records – Zhao Shijia”, before the more authoritative and more historically accurate Spring and Autumn Zuo Zhuan, are missing this record, and even the name Tu Shijia has never appeared. Some historians say that the story of Zhao’s orphans was probably rewritten by Sima Qian according to the legend of the Warring States, and then embellished by later generations of actors and operas, it became a classic Chinese tragedy and became famous on the international stage.
Regardless of the truth, from Zhao Wu, the Zhao family continued to be popular in Jin, and never weakened. After the “six secretaries ruling the state” to the “three families dividing Jin”, the Ji family was completely kicked out of the historical stage, and the Zhao family really laughed until the end. The state of Zhao, separated from Jin, became one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.
Unfortunately, the division of the three Jin families, led by Zhao, objectively turned a great power that could completely inhibit the development of Qin to the east into three medium-sized countries.
Coincidentally, although the surname of Qin was Ying, it was also Zhao. The ancestor of Ying surname was Gaotao, who was given the surname Ying by Emperor Shun for his success in ruling the world. This tribe developed to the period of King Mu of the Zhou Dynasty, and because of the merit of driving for King Mu of the Zhou Dynasty, they were given the city of Zhao and were given the surname of Zhao with the fief. Later on, the Zhao clan spread out, and one of the clans was sealed in Qin by the Prince of Zhou, and one of the clans left the Zhou royal family to join the Marquis of Jin, which gave rise to the Zhao family in Jin.
The reason why Ying Zheng was called Zhao Zheng is here.
Later, Qin destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world. Although it was soon destroyed, the regime was destroyed but the spirit still existed, regardless of Liu Han, Sima Jin, Yang Sui, Li Tang, Zhao Song, Zhu Ming and Aixinjueluo Qing …… hundred generations after that, the Qin political system was practiced and continued for two thousand years.
So, from this point of view, the last laugh, or the surname Zhao. The hundred family names ranked first, there is no dispute, who dares to tamper, who is looking for death.
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