Full-text Translation of Gong Lu's Jian

Zhao Jianzi wants to arise and attack the State of Qi, and orders anyone in the army who dares to remonstrate (stop) to be put to death. An armored soldier named Gong Lu smiled when he saw Zhao Jianzi. Zhao Jianzi said, "What are you laughing at?" Gong Lu replied, "I remember a joke that happened not long ago." Zhao Jianzi said, "If you can explain this joke clearly, forget it. If you can't explain it clearly, it is a capital crime. "

Gong Lu replied: "When I was picking mulberry, I saw my neighbor's husband and his wife go to the field together and saw a woman in the mulberry forest, so (husband) went after her, but he couldn't catch her and had to return." His wife left her husband angrily. I laughed at his dereliction of duty. "

Zhao Jianzi said: "Now I lost my country because I attacked other countries. This is my dereliction of duty." So I stopped studying and returned to China.

Send troops to attack Qi, and those who dare to remonstrate in the army are extremely guilty. The soldier named Gong Lu saw Jane laughing. Jane said, "Why is Zi laughing?" He said, "I have a long laugh." Jianzi said, "If you can solve it, you will die."

Yes, I said, "When Mulberry was born, my neighbor's husband and wife had a field. Seeing Mulberry's daughter, I rebelled because I couldn't get her. Her wife left in anger, and I laughed at her. " Jianzi said, "Today I have conquered the country and lost it. It is because I am broad-minded. " So I went home.

From Liu Xiang's Shuo Yuan in the Western Han Dynasty.

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character introduction

Zhao Jianzi (? -476 BC), the leader of the State of Zhao in the Spring and Autumn Period, formerly known as Zhao Yang, also known as Zhifu, also known as. The orphan's grandson in The Orphan of Zhao. When Zhao Gong was in the Jin Dynasty, the people were weak and the doctors were strong. Zhao Jianzi is a doctor, specializing in state affairs and devoted himself to reform, which pioneered the reform of Wei Wenhou and Li Kui, the reform of Shang Yang in Qin Xiaogong and the reform of King Wuling of Zhao.

He is an outstanding politician, strategist, diplomat and reformer. Zhao inherited the legacy of the Warring States, actively promoted the social reform of the county system, and practiced the legalist thought in the pre-Qin period, which contributed to the historical development of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was called "the power of simplicity" with his son Zhao.

In 5 19 BC, Zhou Wang rebelled and occupied the city, calling himself Zhou Wang. Zhou fled to the enemy spring in the east of the city, known as the "East King", and the two sides fought for three years.

In 5 16 BC, Zhao Yang begged Duke Jin Qing, a great river warlord, to support Zhou. Then Zhao Yang led the Jin army into Zhou, occupied the city, welcomed Zhou into the city, and put down the rebellion that lasted for three years.

In 5 13 BC (twenty-nine years of Lu), the Bank of Zhao Yang and China cast an iron pot with Fan's torture book on it.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhao Yang