Qi Huangong eats people. This is a joke. What is this?

Qi Huangong was the leader of the Five Commandments in the Spring and Autumn Period. His rule lasted from 685 BC to 643 BC. He was the15th king in the history of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period. His surname is Jiang, and his first name is Jiang. His father is Qi Xigong and his brother is Qi Xianggong. Later, in the battle for the throne, he and Gong Gudu made their own moves for the throne. Finally, his son Xiao Bai won and became the king of Qi Huangong.

Qi Huangong appointed Guan Zhong as prime minister and carried out political reform. After drastic reforms, the national strength of Qi began to be greatly enhanced, and naturally it began to take the road of dominating the world.

First of all, he established friendly relations with neighboring countries and returned Tang and Qian to Lu, hoping that Lu would become a powerful protective barrier in the south of Qi. He also returned many areas that had been plundered before, so that the original owners of these areas could serve Qi again and protect Qi from other areas. This behavior not only increases allies, but also protects one's territory from foreign invasion, killing two birds with one stone.

Qi Huangong also gathered many local governors from all directions to form an alliance. He was the first vassal in history to replace and act as the chief. Later, Song actually violated the original agreement, so he led the governors of several other countries to crusade against Song in the name of Zhou Wang to force Song to surrender and make peace.

But in his later years, Qi Huangong became fatuous and suspicious. Since the death of Guan Zhong, the prime minister, treacherous officials like Yiya and Vertical Diao have all been appointed. Later, when the situation was turbulent, Qi Huangong was hungry in the civil strife, and the final result was a tragic death.

Qi Huangong eats people.

Eating human flesh has been a common practice since ancient times. In many chaotic times, people have something easy to eat, and in military wars, there are countless things like eating human flesh as rations. Even a national hero like Yue Fei wrote the classic poem "A strong man broke his wrist". As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi Huangong had a record of eating human flesh.

As the head of the Five Commandments in Qi Huangong's Spring and Autumn Period, his position has always been very high. It can be said that he had eaten all the delicacies he could eat at that time. Once he jokingly said to his chef Yi Ya, "I have eaten everything in my life except human flesh." Originally, this was just a joke, as Qi Huangong just said, but Yi Ya is a despicable person. The pursuit of power made him take this sentence seriously. After returning home, he killed his 3-year-old son and steamed it into patties for Qi Huangong to eat. "Tiger poison doesn't eat children" and Yiya actually killed her son directly and made meat pies for people to eat, which is simply worse than animals.

So how does Qi Huangong feel when he eats human flesh? In fact, when Qi Huangong knew that he was eating human flesh, he was also very uncomfortable. After all, as a highly intelligent civilized species, human beings are quite disgusted with similar things, but he learned that Yiya killed his son and cooked it for himself, hoping to wish Qi Huangong good health and all the best. He was very moved, and felt that Yiya loved herself more than her son, so Qi Huangong loved Yiya more. But imagine that a man can kill his son to please the king. What else can the king give him? Besides his son, what can I repay him?

Qi Huangong is drunk.

In fact, Qi Huangong was not a very dedicated monarch. In fact, he is also very lewd and playful, and has done many ironic things. It is said that once, Qi Huangong lost his mind because of drinking too much. He doesn't know when he lost his hat. Qi Huangong felt it was a shame, so he refused to go to work and didn't go to court for several days.

The king didn't go to court for three days, and the Prime Minister Guan Zhong couldn't sit still. He went to Qi Huangong and said, "This is not only a disgrace to your majesty. Why not issue a decree to clear the shame? " As soon as Qi Huangong heard the truth, he followed Guan Zhong's advice and decided to open a warehouse, provide food, help the poor and release those prisoners who committed minor crimes. So the people of Qi got preferential treatment, so that a few days later, the people lamented why the king of Qi still didn't take off his hat!

Some people expressed their views on this practice of Qi Huangong and Guan Zhong. Some people think that Qi Huangong's actions have washed away the shame for those unreasonable people, but increased the shame for those gentlemen and sages. If Qi Huangong's later behavior is immoral, then Qi Huangong's behavior can't wash away the shame. However, if Qi Huangong's behavior is moral, he must do so after losing his hat, so what he loses is not his hat, but his morality.

Moreover, this practice is actually inappropriate. In order to wash away the shame and benefit the people, open positions to reward those who have no credit and release those who have committed minor crimes. This is to punish criminals with lax punishment. Rewarding idle people will make people all over the world have the idea of getting something for nothing, while not punishing criminals will make people pay less attention to minor crimes and easily break the law. These can easily lead to disaster. How can we say that they are washing away their shame?