The story of King Zhou Li and Jiang Shang

Tai Gong Fishing

The last monarch of the Shang Dynasty, King Zhou, was tyrannical and immoral, licentious, arrogant and extravagant, and killed the people. There was a minister named Jiang Shang, also known as Jiang Ziya, under King Zhou. Seeing King Zhou's misbehavior, he abandoned his official position and lived in seclusion on the shores of the Wei River.

The Weihe River area is under the jurisdiction of the princes Jichang. Ji Chang was the later King Wen of Zhou. Jiang Ziya knew that Ji Chang had great ambitions and was thirsty for talents. In order to attract Ji Chang's attention, Jiang Ziya sat by the Wei River "fishing" every day. Most people use curved hooks to fish, with bait hung on the curved hooks, and then put the fishhook into the water to trick the fish into taking the bait. But the fishhook Jiang Ziya used was straight, with no bait on it, and it was three feet high above the water. He raised the fishing rod high and said as he fished: "Fish, take the bait if you are willing!"

When Jiang Ziya was fishing by the water when he was seventy years old, he happened to meet Ji Chang who was hunting by the Weishui River. . Ji Chang had a very good conversation with him. King Wen knew that Jiang Shang had real talent, so he asked Jiang Shang to ride back with him.

After Jiang Ziya entered the court, he was named Taigong by Ji Chang. Ji Chang once asked Jiang Ziya: "How can we conquer the world?" Jiang Ziya said: "A kingdom of kings makes its people rich; a country of hegemons makes its scholars rich; the only remaining country makes its officials rich; a country of immorality makes its treasury rich. . This is called overflow and leakage."

Later, Jiang Ziya successively assisted King Wen and King Wu, overthrew the rule of King Zhou, and established the longest Zhou Dynasty in Chinese history.

See the Blue Sky

Meng Qiu refers to the seventh month of the lunar calendar. In folk belief, July is the ghost month when everything is unfavorable. The ghost gate will be opened on the first day of the seventh lunar month. The fifteenth day of the lunar month is the Ghost Festival (Ghost Festival), and the gate of ghosts is closed on the 30th day of the seventh month. In ancient times, when the gates of hell were closed, salvation events could be seen everywhere.

There is a relic treasure hidden in the Jinguang Temple Pagoda, so the temple tower emits glow at night, making the Jisai Kingdom respected by all directions. However, at midnight on the first day of Meng Qiu Shuo, there suddenly rained blood, and the relic treasure was lost. He flew away, and from then on the Jinguang Temple tower stopped emitting light, and pilgrims stopped coming from all over the world. The king wrongly accused the monks of Jinguang Temple, imprisoned them, and tortured them every day.

Three years later, Tang Monk and his party passed through the Kingdom of Jisai for Buddhist scriptures. Tang Monk sympathized with the monks of Jinguang Temple and went to clean the pagoda with Sun Wukong after taking a bath. During the process of sweeping the tower, Sun Wukong caught two fish spirits. After interrogation by the master and the apprentice, they found out that the one causing trouble was the nine-headed monster in the Bibo Pond of Luanshi Mountain. Two or three young monks held lanterns to lead Tang Monk and his disciples down to the pagoda. One of them ran to report to everyone first, saying: "Okay, okay! We have to see the blue sky! The monster that stole the treasure has been caught!"

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Jing Gong One of his favorite horses died suddenly. Jinggong was very angry and wanted to dismember the horse breeder. Yanzi asked Jinggong: "I wonder which part of the person Yao and Shun would start with when they dismembered a person?" Jinggong felt a little embarrassed and said, "Let's lock him up first." Yanzi said, "Let me announce his body for you. Let him know what serious crime he has committed, and then lock him up, okay?" Jinggong said, "Okay!" Yanzi said to the horse breeder, "You have committed three capital crimes: the king asked you to raise horses. , you have committed a capital crime because you did not raise it well; and the horse that died was the king's favorite horse, which is the second capital crime; letting the king kill someone because of a horse makes the people complain about the king, and the princes laugh at the king, which is the third crime It’s a capital crime. I’ll lock you up now.” Jinggong sighed and said, “Let him go!” It's too dusty. I'll give you another place to live." Yanzi declined and said, "If others can live there, I can live there too. Otherwise, others will say I'm luxurious. It's also close to the market and convenient for shopping. That's great." Jinggong laughed. He said: "You also know the high and low prices in the market?" Yanzi said: "Yes!" Jinggong said: "What is selling expensively and what is selling cheap recently?" Yanzi said: "Prostheses are expensive. The shoes are cheap." Jinggong was surprised and exempted him from the punishment of cutting off his feet.

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