Why do you say praise is "the prince plays in a bonfire and the world dies with a smile"?

Here's the story. In the Zhou Dynasty, after Zhou Xuanwang's death, his mother Zhou Youwang succeeded to the throne. At that time, there was a great earthquake in Guanzhong area, where Wang Ji of Zhou Shi was located. After years of drought, the people were hungry and cold, exiled everywhere, social unrest and exhausted national strength. Zhou Youwang is a dissolute and heartless bad king. He didn't want to save the Zhou Dynasty from peril and made great efforts. But reuse courtiers and uncles, exploit the people and intensify class contradictions. Also attacked Xirong, and suffered a crushing defeat. At this time, a minister praised you and exhorted your king. Zhou Youwang didn't listen, but he imprisoned you.

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Bao Jun was imprisoned for three years. The national security people did their best to save the national security. They heard that Zhou Youwang is very beautiful. They ordered all the beautiful women to enter the palace, so they took this opportunity to look for beautiful women. Finally, I found a very beautiful girl, bought her, taught her to sing and dance, dressed her up, and gave her a compliment name and dedicated it to the reclusive king. Make amends for praise.

When he saw the compliment, You Wang was very surprised and liked it very much. He immediately named her a princess and issued a compliment. After boasting, the king loved her very much and lived a dissolute and luxurious life. Although praise is as gorgeous as peaches and plums, it is as cold as ice. You Wang has never laughed once since he entered the palace. In order to win the happy smile of the admirer, he will do his best, but the admirer will not smile all day. To this end, you Wang offered a reward for his plan to capture him. Who can attract compliments and smiles from others? Reward 1200. At this time, a courtier named Guo Shifu gave Zhou Youwang an idea and proposed to try it with a beacon tower.

The bonfire was originally an emergency military warning signal when the ancient enemy invaded. From the capital to the border fortress, there are beacon towers along the way. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to guard against the intrusion of dogs, more than 20 beacon towers were built around Lishan Mountain near Haojing (southeast of Lintong, Shaanxi), and there was one every few miles. Once the dogs attacked, the first sentry found immediately lit the beacon tower on the stage, and the neighboring beacon towers were also lit one after another to warn the nearby princes. As soon as the princes saw the bonfire, they all knew that the capital was in an emergency and the son of heaven was in trouble. They must get up and try to save. Shi Guo's father put forward a plan to let the beacon tower light a bonfire for no reason, so as to attract governors to come for nothing and make them laugh.

The fatuous Zhou Youwang listened to Guo Shifu's advice, and immediately, accompanied by Guo Shifu, boarded the beacon tower of Lishan Mountain and ordered the defenders to light the beacon. At that time, shows everywhere, flames, governors around saw exclaimed, thought that the dog Dijon called, and sure enough, led the military forces to come to the rescue. At the foot of Mount Li, there is not even a dog or a soldier, only the music and songs on the mountain. It seems that Gao Zheng and I are sitting on the stage drinking and having fun. Zhou Youwang sent someone to tell them that everyone had worked hard, and there was nothing here. Only the king and princess set off fireworks for fun, and the governors realized that they had been teased and returned with resentment. When praise comes under the call of thousands of troops, it lingers, just like a child's game. It's funny, I can't help laughing. Zhou Youwang was overjoyed and immediately rewarded Shi Guo's father's daughter.

In order to further win the favor of praise, regardless of the rules of the ancestors, they deposed the queen Shen and the prince Yi Jiu, and after conferring praise, they praised their son Bo as the prince, and ordered to cancel the title of the queen's father Shen Hou and prepare to send troops to attack him. When Shen Hou got the news, he made a decisive decision. In 77 1 year BC, he joined forces with Gui Hou's soldiers and northwest Yi dog Rong to attack Haojing. When Zhou Youwang heard the news that the dog was attacked, he panicked and quickly ordered the beacon tower to light it. The bonfire did burn, but the rulers ignored it this time because they were fooled last time.

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The beacon tower braved the smoke during the day and lit candles at night, but no reinforcements arrived. Zhou Youwang squealed. Soldiers stationed in Haojing have long resented Zhou Youwang's fatuity, and disgruntled generals often deduct their salaries. At this time, they don't want to work. After the soldiers of Dog Rong arrived, they barely parried for a while and dispersed in a hubbub. Dogs and military forces poured into the city, and Zhou Youwang praised its merits, and fled from the back door in a hurry and ran to Mount Li. On the way, he ordered the bonfire to be rekindled. Although the smoke soared into the sky, there was still no help from the princes. Dogs and soldiers chased after them, and some of them fled along the way, leaving only 100 people to escape into Li Palace. Zhou Youwang listened to his liegeman's suggestion and ordered the front palace gate to be set on fire to confuse the soldiers, while he escaped from the back palace gate. Not far away, the dog soldiers caught up again, and there was a burst of indiscriminate killing, leaving only Zhou Youwang, Bao Si and Bofu. They collapsed in the car with fright. When the dog soldier saw Zhou Tianzi's clothes, he hacked him to death on the spot. He also snatched the prince's clothes from Zankou and killed him with one knife, leaving Zankou as a prisoner (saying he was killed). At this point, the Western Zhou Dynasty was declared dead.

The dog army attacked Haojing and killed the queen. Shen Hou, Lu Hou, Xu Wengong and others * * * made the original prince Ji Yijiu the son of heaven, and in 770 BC, he ascended the throne in Shen (now Nanyang North, Henan Province). Because Haojiang River has been destroyed by the war, and most of the land in the western part of Zhou Dynasty was occupied by dogs, I am afraid that Haojiang River is difficult to protect. In 770 BC, under the escort of Qin, he moved the capital to Luoyi (now Luoyang, Henan) and founded the country with the assistance of Zheng and Jin. Zhou dynasty after moving eastward. History is called the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

Is it still handed down today? A thousand dollars for a smile? This is the origin of the story. Later, someone wrote a poem to satirize? Playing the prince in the bonfire? Things:

Guan Chun is played in the night palace, and Zhu Tian is endless with bonfires.

Pity the suffering of all the people, stop laughing at the princess!

Later, this allusion was often used to lament the absurd monarch's mistakes in the country and express his feelings of rise and fall.

Although a country is divided, mountains and rivers last forever, and the spring of trees and grass is back.

After reading the story, I will tell you again that the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty was triggered by the demise and replacement of any dynasty in history. What seems to be the cause of Zhou Youwang's national subjugation? Smile for Pomeranian? Omnipotence, in fact, is to show his fatuous, hasty, reckless, dissolute and heartless handling of major events in the DPRK. In the face of turbulent society, the poor living in poverty do not develop production, only care about their own enjoyment, and do not seek progress. China's extensive and profound literature is not about how ordinary people live in dire straits, but can reflect the social situation at that time. As we all know, fighting is about burning hay. He wouldn't let the common people farm, but made fun of the soldiers. Such a country will not last long.

The demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty is a historical necessity, and the bonfire princes were only catalysts, which aggravated its demise. Even if there were no bonfire princes, the Western Zhou Dynasty would perish in other events sooner or later. Gorgeous evil incarnation, at best, can only win Wang Lao? It's just a chance for princes to play with bonfires. As long as the emperor breaks his word, the princes rely on it to break his word, be arrogant and seek hegemony over the world. Before the war, all the families were secretly expanding? At that time, the regime was already crumbling, and the warlord in the bonfire drama was just an introduction, an inducement for quantitative change to qualitative change. If this doesn't happen, there will still be other incentives.

When I was in primary school, when the teacher said this passage, he mainly said that the beacon tower showed the wisdom of the ancients 3000 years ago. Once the enemy was found, he immediately issued an alarm: during the day, the firewood mixed with wolf dung was lit, making the smoke soar into the sky; At night, dry wood containing sulfur and saltpeter is burned to make the fire bright to convey urgent military information. Now I know that without the bonfire of governors, the Western Zhou Dynasty would have perished long ago, and I have read the book a hundred times. With the growth of age, people's perception and perspective become more and more thorough. What did you say?/Sorry?