A few puzzle stories

1. Ban Chao joined the army

Ban Chao has lofty ambitions and does not care about small things. However, he is filial and diligent at home, often working hard in his life, and does not regard labor as a shame. He was eloquent and had a thorough reading of many historical books. In 62 AD (the fifth year of Yongping), his elder brother Ban Gu was recruited as a school clerk. Ban Chao and his mother also accompanied Ban Chao to Luoyang. Because his family was poor, Ban Chao often copied books for the government to earn money to support his family.

He was copying for a long time and was exhausted. Once, he stopped what he was doing, threw down his pen and sighed: "If a man doesn't have better ambitions and strategies, he should be like Fu Jiezi in the Zhao Emperor period." Like Zhang Qian during Emperor Wu's time, he made great achievements in a foreign land in order to obtain a title. How could he be busy with pens and inkstones for a long time?"

The people around him laughed at him, Ban Chao said. Said: "How can a boy understand the ambition of a strong man!"

2. Zu Ti heard the chicken dance

In the beginning, Zu Ti, a native of Fanyang, had great ambitions when he was young. He once fought with Liu Kun He served as the chief secretary of Sizhou together and slept with Liu Kun. He heard the rooster crow in the middle of the night. He kicked Liu Kun awake and said, "This is not an disgusting sound." He got up and danced with his sword. After crossing the river, Sima Rui, the prime minister of the left, asked him to serve as military advisor and wine minister.

Zu Ti lived in Jingkou, gathered together brave and strong men, and said to Sima Rui: "The troubles in the Jin Dynasty were not caused by the emperor's unrighteousness and the resentment of his subordinates, but the struggle between the emperor's relatives and clans. power, killing each other, which allowed the people of Rong and Di to take advantage of the loopholes and cause harm to the Central Plains.

Now that the survivors of the Jin Dynasty have been devastated and harmed, everyone is thinking about self-improvement. Your Majesty, you can indeed. Send generals to lead troops and let people like me lead the army to regain the Central Plains. Heroes from all over the country will definitely respond to the news!" Sima Rui has never had the ambition of the Northern Expedition. After hearing Zu Ti's words, he Zu Ti was appointed General Fenwei and governor of Yuzhou.

He was only given rations for a thousand men and three thousand pieces of cloth. He was not provided with weapons and was left to find ways to raise them on his own. Zu Ti led his private army to cross the Yangtze River with more than a hundred families. He banged the oars in the river and said: "If Zu Ti cannot make the Central Plains clear and recover successfully, it will be like a big river that will never return!"

So he stationed in Huaiyin, built a furnace to smelt and cast weapons, recruited more than 2,000 people, and then continued to move forward.

3. Painter Zhao Guang is unyielding

Zhao Guang is from Hefei and was originally a book boy in Li Boshi's family. When Li Boshi was painting, he stayed by his side. As time went by, he became good at painting, especially horses, which was almost the same as what Li Boshi did. During the Jianyan period, he fell into the hands of Jin Bing.

Jin Bing heard that he was good at painting, so he asked him to paint the captured women. Zhao Guang resolutely refused to paint. Jin Bing threatened him with a knife. When he failed, he cut off his right thumb. Zhao Guang actually paints with his left hand. After the situation calmed down, Zhao Guang only painted Guanyin. A few years later, Zhao Guang died. Most of Li Boshi's Guanyin paintings collected by prominent intellectuals today were written by Zhao Guang.

4. Su Wu Mu Yang Beihai

Wei Lu knew that Su Wu could not be forced to surrender after all, so he reported it to Shan Yu. The Chan Yu wanted to make Su Wu surrender more and more, so he imprisoned Su Wu and put him in a big cellar without giving him anything to drink or eat. It was snowing, so Su Wu lay down and chewed the snow, swallowing it together with the felt wool to satisfy his hunger. He survived for several days.

The Xiongnu thought it was magical, so they moved Su Wu to a deserted place by the North Sea and asked him to herd rams, saying that they would not return to the Han until the rams gave birth to lambs. At the same time, his subordinates and his entourage Chang Hui and others were placed in other places.

After Su Wu moved to Beihai, food could not be transported, so he could only eat wild fruits stored by wild rats. He used the Han court's talisman festival to herd sheep, holding it on when sleeping and getting up, until all the yak tail hairs tied to the festival fell off.

5. The sparrow knows the ambition of the swan

When Chen Sheng was young, he was hired to plow the fields. Once, he suddenly stopped while farming and walked to the ridge of the field. On the way, Trouble had been resentful for a long time and said to his companions: "If anyone becomes rich in the future, let us not forget each other."

The companions smiled and asked in reply: "You were hired to plow the fields. , Where does the wealth come from?" Chen Sheng sighed: "Oh, how can the sparrow know the ambition of the swan?"