Appreciation of Zhou Tan's Poems by Qi Huangong

More than a dozen bronze locks lock glory.

-Zhou Tan's Qi Huangong

Qi Huangong

Zhou tan

Three times I went to Qin Wang to take advantage, and five times I came to see the minister.

I am proud to despise the Lord, how dare the overlord be proud?

Success hires people who fail. From the metaphysical hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period to the ghost without body, I never thought that I would become the protagonist of a tragedy.

In 685 BC, on the two post roads leading to the State of Qi, two teams galloped away, led by Gong Zijiu, an exiled aristocrat of the State of Qi, followed by their master Guan Zhong and Bao. The two cavalry, starting from Lu and Ju respectively, are fighting for the throne rather than mourning day and night. Qi was in chaos at that time. Sun, who usurped the throne by regicide, was ignorant and was killed less than a year after he succeeded to the throne, forming an attractive power vacuum. As the most powerful contender for this power vacuum, Gong Zijiu and his son Xiaobai, who are half-brothers, not only had a time contest, but also had a spiritual contest. Xiao Bai, who is holding on to the reins, obviously runs too fast. He only heard the wind all the way, and never thought that there would be a stab in the back in the forest. This is a deadly arrow that goes straight to the heart. It was none other than Gong Zijiu's master Guan Zhong, who smeared his loyalty to the master on the tip of an arrow and was bent on shooting Xiao Bai off his horse. However, history always moves forward by accident and necessity. A sharp arrow broke Xiao Bai's hook without causing a fatal blow, while Xiao Bai used his quick wits to bite his lip and his mouth was bleeding, pretending to fall off his horse. In the dark, Guan Zhong quietly resumed his life, and Miyako obviously slowed down his trip to Qi after receiving the "good news". This is a strategic competition. When the son arrived in Qi at night, the fate of the latecomers was self-evident. Lu was forced to kill Miyako for a long time in return, and the assassin Guan Zhong was put on a prison car and escorted back to Qi. At this point, a well-dressed Qi Huangong has replaced the hook on his chest with jewels, but the sound of metal impact is still a nightmare for the new monarch. When Guan Zhong, unkempt and unkempt, was escorted to Qi Huangong, Qi Huangong was furious: Chop it into paste, cook it and eat it!

However, it was Bao and Qi Xianggong who finally calmed down their anger and whispered, "The monarch governs Qi, which means peace. If you want to be the overlord, you must control me. The country where Yiwu lives is too important to be lost. " (Historical Records Qi Taigong Family) When Bao said this sentence, his voice was very low, and he could only hear it clearly. But for more than 2,600 years, this sentence was as loud as Huang Zhong and Lu. Bao, who has a close personal relationship with Guan Zhong, can be a vassal of more than 10,000 countries under one person. But for the sake of Qi, he has the ability to recommend Guan Zhong to assist in national politics. After thousands of years, this kind of mind is beyond the reach of ordinary people. For this move of Bao, later historians spared no expense, and their friendship with Bao was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, while admiring the bag, historians seem to have played it down intentionally or unintentionally. In fact, whether a proposal is adopted or not, the final decision is still in the king of a country, not to mention that this proposal is related to an assassin who has enemies with himself! For Qi Huangong, Guan Zhong at this time is more like two sides of a knife-shaped coin. On the one hand, he is a prisoner who wants to kill it quickly, and on the other hand, he is a minister who helps himself think. This is a dilemma. When Qi Huangong finally turned irate look into a smile, personally opened the prison car and worshipped Guan Zhong as Shangqing, we knew that the hard knife coins in Qi Huangong's heart had already turned into hot copper juice, which dissolved the block in his heart and enlarged the mind of a generation of monarchs!

Guan Zhong, Qi Huangong's good for evil, failed to live up to his expectations. Under his impetus, Qi took the lead in implementing divide and rule, which changed the chaotic situation of Qi's disintegration. Militarily, Guan Zhong vigorously promoted the system of military and political integration and integration of defense and civilian technologies, which effectively ensured sufficient troops; At the same time, in diplomacy, Guan Zhong creatively put forward the strategy of "respecting the king and rejecting the foreign countries", that is, supporting the Zhou royal family and taking the lead in fighting against the intrusion of northern Miao and Rong people on the Central Plains countries. At that time, the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty had declined, and Qi took the lead in raising the banner of "respecting the king", so that it was possible to use the orders of the Emperor of Zhou to order all the princes. Guan Zhong's series of measures to enrich Qiang Bing won the appreciation of Qi Huangong. He sincerely respected Guan Zhong as "Guan Zhong", and even announced to his ministers: "Guan Zhong is the major policy of the country, and then I am the only one. All implementation will be decided by Guan Zhong. " Guan Zhong did live up to the reputation of "Guan Zhong". In 65 1 year BC, he presented "Kwai Qiu Huimeng" as a generous gift to his grateful master. This is a landmark event in the history of China. In this alliance, under the call of Qi, the vassal states met in Kwai Shan, and the Zhou Emperor also sent representatives to give gifts, thus making it the first vassal state in China history. Standing on the high platform of the alliance, scanning the obedient vassals, and then looking at Guan Zhong standing beside him, Qi Huangong secretly rejoiced that maybe he could turn the knife of revenge into the seal of worship in an instant, but how important this "thought" is! Compared with winning the world, how insignificant it is to chop the enemy into a paste!

If you give Guan Zhong a few more days to live, it's really hard to say that the person who finally reigns over the world is Ying Zheng, the king of Qin; However, history does not exist. When the lights were turned off, he came to the end of his life, and so did his ambition. With the prosperity of national strength and the establishment of hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period, Xiaobai, a son who was eager to rejuvenate the country and thirsty for talents, gradually drifted away, and was replaced by a drunken king who was arrogant and extravagant. With the growth of inertia, the employment standards in the eyes of the leaders of the Spring and Autumn Five Bas began to change. Guan Zhong, who was loyal in the past, has entered the old world. Although Qi Huangong still keeps calling "Guan Zhong", the sincerity and enthusiasm in his tone are obviously gone. In contrast, a group of sycophants who are subservient to Nuo Nuo have become an indispensable food for Qi Huangong every day. It is such a change in employment standards that led to two extremes in the Qi Huangong era: in the first year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the "Guan Bao" group assisted Qi Huangong's "Nine Kings to conquer the world", which made the later kings think of Guan Bao whenever there were no sages in the DPRK; On the day when the building is about to collapse, the creative performance of a group of slaves will become a "benchmark" that future generations can't surpass. Can you imagine cooking a baby? When Qi Huangong tasted all kinds of flavors and lamented that "only babies haven't tasted them", Yi Ya, a chef, immediately cooked her eldest son and gave it to her master. Are you willing to give up your male body in order to become a valet? When the vertical carving threw himself down with a red-hot knife, what we saw was not a face of depression, but incomparable happiness; How many years can you stay at home and visit your parents? The figures given by Wei Gongzi are fifteen years, fifteen years, and he can have no correspondence with his parents. The little people created an atmosphere of supreme loyalty. In such an atmosphere, Qi Huangong, whose eyes were blurred for a long time, had no reason not to get drunk, and it was this intoxication that eventually led to the demise of a dynasty.

According to historical records, when Guan Zhong was dying, Qi Huangong asked him to recommend a successor before he died. For Qi Huangong's three candidates, Yiya, Vertical Diao and Fang Kai, Guan Zhong's eyes are so helpless: "It is inhuman to kill a son to suit a gentleman and marry a son to suit a gentleman from the palace." This is Guan Zhong's last piece of advice to Qi Huangong. However, this advice was eventually drowned in a piece of sweet talk with Guan Zhong's death. After Guan Zhong, he became elegant and upright, and began to dominate the state affairs, becoming the upstart of Qi. The "loyalty" with ulterior motives will become a national disaster sooner or later, and the subsequent results can be imagined. It is these three people that have made Qi, who has just become strong, fall back into the chaos of gangs. At this time, Qi Huangong, who was dying, could not decide his own destiny. The gloomy palace gate was tightly locked by more than a dozen iron locks, and the cries of Qi Huangong's efforts gradually faded into hopeless * * *, and the overlord of a generation eventually died of illness, hunger and poverty.

"Huan Gong's corpse was in bed for sixty-seven days, and the corpse worm came out of the house." Sixty-seven days later, when the imperial secretary opened the locked palace door, he saw a sad picture: swarms of maggots were covered with stinking corpses, and a plain towel covered a festering head, which had become the last thing they wanted to take away on the road in Qi Huangong.