Chapter 71: The Golden Sound of the Axe Will Be Buried (Part 1)(1/2)
In March of the Dingchou year, most of the Mo people left Shangqiu and went to Pei. The nursery rhymes were spread all over the city, and the city was shocked. The emperor of Sicheng searched the entire city but found nowhere to be found. Some people said that Lao Peng's rumor must be observed. So he sent a carriage and horse to Ren. Before he could get to the land of the turtle, he knew that Song Gong was given a death. The son of Sixing heard about it and hanged it in the room, voluntarily for his sacrifice, and all his relatives and nobles praised him.
The nursery rhyme says:
"The star is brilliant, and the destiny is known."
"I look to the north when I feel sick, and dream of the south when I feel sad."
"Three liters of clothes, and the sacred flowers are covered with flowers."
"Associated to the Chamber of Commerce, Gaohuangshen."
"I can solve the problem of the last one, so why is the doctor busy?"
"The sun hangs on the sky, and the moon shadows fade."
"The moon shines brightly, and the stars shine thinly."
"The sun hangs on the moon but not fades, and the golden shading covers the moon."
"The moon is bright and the stars are not thin, and Xi is always ashamed of the stars."
"Heaven and earth have their own way, how can they connect with human life?"
"Who says that you know the destiny? Please resolve this dispute."
"The customs of the Shang Dynasty, brothers follow."
"Wenzhou Li, the legitimate son Cheng."
"After the death, the burial will be over."
"Those who know their destiny, please resolve the dispute."
Nursery rhymes are free.
Therefore, nursery rhymes are not guilty.
This nursery rhyme that has been circulated since the end of February and early March was heard back to Shangqiu after the news of the death of Gonggou from Song Dynasty and his death to the Jinhou of Rendi, Wuji was innocent and found nothing in the city. He could only claim to be a nursery rhyme of ancient legends such as Lao Peng. The hidden meaning was finally known by the Song people in Shangqiu.
It is said that after hearing the news that Song Duke died halfway, Si Xingzi Xu hanged himself that night, saying that he wanted to be a sacrificial servant. Some people also said that he was wrong about stargazing and misled the king, so he hanged himself in shame. In short, he died.
When the emperor's father Zang heard that Song Gong died, he cried and fainted several times and said in grief: "The emperor was going to join the alliance that day, so I advised him. The emperor insisted on going. It is my sin now that he died halfway through. If I had been refuted to death, how could such a thing happen? It is my sin! Emperor Tian, why didn't he punish me?"
The emperor's father Yue Ling also cried and said, "I'm also at fault! As early as the beginning of the year, there were nursery rhymes in Shangqiu. I knew about Bu Yan and Duke Xian of Jin, but I couldn't immediately chase the emperor and persuade him to return. Isn't this the responsibility of the minister?"
The nursery rhyme at this time is a very mysterious thing. Not to mention the famous Han Dynasty at the East and Han Dynasty at the West, it was even earlier than that of the Spring and Autumn Period, when the kings were afraid of nursery rhymes.
In the past, Duke Xian of Jin destroyed Guo by taking a break and asked Bu Yan if he could succeed this time. Bu Yan answered with a nursery rhyme circulating in Jin State at that time.
The nursery rhymes at that time were sung like this. In the morning of Bing, the dragon's tail was hidden in Chen, and they all took Zhenzhen and took Guo's throne. The quail's Benben, Tiance's turtle, formed an army in the fire, and Guo Duke ran away.
Bu Yan said that he would definitely destroy Guo State, and the time should be around October.
So Jin really destroyed Guo State.
So, it is a causal relationship.
If this is true of the causal relationship, then these children must be the greatest astrologers, but such nursery rhymes are often forged by those who are interested.
The forgery of those who are interested is of course for the purpose of those who are interested.
This nursery rhyme also caused different people to have different ideas and had a great impact on the political situation of the Song State. At least at this time, Si Xingzi Xu, who should not have died, was hanged himself.
Emperor Sicheng and Gongzi Tian were panicked and uneasy when they heard the nursery rhymes.
When the nursery rhymes really become reality, they have to admit that this may be what the children said, and this is what legendary characters like Peng Zu warned the Song people.
Acknowledging does not mean you believe it.
After this nursery rhyme with a prediction of accuracy was verified, Si Chenghuang believed that this was his political enemy dealing with him and did not think about Mozhe at all. Mozhe would not do such things in a boring way, and it must be used by the political enemy to deal with him. In his opinion, this nursery rhyme was of no benefit to Mozhe, and he did not even expect Mozhe.
What he valued was the last question of the nursery rhyme. Will the inheritance of Song State be the brother and the younger brother this time? Or will the inheritance of the eldest son?
In his opinion, this was obviously a political enemy who took the opportunity to cause trouble.
After the crying during the day, the father and son did not sleep all night that night, and agreed that they could not do it according to the previous plan, and that they must be more intense and faster, so that their political enemies would have no chance to gain a foothold.
Huang Yueling did not believe in destiny or ghosts and gods, so he did not believe in the so-called divination and star-gazing techniques.
Even with the stories of Duke Xian of Jin and Bu Yan, he was convinced that Bu Yan was just judging the situation in the world and using nursery rhymes to comfort Duke Xian.
Song Gonggou may die if he is sick and bumpy halfway through. Then it is not impossible to make such a nursery rhyme made by a political enemy. He may die, and the nursery rhyme may be true. If he does not die, there will inevitably be immortal nursery rhymes in the future.
Every sentence of this nursery rhyme says that Song Gonggou is dead.
Three liters of shang, three liters refer to the number of wide strands of linen cloth. Eighty strands are one liter.
The width of the cloth is fixed, and the smaller the number of liters, the more crude the cloth will be.
The cloth for making the crown should be thirty liters, which means that a wide warp thread must have 2,400.
According to Zhou Lilai's mourning, in order to show filial piety, the closest eldest son had to wear the thickest and most broken linen, which was three liters, and only two hundred and forty meridian threads were needed for a wide space.
No one is idle and has nothing to do to wear three liters of clothes, so someone must have worn them only after they die.
The one who can use this etiquette must be the kings and princes. Common people cannot afford such a regular funeral. Moreover, Shangqiu, which is widely spread during the Mozhe Festival, rarely observes three years of filial piety at the bottom, and only follows the Mozhe rules for three days - if you cannot afford to pay for three years, you will starve to death if you don’t work.
On the contrary, if one day the Mozhe rule of filial piety for three days becomes the etiquette of the world, the common people will feel that the spiritual level between themselves and the nobles is closer... Everyone keeps three days, then no one is more filial than anyone else. Now we can only keep three days, but you can keep three years. The etiquette means that it is best to keep three years. It seems that the spiritual level of the nobles is indeed higher than that of the common people... This is to transform material differences into spiritual gaps.
For funerals that meet the Zhou Li standards, the eldest son must wear three-liter robe clothes, white cloth on his head, white cloth on his waist, mourning sticks in his hands, live in a side room, pillowed with wheat straw, covered with straw curtains, and wear straw sandals. He can't drink water on hunger strikes for the first three days. After three days, he can drink one or two corn porridge every morning. After one year, he can eat vegetables and three years before he can eat meat.
Such etiquette can only be circulated among the literati and above.
Since the lower class did not need such etiquette, the nobles in the Song Dynasty also knew the saying of participating in the Chamber of Commerce, so it was obvious that Mr. Song was dead. So Si Xingzi Xu had to die because of this nursery rhyme after Mr. Song died, and he did not even have the chance to defend him that Mr. Song had not been able to hold on to the Chamber of Commerce.
It is so terrible, but it can also be considered a nursery rhyme made up by someone who is interested, which makes Si Chenghuang and his son believe that it must be a political enemy who wants to take this opportunity to deal with their family.
The whole nursery rhyme came out before Mr. Song died.
After Song Gong died, anyone could explain what this nursery rhyme meant:
Mr. Song, you will die on the way to the alliance. What is the use of a doctor to say that the stars can change their fate? You star-gazing people know your fate, let me ask you how you can guess whether the next Mr. Song will be one after another? Or brothers and brothers? These two methods of inheritance are reasonable.
The emperor of Sicheng had a ghost in his heart and felt that the rest of the people must know about bribing Si Xingzixu, and the person who knew must be a nobleman.
Prince Tian is young, with a strong personality but not long-lasting personality, and a strong mind without great talent. He is a king who can be deceived and used.
The Song Dynasty has always had a tradition of brothers ending with each other. This is a habit of the Shang Dynasty. The Song people were born after the Shang Dynasty, and there were often things like brothers ending with each other. Fighting for power and throne, which is not in line with the Zhou rituals. The Song people have become accustomed to it and even think it doesn't matter.
Nowadays, in addition to Prince Tian, the State of Song can be justified in the position of the king, and there are also Duke Song's younger brothers standing behind them, and there are also several major clans in the Sicheng Emperor clan.
In the era when kings, princes, generals and ministers had a genital age, the more skilled the emperor's father Yue Ling, the more he could only think of the problems of those political enemies.
So after he decided to support Gongzitian ascend to power, the first thing he did was to find an opportunity to kill the whole family of political enemies, so that he would not have the chance to turn things around.
Besides, I’m afraid it’s impossible not to break up after this nursery rhyme.
Although Song Gong died, three pairs of Jiahe were still given to the Han, Zhao and Wei families. When this was known to everyone in the world, it would be impossible for the political enemy of Sicheng Emperor to not seek help from Chu, otherwise it would be a dead end in the future.
Emperor Sicheng and his father Yue Ling decided to completely eradicate their political enemies before the power of Chu re-entered the Song Dynasty.
As Song Gong died, a coup that affected the nobles of the Song Kingdom was about to come.
It is not just because of this nursery rhyme, but also the previous three pairs of Jiahe, the earlier policy of pro-Chu to control the nobles, and the earlier tradition of the Shang clan system of brothers and brothers.
The three pairs of Jiahe and this nursery rhyme are just to ignite this inevitable conflict in advance.
Since nursery rhymes are free, nursery rhymes point out the hidden contradiction.
After it has been pointed out, if both sides do not react, they are waiting to die. If both sides react, they will aggravate the other's reaction, and they will eventually be irreconcilable and will fight for the open.
The most terrifying thing is that this nursery rhyme has been verified.
This nursery rhyme is everywhere saying that destiny is unknown or that there is no destiny, but this nursery rhyme itself knows destiny and the future.
The future may not be destiny. It may just be about the art of knowledge, but the nobles will not think about this.
So, who is the one who knows the destiny of heaven? Who can resolve the struggle for inheritance?
No one can solve it, but no one can solve it.
Because I don't know who compiled it, anyone can compile the next song.
Since this nursery rhyme can predict the death of Song Gong, can the next nursery rhyme predict who the next Song Gong will be?
If you write it into something that is beneficial to you, it will mean that destiny will belong to you.
When the uncle finds someone to write a song about brothers and the result is the nursery rhyme.
When my nephew finds someone to write a nursery rhyme that the legitimate son inherits is the result.
This nursery rhyme is forcing both sides to fabricate the next nursery rhyme first. After fabricating it, the conflict between the two sides will not be hidden, and it will only become more and more serious, and the upper class of the entire Song State will become more and more chaotic.
There are too many people who stumble on the waters. The water in Song State is already very muddy, but those who fabricate this nursery rhyme think it is not enough.
The nobles were in chaos, and they were less able to take care of the affairs of those marginal areas, and they were unable to take care of them.
For example, at this time.
When I stop being in a mess, I am afraid I can’t control it anymore.
For example, the future Pei.
Just as the nobles cared about the conspiracy behind this nursery rhyme.
To be continued...