During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Yang Yue, the general of Wei State, led troops to attack Zhongshan State. At that time, his son Le Shu worked in Zhongshan, and the monarch of Zhongshan retaliated by cooking adult broth for his son.
Yang Le drank up the broth in one breath, and then attacked on a large scale, destroying Zhongshan. Wei Wenhou praised: "Yang Le ate his son's meat for my country."
The ministers cheered in unison, but the teacher praised: "Even his son's meat has been eaten, who is he afraid of?" Seeing Shi Zan is unknown in history, but he should be immortal, because he dared to push aside the crowd and uttered an out-and-out and immortal "human words"-words based on human nature.
In all fairness, seeing Zan is not a visionary saint. He dared to disagree with Yang Le's outrageous behavior because he still clearly remembered the painful lesson of Qi Huangong.
There is a chef named Yi Ya in Qi Huangong. He is a good cook and has a quick mind. Qi Huangong once talked with people. He ate delicacies all his life, but he never ate human flesh. I wonder what it smells like. Yiya did whatever she wanted, killed her 4-year-old son and gave him to Qi Huangong as a meat soup. He was greatly moved and regarded Yiya as a bosom friend from now on.
Guan Zhong, however, was worried, and advised Qi Huangong that it was inhumane for Yiya to cook her own son in order to please the monarch, which should not be reused. Please keep away from him, or the country will be in chaos. Later, Yiya came to power. Sure enough, he made waves, brought disaster on the country and people, and trapped Qi Huangong in the harem and starved to death. It seems that Guan Zhong is superior. A twisted person like Yi Ya can do anything ugly.
There is also Wu Qi, who lost his humanity because of excessive fame and fortune, left a disgraceful record and was criticized by generations. He is a general of Lu. During the Qilu War, because Wu's wife was from Qi, Duke Mu of Lu refused to appoint him as a general. In order to gain trust, Wu did not hesitate to kill his wife to show his heart.
In the end, he won the general's military emblem in this cold and bloody way, rounded his dream of promotion with his wife's blood and head, and became a bloodthirsty demon.
It was once regarded as a "beautiful talk" in history to kill a wife. In the eyes of rich people, personal fame is much more important than the lives of relatives. In order to succeed, they did not hesitate to kill their married wife who had been married for many years. Although Wuqi "stood on his own as a general, defended the Xihe River, fought with the princes 76 times and won 64 times, the rest were solved, and the land was divided into four directions, stretching for thousands of miles." But of all the ancient military strategists in China, I hate this one the most. If I were a historian, I would definitely put him in another book.
The assassin's departure is even more crazy and outrageous. The assassin of Wu wanted to resign to assassinate Qing Ji, the enemy of He Lv, the king of Wu.
But I'm worried that Qing Ji has the courage to do something wrong, and he is suspicious and inaccessible. If he wants to leave, he will ask the prince to kill his wife and children and cut off his arm to gain Qing Ji's trust. After leaving, Qing Ji regarded him as a confidant and entrusted him with an important task. He left to wait for an opportunity to successfully assassinate Qing Ji in a training session. He became famous in one fell swoop, but his innocent wife and children became unjust fools.
Sima Qian wrote Cao Mo, Zhuan Xu, Yurang, Nie Zheng, Jing Ke and Gao Jianli in Biography of Assassins. However, if you want to leave, you should have a place here, even first, but Tai Shigong abandoned it. Do you think it's inhuman and immoral to leave? Writing it will stain the pen? I don't know.
People are human because they are human beings, pay attention to ethics and practice good, evil, honesty and shame, while those who lose their humanity are shameless and perverse, and can only be monsters or worse than animals.
The most distorted human nature in the world is the desire for fame and fortune, followed by the desire for wealth. These two things can't be said to be unimportant, but in any case they can't be at the expense of human nature. If it is not controlled and allowed to develop maliciously, to a certain extent, it will inevitably do all kinds of things that undermine human nature.
Fortunately, right and wrong have their own public opinion, good and evil have their own retribution, and disobedience has its own destiny. History is written by the people. Anything that goes against humanity can't last long. Anyone whose human nature is distorted will be accused, and any country whose human nature is universally defiled will sooner or later go to decline and perish.
Therefore, we should always be vigilant to expose those words and deeds that distort human nature, no matter how great their achievements are, just like seeing teachers praise and Guan Zhong. Like Sima Qian, don't erect a monument to the exterminator, no matter how famous his name is.
Then I remembered the famous saying of Czech writer Fuczyk: People, I love you, so you should be alert!
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About the author: Chen Lumin, a university professor, a member of Chinese Writers Association, vice chairman of Zhengzhou Writers Association and president of Henan Prose Society. He is a signing writer of Readers, Yilin, Motto, Youth Digest, Thinking and Wisdom, Speech and Eloquence. His works are good at critical exposition with beautiful writing style, which has both literary charm and ideological depth, and have been included in 260 auxiliary teaching materials, test questions and simulation questions of senior high school entrance examination in universities and middle schools.