What joke did Jiang Taigong come from when he became prime minister in the 1980s?

From Xu's novel "Romance of Gods" handed down from the Ming Dynasty.

One of them wrote that Ji Chang fled to Xiqiao, found Jiang Ziya who lived in seclusion among weeds, and worshipped him as the prime minister. After his stepfather was made king of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Shang Wu Cheng Wang Huang, whose wife and sister were both killed, also attached himself to it, making him rich.

The book "Romance of the Gods" is a hundred copies, and it tells the story of attacking Zhou. The first 30 chapters focus on Zhou Wang's tyranny, Jiang Ziya's seclusion, his trip to Xi 'an and Jiang Ziya's assistance. The prince of Wu completed the great crusade against Zhou Wang.

The last 70 chapters are dominated by Shang and Zhou wars, mixed with religious struggles. They explain how to teach and help Zhou, stop teaching and help Shang, show their own teachings and kill each other. As a result, the interception failed, Zhou Wang set himself on fire, King Wu seized the world, enfeoffed other countries, and Jiang Ziya returned to China to offer sacrifices to the gods, so that the people and ghosts who made meritorious service to the country returned to their homes.

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China's famous novels:

1. A Dream of Red Mansions: China's ancient chapter-back novel, also known as The Story of the Stone, is listed as the first classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, which is generally considered to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in the Qing Dynasty.

Based on the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, the novel depicts the life of a group of beautiful women in the boudoir from the perspective of Jia Baoyu, a rich son, and shows the true beauty and tragedy of human nature. It can be said that it is an epic that shows the beauty of women from all angles.

2. Outlaws of the Marsh: One of the four classical novels of China, it is a novel of Zhang Hui with the Sung River Uprising as the main story background at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is a heroic legend in genre. The author or editor is generally regarded as Shi Naian, and most of the existing periodicals have one or two people, Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong. The Water Margin is one of the earliest Zhang Hui vernacular novels in the history of China.

After the publication of Water Margin, it had a great impact on the society and became a model of China's novel creation in later generations.

3. Romance of the Three Kingdoms: one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, China's first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel. Its full name is Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the first novel, the first historical novel and the first literati novel in the history of China literature.

4. The Journey to the West: The first romantic novel in ancient China. There are hundreds of The Journey to the West published in Ming Dynasty, and there is no author's signature. Wu et al., a scholar in Qing Dynasty, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty.

The Journey to the West is a classic of China's ghost novels, reaching the peak of ancient romance novels, and is called the four classical novels of China together with The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Fairy Legend