At first, the Buddha asked Jiang Ziya to go down the mountain to help King Wu. Why didn't Jiang Ziya obey the teacher's orders and help the tyrant Zhou Wang first?

Jiang Ziya is a clever man. He didn't help the monarch first, but the tyrant, because he wanted to know for himself how fatuous Zhou Wang was. He wanted to know the fate of the Shang Dynasty personally and see what his opponent was, so as to make a better plan to destroy the business.

According to the novel Romance of Gods, Jiang Ziya's master was one of the famous Sanqing, and he was a Buddha from the beginning. Jiang Ziya followed the supreme leader of the three realms for more than forty years, but he still failed to achieve a positive result. Jiang Ziya was doomed to be out of touch with immortals, so the original Buddha could only let him go down the mountain, and at the same time gave him two tasks, one was to assist Mingjun, and the other was to be responsible for the plan of conferring immortals on the list.

Jiang Ziya went down the mountain after receiving the master's order, but he didn't rush to find Mingjun, but went directly to Chao Ge, the lair of the tyrant Zhou Wang. Jiang Ziya went to Beijing, lived with friends, married a daughter-in-law, and settled down in Chao Ge. In order to make a living, Jiang Ziya first tried to do some small business, but he had no talent in this field and failed many times. After all kinds of setbacks, he found that his gift was to tell others' fortune. With this skill, he not only brought home the bacon, but also mixed a civil servant in North Korea.

After staying in Chao Ge for a period of time, Jiang Ziya basically found out Shang Zhouwang's temper. He felt that the luck of the Shang Dynasty was running out, and he had a certain understanding of his opponents, so he made an excuse to escape from Chao Ge City. After Jiang Ziya escaped, he went to Xiqiao to fulfill his mission, and at the same time assisted Mingjun to carry out the plan of making a list of gods.